Stephen Buggy

Likes Books and taking Photos. Interested in housing and homelessness policy. Everything here is a personal opinion. he/him.

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[Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy]

They published me on a real website! Thanks for the journal sharing my story. https://t.co/uXokk7E2PK

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

An hilariously reasonable and appropriate use of taxpayer’s money

[Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy]

@barratree What the actual fuck are they doing?!

[Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy]

@StardustNova27 Bulma, smartest person in db

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Labour source: "For someone who’s not doing it to avoid inheritance tax, he seems to have an intimate knowledge of the next step he’s going to take to avoid inheritance tax."

[Chris Smyth @Smyth_Chris]

Sweeping restrictions on the right-to-buy announced by Angela Rayner

-Council tenants will not be able to buy their homes until they have lived in them for about a decade

-New council homes may never be allowed to be sold off, or at least not for 10-30 years

[Leo Gibbons @Layo_FH]

If I were an MP, I’d be frankly insulted if a constituent wrote to me asking me to oppose a McDonalds opening.

I’d I send them a very short reply explaining that intervening on such a petty and trivial manner was beneath me and it was not the work of an MP to dictate when and where high-street businesses can or cannot open.

[Cal @SimpGanassi]

You don’t need an economics degree to see that if an asset is worth multiple millions “on paper” but yields only minimum wage returns, something is hugely amiss

[Senator Nick Hinrichsen 🇺🇸🔰 @NickForCO]

This is the absolute worst take. Land is just about the only thing that nobody produces, and of which the over-consumption creates the most negative externalities.

We should replace almost all income taxes with a Land Value Tax.

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵

[Laurie Macfarlane @L__Macfarlane]

The answer is that farm land contains a lot of speculative value - which in part is driven by a very generous tax and subsidy regime

[Gabriel @gbrl_dick]

incredible to see the mancunians of all people try to pull the “just a smol hamlet overrun by globalisation” shtick in one of the cities that kick-started the industrial revolution and drove an imperial expansion that saw the british terraform india into a cotton plantation lmao

[Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy]

@larsiusprime This is a beautifully written and fitting tribute

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

we’re at severe risk of taking the wrong lesson away from this whole inflation debacle

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

“Kagame, we heard Rwanda is the best in business. We need mass deportations - fast”

“You heard correctly - but it doesn’t come cheaply”

“It’s not about the money, our chequebook is open. Can you sort it?”

“For you we’ll fix an extra special price - call it the art of the deal”

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Today, childhood leukemia has a 90% survival rate, thanks to a sophisticated menu of treatments developed and sold by companies like Johnson & Johnson https://t.co/7nnwWToPmS, Novartis https://t.co/zi6LRjVTvE, and Pfizer. https://t.co/GkyJgY1Vs0 3/x

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The card-writing became a regular ritual for our class and for Brian's friends. Then came the day when the teacher solemnly informed the class that Brian had died. He had succumbed to childhood leukemia, a hopeless killer in the early 1970s. 2/x

[David Frum @davidfrum]

One of my best friends in elementary school was a boy named Brian. He vanished from class during our 6th grade year: sick. No, we could not visit, the teacher said. We were encouraged to draw and write cards instead. 1/x

[Barra Roantree @barratree]

Would be good if this row leads to debate about the restrictions many Local Area Plans (LAP) place on building housing during a housing crisis.

This LAP - adopted in 2014 - requires low density in a part of Dublin with a regular bus service (15b) many people want to live in.

[Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy]

I now think of feeling sad as your body's signal to withdraw and rest. A useful signal to avoid burnout. Depression is this signal gone haywire, an autoimmune disease of the mind. You've got to return to balance this signal by doing things when you don't feel like it.

[Jack Califano @jackcalifano]

In 31 years of age I think I’ve finally discovered the cure to depression and it’s just leaving the house at every single possible opportunity no matter how badly you don’t want to.