No. NYC does not have enough rental units. Too many people prevent development, and I'm not talking about putting up 30 story buildings in brownstone neighborhoods - but allowing 2 and 3 story buildings to be replaced with 5 story brownstones would be great.
Downtown Brooklyn already has large buildings and the "don't develop" people are preventing more buildings going up in an area that makes sense to build up. Each time you restrict new apartments from going up you make the price more expensive for everyone else.
As a landlord I say thank you. My property value is going up. As a human being who cares about his city I think this knee-jerk anti-capitalist reaction is BS and hurting everyone.
Except if you live in NYC. Then you are buying a two bedroom condo for $1,000,000 plus (in a nice, safe area - not a posh, ritzy area) and are definitely not parking your money in banks and stocks (which by the way is the capital that allows a bank to lend the $50,000/yr person the money to buy his house).
Still. I agree we need more $50,000/yr jobs as well as more $250,000 / yr jobs.
We have made an entire industries out of imprisoning people for what they would choose to put in their own body,
As a libertarian I agree. The solution is easy. Vote for people who are for smaller, more constitutionally, limited government. Does the Federal Government have the power to dictate what you put in your body? (See the enumerated powers in Article 1, Section VIII.)
What part of individual freedom and limited government as written in the US Constitution is morally wrong?
So, you're for the individual being nothing more than a cell in the collective body? You, and I, and every other individual (the smallest minority group) have no value, in and of ourselves?
You mean to tell me government isn't used to protect and give things to industry? Really?
I'm not talking about accelerated deductions (which I'm for by the way) but removing or capping liability for preferred industries (nuclear) or putting quotas, duties, loans, favoring one industry over another, and in times of extreme corruption favoring specific companies (Solyndra anyone). This is the collusion btwn business and gov't that is fought best by having the concept of limited government firmly in mind when selecting elected officials.
Guess I'm f**king deluding myself that a small gov't means that corporations can't use the govt to suit itself. Maybe, just maybe, growing the govt means more power to corporations who collude with the govt
I'm a small-government libertarian and I assure you I am not a corporatist. In case it matters the very concept of "laissez-faire" arose in opposition to mercantilism (the 18th C word for corporatist).
So. Laissez-faire (small-government libertarian) types are very much opposed to corporatism.
1. Is it criminal to surreptitiously film activities if one is an investigative reporter?
1a. If so, are criminal charges brought forward in a consistent manner (ie: everyone who surreptitiously films people is brought up on charges)
2. Did the investigative reporters lie and make up things (Dan Rather) or edit film in such a way to distort the record (Katie Couric).
2a. Is such lying grounds for bringing criminal charges?
2b. If so, are criminal charges brought forward in a consistent manner.
Isn't what they did what ALL investigative journalism does? When 20/20 or 60 minutes runs an expose and films people surreptitiously what do you suppose that is?
Leaking stolen documents is also against the law. Did we lock up NYTimes writers and editors for publishing the Pentagon Papers? Nope.
Flint Michigan's Mayer and City Council was Republican?
The EPA officials were Republican?
Who made the decision not to maintain the infrastructure for the last 40 years. Oh, yeah. Democrats.
Who signed off on the condition of the water pipes? oh yeah the EPA.
But you blame the governor. Yup. good thinking there.
Without debating how much came in from Republican amendments it's not what the Heritage Foundation article proposed. Not even close.
Republicans/= Heritage Foundation.
Just as there are huge divisions in the Democratic Party (Labor v Environmental Movement for example) not everyone in the Republican Party are for free market solutions. There is a libertarian wing (small, but it exists), there is a big business, corporatist wing (same as the Dems) and the libertarian wing hates the corporatist wing just as the Bernie wing hates the corporatist wing.
Sadly there are points of agreement that could be reached between the Bernie and Libertarian sides that would do good.
Pretentious? I've never heard anyone considering writing bklyn as opposed to brooklyn as being pretentious. So, I don't know how long it takes.
I've lived in Bklyn basically my whole life. I don't even think about writing it out and more than I think about writing out NYC.
The article was referring to NYC (assuming as I didn't read the article). And yes, everything north of the Bronx (including Westchester) is upstate. Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk) obviously are not "upstate".
I remember when living in bklyn was most definitely not considered "pretentious."
Don't know where you got the idea that I considered upstate as irrelevant. (I did think it was irrelevant as far as the article was concerned. I was focused on NYC itself.)
Can one commute from Westchester, Rockland, NJ, Pennsylvania, Connecticut. Yes. Plenty do
No. It was not. Please read up on the topic and not regurgitate things. The Heritage Foundation often has thought experiments in which one set of people take up one side and another group another side. And, no matter, whether Obamacare was based on the Heritage Foundation article or not -- the end result is not what was debated in the article.
