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The steep roofs on the older homes indicate it’s in the Snow Belt. The mansion-like home in the upper right corner suggests it’s in an older, established, affluent suburb of a major city — one that’s perhaps not as prosperous now as it once was. What was once a larger estate was carved up into lots for tract homes. Outskirts of Gary, Indiana?
Madison, Wisconsin. There’s a Highway 151 through there.
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Your logic is pretty good, but your guess is a bit off.
That street name probably is Karlson.
It’s in Scandinavian country for sure. If not Madison, then Highway 151 goes through Fond du Lac at one end and Dubuque at the other. Or 151 could be a state or county road in Minnesota. But upper midwest for sure.
Here in Denmark
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&.....0K%C3%B8ge
Near Karistrup Strand
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That’s it!
Roger, you were definitely right about it being in Scandinavian country. :)
@8 I was right about it being in snow country, too.
While we’re on this subject, I’m reading a book by economist James K. Galbraith that points out Denmark is the third richest country in the world even though it has no oil or gas. Why? Because, Galbraith says, they have much greater income equality than we do. And it can be statistically demonstrated that income equality and low unemployment go hand-in-hand, and income inequality (such as the U.S. has) and high unemployment are also very closely correlated. The reason is simple: Unemployment reduces economic efficiency and produces a lower standard of living for everyone, because the unemployed aren’t producing anything. Galbraith’s argument is that if the U.S. had a more egalitarian income structure, we could all live in homes like those in this photo, and it wouldn’t take liar loans or a mortgage market implosion and economic collapse to do it, it would be sustainable based on the higher productivity of a full-employment economy. The Republicans are wrong again. But then, hell, they’ve never been right about anything.
All these wingnuts scream flat tax, flat tax, blah, blah, blah..
I’m all for a flat tax – if income equality was more or less like Denmark – it’d work just fine.
@11 Hell, I’d settle for a flat tax under the system we have. Did you know 40% of corporations pay zero tax? A billionaire can deduct his private jet or helicopter as a “business expense,” but an office clerk can’t deduct her bus fare to work. Our tax system coddles the rich and screws workers; and then, to add insult to injury, we have to listen to conservatives carp about how overtaxed the Privileged Class is blah blah blah … hey, well, you know what? I’d be willing to pay the same tax rate as an office clerk if I could travel like this —
http://www.alohatoystore.com/M.....te-jet.jpg
Economist Gary Becker popularized the term “human capital”. So why can’t the individual be viewed as a “business”?
Profit? –you want to be able to save, i.e., spend less than you earn, and what about tax-loss carry forwards?
MC = MR? Yep. When you work longer, you get tired. Your marginal caloric costs go up! Just like a business.
Tax write offs: Well, if you’re a business, you get to write off all direct costs like transportation, investment (botox, etc.), depreciation (you get old and wear out), and insurance against wages (revenues).