Bill Murray has been a "big famous actor" since 1977 when he replaced Chevy Chase in Saturday Night Live. Ghostbusters is a young man's movie, and Murray looks older than Gene Hackman on a bad day. They'd have to apply makeup with a trowel.
Small New Hampshire town here. Many local officials aren't even paid, yet they're elective offices. There isn't much leeway for waste when the government is paid for out of a population of 2000.
Actually, $2 billion profit on $64 billion revenue is very poor profit margin for anything but static industries. 3% leaves too little tolerance for mistakes.
How many local governments actually have the ability to build out a fiber network? They'd have to contract it done, probably by the same company that would have done it anyway.
Private highways were being built and used when Eisenhower pushed through the Interstate system. Part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was originally private. Government has the advantage of stealing land through eminent domain; private companies could easily be stymied if they had an enemy in government, or just a bureaucrat soliciting bribes. Buying land from tens of thousands of landowners to make way for a big road is no easy undertaking.
Do you pay to drive from one end of a WalMart parking lot to the other? It's private. Why aren't there any tolls?
Neighborhoods sometimes have private roads, and don't charge tolls. The residents pay for road upkeep through a property owner's association. Private roads through a business district could be maintained the same way, either through contracting work on their road or paying a road company in possession of the road a fee for its use. The net effect would be the same as paying for road maintenance through taxes, with the additional advantage that road owners don't have to go begging to the government to fix that pothole that's been growing for five months.
The proper function of government is to identify human rights, codify them, and defend them. Anything else whatsoever is a usurpation that inevitably does more harm than good.
There are only 2 ways for government to serve: with slaves or by paying people to serve. The money to pay is taken from those who earn it by those who don't.
Wolves raised by humans from birth do not communicate as well with humans as most domestic dogs (or so I've read.) A domestic dog will learn to look where you point, a wolf will look at your hand.
Removing the antenna is no guarantee of disabling wifi. The antenna is a fairly efficient broadcast device, but if you remove it there's still wiring to the antenna mount that will radiate. Range will be reduced, so a spy will have to get closer, but removing the antenna is not a total solution.
Even at greatly increased prices tap water used for drinking does not amount to much money. That and a couple of flushes a day is all anyone needs, and that's not enough to justify a cutout for the poor.
If it weren't for anti-child-labor laws and minimum-wage laws, a lot of the farm work attracting illegal immigrants could be done by the children of Americans. This is part of California's problem.
And "alternative sexual lifestyles" covers more ground than just homosexual couples: single parent families, and the irresponsible parents who are (in growing and unreported numbers) abandoning their children. Children need to be taught how to support themselves and nurture their own future children, rather than feel good about whatever they do and feel indignant about those who do support themselves
Your citation shows 2013 precipitation roughly 1/3 of normal. If cities and industry (20%) don't reduce their consumption at all, there's still plenty of water for them. However, in that scenario farms (to be 13%) are destroyed, those with tree crops permanently.
This indicates that the perverse incentives from government (water subsidies to farmers) have led to a food chain vulnerability, which is potentially a very severe problem.
There should be no subsidies at any level of use. Farmers should pay the same as everyone else. This will have a number of effects.
Higher water cost to farmers means higher food prices, to cover costs.
Some farmers will not be able to raise prices enough to cover costs. They'll go out of business, and farmers growing in more appropriate places will take up the slack.
Prices to previously unsubsidized water consumers will fall. That's you and me and industry.
Taxes will fall slightly as the people employed in handing out subsidies lose their jobs. Some lobbyists would lose there jobs also. Both sets of people would have to find actual productive work.
Net, some temporary disruption, less wasted human effort overall, and the moral advantage of not forcing one group of people to pay for the undeserved perks of another group.
One of the major advantages of market-driven pricing is that economic pressures direct resources to where they have the most value. Put another way, market-driven pricing reduces the waste of valuable things. The effective use of resources is characteristic of rich societies, not poor.
It's not like you can have competing markets with a water system.
Arguments for monopolistic markets keep being debunked by practice. Satellite TV breaks cable monopoly. Cell phones break landline monopoly. Three different sources of water have already been mentioned in earlier posts: rivers, aquifers, and desalinization. If water systems were not state and city owned, there would be an opening for competition in at least some aspects of water supply.
There aren't a lot of farms in Los Angeles now. Northwest L.A. (the San Fernando valley) used to be heavily farmed, particularly citrus.
Water was critical in making Los Angeles a single city. Mulholland, acting for the city, bought up most of the water supplies in the area; then surrounding cities were told "become a part of Los Angeles or dry up and blow away."
The combined taxes on gasoline and diesel are now about 16% at the pump. That doesn't include taxes on the manufacturing process, oil leases, etc. Basically, you're proposing no change.
(wikipedia) The term slush fund is used in accounting to describe a general ledger account in which all manner of transactions can be posted to commingled funds and "loose" monies by debits and credits cancelling each other out.
It's the "all manner of transactions" that's key here, and it means that the funds will be used at the pleasure of the president and his minions, without accountability or traceability.
Rights are inherent to being a human being, that is, a rational animal. They are not from anything, in particular they are not from a fictional entity. It is the responsibility of government to recognize, codify, and protect rights.
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Bill Murray has been a "big famous actor" since 1977 when he replaced Chevy Chase in Saturday Night Live. Ghostbusters is a young man's movie, and Murray looks older than Gene Hackman on a bad day. They'd have to apply makeup with a trowel.
