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@AverageJoe1 saidclean it up Joe. You pretend to care where your tax dollars go, but you focus on the tiniest fraction.
Clean up giving a bunch of college graduate losers their loan relief, and you might get my attention. I'd think you could see your way to tell them to grow up and live up to their contractual promises, obligations. Didn't you? Is there some reason these losers are different than you and I were, growing up?. I am big on contractual promises, even cavemen had contracts. ...[text shortened]... out Sonhouse. Have you seen his spew lately? I bet he is a sweetheart and is just playing with us.
To clean the grift, start with the bigger items.
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@AverageJoe1 saidMortgage interest is not deductible for renters. The homeless can't buy houses and flip them.
Mtg interest has always been deductible. It is across the board, everyone does it.
I buy houses to flip them,I don't know what you mean about hedge funds. Anyone can today plan to buy a house, paint it, and flip it for a profit.
What you don't seem to realize is that the system is set up to help people ONCE they have some money together, not before they have money.
ONCE you have money for a down payment and get approved for a mortgage THEN you can deduct the interest.
ONCE you have good credit, THEN you can borrow to buy and flip a house.
The system is set up to help the rich, not the poor.
Why is that? It's because in America, we believe that riches are a sign of personal virtue. The rich are "good, hard-working Americans" while the poor are "no-good, lazy loafers." You want help? FIRST, get rich. That proves you are worthy. Then you will get lots of help.
So the rich get tax breaks (and more, and more, and MORE tax breaks, the richer they get!) and bailouts if something goes wrong because they get "too big to fail." But the poor? That's THEIR fault - so the poor get nothing.
In America, wealth is equated with "being a good person." There are no "good" poor people. To be poor, you must have done something wrong - like drugs or being an illegal immigrant or committing a crime or getting sick (your fault) or too much Home Shopping Network - SOMETHING!
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@Wajoma saidI'm not the one pretending to be a libertarian.
It's no news that anything the military buys costs more, a house built on base versus a similar house in the private sector can be 5 times the cost, but you're making an ijit of yourself riding this one, not all floating docks are created equally and no doubt 355 million is not the most expensive floating dock built either.
Embarrassing for you. You justify spending 1000x what something costs because it is what it is.
Buy a floating dock in Gaza or 13,400 starter home down payments for Americans struggling to make ends meet in an inflationary economy?
A libertarian would say neither. That's not you.
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@Wajoma saidHigher taxes reduces inflation.
You state what the problem is (i.e. inflation) then come up with wild ideas to fix the problem that do not involve addressing the cause of the problem. The average person knows having your money sitting in a bank does not keep up with inflation, I agree, they look for some safe way to protect their wealth from the tax known as inflation and about the safest is property, this ...[text shortened]... er more whacky theories and more taxes.
The problem is inflation, the cure is reducing inflation.
@wildgrass saidwildgrass blurted:
I'm not the one pretending to be a libertarian.
Embarrassing for you. You justify spending 1000x what something costs because it is what it is.
Buy a floating dock in Gaza or 13,400 starter home down payments for Americans struggling to make ends meet in an inflationary economy?
A libertarian would say neither. That's not you.
"A libertarian would say neither. That's not you."
Can you quote me saying it should be one, the other, or both? If not would you like to retract, I won't hold my breath, people caught out so blatantly around here just close their eyes and block their ears, in other words they lie to themselves.
I was correcting you on your puerile assumption that the floating dock purchased by the US military is the same as the one you buy on amazon. But you went and did it again so there's no hope for you. There are floating docks that can receive a canoe and others that can receive ships.
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@spruce112358 saidI was replying to this:
I agree that government should not inflate the currency. Or, that deflation and inflation should balance out.
I don't think inflation's why most people buy houses, though. They buy them to live somewhere.
Do you think that should be a protected right? What does it mean to have the right to live, but only as a nomad? Many places out West are now passing ordinances s ...[text shortened]... rs, but they can't park the car and sleep in it. The police knock on the window and move them along.
spruces said:
"In the US, but also worldwide (especially in large cities), many properties stand empty."
