Recent content by OwnTheRide

I often wonder what the impacts of single-payer will be on people who invested in their future healthcare - for example, people socking money away in HSAs, or teachers who accept lower income in exchange for post-retirement health insurance options. The former might see some recovery, such as...

The liberals make a lot of noise, but noise doesn't necessarily turn into votes. What matters is the economy, and in that respect, I agree that there needs to be a turnaround in order for a Republican to win in 2028. Everything has gotten ridiculously expensive. I don't know that it's actually...

Of course it's a pipe dream. NYC will never release their stranglehold on upstate. If we put that aside and assume we did somehow separate NY into two states, however, I wouldn't consider it a pipe dream. Our votes would actually count, and we could elect representatives who actually...

That's what I mean. NYC drives the government, and makes us have social services at a level we wouldn't have if we ruled ourselves. We wouldn't need to. They'd self-deport once we stopped the free shit gravy train. Likely to NYC.

I don't think so... that's always been an intentionally misleading statement. Yes, on balance, NYC taxes "support" upstate. But that support is necessary to fund liberal policies that wouldn't exist if they weren't shoved down our throats. A separate upstate would have a much smaller...

I agree with this sentiment.... but... it becomes a problem when this is accepted as the norm, and the purported "bad guy" isn't a bad guy at all. Like, say, a lawful concealed carrier doing nothing wrong at all meets a jumpy cop with an itchy trigger finger. As has happened many times. It's...

There's a significant difference, in that it's fairly easy to prevent a kid from accessing a physical item you possess. That's something that is entirely under the control of the parent. Restricting who the kids associate with isn't. Not that I agree with prosecuting parents in either case...

...and property taxes...

Definitely agree with the sentiment, though I think this case was an easier win (for the wrong side) than the Crumbleys (parents of the Oxford High School shooter). In their case, they failed to secure their firearms, and they possibly missed some warning signs. In this case, the father was...

Not a fan of this trend of convicting parents for the crimes of their children, though I will admit this was a pretty egregious case. His son outright idolized school shooters.

So, then, you are opposed to alcohol being made legal? It is a drug, it was once illegal, and it was made legal by the same people who ripped many of your gun rights away. You seem to be hung up on marijuana, not realizing or intentionally disregarding the fact that all of the same arguments...

I kind of wish they'd do that near me, though it would be an eminent domain nightmare. I've seen too many Amish traveling late at night on dark roads in dark buggies. They are required to have battery-operated lights now, which helps a lot, but I still see accidents waiting to happen all the...

I'll second this. I didn't start working to support myself until the early 90s, but I was constantly working 2-3 jobs while attending school just to barely scrape by. What got me out of that cycle was picking lucrative majors in college that had excellent job prospects, and working my ass off to...

That would almost make one think that mental illness is something we should be concerned about! But, nah, must be the guns.

Eh, this is a twisting of words. Read the article and what he really said. He's not saying that students should be required to protest, he's saying that this is a situation that needs to be protested against. Big difference.