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> the Eugene Police Department claimed searching for records and processing the request would take at least 44,816 hours of staff time and cost approximately $2,484,599.04.

44k hours is ~21 years. Beyond absurd

> lowering taxes in one area requires them to be raised in another, in order to achieve the same level of services.

But where has that actually occurred?

Yes and blue states also tend to have the least reliance on property taxes vs income tax for example. Debating this in the absence of real data is unlikely to be productive. Unfortunately trying to find good data on state/local tax rates is... more difficult than it should be.

The defense industry is already the most socialized industry in the US today. Do we want Raytheon deciding that they want to sell cruise missiles to whoever they want? Of course not. Do we let Lockheed-Martin just sell F-35s to whoever they want? Of course not. In fact it is the US the government goes out and sells them to other countries!

SpaceX only survived because of government investment and intervention. The majority of their income continues to be provided by the US government. Why shouldn't the government cut out the trillionaire middleman?

HN should really have an "ignore posts from this account" feature.

> People did vote for their property taxes to go up when they voted for republicans to cut taxes on billionaires.

> Property taxes automatically goes up to cover the missing federal dollars, that is why property taxes are skyrocketing.

All property taxes in the United States are at the state and local levels, not federal. I don't know what you're referring to.

> The republicans did not stop wars, foreign spending, or wasteful spending, they stopped domestic spending on things regular people needed.

Yes.

> Republicans cut federal income taxes and made it easier for CEOs to earn unlimited tax free money.

Also yes.

> Property taxes have to pay for everything local that back in the 1950s was all taxpayer funded federally because we had a 90% federal income tax bracket and post-1929 financial regulations.

You're losing me again here.

Good. There's plenty of precedent for us peons - property taxes are a wealth tax. Generational wealth at the scale we see today is fundamentally incompatible with democratic principles. Billionaires are a policy failure.

> According to Detwiler, Tennessee did not bother to notify him in advance that he was in violation. Instead, they sent heavily armed men to his place of business, handcuffed him, and took him to jail. His bond was $20000.

Why should white collar crime deserve a lighter touch? This wasn't a no-knock raid in the middle of the night.

The door seal is plastic/rubber and is RF transparent.

> The modern Supreme Court majority contradicts itself from one day to the next. See how they claim it's legal to fire officials of independent agencies like the FTC without cause, but illegal to fire officials of the Federal Reserve without cause, despite the Fed being an independent agency like the FTC. The decision is nonsense, and any organization that makes decisions like this is broken.

Bingo

> That the vast majority of people that "want reform" actually just want a Supreme Court whose majority always sides with them.

That you immediately go here in response to what are universally understood these days as incorrectly decided cases (Plessy in particular) shows incredibly bad faith on your part. Good day to you sir.

If you're not a US citizen then your opinion on my country's court system is completely irrelevant to me. Residence has nothing to do with it.

So I am to understand that you agree with the Dred Scott and Plessy decisions? Bold strategy you're taking there.

> The Supreme Court is the only institution in our system capable of standing up for the rule of law, fundamental rights, and the separation of powers. Just because it is doing a bad job does not mean we should weaken its powers further.

Dred Scott. Plessy. Bush v Gore. Citizens United. The court has worked against our values just as frequently as it has upheld them throughout the history of this country. Fundamental reform is required if we are to avoid these sort of nonsense decisions in the future.