Contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and they can probably help point him to a group interested.

Same as eggs… if enough people believe other people will want to buy it for a dollar more than they paid, they will pay the asking price. When supply is scarce that drives the price up.

Timmy has a competing lemonade stand with your kid, and he charges $1 for a glass and you charge $3 for a glass. Rather than lowering your prices, you place a $2.50 tariff on any lemonade from Timmy in your neighborhood. Now everyone pays $3.50 for his lemonade, and it only makes sense for your kid to charge $3.50 as well, because Timmy’s lemonade has to get to your neighborhood while yours is local, so why not pocket that 50 cents.

In this scenario, Timmy cannot sell his cheaper lemonade to your neighborhood at a cheaper price. Everyone in your neighborhood must pay the new inflated price. People in other neighborhoods will go to Timmy, so only your neighborhood buys your lemonade, although some people will try to circumvent the tariffs by buying Timmy’s same lemonade for $2 in a neighboring area.

Populism is fairly simple, you just parrot the following talking points:

The system isn’t working. I am fighting the system. Elect me and I’ll take the fight to them.

What isn’t working should be as vague as possible, so the voter believes it is the thing they’re angry about. When elected, the candidate should continue to complain about the system and crow about how hard they’re fighting for you, so you keep voting for them.

Unfortunately, this eventually leads to you actually passing legislation that makes everything much, much worse than it was. You can keep blaming the other side, but eventually, the jig is up.

Given the ballooning costs of the program, a helium leak is fitting.

Hope everyone was okay, the article doesn’t talk about injuries.

But the arch-duke is okay still, right?

Go home, Texas, you’re drunk.

Suck it, earth!

Real estate agents love the homeless.

I was shopping printers earlier, and reddit-based results had clear paid comments.

Are you telling me The AntiCommie Paratrooper Death Squad isn’t real?

That’s horrible… what can I do to help them get off facebook?

Well, I mean, you can’t…. take someone’s gun while they’re dumping oil on the ground.

I feel part of the confusion may be thinking california has a flat tax? It has tax brackets, which increase the percent as you make more.

Texas has a base sales tax of 6.25, which can be raised by local taxes up to 2%. So it is effectively 8.25% everywhere.

It’s an odd argument, but I think it comes down to sales tax and property tax. Property tax is high in texas, and sales tax is 7% (not the highest in the nation, but high, and local sales tax can also run 1-2%). I think the theory is that you only pay so much sales tax in goods for one person, so it balances out california’s higher property taxes.

Your beauty is beyond compare

When shaped to crowns the people stare

With glowing luster their jealous eyes grow green

You’re malleable into fine leaf

Yet form into yet thinner sheets

And I cannot compete with you, Goldene

This guy needs to slam somebody.

As long as there is free competition, the cost will be around 10% over the operating cost. After that point it becomes worthwhile for another competitor to step in.