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I’ve compiled a list of good accounts - news and analysis - to follow on the #russianinvasionofukraine. Feel free to follow and/or make suggestions to add to it. twitter.com/i/lists/149795…
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Mark White
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Mark White
@MarkWhiteIA
Detroit Made, Ann Arbor formed, New York hardened - Tulsa + Ann Arbor + Santa Fe. Venture Capital, Impact , Science Tech, cybersecurity, Econ Origins
Tulsa, OK Katılım Nisan 2013
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If flying from regional airports while charging dirt-cheap fares is a good, profitable business, there's nothing stopping JetBlue (or any other company) from getting into it.
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@AlexSJacquez @AnnieLowrey People see through the gaslight of allowing them to keep more of their money somehow being framed as a benefit. Take a credit away, it is a tax increase, simple.
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Great piece by @AnnieLowrey on the tax wars. This part is important about how we got here too — Democrats have been highly effective in designing efficient, welfare enhancing tax programs that absolutely nobody knows or cares about.
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic
Members of both parties are egging on a nationwide tax revolt—and if the economy were to tank, the country could end up with a toxic combination of widespread joblessness and rampant inflation, @AnnieLowrey argues. theatln.tc/VsVxElnp 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.
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Dumb is as dumb does.
Richie Floyd@richiejfloyd
Imagine if we judged highways off how much profit they generated
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Imagine if we judged highways off how much profit they generated
Bryan Beal 🎧@bryanrbeal
This was one of the most logical high-speed rails in the country, and it STILL can’t make money. Nobody wants to ride on trains.
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Capitalism is a race to the worst possible service at the highest possible price. The pack us in like sardines, take away our free drinks and snacks, and make us pay extra for bringing luggage bc we want to actually wear clothes at our end destination.
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@mikesimonsen And I see your chart supplied. Thanks. I'll do the justice of digging into that. Generally, the market and maker price is set on what the market will bear, on a monthly payment amount. I'll have to look at the assumptions on that study.
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@MarkWhiteIA It does that, but not only that!
Lower down payment is better for affordability.
Taxes are cheaper than interest payments so the monthly cost is also cheaper.
If we want affordability for our kids, one path is through higher property taxes.
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Mike Simonsen 🐉@mikesimonsen
Here's how higher property taxes convert into LOWER monthly payments by keeping the house price lower to begin with.
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Here's an illustration for how lower property taxes HURT affordability.
Higher property taxes HELP affordability.
Sean Gover@peaceseller
@mikesimonsen Mike. Property taxes affect affordability just like the price of a home does. Please explain your thought further because as it stands it doesn’t make sense.
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@mikesimonsen Not really. I get the lower down payment, but with 5% options out there, it's incredibly marginal. And no, tax payments and a mortgage payment are the same, whatever they are per month. Principal plus interest is not more expensive than a tax $. Geez n
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@TheOmniZaddy @mikesimonsen Once the payment is set, assuming a 30 year mortgage, it is set (the mortgage payments don't change) except for taxes and insurance that can increase.
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@MarkWhiteIA @mikesimonsen Loans/mortgages charge interest
Taxes don’t!
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this woman is spending $66k/year on daycare for her 4 kids WHY DON’T PEOPLE JUST GET A NANNY
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Provider owned hospitals should be the norm. They exist; they can't accept Medicaid nor Medicare.
Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA@DrDiGiorgio
The nurses have it just as bad as the doctors. We should have joint venture doctor/nurse owned hospitals.
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@tweetsbyDorian @the_transit_guy Most of that was built with the highway trust fund, ergo fuel taxes. The current subsidy is the amount government spends ( net of fuel taxes or fares) per person per mile travelled. In many states, new roads are toll roads.
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@MarkWhiteIA @the_transit_guy I don’t know what the current subsidy per person number means. We’ve spent hundreds of billions building and maintaining a national network of interstates and other highways with no current intention to recoup that money. Why are we putting a different expectation on rail
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The reason Amtrak is so expensive is that it was formed as a “for-profit” corporation, even though all other public forms of transportation, especially roads and highways, do not have to seek a profit and instead operate with massive subsidies.
Richard D Rembert | AI Engineer & SEO Specialist@RichardDRembert
A lot of y’all better get acquainted with Amtrak. Flight prices about to skyrocket.
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@the_transit_guy And I do think we need a modest marginal investment in new train lines.
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@the_transit_guy For decades, gas taxes and ROI on development paid for roads and bridges until that system was broken in the late 90's. The current subsidy per per person per mile is .0009for highways, .36 for Amtrak.
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@AndyMasley Agricultural use of land in the US is in a long term trend of decline.
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New post on data centers and land use, where I explain why I think we have way too much farmland
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The Biden era grift that became a gift that keeps on giving and raising your costs every day.
Anthony Bradley@drantbradley
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services salaries increased nearly 500% in 4 years. Four years ago about 50 people earned $100K+/year salary. Today, it’s over 1000 people. Then, they show pictures of poor kids and say Michigan HHS needs more funding.
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@BachmannRudi @loganb Well, his opponent has the honesty and authenticity of the Oceans 11. Run better candidates.
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Democrats on the verge of doing something stupid.
Election Time@ElectionTime_
🚨BREAKING: Republicans' odds to flipping the Michigan US Senate seat JUMP OVERNIGHT. Michigan - 2026 US Senate 🟥Mike Rogers 44.3% (+3.7) 🟦Abdul El-Sayed 40.6% Polling average via Pollsmax.com. Abdul El-Sayed has become the Democratic frontrunner, and compared to his primary opponents—Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens—he performs by far the worst against Mike Rogers. If El-Sayed ends up being the nominee, Republicans will be the heavy favorites to flip Michigan's US Senate seat later this year.
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@StatisticUrban Tradeoffs are brutal emotional toils for a people raised on never having been said no to.
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Many of you would understand the world much better if you took 4-5 economics classes, or purchased a textbook and made an honest and rigorous effort to understand it.
Many of you appear to think ~0 about incentives, trade-offs, constraints, or second-order effects.
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