My short answer to that is : do you really want to pay more taxes? I can think of a hundred reasons to pay more taxes (healthcare for all, childcare for all, free college for all), but this is not a good one. - James
P.S. As an American, I hate paying taxes. I would certainly advise you, dear Suresh, to also hold on to as much of your hard-earned money as you can. P.P.S. I have answers for everything. JAMES. BONILLA. IS. BACK. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aihte967SEg) On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > Why should a cynically political decision in this case, or an emotional > decision in several other cases, have any sort of economic rationality > attached to it? > > If you wanted economic rationality you’d simply lay out cities as grids > and name roads for GPS coordinates. > > —srs > > > On 10-Sep-2015, at 8:26 AM, James Bonilla <callmejb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In the interest of economic efficiency, I have a proposal regarding this. > > Simply put: > > > > (1) There is an economic cost to renaming roads. > > > > (2) To minimize costs, it is best to avoid renaming roads too many times. > > > > (3) The easiest thing to do is to rename roads to something > > non-controversial (e.g. "Red road', "Green road', ... et cetera -or- > "112th > > St NE", "113th St NE" and so on), and leave it that way. > > > > I made a post on my Facebook group regarding this. Let me dig it up. > > > > - James > > P.S. It gives me great pleasure to talk about bringing greater economic > > efficiency to the Land of the Buddha. > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian < > sur...@hserus.net> > > wrote: > > > >> On 10-Sep-2015, at 8:03 AM, James Bonilla <callmejb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> There is much to be said for leaving historical names alone. But there > is > >>> much precedent for renaming roads (but not countries) named after a > >>> "favcorite bad guy". Agree? Disagree? Comments? > >> > >> Having seen various renames of roads here in Chennai, south India, and > >> other renames of cities (bombay to mumbai, formally - or the local / > >> informal / most likely racist abbreviation of “ahmednagar” in > maharashtra > >> to just “nagar” or insisting on pronouncing “ahmedabad” in gujarat as > >> “amdavad”) - my reaction is to simply continue calling the city by its > old > >> name. > >> > >> Calling a road by its old name is just fine, and a best common > practice - > >> no cabbie or auto driver or anybody else is going to recognise what you > >> mean when you say APJ Abdul Kalam Road instead of Aurangzeb Road, or, to > >> pick an example much closer to me, “Ramachandra Adithanar Road” instead > of > >> Gandhinagar 4th Main Road (which is surrounded by other Gandhinagar Nth > >> main roads all of which retain their old names). > >> > >> There are still areas of Chennai known by the names of long demolished > >> landmarks - such as asking people to meet you “near the Eros Theater” - > >> which has been replaced by a mitsubishi dealership for almost two > decades > >> now. > >> > >> —srs > >> > > >
