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No dime. Like a garage. Like the part of a house where you park a car. I'd not live where I can't park a car.

 

Oh, you mean a garage... In San Francisco  :lol:

 

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It's the little gray box in the middle, the one with a garage

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Oh, you mean a garage... In San Francisco :lol:

 

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It's the little gray box in the middle, the one with a garage

I guarantee that place has a hardcore american roach infestation. All those shitbrick Edwardians do. They love that black redwood.

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How Three Texas Counties Created Personal Social Security Accounts and Prospered

 

Across the country, state and local governments are facing huge unfunded liabilities for their employee pension plans. And then there’s Social Security.

 

But three neighboring Texas counties, which opted out of Social Security 30 years ago by creating personal retirement accounts, have avoided a fiscal train wreck while providing retirees with even more retirement income.

 

Galveston, Matagorda and Brazoria County employees, many of them union members, have seen their retirement savings grow every year, even during the Great Recession. If state and local governments—and Congress—are really looking for a path to long-term sustainable entitlement reform, they might start with what is referred to as the “Alternate Plan.”

 

But the Alternate Plan takes a different approach, one I call a “banking model.” Employee and employer contributions are actively managed by a financial planner—in this case, First Financial Benefits, Inc., of Houston, which both originated the plan and has managed it since inception.

 

The contributions are pooled, like bank deposits, and top-rated financial institutions bid on the money. Those institutions guarantee an interest rate that won’t go below a base level, and could go higher if the market does well. Over the last decade, the accounts have earned between 3.75 percent and 5.75 percent every year, with an average of around 5 percent. The 1990s often saw even higher interest rates, 6.5 to 7 percent. Thus, when the market goes up, employees make more; and when the market goes down, employees still make something.

 

Like Social Security, employees contribute 6.2 percent of their income, with the county matching the contribution (Galveston has chosen to provide a slightly larger share). Once the county makes its contribution, its financial obligation is done. So there are no long-term unfunded liabilities.

 

But not all of that money goes into an employee’s retirement account. When financial planner Rick Gornto devised the Alternate Plan in 1981, he wanted it to be a complete substitute for Social Security. And Social Security isn’t just a retirement fund; it’s social insurance that provides a death benefit—a whopping $255—survivors’ insurance, and a disability benefit.

 

Part of the employer contribution in the Alternate Plan goes toward a term life insurance policy, which pays four times the employee’s salary tax free, up to a maximum of $215,000. That’s nearly 850 times Social Security’s death benefit.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2011/05/12/how-three-texas-counties-created-personal-social-security-accounts-and-prospered/#135b84ca3283

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Free cash for everyone? Stockton, Calif.'s mayor plans to see if it works

 

As a kid growing up in Stockton, California, a little extra money would've meant the world to Michael Tubbs' family.

 

Tubbs' mother worked long hours as a cashier at a Discovery Zone and still had to borrow from check cashing places to get by. "If we had $300 a month, life would be less stressful, or we could move into another neighborhood," Tubbs says. "Maybe she would've been able to go back to school and get her BA, or pursue a passion."

 

Today, Tubbs is Stockton's 27-year-old mayor. Last week, he announced the launch of an experimental program that will give people like his mom about $500 a month, with no strings attached.

 

Stockton will likely become the first city in the nation to test out a version of universal basic income, an economic system that would regularly provide all residents enough money to cover basic expenses, with no conditions or restrictions.

 

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/27/news/economy/stockton-universal-basic-income/index.html

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Isnt life just soo wonderfull?

 

Trumps our man, walls being built, Hillary got busted, Brexit is completely happening. WHAT THE FUCK MORE COULD YOU WANT?. I hope the best for Canada and Sweden.

 

Wa ha ha ha ha.... this is about health insurance right? We already have free coverage. You should try it then you'd have everything you could want. .

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Department of Justice considering quotas for immigration judges

 

It has been reported that the Department of Justice is considering implementing minimal quotas on immigration justices and, in doing so, pressuring them to deport more individuals in a shorter time span than would have previously been considered appropriate.

 

Critics of this plan, which include many of the justices themselves, have dismissed it as an “assembly line” that would greatly violate individuals’ rights to due process as well as working against the integrity of the court in general and its justices in the system. Additionally, less time to review would almost certainly create more carelessness as would necessitating a minimum number of deportations, both of which would lead to innocent people being unjustly convicted. Another factor is the backlog of more than a half-million pending immigration cases already in the system, all of which have been given but still require time and consideration to come to a fair verdict.

 

https://www.immigrationquestion.com/blog/department-of-justice-considering-quotas-for-immigration-judges/

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Wa ha ha ha ha.... this is about health insurance right? We already have free coverage. You should try it then you'd have everything you could want. .

 

 

nope,

but you are facing a major immigration crisis and loss of speech freedom

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