Rent. Rent needs to die in a fire.
Landlording needs to be less lucrative than a private mortgage or land contract. Jack up the taxes on all residential properties, and grant steep exemptions for owner-occupants only.
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Once it's been in effect for a while
It will never be in effect "for awhile". If they ever get to 270, it will last one election cycle at most. More likely, it will be dissolved between the time it comes into effect and the first general election afterward.
The national popular vote interstate compact is a pipe dream.
In the extremely unlikely event it is ever enacted, it will be dissolved as soon as a supporting state realizes it is likely to affect the outcome of the upcoming election.
If it ever actually affects an election, it will likely be deemed unconstitutional at the supreme court.
Even if it is not deemed unconstitutional, states bound to vote against their own voters will withdraw from it immediately.
At most, it will directly affect no more than one election, and probably not in the direction expected.
Probably trying to cozy up to one of the other shitbird candidates the GOP was offering up beforing falling in line behind Dementia Don.
Those are both criminal offense, not traffic violations. I've got no problem with criminal stops.
Driving safety can be enforced with a mailed fine. Traffic stops pretty much shouldn't exist.
I don't think language is entirely beholden to democracy. Contrary to the beliefs of ~~pedants~~ English teachers, I think we are each empowered to utilize it how we wish, without concern for any broader consensus.
For example, I have unilaterally deprecated "its".
Following normal grammatical rules, "+s" indicates plurality, not possession. "Its" violates this rule.
The "+'s" construction is used to indicate both contraction (with "is" or "was") and possession. "It's" follows either set of rules, depending on context. There is no significant risk of ambiguity between the two meanings. "It's" is a perfectly cromulent homonym for both meanings.
As there is no need for a plural form of an inherently singular word, "its" is no longer a word.
I regularly use the semicolon; it makes me happy.
Agreed, especially since it is public information as to whether you cast a ballot in a particular election.
You are describing solar noon: the highest position the sun reaches during the day.
Solar noon occurs some time between 11:30AM and 12:30PM in local standard time, depending on where exactly you are within your time zone: the east edge of your time zone experiences solar noon 60 minutes earlier than the west edge of your time zone. Solar noon only matches local standard time in the middle of the timezone.
Solar noon occurs between 12:30 PM and 1:30 PM in local Daylight Savings Time, depending on where exactly you are within your time zone. The clocks have shifted an hour, pushing solar noon an hour later in the chronological day.
Solar noon does not occur at 12PM during the summer in locations that observe DST. The clock shifts forward relative to the sun, moving solar noon back an hour.
We gain 6 hours of daylight.
Under standard time, we gain 3 hours of daylight before noon and 3 hours after noon going from winter to summer. Sunrise is about 3 hours earlier, and sunset is about 3 hours later.
But, because we also shift the clocks, sunrise is only two hours earlier in summer DST than winter Standard Time. Sunset is four hours later in summer DST than winter Standard Time. We effectively gain 2 hours of morning and 4 hours of evening time.
But you can still only request a ballot with one primary: you cannot select the best candidate for your party and the worst for the other.
In those states, the request for a particular ballot is, effectively, registering as a member of that party.
True. I would only allow the exemption on 1-4 unit properties. I would allow an on-site landlord to rent out the remaining 1-3 units without losing the exemption.
Renting should be a wildly atypical housing arrangement. "Land Contracts" should replace virtually every circumstance where renting currently makes sense.