nsacpi
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you could always go back and bring Maduro and Venezuela back into the conversation...or tell Ecuador they need stronger institutions...that was a mighty constructive suggestion
Some Red State/Blue State Indicia
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chop2chip
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nsacpi
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yeah...but it's not too late for the Ecuadorians to build stronger institutions...that was a mighty fine suggestion
chop2chip
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After they kill our drug users, they will no longer need to wallow. They can go back to the paradise they had before.
nsacpi
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they didn't have a paradise...but they had a functional society...that's what they lost...i had breakfast with an elderly Ecuadorian couple this morning...visiting their daughter, a colleague of mine....it is what it is
chop2chip
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Sorry “Latin America success story”
Forgive the slight embellishment. I was too excited
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nsacpi
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functional society is an understatement and Latin American success story has an element of hyperbole...guilty as charged
chop2chip
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He had a really good idea.
We need to send the military into our inner cities and kill all the drug users. How else will Latin America recover from what Americans did to them?
(It would solve a lot of our problems. A nice side effect of good policy)
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This is why I said supply isn't the issue with housing.
Its giving the houses away to foreigners over Americans. That will change soon enough.
When you understand there are over 50M illegals in this country the housing bubble makes a lot of sense. If they weren't here PE would have to dump housing because the rental market would crash. The inventory spike would crater prices and let actual Americans own homes instead of some Somalis getting effectively rent free living in major cities while they rape our women.
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https://www.wsj.com/opinion/zohran-...e-death-spiral-db7e3caa?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
Say this for Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s probable next mayor: At least the young socialist Democrat is candid about his intention to hike taxes. Not so the state’s other Democratic leaders, who for years have paid lip service to making New York more hospitable for the wealthy and businesses while they do the opposite.
“I don’t want to lose any more people to Palm Beach,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in June, one month after extending a tax hike on the state’s top earners. “We’ve lost enough.” Yes, New York has.
A report by the nonprofit Citizens Budget Commission this summer found that New York’s share of the nation’s millionaires fell 31% between 2010 and 2022. The state and city would have collected some $13 billion more in personal income-tax revenue in 2022 had the share of millionaires kept pace with other states.
In 2019 Gov. Andrew Cuomo jeered in response to calls by progressives to raise taxes on the wealthy: “ ‘Tax the rich! Tax the rich! Tax the rich!’ We did. Now, God forbid, the rich leave.” Two years later, Mr. Cuomo signed a law hiking taxes on the rich, increasing the combined state-and-city top rate to 14.8% from 12.7%. God forbid, more rich left.
The former governor, running for mayor as an independent, recently defended the tax increase to the Journal editorial board. It was a “temporary Covid tax increase because we were broke. We closed the whole economy,” he said. “There was nothing to trim and we had no revenue.” Really?
State tax revenue had increased 9% between 2018 and 2020. When Mr. Cuomo signed the tax increase in 2021, Democrats in Washington had just enacted a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill that included $19 billion in direct aid for New York City and state, plus tens of billions more for mass transit, healthcare and schools. And whose fault was it that the economy shut down?
Say this for Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s probable next mayor: At least the young socialist Democrat is candid about his intention to hike taxes. Not so the state’s other Democratic leaders, who for years have paid lip service to making New York more hospitable for the wealthy and businesses while they do the opposite.
“I don’t want to lose any more people to Palm Beach,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in June, one month after extending a tax hike on the state’s top earners. “We’ve lost enough.” Yes, New York has.
A report by the nonprofit Citizens Budget Commission this summer found that New York’s share of the nation’s millionaires fell 31% between 2010 and 2022. The state and city would have collected some $13 billion more in personal income-tax revenue in 2022 had the share of millionaires kept pace with other states.
In 2019 Gov. Andrew Cuomo jeered in response to calls by progressives to raise taxes on the wealthy: “ ‘Tax the rich! Tax the rich! Tax the rich!’ We did. Now, God forbid, the rich leave.” Two years later, Mr. Cuomo signed a law hiking taxes on the rich, increasing the combined state-and-city top rate to 14.8% from 12.7%. God forbid, more rich left.
The former governor, running for mayor as an independent, recently defended the tax increase to the Journal editorial board. It was a “temporary Covid tax increase because we were broke. We closed the whole economy,” he said. “There was nothing to trim and we had no revenue.” Really?
State tax revenue had increased 9% between 2018 and 2020. When Mr. Cuomo signed the tax increase in 2021, Democrats in Washington had just enacted a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill that included $19 billion in direct aid for New York City and state, plus tens of billions more for mass transit, healthcare and schools. And whose fault was it that the economy shut down?
nsacpi
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I do wonder how much more lopsided the scoreboard would be if the rich weren't fleeing NY and California in droves for Texas and Florida.