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When smart people like BillE believe more guns=more safety on our streets just because, and it is just because, all his local homeys in South Carolina believe it and he is steeped in the same guns=good and liberals=bad culture then true impossibility of making meaningful progress becomes even more painfully clear.

I didn't reference a source. But if you're in the mood for research I might recommend the Yemen Times, the Houthi Herald, the Gaza Register Guard, or the Somali Sun-Sentinal.

We know that every asteroid doesn't come from outer space?

Great news. "With that said, it can't be a coincidence that crime rates are dropping at a time when more citizens are walking around with guns." Thanks for that deluded insight, Bill. I've also heard that folks in other third world countries feel safer with guns.

Yes, and many are so operated. It's red, here. They'll also run on home heating oil and kerosene. I think the manual even allows a few hundred hours of 100LL. But it's bad for the life of the engine. I'd need to research SB's but I think red fuel was verboten until the early 90's and then could be interpreted as allowed for a certain time. That is a vague remembrance, however.

??? Highway Tax on Aviation fuel? Weird.

Many paradigms existed before today, including direct barter economies. Surely the effects the huge capital injection are still playing out. But as a nation vs. other nations who also made huge capital injections our methodology appears to be the more successful. In Europe, (correct me here skydekker-no offense will be taken) pretty much, they paid companies to keep workers on the job and we paid workers to stay home but still spend to keep the economy chugging along. We made infrastructure investments, companies had discounted money to upgrade, and like it or not, we had the ability it add to the workforce to greater degree. Interest rates are up which is a good thing if you are out of risky investments or on fixed income and inflation is again lower than those returns. The Fed is already talking about rate reductions with the single limitation that they can not see why now. One thing we should be doing to help, and yes this will twist panties, is producing more oil, lot's more oil. Otherwise, Fox News to the contrary, it looks like the imaginary, never to happen soft landing is underway.

Man ain't that the truth. With dental care it's even worse. Considering that for a long swath of human history it was our teeth that killed us you'd think there would be a bit more awareness. In the US just an extraction can send you to another dentist, an oral surgeon, and then back to the original dentist for approval, and then off to an implant surgeon, and then wait, wait, wait, and more appointments before crowns etc. Unless you work for the government or the auto workers you are getting hit with several thousands of dollars in bills along the way. And it is all bullshit. I've had high quality work done outside the US with 1/3 of the rigamarole and 1/4 of the price. But at least we have the free market to save us someday I guess.

Come on Ken, you’re more clued in than that. Next to 100% of those Biz jet FBO’s are leases on federally funded airports and already pay a flowage fee as a part of the lease.

Biz jets pilots and owners don’t tote their fuel in jugs from the corner station like 150 pilots, they stop at horrendously expensive FBO’s with names like Millionair. Chief Pilots pay for all services with Black Amex cards and concern themselves with being sure the owners Dom is properly chilled and the food tray is acceptable. Already they are paying a couple bucks more a gallon to the FBO, a couple more to the national coffers wouldn’t even be noticed. Not the battle they want to fight.

As seemingly non-responsive and impenetrable our bureaucracy can seem, compared to other countries I’ve dealt with and am dealing with now ours is a model of efficiency and customer service.

Why not all aviation fuel being taxed at the same increased amount?

Maybe. Perhaps they could lower fuel taxes on flight schools or other essential to the pipeline of airline pilots fronts like DZ's. Once you get past the idea that there is a free market and that it's harmful to take more from the morbidly rich and then take less from those who are just getting by suddenly a whole new world of seeing things opens up.

Because rewriting the the tax code to get them to pay more on their earnings will never happen and a luxury Jet Fuel tax should be low hanging fruit in a sane world. People won't quit being rich over it, so I say have at it. Seriously, Bernard Arnault is the worlds richest man and he got there selling useless, overpriced crap to rich people. Kudo's to him and to celebrate he can start paying a crapload more for his Jet-A. Next up: all of the super rich assholes who flag their multi hundred million dollar yachts offshore to avoid US taxes. Well, screw them, too.

And an even larger share of Republicans think greedy free market capitalism dominated by pseudo monopolies that aren’t restrained from raising prices or putting fewer chips in the bag has zero to do with inflation.

Seriously.

Yes, but I did mean liquidity. Stocks, bonds, etc that are liquid but inconvenient or expensive to sell.

Noted it is, talk about scoring someone with impeccable credentials.

I found one in our swoop pond when I finally had enough and drained it. Couldn't know for sure whose it was, given that GoPros were lost regularly before clamp downs happened, but with editing software I was able to determine the owner whom I contacted to come to the DZ and retrieve it. What they didn't enjoy was watching the footage of an insane low turn that they only survived because a hero pulled them unconscious from the water before they drowned.

My Euro denominated investments serve a purpose. I actually don't have any real understanding of the relationships. But I do have them and they are underperforming the Biden economy without question.

Hmmm.. Where did you get that MBA? Liberty University? It is an article of understanding in business that you might need to allow your debt to outpace income as you gain share and presence in the market. In our case, it's a global market. In my case, because the US economy is roaring, my dollar denominated investments are doing well, my euro investments are doing poorly. Go figure.

Sure, but don't most of those have enough unencumbered liquidity to make the loan easy? I'm thinking that Trump Tower isn't a juicy cross collateralization asset, nor any of his other properties.

Should being the operative word, Alice.

Clearly I need to gun out more.

Been there at a seriously lower level and not only is it easy the rates are great. Even if he has $400 Million that could easily be the floor of what his current lenders require for liquidity. There is still a week to go, that his lawyers have been begging for lower amounts or just an IOU for three weeks tells it all: he is broke.