Because tracks are expensive as shit to maintain. you can’t just let people on it for free and expect it to remain usable for long

This has nothing to do. The appeal of street racing is the fact that it is illegal.

Even if true, that’s a ridiculous argument. Government built the street so the company building my house has to foot the bill for the driveway?

I get that they mean well, but couching it with

The basis of capitalism is debt. Debt is neither good or bad. It’s how and what you use it for.

This is just silly. For example, let’s say I can buy a car at 1% interest. If I have the money to pay for it, you will say it is bad debt, but if I can take that money and instead put it into an investment that is going to make 1.5% interest over time period of my loan, I am now making money on that money. That would…

“...something which should be a collective, socially guaranteed responsibility....” 

“401ks are definitely not as good as pensions...”

Nope, your ability to retire should not be a collective, social problem. You are not owed the ability to stop working by anyone and the real winners are the people who take sound financial advice and save their money using vehicles that have tax advantages and allow for compound growth.

Losses on paper stay on paper until you sell and make them real.

“Our discounted travel benefit for NRA members could be seen as Delta implicitly endorsing the NRA. That is not the case”

the literal terrorist lobby group at this convention - you know, the one responsible for the actual, real-life deaths of children

Literal terrorist lobby group? Your mother dropped you on your head, didn’t she?

I mentor a kid who is a race and gender studies student at the school

You insist on having a fucking pet and then bitching about the minimal shit you have to do to keep it. You shouldn’t have pets.

Alternet had a great article about what may be the only way to get the Republicans to talk about gun control:

As a single guy who eats a decent portion of food I can easily buy a months worth of food for $120 and that isn’t even me really trying to save money. If you can’t stretch $90 over a month then you aren’t trying hard. You can eat healthy on that amount too, whole chickens and chicken thighs are really affordable as…

There’s no such thing as “good debt.”

I realize there are some people pushing for vote modification based on taxation, I am not that person, one person one vote in my book.