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That's because Healthcare and our higher education intuitions have developed into a money scam system. Boston along with the surrounding areas have become part of the Govt corporatism type society. Not community-based families. Besides Biotech/Robotics most of Boston old manufacturing has been gutted and really creates more paper nonsense financial/XYZ college degrees.
Almost 35% of jobs in Mass are education/healthcare related. I'm not sure where Boston will stand on the Global front in the future because of its high cost of living now seems to be unsustainable and like similar to other blue state cities where the income inequality seems to be at the extreme.

I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican but below really states the truth about Democrats
Top 5 income inequality states in 2024-2025 all blue and extreme

Highest‑inequality states
  • New York
  • Connecticut
  • California
  • Massachusetts
  • Illinois
 
Johnnyrocket891 said:
I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican but below really states the truth about Democrats
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Ah, yes, the animal known as square #6.
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Johnnyrocket891 said:
I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican but below really states the truth about Democrats
Top 5 income inequality states in 2024-2025 all blue and extreme

Highest‑inequality states
  • New York
  • Connecticut
  • California
  • Massachusetts
  • Illinois
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What this actually states is "there are poor people everywhere but wealthy people who can afford to choose where they live want nothing to do with red states"
 
At this point, local businesses in Boston mostly means a subcontractor to a hospital system or universities or some Global corporation. The largest employers are almost entirely hospitals, universities, and financial institutions hardly a diverse, resilient local economy anymore.

Mom & Pop shops that created the character of Boston from 70's to 2000's will not be able to survive elevated inflation and wage pressures while competing for space in the city where operating costs are rising faster than revenues. Also let's not pretend this city was built by free market capitalism. Boston hospitals and universities receive billions annually in federal and state tax funding, Boston leads the nation in NIH funding, and nearly every major redevelopment has relied heavily on taxpayer capital structure or public financing.

Boston local economy is DEAD. Boston isn't a free market, it's not natural. It's an institutional economy propped up by Federal & State taxpayers' funds and global interests. pretending otherwise you're just lying to yourselves.
 
Johnnyrocket891 said:
Boston local economy is DEAD.
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Have to disagree with that statement. The economy is obviously functional and serving the populace. Otherwise, Boston would be a dystopian hell hole, but it is instead one of the most attractive large cities in the US.
 
Boston’s local economy is getting wiped out. Small businesses can’t survive rents, declining real wages, and an economy designed to protect institutions instead of people. The city keeps building the same “luxury” box developments—gym, pool, rooftop funded by capital and often cushioned by public subsidies, while real local culture is priced out. What’s being lost isn’t just affordability it’s the economic freedom that produces creativity, art, and real community.
If you work in healthcare, insurance, or college admin, you’re probably insulated, well‑paid, and professionally allergic to the idea that the system might be broken.

Boston without Federal & State Funds would be crushed.
NIH alone is 2.5 billion dollars in Fed Tax dollars funneled in Boston for the scam healthcare/Educational/Insurance system.

Boston the last 15 years is propped up by Federal & state funds. Local economy is dead unless your part of the scammers.

Record#'s of America's that are homeless.

Inflation didn’t hit evenly.
It targeted the things required for stability and upward mobility.
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  • Education, healthcare, housing, and childcare exploded in price
  • Productivity‑enhancing technology collapsed in price
  • Wages did not keep pace with the essentials
  • Federal Reserve bank debased the purchasing power of our labor
  • endless corporate bailouts and tax subsidaries.
The moment debt interest threatens to exceed federal tax revenue, the argument is over. That’s not strength, stability, or leadership—it’s called insolvency

That’s why working‑class purchasing power collapsed, creative risk vanished, and cities drift toward institutional, corporate, and bureaucratic dominance. That data speaks for itself.

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Johnnyrocket891 said:
Boston’s local economy is getting wiped out. Small businesses can’t survive rents, declining real wages, and an economy designed to protect institutions instead of people. The city keeps building the same “luxury” box developments—gym, pool, rooftop funded by capital and often cushioned by public subsidies, while real local culture is priced out. What’s being lost isn’t just affordability it’s the economic freedom that produces creativity, art, and real community.
If you work in healthcare, insurance, or college admin, you’re probably insulated, well‑paid, and professionally allergic to the idea that the system might be broken.

Boston without Federal & State Funds would be crushed.
NIH alone is 2.5 billion dollars in Fed Tax dollars funneled in Boston for the scam healthcare/Educational/Insurance system.

