That report begins by saying there isn't enough data. Here is the story of a family that died when they were hit by a car while waiting for a bus at a stop that was not parking protected. nbcbayarea.com/news/local/sa…

Homeless people dont need money; they need solar-powered tinyhomes with working plumbing. This is bad optics because when you give them money it just mysteriously disappears, but when you give them a tinyhome you find out why they do with the resources you give them.

The average household my age (62) has a $1.57 million net worth (including home), but the richest folks skew those numbers up. Looking at MEDIAN (the 50% mark), it drops down to 364k. Half have less than that! The bottom 20% have 40k or less. The bottom 10% have nothing.

Affordable Healthcare Act. In retrospect, it would have been better to allow insurance companies to choose to not cover certain conditions/clients, allowing those individuals to work out care/payment with their providers, instead of pricing all of America out of healthcare… Instead, we were told that was “cruel.” Now, instead of a few people having to work out payment plans with the hospital, we ALL can’t afford insurance or ER trips. More people are pushed onto welfare. The system’s prices inflate. Bureaucracy grows. Service fall. More taxes are required to “fix” this problem.

Awful EC math as well because people leaving California tend to lean right relative to the state so you're pulling R-tilted votes from an election where they don't count and potentially putting them in swing states

The buy, borrow, die strategy lets holders of appreciating assets like Tesla stock borrow against their value via securities-backed loans instead of selling. Loan proceeds are not taxed as income and rates are often low. Elon Musk has pledged large portions of his Tesla shares as collateral for personal loans and the X acquisition financing. At death, heirs receive a stepped-up basis that typically erases capital gains taxes on lifetime appreciation. It is a legal, common approach for concentrated wealth positions.

We've made an unprecedented promise to every union worker who powers our railroads: if you have a job when this merger is approved, you will have a job for life. Because the men and women who keep America moving deserve nothing less.

rent control advocates talk about people who'd like to pay the market rate for their $300/mo West Village 1BRs the way MAGAs talk about immigrants at Costco

The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care. Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers. Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans. A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies. The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more. nytimes.com/2026/06/11/busin…

feudalism is unambiguously a net good for peasants. some estate that’s been in the same family since 1060 having labor obligations set at reasonable levels is not blocking prosperity but is keeping people employed and fed

You're ruining my family's ability to buy and live in a nicer home for *no other reason* than "that deadbeat got here first." How do you sleep at night, knowing that I'm stuck with Nebraska winters and paying $1500/mo for the privilege while some slacker lives on the CA cost for pennies on the dollar? Stop pushing me around "just because I'm a good worker." Let me spend my money where I want to spend it.