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Drew S. said:
Maura Healey has a bold plan to fix housing in MA https://www.boston.com/news/politic...s/?p1=hp_featurestack#healey-driscoll-housing
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In typical form, Boston.com's article is vapid and devoid of detail.

I'm going to vote for Healey because I think she'll be halfway decent and because her opponent is an evil MAGA fuckhead. But she needs a bit more meat than what's reported here.

Giving more authority to local governments (read: town committees and city councils) sounds great but does she think Wellesley would ever rezone areas to be more dense? I know people hate a more top-down approach, but the only way to battle locally-enforced NIMBYism on housing density is for non-local, higher authority to force their hand.

A Belmont town manager who re-zones areas to allow for higher density housing to be built is simply not going to last long in the job, and they'll be replaced by someone who absolutely won't allow it.
 
Swansong said:
In typical form, Boston.com's article is vapid and devoid of detail.

I'm going to vote for Healey because I think she'll be halfway decent and because her opponent is an evil MAGA fuckhead. But she needs a bit more meat than what's reported here.

Giving more authority to local governments (read: town committees and city councils) sounds great but does she think Wellesley would ever rezone areas to be more dense? I know people hate a more top-down approach, but the only way to battle locally-enforced NIMBYism on housing density is for non-local, higher authority to force their hand.

A Belmont town manager who re-zones areas to allow for higher density housing to be built is simply not going to last long in the job, and they'll be replaced by someone who absolutely won't allow it.
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Solving the housing crisis will solve a lot of other problems. Coincidentally, this would be the one argument that dunces like Drew and Whalers could actually attack liberals for, as NIMBY liberals are just as guilty and culpable for soaring housing prices as the GOP. And no, of course they have no leg to stand on, nor does the GOP. I’m just saying…
 
Swansong said:
In typical form, Boston.com's article is vapid and devoid of detail.

I'm going to vote for Healey because I think she'll be halfway decent and because her opponent is an evil MAGA fuckhead. But she needs a bit more meat than what's reported here.

Giving more authority to local governments (read: town committees and city councils) sounds great but does she think Wellesley would ever rezone areas to be more dense? I know people hate a more top-down approach, but the only way to battle locally-enforced NIMBYism on housing density is for non-local, higher authority to force their hand.

A Belmont town manager who re-zones areas to allow for higher density housing to be built is simply not going to last long in the job, and they'll be replaced by someone who absolutely won't allow it.
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I think it’s truly a both sides issue. Everyone wants less traffic and congestion then bitches about how expensive housing is.

Agree with you on Healey overall but it’s disappointing she couldn’t do better on housing. I know someone who has worked with her and they say she’s legit.
 
Everything I've heard about her from people that work/have worked with her is that she's an absolutely terrific leader and the right person for the job, now that Baker is bowing out (or, more accurately, has been defenestrated by the state GQP).
 
Drew S. said:
I think it’s truly a both sides issue. Everyone wants less traffic and congestion then *****es about how expensive housing is.
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Only to a point. Conservatives and liberals both NIMBY their neighborhoods to keep the Poors out. (I don't blame them, have you met the Poors?)

But liberals also vote for assistance to Poor communities, while conservatives vote to keep them in poverty and misery forever.

So, still fuck the Right.
 
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EL-OH-EL. In the UK, the conservative party there tried to cut the tax rate for the top earners from 45% to 40% (similar to every GOP tax cut that gets passed here). The market responded terribly and also included a crash of the British pound.

They have sheepishly decided to cancel the tax cut.
 
aparch said:
EL-OH-EL. In the UK, the conservative party there tried to cut the tax rate for the top earners from 45% to 40% (similar to every GOP tax cut that gets passed here). The market responded terribly and also included a crash of the British pound.

They have sheepishly decided to cancel the tax cut.
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Now raise it from 45 to 90.
 
aparch said:
EL-OH-EL. In the UK, the conservative party there tried to cut the tax rate for the top earners from 45% to 40% (similar to every GOP tax cut that gets passed here). The market responded terribly and also included a crash of the British pound.

They have sheepishly decided to cancel the tax cut.
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Scotland is FUCKING PISSED at brexit. It has royally fucked their whisky and tourism economies. Not lethally or anything like that, but enough for a them to complain openly.

"'Ow many liters can yeh carry back 'ome?"
"Five"
"Total?"
"Each"
"Whoa. Tanks teh brexit we 'aven't sold much to teh EU tourists. Absolutely killin' us."

Almost every distillery tour guide or tasting room bartender has complained how business is shit right now. They can't move much of their distillery exclusives so some have stopped doing them. Which is fucking insane. It's what you buy when you go to a distillery because they're amazing (and have a price to match).
 
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I pasted a Thread the other day in the Countries chat about uk gov and how all these years of conservative rule has gotten them to this point.

it’d hilarious seeing some Brit conservatives arguing on twitter about how these tax cuts will be necessary. It’s like all the evidence around the world is meaningless
 
aparch said:
EL-OH-EL. In the UK, the conservative party there tried to cut the tax rate for the top earners from 45% to 40% (similar to every GOP tax cut that gets passed here). The market responded terribly and also included a crash of the British pound.
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Sheesh. Most of our posters here would love a 45% top bracket in the US, and with way fewer loopholes and deductions to boot.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
it’d hilarious seeing some Brit conservatives arguing on twitter about how these tax cuts will be necessary.
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Just remember:

1999: "We are in surplus so a tax cut is necessary to return money to the taxpayers."
2000: "We are in deficit so a tax cut is necessary to prime the economy through private investment."

Conservative politics boils down to one thing only: the exploitation of prejudice and ignorance to shift wealth from the public treasury to the rich.
 
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