Rod MacKinnon

politically homelss.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@SirajAHashmi @grok where is this from?

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@DanielleTrotta @SiriusXMNASCAR Penalties are appearance. You need enough evidence to show intent in order to punish a driver.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@ShannonSpake So happy to see you on NASCAR races!!

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@_BrandonH2 @jayski I see that. Good for now as long as its raining. I was pointing out that they planned on putting in behind a $20/month paywall. Keep that up and I’ll find a different hobby.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@BlueBoxDave @FoxNews I would love to see a Republican, or anyone, propose a bill to make Gerrymandering illegal. There are methods that can do it.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

They do consume services, e.g. fire department, and certainly the people living in them use the services. I do agree otherwise.

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

Mayor Mamdani is pumped about the pied-a-tierre tax, arguing that it "targets ultrawealthy out-of-city residents and global elites who use New York City real estate as a vehicle for wealth storage rather than as homes."

If the goal is to discourage rich non-residents who want to own homes in NYC, this is coherent. And the proposal does fit the left-Trumpist sensibility of the mayor's (not huge) base, so there's that.

As a way out of NYC's fiscal challenges, however, it is almost certainly counterproductive.

Consider that while the owners of pied-a-tierres pay property and transfer taxes, they don’t consume taxpayer services. It's hard to dispute that the net fiscal impact of pied-a-tierres is positive.

Tax something, get less of it. In this case, we’ll presumably have fewer absentee property owners bidding up property values for $5M+ homes. That, of course, will dampen valuations, which in turn will dampen property and transfer tax revenues. (Notably, while building more housing will tend to lower valuations of individual units, it would tend to increase overall property tax revenues.)

The next step will be lowering the threshold from $5M to $1M and so on.

Two possibilities: Hochul and Mamdani understand this, but they’ve backed themselves into a corner and concluded that this is the best of a series of bad alternatives. Or they don’t understand this, which would be even more worrisome.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@PolitiBunny @WelbornBeege If they all have provided testimony under oath, why are people searching through obscure e-mails to see who are the offenders? Why haven’t we seen the testimony?

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@SiriusXMNASCAR @DanielleTrotta @LarryMac28 @MartinsvilleSwy The jinx is broken. Justin Allgaier wins despite @DanielleTrotta picking him to win!,

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@howappealing I wonder if any Trump hires were left a year after Biden was President.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@bobpockrass I guess i dont understand the GL column. I would think Kvapil gained 2 spots and hill lost 2 spots but the numbers seem reversed.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@marceelias @grok how many states have voter id?

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

More of this please

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@DeAngelisCorey All school administrators, whether principles or superintendents, should have contracts/pay tied to student performance.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

The view from my seat.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@RubenGallego The FCC has zero power over newspapers and cable news networks. I hope the FCC takes no action against broadcast networks. They would lose in court. I hope you have this same opinion when the next administration creates another misinformation department.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@yeselson @baseballcrank @SeanTrende @EsotericCD @reihan In a multi member district, dies the voter cast 1 vote or as many as there are members?

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@ItsSamG Who is abusing young children? What is the evidence.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@EWErickson Any law enforcement officer, state or federal wouldbe likely to defend themselves if a person has a gun drawn.

[Rod MacKinnon @mackinnonrg]

@CynicalPublius They will never answer the question. See Spanberger's responses to questions about trans children .