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Thanks, I am in favor of UBI, but like anything else I think the cost of everything will just rise to eat it up. With various trials going on, we should have better data soon

Time for the rest of the world to step in

I have tachycardia and I'm supposed to avoid caffeine. But I could easily not read the fine print and drink this. Who expects caffeine in their lemonade?

I like to say that in Texas, you never actually own your home.

Right. Examples?

Excellent suggestion. I don't mind people having a second home or a couple of rentals, but more than that is just greed.

I kind of agree, but has this ever been done successfully? It seems to me at some point you disincentivize work to the point it all collapses

This is the way

No, that's county, city, and school district

This is Texas which has no income tax, so they have high property tax. It's about 1% per annum based on the appraised value of the property. Plus if it's a newer neighborhood, you pay an extra amount for the cost of infrastructure until it's paid off, usually called a MUD (municipal utility district) tax. Mine is an extra 1.2% so I'm paying roughly $1200/month in property taxes for my residence.

You refill the tank with bottles of ink. I haven't yet had to buy more bottles after two years. They are inexpensive.

Finding my husband after he passed away in his sleep. He was 56 and had a bad heart, but this was still unexpected and awful. It's been six years and I still struggle with intrusive flashbacks of the scene, though not as frequently as in the beginning.

Epson Ecotank FTW

My son dropped out for a couple of years after his father died and he was failing everything due to depression. He worked a delivery job and paid off loans, then went back and finished. It was easier when he went back -- two years of maturity and working for a living made a big difference. I think if you focus on paying off your debts and saving, you will find in a few years that you are motivated and ready for success.

Yes. It happened to my friends. They both lost their jobs and couldn't pay the property tax on their fully paid-off house, so it was foreclosed and auctioned off.

Oh heck yeah, I do the zoom so at least I don't have to get up earlier and drive there. They keep giving me grief for it, though.

Mine appears to be down. First Service CU

It's racism, pure and simple. In my hometown, rural south, the schools were forced to integrate in 1973. The next year, a private school opened and magically only white kids were allowed in. All the talk about quality of education and school choice boils down to this: conservatives don't want their kids to be in the same building with black and brown kids.

Even more of a shame that other people's children are collateral damage

"Idiot" has not been a medical term for decades. It no longer refers to a particular diagnosis. Nobody who is not an idiot thinks "idiot" in its current incarnation is ableist. See also: imbecile, cretin, crazy, bonkers, etc.