the use of traffic and other fines as revenue generation [is] an unevenly applied "tax" that cares nothing about your ability to pay
That's a good argument for making the fines proportional to income.
The fact that in cases like the shortened yellow lights, it's actively harming (rather than helping) safety
That's correct, if you're the bumper on a car. If you are any other part of the car, or a human inside the car, the reduced T-bone collisions at camera-enforced intersections make you safer:
Even though the positive effects on angle crashes of RLC systems is partially offset by negative effects related to increases in rear end crashes, there is still a modest to moderate economic benefit of between $39,000 and $50,000 per treated site year, depending on consideration of only injury crashes or including PDO crashes, and whether the statistically non-significant shift to slightly more severe angle crashes remaining after treatment is, in fact, real.
In place of #3, I'd like to see the court use eminent domain to take Comcast's wires and give them to the city so each customer or each neighborhood can choose their own ISP.
Of all the choices on the table, capturing sales tax from more online sales might prove the most palatable to tax-averse Republicans.
It is both ironic and saddening that Republicans support regressive taxes, which help keep the poor trapped in the cycle of poverty, because it was the Republicans who abolished slavery in the USA a century and a half ago.
Let's not get into hypotheticals. The important point is that red states tend to get more federal funding than they pay in federal taxes, while blue states tend to pay more in federal taxes than they receive in federal funding. So the Democratic states subsidize the Republican ones.
But you're right about the "idiotic left." The left are idiots for giving welfare to the red states. It's time to cut the red states off and let them try to support themselves financially. Self-reliance is still a conservative value, isn't it?
This is why prisons should be penalized for each ex-inmate who recividates. Let's put the profit motive to work for the benefit of everyone and not just the prisons themselves.
I'm thinking something more like this. The (un-)design is quite pleasing and yet it breaks so many ordinances in my own city that we would not be allowed to build it.
You need to talk to the city and work out your plans with them. Your building has to fit into their plans for traffic, pedestrians, water, sewer, electricity, parking, etc.
You're describing central planning. We are gradually becoming more and more communist.
In the big city you have to work with your neighbors, not ignore them.
If only that were true. You really only need to talk to your neighbors to get zoning variances approved.
Imagine your favorite street in town didn't exist. Could it be built today if the construction had to follow your local rules?
In the USA, we are no longer allowed to build nice things like we used to. I love some of the old streets in Europe but we can't build them here due to required street widths, setbacks, floor area ratios, parking requirements, height limits, and so on. We've legislated beauty away, unless your vision of beauty involves a lot of asphalt and empty space.
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Is there a legal way to buy and download a DRM-free copy of Game of Thrones?
That's overhead, not the marginal cost to the developer of producing a saleable unit.
That's a good argument for making the fines proportional to income.
That's correct, if you're the bumper on a car. If you are any other part of the car, or a human inside the car, the reduced T-bone collisions at camera-enforced intersections make you safer:
In California, there is no such law. The yellow phase means nothing more than the light is about to change to red.
How much did each key cost the developer to produce? This is how much money the developer was deprived of each time the game was pirated.
Who is forcing them to break the law?
No, accidents are called accidents because there's no criminality.
In place of #3, I'd like to see the court use eminent domain to take Comcast's wires and give them to the city so each customer or each neighborhood can choose their own ISP.
Ok, I see your point now.
When you exhale CO2, it consists of the CO2 you breathed in plus carbon from foods you ate. So you're creating more CO2 than you consumed.
You are required by law to slow down when visibility is poor. So the question remains, why didn't it slow down?
False.
It is both ironic and saddening that Republicans support regressive taxes, which help keep the poor trapped in the cycle of poverty, because it was the Republicans who abolished slavery in the USA a century and a half ago.
Let's not get into hypotheticals. The important point is that red states tend to get more federal funding than they pay in federal taxes, while blue states tend to pay more in federal taxes than they receive in federal funding. So the Democratic states subsidize the Republican ones.
Nice try, but the idea of Red State Socialism (Republican states get more federal spending than they pay in federal taxes) is well supported.
That's funny because for the most part (Texas being the exception), red states are financially supported by the blue ones.
But you're right about the "idiotic left." The left are idiots for giving welfare to the red states. It's time to cut the red states off and let them try to support themselves financially. Self-reliance is still a conservative value, isn't it?
This is why prisons should be penalized for each ex-inmate who recividates. Let's put the profit motive to work for the benefit of everyone and not just the prisons themselves.
You think a bill sponsored by a Democrat has a chance of getting passed?
You're an optimist. I like that.
Wouldn't a post-oil world look similar to a pre-oil world?
I'm thinking something more like this. The (un-)design is quite pleasing and yet it breaks so many ordinances in my own city that we would not be allowed to build it.
You're describing central planning. We are gradually becoming more and more communist.
If only that were true. You really only need to talk to your neighbors to get zoning variances approved.
Imagine your favorite street in town didn't exist. Could it be built today if the construction had to follow your local rules?
In the USA, we are no longer allowed to build nice things like we used to. I love some of the old streets in Europe but we can't build them here due to required street widths, setbacks, floor area ratios, parking requirements, height limits, and so on. We've legislated beauty away, unless your vision of beauty involves a lot of asphalt and empty space.
Or a missing wing!
Just buy a new one.
Or not enough demand response.