I'm saying it's inextricably linked with the other factors and has played a defining role in much of American history. At the macro level, it's there.
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You didn't answer the question.
Again,
If the negroes didn't exist you'd stay in the same shitty urban environment I described above?
Certainly it would be a possibility that I buy an urban dwelling with a little more space.
Look man, I get that there are other reasons. But the development of American suburbs was laced with racism from top to bottom.
Like I said, you're allowed to disagree.
Thankfully you’re weren’t living in California or anywhere else in 1956. Or 1976.
I never thought of it that way. I doubt my parents thought of it that way.
Housing supply was short at the time so not likely.
And you're going to choose the house with the yard and a degree of peace and quiet anyway. Your little slice of the American dream.
You know it.
Especially when you've got three kids running around and it's affordable.
Have you ever lived in a 1950s - style apartment with paper thin walls in a crowded major city with zero emissions controls, high crime, cigarette smoking everywhere, urban filth, overcrowding, etc? I have... you're not going to get this experience on this continent or Western Europe but I think it gives perspective.
No cookies for you. But you get the best LA has to offer today. So, no complaints, right? You’re right where you want to be, right? Good on ya!
LOL life is pretty good.
Did I touch a nerve somewhere here? Apologies if I offended you.
Casa, buddy, I already answered that. You didn't like my answer which is fine.
I don't blame anybody for moving to the suburbs, I'm just saying the suburbs wouldn't exist in their current form without interventionist government policy and structural racism. (And yes, this is way off from the topic of conversation but I do love a good thread derail.)
Anyway, enjoy your evenings everyone!
You said you'd stay in the shitty urban environment and buy something with more square footage...which I pointed out was a cop out because one of the main factors driving people to suburbs was short supply of housing in the shitty urban environment.
But yes, we all know you love the dirty city and the bonus pitch black boogers.
What would be a better/more palatable alternative to collect than tacking on another nickel and a half, or having a gas tax at all? I mean in reality-land where the voters said this money is getting raised, not in the anarcho-capitalist utopia of Galt's Gulch aka Somalia. GWS is right that the gas tax (like any consumption tax including the FAIR tax; prebate in all holes) is regressive and it seems like a less 'elective' thing to levy a tax on vs taxing tobacco or alcohol.
Gas taxes by state, but it's from February:
How much gas tax adds to cost of filling up your car in every state
The government levies an 18.4 cent tax on every gallon of gasoline. On top of that, each state imposes its own tax, which if often even higher.
www.usatoday.com
Says Pennsylvania is #1 overall ($0.587) on $2.48, California #2 ($0.555) on $3.29
What is it called when urban blacks move away from blacks, and urban hispanics move away from hispanics? Is that raced based suburban sprawl?
In the 80's many blacks and hispanics moved away from inner burbs of LA to much more affordable AND less crime ridden newer suburbs of Riverside. Most were parents of young kids trying to get away from gangs and their influence on their own.
Problem ended up being that some of these kids were already gang bangers, and just started up gangs out in Moreno Valley and such.
Sad, but this also happens in lower/middle class white 'hoods just as much. New parents want to give their kids the best environment possible, and have some room for a dog and backyard BBQ's. Basically the classic American Dream, and it was that way long before WWII.
Hell, even China is copying us on that too.....
Or would you rather opt for this to raise a family in?
In the 80's many blacks and hispanics moved away from inner burbs of LA to much more affordable AND less crime ridden newer suburbs of Riverside. Most were parents of young kids trying to get away from gangs and their influence on their own.
Problem ended up being that some of these kids were already gang bangers, and just started up gangs out in Moreno Valley and such.
Sad, but this also happens in lower/middle class white 'hoods just as much. New parents want to give their kids the best environment possible, and have some room for a dog and backyard BBQ's. Basically the classic American Dream, and it was that way long before WWII.
Hell, even China is copying us on that too.....
Or would you rather opt for this to raise a family in?
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