"The residential property owners who benefited from the boom are angry enough to change the property tax system in ways that will harm those locked out of the system."
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Here in #mapoli, sympathy for the house-rich and cash-poor (particularly retirees) brings progressives into the anti-property-tax camp.
It'd be helpful to have a better policy solution (been talking about property taxes paid via home equity but lots of pushback)
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Do they ever not spend excessive money, and reset what they believe is the minimum required to run a school district?
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it turns out congestion pricing is actually quite good for many businesses because saving hours of wasted labor and gas stuck in traffic is far more valuable than the $9 charge
Congestion pricing is putting a huge strain on my family. Every morning I drive my teenage sons, Friedrich and Fabian, to Balthazar for the Duck Confit Hash before dropping them off at Wheeler Preparatory School for Young Jackasses. Please RT.
the new york times found a cautiously pro congestion pricing electrician from new jersey *who's related to joe dimaggio*
I think the big reason why FDR was beloved for generations while Obama & Biden got zero credit for their huge stimulus projects is that when those New Deal programs allocated money, people saw stuff getting built. Now it takes years & years from allocation to shovels digging.
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America's high-speed rail future is underway. Once completed, the Brightline West project will cut travel time between Las Vegas, NV and Southern CA in half, to just over two hours on new high-speed rail versus by car.
This is the future of passenger rail.
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