And grouping "white, male, racist, asshole" together is a standard leftist lie.
Small New Hampshire town here. Many local officials aren't even paid, yet they're elective offices. There isn't much leeway for waste when the government is paid for out of a population of 2000.
10,000 pages is about 30 to 45 books. No need to leave the house, that's $250 to $370 from Amazon, delivered to your door. Less than cable TV.
Actually, $2 billion profit on $64 billion revenue is very poor profit margin for anything but static industries. 3% leaves too little tolerance for mistakes.
How many local governments actually have the ability to build out a fiber network? They'd have to contract it done, probably by the same company that would have done it anyway.
The history of cable laying must vary by community, because where I live it was paid for by the cable company.
Railroads built a lot of bridges.
Private highways were being built and used when Eisenhower pushed through the Interstate system. Part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was originally private. Government has the advantage of stealing land through eminent domain; private companies could easily be stymied if they had an enemy in government, or just a bureaucrat soliciting bribes. Buying land from tens of thousands of landowners to make way for a big road is no easy undertaking.
Do you pay to drive from one end of a WalMart parking lot to the other? It's private. Why aren't there any tolls?
Neighborhoods sometimes have private roads, and don't charge tolls. The residents pay for road upkeep through a property owner's association. Private roads through a business district could be maintained the same way, either through contracting work on their road or paying a road company in possession of the road a fee for its use. The net effect would be the same as paying for road maintenance through taxes, with the additional advantage that road owners don't have to go begging to the government to fix that pothole that's been growing for five months.
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The proper function of government is to identify human rights, codify them, and defend them. Anything else whatsoever is a usurpation that inevitably does more harm than good.
There are only 2 ways for government to serve: with slaves or by paying people to serve. The money to pay is taken from those who earn it by those who don't.
Wolves raised by humans from birth do not communicate as well with humans as most domestic dogs (or so I've read.) A domestic dog will learn to look where you point, a wolf will look at your hand.
Removing the antenna is no guarantee of disabling wifi. The antenna is a fairly efficient broadcast device, but if you remove it there's still wiring to the antenna mount that will radiate. Range will be reduced, so a spy will have to get closer, but removing the antenna is not a total solution.
Even at greatly increased prices tap water used for drinking does not amount to much money. That and a couple of flushes a day is all anyone needs, and that's not enough to justify a cutout for the poor.
The market will direct water from rivers to users, rather than from rivers to the ocean. Predatory government ensures misallocation of resources.
If it weren't for anti-child-labor laws and minimum-wage laws, a lot of the farm work attracting illegal immigrants could be done by the children of Americans. This is part of California's problem.
And "alternative sexual lifestyles" covers more ground than just homosexual couples: single parent families, and the irresponsible parents who are (in growing and unreported numbers) abandoning their children. Children need to be taught how to support themselves and nurture their own future children, rather than feel good about whatever they do and feel indignant about those who do support themselves
Your citation shows 2013 precipitation roughly 1/3 of normal. If cities and industry (20%) don't reduce their consumption at all, there's still plenty of water for them. However, in that scenario farms (to be 13%) are destroyed, those with tree crops permanently.
This indicates that the perverse incentives from government (water subsidies to farmers) have led to a food chain vulnerability, which is potentially a very severe problem.
There should be no subsidies at any level of use. Farmers should pay the same as everyone else. This will have a number of effects.
Net, some temporary disruption, less wasted human effort overall, and the moral advantage of not forcing one group of people to pay for the undeserved perks of another group.
One of the major advantages of market-driven pricing is that economic pressures direct resources to where they have the most value. Put another way, market-driven pricing reduces the waste of valuable things. The effective use of resources is characteristic of rich societies, not poor.
Arguments for monopolistic markets keep being debunked by practice. Satellite TV breaks cable monopoly. Cell phones break landline monopoly. Three different sources of water have already been mentioned in earlier posts: rivers, aquifers, and desalinization. If water systems were not state and city owned, there would be an opening for competition in at least some aspects of water supply.
There aren't a lot of farms in Los Angeles now . Northwest L.A. (the San Fernando valley) used to be heavily farmed, particularly citrus.
Water was critical in making Los Angeles a single city. Mulholland, acting for the city, bought up most of the water supplies in the area; then surrounding cities were told "become a part of Los Angeles or dry up and blow away."
Any activity with regard to the climate, even no activity, is an experiment. That alone nullifies your "dumb" claim.
So the extreme plant growth leads to giant animals? How quickly? By Tuesday?
Dangerous large animals can be made extinct very quickly by things like howitzers. I don't think the dinosaurs will be armed.
Or were you just making a joke?
Why don't you discuss freedom with the three GE executives who received jail sentences in 2012?
The combined taxes on gasoline and diesel are now about 16% at the pump. That doesn't include taxes on the manufacturing process, oil leases, etc. Basically, you're proposing no change.
(wikipedia) The term slush fund is used in accounting to describe a general ledger account in which all manner of transactions can be posted to commingled funds and "loose" monies by debits and credits cancelling each other out.
It's the "all manner of transactions" that's key here, and it means that the funds will be used at the pleasure of the president and his minions, without accountability or traceability.
Rights are inherent to being a human being, that is, a rational animal. They are not from anything, in particular they are not from a fictional entity. It is the responsibility of government to recognize, codify, and protect rights.