Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "San Francisco Feels a Tax-Base Chill With First Drop in 25 Years | Seattle Real Estate Podcast" video.

  1. That's EXACTLY where it's headed. And blue-city Democrats will vote for it. Eventually the madness must end. The only question is how bad they can make things before the people rebel against it. It's like 19th-Century medicine, where they'd bleed you with a dirty razor. "That didn't work. We probably need to bleed you some more." That's exactly how Democrats approach policy. "All our policies have failed; therefore, we need to throw MORE money at the problem." No self-awareness. No questioning themselves about the wrong-headedness of their policies, and for a very simple reason: They WIN ELECTIONS with their policies.
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  2. COVID-19 is going to be the excuse for bailing-out all the Democrat shit holes.
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  3. The only solution - and it's not perfect - is to never give the politicians as much power to "do good" with other people's money. It's never good, and they don't care if it's well-spent. In fact, it's better if it's poorly-spent, because it's easier to skim that way.
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  4.  @25Soupy  First of all, the income tax itself is unconstitutional, at least at the federal level. They pulled some bullshit to push that through. Second, the "only property owners" thing is sort of a good idea, but that's a slippery slope. Squeeze people out of their land, and simultaneously take away their vote? I think a more generic "You gotta put in more than you take out" rule would work. People who take out more than they put in are totally incentivized to vote for more free stuff. It reaches well up into the middle class, as all the boomers want their gold-plated health care, but KNOW they can't afford gold-plated health care. Lots of people I know in my generation are terrified they'll lose everything when/if they need a $100,000 or $250,000 procedure/treatment. ZERO understanding of the fact that if MOST people can't afford that shit, then there's no way the government can make up that difference. We see it all across the world, wherever health care is guaranteed. Denial of service, long lines, cheaper doctors brought in from 3rd-world countries. It's all to keep a promise that can't be kept, by liars who'll tell you anything to get your vote and your obedience. And people fall for it, over and over, throughout history. They say history is a big laboratory. And in the best tradition of science, we run the same old experiments over and over, and sure enough, the destruction is perfectly replicable. But then the "lab report" gets memory-holed by demagogues. "Health care is a right!" The minute they make it a right is the minute the quality and availability of care start nosing downward, and costs go up without restraint. Then when they finally DO admit they need to place limits on it, those limits are set by bureaucrats and pencil necks who crippled YOUR ability to pay and now deny you service, outright.
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  5. Welcome to San Francisco! To save time, just give all your money to the friendly city councilwoman holding the bag. You're insured, right?
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