I aint got no towtruck dumbass

Annapolis really is a nice city. And I am glad Cumberland, MD got some objective love. The city has stunning views, and the downtown area is picturesque. It is just unfortunate that it is in the wrong location, being in the most desolate part of the state, Appalachia.

Why should anyone be forced to pay property taxes. The state doesn’t buy the house you did. You bought the home, improved it, put a mortgage on it and paid for it. The state collects sales taxes & business taxes to fund services. Imagine the 70 year old who owns a home today valued at $2M - they bought 30 years ago for $50,000, maintained the house for 30 years and finally paid the house off - Why should they or their heirs pay any tax much less on the increased value? They will say, “who’s going to support the roads, police, fire department and schools? Sales tax & local businesses can support those things. For those who support property taxes understand you open the door for the state to collect taxes on ALL property; boats, cars, clothes, art, bicycles, gym equipment, grills, tools, silverware, jet skis, stocks, retirement accounts - everything. 27 states reassess annually, and the rest, do so every 3 years OR lie California, any time you improve the property! It’s brutal and it’s endless! If you support property taxes on personal property you are either; a) a communist b) confused c) academic d) free loader End Property Taxes!

I unironically prefer these arguments. People should say what they mean! If you think it's a moral cancer to own property for which you do not pay an ongoing tax, then better to just say that, so that we can have the real argument.

Land value tax defenders argue that land owners get a special benefit in the form of the protection of their private property that they should therefore pay for. This is confused, or at least overstated, for two important reasons. First is that you’re not actually allowed to steal any kind of private property. What makes housing unique is that it’s huge, conspicuous, typically immobile, and ownership is dutifully recorded. All these things make investigating assaults on this particular form of private property dramatically easier than all others. If you tell the police that somebody took your bicycle, then it’s like, I don’t know man, how can we even know where the bike is? If we think we know, then we’ve got to go track it down. How can we even really be sure that the bike is yours? If a group of marauders tries to take over your land, then the police have a very straightforward task ahead of them. Second, it’s not as though the benefits of stopping these marauders redound only to the homeowner. The neighbors also do not want marauders occupying the house that used to be owned by their neighbor, whether those neighbors are homeowners or renters. Nobody benefits from marauders taking over private property. The fact that we stop this is not a special benefit we give to homeowners as a privileged class. It’s just basic public order, which benefits everybody in the society.

🚨After the collapse of the negotiations, President Trump announces a naval blockade on Iran

This chart makes me laugh every time I see it. The UK, France and Italy are poorer than the poorest US state, Mississippi. Canada and Germany are poorer than the second-poorest US state. The gap will widen. And don’t come with “free healthcare.” You pay for it with absurd taxes

Dads with young kids Is it normal to just feel tired and burnt out all the time? It’s like you don’t even really get the weekend to recover because it’s all just kid stuff the moment you wake up Arguably the only personal time you have is when they nap (and you’re already dead tired by that time) or the hour after they go to bed but before you pass out Just trying to figure out if I’m doing something wrong

Rage. We’re not raging against the machine hard enough. Those extra charges aren’t even for usage it’s for ANOTHER county’s loaned equipment!