Would be okay, if it wasn't required to be subsidized by california via the state- and the result of the failed experiments be parked at other peoples doorsteps (as greyhound homeless or superfund sites) all the time.
They are referring to how California residents contribute more in federal tax dollars than they get back, making it a donor state. Florida gets more federal dollars than the residents contribute, which did surprise me, but it appears to be the case. However, it is not necessarily California residents subsidizing Florida. The residents of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts all contribute a significantly greater positive balance in federal taxes than do residents of California.
The top donor states do vote blue, but I'm not certain this is a causal factor in the strength of their economy. The consistent donor states of Texas, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California have all had strong economies for the last century regardless of who has been in power.
Those donor states, except Texas, have strong economies because they're basically where smart people are concentrated: those states all have premier universities, and various industries (like tech in CA, pharma in NJ, finance in NY, etc.) that depend on highly-educated "knowledge workers". Texas is rich because of natural resources (energy) mainly.
Because smarter people have migrated to these states, they vote Blue, because the Red party these days is basically the party of anti-science, uneducated religious nuts. University graduates overwhelmingly vote Blue in the US. (Also, there's a high inverse correlation between education and religiosity.)
Keep in mind, it wasn't always this way: not that long ago, the Republican party was the party of fiscally-conservative pro-business and other upper-class people (and the Democratic party was the pro-labor and other generally lower-class party), so these states frequently swung Red. Not any more.
PCBs are still ever present because they were banned but not removed from use. The result is over the decades since the ban, there were spills and other contamination.
Removing "flame-retardants, plasticizers, paints, caulking compounds, sealants" from buildings seems overreach, you'd probably have to raze them. They didn't even do that for asbestos or lead paint.
I was homeless, then working below minimum wage for about that long. I now make 750k a year.
Don't write off the poor as broken, help them achieve to their ability. Most poor folks aren't poor because of bad choices, they are poor because of systemic issues that make life harder and more expensive. If we lift these people out of that hell scape, they'd be able to do so much more.
my bank, for instance, would reorganize my deposits and debits to maximize overdraft fees. I would put cash in, then go use my debit card later in the day, but the debit would process first. Then I would overdraft, then the cash would be applied, then the next purchase would overdraft. Despite the first operation being putting cash in the bank that would cover. My bank also had a 0% interest rate on my savings account because "we made a mistake".
You will also get rid of any trust from foreigners and, thus, any future foreign investment.
Sometimes keeping your word is more important that attainment of ideological purity. China can survive such a loss of trust, because it is a Behemoth of a nation and can live somehow regardless. Honduras much less so.
(I am saying this as a citizen of a small country who doesn't like all our commitments either, but the alternative of just going back on our word would be fairly detrimental to us long term.)
Was there really ever any trust, except for the - we can get away with bribing people and steal stuff as fast as we can carry and can get away with it? A dishonest merchant will only meet dishonest people.
You make two entrances - one is "backstage and delivery guys" - thats where the people you want get in- the other is for insta-noodles and hipster-replacement folk, who want to wait all night and then get rejected in some viral video..
> Where there is affordable housing, there be musicians doing brave new things instead of worrying about rent and rapping rants about gentrification.
So I am not a techno aficionado, and I'm curious what the state of Detroit techno is now. It seems like it should be more notable (maybe it is and I'm not in the scene to know) given the history and cost of living.
I regret the US turning away from house and techno, compared to Europe.
The percentages of democratic citizens assimilated into china would reach quiet a interesting percentage with taiwan assmiliated into the mainland. You can censor and propagandize all you want, but people who travelled or know better, just wont blieve a word of it happily ever after. One wonders what the internal "knowing" citizen rate is by now in china.
The party relies on divide and conquer of uniformed fools. But the fools are in the minority by now - and the divide and conquer is one sneaky trustfall decentralized communication platform away from never working again.
I don’t know… that’s kind of a negative way to see it. but I mean those auto DMCA takedown services already kind of do something like this right? Why shouldn’t IP violation checking as a service be a real thing that open developers can access? I think your framing of this is wrong. More empowerment and legal protection and enforcement for developers that underpin the ecosystem is a good thing.
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