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    03-17-2024, 01:32 PM
    To some extent yes, but not to the level today. Look at how many corporations have their headquarters in the DC metro today. It's astounding.
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    03-17-2024, 01:30 PM
    I don't understand how you could justify paying taxes in Oakland. There's literally zero services that are provided. I had a business relationship in Oakland until last August, and that business was absolutely terrorized. It wasn't far from the in-n-out and other businesses mentioned in this thread. It was the only place I would go, where we brought food back when going out for lunch instead of having a business lunch out.
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    03-16-2024, 10:52 AM
    Good thing we don't live in a country where the government decides who is allowed to run.
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    03-15-2024, 01:43 PM
    You can take over school boards and be publicly against public education. Yup, the two aren't mutually exclusive. The first thing that needs to go is the federal department of education. Even if I was a proponent of public schools, I couldn't justify this useless federal monster. Any justification you could come up for it would involve keeping schools nationwide to a certain high standard. Since that's not even true in any one county they have no justifiable reason to continue.
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    03-14-2024, 11:14 PM
    I was going to post that Babylon Bee went really dark with this one.
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    03-13-2024, 11:20 AM
    I understood that. Just saying as an overall response to what's in the Go fund me letter. It's sad for the family, and obviously the response was disproportional, but it is what it is.
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    03-13-2024, 11:09 AM
    Can you really claim assault when you throw the first punch?
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    03-12-2024, 06:26 PM
    Today, everyone has access to an absolute massive amount of information. If fifth century French literature interests you, there's no reason to go to college to study it. College is only necessary for a limited amount of fields, or moving up the corporate ladder. Even then you're way better off getting your entry level position, working your way up, and working towards an easy online degree. Most degrees have zero actual benefit to the student unless their career goal is to be a professor in that subject of study.
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    03-12-2024, 05:48 PM
    This just shows how big of an unforced error his support of the Trump impeachment was. It did nothing to further the anything besides help I'm power the leftists. He completely torpedoed his political career on the Republican side for no logical reason. Pragmatism is required if you're going to be in politics. He should have followed Rand or Massie's lead. Try and get Trump's ear when you can. Support the good and criticize the bad. Imagine if he didn't go scorched earth on the way out. Right now Rogers and Meijer will easily split the the neocon vote. The Trump and libertarian Republicans would easily have supported and Amash against those two. He might have even received Trump's endorsement for whatever that would be worth. I also think that at point he could have easily beaten Slotkin without the mass voter fraud that is sure to happen in Michigan in the general. If I'm back in Michigan in time to be eligible to vote in the primary, I'm probably voting for Amash. There's no better option, but I realize that at this point it's more of a long shot than Ron Paul for the Republican presidential nomination was.
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    03-11-2024, 08:19 PM
    I lived in this neocon's district for most of his tenure in Congress. He was redistricted after Gary Peters wanted more secure and heavily Democrat areas for his. He was one of the worst congressman. He's a clone of Liz Cheney or John McCain. There has never been a war he wasn't for sending someone else's kids to. Unfortunately enough time has passed for this to be ancient history and people idiot Republicans in Michigan will vote for him the way they voted for Rick Snyder.
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    03-10-2024, 10:38 PM
    You're leaving a couple big details out. When Standard oil was broken up, John Rockefeller retained his full ownership of the new new separate oil companies. He actually became even more rich because now he owned 35 oil companies instead of one. The mess that the oil business in the US became afterwards is far from some major success. I'm sure there are others on here that can way better explain the many regulatory problems that started after standard oil was split, so I won't. The one thing that can be said though, private property rights remained as there was no forced ownership change. AT&T was even dumber. Their monopoly privileges were a result of them being a "utility". It's a problem with most utilities. Somehow we allow monopoly privileges so that there's one"reliable" provider instead of multiple competitors competing against each other. The only thing that needed to happen to allow competition was for it to allow competition. It wasn't the divergence of the "baby bells" but finally having other long distance providers like Sprint and MCI popup that allowed for prices to drop. Once reliable broadband Internet and cell phones became the norm, the cost for telephone service became an afterthought. Google along with the other FAANG companies are in their positions because of the partnerships they formed with the government, becoming a defacto government agencies. There's so much wrong there, that conversation has nothing to do with private property and capitalism. There's also affordable competitors to each of Google's services. The problem isn't that they are a monopoly but their cozy relationship with the feds. Private ownership will not lead to council housing. What will is the likely coming bailout of "too big to fail" landlords. Blackrocks BREIT etf is already showing tremendous losses and the the prices are just starting to drop. They're going to continue unless the Fed prints a bunch of money to bail them out. In a free market you need failure to cleanse the malinvestment. When the REPO market was starting to collapse in the fall of 2019, the real estate prices were also dropping. It wasn't until summer 2020 when things exploded because of the money printing bailing the markets out.
