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I should have been more diligent by including suburbs in my comment. Furthermore, you're very right that the water and sewage is even more important than roads, and that overbuildi…

I was saying that you help Them, not the reverse. And if they're completely unclear, but I think they've put some effort into making some statement that just isn't coming across, I…

And that is why people move to cities (yes, I know that MS has cities). What point are you trying to make?

>why OP highlights high tax Democratic States, no doubt that is what they are, but it is not applicable applied to Federal Income Taxes where everyone, regardless of State, is subj…

I recommend erring on the side of helping people understand their misconceptions.

I think the effect of this is most insidious in infrastructure spending. And I'm not talking about major highways, which naturally go through rural and poorer areas while actually …

As a mountain Virginian, let me add that even the coast is a completely different story from the great place where I live.

It's very common (a) for 7% to be an unrealistic return for pensions, given their allocations; and (b) for pensions funds to estimate even higher (8 or 9%) growth rates. I can't sp…

In most places around the country we need substantial decreases in infrastructure projects, scaling down of what already exists, and a much more thoughtful (does it fit the place, …

It's my understanding that he's been putting his own people in high military positions for a while now. So it's not surprising that he could have short circuited the coup mechanism…

Are credit unions not available to you? The only banking fees I've ever paid in my life were foreign transaction fees at ATMs in China and Spain.

If the article is posed as a question, the answer is almost surely no. Having read the content of the question as well, I now have two reasons to come to that conclusion.

Rowing, too. It's substantially harder to win races when your school isn't allowed to import eastern Europeans for that purpose.

Another front page thread tonight has multiple people saying it's 0.4 hereditary at childhood, rising to 0.75 by adulthood. Height is 0.8. I take those numbers with healthy skeptic…

It's like you're dangling a pinata and yanking it away at the last second. If you want to talk about your particular backwoods place, name it with greater specificity. If you want …

It's worth keeping in mind that distributions of males tend to have longer tails than their equivalents for females.

We might have to define success

In my family, we had four boys swimming competitively. So that's club fees for four, plus 20000 calories/day total if you figure each parent at 2k and each kid at 4k. My parents al…

Parent strongly suggests that they don't live in US. The utilities thing was what I found crazy. I was paying about 1-2% of take home pay to utilities at my place in California, de…

So maybe hold the cash and short-term assets you feel compelled to have, and index the market with the rest? It may decrease in value for a time, but if you avoid realizing those l…

I believe Ford actually released very disappointing figures in the past few days, so you can move that from the 'speculative' column to 'concrete'.

The rich get richer, and the poor get children. There's a book I read recently that I thought did a good job looking into the demographic and social shifts associated with women ha…

Because the incompetence of municipal governments (in most of the US) is in overbuilding infrastructure to serve unproductive areas so that maintenance obligations come to consume …

It's most likely that people with authority in the organization refuse to acknowledge the scope of the problem. People get upset about having to reset passwords, so imagine how the…

I recommend searching "sharks eating the internet"so it can become part of your Google history. I searched and found some videos of sharks biting, and some people discounting it.