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That market is starting to really heat up, the choices are growing fast, take your pick, https://cars.usnews.com/cars-t... or https://www.tomsguide.com/us/p... or https://www.edmunds.com/electr....

The electric midsize SUV is the market place to be, both as buyer and seller and it is rapidly becoming much more competitive.

Now there is a real gamble in there, how long to hold onto your infernal combustion engine. As more electrics entire the market, so the prices will drop but as more electric vehicles enter the market so the resale of your infernal combustion engine will drop. So how long to hold on and when to sell, because that infernal combustion engine price drop will tend to be quite precipitous at the end.

Choose and perish, one way or the other, pay too much for the electric or lose too much on your old gas guzzler. Keep in mind people will be able to fill their electric tax free, from their home solar battery power system, so yeah, when the market goes into full speed, your gas guzzler investment is dead.

We are not

This wasn't a minimum wage increase. Amazon increased their wages. If we'd done a federal increase then the workers could leave or go get second jobs and do just fine. If we did Medicare for All they wouldn't have to fear losing health benefits (and the employers wouldn't have to worry about paying for them).

Progressive policy works when it's not being actively sabotaged by bad actors.

We got exactly what we expected.

Yes, there are going to be some isolated incidents. That's why you need to have a _Federal_ minimum wage. That way when a bad manager responds by cutting hours and telling everybody to work harder the employees can do this .

Reminder: Donald Trump is an anti-vaxxer.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

The wife of Bill Shine, Trump's communications chief of staff, is also an anti-vaxxer.

https://www.usnews.com/news/po...

Rand Paul is an anti-vaxxer.

https://thehill.com/policy/hea...

He's probably talking about the supplemental poverty measure, which takes into account things like the local cost of living, including cost of housing, rather than your measurement which considers someone in rural Mississippi and NYC as being on the same dollar scale, when $X/year in one is a great living, while scraping by in the other.

In terms of education quality, you're referencing their US News and World Report ranking. If you take another look at that page, you may notice that's entirely driven by their 4th in "higher education", which includes educating a lot of people who are just visiting to go to college, while Pre-K-12 they're listed as 44th, right between South Carolina (43rd) and Louisiana (45th). In the interest of fairness, a quality only metric (not using spending as a proxy for quality, but rather just based on test results and adjusting for demographics, including race), CA moves all the way up to 34th.

I haven't carried paper money in years and do perfectly well.

I have people working for me that cannot get a credit card or debit card of any description. Exactly what do you propose they do? I don't use much cash myself but what works for me doesn't apply to everyone.

You don't need an expensive computer, all you need is a debit/credit card.

A) Not everyone can get credit or debit cards. About 15 million adults in the US do not have a bank account. Among black or hispanic between 15-20% of households don't have a bank account much less a credit card. And this is in the wealthiest country on the planet. Go to a country like China and credit/debit cards are very rare outside of large cities.
B) A computer is involved in literally every credit/debit card transaction and I assure you that it is expensive. Just because you use plastic doesn't remove the computer from the equation - it just makes it one computer instead of two.

I fail to see how carrying around a thin piece of plastic is less convenient than having a pocket full of metal and paper.

It's not that plastic is less convenient, it's that for a lot of people it doesn't carry much if any added benefit. Virtually everyone carries a wallet of some description. Carrying cash is every bit as easy as carrying a piece of plastic once you are carrying a wallet. Cash transactions are a lot more straightforward in a lot of cases. Cash is accepted almost everywhere, does not require any special accounts, works even when the power is out, etc. It's (usually) quick, it's easy, and it's reliable. Going cashless comes with very real costs which as modest as they might seem to you or me, some people cannot afford or simply do not want.

I've also been to some restaurants where they do not accept credit cards. Go to a farmer's market and start waiving around a credit card sometime. A few vendors accept them but most of the vendors are still cash only.

From your negativity, I can only assume you've been holding out on switching to going cashless, but if you try it you'll never both with cash again.

Not at all. I rarely use cash myself. I might use $40 in cash in a typical month at most and I find that to be something of an irritation. I'm just well aware that going cashless is simply not going to happen for a lot of people any time in the near future. I have several employees who work for me who cannot get credit cards (bad credit) and don't have enough money to bother with a bank account so they don't have a debit card either. Not everyone is as lucky or capable as you and me. Cashless is fine but expecting everyone to do it is just not realistic.

Those States with the fewest votes/Representatives at the Federal level, and with the largest percentage of rural districts, tend to have higher high school graduation rates. If anything, I would suggest that points to more local - rather than State or Federal - control of the schools.

