Ric
@Ric4rdoTM
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public realm respecter
London, England
Joined January 2013
Rural privilege
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Your 30s will unleash manmade horrors beyond your comprehension (stumbled upon a couple’s joint LinkedIn account)
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Bad move! Property taxes are some of the best on the books. They're highly efficient, and they're pro-family! They're disliked because they disfavor retirees, who just want to sit on their plots of land forever, without any disturbance, change, or care for younger generations.
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis has dropped a bombshell, demanding the complete elimination of property taxes in the United States. Ron stated, "It's almost like they have to pay rent to the government just to enjoy their property. That's wrong. We need to do something about it."
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Mayor-elect Mamdani stakes out a position against the Protestant Reformation
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani citing James 2:14 this morning: “Faith, without works, is dead.”
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I assumed this was a joke, but apparently it is basically correct – Cambridge generally requires that a sum equivalent 1% of the capital cost of new developments be spent on public art. It is right that councils should intervene to support aesthetic standards, but I wonder if
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raise it on shop bought booze, freeze/lower it in the pubs imo
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is considering increasing alcohol duty by 3.6% in the Budget [@LBC]
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With continually rising unemployment you would think nominally left wing parties would be pushing for job guarantee programmes instead of whatever this is
People fleeing war and persecution are ready and able to contribute to our society. The problem is... they're not allowed. Rather than shipping them off to army barracks all over the country, it's time to let asylum seekers work.
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Should consider getting herself some mates the fuckin gimp
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is considering increasing alcohol duty by 3.6% in the Budget [@LBC]
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First time having surgery tomorrow. Please keep me in your prayers, friends
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We are the nephews of miscellaneous uncs you couldn’t make shoot poison
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The sad thing is that the large building is a very similar style to London’s council housing built by the LCC. Bring back palaces for the working classes.
Phase 4 Poundbury is shaping up to be the best part of the project. Just simple, pretty and English.
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We know this is true because economists have tracked every person and building in Sweden from 1990 - 2017. It found that building new homes, even “posh” flats, frees up cheaper homes for working-class people.
Here's something fascinating happening in the apartment market right now. The cheapest, oldest apartments (Class C) are getting crushed right now. But ONLY in cities that just delivered tons of new apartments. Let me show you the numbers: Denver: Class C rents down 13.9%
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This is a good illustration of a general principle: As you build new high-end apartments, people move up, freeing up supply of lower-tier apartments. Building luxury housing thus lowers downmarket rents. You don't need to build 'affordable housing' to make housing affordable.
Here's something fascinating happening in the apartment market right now. The cheapest, oldest apartments (Class C) are getting crushed right now. But ONLY in cities that just delivered tons of new apartments. Let me show you the numbers: Denver: Class C rents down 13.9%
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It’s working. Buyers are boycotting leasehold flats. They rightly refuse to be financial serfs. Yet @UKLabour’s answer? “Build! Baby! Build!” People won’t buy until they can trust and love the product. Homeownership should mean autonomy and control. Commonhold NOW!
Even developers can’t sell leaseholds - just 19 in London in May, where affordability is worst. So much for @SteveReed’s “Build, Baby, Build”! @UKLabour must abolish the toxic leasehold and fleecehold regimes to put money back in people’s pockets and revive the housing market.
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Want to feel old? In The Simpsons, Marge is supposed to be 34 years old.
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In the UK, we have de-automated smoke detectors. Buildings across Britain now have roving 24/7 'fire patrols' conducted by full-time 'waking watches' due to post-Grenfell regulations. Their job is to just wander around buildings aimlessly with an air horn to 'detect' fires.
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I’m not joking when I say that building more housing in major cities may be the best suicide prevention programme a government could do
And yet blue cosmopolitan cities have - by some distance - the lowest suicide rates.
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French MP argues we should give extra money to French pensioners retired in Italy to pay for their tax lawyers The doom loop marches on
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“Universal Boomer Income”
Just found out that my mother (the tax partner in a firm of London accountants) has just received the first instalment of her winter fuel allowance. Universal Boomer Income.
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