Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "John Stossel" channel.

  1. You're censored because you stated it was an actual "problem" instead of shrieking that it's a "CRISIS!!!!" How DARE you!
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  2. I realize that I'm late to this clip, but you missed the biggest "invisible" rip-off: the massive and expensive improvements to infrastructure necessitated by a new stadium. Streets, water & sewer lines, and emergency services all require gobs of cash to accommodate the new structure and many of these costs will snowball over the span of many years. Also, most of these places are not built anywhere near rail transit, creating new traffic peaks which can cascade across the region during otherwise non-peak periods. At least in DC the owner of the basketball team agreed to build the new arena downtown, atop an existing Metro station. That might have been worth a mention.
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  3. Imagine your faith being so unshakably strong that you become overwhelmed by hysteria and murderous evil at the slightest questioning of its tenets.
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  4. Professor Eyebrows is emitting supervillain vibes. He's up to something. Did you search his surroundings for sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads?
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  5. When I was in college in the 80s, you had to suppress your tears until you got back to your dorm or apartment (or drown them at the bar). Kids today are worthless and weak!
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  6. CONGRESS called it a "passive activity." That's the kind of nonsense you get when attorneys (instead of accountants) write tax laws.
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  7. The "entertainment" industry clearly suffers from an incurable autofellatio fetish.
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  8.  @brianjamds6617  Thank you for your concern, but I'm doing well. Only one of my four properties has a mortgage (it's less than 7% fixed-rate and will be paid off completely within two years), the tenants pay their own utilities, and real estate prices are still skyrocketing here because of all the people fleeing failed Leftist policies by moving to less insane states. My state is doing well - very few empty shelves and even gasoline is still less than $4.60/gal locally. Allow me to correct your last statement: It may be the worst time to BUY property but it's a fine time to OWN property, especially if 3 of the 4 were bought during the 20th Century (as they were). The 4th I bought last summer when the stock market was still riding high in order to shelter capital from Bidenflation and the Biden-inspired market drop, which I saw coming (as it did). It appears that I am better at this than you. C'est la vie.
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  9. You're wrong. The correct contraction is 'splode.
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  10. "If you get a salary then it's not a nonprofit by definition." -- That is NOT true! What defines a non-profit is that any surplus of revenues over expenses cannot be distributed to investors or employees. There is NO rule forbidding paid employees.
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  11. Tips were ALWAYS taxable income. "Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, gross income means all income from whatever source derived" -- 26 United States Code Section 61.
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  12. "Why does the USA try to be the only white nation without free health care?" -- Why does every other nation feel entitled to criticize our health care system while, at the same time, taking full parasitic advantage of all the advancements in pharmaceutical and medical technology that our imperfect system makes possible? Pay a fair price for the breakthroughs that OUR citizens subsidize or shut up, you damned freeloaders.
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  13. Since I can't eat that stuff, watching Stossel go to town on Cocoa Puffs, Mountain Dew, and Twinkies is vicariously fulfilling in a way that I would never be able to adequately describe. I finally understand the appeal of ASMR videos.
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  14. Which video did you think you just watched? Asking for a friend.
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  15.  @Sam.From.Wonderland  That was ONE person. It seems a bit extreme to break 335 ratified treaties (on top of the other 15 ratified treaties that our government broke in the 18th & 19th centuries) in response to ONE whiny protester. Is a deal a deal, or isn't it?
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  16. A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already built a house in the woods.
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  17. "A Backpack Full of Hammers" would be an AWESOME name for a band!
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  18. Even the IRS only takes what you owe them. Huh.
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  19. I wish I was shocked by this.
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  20.  @brianjamds6617  Considering that the real estate's appreciation was never quantified, your criticism is completely meaningless and should be utterly disregarded.
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  21. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that teacher's unions exist only to make sure that teachers do as little work as possible.
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  22. Wait just a damned minute! Are you saying that developers in New Jersey, of all places, engage in bribery and other illegal activities? NO WAY! I am SHOCKED, I tell you, SHOCKED!
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  23. "Care-uh-mell" is the candy pronunciation.
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  24.  @BillPigg  Only the parenthetical in your second sentence. The rest of it stands.
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  25.  @BillPigg  I'm a writer. I know writer words.