> I swear I saw this exact same thing happening in 1999.

1980 by my recollection.

People rushing to learn about these new fangled computer thingies because you can get paid big money by pushing buttons on these things.

The problem in 1980, as in 1999, as now, is there are plenty of posers who can't program their way out of a paper bag. You could show someone a few statements of a simple programming language, and they could memorize them. But they couldn't put together the logic of a routine to calculate the sum of the numbers from 1 to 1000. Today the FizzBuzz test is a better example as the first-level sieve to weed out the incapable.

I seem to recall the 100 Best Jobs in America and Software Developer was number 1. No surprise unskilled talentless hacks are rushing to it.

Remember those books of the genre: "Learn ${LanguageX} in 24 hours!". How about changing that to Learn LanguageX in only Ten Years!

More recently (last 40 years) productivity has increased

It has increased by less than you may think. In the 1st World, productivity has stagnated. The easy gains came from automating agriculture and manufacturing decades ago. Today we are mostly a service economy, and services are harder to automate.

Stagnant productivity gains are slowing economic growth

There is a myth that automation is happening "faster and faster". It isn't, and that is a problem.

hourly compensation for the workers at the bottom hasn't really budged.

Capitalism excels at creating wealth. It isn't so good a "fairly" distributing that wealth.

We should focus on how the gains from automation are distributed, rather than trying to stifle those gains.

The point of the comment was changes in consensus over time. But since you wish to be a Slashdot neckbeard and pontificate over commonly understood colloquial terms rather than discuss the issue, here is an MD saying the same shit I did:
https://health.usnews.com/heal...

The 900K from from TFS, and there are about 115 million single-passenger commuters every day, and since that is 75% of all commuters - that means there's about 150 million commuters.

You are there to be fleeced, pay vulgar amounts for textbooks, buy overpriced parking spots & meal plans, and pay for safe spaces and other wasteful aggravating pointless finger-wagging politically correct bullshit. At least that's what my school was all about (and I was a CS major, not fucking "gender studies" or polisci). Then I found out the employers didn't really care if I had a degree anyway. They cared if a candidate going to burden & annoy their existing staff by not being able to carry water. University students are not likely to "learn life skills", "figure out how to think critically", or "acquire job skills". So, that debate is laughable and pointless because both sides are living in a fantasy-that-once-was-but-no-longer. Let's talk about actual universities not what a tenured professor thinks their school does while watching from his ivory tower or some new grad wants to rationalize after just dumping their parent's life savings into it. Unless there is some kind of regulatory requirement for education like with health care or certain types of mechanical engineering the cash spent on a college education usually would have gone a lot further getting private certifications or vocational training. Some research shows you'll have an easier time getting work, stay in school less time, not be forced to waste time because of someone's politically correct asshatism, and best of all make more money faster. My brother got his CCIE instead of college. Made $140k his first year and now @ around $190k in a nice town with low-priced real estate. He's loving it. No student debt, either. The whole episode, including is training in Singapore (because hey, why not?) was about a $15,000 exercise.

Actually the gov't made money from the bailouts.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/2017-01-19/financial-crisis-bailouts-have-earned-taxpayers-billions

While this may seem like an obvious conclusion. Many studies and news articles have reached different conclusions.

Personally, I think most of the complaining about millennials to just be old people becoming out of touch, as they always do.

The whole point of my post was to discuss personal responsibility for one's health, and the social cost for ignoring it. I do not believe anyone would be so foolish as to actually try to chip humans, and I agree, I cannot imagine people being so foolish as to give up so much privacy for nothing more than free universal healthcare.

It's not like the road to hell is paved with financial incentives or anything ...

Childhood obesity linked to Poor School Performance and Coping Skills

Childhood obesity linked to antibiotics

Childhood obesity linked to hip disease in adolescence

Childhood obesity linked to More Junk Food Ads

Childhood obesity linked to poverty, parenting style Childhood Obesity Linked to a Mother's Weight Gain in Pregnancy

Childhood Obesity Linked to lakc of sleep

Childhood obesity linked to eating food from animals treated with antibiotics

Childhood obesity linked to Mutant Gean

Childhood obesity linked to Poor School Performance and Coping Skills

Childhood obesity linked to antibiotics

Childhood obesity linked to hip disease in adolescence

Childhood obesity linked to More Junk Food Ads

Childhood obesity linked to poverty, parenting style Childhood Obesity Linked to a Mother's Weight Gain in Pregnancy

Childhood Obesity Linked to lakc of sleep

Childhood obesity linked to eating food from animals treated with antibiotics

Childhood obesity linked to Mutant Gean

Talk about the deaths of little 21 month old Mariee, how ICE stole her from her mother, she got sick in an ICE internment army camp, lost 1kg of weight, was not given medical attention before being released to die with her mother, the mother who lives in New Jersey.

