Yeah real depressing that even leftist were like 'a small increase in taxi burrito is unacceptable price to help the lower income workers.' Only small silver lining is I think it makes it more likely we won't bailout AI if the bubble pops bad.

I went through every proclamation once. The first to mention the Plymouth colony was JFK. Before the 1940s, the proclamations at most mentioned "an ancient tradition" of thanksgiving festivals.

It is honestly shattering to my politics that people said stuff like "give people help with health care cost and lots of money to build green infrastructure and you will win over the working class"
Biden did that; He got very unpopular and people keep saying this is the same secret to winning.

Yes, I’ve made this point for 5 years or more but the reason it’s so hard to move away from this structural economic view of the political and social universe is because the center wants to believe it (to downplay social issues) and left also wants to believe it (to vindicate Marx)

Don't know how close you are to the income cliff but if you select a HSA eligible plan and plan to put money in your HSA that reduces your official income letting you qualify for more subsidies. www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/how-mig....

We had stuff in the pipeline when it passed but the number of actual units crashed real hard in Portland once unfunded IZ kicked in but not across the river. Showing number of projects didn't change much but total units did really drive home how much unfunded IZ cost us.