The reason homes are expensive? Regulations.
Regulatory costs have soared 40% since 2001 and now top $130,000 per home.
If we’re serious about tackling America’s housing crunch, let’s cut the red tape!
In 2008, NY's top state tax rate was 6.85%. It's now 10.9%. The problem with the arguments coming from the DSA et al is that there's no limiting principle. "Higher" will never be high enough.
The credit card is the most regulated and benign financial product available to the poor
Earned wage access / lease to own / payday lending are infinitely more expensive and that’s where a card rate cap will drive the poor
Terrible idea when it was trumps, terrible idea now
@OHaraSports Love that for him, he was massively snake bitten and deserved better production than he put up as an Av. Worked hard and brought some edge to the team too
@BuffaloBillCo 100%, the volume of “market intelligence slides” were cranking out how just tripled over the last few months now that senior bankers realize how quickly and easily we can create them
Performative slop through the roof
Home Depot went public with fewer than 10 stores back in the day, thanks to SOX and the high costs of being a public company, better to stay private for longer, removing the ability for the every day investor to ride rocket ships
When formal sources of authority cede the enforcement of a civil society, those with $ will abscond to a society of their own and pay the price to ensure its civility
The losers are the good people amongst the less fortunate, economic mobility goes to 0, elite inbreeding to 100
America is about to get a lot more privatized. Private schools, private neighborhoods, private stores, private clubs around this affinity or that. Places public policy won't apply now that we've got a new public. Balkanization of everyday life.
Summer 16 got the Battle of the Bastards and then The Winds of Winter in a 7 day span in the middle of June
Nobody knew what AI was
Do you know how good life must have been?
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent part eleventybillion
But critical theory doesn’t see the guilty, only the supposed systems that put them in place
And those “systems” can be repurposed infinite ways to support the actions that advance the critical theorists goals
I have been waiting 24 years for my neighbor David Westerfield to be executed for the kidnapping and murder of my 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam. And now thanks to @GavinNewsom, it looks like it will never happen.
I was 13 when he abducted her from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. I would never equate what I experienced with what her family suffered, but Danielle's murder devastated our whole neighborhood, and me personally. I was a sensitive kid and it was a major contributor to my mental health decline in adolescence.
In the 20 days between her disappearance and his arrest, I developed insomnia and spent those nights walking around the house checking the locks on the doors and windows. I followed the trial closely. As we learned the horrific details, I couldn't stop thinking about what she endured during the 3 days he had her.
Her body was found dumped off the side of a road 25 days after she went missing. It was too decomposed to test for sexual assault, but we all knew that's why he took her. He was also convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material found on his computer.
There was never any doubt about Westerfield's guilt. There was an abundance of forensic evidence, including her blood on his clothing and in his motorhome. In 2019, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction and death sentence. Shortly afterward, Newsom imposed his moratorium. And now he does THIS.
California voters rejected abolishing the death penalty in both 2012 and 2016, and even voted to expedite executions. All these years, I've held on to the hope that someone would eventually take office who respected the will of California voters and would allow these sentences to be carried out.
It's especially insulting to hear Newsom go on about morality, as if he is morally superior to those of us whose lives were affected by these heinous crimes and who want to see the perpetrators brought to justice. I'm hoping the California Supreme Court can stop Westerfield's commutation.
Before you evaluate any political (or business or anything) claim on the internet, ask yourself:
Does the person making the claim stand to benefit financially from making the claim?
If yes, then be suspicious, anyways the answer is yes 99.9% of the time