U.S. Automakers: “Americans don’t want inexpensive EVs. We’re cutting our losses and stopping all plans for future EV development.”
Also U.S. Automakers: “If we allow China to sell inexpensive EVs here, we’ll go out of business because Americans will buy those instead!”
Yet another reason property taxes are the best form of taxes is because they match the perpetual liabilities of civilization (schools, courts, police, etc.) with a perpetual asset (the land).
Your obligations to your community don't stop just because you've paid off your home.
I agree with this. The default assumption is that any additional revenue is just going to be captured by special interests i.e, old people, public employee unions, environmental lawyers, non-profits, etc.
@nateberkopec I found this to be the same.
What I did was use code fences with 4 backticks in a Markdown file.
Then wrote an obsidian plugin to parse the markdown into turns.
You can edit the conversation doc like markdown including trimming old turns that are problematic.
a bike lane is literally just paint on the ground. green paint. that's the technology. and it does more to reduce american dependence on the strait of hormuz per dollar spent than any weapons system in the pentagon's budget. the paint. the green paint. we won't even do the paint
"populists" are converging on slop:
- banning "blackrock" from buying homes
- boomer tax cuts
- wealth taxes that don't work
zero constituency for:
1) make government efficient + able to build/act directly (vs. nonprofit grift)
2) subsidize the welfare state w/ population growth