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It would help people to qualify because of the increase in take-home pay could be taken into consideration. That would be a choice you would have to make. You can't leave anything to the kids if you were never able to buy a home in the first place. Building homes is not real estate speculation, lack of supply has driven prices up, not speculation. Increasing taxes on capital gains does not encourage people to build homes.

Yes they are, different societies have different interpretations of rights, we even have courts that interpret our own rights and occasionally change them. BTW, slavery is also a human invention. Almost half of the delegates who wrote the US constitution were slave owners including the first, third and fourth presidents.

You would certainly be deducting a large part of it but you would also be able to pay of a mortgage quicker and it would make it easier for first time buyers to get into a home. You could also make it optional. You could not deduct interest and sell with no capital gains tax or accept the deduction and pay tax when you sell.

No, I’m just pointing out that the notion of rights is a human invention and have nothing to do with a god. Rights vary and change according to how humans interpret them.

I just did. Nature won’t give two figs for your imaginary rights. They are a human invention.

They do but there is no questioning their commitment.

First the US and now the Brits. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/rishi-sunak-promises-uks-largest-ever-military-support-package-for-ukraine

Telecoms are protected from foreign competition in Canada, as long as they enjoy that protection, there is nothing wrong with holding them accountable.

Mortgage interest on a primary residence is tax deductible in the US but they pay capital gains unless they buy another principle residence of equal or greater value. Perhaps we should be doing that to help first time buyers.

So you think the withdrawal from Viet Nam in 1973 was well handled?

So you don't believe in taxes either.

Did the Iroquois use our alphabet?

I actually think a term of compulsory service would be a good thing for young people. Doesn’t seem to have hurt the Scandinavians or Swiss. When a referendum was held in Switzerland to ban conscription 73% voted to keep it so they must see some good in it. Canadians seem to think their country owes them.

So US troops should have stayed in Iraq forever? They had already been there for ten years and it was Bush 2 who put them there.

Even the New York Post is calling her Moscow Marjorie.

Eventually we will come to the same point as the early nineties when creditors gave us an ultimatum and Chrétien/Martin had to slash spending. You can’t keep borrowing forever without your lenders eventually saying, enough.

If building homes as investments (rentals) is made unprofitable, why build them? I’ve never heard of a tax on something that encouraged anyone to produce it.

Iran has made it very clear that its object is to make Israel disappear. Israel has expressed no such intent toward Iran.

Oh, I agree. Hard to imagine it being worse than what we wound up with. I just don't think you can take anything for granted in that part of the world. Certainly not democracy. Same goes for Russia, all they have ever known is a strong man to tell them what to do, whether it be a Czar, First Secretary or a dictator like Putin. Yes, Eisenhower.

Who knows. That secular democracy might not have lasted 75 years.

It isn't a lie at all. Former Republican Guard members made up a good part of Islamic state and similar groups that were opposed by Saddam. The rise of these groups was a direct result of the instability created by the invading of Iraq. Saddam was a pr*ck but at least he was a pr*ck that had been muzzled and on a leash. His Iraq was a counterweight to Iran. Once Iraq was out of the way, Iran was free to go after Israel.

Their would have been no Islamic State if Busch 2 hadn't invaded Iraq disbanded the Republican Guard and created a huge power vacuum.

The Georgia trial won't, he is being prosecuted by the state.

Whatever happens in this trial won’t amount to a lot. Trump really should be worried about Georgia, that really could put him in jail.