It literally is a mall, just one with trains. The only hint that’s this is a train station are the three small train track screens.

Thank you! I strongly echo your sentiment. The upgrades to Penn Station and more recently, the new expansion to Grand Central, are horrible.

Once again NYC architects continue to push the obsession of soulless white architecture in a city that tracks dirt and grime everywhere. Floor will be permanently stained pretty quick just like WTC path platforms.

WTC oculus is the perfect example to be honest. Has no soul. No life. No personality. It’s bland, blinding white marble flooring, white walls, white roof, and white LED lights’ all meld together. The building’s purpose is to funnel you into luxury stores to spend money and take vapid photos for social media. Public transit entrances/exits conveniently hidden away by stairs as if some physiological ploy. No green space. No lounge space. Then just outside you have the beautiful memorial. The perfect juxtaposition of good design and crappy design.

Singapore Changi airport is what NYC architects design aspirations should be aimed towards for a transportation hub.

> average

Tax people enough and they'll leave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_tax_on_wealth

https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/education/2021/02/11/lessons-from-history-france-s-wealth-tax-did-more-harm-than-good/#:~:text=The%20tax%20%E2%80%93%20called%20the%20ISF,on%20assets%20over%20%E2%82%AC10m).

Before you start spouting hyperboles and crap you have no idea of what you're talking about. Try educating yourself.

https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/education/2021/02/11/lessons-from-history-france-s-wealth-tax-did-more-harm-than-good/#:~:text=The%20tax%20%E2%80%93%20called%20the%20ISF,on%20assets%20over%20%E2%82%AC10m).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_tax_on_wealth

Europe tried a wealth tax. It didn't work and that's why only 3 European countries still have one. They share the same problem we have. Millionaires can just move to another state (or country in Europe).

France lost billions of dollars in potential tax revenue and the average family impacted by the tax paid a paltry sum of around 2,000 euros.

The millionaires will just move their residency to another state. Same thing happened with France except they moved to a different country. All that money affords them hyper-mobility.

Found this to be the same when applying for car loans and credit cards as well. Not 100 points but 30-60 points.

The items required don't sound unreasonable, but the focal point of the article was the time frame that they're required to turn over all of that evidence in. Seems like there's more of a limited resource of staffing and man hours, not a lack of access to the evidence. And it seems like these requirements were instituted either out of ignorance to the reality of its feasibility or malice to cripple the system.

I'd bet a lot of money the same people that bought this bill to fruition are not even remotely interested in increasing staffing to meet its obligations.

Only great for people who already own a home and want/have kids. The education you love so much costs so much money that the kids being educated won't even be able to afford to buy a home in the state they were taught in.

On average over half of your town's property taxes go to the municipality's schools.

I don’t have as much sympathy for these employees as I did the last time they threatened to strike when I was studying at Rutgers.

The union campaigned hard for student support and we gave it to them. Tuition was then raised way above average to compensate. Whether or not that’s justified is another story. Either way, the union was dead silent and has continued to be silent on increases in tuition. If the support doesn’t go both ways they’re not getting any from me at all.

Not an excuse. Sorry not sorry short kings and queens of NJ. If you can’t reach the roof of your car, buy an extended brush, step-stool, or sell your SUV/pickup truck. If you want a SUV or pickup truck you have a responsibility to clean it. End of story.

Corporate landlord sold the building a few months before my lease was up. They started renting out apartments for new leases a bit lower than what they increased mine to. I think they wanted me out to renovate it.

At least I got my full security deposit back. They could have deducted a decent amount for cleaning.

My rent went from $1750 to $2450 for an apartment in New Brunswick.

Mine was accepted about 3 weeks ago and it shows as "processing" on Wheres My Refund.

How does this work for immunoglobulins such as in the case of rabbies then? Do they just study which antibodies are the best and only collect those from the people that have them?

True. Global Entry is only $15 more than TSA Precheck though so you might as well go for that option even if you don't travel internationally that often. It includes TSA Precheck.