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  26. Your perspective is incorrect. It's not a national issue here. The finer elements of transportation funding allocation are usually left up to local governments and/or regional MPOs. For example, Houston is a nightmarish hash of bad zoning and no zoning while Austin has Traditional Neighborhood Design parallel codes, traffic calming, bike lanes, roundabouts, and diverging diamonds.
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  27. Just like corporate meetings, these "training" sessions are events where Minutes are kept but hours are lost.
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  28. "GO SCREW YOURSELF, SCOUNDREL!" -- An excellent argument, that. Can you provide a citation? A citation other than "because my feelings," that is? There are countless hours of video evidence of the Venezuelan catastrophe and hundreds of commentaries by actual Venezuelans right here on YT explaining what has been happening.  Do you have anything besides the emotional tantrum of a toddler to counter that? Of course you don't...
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  29. Another positive, then!
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  30. @ I would, but I won't be able to un-see it. 😂
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  31.  @sandyjuntunen4088  Sandy, you so completely misread the OP's post that you reversed what she actually said. Try again after engaging your reading comprehension circuit.
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  32.  @jamesmori7859 Peak oil actually happened. It just means that we'd already picked the lowest-hanging fruit from known reserves. More reserves have since been discovered, but that doesn't invalidate the concept -- it just shifts the timeline. Fracking and oil sands are evidence that we're post-peak oil because they're far more expensive extraction methods, which is exactly what peak oil postulated. It NEVER said "this is when we will run out of oil," it said "this is when it gets more costly to extract."
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  33.  @gregcarlson8438  That's not what "passive" means in the tax code. If you have that many rental units, you may want to have a conversation with your CPA to ensure that your rental activities are correctly classified and that your losses are not improperly limited. If you don't have rental losses, the PAL limitation rules probably don't impact you.
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  34.  @gregcarlson8438  That's EXCELLENT, not unfortunate! You only pay income tax on those profits - no Self-Employment Tax.
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  35.  @gregcarlson8438  $112K for 2022, actually, but the exclusion only applies to foreign earned income, which means you'll probably have to get a foreign job to realize the benefit from the FEIE, which will probably subject you to foreign taxes and will NOT count toward US Social Security benefits. Of course, you might also qualify for a foreign tax credit (which may or may not help).
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  36.  @gregcarlson8438  Foreign earned income! Consult your own CPA before making life-changing economic decisions of this scale.
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  37.  @masondickerson9466  LOL
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  38. It's a start!
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  39. The smug is strong with this one. There is NO plant that humans eat that we have not genetically modified. Do NOT listen to a ginger who is too stupid to stay out of the sunlight and has modified herself into a melanoma factory! I'm watching this hysterical toddler while eating a bucket of genetically modified plant matter with extra gluten. Delicious!
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  40. The "Environmental" groups are NOT stupid and they are NOT "anti-capitalist." They are, in fact, PRECISELY the opposite of those things. Allow me to translate what Generic Blonde Lady was not so clearly telling you: "If ideas like humane harvesting and synthetic substitutes actually eliminate the problem, then people will stop donating money to our organizations and I and my cohorts will be permanently unemployed because whining for dollars is literally our only skill." I'm glad I could help and you're all quite welcome. :-)
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  41. The guy in the green shirt GETS IT. Our elected officials? Not as much.
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  42.  @crissd8283  Yellowstone isn't close to major population centers, so it's not a great place for power production. Basically, ANYWHERE west of I-25 is fair game for geothermal. Anywhere east of it, not so much. Also, dry holes (tapped out oil wells) can be adapted to geothermal power production. One problem is that the brine used is very rough on the hardware, which makes geothermal extremely maintenance-intensive.
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  43. The bookies always get their vig off the top.
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  44. What if he was just wildscaping his lawn?
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  45.  @WhatsY0UTUB3  Never underestimate the capability of precisely applied stupidity.
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  46. America's nuclear energy stands among the safest in the world. Even our older reactors have excellent safety records. More nukes, fewer kooks!
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  47. Kendi and D'Angelo are grifters, plain and simple.
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  48. Great. Another TV doctor who knows everything about viruses and vaccines while knowing NOTHING about history or people.
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  49.  @Sam.From.Wonderland  Fair point. Twenty bonus points awarded for proper use of the word "bombastic." 🤣
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  50. Just to clarify matters, Brightline and Brightline West have received at least $3 billion in federal grants.
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