@musharbash_b@Noahpinion How does differentiate between landlords causing prices to go up and investors choosing to prioritize buying in places with faster increasing rents?
It's worth remembering that DOGE is a failure at Every. Single. Possible. Level.
At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being renewed.
At the macro level, they didn't impact spending at all. The government is spending more in 2025 than 2024, on basically the same trajectory but a little more.
At the institutional level, they didn't even convince the GOP that deficits are a problem worth caring about. The GOP just passed a bill that explodes the deficit by trillions of dollars.
At a personal level, Elon got run out of town with his tail between his legs and the most notable public facts about the Cracked Coders are that one of them was a mini Hitler, one was called 'big balls' and none of them bothered to learn how the government actually works before they lit it on fire.
They gutted a bunch of important institutions, fired whole departments at random, decimated medical research funding, killed a bunch of people dependent on USAID, and still failed at every possible level.
@JeremiahDJohns I think the biggest thing they efficiently shift value from employees and customers to investors. So there were more employees making more money than they efficiently would or excess consumer value. That shift is efficient economically but people are losing “value”
Reports are leaking to me that the Democratic establishment has begged JB Pritzker to "be less large" and "have less drip" in his 3rd campaign for Governor. He flatly refused.
RT if you support Illinois' Big Boy! 🇺🇸
Illinois absolutely dominates pumpkin production and processing. The vast majority of pumpkins grown in the other top states are ornamental (lame, wasteful) whereas 70% of Illinois’s crop ends up in food products (based, bountiful).
Simply put, attempts by New Jersey to stop New York’s congestion pricing plan are an attack on New York’s sovereignty.
New Yorkers don’t dictate the tolls on the NJ Turnpike, or their (lack of) investment in NJ Transit.
"For years, we have heard excuses about why America can't build enough housing. Enough with the excuses, I'm going to cut the red tape, and work with the private sector and local governments to speed up building, and get it done!"
THATS OUR FUTURE YIMBY PRESIDENT
American Rescue Plan
Inflation Reduction Act
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
PACT Act (Veterans' health care)
Postal Service Reform Act
CHIPs and Science Act
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
Respect for Marriage Act
@DzambhalaHODL The argument is if towns can change the rules to delay the certification then republican legislatures will attempt to throw out the results because the results weren't certified fast enough