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There's no need for rent control. If you want stability, pay a premium and sign a really really long lease.
HARM and DinOR,
I saw that. I didn't understand why I got singled out, since the comment had nothing to do with anything I said.
It must be my sparkling online personality.
The practical reason income taxation cannot likely ever be eliminated is Constitutional. I have been a pure use/sale tax advocate for many years. The unfortunate practical truth, however, is that any elimination or even dramatic flattening or reduction of income taxation will only result in states co-opting Federal taxation with more State taxation. And the Federal gov't cannot legally prevent this without an amendment to the US Constitution, which, by the way, 3/4 of States have to ratify, and very few of those by direct popular vote. So it ain't gonna happen, as much as it would be the right answer. Oh, and the Federal gov't will have lost any "encouragement power" they might have had once they no longer have Federal tax revenues to dribble back to the states in return for their obedience. So again, it won't happen.
allah,
That's exactly why I [very seriously] offerred to buy one ticket. He failed to respond, by the way.
There are some pretty distinct rules about conflict of interest participants in such raffles, when they are legal. You know, the "no employees or family" kind of stuff.
I know I'd lose my $50. But for another $15? (it used to be $15, not sure now) I can at least drag his ass into small claims court for entertainment value. We can all go have beers at the Marin Brewing Company afterwards.
Randy,
I hope your not seriously interested in buying a raffle from him! Whether it is legit or not, buying a raffle from him is going against all principles that us bubbleheads believe in! This kid needs to learn a lesson! Why should he get a bail-out, especially from people who have helped make this bubble and destroy alot of our plans all due to greed. Let this kid take his beating like a man! It's like he went to Vegas and lost his nest egg gambling and then went back to the casino and asked, "Please give the money back, I don't know what I was doing, this is all we have", sob story. He knew the risks, now he has to pay the price. Anyone buying a raffle from him is in my opinion, dumber than him!
I wouldn't buy a ticket if I knew I was going to win!
allah,
I have no intention of "winning". In fact, quite the contrary. I am calling his bluff. He won't sell me a ticket because, if he does, then I'll have standing to demand performance or sue for it. And if I could actually get myself directly harmed by his scam, even for a paltry $50, then I could forward that to his DA with a complaint that he's running illegal real estate drawings for properties he doesn't even really owned.
If I'm lucky, I can catch him trying to beat me up on camera and get it on Fox news. lol.
That's what I thought.....but don't give him $50 regardless, buy your Wife something nice instead, or your kid. He will probably be in jail around this time next year and I know he has alot of fans in jail (if you know what I mean).
Is his raffle legal? If not, is buying a ticket illegal per se?
If I’m lucky, I can catch him trying to beat me up on camera and get it on Fox news. lol.
LOL :lol:
If I’m lucky, I can catch him trying to beat me up on camera and get it on Fox news. lol.
I can tell he doesn't have any balls so this won't happen, but his Wife might! :lol:
(I think it is still overpriced, but it really seems like the asking is lower than other recent places)
Patience SFW, another year or so you will be saying "I can't believe a couple of years ago I thought the price (several hundred thousand more) wasn't too bad, good thing I didn't buy back the!".
btw - I bet that plasma you see in the picture was purchase with home equity!
RE: that house in Cow Hollow
It has power cables everywhere outside.
Peter P,
Yeah, the front page is down but I can still access the contents.
http://greencrabs.blogspot.com/2006/10/baking-books.html
I'm going to do some lateral thinking on this and hope something works.
You just think making people pay 1% if they buy now is unfair to the 1% people compared the people sometimes paying 1.8% on their purchases.
If they don't like having been screwed like that, and now paying $600 a year while the new neighbor pays $6000 a year, they could sell and buy again. :)
SQT,
Thanks, the front page is back on.
I didn't realize the moderation was on either. Oops!
I made both you and Peter P administrators, so please feel free to make changes, add people or do anything else you'd like.
For anyone else interested, my(our) new food blog is at http://greencrabs.blogspot.com/
If you like what you see (or don't like what you see and want to make changes) and would like to contribute (as much or as little as you like), please let me know and I'll email you an invite.
hey, they've already perfected teleportation:
CNN.com - Scientists teleport two different objects
i wonder if you could then use the same technology to photocopy people?
i've been working on a noiseless, rotorless anti-gravity machine in my spare time for a while now... it's working pretty well, it just takes a while to set the spring...
..what?
You're not using the ultra-new 'hamster in a wheel' technology?
That's what my PC runs on. Oh, and a backup using rubber bands.
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Ultimately, most of the money that financed the bubble is owed to the owners of mortgage-backed securities. What are these securities? Who owns them? Do these investors realize the risk?
It would be very interesting to see graphs of mortgage-backed bonds trading. Does anyone know the ticker symbols for these bonds and a free way to look up the graphs?
Patrick
#housing