Boston the last 15 years is propped up by Federal & state funds. Local economy is dead unless your part of the scammers.

Record#'s of America's that are homeless.


  • Education, healthcare, housing, and childcare exploded in price
  • Productivity‑enhancing technology collapsed in price
  • Wages did not keep pace with the essentials
  • Federal Reserve bank debased the purchasing power of our labor
  • endless corporate bailouts and tax subsidaries.
The moment debt interest threatens to exceed federal tax revenue, the argument is over. That’s not strength, stability, or leadership—it’s called insolvency

That’s why working‑class purchasing power collapsed, creative risk vanished, and cities drift toward institutional, corporate, and bureaucratic dominance. That data speaks for itself.

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Yes, the problems you cite are national in scope, and are happening in most parts of the country. But, to single out Boston as being on the extreme end of these national socioeconomic problems is not accurate. Take a trip to some other cities of similar size as Boston around the US to see how well Boston is doing in comparison. Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco have downtowns that look like bombed out Berlin after WW 2 with boarded up storefronts and homeless camps all over, not to mention the rampant crime. The social services offered by Massachusetts are light years ahead of those available in these aforementioned cities. Baltimore, Detroit and Philadelphia are not doing so hot as well.
 
Charlie_mta said:
Yes, the problems you cite are national in scope, and are happening in most parts of the country. But, to single out Boston as being on the extreme end of these national socioeconomic problems is not accurate. Take a trip to some other cities of similar size as Boston around the US to see how well Boston is doing in comparison. Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco have downtowns that look like bombed out Berlin after WW 2 with boarded up storefronts and homeless camps all over, not to mention the rampant crime. The social services offered by Massachusetts are light years ahead of those available in these aforementioned cities. Baltimore, Detroit and Philadelphia are not doing so hot as well.
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You're arguing with a not-very-bright libertarian who sees social services and public investment as a bad thing. Tech-bros-run-amok and hollowing out the West Coast cities is a feature, not a bug, to him. It's not supposed to make sense; it's dogma.
 
Johnnyrocket891 said:
Also let's not pretend this city was built by free market capitalism.
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Nothing gives me greater delight on this forum than seeing your endlessly tiresome, incoherent, reactionary, Howie Carr Lite ranting get dunked on by a variety of thoughtful AB commenters.

To call-out one of your more exceptionally asinine assertions you've spewed here recently: Boston was founded in 1630 by the most free-market capitalist demographic cohort the world had ever seen. The Puritan leadership abhorred Catholicism for its dedication to leisure/festival holidays and was driven to accumulate surplus wealth and plunge into risk-taking venture capitalism like no other group. They disproportionately hailed from the metro London merchant classes that, in conjunction with the nearby like-minded (i.e., dissident Protestant) ports they trafficked with--Calais, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam--invented modern capitalism and finance.

This has all been exhaustively documented down through the centuries by scholars of early New England. New Englanders invented the American China Trade. New Englanders, in the wake of the Civil War and the South's utter economic ruination/physical destruction, relentlessly industrially colonized the South, leading to the slur "carpetbagger."

https://www.acton.org/religion-liberty/volume-35-number-1/puritan-entrepreneur-do-all-glory-god
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article...-john-winthrops-a-model-of-christian-charity/

From the second link:

"Economic transactions saturated the daily life of Winthrop’s New England as well. Private property in land was relatively easily sold and purchased. Production was primarily for markets: local markets for most New England farmers, long-distance markets in timber, fish, and grain for others. Debt, too, left its mark all across these money-scarce economies. Debt cases pervade the early records of the Massachusetts General Court, just as they saturated early modern English society, etching the economy with complex lines of trust, reputation, and obligation. The rules of lending, repayment, and loan forgiveness that Winthrop outlined in the long second section of his “A Model of Christian Charity” were, in the context of New England’s everyday economic life, anything but abstract. Finally, the world the New England Puritans made was not only a world of trade and commerce but a world in which wealth was a sign of value. Wealthier men like Winthrop played a vastly outsized role in public affairs in the Massachusetts colony. Land distribution was sharply skewed in favor of the wealthy as well. A society without ranks and order, as the “Model” made clear, was no dream of the New England Puritans."

I dare you to name a city that, at its inception and through the accumulated evidence of the centuries, has been MORE dedicated to free-market capitalism than Boston.
 
