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Theres a great article “How the Crash Will Reshape America” from the Atlantic – http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography.
“Well-educated professionals and creative workers who live together in dense ecosystems, interacting directly, generate ideas and turn them into products and services faster than talented people in other places can… The world’s 40 largest mega-regions, which are home to some 18 percent of the world’s population, produce two-thirds of global economic output and nearly 9 in 10 new patented innovations. Cities like Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Raleigh, and Boston now have two or three times the concentration of college graduates of Akron or Buffalo. Among people with postgraduate degrees, the disparities are wider still.”

If it were so easy to move, people would have done it. Rent and labor costs are so high in CA, yet total revenue is marginally more. Restaurant charge only a few bucks more in CA, but costs are SO much higher.

Well, if rents and labor costs fall then that should even out some of the new taxes and I suspect that it won’t be a catastrophe.

Going to move your beauty salon, dental practice from La Jolla to other states where people are too poor/redneck to pay $200 for H/C, teeth cleaning?

BTW: Nevada unemployment is soaring, higher than our commie state.

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[quote=NeetaT]I would tell the IRS to pack sand. If you want people to keep their money in the US, stop taxing interest income. I’m sure people would spend their untaxed interest income, thus helping businesses.

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If it were a Chinese or Indian bank (never mind middle east banks), how much you wanna bet everyone involved would be facing massive money laundering, conspiracy to defraud Army hospitals, and fronting the enmy criminal charges? But, its my lobbying friends, we will just make them pay back taxes for 3 years without admitting any guilt.

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[quote=NeetaT]I would tell the IRS to pack sand. If you want people to keep their money in the US, stop taxing interest income. I’m sure people would spend their untaxed interest income, thus helping businesses.

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If it were a Chinese or Indian bank (never mind middle east banks), how much you wanna bet everyone involved would be facing massive money laundering, conspiracy to defraud Army hospitals, and fronting the enmy criminal charges? But, its my lobbying friends, we will just make them pay back taxes for 3 years without admitting any guilt.

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[quote=NeetaT]I would tell the IRS to pack sand. If you want people to keep their money in the US, stop taxing interest income. I’m sure people would spend their untaxed interest income, thus helping businesses.

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If it were a Chinese or Indian bank (never mind middle east banks), how much you wanna bet everyone involved would be facing massive money laundering, conspiracy to defraud Army hospitals, and fronting the enmy criminal charges? But, its my lobbying friends, we will just make them pay back taxes for 3 years without admitting any guilt.

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[quote=NeetaT]I would tell the IRS to pack sand. If you want people to keep their money in the US, stop taxing interest income. I’m sure people would spend their untaxed interest income, thus helping businesses.

[/quote]
If it were a Chinese or Indian bank (never mind middle east banks), how much you wanna bet everyone involved would be facing massive money laundering, conspiracy to defraud Army hospitals, and fronting the enmy criminal charges? But, its my lobbying friends, we will just make them pay back taxes for 3 years without admitting any guilt.

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[quote=NeetaT]I would tell the IRS to pack sand. If you want people to keep their money in the US, stop taxing interest income. I’m sure people would spend their untaxed interest income, thus helping businesses.

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If it were a Chinese or Indian bank (never mind middle east banks), how much you wanna bet everyone involved would be facing massive money laundering, conspiracy to defraud Army hospitals, and fronting the enmy criminal charges? But, its my lobbying friends, we will just make them pay back taxes for 3 years without admitting any guilt.

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[quote=macromaniac]Pigs,

I worked for GM back in the early 90’s in the automotive engineering department in Dayton, OH. I have never witnessed more inefficiency in my entire life.

I would roll in to the shop in the morning and no lie every guy in the union doing stamping would be sitting there reading the paper, smoking cigars, and just sitting on their ass until 10:00 a.m.

If I needed something on a RUSH forget about it. Unions breed laziness, contentment, and bankrupt businesses. I witnessed this first hand. There day has come and they are going to get the old suicide squeeze if Mama Obama grows a pair….

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graduated HS in Detroit area, so know all about winnning the lottery, otherwise known as getting a job for auto co, port union or pretty much any GOVT job with a GED. We know that super high wages/benefits (for the work done) have added about $1500 per car. But Rick Wagoner gets to keep his job even though HE signed those union contracts too.

But are the guys in Hollywood or Wall St saints? They take (otherwise known as theft) salary/bonuses as a percent of revenue in one unit instead of total company profits as in every other business. Then they dont pay taxes on the movie because they uses accounting tricks to claim that the movie lost money when it grossed $150M. How much of that theft is in the $11 movie ticket? $18.4 billion bonus total for 2008 on Wall St while many firms went bankrupt/bought for $1 or bailed out by taxpayers? Where do you think that money came from? Stolen from taxpayers/shareholders.

