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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

She actively plotted and traveled to get revenge and clearly didn't act in self defense. While it's easy to be sympathetic to her story, her guilt seems difficult to deny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The issue with housing is that the supply is limited. If you increase demand and not supply you just increase prices. Giving buyers $25k extra to spend means every home owner is now gonna jack up their selling price by $25k. This is, in the end, a subsidy for existing home-owners. Who already are doing pretty well, thank you very much.

Denying the existence of supply and demand always lead to policy failure. The way to address housing cost is to lower the cost of housing, not make housing more expensive by helping people outbid each others.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

Tips should definitely be taxed. Otherwise you'll end up with businesses shifting entire income of their staff to tipping which IMHO is horrible (on top of depriving the government of income)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This actually makes houses more expensive, because now buyers have more money to outbid each other.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They aren't really, they are just upgrading it to a full set top box and rebranding it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Nah they are "illegal migrants". There are places you can go and some you can't and that applies to everyone. There's a wide gap between "compassion" and "free for all anything goes".

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"We are gonna make mankind happy even if we have to exterminate half of it!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And also send to the gulag all those who oppose their inept program. You can make anything look nice if you omit all the negative stuff.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Intel has also made a similar blunder by trying GPUs and abandoning them (they got there early with the i740, then Larrabee). Saving a few dollars by gutting emerging products line has cost them billions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh please explain to me how marginal rates work... 🙄

If your marginal tax rate is already 30% and you decide to earn an extra $1, that $1 will be taxed at 30% and you get $0.70 in your pocket. That's what "marginal" means.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Au final la taxation à 90% n’est pas si visible que ça, je m’attendaità bien pire.

Elle est fixée à partir de 400k€ et le graphique s'arrête avant, donc c'est un peu normal que tu la vois pas...

Par ailleurs le rôle de la CSG met le bordel car selon certaines déclaration, ça fait partie du taux de 90% mais ça peut clairement pas faire partie des autres taux, sinon ça serait une grosse baisse d'impôt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“Taxing at 100% also brings no tax revenue” is already a stupid statement, and is Tautologically contradictory

It's not. If you work 40h per week and can do overtime but that overtime is taxed at 100% (because yes, that's what marginal rate means, it's the rate the extra income will be taxed), virtually nobody will bother doing that overtime. The handful who do will probably not clock-in because anyway, there's no point since it will bring no income after taxation.

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