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The Time Tax
I ran the numbers; it would take 37 years of my neighbors and I paying taxes for the city to merely recoup the cost they had initially put into building the road. That was longer than the road was going to last. It was a dead-end road; we were the only ones who used it. If my taxes weren’t even enough to cover the initial construction costs, who wa
... See moreCharles L. Marohn • Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
What we’re collectively facing is unbearable economic and social strain — the cracks are splintering and the time-bomb is ticking. In the darkest sense, ruin awaits: our population is aging, living longer, unable to afford healthcare, isn't saving, and required to work to survive in an environment where 1. they don’t have the digital prowess, and 2... See more
ZINE • The Retirement Crisis, Digital Literacy & The Case For Upskilling
Consumers lose in two ways. First, their tax money is squandered when projects that never should have been funded in the first place go bust (or when the whole banking system needs to be bailed out because it is full of rotten, politically motivated loans). Second, the economy does not develop as quickly or efficiently as it might because credit (a
... See moreCharles Wheelan • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
It was all part of a way of doing things in the United States that, as I would gradually realize, forced you to be constantly on guard, constantly worried that whatever amount of money you had or earned would never be enough,