The interview isn't really an interview tbh. They just confirm what you put on your application, ask why you traveled to certain countries (business or leisure), and how the program works. Took 5-10 minutes.

You can also use a Global Entry card as a substitute for a real ID drivers license because the GE card is real ID compliant. You need a passport to get one, but you don't have to carry around your passport on domestic flights as least.

It's a federal rule so the ban on using a non-realID drivers license for domestic flights applies to all states. That said you can also apply for global entry and that card can get you on domestic flights.

People still go to malls if you don't live in South Jersey. Menlo, Garden State, Short Hills, etc.. All packed during the weekends.

I work with contractors all the time on private and public projects. A lot of the time, especially on public projects, the change order is the result of nefarious intentions on the contractor's side to squeeze as much money as possible out of the owner because the government pays out big once a project is in the construction phase. CSI Format Specs were born out of the result of gross, shady contractors and increase project costs.

Lack of oversight leads to shit like this:

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• Public contracts go to the lowest bidder i.e. the lowest common denominator. So you're already off to a bad start.
• Contractor (bidder) intentionally bids as low as possible, hiring consultants to substitute as much equipment and materials as physically possible to decrease their bid. If you're lucky, sometimes they "accidentally" miss things in the contract and try to get a change order for those things later on, delaying construction.
• Contractor will go behind the designer/engineer/architect's back straight to the owner or your client, violating the chain of command set up in the contract mind you, and say "Hey I can do Z instead of X and save you (and the contractor themselves) $$$$!" Owner/Client then comes to you and is eager to move forward with this substitution or design change which puts pressure on you to approve an inferior product that may not work as good.
  • This usually leads to RFIs down the road from the contractor to the designers when something goes wrong with their substitution and throws their hands up saying "Well what should we do now??? You approved it!" even though the contract stipulates the contractor is responsible for added costs due to substitutions.
• Contractor has now spent a shit ton of money on consultants that was not part of their bid. They now need to make money on the contract and recoup the costs of the consultants.
• Contractor will continuously wear designers/architects/engineers down, sending in submittals that keep getting rejected for the same reason hoping they just relent. Sometimes they just give you submittals that have the completely wrong products for the spec or are just massively incomplete. They never send the full submittals if you do a partial approval.
• Contractor will submit products for review that don't meet the specs 99% of the time. Sometimes they change a minor detail that you can easily miss during review. Boom. They want a change order for the correct product. Nah sorry, you submitted a substitution. That's on you Mr. Contractor. Get bent.
• Contractors generally install things however they want, treating design drawings (the contract) as recommendations. Time after time I see contractors cut corners to save costs violating the contract. When these cuts get caught in inspections, it constantly delays construction.
  • Will submit products for approval, but not buy them and secretly substitute with something else.
  • Will not install equipment with proper clearances even though the design accounted for them. Here comes the RFIs, change orders, and inspection failures!
  • The worst contractor I saw was for a brand new HVAC system for a building.
    • He just reused the existing system, installed a few pieces of flexible ductwork, and put in some cheapo Home Depot fans (not powered or ducted) hoping he'd get away with it and call it a day. LOL. Lawsuit.
  • Will just not install items that allow for a complete, operational system.
• Change orders pour in as a result of a contractor's inexperience in installing projects of certain designs. They don't know how to do it so they think they deserve more money to figure out how.

I really could go on and on. Can I also say that CBRE is the worst consulting group I've ever worked with?

Have you? I don't see Democrats trying to implement something like this. Instead they just blab about billionaires paying their fair share. Taxing billionaire won't let us afford social welfare. I guess we're at a standstill.

The last thing I want is the federal government and all of its bureaucracy , lobbying, and inefficiency running healthcare. 100% guaranteed to end up like Canada’s failing system.

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/sweden/individual/taxes-on-personal-income

So they implement the tax you’re so eager to sign up for of course. You said it, not me.

I’d rather have a little spending money leftover instead of the government taking it all but that’s just me.

Better vote republican then for their 23% sales tax :)

Too much taxes. No thank you.