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    03-10-2024, 09:27 PM
    Let's reexamine who's being what, and who's saying what. You are proposing basically the same private property rights as communist Czechoslovakia had and probably most other communist nations although I can't confirm that. The only difference is that you would allow ownership of a whole apartment building. Explain how outlawing someone from owning property isn't a Marxist ideal. No spinning that it's free market capitalism. It's the exact opposite if you are taking away property from someone and giving it to someone else. It can't be free market capitalism unless both parties in a transaction are participating voluntarily and have mutually agreed on the transaction. Yet somehow, you think if the seller is forced to give up there property at the behest of government agents with guns is free market capitalist and not Marxist. There's one person that needs to calm down and really rethink this, and it's not me.
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    03-10-2024, 12:21 PM
    Yes, you literally want to limit how many properties someone owns to two. This is exactly how many were allowed for n communist Czechoslovakia as I was growing up. You're like a staunch leftist. Completely addressing things from an emotional angle without any thoughts or cares about the consequences. It just feels good to stick it to the evil mean property owners. Get rid of the Feds easy money, (or the Fed altogether) and the problem is solved by market interest rates without invoking ideas from the Frankfurt school.
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    03-10-2024, 08:13 AM
    I'd openly admit it to the bastards. It wasn't a political event? Really?
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    03-09-2024, 10:31 AM
    At the end of the day, this is where we are. Noemi earned points not locking her state down. There's things like this that are massive red flags. It seems it's legally hollow since it already has the disclaimer that it can't violate the Constitution. On a side note, anybody else find it funny that antisemitic has become accepted as the term for anti-jew. Most European Jews don't even have semitic bloodlines. I find it really funny when Arabs are labeled antisemitic.
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    03-08-2024, 08:52 PM
    This is just bizarre. It's like an argument with a child. You can try and spin this however you want, but you're calling for a Communist confiscation of property. Somehow this will cause old Klaus and friends to cry and give up. This is literally what you've been pushing for.
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    03-08-2024, 03:05 PM
    Exactly. But doing it for them somehow stops them. This debate might have to be moved to the clown world thread pretty soon.
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    03-08-2024, 11:54 AM
    You're saying that you want to curtail Agenda 2030 by getting rid of private property rights.
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    03-08-2024, 11:17 AM
    Very true. It's amazing how many problems are caused by the Fed and how many would be instantly resolved if it was terminated and currency was issued by the Treasury backed by gold and silver in the vaults. I also wish that I understood that you can't be a saver in this fiat inflationary world. You can be for the gold standard but have to live realistically in debt based fiat world.
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    03-08-2024, 07:48 AM
    You're the one calling for government intervention against property rights. You fail to see how you're falling right in line with Marxist ideals, and you accuse me of not wanting to have a serious conversation. The answer is less government not more. Since this is right out of the communist playbook, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that the senile pedophile's regime could pass your idea. You fail to explain how having less rental properties available will result in lower rents. This is an argument I would expect to have somewhere like WaPo, not a forum named after the biggest champion for free markets in over 100 years. Get rid of the Fed and let the markets correct, and we'll be talking about the opposite problem in a few years. The markets were already starting to correct at the end of 2019/early 2020. The REPO markets were collapsing. Then they added 3 trillion federal reserve debt coupons into circulation and artificially low rates caused prices to skyrocket. Today prices are also starting to drop. Let markets fix this. We don't need communist solutions.
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    03-07-2024, 10:10 PM
    You're just mixing leftist gibberish and trying to add catch phrases like WEF and Agenda 2030 to try obfuscate it. Prices are high for one reason and one reason only. Trillions pumped out by the federal reserve. Explain exactly how your leftist plan eliminates people being forced into government housing, when that's all that will be a available. Government intervention is always the best bet right? Why not add rent control to really "help" raise prices.
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    03-07-2024, 07:14 PM
    Is this a joke question or something? I'm seriously asking. How is this even a discussion I'm having on this forum? If people are only allowed one investment property, then the amount of investment properties is going to go down exponentially. Most people don't have investment properties, so the few that do, will be limited to one. All of a sudden, most rentals are off the market, and the few remaining ones will be offered at a massive premium.
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    03-07-2024, 07:08 PM
    Right? Absolutely. A friend of mine is moving to Mexico and finding out all that has to be done to get a permanent residency.
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    03-07-2024, 12:08 PM
    Is this really a suggestion on this forum? Rents would explode exponentially to prices nobody thought possible. Get rid of money printing from the Fed and this problem goes away overnight. Also remove all the absolutely absurd and large permit costs and housing construction will explode. About five years ago I was looking at building my own house in the Seattle area because houses are so overpriced and had no relation to reality. I found out that the costs for permits in King county would be over $200k. This is the answer. Less government intervention and let the market fix it.
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    03-06-2024, 09:20 PM
    Nothing like an extra tax to lower prices
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