Can you imagine the bloodbath this comment section would have looked like when leaded gas was phased out?

Your terminology isn’t great either.

Don’t be ridiculous. An individual doesn’t have to know about all of those things... That’s why professionals exist. Your argument is really that an electrician can’t figure out how to wire in a charger or what charger your panel can handle? Again, don’t be ridiculous.Does an individual homeowner have to know the…

Also,... All the oilfield guys seem to neglect to mention that oil being above a certain level creates tons of work in the O&G sector.

Also,... the assumption that most car salesmen are actually well versed (or have historically been well versed) in the product they are selling is fairly ridiculous too.

Profit motive is a perverse incentive for healthcare,... That’s all it is. Maximizing profit creates a system that is minimally functional and resilient. Empty hospital beds and idle equipment and staff costs money and doesn’t generate revenue, so it hurts profitability. So you end up with a system that covers 80-90%…

Not much to do at this point but go get your booster, wear masks when you’re out and stay home if you’re feeling sick (like we should have been doing all along)...

Pretty soon, this machine will be gone (hopefully). Yes, I’m selling one of my most reliable cars

Immigrants (who the GOP hates) aren’t coming here so that they can refrain from getting the vaccine. They can stay in their own countries if they want to not take the vaccine, because many of them don’t have easy access...

You pay them more so that they make more when it’s good, which allows them to weather the bad times. You pay them more so that they can afford to eat, house themselves and maintain their equipment all at the same time without working 80+ hours a week...

And those increases are almost entirely coming from energy and food...

You can absorb cost increases by reducing compensation at the top, but yes,... Some things are going to cost more. Maybe we should learn to live with less crap.

The solution I found was to not get people gifts if I don’t want gifts from them... They may have gotten offended one year, but the next year the problem was solved. We stopped exchanging junk that neither of us really wanted.

Anyone who can invest has their daily needs met and can afford to use their surplus for other thing,... You drastically overestimate how many people are truly in that situation. It’s a luxury.

It’s not as simple as she makes it out to be. Depreciation on the structure of a business property is spread out over 39 years. The structure ages over that period and would need significant refurbishment or replacement.

I would say that the justification for raising these caps would be that they were probably included explicitly to penalize people in states with high property values (that are typically Dem states).

Yep,... she earned that money. She may have been doing something that some people don’t find valuable, but to my knowledge she didn’t come from money and she did a thing that people wanted to pay her for. Arguments could be made that the internet economy that she uses to make money was built on exploitation in many…

Cool words,... that’s not the point...

I’d be interested to see estimates of what portion of time that pickup trucks are on the road are actually spent towing.

Feels like you haven’t actually read anything about the proposal.