I think picklesandbeats has you there. Helping children develop rational arguments and helping them reach a moral and ethical conclusion is important. But some things don’t really require any ambivalence.

I think this is news because - especially in Texas - there is this push to provide a “more balanced” education by leaving out - ignoring - or completely changing history by removing a ton of context, to the detriment of minorities. And even doing things like positioning creationism as a valid opposing theory to…

That is to say, when tax rate progressiveness is ratcheted up inflation tends to go up too. When tax reform is passed and the progressiveness comes down, so does inflation.

When you’re positing a 1:1 relationship between two complex economic forces - it’s rhetoric. I can show charts that measure amounts of rainfall and then some that measure temperature and say that rainfall is causing the seasons. They may be related, but that’s a pretty far-fetched conclusion to make.

But your rhetoric is pretty heavily implying there’s only one outcome to more money in circulation.

You’re making a huge leap there and creating a single correlation where there are many. Ultimately taxation and rise in minimum wage have inflationary impact, but there are also short and medium-term gains to be had. There are also a ton of factors that lead to inflation, up or down. Even ORGANIC wage growth leads to…

You traded a 66 corvette for an M3?

Yeah. Like beer.

So this will cost as much as the current M3?

Was he actively assaulting a bystander or walking into traffic? And even if he were walking into traffic, he’s surrounded by cops who can also act as a buffer by managing traffic. Once the situation was pretty contained there were 100 different approaches that didn’t involve punching the guy into submission. No one is…

Not only that, but many health plans start outside of the calendar year but reset their deductibles on the calendar year. So basically unless you plan your pregnancy to run completely within a calendar year, you have 2 deductibles on a single person.

Yes, approaching someone who is naked and walking down the street by tackling them and beating them physically seems like a totally rational course of action.

I think the GT4 will have a second gen. So you’d be better off with the 993.

Locking in a -1000 cash flow at a cost of 6% per year for 12 years is insane and dumb. Especially given that a GT4 isn’t limited edition. They’re making another one. So it has a very miniscule chance of doing anything other than depreciating. It may never hit rock bottom like a Cayman S, but it’s not an air cooled…

“On hand wealth.” Most rich people I know aren’t that liquid, but have substantial lines of credit they can reach at a moment’s notice for much lower rates than 6%, because they have collateral.

I’m hardly the person that should be arguing with that premise. I use my car payment money for an air-cooled Porsche, and I drive a 20 year old 4Runner daily that I got for 5 grand and I put about a grand of preventative maintenance into and a ton of sweat equity into. But my terms are a LOT more favorable. I pay 2.5%…

Average returns were around 7% over 20 years, over 12 years it’s really a lot more volatile. Borrowing money vs cash is smart at 3 percent. Not at 6.

Lol - What?!

You and Tom are making two really big assumptions here. One is that these loans are set up for rich people. And while you’d have to make a decent salary to sport an 829 car payment and 20k down, I associate “rich” with a person that has on-hand wealth, not just a good salary, and the terms of this loans imply the…

Not in the market really - my wife has a pretty new GTI and I like old trucks and I’m hiding a sports car in my garage. But I’ll let my dad know they made changes because i think he’s trading his in.