But Vice News says five pediatricians who reviewed details of Mariee's care say that after contracting the illness, she received treatment that was consistent with what they would have done. The story says all five doctors believed Mariee's "recommended course of treatment would have been the same had she not been in ICE custody."

"It's reasonable care," said Dr. Ewen Wang, associate director of pediatric emergency medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. "It didn't sound like she was in the best of health, but not something you anticipate dying from."

https://www.usnews.com/news/us...

New Jersey.

"Juarez told Vice News that she decided to have Mariee buried in their native Guatemala. Her asylum case is pending."

Democrat propaganda in full swing.

I think you got the names mixed up there.

No, he got them right.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion...

https://cmpa.gmu.edu/study-fac...

The fact checkers are harder to the right than the left. Notice the links are well before the 2016 election cycle.

Why should not the shorts short? The "story" above is just another Musk lie:

https://money.usnews.com/inves...

Tesla is a piece of hype by paid trolls like "Rei".

And the headline is simply another Musk lie, already deniedby the NHTSA:

https://money.usnews.com/inves...

to our markets was supposed to be a grand benefit ?

We could outsource most of our well paying manufacturing jobs to them, save a ton of money, reduce the power of the middle class, and pay our rich even larger profits.

And why we have a senator with a Chinese spy on her staff
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Feinstein is so pro-"government spying on its people" that she felt the need to hire an expert. FWIW, not even her own party wants her anymore: California Democratic Party Snubs Feinstein, Endorses Rival

An unknown number of people have special eating needs.

There is a LOT of well validated science research on this topic. While we don't know everything, it's not as if our research is ignorant on the topic. We certainly have very good data on the prevalence of many special dietary requirements in the population.

The Gluten Free and Paleo Diet consumers are a symptom of this great change.

That's not a change. Those are food fads, mostly driven by an epidemic of hypochondria, not validated scientific evidence. Very few people actually have problems with metabolizing gluten and there is no evidence of change in this regard. There is very solid data available. A recent study indicated that 86% of people who thought they had a problem with gluten do not in fact actually have a problem. The paleo diet is based off the unsupported theory that we should eat what humans ate thousands of years ago. Never mind the fact that we have evolved since then and so has our diet.

I and many others can no longer eat the 'Standard American Diet'. Period.

There is no such thing. America is a big place with diverse tastes and menus. There have always been people who have trouble with certain ingredients (milk, wheat, etc) but that is nothing new and will likely never change.

You post this garbage a lot, but it is still false.

Public university costs has risen 237% in the past 20 years. That's almost five times inflation.

That means that college has never been this expensive.

Two mistakes in your basic premises ruin every other argument you try to make.

First - No, colleges were NOT always this expensive. Over the past 20 years, public school tuition and fees have increased 237%. During that same time, inflation only accounted for 50%.

Second, public universities DO set their own tuition, fees, and costs - in every state. The state government can influence these decisions, by offering more state funding in exchange for no tuition hikes, but in no state does the government have 100% control. Take California - The UC system just agreed to stall a 10-year tuition hike plan because the state government agreed to increase funding. But the state did not force the university system to delay the hike; they just bribed them.

Finally, you accusation of funding cuts of false. In the past 20 years, since 1997, public colleges never received more than about 25% of their funding from state governments on average. That's dropped, to 21%. In the meantime, Federal funding has more than doubled, now accounting for 23% of public school funding.
Curiously, the Federal funds doubling in those 20 years (those same Clinton and Bush years) also led to annual tuition increases of 8% or even 10% by those same public schools! Almost as if the amount of funding didn't have much connection with the desire for more money...

This is what you get by insisting on a for-profit higher educational system. I see all sorts of wild data points.

On one hand I get that making people pay for college will cause them to take it more seriously and value it more, but the idea you have to go into debt for life to get higher education is insane. It used to be mostly MDs did that but now it seems to be everyone.

At the same time, major corporations are no longer demanding degrees to grant interviews and award employment. Any degree that isn't strictly professional (medical, law, teacher, engineering) is more likely than not to turn out to be worthless.

