ericmay

Eh, I think graffiti is or can be used to send a message or bring to light an issue. So in that way it is trying to manipulate you. That being said I don’t disagree with the rest of your post.

Yes, you’re right I mentioned some things that you could do. Though I’d also like to point out that whether the policies are liberal or not is not very important to me, they are just natural reactions…

The problem is that it’s a mismatch between wealth and income. Property taxes are taken from income, and if your income doesn’t increase in line with property taxes that may rise completely out of you…

And then die me not pay back loans? Or what if there is a market downturn and now the lenders are stuck holding it? Maybe they don’t lend I’m the first place? Lots of unknowns here.

But it’s not true by definition. If my property value doubles tomorrow, whether I want it to or not, my salary doesn’t double. So taxing me means I make less money now. I think we can argue about it, …

To be clear (and this is probably my fault) when I said natural reasons I was thinking along the lines of naturally occurring economic reasons. For example, if people move to my town that will drive p…

It’s also unrealized. Maybe just tax on the sale or transfer. Honestly the whole situation is a nightmare. I feel like whenever I think of a “solution” I just find problems with it.

You’ll have to summarize any key points from the book, since I don’t own a copy. You say that property tax is a tool to reduce inequality, but I’m not 100% sure about that. For example, I don’t even k…

A question I have here is are we asking for people to pay taxes on the value of the home because it is at some dollar amount, or are we asking to pay taxes for the cost of services? If my modest home …

I've always had good service/support from Backcountry, but today I emailed my account manager and let them know that I was disappointed in their recent actions and that it is a factor in fut…

I liked the article, but didn’t find anything particularly new to me that hasn’t been said in previous articles by the WSJ, Atlantic, NYT, and others. There wasn’t anything “failing up”. Just a rehash…

Sure, which is the fault of the people and the government, as far as I’m concerned. If an elected official is corrupted or doing something we disagree with, it’s our job to fix it.

Right. We do this with accounting firms, and I think we should do it with data security as well. Does it cost money? Sure. But that's the cost of doing business. If you have personal info like th…

This went unnoticed but, do we know whether the executives or those who made the decisions here were all MBA graduates? I am an MBA student and we do case studies on exactly these kinds of issues and …

> It's not our jobs as taxpayers to maintain coal miners' "way of life". When you legislate the job away for the benefit of society you have an obligation.

First time hearing about it. But we also target more than just students/recent graduates. I also don’t think they have a presence in our region, but I could be wrong.

A scenario would be something like you and your entire family live somewhere, and you make a good income that allows you to have a decent life, and now that income stream is gone and you’re expected t…

As a society we need to make sure we are taking care of people when their industry is destroyed. The whole “learn 2 code” thing that was directed toward coal workers was exactly the wrong thing to do.…

The same thing that people in Afghanistan did? It's also not cool to characterize people who have assault rifles or support the 2nd amendment as rednecks. I'm certainly not one. It's ac…

I don’t think it makes sense to say “you look cute or seem smart” as the criteria for not destroying a creature. Everything is intelligent, it’s just a spectrum of intelligence. Makes more sense given…

My rule here is that the middle seat always gets the arm rests because they don’t have the window to lean on or the outside isle for space.

I can only speak from my experience, which is watching a good friend go through the process. It's been very lengthy for them. You're right that it takes time in many or most cases to get fun…

Primarily not a silver bullet in this case because it takes like 6 months and it’s a pretty involved submission. A VC firm just writes you a check. I have personal experience with this. The issue come…

Sure, but it's not clear-cut. Executives can be (in good faith) fooled and that's a problem. You can't just jail people just because. I'm happy seeing the Purdue Pharma people get …

I don’t think high rises are ideal either. Amsterdam or somewhere like that is more ideal to me.

> I expect is that companies that ship from China will pass the extra shipping fees along to the customer Right, which means that if other companies are selling similar products they can more fair…

I would argue the core issue is actually overpopulation (or in the case of California too many people wanting to live there but also trying to balance preservation of Nature). And it's certainly …

certainly not from a volume standpoint, since millions of people, including Chinese university students have no problems at the border.

"The Chinese students were deemed inadmissible to the United States based on information discovered during the CBP inspection," the CBP statement said. Look. The Feds don’t always have bad r…