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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 2:11pm

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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 2:07pm

 oldviolin wrote:

one at a time probably




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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 2:03pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 How does one fence 100k eggs?
 
one at a time probably

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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 2:00pm

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How does one fence 100k eggs?

Elite Egg Berets are planning on an assault on the WH.  
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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 1:48pm

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How does one fence 100k eggs?
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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 1:32pm

100,000 eggs were stolen from a trailer in Pennsylvania, police say  (no pun intended)
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Posted: Feb 2, 2025 - 11:39am

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Surprised they didn't cut his mic. 

"Good Night. And Good Luck."  Edward R. Murrow
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Posted: Jan 28, 2025 - 12:38pm

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Jim Acosta signs off: "Don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear."




Surprised they didn't cut his mic. 
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Posted: Jan 28, 2025 - 12:33pm

Jim Acosta signs off: "Don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear."

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Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 8:08pm

As fires continue to burn, Los Angeles residents face toxic smoke, mudslides and astronomical housing costs
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Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 2:51pm

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did they? I know a few ordinary folks who became millionaires.
I think there is still money floating around in some of those funds. 

The Feinberg Plan

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Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 2:01pm

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That's what they did with compensation for victims of 9/11. The traiders etc. got a ton of taxpayer money, the cleaners not a lot.



did they? I know a few ordinary folks who became millionaires.
I think there is still money floating around in some of those funds. 
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Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 1:28pm

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GoFundMe, Mandy Moore and the unfairness of disaster relief: ‘If you were poor before, you should stay poor’
After a devastating explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917 killed more than 1,500 people and left thousands homeless, residents of Massachusetts sent hundreds of thousands of dollars of aid to the survivors, including large amounts of furniture, says the disaster historian and New York University professor Jacob Remes. But the distribution of that aid came with certain expectations: “The attitude was very strongly that disaster relief should restore the status quo, so if you were poor before the disaster you should stay poor and if you were rich before the disaster, you should stay rich.” This translated directly into the quality of material aid provided: “People who were working class or poor got used furniture, and the people who were rich got new furniture. Very often what we are doing when we are building back from a disaster is trying the preserve the unequal status quo.”



That's what they did with compensation for victims of 9/11. The traiders etc. got a ton of taxpayer money, the cleaners not a lot.

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Posted: Jan 17, 2025 - 12:02pm

GoFundMe, Mandy Moore and the unfairness of disaster relief: ‘If you were poor before, you should stay poor’
After a devastating explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917 killed more than 1,500 people and left thousands homeless, residents of Massachusetts sent hundreds of thousands of dollars of aid to the survivors, including large amounts of furniture, says the disaster historian and New York University professor Jacob Remes. But the distribution of that aid came with certain expectations: “The attitude was very strongly that disaster relief should restore the status quo, so if you were poor before the disaster you should stay poor and if you were rich before the disaster, you should stay rich.” This translated directly into the quality of material aid provided: “People who were working class or poor got used furniture, and the people who were rich got new furniture. Very often what we are doing when we are building back from a disaster is trying the preserve the unequal status quo.”

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Posted: Jan 16, 2025 - 10:34pm


‘Wicked’ Music Producer Greg Wells on Losing a World-Class Studio as Well as Family Home in the Fires — and the Sorrow of Saying Goodbye to the Palisades

And two more studios up in smoke

Bob Clearmountain’s Mix This
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https://www.harbormusic.com/
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Posted: Jan 16, 2025 - 7:42pm


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Posted: Jan 16, 2025 - 5:55pm

 black321 wrote:


seems like a case to move to one of the M states. Well, except for Missouri 



Hey you can join us. I’m a Masshole from Taxachusetts.   
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Posted: Jan 16, 2025 - 8:37am

 rgio wrote:

If you look at FEMA funding from 2017-2019 (periods that have wrapped), and allocate the spend by resident, you get the following:
State FEMA $/Resident
.Louisiana 2,721
.Hawaii 1,551
.Florida 953
.Alaska 687
.Texas 639
.Arkansas 530
.Vermont 525
.Nebraska 454
.Iowa 447
.South Dakota 385
.Kentucky 362
.North Carolina 334
.Mississippi 293
.West Virginia 278
.California 230
.Oregon 223
.Alabama 222
.Oklahoma 209
.Kansas 206
.South Carolina 206
.New Mexico 184
.North Dakota 182
.Missouri 173
.Georgia 163
.Michigan 123
.Montana 122
.Maine 115


Something I haven’t seen mentioned yet (sorry if I missed it) is that the amount of money going to Louisiana is huge - and compare its cost of housing/living with areas like CA and there’s an even greater disparity in who takes what from the pool of dough. The COL of $92 in Louisiana matches with $134 in CA. https://worldpopulationreview.... So the cost in LA being smaller means that it’s taking even more in help from states that provide it, but fortunately you get more bang for the buck.