China is producing three times the number of engineers the U.S. does (out of a 4x population) and I don't see the citizens there financially ruining themselves to do so. At the same time movement conservatives insist that anyone without a degree is doing so only through bad life choices and don't deserve any financial security in a decent living standard. They will then go on to point out how the Chinese have a great work ethic and we don't and that is why China is "winning" so vote Republican/MAGA.

Our major educational institutions have turned into basically huge investment banking firms accumulating massive assets like crazy, even while they hike their crazy tuition ever higher because of "rising costs." Harvard has endowments more than $35 Billion, and the poorest of the top ten has more than $8.5B. Can you afford to go there without a huge loan or financial assistance? Why not?

I don't know where this is all going or what should be done. Maybe voting socialist (Bernie?) will work because voting MAGA sure as hell won't. I'm just glad that I'm not in the position of having to earn a degree at this point of my life. But the way things there is ruining a generation. Maybe two or more.

Do you remember his prohibition on transgender people in the military? I do.

Here are some other examples: https://www.usnews.com/opinion...

You want mentally unstable in the military so they can get the taxpayer to pay for rearanging their genitalia ?

Do you remember his prohibition on transgender people in the military? I do.

Here are some other examples: https://www.usnews.com/opinion...

Lovable strawman there. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Google, Facebook, and even Amazon actively demote conservative voices.

Just a FEW links. These are just the average pages. Leaks help to break through the "black box" of what is going on behind the scenes in a search engine. Mainly through leaks, one will find what the internal motives are within a company.

Podcasts from the guy with the number 4 news app removed
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-08-06/apple-removes-most-of-us-conspiracy-theorists-podcasts-from-itunes

Hard to keep an explanation up when you have been de-platformed, and they won't tell you why.
https://www.infowars.com/alexa-caught-fixing-infowars-ratings/

Twitter demoting results
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-may-be-demoting-controversial-accounts-in-searc-1827788070

Vimeo deleting accounts
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-08-06/apple-removes-most-of-us-conspiracy-theorists-podcasts-from-itunes

One of many articles on SE demotions
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/08/former-google-employee-there-are-efforts-to-demote-anything-non-pc-from-search-results/

Lovable strawman there. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Google, Facebook, and even Amazon actively demote conservative voices.

Just a FEW links. These are just the average pages. Leaks help to break through the "black box" of what is going on behind the scenes in a search engine. Mainly through leaks, one will find what the internal motives are within a company.

Podcasts from the guy with the number 4 news app removed
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-08-06/apple-removes-most-of-us-conspiracy-theorists-podcasts-from-itunes

Hard to keep an explanation up when you have been de-platformed, and they won't tell you why.
https://www.infowars.com/alexa-caught-fixing-infowars-ratings/

Twitter demoting results
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-may-be-demoting-controversial-accounts-in-searc-1827788070

Vimeo deleting accounts
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-08-06/apple-removes-most-of-us-conspiracy-theorists-podcasts-from-itunes

One of many articles on SE demotions
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/08/former-google-employee-there-are-efforts-to-demote-anything-non-pc-from-search-results/

Nothing but whataboutism. You neither addressed nor refuted the premise.

Nope, I know you want to avoid admitting it, hence your failure to reply to the substance of my post (notice how you still fail to address your faulty claims about supposed benefits for rural voters through the electoral college), but it's easy to see how I denied the premise, by pointing out that my objections to the electoral college as illegitimate are long-standing and beyond this mere election, and how I believe I would have called them out as bullshitters at the time.

Go look in media sources a week before the election.

You're the one who should do that, if you want me to believe they exist. Me? I don't recall it, and even if they did exist, I'd still call them full of bullshit if, like you, they were apologizing for the Electoral College instead of calling for its extirpation.

The sentiment was: "what happens when he wins the popular vote but loses the electoral?" as many expected. The answer was "they must accept it no matter how much they don't like it and our security forces must ruthlessly crush anyone who rejects the legitimate outcome. If they resist with violence it is traitorous and seditious."

I know you want to believe it does, but that doesn't make it exist, and more importantly, it doesn't behoove me to think differently about the Electoral College.

I know you are now obligated, of course, to defend the Electoral College with every lie and deceit you can produce, but that's your foolish partisan bias showing.

And what happened after it came out the other way? Resistance with violence.

Ah, yet another thing you want to believe. In reality, there was more damage after a football game than occurred after the election, and none of it was supported by any presidential candidates or major politicians, yet Donald Trump tried his best to convince us there were some serious riots and unrest, almost as if he was trying to fabricate an incident. But apparently you don't know history as well as you may think.

