November 15, 2017 7:27 AM
Morning Reads for November 15
Who else is waiting for Aug. 11 of next year? (That’s when my girl Tay-Tay plays at Mercedes-Benz Stadium).
- Buzz Brockaway to those living close to MARTA: Buzz off!
- Almost assuredly Republicans will abandon their local-control-is-best ethos over ATL’s decision.
- Suburbians don’t like Trump–will Georgia Democrats capitalize?
- The NYTimes offers another perspective on the same theme.
- Clearly we just needed more guns here.
- Which one of you needs to meet a black person?
- That one time the Financial Times wrote something goodish about Atlanta.
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The proposal for the “transit improvement districts” just won’t work to expand transit. To begin, ppl won’t pay for service expansion someplace else. They might pay if it all went to pay for extra security at their station, or facilities improvement at their station. Maybe. But they won’t pay for expansion elsewhere, and where there is no station, ppl won’t pay to put on there because they won’t trust it would be done, and the benefit would be too far into the future. The concept also confounds geography in other ways, like the proposed district boundaries relative to a station. At present, we need entire counties to levy taxes in order to support transit. It would be much more encouraging to see the State step up and chip in.
Yeah, why do people living near an existing station need to approve whether some other neighborhood chooses to fund a new station for themselves?
I wonder if maybe WABE got this a little wrong. It seems more logical that 3/4 of the people near a proposed new station would need to vote to approve. But if those are the same people who would pay into the tax fund, it’s hard to imagine that it would raise enough money within the next hundred years.
Actually, I did some math.
Average population density in Atlanta is 630 people/sq. mi.
If we use a number double that (because that’s why they would want a station) it’s 1260 people per sq mi.
The area of a circle with a 1/4 mile radius is .79. So we multiply 1260 x .79 because that’s all that would be eligible to vote. That is 995 people.
Let’s say that 100% of them vote to tax themselves (which won’t happen). What is a reasonable amount? $20 a month? So that’s 995 x 20 = $19,900 per month, = $238,800 per year.
What does it cost to extend a transit line and build a station. $20 million? (Probably more like $200 million.) But even if you could get it done for $20M it would take 20,000,000/238,800 to raise the money. That would be 83 years.
OK, let’s say they agree to $100/month. But I’m also going to use the more realistic figure of a $200,000,000 cost. That would take 167 years.
Short term rental decision by the appealate court. Wow this thing has gone on forever.
MAY v. MORGAN COUNTY
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-court-of-appeals/1877475.html
Interesting read on wage growth vs. productivity and if a tax cut could fix it.
My only thought on this article is it does not look further into industries that have both productivity issues and labor shortages. Example construction. The cost to build is raising because there are not enough mid to high level skilled members of the labor force. The market has driven wages of those who are in the industry as high as a GM or sub-contractor can payout for productivity and still maintain profit. It’s not that they can’t afford to add labor, it that the labor they need is not there. Masons are a prime example. Even if you have tech programs putting them out left and right, it’s the master masons and the superintendent level skills that are just not there. No amount of tax cuts to a corporate builder is going to solve that issue.
https://www.axios.com/why-gop-plans-wont-solve-biggest-economic-problem-2507201307.html
I’m having trouble buying in to Ed being a Taylor Swift fan.
Did yall know Judge Moore was a Democrat while all of these incidents allegedly occurred? To quote the ghost of Dave Bowman in 2010: The Year We make Contact, “It’s all very clear to me now. The whole thing…”
Please stop Noway. A pedophile is a pedophile.
You are disgusting.
I am disgusting? For pointing out the past “disgusting” behavior of prominent members of your party? Clinton? Credible accusations of his own sexual assault…Weinstein? Yuge Lib, who is a genuine predator. And now Moore…who obviously will not be elected because of his past targeting of young girls. But it’s my pointing out past hideous Dem behaviors that is disgusting?
The whole argument is here ridiculous but going by your logic, wouldn’t that indicate that the GOP is the more attractive party to those who border on pedophilia? I mean, he did leave the Democratic party. Maybe he felt more welcome amongst the GOP set.
It’s all stupid. Dude is disgusting and no one should be defending him. If you support issues he cares about, you should want him to lose because he will harm any effort at getting your issues passed and supported by greater numbers of people.
The part that is disgusting is that you are trying to suggest that pedophilia is somehow connected to being a Dem. Which, we all know it is a bipartisan affliction, or should I say non-partisan.
1. You know nothing about my party affiliation. Let me clue you in. I have none.
2. You are going out of your way to excuse this filth by assigning it to a party affiliation rather than condemn it outright.
3. You. Are. Disgusting.
Our Residents Policy Wonk types… Why are we looking at switching the national standard for cost of living? Pro’s/Cons…
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-new-inflation-measure-raises-taxes-on-the-middle-class-1510764898
Trouble in tax reform paradise
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/15/wisconsins-ron-johnson-comes-out-against-senate-republican-tax-plan/867829001/
I changed from being generally negative on trade deals to being a general proponent of them a half dozen or so years ago. We’re better off served as leaders.
Shouldn’t the Alabama Republican Party just renounce Judge Roy at this point and submit a longshot write-in option? They are already tarred by yet another charlatan maybe they could avoid the feathers and rail treatment.