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:consternation2: Are you suggesting agreeing with Karl Marx is the criterion for being a non-right-winger?!?

Are you telling me these guys aren't the first academics to propagandize for their policy preferences by lying about who's paying how much tax?!? Next you'll be telling me water is wet. For someone who doesn't know and doesn't care, you are doing a lot of trumped-up imputation. No, they...

Yes, exactly. The government is paid for almost entirely by the rich. What the study shows, essentially, is that the 1% are paying quite a bit more than their fair share compared to what the .0001% pay. But the average American, quite rationally, doesn't really give a rat's ass how the rich...

How can you tell?

To explain by analogy why the idea lacks merit. If you bought a condo in 2006 for $100,000, and sold it in 2025 for $170,000, the government calls that a capital gain of $70,000, because the government measures your purchase price in 2006 dollars and measures your sales price in 2025 dollars...

With the proliferation of electric cars, paying for roads with the gas tax is stupid -- we need to check people's odometers and tax them based on the difference in the reading after a year. And speaking of stupid, another thing my country does that's really stupid is measure distances in miles...

Here's the actual paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34170/w34170.pdf?utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp%3Butm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp%3Butm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED "Table 2 presents our results on effective tax rates in 2018-20. For the top 400, the total effective...

I told you: the statute of limitations. Courts stopped trying to adjudicate complaints that fifty years ago X stole Y's land, for the very good reason that the witnesses were dead or senile. I've no doubt there are other provisions stopping the Modoc from getting their land back and dollars to...

Yes, that's what I said. If you had been pressing a lawsuit then your claim that the current state of the law is what matters would be correct. But as the topic at hand is the correctness of your claim about the purpose of property law, ancient history matters. Your claim is anachronistic...

Why do you think that? Is it because you think "terminate a tenancy" means "break a lease", and doesn't include leases simply ending when their time limits expire? If that's what you think, it seems you're not convinced by my above reasoning, which is fine, but here's somebody with actual...

Not as important for what purpose? Winning a lawsuit isn't what we're on about here. Which hat were you wearing when you made your accusation about the purpose of California property law. your social scientist hat or your political demagogue hat? For purposes of rage-manufacture, the current...

Nobody said it was. It was written by late medieval Normans: judges sent throughout the realm by William the Conqueror's successors to bring a little order to the endless petty disputes among their conquered but fractious Anglo-Saxon subjects. California law, like American law in general...

Oh my god, you're Howie?!? Dude, it seems the reports of your death have been greatly exaggerated! Witness: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low. But he couldn't handle it. Prosecutor: Buddy couldn't handle it? Was Buddy one of your crew? Witness: Right. Buddy was the...

You're making my case for me. You keep writing stuff like "Yeah, she was not asking for incremental change. She was demanding every last right of the American citizen, and accepted nothing less." in response to your opponents pointing out she was asking for every last right of the American...

Right. I think maybe the reason Poli was spatting with Elixir over this point was their different understandings of the distinction between "demanding" and "advocating".

What you quoted from my post isn't what Tacc said he couldn't find support of. He was talking about my claim that in Los Angeles "if you want to sell somebody one-year occupation of your property, you're required to throw in an option for much longer occupation." He was quite right to...

This seems like a good place to point out that when Rosa Parks picked a seat to get arrested out of, she picked a seat in the black section of the bus. She got ordered to give up her seat because the white section filled up and the driver wasn't willing to have a white lady sitting next to a...

That's an exemption to the requirements of CA Code 1946.2, which is a state law enacting somewhat similar tenant protections statewide. (e) This section shall not apply to the following types of residential real properties or residential circumstances: (1) ... ... (8) Residential real property...

Wasn't trying to impress you. Wasn't talking to you. There's a reason I used third-person. Yes, I'm quite familiar with you caring more whether what you say is effective rhetoric than whether it's true; what I was aiming for was to make sure others are quite familiar with that too. But you...