A sh!tty poorly thought out, poorly constructed failure of bill based on lies (you can keep your doctor) and bribes. There is no reason for either left or right to prop up this monstrosity.
NYC rooms for rent in "war zones" (think Far Rock) are in the neighborhood of 180-200/wk. Think drugs, prostitutes, shootings, muggings. As bad a neighborhood as NYC has.
In a decent neighborhood (read relatively safe) I can't see getting anything but a room in a shared brownstone for $1000 / mth. If you want to your own place, even a 400sq foot studio will cost $1500+
If you're willing to live further in Bklyn or Queens or the Bronx you can get a nice 1 bdrm for 1750 or so. In Far Rock you could get a two bedroom + for that price but you would have a 90 minute commute to midtown.
I live in Bklyn, a half hour door2door from midtown so, good commute.
No. His supporters think that he respects them and values them and will do his best to do common sense things that will help them.
Common Sense Thing Number 1-1000.
Build the pipelines to bring shale oil to the refineries. Common sense because it's more efficient and safer than using trucks. Common sense because we aren't feeding the Saudis and other religious nuts.
Common Sense Thing Number 1001
Cut red tape for building things - be it windmills or restaurants.
Common Sense Thing Number 1002
Curtain the EPA's taking of property under the guise of "wetlands". If you need to take a property to save species "x" then be fu**ing honest and buy the land from the person instead of declaring it wetlands and walking away.
These are 3 very simple common-sense things and yet... look at all the opposition to it. These 3 things (and maybe simply the pipeline) led to Trump being president. Hey, all you jacka$$es out there, was it worth it?
What separates "essential liberties" from civil liberties. And what, by the way, is a civil liberty? What liberty do you have as a result of the government that you do not possess as an individual? And if there is no difference why do you say "civil liberty" as opposed to "individual liberty"?
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No. NYC does not have enough rental units. Too many people prevent development, and I'm not talking about putting up 30 story buildings in brownstone neighborhoods - but allowing 2 and 3 story buildings to be replaced with 5 story brownstones would be great.
Downtown Brooklyn already has large buildings and the "don't develop" people are preventing more buildings going up in an area that makes sense to build up. Each time you restrict new apartments from going up you make the price more expensive for everyone else.
As a landlord I say thank you. My property value is going up. As a human being who cares about his city I think this knee-jerk anti-capitalist reaction is BS and hurting everyone.
Except if you live in NYC. Then you are buying a two bedroom condo for $1,000,000 plus (in a nice, safe area - not a posh, ritzy area) and are definitely not parking your money in banks and stocks (which by the way is the capital that allows a bank to lend the $50,000/yr person the money to buy his house).
Still. I agree we need more $50,000/yr jobs as well as more $250,000 / yr jobs.
We have made an entire industries out of imprisoning people for what they would choose to put in their own body, As a libertarian I agree. The solution is easy. Vote for people who are for smaller, more constitutionally, limited government. Does the Federal Government have the power to dictate what you put in your body? (See the enumerated powers in Article 1, Section VIII.)
The answer is NO.
The US is morally wrong?
What part of individual freedom and limited government as written in the US Constitution is morally wrong?
So, you're for the individual being nothing more than a cell in the collective body? You, and I, and every other individual (the smallest minority group) have no value, in and of ourselves?
You mean to tell me government isn't used to protect and give things to industry? Really?
I'm not talking about accelerated deductions (which I'm for by the way) but removing or capping liability for preferred industries (nuclear) or putting quotas, duties, loans, favoring one industry over another, and in times of extreme corruption favoring specific companies (Solyndra anyone). This is the collusion btwn business and gov't that is fought best by having the concept of limited government firmly in mind when selecting elected officials.
Small government libertarians != anarchists.
The courts easily deal with this scenario.
Guess I'm f**king deluding myself that a small gov't means that corporations can't use the govt to suit itself. Maybe, just maybe, growing the govt means more power to corporations who collude with the govt
No!!!
I'm a small-government libertarian and I assure you I am not a corporatist. In case it matters the very concept of "laissez-faire" arose in opposition to mercantilism (the 18th C word for corporatist).
So. Laissez-faire (small-government libertarian) types are very much opposed to corporatism.
I guess you don't yet realize that the Republicans (as with the Dems) are a coalition of factions.
Small government libertarians != big government social conservatives != corporatist.
Republicans, just as the Democrats have parties that disagree strongly with each other
Labor v Environmentalists
Labor v Open border
And in some cases there is union between the two parties: Example, Corporatists in both the Rep and Dem party are for open borders
All this to say that the statement "political freedom" is just a rouse for GOP. The 1% is really their focus. is inaccurate.
Libertarians are dead set against this, as are "main-street" republicans and social conservatives.
Amen.
You're combining several things.
