When unions become multi-billion dollar entities, like the UAW, are they really any different with regard to corruption than a corporation? Do they really have the employees best interest in mind when the companies that bribe the UAW pay their employees $7 less per hour than their competitors? Should the UAW be…

You are right. It would be rude to go to France and demand a pickup truck to drive around in. When in Rome, do as...

I would add more space for the driver. As people have gotten bigger, the space for the driver in a lot of cars has gotten smaller.

I don’t know why the contactless didn’t catch on the in US. I mean I had it in all of my cards 10 years ago. It was great, but they did away with it when I renewed my cards.

Up until the 1950s the US still had many sharecroppers, so it is not like it has been gone for long. However, this is nothing like that. 

Pretty sure the article should have said they are building another city. They already have Toyota city. They have their own sports stadiums and everything.

We have an HOA meeting coming up. I should ask their opinion on yard art like this.

Delta hedges their bets by giving themselves tons of extra time for arrivals. They generally list the arrival time 30-60 minutes after the actual expected time. That way even if they take off 15 minutes late, they still have room to make it on time. Then they brag about getting you there early.

Isn’t this the same kind of short sightedness that makes the turnpikes lose money in general. I mean yes you get a dollar/car or whatever, but along the Mass turnpike there is absolutely no economic development because they have hardly any exits. At least with interstates there are billions in economic development,…

I always found it weird the way there is no good way to get from Boston to Worcester. They somehow didn’t connect the turnpike to the second biggest city in New England.

You mean glacerization was averted by public awareness even though it was later proven wrong? Nuclear war would have happened if it wasn’t for public awareness? Honestly, you sound like one of those boomers who go on and on about how Woodstock changed the world.

From the people I know that bought the new Ram, I would probably still go Chevy. They seem to have a lot of problems. One guy bought one and it died before he got off the lot. He service department told him they had a bad batch of computers from the factory, and they decided to just install them and let the dealers…

Aaron,

In Boston, the subway often takes longer than the car. Of course, the above ground sections of the T can be outran on foot.

The thing about boomers is that this is their 4th or 5th apocalypse they have had to deal with, and none of them panned out. In the 60s it was nuclear war. In the 70s it was glaceraization (at the time, ice sheets were growing so fast they thought we would all be under ice by now). Then the ozone layer. The list goes…

Is it that they refuse or can’t afford it? I remember adding a few miles to one of the lines was going to cost over a billion dollars.

Oh Boston. Where they order new train cars and still owe money on the ones they bought 30 years ago.

The problem is cities in the US can’t seem to figure out how to do rail at a reasonable cost. It cost Boston a couple of billion dollars just to add a few miles of above ground rail to one end of their already existing network. The map you just showed, if done in rail, would cost over a trillion dollars in the US.

50% of the country doesn’t pay taxes already, in fact many get paid credits. The next 40% of earners, 50%-90%, account for 20% of the tax revenue, and the upper 10% of earners account for 80% of the tax revenue. This seems very similar to what you are proposing. 

1. Most countries don’t use tax programs to give people more money in a rebate then they paid in taxes, or even if they did not pay taxes they can still get a ‘rebate’, but the US does for many people.