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by harryh 7y ago
I certainly didn't mean it to be. I think the mortgage deduction is an abomination.
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by harryh 7y ago
If I have a $1M house I can sell it and have $1M in cash. If I have a $1M house and a $900k mortgage then I can sell it and only have $100k in cash.
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by harryh 7y ago
It's not exactly the same as a sales tax that is paid all at once, but it's basically the same as the size of the tax scales with the size of the consumption rather than the size of one's wealth.
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by harryh 7y ago
Is one year of your consumption equivalent to one year of my consumption? Yes. That's why both houses cost the same.
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by harryh 7y ago
Well I will take this small piece of credit in return for all the times your comments have blown my mind. :)
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by harryh 7y ago
Can you afford education for yourself and your children? Education is counted in measures of consumption. Can you afford the home in the district with the good schools? Housing is counted in measures of consumption. How much debt will
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by harryh 7y ago
Property taxes are not wealth taxes, they are consumption taxes. You can easily tell this because a person who owns a home outright pays the same tax as someone who owns a similar home but has a large mortgage. These two people have differe
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by harryh 7y ago
I covered access in my third bullet point. You are responding to something I said in my second bullet point. The conflating of these two distinct points is one of the core areas of misunderstanding surrounding the case.
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by harryh 7y ago
This is just me, a non lawyer, talking. But I kinda feel like the SCOTUS cases you reference were wrongly decided. When CA asserted its public easement over tidal lands it's hard for me to see why a taking from a regular piece of land
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by harryh 7y ago
On the "dedicated to public use" issue Khosla won at trial and (as the bloomberg article says) also won on appeal. So it seems like at least some judges have agreed with him.
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by harryh 7y ago
if I understand the law correctly, any permitted work on the property is an opportunity FWIW, this permitting process is precisely the law that Khosla is challenging. He asserts that the state government doesn't have the right to suc
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by harryh 7y ago
This case is misunderstood in a lot of ways. A couple of things worth noting: - The beach up to the mean high tide line is public land by law. No one, including Khosla, disputes this. - The sandy beach above the high tide line as well as a
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by harryh 7y ago
A fun thing about this game was that every possible kill combination had a different animation. If you don't have any other plans for the next 9 minutes of your life, you can watch them all here: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by harryh 7y ago
I love casinos. I went to Vegas all the time when I lived on the west coast. Sadly, not so much since I moved east and had a kid, but what are you gonna do? I'm a grown man with my own money who has always been responsible with it. Spe
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by harryh 7y ago
If society feels that people below a certain level of income don't have enough freedom, the correct solution to this problem is to give them more money. Further constraining their freedom by forbidding them from making their own decisi
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by harryh 7y ago
If you enjoyed that, check out Ondi Timoner's other amazing documentary: Dig! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig !
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by harryh 7y ago
Poe's Law strikes again.
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by harryh 7y ago
The government should not treat any right specially compared to any other Of course it should. Taking off my shoes when I go through airport security is a pain in the ass but, in the grand scheme of things, a relatively minor inconvenienc
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by harryh 7y ago
Your personal values are eccentric and not representative of the norm.
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by harryh 7y ago
Government restriction of the biologic imperative to reproduce would represent perhaps the most extreme interventions into the private lives of individuals that one could imagine.
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by harryh 7y ago
That's a pretty interesting stat. Though the renewables subsidy doesn't look as generous if you compare things in % of GDP terms.
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by harryh 7y ago
Your guess is correct. And perhaps the metaphor isn't perfect (though many places don't require receipts below a certain value) but it gets the point across.
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by harryh 7y ago
Hospitals are "hiding the umbrella." Contracts prohibit them from raising prices on some items, so they shift price increases to other items sometimes in the ridiculous ways you list.
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by harryh 7y ago
Total sin taxes in the US are 60 Billion dollars or so or about 0.3% of our 20 trillion GDP. 0.3% of your 40 hour work week is a little over 7 minutes. You are significantly overstating the importance of these taxes on your budget.
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by harryh 7y ago
It was Phil Jackson (Rodman's coach at the time): "Of course not. There is only room for one Dennis Rodman on this team. In fact, you really can only have a very few Dennis Rodmans in society as a whole; otherwise, we would degene
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by harryh 7y ago
1) Personally I think that you have it exactly backwards. If you look at Western Europe and all the social services provided there, they don't do it by going after billionaire's money because there simply aren't enough of the
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by harryh 7y ago
The US Constitution lays liberty and freedom at the heart of individual rights conferred upon people from God or a superior force. No. It does not. Go read it again.
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by harryh 7y ago
Ya, I know you're saying that. But everything specific you've stated so far has been false. Keep in mind that the top 1% have a combined wealth of about 35 trillion. The combined wealth of all US billionaires is only 10% or so of
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by harryh 7y ago
That's the same Oxfam report from another year. They keep saying the same wrong stuff every year. Whatever your point is, it's not very meaningful if it's supported by faulty evidence or reasoning.
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by harryh 7y ago
1) The analysis in that report is very bad. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-24/oxfam-... 2) You have taken the bad analysis and made it even worse. The headline says 8 men own as much as ha

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