I live in DC.  So, touche

Right. You see crime everywhere, but the people who need to stay in power will tell you that everything is OK.

Or solve the crime problem.  Ridership will go up.  Business will come back.  Rich people will move back, and pay taxes.

They do when they ride a car.

They ride cars.  The fares will include the tax.

I don’t think they have toll collectors for the choppers, so we’re good.

The improvements to mass transit need to start with crime.

Brave. Maybe you haven’t been pushed in front of a train or set on fire yet.

Average joes are riding cabs and Ubers into Manhattan, because the MTA has been made to be unsafe.

It’s maybe not regressive to people who don’t have cars.  But the working class who do...and are too afraid of getting set on fire in the subway...do drive in and are being taxed disproportionately.

The MTA could, maybe, collect fares?

It’s stupid. It’s supposedly to funnel money to the subway. But people don’t want to take the subway because of high crime, and lack of desire to be set on fire or pushed in front of a train.  So, the tax will be paid by people, disproportinately of low income, as the subway is starved of funds because no one wants to…

Supply shortages are part of it, yes.

I’m old enough to remember the days the V6 pony cars made under 200HP.  Those were turds.  The newer V6 ones (though, yes, that’s now nearly 15 years old) were always solid for what they were.

Some exceptions. The 1M and the M2 have the more plebian N series engines, so they’re not as stressed as say an S55 or S58, or dare say any S6x V8. Much simpler, mechanically speaking, but otherwise have the bits that make an M an M.

So you’re arguing inflation has no causation from a very large increase in currency markers chasing a constant (or decreasing) basket of goods or services?

The way this article was written, it seems that the author believes the Radium comes from the process, when in fact it was there all along in the phosphorus ore. That occurs naturally in...nature.

Most of the Japanese OEM stuff is made here.

Money is expensive now, with a big part due to inflation expectations and general business risk.  Auto defaults are not great, for example.  So, credit is tightening.

US-1 is the major highway that runs along the coast. It’s where the track was laid (back when FL was more podunk). US-1 all along the state has some level of population right around it, as people want to live by the coast.