Calling me “not very bright” is your best point- people see the world differently, but when debt interest is on track to rival federal revenue, that’s not ideology, its basic arithmetic, and “science” tends to agree quickest with whoever controls the funding, the credit, and the money printer real fast.

this isn’t a free market, it’s a subsidy-and-debt machine. This bill comes due real soon in very limited choices, higher costs, and fewer freedoms for everyone.

Boston’s economy props itself up with federal and state funding, while local markets buckle under inflation they’re structurally unprepared for what's coming.

If you can't see this then your actually part of the problem.
 
Johnnyrocket891 said:
Calling me “not very bright” is your best point- people see the world differently, but when debt interest is on track to rival federal revenue, that’s not ideology, its basic arithmetic, and “science” tends to agree quickest with whoever controls the funding, the credit, and the money printer real fast.

this isn’t a free market, it’s a subsidy-and-debt machine. This bill comes due real soon in very limited choices, higher costs, and fewer freedoms for everyone.

Boston’s economy props itself up with federal and state funding, while local markets buckle under inflation they’re structurally unprepared for what's coming.

If you can't see this then your actually part of the problem.
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I'm curious what your opinion is of how transit projects and operations should be funded, such as the MBTA. Should they be through state revenues only, no Federal? Or no government funding at all of any type? Not trying to bait you, but you seem to have a particular bent against government funding generally, and I'm curious how a transit system would operate in your worldview.
 
Johnnyrocket891 said:
That’s not strength, stability, or leadership—it’s called insolvency

That’s why working‑class purchasing power collapsed, creative risk vanished, and cities drift toward institutional, corporate, and bureaucratic dominance. That data speaks for itself.
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I liked your unhinged rants more before you started using AI to write them.
 
Charlie_mta said:
I'm curious what your opinion is of how transit projects and operations should be funded, such as the MBTA. Should they be through state revenues only, no Federal? Or no government funding at all of any type? Not trying to bait you, but you seem to have a particular bent against government funding generally, and I'm curious how a transit system would operate in your worldview.
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This is my view- as an America Taxpayer I would like to see our country progress for the future and maintain our Freedoms.

First off, both parties and federal agencies need to be audited—top to bottom—and held accountable for running up nearly $38 trillion against American taxpayers through debt, financial engineering, and outright institutional failure. That is outright Theft.

If federal money is going anywhere, it should not be endless bailouts, Tax incentives, or corporate loopholes. It should be used to modernize the country around three- non‑negotiable pillars that sustain basic human life:

1) A national transit and transportation grid
2) Clean water and resilient food supply chains
3) Reliable, affordable energy infrastructure

These pillars should be strategically mapped and built across every state as core necessities of civilization—free as basic human services, because a functioning society depends on them. Everything beyond that—luxury housing, premium lifestyles, excess consumption—should require participation, work, and personal responsibility to sustain.

That’s what federal funds should have been directed toward the floor of society, not the ceiling for the corporate elite and the mismanagement of our politicians. If $38 trillion in national debt can’t deliver clean water, energy, food security, and mobility to every state, then the problem isn’t money—it’s our elected officials view on our humanity.
 
Johnnyrocket891 said:
This is my view- as an America Taxpayer I would like to see our country progress for the future and maintain our Freedoms.

First off, both parties and federal agencies need to be audited—top to bottom—and held accountable for running up nearly $38 trillion against American taxpayers through debt, financial engineering, and outright institutional failure. That is outright Theft.

If federal money is going anywhere, it should not be endless bailouts, Tax incentives, or corporate loopholes. It should be used to modernize the country around three- non‑negotiable pillars that sustain basic human life:

1) A national transit and transportation grid
2) Clean water and resilient food supply chains
3) Reliable, affordable energy infrastructure

These pillars should be strategically mapped and built across every state as core necessities of civilization—free as basic human services, because a functioning society depends on them. Everything beyond that—luxury housing, premium lifestyles, excess consumption—should require participation, work, and personal responsibility to sustain.

That’s what federal funds should have been directed toward the floor of society, not the ceiling for the corporate elite and the mismanagement of our politicians. If $38 trillion in national debt can’t deliver clean water, energy, food security, and mobility to every state, then the problem isn’t money—it’s our elected officials view on our humanity.
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It's rude not to give credit to the libertarian Substack you plagiarized this from. :cautious:
 
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