And again, there's the documented tweets by Donald Trump, which again, is something you ignore rather than address. I get it, I get it, you can't admit that the person on record as calling for a revolution is your own beloved Trump. Which again, did not at all mysteriously backtrack on, though he did try to bamboozle us over the popular votes.

It's not like there weren't protests over Obama throughout his presidency. Then there were these random truckers who were supposed to do something.

You probably forgot about that one, even though you were cackling madly over the thought at the time.

So quickly we forget what happened only 20 months ago. We have always been allied with Eurasia.

Seems to me, you're so desperate to forget what happened so badly that you can't even show awareness of what was actually said in the thread already.

Because I still oppose the Electoral College for the sham and fraud it is, and you should do, instead of espousing its phony virtues like a blind fool or trying to pretend a bunch of bullshitters (whose existence is still unproven), are somehow meaningful to me. They aren't.

I rejected the Electoral College before this election, and I reject it afterwards. And I call out your false and empty reasoning as the folly it is.

Open your eyes fool!

Before everyone starts attacking short sellers, they actually provide checks and balances against bubbles and fraud.

https://www.investopedia.com/a...

https://money.usnews.com/inves...

Here's the pattern you have to break.

Five out of the six most recent Republican Presidents increased unemployment during their administrations. The sixth just happened to be an ex-Democrat.

Four out of the five most recent Democrat Presidents reduced unemployment during their administrations. The fifth pretty much broke even.

Good luck. Trump is no Reagan.

Actually, the Tesla model 3 starting price is nearly 50% more than the BMW 3

The Internet says that the base price for the BMW 3 is about $35,000, which is the expected base price for the Tesla Model 3. I would reasonably assume that adding features increases the price of a BMW the same way that it increases the price of a Tesla Model 3.

and going by general appearance, and size, is actually not significantly different from the Ford Fusion, whose price starts at just over a third of the price that the Tesla model 3 starts at.

Going by the classifications on the US News site, the Ford Fusion is listed as a "midsize car", along with the Camry and Accord. The Tesla Model 3 is classified as a "luxury small car", just like the BMW 3.

It's better here in Texas (like everything) ...

Except in Education (ranked 40th) and Healthcare (ranked 38th) in the nation. Also, it's really frelling hot in Texas. Still, not a bad place to fly over on your way to somewhere better. :-)

When you breed something, it's still within the realm of nature. Nature does it anyway. But it's still within the ecosystem and the limitations from billions of years of evolution.

Gene editing skips the millions and millions of years that the ecosystem has to adjust - predators, disease or what have you that limits the organism.

And with GMO crops, it also allows for private interests to own the means of food production.
You want to plant? Monsanto will want to have a word with you.

And the whole Round-Up resistance is just blowing up in our faces, Super weeds

Nope, I want to know if it's GMO.

And where I live, we wouldn't use torches or pitch forks on the monster. We got us some guns.

I generally hate it, when people claim, the US "is just as bad" as some totalitarian shithole and openly compare McCarthy with the likes of Beria. But American colleges are already in the world of next Tuesday, where the "progressives" want the rest of the country to be. Ruining one's "social score" can already cost one a college-admission.

Routinely, getting into a good college in the US today — especially for some racial minorities — requires some combination of:

• volunteer work;
• sports participation;
• other "extra-curricular" activities, such as, for example, ballroom dancing;
• demonstrated leadership abilities — my personal favorite.

These colleges are ostensibly private, so they should be able to do whatever they please... But the same freedom is not afforded to other businesses, and, when politically expedient, even these private colleges have been arm-twisted into compliance with the government's demands.

You're right. Except......

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/civil-wars/articles/2018-01-05/the-trump-administration-now-targeting-legal-immigrants

The average employer-sponsored family premium has gone up by $4,154 under Obama, from 2008, before he took office, to 2014, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual employer survey conducted with the Health Research & Educational Trust. The catch? That’s relatively slow growth for premiums. The RNC may cast it as bad news, but it’s an improvement compared with the growth in premiums before Obama took office.

The ACA also required some basic diagnostics to be done without cost to the consumer. That would be an expansion of service, not a shrinking.

Hospitals weren;t forced to close under the ACA, nor did it cause them to close. What did cause some to close was Republican lead states refusing to adopt the ACA, thereby shorting hospitals (and doctors) in the state those funds.... causing them to have to close. https://health.usnews.com/heal...

