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FortWayneIndiana says

Fuck our minimum wage was under $4 back then too and if you made 40k you thought you did well, make it fair, go back in time and raise my salary retroactiely to what people make today so I can afford to pay what irresponsible people pay. None of us earn todays salaries,

The problems aren't today's salaries vs salaries back then in nominal terms, it's inflation. Back then a single earner could support a family of 4 with the salary you mentioned, so just looking at the nominal salary doesn't tell you much. The problem is that if - for example - people on Medicare could only spend as much money on medical issues as they paid in - their coverage would be extremely limited. Even if you add a 3%-5% yearly inflation adjustment to the payout it would not be able to keep up with the double digits inflation the medical - or housing - sector has experienced for so many years now. And if you spend more than you paid in then by definition you are putting the burden on the future generations.

socal2 says

Again, is your argument that California's middle class isn't paying high enough taxes to Sacramento?

No, it’s that the upper class of landowners is not. No reason your beach house should cost a third in tax of my suburban one, for a hand wavey example.

FortWayneIndiana says

No one held a gun to your head and told you to buy whatever you bought. Every socialist always did the same thing that you are doing, tried to pull everyone down to equal sharing of misery. That is exactly what you are doing. You made choices, you knew what they meant, and yet you complain about how life is unfair. Whose fault is that Quigley

Try reading my post above. I very clearly explained that securing a residence is difficult due to high rents on the one hand and high house prices on the other. I didn’t create this mess, but I had to adapt to it. Bad financial decisions? I had to make a lot of extremely responsible decisions to save up probably five times the price of your house in 1978 just for a down payment. And my payment is affordable for me. That’s not the issue. It’s not about me, and it’s not even about you. It’s about equal treatment under the law, a concept upon which this country was established.

Quigley says

No, it’s that the upper class of landowners is not. No reason your beach house should cost a third in tax of my suburban one, for a hand wavey example.

I don't think the Bay Area has a huge population of old timers sitting it out in their million dollar starter shacks. Many of the homes in California have been bought in the last 20 years when prices were already very high compared to the rest of the nation.

I bought in 2011 and my house is apparently "worth" double what I bought it for 8 years later. Why should my property taxes double? I have not benefited financially and am not getting double the public services from the government. My school district still doesn't offer school bus services and they have to shut the library down 3 days a week because they piss so much money away on obscene pensions.

It is equal. 30 years from now you’ll die in comfort of your home without getting kicked into the street by taxes.

Your problem is entitlement of wanting low rate you haven’t earned.

You think that’s unequal, talk to income tax brackets.

Quigley says

FortWayneIndiana says

No one held a gun to your head and told you to buy whatever you bought. Every socialist always did the same thing that you are doing, tried to pull everyone down to equal sharing of misery. That is exactly what you are doing. You made choices, you knew what they meant, and yet you complain about how life is unfair. Whose fault is that Quigley

Try reading my post above. I very clearly explained that securing a residence is difficult due to high rents on the one hand and high house prices on the other. I didn’t create this mess, but I had to adapt to it. Bad financial decisions? I had to make a lot of extremely responsible decisions to save up probably five times the price...

NOT THE SAME JULY 4TH ARTICLE - THIS IS THE NEW PRICE INCREASE AND DOUBLE TALK

AT&T raises DirecTV Now price—again—after promising lower post-merger bills. Customers can keep plan and pay $10 more or buy new package with fewer channels.

AT&T is reportedly raising the price of DirecTV Now by $10 a month and notifying current subscribers that they will pay the new, higher price starting in April.

DirecTV Now packages today cost $40 to $75 a month before add-ons such as HBO, and current customers will reportedly pay $10 a month more regardless of which package they subscribe to, making the prices $50 to $85. News reports say AT&T is also reconfiguring its channel packages for new subscribers, adding HBO to basic packages while eliminating dozens of channels that aren't part of the AT&T-owned Time Warner Inc. New customers will reportedly be able to choose from two slimmer plans costing $50 or $70 a month.

