My mother owns 12 small rental in the suburbs of Chicago (they are small apts in various buildings around her house). Her income is generally 30-60k per year depending on how much maintenance costs. I wouldn't say she works more than say 4…

Even if the majority of rental income goes towards the landlord's mortgage, that's not an expense, that's equity going into the property, which the landlord gets back. It's a bit like saying 'my profit margin is slim because I put most of …

Don't blame taxes. We don't have a problem with excessive taxation. If anything we have the opposite problem as evidenced by our revenue. We haven't run at a surplus since clinton (sort of) and it's because every republican president has c…

I take great exception to any argument that advocates for deregulation. The law exists to tell the bad man what not to do. And the only reason we even have regulations is because our society has demonstrated that they can't help themselves…

I agree that housing should be a right for all people but where the question becomes more complex is over the location of that housing.In a Canadian example people often cite the crazy home prices in Toronto and Vancouver but nobody ever m…

Two other women and I work out front and we know almost everyone in that whole building. I'm also afraid of how long it will take people to feel okay to go back to work and scared for anyone else who is emotionally impacted by an event lik…

Two other women and I work out front and we know almost everyone in that whole building. I'm also afraid of how long it will take people to feel okay to go back to work and scared for anyone else who is emotionally impacted by an event lik…

You'd think back before Columbine and there was one every couple of years. It turned into one high profile mass shooting every year or so, which shortened to every couple months and now we're getting into how many weeks it's been since the…

You don't shoot the tank with the rifle. You shoot the fuel dumps. You shoot the transformer hanging off a power line, and then shoot the men who show up to repair it. Soon there are no public works employees. You disable train tracks and …

Since the gun proponents are so hell bent on an antiquated right, one in which the only way its purpose could be fulfilled would be to sell nukes, then they need to have to take that right as literally intended at the time. You cannot defe…

They let him go with a warning he’d be arrested for trespassing if he came back. My last two weeks at the job I was extremely concerned he’d come back. The whole point of changing careers was that I didn’t want to be involved in having to …

I've modified my thoughts on gun control, I don't care anymore, each state that continues to vote in Republicans and Democrats that side with the NRA are responsible for what they sowed. And if a person doesn't vote, I simply don't care wh…

It's almost as if all they've done is enabled people to pick a location where they can do the most carnage possible without any chance of someone defending themselvesBecause hypocrites. It’s easy to sit and say, “thoughts and prayers” inst…

Therapy is limited in most plans to once a month and they will not cover it for very long. Do you think 12 hours a year of therapy would have stopped this guy from killing these people?I don't normally lean left or right. I really could gi…

Americans need mental health holidays but they won't even vote for their own insurance because others they've deemed to be lazy will get insurance too. Nevermind that we as a society will eventually pick up the cost.How many more times doe…

Of course I'm also terribly bothered by the fact that this continues to happen, time and time again, and by the fact that at this point, I'm basically acclimated to this. Mass shootings have gotten so bad that I actually thought "12 isn't …

Do cars reduce car accidents???? Do you argue that tax evasion laws should be repealed because criminals who evade taxes don't follow tax laws???For fucks sake 12 people are dead, have the decency to at least be honest about the situation.…

To all the idiots about to post about how we need MORE guns and about how we need "good guys" with guns.Good guys with a gun didnt stop a bad guy with a gun, the bad guy with a gun killed 12 people, and the bad guy shot a good guy with a g…

How can we enforce and restrict gun ownership effectively while also suppressing a large and active black market? The process of buying a firearm has just as many rules and regulations as Canada, but it seems as though as countries we shar…

It doesn’t matter if the police didn’t report his name. CNN and the NYT both reported his name and information hours after the shooting and continue to post articles about him as they get more information. His name is all over the internet…

It starts with throwing milkshakes at people you don't agree with and leads to killing them. It's not guns, it's violent people.It's unacceptable for anyone to use physical attacks of any kind against anyone unless you're defending yoursel…

Firearms may exacerbate the systemic violence but they arent the root cause of it as shown by other countries with similar per capita ownership but little to no violence. Obviously I am referencing the Czech Republic and Switzerland which …

I agree that housing should be a right for all people but where the question becomes more complex is over the location of that housing.In a Canadian example people often cite the crazy home prices in Toronto and Vancouver but nobody ever m…

Of course I'm also terribly bothered by the fact that this continues to happen, time and time again, and by the fact that at this point, I'm basically acclimated to this. Mass shootings have gotten so bad that I actually thought "12 isn't …

Do cars reduce car accidents???? Do you argue that tax evasion laws should be repealed because criminals who evade taxes don't follow tax laws???For fucks sake 12 people are dead, have the decency to at least be honest about the situation.…

To all the idiots about to post about how we need MORE guns and about how we need "good guys" with guns.Good guys with a gun didnt stop a bad guy with a gun, the bad guy with a gun killed 12 people, and the bad guy shot a good guy with a g…

How can we enforce and restrict gun ownership effectively while also suppressing a large and active black market? The process of buying a firearm has just as many rules and regulations as Canada, but it seems as though as countries we shar…

It doesn’t matter if the police didn’t report his name. CNN and the NYT both reported his name and information hours after the shooting and continue to post articles about him as they get more information. His name is all over the internet…

It starts with throwing milkshakes at people you don't agree with and leads to killing them. It's not guns, it's violent people.It's unacceptable for anyone to use physical attacks of any kind against anyone unless you're defending yoursel…

Firearms may exacerbate the systemic violence but they arent the root cause of it as shown by other countries with similar per capita ownership but little to no violence. Obviously I am referencing the Czech Republic and Switzerland which …