Jeff Klein

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@xwanyex The irony being that suburbanization was a big government social engineering project started by progressives.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@zacharywefel So quaint, though, by modern standards, right?

The misconduct was basically "being a slightly weird and awkward guy" which maybe set the stage for this "nothing matters" backlash.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@xwanyex This seems weirdly broken, like in functioning capitalism you should be able to do your job that you specialize at well, get paid, and then efficiently pay a different specialist to fix your house.

Not everyone is a sicko who wants to spend all of their weekends at Home Depot.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@AndrewM36013517 @Noahpinion Well fine but it undercuts "revealed preference". Other places in the world that didn't decide to spend infinity trillion dollars taking the same number of people in every city and spreading them over 10x the area apparently had a different "revealed preference".

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@AliceFromQueens @DavidAstinWalsh If they kept us in order maybe they weren't disposable.

Never thought of myself as an "order" guy but post Covid society is definitely worse so

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@ARKloster @SohrabAhmari I feel like when you're pegging media that famously resonates with people as examples of evil neoliberal ideology maybe you're the weirdo.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@AaronGleeman @GleemanAndGeek Of those seven players, only one was at Hrbek's tonight.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@AndrewM36013517 @Noahpinion 5% with $4T in deferred maintenance.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@AndrewM36013517 @Noahpinion It's fair to say our amount of infrastructure per person is dramatically higher than almost every other developed country. We have really large infrastructure maintenance liabilities. How much is enough?

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@AndrewM36013517 @Noahpinion My model is there's a thumb on the scales here. The federal government isn't paying for an interchange and four stoplights for your local hardware store.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@AndrewM36013517 @Noahpinion Yeah I'm aware that whenever I express this preference I'll get ten people talking about how great Walmart is and yet the preference remains. When I think of places that people cite as great places to be they're not a big box store on the frontage road of county 79.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@VanyaWright @jasonc_nc They seem to think there is.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@VanyaWright @jasonc_nc Most new things didn't make sense at the time but we let people do things as a default because it's better in the long run.

I'm certain the masses would have vetoed electricity given the chance.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@MNPatriot9 @kpottermn There's some nice lakes North of brainerd but the rest of that is swamps.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@jasonc_nc @mindyisser I feel like we can be broadly more forgiving of people's increasingly more public foibles while realizing the sum total of the evidence is that this guy is a douchbag.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@robynngarfield @BurtMaclin_FBI Everyone thinks this because they're not actually tracking the cost of every dollar and hour they spend on their house (and the amortized cost of the roof they'll need in 20 years).

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@DPearsonPHL @tracewoodgrains @mattyglesias Right, these places exist! The taxes might not quite be literally zero but they're low enough to make the point you get what you pay for.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@tracewoodgrains @mattyglesias Property taxes are maybe the best tax because they're very direct: you're basically being charged for all of the costs it takes to provide access and utilities to, and protect the property. More than any other tax, a society user fee.

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@tracewoodgrains You can actually come really close, but it sucks!
https://t.co/u2mXsDBmiI

[Jeff Klein @jeffmklein]

@xwanyex My grandfather bequeathed my father an acre of swamp in the middle of nowhere, without road access or sewer.

The taxes are like $6 a year.

The point is this fantasy only makes sense if the property is entirely unserviced, which is impossible in a society.