Its a damn good thing those unions workers are lazy or else they would go torch Wall St, but they wouldn’t find it anyway cause the nav system on the GM car would take them to the Chrysler plant.

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[quote=macromaniac]Pigs,

I worked for GM back in the early 90’s in the automotive engineering department in Dayton, OH. I have never witnessed more inefficiency in my entire life.

I would roll in to the shop in the morning and no lie every guy in the union doing stamping would be sitting there reading the paper, smoking cigars, and just sitting on their ass until 10:00 a.m.

If I needed something on a RUSH forget about it. Unions breed laziness, contentment, and bankrupt businesses. I witnessed this first hand. There day has come and they are going to get the old suicide squeeze if Mama Obama grows a pair….

[/quote]
graduated HS in Detroit area, so know all about winnning the lottery, otherwise known as getting a job for auto co, port union or pretty much any GOVT job with a GED. We know that super high wages/benefits (for the work done) have added about $1500 per car. But Rick Wagoner gets to keep his job even though HE signed those union contracts too.

But are the guys in Hollywood or Wall St saints? They take (otherwise known as theft) salary/bonuses as a percent of revenue in one unit instead of total company profits as in every other business. Then they dont pay taxes on the movie because they uses accounting tricks to claim that the movie lost money when it grossed $150M. How much of that theft is in the $11 movie ticket? $18.4 billion bonus total for 2008 on Wall St while many firms went bankrupt/bought for $1 or bailed out by taxpayers? Where do you think that money came from? Stolen from taxpayers/shareholders.

Its a damn good thing those unions workers are lazy or else they would go torch Wall St, but they wouldn’t find it anyway cause the nav system on the GM car would take them to the Chrysler plant.

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[quote=macromaniac]Pigs,

I worked for GM back in the early 90’s in the automotive engineering department in Dayton, OH. I have never witnessed more inefficiency in my entire life.

I would roll in to the shop in the morning and no lie every guy in the union doing stamping would be sitting there reading the paper, smoking cigars, and just sitting on their ass until 10:00 a.m.

If I needed something on a RUSH forget about it. Unions breed laziness, contentment, and bankrupt businesses. I witnessed this first hand. There day has come and they are going to get the old suicide squeeze if Mama Obama grows a pair….

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graduated HS in Detroit area, so know all about winnning the lottery, otherwise known as getting a job for auto co, port union or pretty much any GOVT job with a GED. We know that super high wages/benefits (for the work done) have added about $1500 per car. But Rick Wagoner gets to keep his job even though HE signed those union contracts too.

But are the guys in Hollywood or Wall St saints? They take (otherwise known as theft) salary/bonuses as a percent of revenue in one unit instead of total company profits as in every other business. Then they dont pay taxes on the movie because they uses accounting tricks to claim that the movie lost money when it grossed $150M. How much of that theft is in the $11 movie ticket? $18.4 billion bonus total for 2008 on Wall St while many firms went bankrupt/bought for $1 or bailed out by taxpayers? Where do you think that money came from? Stolen from taxpayers/shareholders.

Its a damn good thing those unions workers are lazy or else they would go torch Wall St, but they wouldn’t find it anyway cause the nav system on the GM car would take them to the Chrysler plant.

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[quote=macromaniac]Pigs,

I worked for GM back in the early 90’s in the automotive engineering department in Dayton, OH. I have never witnessed more inefficiency in my entire life.

I would roll in to the shop in the morning and no lie every guy in the union doing stamping would be sitting there reading the paper, smoking cigars, and just sitting on their ass until 10:00 a.m.

If I needed something on a RUSH forget about it. Unions breed laziness, contentment, and bankrupt businesses. I witnessed this first hand. There day has come and they are going to get the old suicide squeeze if Mama Obama grows a pair….

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graduated HS in Detroit area, so know all about winnning the lottery, otherwise known as getting a job for auto co, port union or pretty much any GOVT job with a GED. We know that super high wages/benefits (for the work done) have added about $1500 per car. But Rick Wagoner gets to keep his job even though HE signed those union contracts too.

But are the guys in Hollywood or Wall St saints? They take (otherwise known as theft) salary/bonuses as a percent of revenue in one unit instead of total company profits as in every other business. Then they dont pay taxes on the movie because they uses accounting tricks to claim that the movie lost money when it grossed $150M. How much of that theft is in the $11 movie ticket? $18.4 billion bonus total for 2008 on Wall St while many firms went bankrupt/bought for $1 or bailed out by taxpayers? Where do you think that money came from? Stolen from taxpayers/shareholders.

Its a damn good thing those unions workers are lazy or else they would go torch Wall St, but they wouldn’t find it anyway cause the nav system on the GM car would take them to the Chrysler plant.

