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https://twitter.com/prodigalthe3rd/status/1805625760700395825
https://twitter.com/yimbyland/status/1791101721025937731So why did Detroit go bankrupt?
https://twitter.com/socalgoulah8/status/1784625153248534725Ever since Proposition 13 set hard limits on property taxes in California, cities there have had a big problem. Previously when they had budget deficits on infrastructure, education and public services, they could raise property taxes to plug the gap. But now, they can't do that.
https://twitter.com/greg16676935420/status/1759688234672505103Organized crime bosses are hard to prosecute because they can kill, threaten, or intimidate any witnesses to their crimes.
https://twitter.com/queenmab87/status/1757413889698930768When either side says "one state solution," they mean the other side being ethnically cleansed.
https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1732542060240969869Okay but... "a terrorist organization well-established to have committed mass rape violated its ceasefire agreement to return all the women in its captivity" is in fact already reason enough to continue war operations against them. We don't need "proof" they're still being raped.
https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1732563226724852126
https://twitter.com/etotheipie/status/1682764410224357377Also, as I pointed out yesterday, even if some slaves DID learn skills from slavery, this whole framing misses the point: Skills or no, Black people had little freedom in labor in the South post-Emancipation, and many effectively were kept in slave-like states by the Black Codes.
https://twitter.com/govrondesantis/status/1682357571707973635This is a psychotically authoritarian attack on free enterprise.
https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1672964552332288002Democracies simply produce much more wealth than dictatorships. Violence on a large scale would destroy that wealth for everyone.
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1671434862555701253One thing that isn't talked about enough, though, is Kavanaugh was such a bad financial planner he put a six-figure home reno on his *credit cards*.
https://twitter.com/_reaganite_/status/1670390134624206850Without a nationalized USPS, people would be essentially unable to live in many remote places, including places with land that's vital for farming and ranching.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1669386214728962048There are certainly some countries out there that have huge loopholes in their tax codes that let millionaires around the world hide money there. But as far as I'm aware, every country has some kind of tax code for residents and will prosecute people who don't pay it.
https://twitter.com/armanddoma/status/1669802729584349184Compound that with the fact that in many states, there are barely any rules on who's even allowed to open a rehab facility!
https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1667570894565171200I know that would not help Biden politically — obviously an incumbent union has more power with voters than a union that has yet to be organized. But Biden's auto industry policy is stunningly bad due to fear of pissing off UAW, and now his policy on shipping is bad too.
https://twitter.com/timryanfan/status/1667521688441847808Rather, it's for people who deliberately take classified documents for their own personal use, knowing this information would compromise national defense if it leaked, and take steps to conceal that they have them.