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  1. Re:10 million millionaires in the US in 401k index on Jack Bogle, the Man Who Revolutionized Investing, Dies At 89 (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    and then it's time to die. A million bucks probably not even enough to die with dignity after healthcare expenses

  2. pretty sure the majority of the housing stock was built before 1960, and did not have additions constructed

  3. Re:Already exists in some countries on No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job) (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange that uneducated immigrants are also a net benefit

  4. Re:Already exists in some countries on No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job) (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Tax is extracted from the people who didn't go to college too, and of course tax can never be paid in full.

  5. Re:Sorry, but border security is more important on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Latin America need the economic gains more than the USA? It's racist not to report your friends to ICE.

  6. Re:My sister just told me that... on Even More Americans Have Stopped Biking To Work (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Also to soft to enforce the law. Particularly in the case of female drivers, they can kill you in a crosswalk or even intentionally hit you, and receive no punishment at all.

  7. Re:Actions should have consequences on Google Shifted $23 Billion To Tax Haven Bermuda in 2017, Filing Shows (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Fire departments do usually get a little federal grant money for equipment, though it's true the OP's point would better apply to the 100s of thousands of "nonprofits" that don't pay any tax

  8. Re:Root Cause on Who'd Go To University Today? (spiked-online.com) · · Score: 1

    an electrical engineer could go to a university on all student loans

    Engineering has a high washout rate, would be difficult to structure the loans to break even, though at least there is a good argument for partial taxpayer subsidization. I think there is a stagflation problem too, with the real cost of things going up, while parents can't afford to contribute much to the education of even one child, and taxpayers aren't earning enough for the government not to run massive deficits.

  9. Re:A reason to respect him on George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, Dies At 94 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    You mean Candace Bergen, who waited until she was married to a millionaire before having a child, and then married another millionaire after he died? "History" is just a story, truth is always the truth.

  10. Re:Opposite problem on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    tell them to put in on your tab

  11. Re:Racist...Really on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything people with black skin do, since black is the darkest shade.

  12. Re:more at stake on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    even more than that since government banks have already stated their intention to reduce your balances when needed for centralized economic regulation, and no doubt there will be other proposals to limit access to or redistribute your money. Already hard to see how people forced to work a portion of their working years to support their government masters are not slaves, but soon the government will hold every cent they earn

  13. Re:Everyone is completely exempt from personal res on 'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Paying $40k of her own money to be taken care of by low-skilled and -paid staff would be better? Your mom couldn't have played it much smarter, people with money usually make arrangements to hide it so they can get Medicaid nursing care, but that benefits their heirs more than them

  14. Good luck when that national debt is mostly paid by printing counterfeit money to devalue what you earned. Deadbeat borrowers come out ahead

  15. Re:I'm wondering if this'll come home to roost on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 0

    Obama didn't repair anything, the government just printed a bunch of money so the wealthy didn't lose money they acquired through fraud and gambling, that is what has been dragging down your standard of living

  16. Re:These are humans on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let me guess, you also advocate eliminating manufacturing jobs "because human" and opening the borders to billions of foreigners "because human". Your heart bleeds for "humans" so much that the solution is to eliminate them and every trace of human civilization.

  17. you don't want to be put down if you get Alzheimer's? the disabled would also probably be better off if the resources put into pretending they can participate in normal life were put into enhancing what they can do

  18. Remember that Hillary wasn't President? Remember that Trump is President? Granted it would have been bad if a simpleton like Obama was leaking information, but Trump's enormous mind will just confound the Chinese, it wouldn't be surprising if they preemptively surrendered to the nearest US warship.

  19. Re:We need to BUILD MORE HOUSING on High Housing Prices In Tech Cities Are Now Raising Home Prices In Other States (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Cost of construction is also through the roof, even converting existing buildings.

  20. Re:I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no right to trespass. Trespasserphobia is not a disorder. Pathological altruism is though.

  21. Re:I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The statue is French, the poem was added later through a private effort. A decoration is not policy

  22. Re:Soooooooo on US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Prosperity results in a higher cost of living, expensive housing and healthcare do of course mean many live in squalor; they may not starve, but that's like saying a rat is rich because there are dumpsters outside expensive restaurants.

  23. Re:More obscure consequence on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Women don't care if they are the best at a task, though they feel entitled to never being inferior to a man at anything. Giving into people who "want it all" is ridiculous because wants are irrational

  24. The truth is that a gold egg laying goose may be valuable, but it's not indispensable; its value is finite and it is replaceable. Eventually the world is going to get along fine without every single one of us.

    Really I think a lot of what's going on here is the death of a fantasy: the one where you're so technically awesome that you get a pass on acting like an asshole.

    Applies to the Linux project, it's not so irreplaceable that it can be a bitch

  25. primary school teachers and nurses which are two of the absolutely most dead-end and poorly paying careers relative to their education level

    more like the opposite, if you measure "education level" by competence, though it's true pay is less generous in areas where taxpayers have less to steal