Classist much? Your argument is that the "painfully" blue collar people don't care ( you left out the superbowl and beer references, btw), but the fine upstanding white collar workers care? You also incorrectly correlate increasing tax rates with nicer neighborhoods.
I'd say it's simply a matter of the white collar jobs coming in paying more money, hence more tax base,
I'm kind of hoping some painfully blue collar guy clocks you some day.
Ten years? I got that back in a feminist class in college in 1992 that I was forced to take since I needed the credits and it was the only thing that fit my schedule. Only men could be sexist. So myself and the one other guy in the class sat around getting glared at for a semester, until we received a shining C for our effort.
"because its government's job to look out for the people." giggle. I'm a government employee, and I'll tell you: Most of the people I work with, it's their job to look out for their pension or their position. Just like in a free market. Except the pension part. Both unconstrained free and unconstrained government have their weak points, which happen to be the evil mirror image of each other. In one, rich get everything. In the other, "connected" get everything. The reason I'd lean towards regulated free market is that greed is an understood and known quantity. Someone saying they want things is understandable. Someone saying "I wanna help!" can have many different meanings.
Who cares if gas cars are base and EVs are discounted, or if gas cars are taxed and EVs aren't: the end result in both cases is Gas cars cost more. You're just arguing over semantics and how you want to feel about it. It's like paper bags in California: they charge 10 cents for one at the store. They could have easily made it a 10 cent discount to NOT use the bag, but they want you to pay and, most importantly, FEEL GUILTY about that purchase.
Every doctor I have, including my dentist, offers me multiple options for any given issue. I also have them explain which ones they prefer, and why. None of them seem to have a problem with it. In fact, my dentist recently went into great detail explaining why a crown for a tooth would cost me less than a small repair ( my insurance covered crowns, not the repair) , but he recommended the small repair even though on his end he made less money. His reasoning was that it was less invasive and he believed it was a better long term option.
This is strange, as my experience is the doctors offering multiple options. For example, my father had a shoulder injury, he's 83. The doctor told him they could do surgery, but it would require him to be out of commission for months using the arm, or they could do a limited surgery, less help but less invasive, and finally just physical therapy. They suggested starting with physical therapy , as it was the cheapest and easiest and they could reassess if the problems continued. I think it may sometimes just be the doctors.
They already have a hockey team there, been there for a year: Golden Knights. They're actually in first place in the AHL western conference pacific division.
i was in Vegas a few months ago, used the monorail a lot,and the cars were always about half full: this was a weekend. what will really drive use on this thing is all the strip casinos suddenly charging for parking. If you wanna move around, you're gonna pay one way or another. I would agree the stations are oddly placed, and hard to find though.
Nicely put, and I think you're right. I'm sure automobile gearheads back in the stone age of cars probably complained when every moron with a drivers license would talk about cars, and they couldn't even work on one!
This argument is silly, the whole "Oooh, the cancer industry stops any fix for cancer, they could cure it but won't". You know why? Because the first Illuminati cancer industry exec who actually got cancer would immediately turn around and allow the secret fix. Unless, of course, they're already secretly doing it, and magically keeping thousands of cancer cures secret...
I always tip cash at my local restaurants. It's not my job to report someone's tip earnings, it's up to them at that point. If they choose not to report it....well, not my problem. Plus, I have a moral problem with taxes on a voluntary ( tip) payment to justify wage shenanigans with wait staff.
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Seriously. Buy a huge chunk of Detroit, put up a village ( Ala University of Southern California) and move in.
Classist much? Your argument is that the "painfully" blue collar people don't care ( you left out the superbowl and beer references, btw), but the fine upstanding white collar workers care? You also incorrectly correlate increasing tax rates with nicer neighborhoods.
I'd say it's simply a matter of the white collar jobs coming in paying more money, hence more tax base,
I'm kind of hoping some painfully blue collar guy clocks you some day.
Well, I heard it was $425,372.45 per employee, but I'm also just presenting those numbers without any citation, so there is that...
FTD promised me love, but all I got was a bill for flowers.
"Using one side's outliers to validate the other side's core values is a Jedi mind trick that only works on the weak minded."
Which is why I'm ignoring your argument completely. Now stop waving your hand.
Ten years? I got that back in a feminist class in college in 1992 that I was forced to take since I needed the credits and it was the only thing that fit my schedule. Only men could be sexist. So myself and the one other guy in the class sat around getting glared at for a semester, until we received a shining C for our effort.
whoooooooosh!
you people are always saying that...
"because its government's job to look out for the people." giggle.
I'm a government employee, and I'll tell you: Most of the people I work with, it's their job to look out for their pension or their position. Just like in a free market. Except the pension part.
Both unconstrained free and unconstrained government have their weak points, which happen to be the evil mirror image of each other.
In one, rich get everything. In the other, "connected" get everything.
The reason I'd lean towards regulated free market is that greed is an understood and known quantity. Someone saying they want things is understandable. Someone saying "I wanna help!" can have many different meanings.
Who cares if gas cars are base and EVs are discounted, or if gas cars are taxed and EVs aren't: the end result in both cases is Gas cars cost more. You're just arguing over semantics and how you want to feel about it.
It's like paper bags in California: they charge 10 cents for one at the store. They could have easily made it a 10 cent discount to NOT use the bag, but they want you to pay and, most importantly, FEEL GUILTY about that purchase.
I was about to ask that same question, thanks.
Every doctor I have, including my dentist, offers me multiple options for any given issue. I also have them explain which ones they prefer, and why. None of them seem to have a problem with it.
In fact, my dentist recently went into great detail explaining why a crown for a tooth would cost me less than a small repair ( my insurance covered crowns, not the repair) , but he recommended the small repair even though on his end he made less money. His reasoning was that it was less invasive and he believed it was a better long term option.
This is strange, as my experience is the doctors offering multiple options. For example, my father had a shoulder injury, he's 83. The doctor told him they could do surgery, but it would require him to be out of commission for months using the arm, or they could do a limited surgery, less help but less invasive, and finally just physical therapy. They suggested starting with physical therapy , as it was the cheapest and easiest and they could reassess if the problems continued. I think it may sometimes just be the doctors.
They already have a hockey team there, been there for a year: Golden Knights. They're actually in first place in the AHL western conference pacific division.
i was in Vegas a few months ago, used the monorail a lot,and the cars were always about half full: this was a weekend.
what will really drive use on this thing is all the strip casinos suddenly charging for parking. If you wanna move around, you're gonna pay one way or another.
I would agree the stations are oddly placed, and hard to find though.
Nicely put, and I think you're right. I'm sure automobile gearheads back in the stone age of cars probably complained when every moron with a drivers license would talk about cars, and they couldn't even work on one!
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
This argument is silly, the whole "Oooh, the cancer industry stops any fix for cancer, they could cure it but won't". You know why? Because the first Illuminati cancer industry exec who actually got cancer would immediately turn around and allow the secret fix.
Unless, of course, they're already secretly doing it, and magically keeping thousands of cancer cures secret...
I always tip cash at my local restaurants. It's not my job to report someone's tip earnings, it's up to them at that point. If they choose not to report it....well, not my problem.
Plus, I have a moral problem with taxes on a voluntary ( tip) payment to justify wage shenanigans with wait staff.
Don't be an ass. Power goes out. trees fall on lines. Heavy snow snaps things. cars crash into things. It happens.
There are no manned petrol stations here anymore, unless you're really rich or handicapped.
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You have obviously never paid with check.
Um, Marshall Plan....
I ran it for years. The problem was , as stated above, it was way too resource intensive. But it was stable if you gave it enough RAM.