And? That was temporary. Income tax, as established in in the 16th amendment, was meant to be permanent and expandable as necessary to fund the government.

The library in North Scituate is nice and quiet. There’s a nice field and tennis courts across the street and it’s just a great place to take a walk too.

Because I’m not going to type a big long thing about how wrong you are when someone else already did it for me. Cause make no mistake about it, you are embarrassingly wrong.

> avoid the 6/10 connector everything north of exit 8 like the plague

We used to use Anderson's Ski and Dive in EG. They always had a good selection and helpful staff, they understand the difference between "I ski Wachusett a few times a year" and more serious stuff. Website sucks but give them a call.

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Me and a few buddies rented a 2 bedroom apartment about 15 years ago. And those prices were about in the middle of the pack. $1,500 a month for a 2 Bedroom. So these prices seem not too horrid with that as my baseline and considering it is 15 years later.

Some places were a little higher, some places were a lot higher. Some places were a little lower. The cheapest was 2-3 bedrooms near federal hill for $800 a month. It sounded nice until the police report showed a 110% break in rate. (I called the PD to ask how that was possible, they said it was mostly the same places getting broken into over and over again.) Also our car insurances would have EACH jumped 300% (Offsetting the savings almost exactly.)

I actually have one through work. Suggesting for those who can't justify even that, or simply don't want to. Many people may just want to read only that one article.

It’s still great!

Excuse me but the guy on the street didn't go to Brown. You can't see very far at the bottom of the hill.

Yeah Mckey had his hosing press conference yesterday and it was a crock of shit. 250k to spur affordable housing development in the state.... the rest of it was him washing his hands of the matter and putting on non profits, developers and companies in the state...

I agree overall however it was very a very dismissive.

I think until rates get back into 4-5% you will see people holding onto their homes if the can pay their mortgage.

I have a 15-year at 2.15% that I will not be giving up.

I work out of that area and so I'm in Jamestown, middletown, and Newport a lot. Every time one of my customers asks if I live in one of those places I struggle not to scoff. Make the money to get a place in one of those locations but find it absolutely galling to be charged that much for rent/mortgage. Nah...

Providence Public Library has a great children's room, and they have multiple kids storytimes during the week - two on Tuesdays (one for toddlers and the other for little babies) and one on Thursday for all ages. I took my daughter to their storytime every week until she started school.

> copy MA and make groceries tax free outright.

Food is already tax-free in RI. I am suggesting re-adding sales tax to the not-a-staple foods like aren't SNAP eligible.

> I’d just go to whatever that Laffer curve number is for the ideal rate

That's a new term to me, thanks for bringing it up. Reading about it now though, it seems limited. There is more to taxation than raw receipts, and requiring a single rate seems unnecessary. We could exceed the Laffer ideal if we tax different things at different rates, as well as achieve broader societal goals if we tax the poor less than the wealthy, and encourage eating celery over frozen pizza.

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Yes! Love this library. Took my kids here all the time when they were little!

you want to really fix the budget? significantly curtail the general fund. make as many sources of tax revenue supply specific budgets as possible. the less that gets swept up into that giant corrupt pit the better

These apartments include heat and water.

They also offer laundry and allow dogs. If you have a dog and you're a renter, you know you have essentially nothing to choose from...

I agree rents are too high, but there needs to be more building. And not just government affordable housing. More market rate apartments need to be built. Section 8 is paying the highest rental prices right now and it's forcing everyone else to step up their payments too.

b-but think of the poor consultants! they're so valuable! we should be giving them millions to shit out a report that says absolutely nothing you couldn't get from asking a guy on the street for his opinion on a situation!

This

And OP has been on here for months bitching about developments followed by bitching about rents.

This is why the recession were walking into will be felt in 2 ways. The bottom half of America it will be awfully difficult, the top half won't notice. If you have a mortgage that you've had for >1 year you'll be just fine. I really feel for those left behind. I hope they get their chance.

Well, if there is a surplus how about a tax refund to hard working Rhode Islanders? Lowering the sales tax .15%? Hello? Lower it back to where it was pre debtco crisis, after all the sale tax hike of 1% was only implemented as a temporary measure to bail out the credit unions back in the early 90s. Aid to education, sure pay for it with the cannabis tax make sure that money doesn’t end up in the general fund black hole.

And the fact you use a fact checker to go back n forth online is an L

There was income tax prior to 1913