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I don't know exactly where the line is, but I know the US/UK keeping the islands doesn't cross it.

Surprising, really of out character for them.

The United States might be at full employment, but there are millions of people not in the labor force. So if these jobs somehow came back, we might not need an army of Mexicans...…

True. They just steal the IP and beat the competition on the price of the stolen technology. Completely not the same thing.

I think we should bring back involuntary confinement. I have read on the history of this issue and no doubt a lot ugly stuff happened in the past. I think the solutions to these pr…

Are comments like that allowed on HN? I thought the process was to downvote, flag, and remove. Watch what happens to this comment.

Apparently Reagan was Governor 43 years ago. Why haven't the various Democratic Governors and Legislatures since Reagan addressed the problem?

If this is true, I don't think adding points to SAT scores is the best way to address the problem.

I suspect this is what is taught in college these days. I would add punishing people for hard work seems to be more of a Stalin thing.

Back when lamarpye was a young man in college, the Economics 101 teacher explained that we put value on life all of the time. He used the example of eliminating all of the railroad…

Why isn't this flagged as partisan flamebait? I guess attacking the right groups is okay.

Why? I see people on HN indiscriminating shitting on Republicans. Why can't take a shit on an idiot on the left? Is that stated policy of HN that only people on the right can be sh…

Come on. She could have, like, totally said it. Confusing total cost with per year cost is on brand for her. The OP got the information somewhere, shouldn't it be quarantined befor…

Didn't AOC disseminate that information to her minions recently? It has probably infected some of the HDBs on HN.

You could harvest some of the goats for meat. With some being a number less than the natural rate of increase of said goats.

I have heard about programs like this for 20 years.

You didn't understand what I wrote. I am talking about the group of people that were uninsurable because of preexisting conditions. This group of people was used as a reason for th…

Was the ACA the best to address the problem of pre-existing conditions? https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/why-has... "There were supposed to be millions of peopl…

Send better trolls.

I don't under how government pensions are stolen. If the funds are mismanaged, the taxpayer is responsible for making up the difference.

I didn't say uncontrolled growth was better, I said a vacant building tax would slow or restrict new development. Of course there is waste, this is part of the cycle of boom and bu…

Really? Why is it always better? Does this rule only apply to real estate?

That sounds like a great way to slow down real estate development. Make sure there is an additional cost if you oversupply the market.

Really? They are in the best position? I see articles all of the time saying the US has too much retail space: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-retail-apocalypse-has-of... https…