Waterski, Wakesurf, DIYer, Technologist
Atlanta, Ga
Joined July 2008
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There's a concept in here that zoning for live work play makes sense.
Take an old mall, make it profitable with a data center, but make it add housing (and retail); Central heating, HVAC.
The data center externalities are in check by the residents.
There’s a tragic element to stories like this. This woman sincerely believes that a datacenter would pollute the air and water of her community. And those sincere beliefs resulted in blocking a $50m/year source of tax revenue in a community facing major economic and budgetary problems. Tragic.
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So when Trump tweeted that the Democrats winning the election led to the selloff yesterday, is that just because he "had to tweet about it" or does that mean he expects a market downtown for 2 years?
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It's open enrollment season. One thing that stands out is the race to the bottom.
My private company has benefits slightly cheaper than her larger public company.
So my company pays more and on a smaller pool. And is incentivized to lessen the benefits in the future.
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To be critical of Audi, Trump, Kemp on this proposed plant in Macon.
It's archaic pride in the sub brand of Porsche that a new plant would be built rather than extend the existing VW Atlas plant in Chattanooga.
It's the same mqb platform with a different engine and finishing.
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I drove to an autocross in Hampton Georgia at Echo Park, Atlanta Motor speedway.
If Marta expanded ~12 miles South from the airport (with a mixed use developer) you could have $200k new builds available, less raceday traffic, and less daily traffic.
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This is a pretty incompatible take with "she burned Atlanta down".
How much more would Atlanta home prices have increased if it hadn't burned down?
Also, there were a bunch of federal GOP policies 2018-2020 we can point to.
Keisha Lance Bottoms drove up the cost of housing as mayor and she’d do the same as governor.
Bad mayors don’t make good governors.
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This is a house member of the majority party, that has a majority in the Senate.
Yet, the house has been one of the least productive in history.
Meanwhile, Ossoff and Warnock passed bipartisan legislation with slimmer majorities.
I’m asking for your vote because right now, we don’t have a voice in the Senate.
Liberal Jon Ossoff is a radical who’s made Georgia less safe, more expensive, and worse off.
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This is a get rich quick take.
Homes are supposed to be the secret to wealth over 30 years paying down principal.
But the last decade housing recovery (and HGTV the decade before that) has turned them into flipper get rich quick schemes.
It only happens a couple of times a year, but when Trump is right about something, I have to say he's right.
Something like 66% of Americans own a home and, for most of them, it's the single biggest investment they have. Saying you want home prices to come down is basically saying you want to harm that 66% of the population and destroy their wealth in order to give to a FRACTION of the remaining 33% (understanding that of that 33% that does not own a home, only approximately 33% of THEM ever could at any price).
Which is straight up socialist. Anybody who promotes the idea of lower home prices is promoting harming the many to provide benefit to the few.
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Not the point he is making, but you should lose the subsidy if you don't get your covered preventative appt each year.
That's the whole idea of the physical. Reduce costs by solving earlier.
Dr Oz on ACA "fraud" -- "Of the people who signed up, 40% never use the insurance. Let me ask you, John, you have health insurance -- do you use it once a year? In Obamacare right now 40% of the people ostensibly signed up never use the insurance ... we have a lot of fake people on the policies"
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We have 4 months of strategic reserve sounded a lot better 2 weeks in than it does now; 2 months in.
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Alt take: Ga lawmakers discovered they were giving corporate handouts to create jobs, paid for by taxing those jobs, and a net negative for the state.
BREAKING: Georgia lawmakers seeking to eliminate state income tax for Georgia couples filing jointly on their first $100,000 of earnings beginning in the 2027 tax year.
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@mcuban @MikeJohnson @mtgreenee @ossoff @ReverendWarnock
With my Cigna insurance, Walgreens prices Rosuvistatin at $81; through Rx savings finder, it's $13.
Why do I have to jump through hoops? Walgreens shows the savings, but thanks to contracts, I have to ask. Reform that!
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Thank you Walgreens for providing the tools.
This is like bartering at a flea market, except 75% of customers don't treat it like bartering, and the seller can't just give you the actual price when you ask.
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Yeah. No.
Post 2008 house building glut.
20% Corporate Tax rate (less than married > $100k)(2018)
Capital gains exemption if you live in the house 2 of 3 years is too short.(adjusted in 2018)
2020 401k purchase allowance.
Real Estate marketing, incl HGTV flipping shows.
JD Vance: “A lot of young people are saying, 'housing is way too expensive.' Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who are taking houses that ought, by right, go to American citizens."
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If only there were serious concerns about
- minimum wage not being raised
- tax cuts to the highest marginal brackets
If only there were a party Americans could have voted for
- that recognizes income inequality and social mobility
(There is)
Seems more sustainable if we ask a large number of billionaires to send much smaller checks regularly; maybe based on income and capital gains.
We could call this progressive taxation.
We could use other taxes to encourage the money movement, like corporate taxes.
🚨 BREAKING: In an incredible gesture, President Trump reveals the anonymous billionaire who is paying the troops during the shutdown has OFFICIALLY sent a check for $130M. WOW!
"Today he sent us a check for $130 million."
REPORTER: Who?
TRUMP: "He doesn't want the recognition! But he gave us a check for $130M. It's gonna go to the military!"
"That's what I call a PATRIOT."
I wonder who it is 👀🇺🇸
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