Really there’s only three things to care about with housing and for someone like Warren you could frame them all as cartels
- break the entitlement cartels in suburbs
- break the NIMBY cartels in cities
- break the impact fee cartels in governments
My theory of tech job losses:
Tech workplaces are reverting to the economy-wide mean of unpleasantness, and that entails doing 120% of prior output at lower quality.
For that 1st rendering… going to need to see the actual pedestrian circulation diagram; that entrance will otherwise dump you into basically a highway median
“Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to the Strait of Hormuz.”
We are at risk of this bill having a reenactment clause that would.delay it for a year. Reach out to your delegate NOW! actionnetwork.org/letters/fait...
tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant
NIMBYs have extremely serious mental health problems.
Orwell's ghost: look, that's a little too on the nose
Here's my bottom line:
Much of what they are doing is bad.
Much of what they are doing is unpopular.
Pushback is working.
We are winning.
Keep fighting.
Be creative.
Push for what you'd want.
Allow for insiders and outsiders.
Realize that change takes time.
Reduce harm in the meantime.
The US allowing these tankers to move Iranian oil through the strait is, IMO, evidence that they're concerned about Iran laying mines.
It would be quite easy to stop these tankers, but then you would make Iran indifferent to a complete shutdown of all strait traffic.
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
“When President Trump says that Iran is in a place of unconditional surrender, he’s not claiming the Iranian regime is going to come out and say that themselves.” -- Karoline Leavitt
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
"Over the past six days, tankers have loaded a daily average of 2.1 million barrels of Iranian oil, higher than the 2 million barrels a day Iran exported in February..."
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Politically, this is incredibly stupid, but as a policy matter it’s also incredibly stupid.
The Democrats!
Hegseth himself is the worst person at DoD to understand why such an investigation is important and why the possibility of a court martial is important, regardless of human rights concerns, but professional militaries ought to remember, bad intelligence kills friendly forces and protects the enemy.
ah well, if only there was some way we could have avoided the risk arising altogether
Nice read, but it's also possible that Trump's motivations are inaccessible to himself, and the decision to launch this war was not the result of deliberation.
That's a $10 word for "best scents"
Yeah but they look cool and smell nice
That's interesting, I don't think my Persian friends (not Iranian) in California identified as white.
This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society.
And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.
Lmao
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Staff at the Mayor’s office has responded by installing a temporary protected bike lane on the Washington Street uphill.
Thanks to the Mayor and all those who contacted his office for getting this bike route reopened.
This is straight up Confederate “they’re not evolved enough to be part of society” horse shit. No Democrat in Congress should acknowledge his existence except to tell him he’s a turd and pray god shows him the light.
Table of Contents New Internal Revenue Service data for tax year 2022 shows the US federal income tax system continues to be progressive as high-income taxpayers pay the highest average income tax rates. Average tax rates for all income groups remained lower in 2022, five years after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), than they were in 2017 prior to the reform. In 2022, taxpayers filed 153.8 million tax returns, reported earning nearly $14.8 trillion in adjusted gross income(AGI), and paid $2.1 trillion in individual income taxes. The average income tax rate in 2022 was 14.5 percent. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 23.1 percent average rate, six times higher than the 3.7 percent average rate paid by the bottom half of taxpayers. The top 1 percent’s income share fell from 26.3 percent in 2021 to 22.4 percent in 2022, and its share of federal income taxes paid fell from 45.8 percent to 40.4 percent. The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 3 percent. Reported Income Rose and Taxes Paid Fell in Tax Year 2022 Taxpayers reported nearly $14.8 trillion in AGI on 153.8 million tax returns in 2022, an increase of $30 billion in AGI and 211,000 returns compared to 2021. Total income taxes paid fell by $57 billion to $2.1 trillion, a 3 percent decrease from 2021. The average individual income tax rate inched down from 14.9 percent in 2021 to 14.5 percent in 2022. Because the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) classifies the refundable part of tax credits as spending, the IRS does not include it in tax share figures. The result overstates the tax burden of the bottom half of taxpayers. Table 1. Summary of Federal Income Tax Data, Tax Year 2022 Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 25% Top 50% Bottom 50% All Taxpayers Number of Returns 1,538,014 7,690,070 15,380,140 38,450,349 76,900,699 76,900,699 153,801,397 Average Tax Rate 26.09 23.07 21.11 18.06 15.87 3.74 14.48 Average Income…
Most of the criticism you're hearing of Cory Booker's tax plan (mostly correct) applies to our existing income tax system.
The commentary track and extras were pretty good for the DVD version.
It's too bad that these are both effectively dead for today's viewers.
You can build a great bike lane by making it 68" wide and using a jersey barrier every 10 feet to mark the boundary (one way only)
MAGA hates the most essential parts of America. Dems should say so without caveat or qualificaiton.