The price hike and channel reduction are happening despite AT&T promising that its acquisition of Time Warner would lower prices for customers. When the Department of Justice tried to stop the merger, AT&T told a judge in a May 2018 court filing that the merger "will enable the merged company to reduce prices."

But AT&T raised the base price of its DirecTV Now streaming service by $5 per month in July 2018, just weeks after completing the merger. Now AT&T is imposing an even bigger price increase.

DirecTV Now is the online-only version of DirecTV, delivered without a satellite hookup. AT&T had 1.6 million DirecTV Now subscribers as of December 31, 2018 after losing 267,000 subscribers in the quarter, an AT&T earnings report said. AT&T said that many subscribers on heavily discounted plans didn't keep the service when they had to pay full price.

Current DirecTV Now subscribers will be alerted to the $10 increase in email notifications today and will pay the new price on or after April 12, Cord Cutters News reported. AT&T employees provided documents with this information to Cord Cutters News, the article said.

The new prices for existing customers will be as follows, according to Variety: "Current DirecTV Now customers will see their monthly rates increase $10, while they will continue to receive the same channel lineup. Those are Live a Little (65+ channels), rising to $50/month; Just Right (85+ channels), going up to $65/month; Go Big (105+ channels), which increases to $75/month; Gotta Have It (125+ channels), going to $85/month; and Spanish-language package Todo y Más (90+ channels), increasing to $55/month." For current customers, HBO is a $5-per-month add-on.

The new package information was briefly posted on DirecTV Now's website but was then taken offline, Variety wrote.

Smaller channel lineup in new plans
While current subscribers will reportedly continue receiving the same packages with 65+ to 125+ channels, the packages for new subscribers or people who switch to the new plans will have just 40+ to 50+ channels.

"The new packages are DirecTV Now Plus ($50 per month for 40-plus channels) and DirecTV Now Max ($70 per month for 50-plus channels including regional sports networks and other sports channels), both of which will include HBO," Variety wrote. These new packages will "not include any networks from A&E Networks, AMC Networks, Discovery or Viacom," though "both include channels from AT&T-owned Turner and HBO."

Cord Cutters News published a list of all the channels that will be in the Plus and Max packages. The loss of networks will remove channels such as Comedy Central and BBC America from the basic packages.

Channels that aren't in the new DirecTV Now packages may become available in a new, streaming version of DirecTV, but at higher prices than customers pay for DirecTV Now. It's not clear why AT&T would unveil another streaming version of DirecTV that's separate from DirecTV Now. But here's what Cord Cutters News says about the forthcoming option:

You will now have the option to get DirecTV packages as a streaming package, but the pricing will reportedly be the same as the satellite version.

According to our sources, AT&T will be selling a 65+ channel streaming version of DIRECTV for $93 a month, an 85+ version of DIRECTV for $110 a month, a 105+ channel version of DirecTV for $124, and a 125+ channel version of DirecTV for $135 a month streaming online.

The DirecTV satellite service lost 1.24 million subscribers in 2018, ending the year with 19.2 million subscribers.

We've asked AT&T for details on the various price and channel changes and will update this story if we get any new information.

AT&T and other pay-TV providers have generally blamed TV price increases on rising programming costs. In online streaming, big companies such as AT&T have found that it's expensive to compete against Netflix, according to a Bloomberg report this week.

DirecTV already raised prices for satellite customers in January. AT&T also made it more expensive to cancel DirecTV with a new policy to charge customers for the full month after they cancel service, instead of providing a prorated credit for the final month.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/att-raises-directv-now-price-again-after-promising-lower-post-merger-bills/

FortWayneIndiana says

I think there is a bug, you quoted Quigley, but it shows my name up there instead. Weird

Sorry about that. I fixed it. Maybe I quoted Quigley from an entry where you quoted Quigley.

Quigley says

I had to adapt to it



No you didn't. You didn't have to.

Unless you were active duty military and assigned to here, you made a choice to come here, a choice to work here, a choice to live here, a choice to overpay here, a choice to buy-in for a different assessment than your neighbors.

You can make a choice Fix Things For Yourself by leaving, like Nuttboxer and Joshuatrio did on the other page.

