Updated with a note that this isn't the open thread after all, nobody can remember what day it is or where they are, or even that things have names, and in order to indicate them it is necessary to point.
BRB, Dad's taking me into the jungle to discover ice.
Any Wonker worth their toe-beans can draw connections between something in this article and whatever they want to talk about without breaking a sweat.
Example: Gryffn is drinking water by dipping her paw in the bowl and slurping it off her fur, while Máebh is eating dry food by scooping pieces out of the bowl and throwing it on the floor, and then eating it.
It is a good thing that Mamdani did not tap the camera glass with a sodden paw, and also that Máebh was not trying to eat that food from the balcony of her NYC penthouse.
It used to be like that for me. Now, it's so bad that I open a tab, and immediately forget what website I wanted to go to, or what I wanted to search for.
And this is why i have umpteen million tabs open at any given time. If i close them, i will absolutely - la la la - forget them completely.
Edit: oops, i need a relevant tie in. Okay, some of those tabs are on real estate openings in various locations. I like doing research for entertainment purposes. It might be time to compare some of the amazingly tiny apartments in NYC with some of these mansions.
All the freaks freaking out about this are simply showing their cards and lack of realistic bona fides. The monsters and zombies of the upperclass are whining so hard.
They don't just want to not be taxed, they want to be admired and deferred to. Fuck them all. Toss them in the Hudson, or if that screws with wildlife, maybe the East River.
The BI piece said that there may be as many as 13000 $5million dollar second homes in the city, which is an absolutely ridiculous number ( I know, NYC has 8 million inhabitants, but... )
Also, as far as I can find out, the taxation amounts haven't even been settled on. I would prefer that those properties be taxed at 100% of value, but I'm sure the amount will be less than that. All these assholes talking about billionaires moving because of this tax just look silly as hell.
It's good, but it doesn’t stop billionaires existing or their power. It's usually guillotines that do that, or society-destroying wars. So far that has always happened, eventually. True, history isn't all that long of a record, a mere few thousand years, and our world is not necessarily very similar to historical examples, but so far, always happens eventually.
The costs they impose on society, mostly by deforming its politics to promote wars and destroy welfare, far exceed whatever alms can be squeezed from them with taxes.
And isn't amazing how all these wealthy, callow fuckers who don't even live in New York City are just 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 that this is happening in New York City? Don't want to be taxed on the fancy penthouse that they might spend maybe a day or two staying in, just so they can say they have a place in the City? Then they should sell it and move to some low-tax haven like Mississippi. I bet they'd just love it there.
Oh, and last Sunday it took me six hours to fill out my NY Partial Resident tax forms, because I spent 60 days living and working from my house upstate, and I require math to figure that shit out. And I will bet a slice of Famous Ray's/Ray's Famous pizza that I 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 paid more in NY taxes than any of these worthless shitheels whining about it.
Oh, and Fuck Ted Cruz. Keep our state out of your TACO mushroom-dick-sucking mouth.
this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.
So now that the Honorable Mayor has stolen my dream of a Pied-à-Terre in Manhattan, I suppose I will have to make do with a modest place in Poughkeepsie.
I love this on so many levels, but the biggest one to me as a city dweller in Chicago, where we are also wrestling with a housing and affordability crisis, as well as an affordable housing crisis, is that this is a part of a pragmatic solution that only increases the quality of life of the city in which it's actualized. It's wrong to plonk one's money into desperately needed space and to reap the benefits of your property while adding nothing of value to the city in which you own said property. All it does is enrich the owner while sucking resources from the people who live, work, and try to pay their rents and mortgages which are driven up artificially by investment properties. If one wishes to use property as an investment, fine: but you're going to have to pay more taxes for the privilege.
I also believe that there should be a tool that corrects market valuations by eliminating investment properties in the calculus, so that those investments can no longer artificially inflate the surrounding properties in which people actually live and must pay for.
