The world’s five richest men have increased their combined fortune from $405 billion in March 2020 to $869 billion in November 2023

There’s your “inflation”.

Our current system costs more than “free” healthcare would cost. It’s not about cost, it’s about profit.

Edge is chrome

The right grows more and more irrelevant everyday.

Unlike nearly all other arts, architecture is inherently public and shared.

Aren’t nearly all Arts inherently public and intended to be shared?

Thank you, it looks great. I’ll pick it up sometime

I really enjoyed his book, “Debt”.

This sentiment comes from a time when the (very sizable) middle class could afford to own and maintain two new-model (not pre owned) vehicles, and it worked great for them. I feel like I’ve been here a bit longer than you, but in a similar position. All I can say is vote and stay informed, there will come a time when the scales tip.

Former municipal clerk here

It’s basically an open records issue to prevent favoritism/corruption by the assessors. They have basically full authority to set your property value (although they have a lot of rules…). In my State, there is a Board of Review that is conducted in every township which follows an open book period when anyone can come in and check on assessed values. The Board of Review is when you can challenge the assessed value of your property, one way of doing this is to compare your assessed value to the assessment of some other similar property. To do this you have to “prove that the assessor made an error”. So, unless they made some blatant error in assessment (which they like to correct at the open book), the challenge will fail. Though recently they’re have been successful challenges by business claiming lowered property value due closure or conversion of a property.

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I like the “Implore” keyword. Seems like it could be a nice way to handle validation…