1. Is it criminal to surreptitiously film activities if one is an investigative reporter?
1a. If so, are criminal charges brought forward in a consistent manner (ie: everyone who surreptitiously films people is brought up on charges)
2. Did the investigative reporters lie and make up things (Dan Rather) or edit film in such a way to distort the record (Katie Couric).
2a. Is such lying grounds for bringing criminal charges?
2b. If so, are criminal charges brought forward in a consistent manner.
Isn't what they did what ALL investigative journalism does? When 20/20 or 60 minutes runs an expose and films people surreptitiously what do you suppose that is?
Leaking stolen documents is also against the law. Did we lock up NYTimes writers and editors for publishing the Pentagon Papers? Nope.
Really?
Flint Michigan's Mayer and City Council was Republican?
The EPA officials were Republican?
Who made the decision not to maintain the infrastructure for the last 40 years. Oh, yeah. Democrats.
Who signed off on the condition of the water pipes? oh yeah the EPA.
But you blame the governor. Yup. good thinking there.
So, all investigative journalists should be sued? Or only those that go after entities that you are in favor of?
Globalism /= Capitalism
Globalism can also be Socialist (International Socialism anyone) or Theocratic.
Guess it's time to get off the couch and find a good VPN. Don't forget to help your friends and neighbors.
Without debating how much came in from Republican amendments it's not what the Heritage Foundation article proposed. Not even close.
/= Heritage Foundation.
Just as there are huge divisions in the Democratic Party (Labor v Environmental Movement for example) not everyone in the Republican Party are for free market solutions. There is a libertarian wing (small, but it exists), there is a big business, corporatist wing (same as the Dems) and the libertarian wing hates the corporatist wing just as the Bernie wing hates the corporatist wing.
Republicans
Sadly there are points of agreement that could be reached between the Bernie and Libertarian sides that would do good.
Pretentious? I've never heard anyone considering writing bklyn as opposed to brooklyn as being pretentious. So, I don't know how long it takes.
I've lived in Bklyn basically my whole life. I don't even think about writing it out and more than I think about writing out NYC. The article was referring to NYC (assuming as I didn't read the article). And yes, everything north of the Bronx (including Westchester) is upstate. Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk) obviously are not "upstate".
I remember when living in bklyn was most definitely not considered "pretentious."
Don't know where you got the idea that I considered upstate as irrelevant. (I did think it was irrelevant as far as the article was concerned. I was focused on NYC itself.)
Can one commute from Westchester, Rockland, NJ, Pennsylvania, Connecticut. Yes. Plenty do
No. It was not. Please read up on the topic and not regurgitate things. The Heritage Foundation often has thought experiments in which one set of people take up one side and another group another side. And, no matter, whether Obamacare was based on the Heritage Foundation article or not -- the end result is not what was debated in the article.
Yeah.
A sh!tty poorly thought out, poorly constructed failure of bill based on lies (you can keep your doctor) and bribes. There is no reason for either left or right to prop up this monstrosity.
NYC rooms for rent in "war zones" (think Far Rock) are in the neighborhood of 180-200/wk. Think drugs, prostitutes, shootings, muggings. As bad a neighborhood as NYC has.
In a decent neighborhood (read relatively safe) I can't see getting anything but a room in a shared brownstone for $1000 / mth. If you want to your own place, even a 400sq foot studio will cost $1500+
If you're willing to live further in Bklyn or Queens or the Bronx you can get a nice 1 bdrm for 1750 or so. In Far Rock you could get a two bedroom + for that price but you would have a 90 minute commute to midtown.
I live in Bklyn, a half hour door2door from midtown so, good commute.
Rents!? They're not cheap.
No. His supporters think that he respects them and values them and will do his best to do common sense things that will help them.
... look at all the opposition to it. These 3 things (and maybe simply the pipeline) led to Trump being president. Hey, all you jacka$$es out there, was it worth it?
Common Sense Thing Number 1-1000.
Build the pipelines to bring shale oil to the refineries. Common sense because it's more efficient and safer than using trucks. Common sense because we aren't feeding the Saudis and other religious nuts.
Common Sense Thing Number 1001
Cut red tape for building things - be it windmills or restaurants.
Common Sense Thing Number 1002
Curtain the EPA's taking of property under the guise of "wetlands". If you need to take a property to save species "x" then be fu**ing honest and buy the land from the person instead of declaring it wetlands and walking away.
These are 3 very simple common-sense things and yet
do you understand the sh!t that comes out of your mouth?
Would you have said "Welcome to Hillary's America" if she had won? Or "Welcome to Obama's America" if this article came out 6 months ago?
What separates "essential liberties" from civil liberties. And what, by the way, is a civil liberty? What liberty do you have as a result of the government that you do not possess as an individual? And if there is no difference why do you say "civil liberty" as opposed to "individual liberty"?
What made you think I voted for Trump? I didn't.
Oh. Because I said he wasn't stupid. OK. Gotcha.