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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
https://le.utah.gov/audit/12_01rpt.pdf Page 7, heading "Farebox Recovery Has Improved Since 2006" If riders are only paying about 1/8 of the total cost, where do you suppose the rest is coming from?
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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
Is it? https://le.utah.gov/audit/12_01rpt.pdf As of 2010, riders paid about 13% of the total cost of public transit operation. (Page 7, heading "Farebox Recovery Has Improved Since 2006")
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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
I can entirely respect that. The... somewhat jab at the end was directed towards those in the US constantly complaining about how "such and such country does it better." My reply has become: so move there! Virtually every country
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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
More than half the country doesn't pay federal income taxes at all. How is that "so few?"
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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
> The Federal Reserve sets USD interest rates, not China or any other foreign sovereign. If the time ever comes where there's no market for our debt at 2%, we'll see who's actually in the driver's seat. No China itsel
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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
> A monetarily sovereign government with a productive economy There's a reason we have a massive trade imbalance - our number one export is debt. > Also, remember that the size of the public sector's balance sheet isn't
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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
So.... -> Make premiums deductible for people, not companies, severing the tie to employment. -> Require service providers to post prices so people know what the hell things cost. -> Allow sales across state lines to increase compe
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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
Government spending, not taxes, are the proper measure of the burden of government. Ultimately, the debts will have to be paid whether that be outright, through devaluation of the currency, or a combination of both.
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by zacharytelschow 8y ago
> They've been trying the "let end users code in an impoverished pseudo programming language" for a long time and at best it only ever takes over small niche. Exactly. Creating a "simpler programming" for busines
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by zacharytelschow 9y ago
This is what people don't understand. Though the contributions may happen at a flat rate, the payouts are highly progressive. While the rich may get out more in absolute terms, on a per month basis it isn't much more and they stil
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by zacharytelschow 10y ago
> Good point. How do you fix this? Precisely. My wife works in one of the exact kind of schools (in exactly the kind of neighborhood) JoeAltmaier mentions. Some parents, regardless of where they're coming from, make it clear to thei
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by zacharytelschow 10y ago
"The point of his article is that part of the reason his parents could give him these advantages is because the were white and not affected by racism." My mistake. I didn't realize it was being white that allowed his parents
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by zacharytelschow 10y ago
Does it have anything to do with class/systematic bias or is it truly a behavioral issue? Generational choices will affect you, just as your choices will affect your children. Studies show that if you wait to have kids until marriage,
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by zacharytelschow 10y ago
So sick of this white privilege nonsense. Should you have guilt that the people around you loved and cared for you, encouraged you? Did wearing hand-me-down clothes prevent others from doing the same? Did your parents having dinner with you
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by zacharytelschow 10y ago
Huh. I thought it was the much more simple argument of: "Everyone needs to contribute because we're in this together, you're selfish for wanting what you produce" vs "half the country doesn't pay for anything a
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by zacharytelschow 10y ago
> Not sure if this is anecdotal or not, but the Dell business-laptop lines (Lattitude et al) have been having hard-drive corruption problems at the company where I work for ages. Here too.
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by zacharytelschow 10y ago
"It’s clear as day—and this was one of the findings of the 2013 Senate subcommittee—that there was no sensible business reason to set up those subsidiaries except to avoid paying taxes." The avoidance of paying taxes, the lowering
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by zacharytelschow 11y ago
> But the healthcare industry basically NEVER met the assumptions necessary for a free market to exist in the first place. Has it occurred to you that regulation might have something to do with that?
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by zacharytelschow 11y ago
So when the case of doing nothing is itself harmful (terminal cancer and the like), more risk isn't warranted?
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by zacharytelschow 11y ago
> If the differences in income and wealth were entirely reflective of people's productivity and contributions to society there would be no problem. But they aren't. Instead what is happening is that the ultra-wealthy are usin
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by zacharytelschow 11y ago
While it would be virtually impossible to argue that the rich aren't getting richer, it is because they're capturing most of the gains. That means for the rest of us schmucks, stasis is the name of the game. In the presence of sho
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by zacharytelschow 11y ago
"It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions
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by zacharytelschow 12y ago
If you're an Amazon Prime member you've already paid for free unlimited online photo backups. Prime is only $8.33/month and offers tons of other benefits. Just saying.
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by zacharytelschow 12y ago
A policy of essentially not allowing new construction in SF has led to a huge increase in costs. This topic has been hammered on repeatedly.
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by zacharytelschow 12y ago
The article simply makes the case that they aren't making more money, but it doesn't make the case that they're not better off.
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by zacharytelschow 13y ago
"It is not like you can take an electricity bill to any poll location and vote." It's exactly like that in 8 states + DC ( Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Washington DC.): http:
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by zacharytelschow 13y ago
If that doesn't appease you, how about... Driving a car. Renting a car. Staying in a hotel room. Flying on a plane. Opening a bank account. Many, many things in life require photo ID. It's amazing how that's accepted as norma
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by zacharytelschow 13y ago
How does vote fraud necessarily rely on a conspiracy? In many states, knowing someone's name and address is sufficient to vote as that person as long as they've previously registered. Any individual can show up at the polling plac
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by zacharytelschow 13y ago
In WI, if you can't afford an ID you can get one for free for voting purposes (heading "FREE Wisconsin ID cards for voting"): http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/drivers/apply/idcard.ht...
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by zacharytelschow 15y ago
This contentious relationship you state implies a fixed pie economy in which a person can get rich only at the sake of his fellows. Any thinking person would roundly reject such a notion. On a similar topic is an essay by Paul Graham that y

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