Poker rooms are highly profitable even with a fair structure like 5% rake $5 max.

Lots of casinos pool tips.

Foxwoods has a giant poker room I guess that’s just a nonprofit part of their games.

You can write off losses up to the value of your winnings.

Letting organized crime make money on anything is fucking stupid for society. Regulate and tax, make sure the gambling is fair and properly run and money isn’t laundered.

> society destroying parasites like casinos

Society runs gambling programs we just call it a lottery. Reminds me I gotta get my megamillions ticket

I just read the book “Straight Flush” and find it so infuriating how the government tries to stop adults from gambling. Like any drug just fucking legalize it and regulate it. As if sports betting is somehow worse than playing the mega millions run and sanctioned by the state.

The only true solution would be determining a maximum number of cars we want in manhattan at any point in time and increasing the toll to enter towards infinity as the car count approaches the limit. When people start seeing $50, $100, $500, $1000 whatever tolls they’ll turn around.

It’s a fucking island controlling the number of cars present is very straightforward. Catalina does it to a smaller scale but the idea is the same. All entry points to the island have cameras already so counting the number of cars is easy.

They need to make the trains frequent and reliable so people don’t feel the need to get a car service.

When a TrainTime breaks down during rush hour now tens of thousands of people all suddenly need to come above ground and get Ubers and taxis to get to work.

I remember trying guava nectar for the first time as an adult when I went to Hawaii. I had never tasted anything like it. There’s no way someone could have described it to me in a way I’d really understand without having tasted it myself.

I dunno maybe great therapists can imagine what guava nectar tastes like without having tasted it, but I really doubt it. The most they could do is ask “how did that make you feel when you drank it?”

There’s literally no way anyone can know what the juice tastes like without having tasted it. It’s a bad analogy to prove your point but it’s a great analogy to prove the inverse haha.

There’s no way someone can know what psychedelics are like without trying them.

Sure, right. The inability for California to price people out of houses they own by cranking their property tax payments to unaffordable levels is absolutely a terrible thing that California should reverse right away and definitely no other state should implement such a wildly popular program to help the middle class and elderly.

Yeah it’s only the 4 largest economy in the world they must have gotten there through bad governance and incompetence.

It’s not moving the goalposts I said up front I’d be fine with amending it. Every law has unintentional side effects and very rarely is the solution to throw the law out, you just change it to minimize the side effects while keeping the main benefits. Every once in a while you run into something so dumb like the 18th amendment or making abortion illegal where the solution is a 180 degree reversal but usually you just fix the problem with small changes.

Society doesn’t need to be built assuming old people will downsize plenty of people want to live in their house forever (and that’s fine) or pass the house on to their children (and that’s also fine) and it sure as shit shouldn’t tax them to the point where they have to sell their family house.

I’d have no problem with a law that allowed people over 55 to keep their old property tax payment if they sell a primary residence and move to a smaller residence that would have a higher tax burden. But I don’t think it would make as big of a difference as you think it will, but who knows until we try.

Anyway if there’s anything society should be subsidizing it’s helping middle class families and old people become and stay home owners. In a world where housing prices are going up because giant corporations and REITs are just starting to move into SFH as investments this should be on the top 5 of government priorities.

Yeah ok

Prop 13 is not responsible for a housing crisis, californias stupid anti growth zoning regulations are responsible. The state even failed to force cities to allow more dense development near transit.

Yeah I agree it could use some reform and I’d have no problem limiting it to primary residence and also any rentals that are used as someone else’s primary residence.

Just because someone has wealth in a house doesn’t mean they can afford increased property taxes. Taxing income and cap gains is the only thing you know people can actually afford. Though I’d have no problem with property taxing stock portfolios of millionaires because at least we know you can sell some stock to pay the tax without going homeless.

I don’t care about that the referendum have done far more good than harm. Keeping people from getting priced out of their home when property values rise, legalizing weed and mushrooms, giving tax payers a bill of rights so they can vote on whether they want to pay more taxes or not and get a refund of the tax estimates were too high.

Let us recall some corrupt motherfuckers while we’re at it. I’m all for a much more direct democracy especially on the most important questions of the day. Let the bureaucrats manage the bullshit that nobody wants to talk or think about.

If we didn’t let lawmakers control everything and instead had referendum options like CA and CO this would definitely happen here.

The G&T program has a different problem, there are too many people who qualify compared to the number of seats available. In reality we need to be building a lot more G&T schools starting in the kindergarten grade.

What government benefits do you lose if you enroll your child in 3K and UPK?

This is just somebody who should have been more careful and now wants a pay day from someone famous.

I know that’s how it works but it’s stupid and there’s nothing a landlord can do about tree roots. You aren’t even allowed to do anything near a tree without paying an arborist to keep a watchful eye. It’s no wonder people go around kill trees when nobody is looking.

A homeowner shouldn't be responsible for what happens on a municipal sidewalk they don't own.