I grew up in a conservative middle class east coast neighborhood and my mother worked in a bank. She taught us nothing about finance or managing our money. Forget going back in time to kill Hitler, I would take everything I could get my hands on,tie my early self to a chair and force myself to learn. These classes…

Something tells me that some lawmaker’s cousin will be stepping up to provide just such an educational program at a very reasonable rate, thus illustrating how you become wealthy: have lawmakers cut you a sweetheart contracting deal on some bullshit snuck into a law.

Teaching financial literacy to poor people is denigrating? Are you stupid?

Without commenting on the complete inhumanity of this kind of bill (and I’d be very interested to hear how these bills would change if Kentucky lawmakers were only permitted 1 term), increasing financial literacy is a commendable goal, if it weren’t coupled to draconian “bootstrap” policies.

Apparently the line of thinking is that republicans are evil for teaching poor people how to manage their finances because in an ideal world, finances would manage themselves? I have no idea why teaching people financial literacy is bad. I volunteer at local high schools explaining financial basics and the kids…

Wait? Is your take that poor people are likely to be financially literate? Poverty is generational and the US doesn’t provide financial education in public schools. If your parents are shit with money, you are likely to be shit with money too. I volunteer teaching financial literacy at high schools in my area and the…

As has been proven endlessly, financial counseling has little impact when banks disproportionately charge low-balance account holders with relentless and insane overdraft fees.

Yep, banking and opening accounts are stupidly complex. They are full of insane terms and just perfectly designed to screw over poor people.

‘anti-Trump bigot’ is a strange term.

Ideally both should be performed standing

Right? This is beautifully written and incredibly powerful.

Wow. One of the most eloquent (and impeccably-referenced) pieces of writing I’ve seen in a very long time. I hope Ms. Denhollander will continue to advocate for victims’ rights, as she seems to be brilliantly suited for the task. Unfortunately, many had to be hurt for this to come to light, but hopefully some good…

A lot of people are noting the need for EVs to pay their share in terms of road taxes, but I’d suggest that the benefits of lower emissions and less gas demand (and thus lower prices at the pump) should offset at least some of those contributions.  

These added registration fees are nothing more than an attempt, sponsored by oil companies, to suppress the widespread adoption of EVs. EV drivers are already taxed on the electricity they buy to fuel their vehicles. Additional fees at this point are very short sighted, and purely designed to keep EVs off the road. I…

I don’t know about the math for the OP, but for me, the licensing surcharge I pay for driving an EV far exceeds what I would pay in gas taxes. I did the math at one point last year and figure that I am paying about 3X more than I’d pay in gas taxes for a comparable ICE vehicle driven the same number of miles.

Still doesn’t make sense against the $250 fee that Basement Cat mentioned. Georgia’s excise tax is only 7.5 cents per gallon on gasoline. If you figure average annual mileage of 12,000 miles and a decent fuel economy of 30 miles per gallon (I think that’s a fair number since we’re talking about a small…

Aid and diplomatic support is not entering the war...

Kirby’s Law does not, however, prohibit beat writers from publishing previews of the Outback Bowl 364 days out.

I work in the software business and have seen hundreds of engineers displaced and laid off because of cheap, imported “talent”. I’m 100% behind the restriction of H1-B visas. I hate The Orange One, but he’s got this one right... or maybe someone around him has it right... whatever, I’ll take it.