tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post4988973155700257737..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: How Can the CDC Impose a Moratorium on Evictions?SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-25068801060543889852020-09-09T17:22:04.090-04:002020-09-09T17:22:04.090-04:00...or sending them to the death camps as our estee......or sending them to the death camps as our esteemed Greek story-teller has claimed in the past. Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108430731483801350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-27882515146826725282020-09-08T08:16:42.423-04:002020-09-08T08:16:42.423-04:00Aesop obviously agrees with me that there is no la...Aesop obviously agrees with me that there is no law, there is no Constitution, there is only power. And he's all for it.<br /><br />And you'll be burned as a witch if you don't bow down to the hysterical mask fad, because to not wear a mask is the same as walking down the street with a shotgun, blowing the heads off random strangers.McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243337792601085456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-84844466503775812822020-09-08T02:33:56.582-04:002020-09-08T02:33:56.582-04:00In 2014, 90+% of 250,000 people in Connecticut who...In 2014, 90+% of 250,000 people in Connecticut who were plausibly gun owners declined to file gun registration forms, and nothing happened to them. If there's ten million employees filing 99 dependents and small business owners not sending in quarterly tax payments, nothing will happen to them. Exchange your liquid assets for gold coins, stop paying your mortgage and car loan, take the license tag off your car, and turn off that cell phone. Don't accept any bad consequences, and nothing will happen. Problem is there aren't ten million actual conservatives in the USA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-34079244477309045452020-09-08T02:32:44.879-04:002020-09-08T02:32:44.879-04:00It's a vague law (probably deliberately, for g...It's a vague law (probably deliberately, for good and ill), and whether a moratorium on evictions is "necessary to prevent the spread of such diseases" is the point at issue. The "including" does not add "and limited to", therefore anything not listed that the CDC considers "necessary" fits the bill and is legal (without necessarily being also good or wise), unless otherwise determined by someone in black robes.<br /><br />When our Congressweasels write vague laws and delegate extra-Constitutional legal powers to unelected agencies, we get rule by bureaucratic fiat.<br />QED<br /><br />What it unquestionably is not is illegal, at this point, absent precedent to the contrary.<br />And it isn't particularly hard to argue that turning people (potentially infectious) out into the streets is counter-productive amidst a pandemic.<br /><br />So by all means, argue that landlord property rights amidst a pandemic trump not infecting anyone and everyone else in society, and someone's got a winning legal position.<br /><br />But I reckon it'll be a tough sell in court, however obnoxious and inconvenient to anyone renting a place.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-73087914538303357182020-09-07T23:31:58.889-04:002020-09-07T23:31:58.889-04:00Ah, you see, that's the beauty of today's ...Ah, you see, that's the beauty of today's taxation system. It's not the person paying the taxes himself: they're collected and handed in by others, for the most part. <br /><br />Most people getting a paycheck, have an estimate of their taxes taken right off the top. Sure, you can go to the trouble of claiming 99 dependents on your W-4, but that will raise some eyebrows and questions. <br /><br />Try not paying sales tax when you buy groceries or hardware or furniture. The store will refuse to not collect it. <br /><br />In fact about the only one I can think of offhand, is property taxes ... but then, if you have an escrow with your mortgage company, even that is "taken care of."jwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02276226253825348607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-57301421208260336472020-09-07T18:30:10.836-04:002020-09-07T18:30:10.836-04:00The Nazi's victims who could have so easily re...The Nazi's victims who could have so easily resisted but didn't, by their willing obedience to evil committed as big of an evil as the Nazis did. People who pride themselves on being law-abiding could simply stop paying taxes to their enemy's institutions. But they'd never do that, because government is their religion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-25459012523038289372020-09-07T15:49:15.398-04:002020-09-07T15:49:15.398-04:00Even before this I've noticed that properties ...Even before this I've noticed that properties that used to get "For Rent" signs now have "For Sale" signs.<br /><br />Almost as if the land lords are aware that a rental isn't worth the effort if a tenant can just blow off the rent and there's no recourse to recover it.<br /><br />Never mind a tenant who is paying the rent, but is also actively destroying the property.<br /><br />Never mind a combination of these...<br /><br />Coupled with how it's near impossible for a landlord to recover much more than the deposit thanks to tenant protection laws.Angus McThaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09295013525738248801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-37431053074399595382020-09-07T12:30:01.771-04:002020-09-07T12:30:01.771-04:00I have been lucky so far, in that I was smart enou...I have been lucky so far, in that I was smart enough to make sure my rental property is a more upscale one, so I am less likely to be forced to deal with low level morons who would skip out on paying rent. My tenants are paying, but that is because my rent was high enough to keep out the riff raff. <br /><br />My tenants are a young professional couple- she is a dentist, and he is a teacher. They have a young child with another on the way and I have no problems with them at all. They are nice people who pay their bills and don't trash my place. <br />The people who are hurting are the landlords who bought cheap places in the hood and have welfare recipients for tenants. Thankfully, I was smarter than that. Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-7403635350320169282020-09-07T11:22:30.124-04:002020-09-07T11:22:30.124-04:00Agreed! Here in Texas the threat has been ongoing...Agreed! Here in Texas the threat has been ongoing fines. Outside of the big cities (I live near San Antonio) and a few other places, no one is vigorously enforcing the mask requirements. Governor Abott has lost my support because he has succumb to the hysteria and I will vote for an alternate conservative (if we still can) in two years. The patterns over the last 30+ years and in particular the last 15 or so, have shown that we are into a country RULED by the bureaucrats. BillBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17593147581583316765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45292269871286710692020-09-07T09:34:16.419-04:002020-09-07T09:34:16.419-04:00There are no laws. There is no constitution. The...There are no laws. There is no constitution. There is only power.<br />Nothing any of the governors have done over the previous 6 months re: Covid has been legal, either. And yet the people obey.McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243337792601085456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-38534112181053209782020-09-07T09:19:58.392-04:002020-09-07T09:19:58.392-04:00The CDC Foundation is not a "dotgov" age...The CDC Foundation is not a "dotgov" agency. The CDC itself, however, most certainly is. Retired Mustanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02699864696101977529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-60655176996888264552020-09-07T06:51:05.990-04:002020-09-07T06:51:05.990-04:00And there's the main problem with gubmint alph...And there's the main problem with gubmint alphabet regulatory agencies. They are handed power that is not constitutionally theirs to have or to be handed. Then all they have to do is issue diktats and VOILA! Property rights, what property rights?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-49693641185186943632020-09-06T23:43:43.527-04:002020-09-06T23:43:43.527-04:00first, this isn't "trump's cdc".... first, this isn't "trump's cdc". the cdc is NOT a dotgov agency, its a501c3 charity. its certainly not trump's, he's been scrapping with them from the start of this covidcrap. i'm not even sure he knows about this eviction moratorium. there must be millions of bits and pieces of information all screaming for his attention right now. riverriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198514937704741211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-36714558263611216952020-09-06T23:02:11.595-04:002020-09-06T23:02:11.595-04:00Under what moral argument does the organized crimi...Under what moral argument does the organized criminal gang called government deserve any control over anything? The head monkey jumps and screams and issues commands, and the follower monkeys obey. Most humans are NPCs; it's not any more complicated than that.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_sociality<br /><br /><i>Interestingly, some researchers hypothesise that fission fusion societies may have been socially inherited from the last shared common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45442455533625314282020-09-06T22:50:31.044-04:002020-09-06T22:50:31.044-04:00I suspect there's plenty more from this Admini...I suspect there's plenty more from this Administration to come on the self-serving front.billy.harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05804252498154339972noreply@blogger.com