Just because you’re irrationally for regressive taxes that disproportionately harm you, it doesn’t make them a good idea or fair.

Regressivity precludes “fairness”. The amount of the tax is not proportionate to the amount of infrastructure you use because the poor and middle-class often rely on older vehicles with lower gas mileage. A gas tax takes that disproportionality and blows it up by charging the poor a higher percentage of their income…

Do what I did for many years as a working drummer: get an EP3. Fits the drums easily, fun to drive, and good gas mileage. It’s funny to see what folks think you need in order to fit a drumset in a car. I mean, maybe Neil Peart needed a goddamn van, but you shouldn’t.

Wow, shots fired at David Tracy.

I really wish folks on both sides of the aisle would acknowledge what their “representatives” in congress already did long ago: deficits don’t matter. This erroneous belief that they do is used as a political bludgeon to justify clawing at shit the vast majority of sensible Americans like: social security, medicare,…

Why is it surprising that a rich asshole would support a regressive tax like the gas tax, which disproportionately hurts the poor? I’m surprised more rich Republicans and Democrats don’t support it. It’s a good way to fix the infrastructure on the backs of the poor and working class without having to worry about…

Dude. In the future, get off the road, spend a few bucks on a motel, and relax.

And since recruiting victories are the only ones Michigan fans care about, this hurts particularly bad. If one of their players loses the September Heisman, they’ll really be in a bad spot.

I toured in the aughts a bit in an indie outfit or two. We sold some song rights to a cigarette company and a clothing company. Never made much. Usually lost money on tours. Drugs were not a big part of our scene at the time. There was plenty of booze and weed after the show and maybe some coke now and then. But I’m a…

What most footbaw people fail to realize: using predictive analysis shows you that what conventional wisdom might consider “risky” can be exactly the opposite.

Fully on board with this, but as a truly cynical person, I have a hard time chalking up the Democrats’ complicity in this gangster capitalism to mere incompetence. Sure, in-fighting is a problem, but the fight is substantive. There is a large portion of the Democratic party that is in favor of just a slightly nicer…

I’m not certain Trump is physically capable of sitting on the ground and then getting back up.

Goddamn that hatch looks good. Who the hell wants a damn sedan that small?

If I’m looking at this chart as a competing automaker, I’m saying, “wow, I guess people really like off-road capable light duty trucks and SUV’s”. Which it appears more and more automakers are doing.

a lot of people I love went to or still go to MSU

You’ve just lost any credibility you had left.

It’s interesting that a bunch of white people have failed to notice that ESPN is pissed because MSU and other schools didn’t want to provide the names of former students who were largely cleared of any wrongdoing. Most of these former students are black. A couple have already lost their jobs as a result of ESPN…

I’m right there with ya on the cold stuff (Michigan resident). But, I must say, when it snows in April, I’m ready to move.