F’n Massachusetts’s; next thing you know they’re gonna want rich people to pay for poor people to have health insurance! Whoops, Mitt Romney did that twenty F’n years ago. And thats why all the millionaires left - or maybe not - but they would have, if they weren’t doing so G D well in that hellhole.
Updated with a note that this isn't the open thread after all, nobody can remember what day it is or where they are, or even that things have names, and in order to indicate them it is necessary to point.
BRB, Dad's taking me into the jungle to discover ice.
EAT THEM! Bad metal but great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcrj4szgTjc&list=RDFcrj4szgTjc&start_radio=1
Any Wonker worth their toe-beans can draw connections between something in this article and whatever they want to talk about without breaking a sweat.
Example: Gryffn is drinking water by dipping her paw in the bowl and slurping it off her fur, while Máebh is eating dry food by scooping pieces out of the bowl and throwing it on the floor, and then eating it.
It is a good thing that Mamdani did not tap the camera glass with a sodden paw, and also that Máebh was not trying to eat that food from the balcony of her NYC penthouse.
Poor Dok.
You know us hippies will make it a free for all regardless. We roll like that.
I just double checked what's in my closet and since I do not see my neon yellow leisure suit I think I know what decade I'm now in...
You know us, we’ll just seize the means of open-threading anyway
I literally just stood up to do something, and before I could even take a step, I forgot what it was. So, I sat back down.
I’m sure it will come back to me.
It used to be like that for me. Now, it's so bad that I open a tab, and immediately forget what website I wanted to go to, or what I wanted to search for.
And this is why i have umpteen million tabs open at any given time. If i close them, i will absolutely - la la la - forget them completely.
Edit: oops, i need a relevant tie in. Okay, some of those tabs are on real estate openings in various locations. I like doing research for entertainment purposes. It might be time to compare some of the amazingly tiny apartments in NYC with some of these mansions.
boomerangs usually do
*Whap!* "Oh, that's right."
If it's not going to the bathroom I'm sure you'll be fine.
It can become a real problem when you fiber too much.
I do that so much that it's become an exercise regime.
In the hospital they wanted to give me a laxative.
I said "Over my dead body!"
They looked at me like "That can be arranged."
There's not really much point in it then.
What day is what? Where am I? My hands feel like two balloons!
{{{Takes a hit from one of Li'l Feller's famous bespoke cartoonishly huge doobies.}}}
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He's so cute in that pic!
he's hiding around the doorframe to witness the earth-shattering 'KABOOM!'
You may feel a little pin prick.
Wait, did you just call me a prick??
No, but you may feel a little sick.
"AAIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHH!"
While I wait for the OT to start drinking heavily I'll just note that "The Millionaire Tax" in Massachusetts is working.
< -- edges quietly towards the exit
by an amazing coincidence most of my bitching has been limited to real estate so i managed to be on topic anyway.
I felt like I was taking crazy pills! But at this point, that’s any day ending in “Y”.
I expect that the person in charge of sacking you will also be sacked.
The people who sacked the people for the credits have also now been sacked...
My sister was sacked by a moose 🫎 …. In a Manhattan penthouse .
And introducing RALPH, the Wonder Llama!
My friend did a post about how to grow the perfect llamas:
https://imgur.com/gallery/DlPff
I luv Ralphie Boy!
[cue jumpy mariachi music]
You mean "pied a terre" is not the name of a cocktail?
It means "My foot is dirty."
Sillee Franch.
"And this is one of my twin daughters, Entendre."
It's ok. This week has been a long decade.
Holy shit, then what do we call this past decade????
The Dark (or Orange) Ages.
Trump's chrono-synclastic infundibulum.
The Ice Age.
ICE Age
Clever, you.
Those who were supposed to be doing the sacking have been sacked.
We touch our ears like mafia dons to indicate our intentions.
Billionaires complaining about a small tax hole being plugged is music to my ears.
I hope we hear a lot more of this going forward.
All the freaks freaking out about this are simply showing their cards and lack of realistic bona fides. The monsters and zombies of the upperclass are whining so hard.
