Charlotte is the most underrated city in the country and it’s not even close
• Affordable
• Nice people
• Great weather
• High paying jobs
• Cool neighborhoods
• Short drive to the beach or mountains
The urban core generates almost all of a typical U.S. city's tax revenue but most of it goes to fund roads, sewer lines, power lines et al in suburbs.
If suburbs paid for themselves, rather than leaching off the city, I think a lot more people would be live and let live on this.
If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $834 billion that he's worth today. He'd still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.
> Republican gets elected President.
> Cuts benefits for the poor.
> Cuts taxes for the rich.
> Starts a war in the Middle East.
It's crazy how it’s always the same thing every single time.
No administration of my lifetime has been more antagonistic toward the private sector, free markets, and free trade. All the warnings of socialists and Democratic overreaches and government intrusion — it's all worse in reality right now than ever before. Just remarkable.
It doesn’t make you a lib to be disgusted to see a man get murdered for practicing his first and second amendment rights. Blindly defending ICE because Trump and his administration tells you to makes you the opposite of a patriot and is as anti-American as it gets.
just as a general rule if there are a bunch of clergy peacefully protesting in the cold and you’re the one dragging them away in cuffs, there’s a 99.9% chance you’re on the wrong side of history