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$7-10k is CHEAP as compared to jailing someone. Addiction treatment should be provided for free, no questions asked, by the gov’t — the return on that would be huge.

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FIH – re: interest rates, you’re assuming the Fed’s job is actually to help the average American, as opposed to amplifying a boom-bust cycle that helps investors and banks accrue more.

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I smell a troll.

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We became smarter and realized that the cost/benefit ratio stunk.

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Funny that they should mention a gun shop as their example. If a GOP President wins, fear of having guns taken away will evaporate. No more stimulus for the arms industry in the US.

Unless, of course, we start another war. But I’m pretty sure the army doesn’t buy guns from small gun shops…

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Jailing someone costs $50 grand a year. Treatment is much cheaper. From an economic standpoint, keeping 1% of our population in jail makes no sense.

Addiction is an illness, best treated by doctors, not jailers.

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I’d have no interest in owning a second home anywhere as a vacation home. I could see owning a rental home with one apartment left vacant. But a truly empty building has too many things to go wrong with it. Basically all the disadvantages of a timeshare, but more expensive.

Scrooglemobiles? Practically, not a huge difference in energy use to manufacture them. Car lifespan is more limited by mileage driven than by years used. The cars would last fewer years while covering approximately the same mileage before replacement. If anything miles might be marginally increased, since during less busy times, they might need to drive a while seeking their next fare.

But I think that privacy is also important. Till there’s a law requiring full data deletion at the request of a customer, I can’t support “things as a service” replacing an in-house or cash economy. Penalty for failing to delete user data at request should mean 10 lashes with a rotan for each instance. Applied to the CEO’s bare arse. Televised.

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Not particularly — a truly vacant home would just be a source of stress. Family’s beach house was known to flood. Friends with a house about 2 miles away had someone break in and set the place on fire in January (they tried to light the fireplace without opening the flue).

I’d sooner buy a small building and keep one of the apts vacant if I were interested. Or just take the income and rent an AirBnB or hotel.

Economics also don’t make sense. Say you want a beach house in NJ. Much cheaper to rent one for a month here and there than pay taxes, mortgage, and repair costs from storms.

As far as everyone else, couldn’t care less. Housing is for living in and for rental. If a vacant tax screws over some absentees and benefits myself and other like-minded people, I’d be all for it.

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Our standard of living is just fine as it is — growth is another word for tumor. No need to pave the world and sprawl to infinity.

And no, I have no problem with higher taxes for vacant property. A lot of cities already do that (DC, Boston, etc). It’s the right thing to do since vacancy drives rents and prices up for people who actually reside there.

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No — the economy should be for the benefit of residents first. Figure out a way to charge non-residents more for parking their money. Higher property taxes on non-occupied property, transaction fees, etc.

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Looks like deficit at least has been headed back to sanity. Imagine what could be done if we reversed the Bush II era tax cuts.

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As I said, business-grade Thinkpads are bad ass.

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Lenovo. Not their consumer grade rubbish, but their X and T-series laptops. Typing this on a X201 that’s probably from 2010-11 and lightning-fast with an SSD.

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