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Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch (www.businessinsider.com)

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Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cool, but you know who isn’t getting a free lunch now? Those millionaires who worked so hard for that money. What have those kids done to earn theirs?

/s, to be clear. I wish these cool places to live (e.g, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan) weren’t so fucking cold. Why can’t there be a nice liberal southern state?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is. It is California and a 500sqft house cost $1000000000

[–] AngryCommieKender 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not exactly. Yeah if you want to live literally within 5 miles of the coast property out here is a bit expensive. I have a house in IB, so I paid through the nose in 2019 to get it. As I understand the market, somehow the "value" of the house has more than doubled since then and all I have improved is that we now have a wheelchair ramp, a doggy ramp out back, solar power, a power wall, a fast EV charger, and 3300 gallons of rainwater collection storage. While that stuff was expensive, it wasn't over the price of the house expensive.

That being said, there are 3-4 bedroom houses in Santee that are going for $150,000-$250,000.

If you need something that is under $100,000, then you'll need reliable transportation, but you can pick up places in Anzo Borrego for $50,000-$75,000.

Since I purchased "recently" we get real estate listings sent to us, so I have a pretty good grasp on the market. That being said, I'm of the opinion that current prices are wildly overinflated, but I don't work in real estate, so I don't know. That's just a gut feeling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Uhh, the cold isn't the problem. It's too expensive to live here and the real fix for housing (forced upzoning by the State) is a political nonstarter.

But I will gladly shovel snow versus face the heat, humidiity, snakes, bears, tornadoes, severe hurricanes, drought, wild fires, car oriented development, and whatever other nightmares the rest of the country has to offer. Just get a good coat, LL Bean boots, and a snowblower. It's not that bad.