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Posted: Jan 16, 2025 - 8:28am

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So the value of these properties is the mean average for the state which is what your statement about the percentage of the total housing stock suggests.

I suggest otherwise that these particular properties far exceed the average mean price of a house in California.  And these are not just homes, these are also commercial real estate properties which have an even higher value and value to the tax base.

Where did you get your numbers ?

If you had not brought up the budget of California I would not have responded to it.  And how do you not talk about a budget deficit when you bring up the subject of the budget ?

Your oars do not seem to be in the water.  Just sayin'.

Let's stick to the math I used before...  (12,000 / 7,500,000) * 100 ≈ 0.16%

12,000 is the reported number of destroyed buildings.  Not all houses, but let's assume they are.

I estimated single family units in CA at 7.5M, that's low based on 2020 data

The mean value of those homes isn't the metric for revenue, it's purchase price.  Value has accelerated greater there than in the rest of the state, but the rule exists for everyone so let's just leave you your "value" assumption and move on....

Let's assume the taxable base of the homes destroyed is 5X the average in the state.  That would make their percentage of the state revenue 0.8% (0.16 X5).

CA's RE tax revenue from private property is $90B.   If all of the revenue went away for the 12,000 properties, it would equal $720M ($90B x 0.8).  That's not the case, and any percentage of that number, while significant, isn't THE REASON that Newsome or others would create policy.

You are grasping at every possible conspiratorial straw to try and "prove" for some reason that California is managed by idiots.  The rules weren't enacted by Newsome, they are a product of the famous "Prop" system that I've heard about forever even though none of them have ever affected me.

The point of all of this is to say.... stop tossing partisan bullshit about mismanagement every chance you get as some sort of litmus test / circumstantial proof that you, Trump, and the Republicans are right that the country needs to be destroyed from the inside.  Any of the solutions to these problems are expenses you wouldn't pay for anyway, so suggesting mismanagement as the cause is opportunistic for situations that are unavoidable because of both parties.  If you're not sure, let's discuss the Texas electrical grid and their willingness to "plan ahead" and "invest in safety".
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Posted: Jan 16, 2025 - 7:34am

 rgio wrote:
 kurtster wrote:

I didn't bring up the budget, you did and I just responded.  Never was my point, it was yours. I only mentioned that Newsome was blocking the legitimate sale of property and his motivation for it.  It is also to keep people from cashing out and moving taking their taxable income part out of the tax base with them. Newsome is desperate to keep people from leaving with the annual loss around 700,000 people per year. That is a boat load of taxable income going bye, bye. He has been trying hard to get an exit tax imposed as a penalty for leaving.  So far he has failed to get that done. You're playing checkers.

I appreciate that on Fox news and your online sources facts are inconvenient, but to paraphrase our discussion. - you suggest that Newsome is making policy to protect real estate tax revenue.
- I respond, pointing out the stupidity of an argument over 0.16% of housing stock, and the resultant impact on RE taxes 
- You point out there is an accumulated deficit (with links even)
- I respond by questioning your newfound concern for CA deficits while supporting the guy who created more national debt than anyone, a mark he's sure to enhance soon
- you respond that I brought up the budget. Yet another example of your fact avoidance strategy: never answer a question or respond to a statement... you just throw out another one. The problem with my playing checkers is that you go from playing tic-tac-toe to hopscotch to connect 4 with every answer.
 
So the value of these properties is the mean average for the state which is what your statement about the percentage of the total housing stock suggests.

I suggest otherwise that these particular properties far exceed the average mean price of a house in California.  And these are not just homes, these are also commercial real estate properties which have an even higher value and value to the tax base.

Where did you get your numbers ?

If you had not brought up the budget of California I would not have responded to it.  And how do you not talk about a budget deficit when you bring up the subject of the budget ?

Your oars do not seem to be in the water.  Just sayin'.
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