Bay Are and NYC - Unless you want to commute 45min to work, you aren't buying a house anywhere near for under $750k.
yo nerd herd/brain trust! should I worry about this?
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I'd like to think I have a solid track record of voting for the least bad candidate. I am seriously considering writing in Bernie Sanders next year.
"People deserve the government they get, and they deserve to get it good and hard."
-H.L. Mencken
nope, it was to worry or not about my monies
Middle-class people commute. If you're making 250k in NYC you can either live very well outside the city or moderately well inside. I still consider that "rich", you just have a better quality of life instead of material possessions. My dad commuted into NYC his whole life and never came *close* to making anywhere near that, and my wife lived in NYC on $23k right out of college. $250k is rich, no matter where you live, including Manhattan
Not sure why but that made me LOL hard.
Pesqueeb said:
This makes me LOL.
Pervert. You'd make a great Family Values Republican.
Wait, you mean I *can't* just wave a magic wand at the "waste" in the system and reap a windfall in deficit savings?
CBO evaluates Boehner's proposal. Many lulz were had.
CBO evaluates Boehner's proposal. Many lulz were had.
Yes. Props. I must spread as well.
Hang on, folks, it might get a bit bumpy....
Tea Party will take on any GOP member who votes for Boehner's debt-ceiling bill.
Tea Party will take on any GOP member who votes for Boehner's debt-ceiling bill.
While it is amusing to me to watch the Republicans be beat to death by their own monster, it’s more than a little disconcerting to know that the inmates, if not running the asylum, have managed to barricade the staff in a padded room.
Giddy.
Maybe I am missing something, but if the killed the Bush tax cuts, would that be considered a "tax hike"? I mean, they wouldn't be raising taxes, just restoring them to where they SHOULD have been all along.
That sounds like the thinking of a SOCIALIST!!!
Earlier this year when they were set to expire, the conservative/Republicans/Tea Party screamed that they were indeed tax hikes and not just a reset to where they should be.
Or a fag. Same thing, basically. Tax Cutz for Jesus '12. Whoohooo!That sounds like the thinking of a SOCIALIST!!!
I figured as much. I haven't watched enough Faux Newz I guess.
<TeaTard>See, you keep assuming that where they *were* equates to where they *should be*. Taxes were artificially high before. GWB brought them back down closer to where they should be (zero) according to my worthless Laffer-curve that I drew in crayon. Any hikes now would just make them even further than where they *should* be (zero).</TeaTard>
You know, the original Laffer curve was reputedly sketched out on a napkin.
Now, I understand that good ideas can germinate that way. It's rare to see them reach their pinnacle on a napkin, however.
Now, I understand that good ideas can germinate that way. It's rare to see them reach their pinnacle on a napkin, however.
I agree with the basic, basic, BASIC fundamentals of the Laffer Curve. When taxes are 0%, the government collects $0. When taxes are 100%, the government collects $0. So we have two points on the graph that we know definitively.
EVERYTHING else is pure conjecture. We don't know where the optimal point of taxation is, we don't know if it's the same for all people/income brackets, hell, we don't even know if the shape of the graph fluctuates during boom and bust years. People usually draw it as an upside down U, but it could be a rising line right up to 99.999% before dropping back down to $0 when it hits 100%. The problem with applied economic theory is that you can't run an experiment over, and over, and over again to observe the outcome. We can drop an object 1,000,000 times and observe that it happens to fall at 9.81m/sec squared. Hence the gravitational theory and then the theory of relativity.
With economic theory (and political theory), you can't run an experiment multiple times, you can't account for variables in your tests, and the best you can do is try to cobble together some semblance of similarities between different events.
Clinton raised taxes in the 1990s, and revenue increased. Does that mean taxes should be there or higher? Maybe. Maybe the internet boom increased revenue beyond what it would have normally been. Maybe the "peace dividend" of cuts to the military increased revenues. Maybe China as an emerging trading power increased revenues.
Bush lowered taxes in the 2000s, and revenue decreased. Does that mean taxes should be higher? Maybe. Or maybe the crashing of the internet bubble took it's toll on tax revenues. Maybe increased competition from China and a lingering unemployment rate reduced tax revenues below what they would have been. Maybe the 9/11 attacks, or the financial collapse that followed in '02/03 (Enron, etc) reduced revenues.
We just don't know. And anyone who claims to "know" is lying.
And all the rest. Exactly correct.
Most of Walter Reed is moving to Bethesda Naval Med. I should know since I deal with the road work in front of Bethesda and see the work on the hospital grounds on a daily basis. It's not a soft target.
Some people, namely economists who study the issue, have half of a clue and I posted about some of that work before: http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235292
Hell, you even posted in that very same linked thread
I'm sure Greg Mankiw disagrees. If not him, there's another one you can buy for your money. Maybe someone who used to consult with Enron?
It's not like Mankiw wrote the Econ 101 textbo...never mind.
Which again reinforces the idea that economics, no matter how much they desperately want to be, isn't a science.
Holy Shinto. It's like The Lord of the Flies with these people.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60035.htmlPolitico said:
Circular firing squad.... Ready, aim, FIRE!
I think your getting ahead of yourself. The ONLY thing Obama has working in his favor right now is the fact that those ass clowns are trying to eat their own kids. We need them to fight it out for at least another 18 months, after that, Keep firing assholes!