Sucks to be you, empty-souled bishes.
They don't just want to not be taxed, they want to be admired and deferred to. Fuck them all. Toss them in the Hudson, or if that screws with wildlife, maybe the East River.
Do unrealized gains next.
Trump Prepares to Settle With IRS in Huge Lawsuit Over Tax Records
https://newrepublic.com/post/209230/donald-trump-settle-irs-10-billion-lawsuit-tax-records
In other words, Todd Blanche is getting ready to write that $10 billion check to Trump...🤮
Hulk smash.
Unless the tax is truly draconoian, anyone with a SECOND home worth $5 MILLION will not even notice it.
Call the waaambulance.
The BI piece said that there may be as many as 13000 $5million dollar second homes in the city, which is an absolutely ridiculous number ( I know, NYC has 8 million inhabitants, but... )
Also, as far as I can find out, the taxation amounts haven't even been settled on. I would prefer that those properties be taxed at 100% of value, but I'm sure the amount will be less than that. All these assholes talking about billionaires moving because of this tax just look silly as hell.
It's good, but it doesn’t stop billionaires existing or their power. It's usually guillotines that do that, or society-destroying wars. So far that has always happened, eventually. True, history isn't all that long of a record, a mere few thousand years, and our world is not necessarily very similar to historical examples, but so far, always happens eventually.
Meanwhile, if we can tax the billionaires and use them for cash cows, it isn’t all bad.
The costs they impose on society, mostly by deforming its politics to promote wars and destroy welfare, far exceed whatever alms can be squeezed from them with taxes.
I like Mayor Mamdani. He scares the right people.
And isn't amazing how all these wealthy, callow fuckers who don't even live in New York City are just 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 that this is happening in New York City? Don't want to be taxed on the fancy penthouse that they might spend maybe a day or two staying in, just so they can say they have a place in the City? Then they should sell it and move to some low-tax haven like Mississippi. I bet they'd just love it there.
Oh, and last Sunday it took me six hours to fill out my NY Partial Resident tax forms, because I spent 60 days living and working from my house upstate, and I require math to figure that shit out. And I will bet a slice of Famous Ray's/Ray's Famous pizza that I 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 paid more in NY taxes than any of these worthless shitheels whining about it.
Oh, and Fuck Ted Cruz. Keep our state out of your TACO mushroom-dick-sucking mouth.
Derek Guy again, over at bluesky.com
this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.
Um, fuck off. If I want to wear an SF Giants t-shirt from 2010 with holes in it and some raggedy-ass jeans, I'm going to do that.
I don't need some fucking self-righteous prick tell me otherwise.
Ok, fine, but remind not to moor my 100-million-yacht in Manhattan ever again.
So now that the Honorable Mayor has stolen my dream of a Pied-à-Terre in Manhattan, I suppose I will have to make do with a modest place in Poughkeepsie.
I love this on so many levels, but the biggest one to me as a city dweller in Chicago, where we are also wrestling with a housing and affordability crisis, as well as an affordable housing crisis, is that this is a part of a pragmatic solution that only increases the quality of life of the city in which it's actualized. It's wrong to plonk one's money into desperately needed space and to reap the benefits of your property while adding nothing of value to the city in which you own said property. All it does is enrich the owner while sucking resources from the people who live, work, and try to pay their rents and mortgages which are driven up artificially by investment properties. If one wishes to use property as an investment, fine: but you're going to have to pay more taxes for the privilege.
I also believe that there should be a tool that corrects market valuations by eliminating investment properties in the calculus, so that those investments can no longer artificially inflate the surrounding properties in which people actually live and must pay for.
F’n Massachusetts’s; next thing you know they’re gonna want rich people to pay for poor people to have health insurance! Whoops, Mitt Romney did that twenty F’n years ago. And thats why all the millionaires left - or maybe not - but they would have, if they weren’t doing so G D well in that hellhole.
This dedicated democratic-socialist absolutely adores Mayor Zohran Mamdani!