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by zip1234 7y ago
As strange as it is, the average person has many an opinion on roads and road maintenance, but very little understanding of the costs involved and where the money comes from. Also, I agree that everyone does want everything for nothing and
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by zip1234 7y ago
Most states have too many roads and not enough money to even pay for the ones they have. Another second over negative effect of roads is that people will build wherever there are decent roads to get there. In order to preserve natural areas
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by zip1234 7y ago
Especially when the full costs of it don't have to be paid right now. Most car dependent places in the US don't enough money to actually repair all of the roads and infrastructure that they have built out. Also, most places there
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by zip1234 7y ago
A counterpoint is that I've seen that people get appointed to handle those things and the recurring meeting happens but with additional overhead and people involved. Source: working in government
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by zip1234 7y ago
Why is price transparency not a thing already? The government should do that immediately and see what happens before doing anything extreme.
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by zip1234 7y ago
Single family zoning in particular skews the market and prevents more affordable options. Also, the tendency to for new construction to be bigger houses than people used to build with the same price/sq foot means a more expensive house
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by zip1234 7y ago
Unions? The United Auto Workers is totally supported by the left and yet they make gas guzzling cars and trucks for a living.
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by zip1234 7y ago
That might just be an example of poorly allocated and more money should go towards special ed.
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by zip1234 7y ago
20% is long term capital gains rate if you make more than $453k
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by zip1234 7y ago
When people say infrastructure they usually mean roads. Roads are perhaps overextended already and making more or bigger roads ends up subsidizing urban sprawl. Anyways, outside of interstates, roads could just be handled entirely at the st
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by zip1234 7y ago
Since there has never been a wealth tax, the matter is up for legal debate.
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by zip1234 7y ago
Where does the money go?
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by zip1234 7y ago
I have a cousin that used took the max for his college loans and then whatever he had left after tuition he used for trips to Japan, Europe, etc every summer and lots of fancy restaurants and clothes. College loans are insane right now.
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by zip1234 7y ago
I'm with you on 401k. I think the parent was more about pension plans where they are tied to an employer and the employee does not have much say in their retirement. A 401k can be rolled into an individual retirement account, allowing
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by zip1234 7y ago
It is the same 'skin in the game' as being in the car. They are not concerned about their own safety if driving the car in a parking lot, they are concerned about their car getting into a collision. No different whether in the car
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by zip1234 7y ago
You mean zoning codes and not building codes? Zoning codes have indeed primarily caused the lack of small buildings. Also a lack of understanding of property values and induced traffic. If I have a 40ft wide lot in a city and I want to buil
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by zip1234 7y ago
Houses have gotten bigger and therefore less affordable and the government has had policies to increase home ownership such as mortgage deductions. In addition, local policies such as zoning have helped perpetuate urban sprawl, which helped
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by zip1234 7y ago
Yes setting up all that stuff was one of the most painful things about local development working with Stripe webhooks. This is a good solution.
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by zip1234 7y ago
Schools in the US didn't always cost so much. Tuition costs keep going up year after year at higher than inflation rates though. That is at schools that are subsidized by State or local governments.
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by zip1234 7y ago
Same with unending growth of suburbs. Paving the world and less people to pay for the pavement maintenance.
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by zip1234 7y ago
There are 1.2 millions houses built in the US every year. I could see the applications pretty vast actually. Another possible idea is for landscaping. Often times a tree will be planted that ends up too big or too small for the space. With
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by zip1234 7y ago
Visualizing any change to the exterior of a building or new construction project in the actual location that it will be.
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by zip1234 7y ago
Contrarian opinion--you've lived in two boom times with high growth and have more knowledge that is easier and cheaper to access than any other time in human history.
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by zip1234 7y ago
I was reading recently about how many criminals are going international in order to avoid laws in their own country. They pick places where extradition treaties are not established and then will steal or scam money over the internet. The cu
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by zip1234 7y ago
I think with points 3 and 4 there are very difficult decisions. Turning people away or not trying treatments sounds pretty bad, but there doesn't need to be an entire new system just to solve them.
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by zip1234 7y ago
In the US, what is a left policy and what is a right policy seems to depend entirely on which party thought of it first, not on any sound ideology. Party politics all the way down.
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by zip1234 7y ago
China has a capitalist market economy. They do have some degree of government ownership of companies and the government has asserted that they are not capitalist as the communist party is in charge and they have to maintain face. However, i
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by zip1234 7y ago
I would expect nothing less of people than to help their kid succeed in life. It seems like parents are spending money as expected. Of course, the article doesn't look at what happens to those kids once the parents are gone or what hap
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by zip1234 7y ago
I know a marine general (just retired) and he drives a ten year old Ford Escape. Generals are paid well relative to the rest of the military but definitely are not paid obscene amounts.
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by zip1234 7y ago
In general, I think a more complicated tax system favors those who can afford more accountants and lawyers.

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