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ParticipantThose foreign/OOS students pay 2-3x the tuition of in-state students: they help pay in-state students’ tuitions.
ParticipantYou’re assuming that Trump actually cares about property prices outside his specific area of investment. His view is likely that housing prices will rise as jobs come in and people can afford to pay more, not that we should be giving 1%-down, low-interest loans to “stabilize communities.”
November 15, 2016 at 1:28 PM in reply to: Electoral College: the disenfranchisement of Californians #803686ParticipantCan she take Sen. Chuckles Scummer, that authoritarian in a blue jacket, with her? Please?
ParticipantOr have enough cash on hand to buy more properties when the next opportunity comes…
ParticipantCompared to Mel “3%” Watt, any Trump FHFA would likely support tighter lending standards. Rates are going up, and Trump has made noises about Fed-induced bubbles.
Also:
“I’m excited if the real estate bubble is about to burst because I’ve always made more money in bad markets than in good markets.” — DJT 2007ParticipantThe fault is the city’s — why spend an extraordinary amount of money hiring thugs to keep people from exercising their 1st Amendment rights? Let them take to the streets, as the French do.
As to how people can organize: social media. I highly doubt that there are many truly homeless people among them.
BTW, I admire the hell out of Soros. He’s a savvy investor, and survived WW II as in Hungary, while being Jewish. I can’t blame him for spending his money fighting what he sees as Fascism and authoritarianism worldwide.
“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world” — DJT 1990
ParticipantWhat does Vegas actually have that would recommend it to five million people? Entertainment and gambling can be had in a hundred other places these days.
ParticipantBirth control? Abortion? Weed? I can see that.
Then you have things like getting rid of the EPA, and you realize that pollution crosses state lines. What do you do if Arizona pollutes Nevada’s drinking water? Sue them and maybe you could get an injunction in 20 years?
We’ve been down this road in the 60s with burning rivers, Love Canal, chromium poisoning. No one sane wants to return there.
ParticipantI also want trump to do away with contraception requirement in health plans. As rush Limbaugh said we shouldn’t pay for women to whore around. Let them pay out of their own pockets.
A birth with complications is more expensive than 100 years’ worth of birth control. So are assistance programs for a mother with a kid. Picks your poison.
I’d rather pay people to make love than war. Rubbers and diaphragms are cheaper than bullets.
ParticipantAnd I see that several Dem PACs funded by George Soros are again running craigslist ads in CA, WA and OR (and perhaps NY) offering young people nice sums of money to protest against the election of Trump and cause cities to have to spend a lot of money on extra law enforcement.
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These thugs/kids are losers who can’t get regular jobs and are probably flunking out of college.Why would Soros need to pay people to protest? Plenty of willing people considering that 40% of NY is foreign born and has had it up to the tits with his (and his supporters’) rhetoric for the past year and a half.
Most of the protests are at night or on weekends, outside of working hours, BTW.
All this being said, the election was what it was. Trump won, no sense in protesting it. Let’s keep the guy accountable for the next 4-8 years. I think he’ll turn out to be more of a moderate on social issues. In the 90s, he was pro-choice, and supported universal health care. Even recently, he’s come out in favor of most parts of ACA/Obamacare.
On the other hand, his authoritarian impulses are worrisome.
From 1990:
Q:What were your other impressions of the Soviet Union?
A: I was very unimpressed. Their system is a disaster. What you will see there soon is a revolution; the signs are all there with the demonstrations and picketing. Russia is out of control and the leadership knows it. That’s my problem with Gorbachev. Not a firm enough hand.Q: You mean firm hand as in China?
A: When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world—Participantbearishgurl: why not have the same rate for everyone, but tax cigarettes, booze, and junk food more highly at the state level? Put the money in a fund to help defray insurance costs.
That seems like the minimally invasive way of changing behavior. The doctor checkup to get insurance at a reasonable price turns doctors into gatekeepers that PREVENT their patients from getting care at a reasonable price.
Note that developed countries which have state-controlled insurance systems generally have a higher life expectancy than the US.
ParticipantBTW, Trump may want to INCREASE subsidies. He’s stated that he wants to allow individuals to deduct premiums from their income taxes, which sounds like a tax CREDIT for the full amount of the insurance, not a deduction. (There’s already a self-employed insurance deduction from income.)
AFAIK, that’s basically what the subsidy is, except that it doesn’t cover the full cost. Semantics 101.
ParticipantWhat’s wrong with just offering an exchange plan to everyone? Get rid of Medicaid. Get rid of employer mandates. Allow insurance companies to offer the same plan nationwide via the exchanges. Allow states to throw a public option into the ring if they want to.
Subsidize everyone where the second lowest-cost silver plan costs more than x% of income. No top income limit, which gets rid of the subsidy cliff.
In NY, a gold plan ($600 deductible) costs about $500-550 per month in 2017. Medicaid costs the state about $1000 per month per user. It would be cheaper to subsidize everyone fully below a certain income and help them with the copays.
Beautiful thing about NY is that it’s been community rated and guaranteed-issue since the early 1990s. Meaning that you got a fixed price on a specific plan regardless of age, gender, or health status.
Insurance is a misnomer. It should be called health CARE or a health system, designed to cover everyone and keep them healthy.
ParticipantHe never was. He’s been fairly consistently for removal of pre-existing condition rules, and even universal coverage since the late 90s.
What bothers me isn’t his ideas about health care. It’s his authoritarian streak. When he was interviewed in 1990, he stated that his impression of the USSR was that Gorbachev wasn’t harsh enough, and he praised the Chinese reponse to Tiananmen Square.
I’m more concerned about internal DHS/Border Patrol checkpoints, having to show ID everywhere, increased funding for civil forfeiture programs, mass incarceration, rolling back War on Drugs reform than I am about health care under Donnie.
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