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‘muccie lasted less than two weeks. That was fast!

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On the plus side, Waste Management stock will rise on the news.

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(1) Electrify the railroads.
(2) Build new lines in the medians of interstates when possible. Grade separation already exists.
(3) I think 80mph is legally possible for passenger trains with level crossings. In this situation, design the trains to accelerate as fast as possible to 80mph and the signaling system to keep them at max speed.
(4) Or design “lethal” level crossing systems. Go around the gates, you’ll find a spike strip like the “severe tire damage” device in parking lots waiting once you’ve gone through the crossing. If going around level crossing gates costs people a set of tires and a tow, fewer people would do it.

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Yes, it’s safe. Just create a secondary account for deposits. I had my tenant running to the bank every month and depositing a check herself for years — I just gave her 12 deposit slips with the lease.

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Lease is invalid without initial payment. You dodged a bullet. Tear up the lease, tell the nice folks to take their nice selves elsewhere. Not your problem. If they can’t get the initial payment right, what makes you think they’ll pay on time in future and you won’t have problems with rubber checks?

At the very least, demand a few months up front to give you time to evict them if they make a habit of not paying.

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If you can use the money you made to pay off a loan — and not be beholden to anyone and collect rent money without paying a mortgage, go for it. You can always finance the property again later.

BTW – if you look at a graph of the gains since Nov 2016, the curve is flattening. People expected great things of Donnieboy, but his actual batting average is very low.

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Let China burn, it would be a hell of an opportunity if they slow down the world ecahhhhnamy with them. Isolation seldom bodes well for long term economic health.

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True. But the long term effect of the BS is to make the US a more unpredictable place and increase uncertainty. Case in point: he just pulled a subclass of entrepreneur visas. People who feel their residency is at risk are less likely to want to invest.

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gzz – this assumes Trump is willing to operate within the law. Good luck suing from outside the US.

Also, this doesn’t take the chilling effect of arrests and harassment into account.

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Getting rid of typewriter mechanics and 75% of clerical personnel didn’t crash the economy — we adapted. Also: what about the effect of people having more disposable income without being robbed by private insurapigs?

It will just reallocate income, not destroy it.

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I take issue with 9. a rental house makes money. A rolling iPad costs money. I’d rather have an electric motorcycle. 0-60 in 4s without the nannycrap and 24/7 tracking of the Model 3.

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It doesn’t support your claim. Trading uninsured for government insured is one thing. Trading rich private insurance for government insurance is another. Providers would take a big hit.

Under any system that would pass in the US, private/supplemental insurance (think “Medigap”) would also exist.

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If the government can provide health care less expensively than the private mish-mosh we have, people would have more money in their pockets. Hardly recessionary.

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Exactly. Someone who got arrested for w33d five years ago might not make it through, but might be brilliant anyway. Such laws are made by and for idiots.

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Nah, I hope they get laid … by meth-addled Trump supporters who also have an antibiotic-resistant strain of VD.

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