Then the very post after your rebuke in the attached quoted post you said this:
"We have about 653,000 homeless in the US and about 15.1 million vacant homes."
You're the one saying people are investing in property to protect themselves from inflation and I agreed, but your knee jerks immediately. Obviously I'm not suggesting people buy houses then rent the house next door to live in, I'm talking about the investment property 2nd, 3rd house
Yes I think people should be able to buy as many houses as they like, that is to say, if you want to sell your house, and someone wants to but your house it's none of my business as to why you're selling and why they're buying. I do not have the right to step between you and the buyer to assess his motivations by some standard I pull out of my ass then to punish him based on that whim.
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@Wajoma saidA libertarian: govt should not spend money.
wildgrass blurted:
"A libertarian would say neither. That's not you."
Can you quote me saying it should be one, the other, or both? If not would you like to retract, I won't hold my breath, people caught out so blatantly around here just close their eyes and block their ears, in other words they lie to themselves.
I was correcting you on your puerile assumptio ...[text shortened]... hope for you. There are floating docks that can receive a canoe and others that can receive ships.
Wajoma: 355 million is not the most expensive floating dock built
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@wildgrass saidAre you seriously trying to pass your post off as a response to this?
A libertarian: govt should not spend money.
Wajoma: 355 million is not the most expensive floating dock built
"Can you quote me saying it should be one, the other, or both? If not would you like to retract, I won't hold my breath, people caught out so blatantly around here just close their eyes and block their ears, in other words they lie to themselves."
You're a weak sniveling p.o.s.
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@Wajoma saidA libertarian: govt should not pay that much for a dock. If critical, maybe buy it on Amazon for a million times less.
Are you seriously trying to pass your post off as a response to this?
"Can you quote me saying it should be one, the other, or both? If not would you like to retract, I won't hold my breath, people caught out so blatantly around here just close their eyes and block their ears, in other words they lie to themselves."
You're a weak sniveling p.o.s.
Wajoma: stop sniveling, that's just what things cost.
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@wildgrass
All well and good but there has to be a difference between a dock built for a one ton boat and one for a 10,000 ton boat don't you think? I get the strange feeling you won't find one like that on Amazon.
That said, 1/3 of a billion seems a wee steep for what they are doing. I don't know the details though, do you?
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@wildgrass saidCan you quote me saying it should be one, the other, or both? If not would you like to retract, I won't hold my breath, people caught out so blatantly around here just close their eyes and block their ears, in other words they lie to themselves.
A libertarian: govt should not pay that much for a dock. If critical, maybe buy it on Amazon for a million times less.
Wajoma: stop sniveling, that's just what things cost.
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@sonhouse saidIt's made from old barges linked together, which retail for $50,000. Take wajoma estimate that military stuff is 5x more and that's $250,000 each. From photos it looks like maybe 40 of them were used. Add a million dollars for labor, and we're at $11 million.
@wildgrass
All well and good but there has to be a difference between a dock built for a one ton boat and one for a 10,000 ton boat don't you think? I get the strange feeling you won't find one like that on Amazon.
That said, 1/3 of a billion seems a wee steep for what they are doing. I don't know the details though, do you?
What's the rest for? Transport? Come on. Someone got real rich off this.
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@Wajoma saidOh you want an apology? You took no position at all only criticizing me for raising the issue. Pathetic.
Can you quote me saying it should be one, the other, or both? If not would you like to retract, I won't hold my breath, people caught out so blatantly around here just close their eyes and block their ears, in other words they lie to themselves.
I retract.
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@wildgrass saidlol, I could buy 1 million lego floating docks for 11 million
It's made from old barges linked together, which retail for $50,000. Take wajoma estimate that military stuff is 5x more and that's $250,000 each. From photos it looks like maybe 40 of them were used. Add a million dollars for labor, and we're at $11 million.
What's the rest for? Transport? Come on. Someone got real rich off this.