An Open Market on Economics
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Yeah, it's a story about how Equifax is so incompetent they couldn't even direct people to the right URL.
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Because the domain they registered was terrible.
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CEPR.net: Republicans plan to reduce or eliminate taxes on the corporate income of US companies abroad
"the reports to date have said the Republicans want to shift to a territorial tax under which companies don't pay U.S. tax on their foreign profits. If this is true, their proposal will increase the incentive to shift operations overseas, or at least to have their profits appear to come from overseas operations."
"We should also be asking about the burden the government creates by granting patent and copyright monopolies. This presently comes to close to $370 billion annually (more than twice the debt service burden) in the case of prescription drugs alone. This is the gap between what we pay for drugs, currently around $450 billion a year, and the price that would exist in a free market without patents and related protections, which would likely be less than $80 billion. The full cost of these protections in all areas is almost certainly at least twice the cost incurred in prescription drugs."
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Latest numbers on the tax bill:
Of particular note is that for people with income under $10,000, the tax increase reaches a point by 2027 where it's actually greater than their gross income.
Of particular note is that for people with income under $10,000, the tax increase reaches a point by 2027 where it's actually greater than their gross income.
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OF course, who pays estate and gift taxes? Not people making less than 10k a year.
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I actually misread the chart... it's not 10,070 per person, it's an increase of $10,070,000,000 across that tax bracket.
Which is still a total disaster.
Which is still a total disaster.
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atog wrote:OF course, who pays estate and gift taxes? Not people making less than 10k a year.
Estate and gift tax exclusions are already sky-high. It's something like $14,000 for direct family and otherwise $100,000 to need to report gifts, and even then you don't actually pay taxes until you get to $5 million in (reported) gifts.
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Trump administration looking to destroy the lives of food service workers, because hey why not. Hope none of you are waitstaff or kitchen staff anymore (I know R^2 escaped to a job which comes with a chair, and I know Friday used to, but that hasn't been mentioned in years).
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I still deliver pizzas.
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Sounds like a good incentive to immediately pocket tips and lie to your boss about them. And maybe set fire to your boss's house after your shift.
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Leave cash tips when you can. No paper trail like adding the sum to your debit card receipt.
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Always always always cash tips. Satan gets a hard-on every time you leave an electronic tip.
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I mean I don't know what world you live in where cash is even an option. Every company I've worked for locally (including my tribe) makes you take direct deposit or makes you sign up for a check card which they charge you out the ass for. Like, yeah, the intention is great, but that's just not how large swaths of "There are literally only a dozen places to work for in my area" America works.
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Somebody leaves a fiver on the table and you have to take it direct deposit instead of just stuffing it into your pocket?
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No. I meant that getting a 20 out of the bank to leave a good tip costs most people who don't pay with a debit card 3 dollars in ATM fees. Not to mention the fact that, like, for example, where I live my 'local' bank is literally a 54 mile round trip if I didn't want to use an ATM to get money.
Living in the country in the Midwest is crazy man.
Living in the country in the Midwest is crazy man.
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I mean I don't know what world you live in where cash is even an option.
Not to mention the fact that, like, for example, where I live my 'local' bank is literally a 54 mile round trip if I didn't want to use an ATM to get money.
Living in the country in the Midwest is crazy man.
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Joxam wrote:I mean I don't know what world you live in where cash is even an option. Every company I've worked for locally (including my tribe) makes you take direct deposit or makes you sign up for a check card which they charge you out the ass for. Like, yeah, the intention is great, but that's just not how large swaths of "There are literally only a dozen places to work for in my area" America works.
One of the brobdingnagiest culture shock moments for me moving from the middle of nowhere upstate to NYC is finding cash-only restaurants, but then there's also usually an ATM (of varying degrees of sketchiness) within a couple blocks.
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It's actually sort of hilarious to me that it's the buttfuck nowhere places who all have the magical digital future devices, whereas the huge happening modern cities still have many places relying on ancient physical tokens.
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