Or you can stay here and bitch about your neighbors' taxes which, like my sexuality, is none of your f*cking business. Some or most of them older ones of your neighbors, who you may think are "rich", can only afford to stay because their assessments don't go up to the market rate that the Greater Fools are setting.

I've been sick as fuck for about a week.

Lemme see, cankers, fevers, incoherent thoughts. Are you sure this isn't the final stages of syphilis?

Who the fuck pays $40/month for YouTube????

HeadSet says

incoherent thoughts.

Isn't that just a normal day?

HEYYOU says

Your self absorption

Who's self-absorbed?

what she do? is wells fargo leaving new york yet?

Can dems kick out a legislator for mental illness?

She has surpassed all expectations.

They make Trump look like a rocket scientist.

www.youtube.com/embed/rpd1UMaMGN4

Kids, don't do crack.

are all leftists mentally ill that bad?

Do liberals always need to color code everything? Jazz do you walk around with a color wheel or something all day lonh?

Liberals do all the sucking for and in America.

Rest of us just work.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

SUCK!

HARDER!

AMERICA!

The cult of Foucault, de Beauvoir, gender as a social construct, implicit bias, culturally relativistic postmodern zzzzzzzzz.

Do you take requests? Can your band play any other songs.

These are.... dated.

jazz_music says

Frantz Fanon

Was a literal advocate of insane violence. He literally believed the only way you could "De-colonize your mind" was to embrace endless, unrestrained violence against your Oppressors. It would Free Yourself from Bourgeois White Supremacist evil.

Franz Fanon is the Osama Bin Laden of Leftists.

“Violence is man re-creating himself. ”

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”


The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between the two protagonists. That affirmed intention to place the last at the head of things, and to make them climb at a pace (too quickly, some say) the well-known steps which characterize an organized society, can only triumph if we use all means to turn the scale, including, of course, that of violence.

You do not turn any society, however primitive it may be, upside down with such a program if you have not decided from the very beginning, that is to say from the actual formulation of that program, to overcome all the obstacles that you will come across in so doing. The native who decides to put the program into practice, and to become its moving force, is ready for violence at all times. From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.

http://www.openanthropology.org/fanonviolence.htm

And Fanon specifically called non-violence resistance a tool of Bourgeois Whites, so no bullshit about he was just a "Resister"

... meanwhile, the march of empirical study continues unabated, bringing further irrelevancy to the pap excreted in de Beauvoir's The Second Sex:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929318301245

"The Battle of Algers", a Leftist Propaganda movie, directed by Italian Marxists, was inspired by Franz Fanon.

Here is a scene celebrating the bombing of "Bourgeois Discos"

www.youtube.com/embed/MmHnCQNEQTQ

Note the director carefully focusing on the teenage French kids just before they get blown to bits.

The Left-Islamic alliance is very, very old.

MisterLearnToCode says

a Leftist Propaganda movie

What is interesting now is a vast majority of Italy is become like Poland as far as pushing back against globalist-run immigration.

Maybe you all should read "Camp of Saints" to give you some balance after watching that Marxist movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

Jean Paul Sartre wrote the intro to "Wretched of the Earth". Here is Sartre's opinion about Violence against the French State, circa 1960s.

www.youtube.com/embed/USsUQUTpYyA

Now you know where the SJW Left gets their love of violent revolutionaries from, from their very heroes.

Thank you, AD. On my Amazon list right now.

Or not.

marcus says

Right, like the soybean market is dominated by Farmer Brown and not Archer-Daniels-Midland.

FortWayneIndiana says

are all leftists mentally ill that bad?

Yes. Duh!

Already Meme'd many moons ago

Those words don’t go with Nancy Reagan. Just makes whole post look ignorant and dumb.

I forgot he has me on ignore, so won’t read the color coded thing. Oh well, his loss.

MAGA_BOMBER says

What is Antifa?

Antifa = peace through violence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/27/portland-rose-parade-canceled-after-antifascists-threaten-gop-marchers/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e7b810c9cb60

Portland rose parade canceled after ‘antifascists’ threaten GOP marchers

Antifa interns first prove their skills by terrorizing Republican knitting clubs and bake sales.