Hospitals in the 32 states that expanded Medicaid were about 84 percent less likely to close than hospitals in states that did not expand the government-funded insurance program for the poor or disabled, the study found.

Repealing the ACA will toss 20+ million people off of insurance, and put us right back to where we were with medical/insurance costs ACTUALLY growing fast like they did pre-ACA. I swear, it takes a complete fucking idiot to be as fucking wrong about things as dipshits like you. Tell me, did your mother have any children that weren't born braindead?

Number of American universities in the global top 50: 32
Number of German universities in the global top 50: 1*

Global university rankings

American higher education is broken and needs to be fixed, but the "German model" is broken too, just in different ways. Germany churns out a lot of mediocre graduates, and has a very high dropout rate (people don't value what they aren't paying for).

* #40 - University of Munich

What's the matter with a high dropout rate? Not everyone needs a degree. Especially not in an economy where you can actually make a decent living without one.

Number of American universities in the global top 50: 32
Number of German universities in the global top 50: 1*

Global university rankings

American higher education is broken and needs to be fixed, but the "German model" is broken too, just in different ways. Germany churns out a lot of mediocre graduates, and has a very high dropout rate (people don't value what they aren't paying for).

* #40 - University of Munich

Please provide evidence that such people even exist. This is a straw-man.

What you mean like this? And that's only the latest story. There's pushing 20 years of this, so we can just chalk this up to general ignorance and not paying attention to what's going on around you. WA, NC, SC, GA, SD, ND, IL, MI, IN, OH, GA, all over the place. You can even find the 'impact studies' in blowing agricultural land into giant solar farms with no trouble and the massive agreement from universities that "yes it's really a good idea to reduce farmland and put solar panels on it." The prime 'green belt' in Ontario, has multiple cases of this. Again, hit your favorite search engine, you'll find the stories stupidly easy.

And the worst quality of life.
https://www.usnews.com/news/be...

California has worst US air pollution in the nation
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-...

California has the highest poverty rate in the nation
https://www.latimes.com/opinio...

Schools are 39/51
https://wallethub.com/edu/stat...

This is with a high state income and sales tax.

I thought it would be pretty evident but here is a link to help out.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion...

Depending on who runs the numbers under Obama the national deficit rose by 7 to 10 trillion dollars. Almost doubling or doubling, again on who runs the numbers, off all presidents before him combine. That alone is a disaster.

Taxes here in California are high, but they're worth it.

Really? What do Californians get for it? Bad roads, bad schools, traffic jams, urban sprawl, homelessness, massive social problems.

Plus, states like Texas just make up the difference with fees, tolls, property taxes, etc.

Data says otherwise

And after you pay all those fees, tolls, property taxes, etc, you're still in goddamn Texas.

Isn't it great? It's a place where people like you just don't go.

That is scary indeed, but not necessarily a shady deal.
I carried out the same search you did (only later saw your link ooops) and while the majority of newspapers have articles showing that line (landing pages for paywalls included), there were others with a more detailed narrative. It appears to me that the Associated Press is the primary source, reporting on what went on on Iranian TV where their president did make that statement, obviously with some qualifiers and some outline of his next steps.

Here are two links that use the AP report but actually expand on the clickbaiting headline:
exhibit A
exhibit B

I don't know if these newspapers are distasteful or propaganda machines like RT, Daily Mail and Fox, so sorry if you have to wash your eyes and floss your brain after following the links :S.
It could be that AP has different prices for different access to their reports. Everyone and their dog decided that quoting that headline unchanged was a useful thing (thus contributing to that viral effect that creeped us both out) , but only a subset of news sources went with the full report.

Seriously, I fully get why young Canadians are trying to GTFO from Canada.

That's a little hard to believe, when Canada has the highest quality of life of any country.

Check out his "lies". I think you'll find time and time again it was Trump that was right.

I know, you probably still believe the collusion delusion. Time is running out on that one. Soon only the really stupid will still believe in that.

Time for a red (reality) pill
https://www.usnews.com/opinion...

https://www.usnews.com/news/be...
and 50th in student spending (50th, last place).
https://www.census.gov/newsroo...

The U.S. accounts for no more that 45% of medical R&D spending. This figure is 6 years old, and the article is about the steady downward trend of this share, so it is almost certainly lower today. Even at 40%, say, it is the largest share of any single nation, and significantly more than the U.S. share of the world's total GDP (25%), but the claim that the rest of world are "freeloaders" is BS.