sbsudbdjd

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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
Notably, the bank in question wasn't bothered by restrictions on the property when granting the business loan. Nor did the bank ever have to find out.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
(Native level two romance languages. Very poor French, but I can obviously read it with two Latin languages and 8 years of schooling) Oh I agree that the translator understood the nuance and I agree why "we" was proposed. The tran
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
I do believe it was the Mar a Lago, yes. Trump's valuation was eye watering, I still can't believe it, but the market players agreed to it. The banks agreed to the valuation and under no coercion agreed to lend money with it as co
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
For starters break up their companies. We did it for standard oil, we did it for AT&T.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
massive costs. Turns out people resent having their school board guess what their taxes ought to be.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
Glad you asked. There's the obvious three ways to finance government: - Taxes - debt financing - seignorage The latter two aren't taxes, but people end up paying for the expenses anyway. Governments can also plunder other country&
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
but because the natives (metis) spoke French by the time the Brits got there.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
"English is not spoken here" would work well. The "on" is impersonal and quite different from "nous". I think a translation should reflect the universality of the statement.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
As a separatist-sympathizer, I get it.... but instead of obsessing over teaching French to English kids, you'd think they could set up programs to teach their own kids to speak French! French Canadian is the cruelest sounding language
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
(Raised (fake) Canadian, living in the US) I was in Canada last week and I saw a bunch of (real) English and (real) French Canadians. It dawned on me that the French Canadians resemble "redneck" Americans quite a lot more than the
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
"but if it involves NATO, I would expect that’s being employed" Why would that be your expectation?
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
"Also paying taxes is a public good, even if you’re exceptionally wealthy." Can be a public good if it's spent well. The US has spent how many trillions killing innocents the last 25 years? How many trillion were spent buil
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
Because that detail, like the $100milliom limit are irrelevant details subject to change. (Most) People have the ability to synthesize issue and are worried of the proposal's fundamental core: "Do we want the government to tax unr
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
Admitting they withheld pertinent and embarrassing information from the public to protect the government is far-right?
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
No, I think they believe the alternatives are far worse.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
Ppl's obsessions (on both sides) on taxes is so weird. Governments can fund themselves in numerous ways, not just taxes. Either way you'll pay. The key issue is do we want a federal government expenditure of 20-25% of the economy?
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
The $100M is an arbitrary number. It can go up, it can go down. It will be eroded by inflation and almost certainly not be indexed or indexed to a number controlled by bureaucrats.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
1. Properties are bought/sold constantly around most people's homes. Evaluating a home price is not that hard, compared evaluating how much the remains of the car that Ted Kennedy crashed is worth (I purposely chose this example.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
Great example. The art is very valuable, financially, because people are willing to pay for it. However, absent the market clearing the asset, its value is impossible to objectively evaluate. Even if we had an objective function to evalua
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
That's an estimate to enable business to go on based what the bank is willing to risk. For the proposal to work you would need an estimate good to within less a percent. Or lawsuits galore.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
Few things are easy. Some problems with your proposal: 1. Assumes the asset in question is publicly traded. 2. Assumes the publicly traded asset has a non trivial amount of trade volume 3. Assumes asset price is relatively stable, moving i
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
The US government burns money unproductively like California wild fire through a citrus field. And there are better ways to deal with our oligarchs than braids dead proposals. Start breaking up their monopolies for one.
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
(Aside on why I appear blasé: I grew up riding across a heavily trafficked bridge to get to school that was aggressively but unsuccessfully bombed by the allies. They once found a big one and closed the bridge for a few days while they rem
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by sbsudbdjd 2y ago
They do have a fifth amendment right. Which they can exercise by quitting the force.