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[quote=macromaniac]Pigs,

I worked for GM back in the early 90’s in the automotive engineering department in Dayton, OH. I have never witnessed more inefficiency in my entire life.

I would roll in to the shop in the morning and no lie every guy in the union doing stamping would be sitting there reading the paper, smoking cigars, and just sitting on their ass until 10:00 a.m.

If I needed something on a RUSH forget about it. Unions breed laziness, contentment, and bankrupt businesses. I witnessed this first hand. There day has come and they are going to get the old suicide squeeze if Mama Obama grows a pair….

[/quote]
graduated HS in Detroit area, so know all about winnning the lottery, otherwise known as getting a job for auto co, port union or pretty much any GOVT job with a GED. We know that super high wages/benefits (for the work done) have added about $1500 per car. But Rick Wagoner gets to keep his job even though HE signed those union contracts too.

But are the guys in Hollywood or Wall St saints? They take (otherwise known as theft) salary/bonuses as a percent of revenue in one unit instead of total company profits as in every other business. Then they dont pay taxes on the movie because they uses accounting tricks to claim that the movie lost money when it grossed $150M. How much of that theft is in the $11 movie ticket? $18.4 billion bonus total for 2008 on Wall St while many firms went bankrupt/bought for $1 or bailed out by taxpayers? Where do you think that money came from? Stolen from taxpayers/shareholders.

Its a damn good thing those unions workers are lazy or else they would go torch Wall St, but they wouldn’t find it anyway cause the nav system on the GM car would take them to the Chrysler plant.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Well let’s see… Maybe I am blind but it seems that every single one of these projects will definitely help… city employees. I guess I miss the part where I the 350 million will help create sustainable jobs in the private sector. Seems to me that this will create alot more work for alot more city employees. Perhaps they can take that 350 million and use it to fund the underfunded pension and medical benefits for the existing city employees? No I guess it is better to bloat the system up with lots more city employees. Why not!

Don’t get me wrong because the infrastructure of this city is pretty pathetic. However, it just seems pretty bad to me… It seems like there could be a better way to spend 350 million.

Good post afx. [/quote]
UTC traffic nightmare esp with Trolley extension is extremely important to fix for all who need to commute. Will help all who work/live in area.
Worrying about city workers benefiting from this project is missing the big picture. It’s the retired safety workers making 200K that is the problem.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Well let’s see… Maybe I am blind but it seems that every single one of these projects will definitely help… city employees. I guess I miss the part where I the 350 million will help create sustainable jobs in the private sector. Seems to me that this will create alot more work for alot more city employees. Perhaps they can take that 350 million and use it to fund the underfunded pension and medical benefits for the existing city employees? No I guess it is better to bloat the system up with lots more city employees. Why not!

Don’t get me wrong because the infrastructure of this city is pretty pathetic. However, it just seems pretty bad to me… It seems like there could be a better way to spend 350 million.

Good post afx. [/quote]
UTC traffic nightmare esp with Trolley extension is extremely important to fix for all who need to commute. Will help all who work/live in area.
Worrying about city workers benefiting from this project is missing the big picture. It’s the retired safety workers making 200K that is the problem.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Well let’s see… Maybe I am blind but it seems that every single one of these projects will definitely help… city employees. I guess I miss the part where I the 350 million will help create sustainable jobs in the private sector. Seems to me that this will create alot more work for alot more city employees. Perhaps they can take that 350 million and use it to fund the underfunded pension and medical benefits for the existing city employees? No I guess it is better to bloat the system up with lots more city employees. Why not!

Don’t get me wrong because the infrastructure of this city is pretty pathetic. However, it just seems pretty bad to me… It seems like there could be a better way to spend 350 million.

Good post afx. [/quote]
UTC traffic nightmare esp with Trolley extension is extremely important to fix for all who need to commute. Will help all who work/live in area.
Worrying about city workers benefiting from this project is missing the big picture. It’s the retired safety workers making 200K that is the problem.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Well let’s see… Maybe I am blind but it seems that every single one of these projects will definitely help… city employees. I guess I miss the part where I the 350 million will help create sustainable jobs in the private sector. Seems to me that this will create alot more work for alot more city employees. Perhaps they can take that 350 million and use it to fund the underfunded pension and medical benefits for the existing city employees? No I guess it is better to bloat the system up with lots more city employees. Why not!

Don’t get me wrong because the infrastructure of this city is pretty pathetic. However, it just seems pretty bad to me… It seems like there could be a better way to spend 350 million.

Good post afx. [/quote]
UTC traffic nightmare esp with Trolley extension is extremely important to fix for all who need to commute. Will help all who work/live in area.
Worrying about city workers benefiting from this project is missing the big picture. It’s the retired safety workers making 200K that is the problem.

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