The 14th is a reconstruction amendment btw, it wasn't drafted or ratified by the founders.

I'd assume it's a Federally levied property tax, the rebate applied to Federal income. Could be on the basis of the county assessed value of your property though.

A friend would use "theydies and gentlethems"for dramatic effect

Stenographers usually use something pretty similar so I doubt it. The ones I've seen (to be fair, live captioners, not stenographers) use something that's closer to a piano than a normal keyboard, and it types full words rather than letters, but also has a regular typing functionality. Pretty cool to watch honestly.

The president can't just appoint whoever they want. Officer commissions have more oversight than say judicial appointments. They have to be approved by the Senate (eg this situation) and also have to meet requirements for the position/rank set out in regulation by congress. So a president could theoretically only promote the most conservative officers in the pool, but it's already a small pool.

Even so, as we see here, it only takes one senator to block promotions. This isn't even a fillibuster, the Senate passes this routine stuff through bulk unanimous consent.

Rents are skyrocketing because demand is high and we literally do not have enough housing for the number of people we have in the places they live.

Suddenly dumping more money into the economy would just increase the price bar on that demand, and prices would go up more.

Prices can increase for a lot of reasons, and going up from one doesn't stop them from going up from another.

The actual article is in The Hill

And why it makes great rocket fuel...

...if you ignore all the other side effects

Same when I got on ocd meds. Love being able to go and do a thing without compulsively making lists of every other tasks that I could be doing.

For middle incomes in the NCR in DC or MD it's usually cheaper to get the same thing in VA, on an income tax basis alone.

If they were able to meet the actual up/down metrics for the subsidy, I don't see why they shouldn't get it. But they weren't able to do that, so they don't get the subsidy.

The podcast Ultra by Rachel Maddow goes into the history of this period and is really good

Economics is just psychology masquerading as a hard science

They could store the families in a separate underwater bunker built on the ruins of a death cult's sunken wizard tower too.

Is this a US thing I'm too French to understand?

I'd say likely yes to this. It's much easier to centrally govern a more geographically dense and homogeneous country.

In the US we have strong localized government (city/county, state) and the more sweeping Federal government.

And they do submit to central government, that's exactly what the discussion in this article is about- will the central court decide to strike down their local laws?