Damnit, I literally bought stamps last Friday. Oh well, I suppose I will take the $0.40 hit. Still cheaper than UPS or FedEx.

That is a sure fire way to get audited. You’re required, under FBAR, to report all foreign accounts. If you don’t, there’s huge penalties.

There is literally no privacy concern here. Stop trying to make a story where there is none. If you’re withdrawing huge amounts of cash on a somewhat regular basis, you’re probably involved in something shady. While the activity generating the cash may not be illegal, you may be trying to avoid income taxes or other…

Again, you understand we can delineate where the cuts are made, right?

I’m not sure why you think the US is any different than the rest of the world. We are not exceptional. We are not different. What works elsewhere can work here but for ignorance.

Except there’s literally (pun intended) an entire world of proof you’re ignoring. Without exaggeration, every single country on the planet proves everything you’ve said 100% incorrect.

You know we can control the budget, right? If we cut military spending, we don’t have to cut benefits. We can cut contract spending, armaments, contractors, campaigns, etc.... I mean, for god sake, the fucking F35 program is how much in the hole, $1.5 trillion? Do you understand that number? That’s $1,500,000,000,000.…

You’ll probably get shit for that comment (assuming people see it), but it’s not exactly untrue. The reason the LIRR is so god damn expensive is the fact that the people who punch your tickets (called conductors, even though that’s associated with the people operate the train, not just punch the tickets) start at…

Single payer is absolutely not a way to preserve high prices. If you look at the simple statistics gathered by the World Health Organization (owing no loyalty to any particular nation), the US has the most expensive healthcare in the world, yet only gets the 37th best results in the world, behind Cuba.

I’d be happy to slash the military budget by at least half and eliminate 100% of the tax breaks and subsidies to fossil fuel companies, then redistribute that tax revenue in the form of single-payer healthcare and taxpayer funded higher education.

That’s virtually all I ever used. I lived directly south of Kenmore off Boylston. Occasionally I’d venture into the city proper, but 99% of my T experience was Green Line, Kenmore and west. Although, they could certainly stand to invest in a few shelters for those days when it’s fucking freezing and you have to wait…

Hahhaa, that’s funny. I agree. My friends who grew up in downstate NY (I grew up in upstate, I was just down there fore school) always hated when I said that if you go into NYC on a hot summer day, you come out smelling like hot garbage. It’s true.

Don’t have to tell me. We need to build new reactors with the newest technology and decommission the older reactors. I’d be happy to eliminate 100% of an federal money or subsidies going to fossil fuel companies and instead give it to nuclear.

Well those in D.C., yes, as well as taxpayers in general. We have this thing, it’s called the Federal Government. They have a budget. That budget contains transportation expenses. I’d suggest that is a good place to start, since, you know, it’s the nation’s capital and working transportation is probably a good thing.

I mainly used the Green Line as I lived next to Fenway and was going to BU at the time. I used the Red on occasion if I was going to the Northend or something like that. The Green Line wasn’t bad, but it was a little rough sometimes. The Red Line, I thought, was relatively nice in comparison.

I was in DC about 2 years ago (almost to the day) and it was my first time using the DC metro. I regularly used the LIRR, NYC Subways, and the T in Boston. I was very impressed with the DC metro, insofar as the looks and how it operated (it totally looks like some kind of spaceport as viewed from the 1980s). Of…

Huh. Imagine that. It’s like if you don’t invest in infrastructure, the existing infrastructure, built 30 to 70 years ago, crumbles to the point where it’s unsafe and unusable.

It’s not my opinion that the NYCLU is wrong. It is a legal fact that they are wrong.

You’re an idiot. Is that fair?

I notice a lot of “me me me” from your comments. What about the rest of us? You keep saying “when I have a kid....” Do you know how much taxpayer money goes to kids? I don’t have kids, I don’t ever intend to have kids. Why should I have to pay for your kid? Why can’t you pay for your kid? I’m assuming you’d love a…