I love that I got you to be left and right in the same post. You're making some weird argument to win by any means necessary. Great job buddy...
It's almost as if I have a fairly consistent set of beliefs and don't pick and choose based on party ID...
That's right why should people have their own living arrangements. Everyone single should live in SROs, with roommates, parents, or maybe in a car. Dignity is not for the single or poors.
What country can you name where this exists?
I can actually get behind the notion that people midway through their careers should be able to afford a studio apartment and still have money left over. But paying people making over 100 grand is a poor way of accomplishing that goal. You're better off adjusting the EITC or probably dozens of over policies before you get to let's just pay most of the country 2K.
I am not your accountant I don't need to itemize shit for you. Suffice it to say you're talking very confidently about things you don't know nor understand.
You don't need to be an accountant to realize that making $115K as a single adult with no kids is more than enough to make rent, put money in your 401K and even save a little. Even in the heart of Silicon Valley.
You claimed it was complete BS that people in the IE have comparable or worst commutes than the Bay Area. It's almost as if you don't know what you're talking about and now don't want to admit you were wrong.
And yes, commuting sucks but it's common in nearly every major metro area. The Bay Area's commutes are in line with other expensive cities and frankly better than someone living in the IE and commuting into LA or OC to work every day.
Oh I don't know...open Google and you'll get instant results. ....Europe has same deals in some cities...
You're the one making the claim, prove it. You have a tendency to read headlines and then butcher the actual story.
Such a disingenuous position. People live where they were born, have their families, support systems,etc...this is yet another delusional out of touch comment from you...
That's ideal, but the reality is people move where they need to go ecoomically. Always has been, always will be.
What's actually out of touch is claiming that people who make $116,000 a year are somehow low income and as much in need of stimulus checks as the rest of the country. Let me break down how idiotic that argument is.
If you make that income, you are literally the upper class:
-60th percentile in your MSA
-79th percentile in California
-Top 20% of income in the entire country
Are you so retarded you don't understand relative cost of living? Living in Santa Clara/San Mateo/San Francisco/Marin/Etc County in CA is different than living in Central CA or especially elsewhere like Midwest, South, etc...you're being bad faith here...
I'm perfectly aware of COL. You seem completely obvious to the fact that you are upper middle class, at worst, if you make $116K as an individual in Santa Clara's MSA. There are millions of people in your county who actually get by on under $75K who need help far more than those making close to double that.
And? Except the money is being handed out not to people who actually contributed to those taxes but at random by arbitrary income level ...it's yet another stimulus check but that fails to account for the COLA differences. You have very similar living standards at 50-75k in the South and Midwest as you do at 100-150k in Bay Area.
What part of the country do you think has half the COL as Silicon Valley?
And the fact that you can't even answer the simple question proves how little you know. I asked because you're proposing spending probably double what we've taken in via tariffs. Where do you propose getting the money for that?
Like I said: The answer to a regressive policy isn't to pile yet another regressive policy on it.
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