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- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 33 comments
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I tried and failed to head it off at the pass. There are some good comments in here though.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
I think the logical thing is to have those who most benefit from the infrastructure our taxes pay for
The poor benefit from roads, schools, firefighters, Medical/Medicaid, and utilities as much as anyone. But I think you had the super wealthy in mind. “Those who benefit from infrastructure” is an odd way to pinpoint the super wealthy.
Those who “most benefit” would be those who have been able to leverage the infrastructure and security provided to profit wildly. Not those who are just scraping by.
I think we do agree on all but degree like you said. And maybe mean/median income is too high. I was just trying to come up with a somewhat natural but objective breaking point. I think a more reasonable but also more subjective one might be the “living wage” which will certainly be much lower than mean/median but also much higher than $13k.
P.S. Tangentially related, I found this living wage calculator which put my current LCOL residence at ~$42k and my previous HCOL residence at ~$57k. Turned out to be much closer to Mean/median than I expected.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
The standard deduction should be at least the median income…? Wouldn’t that mean that half of people would pay no income tax?
Half or more depending on mean or median. But that’s just a starting point for the discussion.
You might say this is what we should do, but I think it’s unreasonable to say that it’s a total head scratcher why we don’t already.
That’s not what I was intending to ask. Sorry if I phrased it poorly. I’m trying to understand the arguments against it because it’s what makes sense to me.
I just fail to see how this is placing the burden on the poor. It Is structured to do the exact opposite and give them the most breaks.
I think the logical thing is to have those who most benefit from the infrastructure our taxes pay for be the ones who contribute the most. And those that are seeing the least benefit be exempt.
I’d probably agree that the floor on the deduction should come up, and we should raise taxes on extreme wealth to make it up. But at least in its most essential form, income tax is already progressive.
This is almost exactly what I suggested. I think we’re basically on the same page.
- Comment on You have a bad friend if he isn't willing to help you bury a dead body or if he is willing to help you. 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: You’re the bad friend for asking your friend to help you with a dead body
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
The argument is that if you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.
That’s all dependent on how much you’re taking and from who which I addressed in my comment.
There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.
This only makes sense if you define “burden” with a fixed dollar amount. A $6k tax “burden” is going to be a much harder burden on someone who makes $40k than someone who makes $250k
What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax.
This could be addressed by the wealth tax I mentioned.
In the end, I do believe it’s politics and the wealthy manipulating people’s perception.
They’ve got us focused on this bullshit culture war when what we need is a good old-fashioned class war.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 48 comments
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Damnit. I knew something wasn’t right
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Missed out on “Be weary of Larry”
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Shit post != shitpost
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 3 weeks ago:
I was pretty confident dent that was how blocking worked on Lemmy. Is it not the case?
I did think twitter worked the way you describe, blocking the blockee from seeing the blockers content vs blocking the blocker from seeing the blockee’s content
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
You can tell Elon is a genius because he gets people to pay to do prototype testing for him.
- Comment on Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store 1 month ago:
It highkey kinda sucks tho, being implicitly all like “I I can’thave Apollo do Reddit than nobody can have it!”. Its really childish and selfish in the way it fucks over almthe people who grew dependant on it for their Reddit-type social fix app
Maybe I’ve missed something but as far as I’m aware he hasn’t done anything to try and stop Voyager; he just didn’t give it a seal of approval.
As a practical matter, I wouldn’t invest any time or money into the guy’s projects anymore not because he doesn’t do amazing UI/UX/App work, but because he is not someone is seems to plan long-term or is advised by anyone who could have told him this would be a problem legally or administratively etc.
I think he absolutely does plan ahead. The fact that he was able to absorb the expense of all the refunds he was forced to issue for subscriptions that extended beyond his ability to access the API speaks directly to that.
Not to mention his foresight in being able to bring receipts when Spez and the other Reddit admins attempted to smear him in the press.
I think you feel more strongly about it than I do, so I’m not trying to change your mind or anything. I’m just adding my perspective.
- Comment on Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store 1 month ago:
I know; I understand where he was coming from and kinda get it, but I’m not going to stop using it.
- Comment on Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store 1 month ago:
Oh Christian…when will you learn you’re not big enough to disrupt existing power structures?
You’re an Aaron Swartz; not a Sam Altman…
(P.S. Love what you do; Posted from Voyager née Apollo)
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“Chaos is a ladder”
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Wow - Those cubes became unclear a lot faster by Doing.
Clearly (heh 😅) Thinking is the better strategy…
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Assuming VPs are are included you do have to go back to the 1976 election to find a Bush, Clinton, and Biden free ballot
- Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
- Gerald Ford (1974–1977)
- Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
- Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) (George HW was VP )
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They do have a prior project that has been delivered successfully.
Basically the same device minus the screen with just a bare board with LED indicators and powered by a coin cell battery.
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240W Data Speed?
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Then there is QNAP. Apparently their system QTS is not as polished as DSM, but everything needed should still be there. There’s similarly priced, similarly equipped TS-462. It’s just dual-core CPU, but has more RAM (not upgradeable though) and it seems it can accept M.2 as storage at least. As per internet research, the build quality is just as good as Synology.
I have the QNAP TS-462. It’s my first and only NAS so I don’t have any points of comparison for you. Feel free to ask any questions you have and I can try and answer for you.
I do want to point out that the RAM is upgradable, but, unintuitively, only on the smaller 4GB RAM SKU; the 8GB RAM SKU has the memory soldered on.
I learned this the hard way and had to return the first one that arrived, but I currently have the memory maxed out at 16GB.
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Ancient pyramids confirmed 👍
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Virgin exclusive?
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Not much to tell. It’s a Star Wars character name @hotdogsladies@mastodon.social made up on the spot on a podcast years ago and has embedded itself in my head like a brain worm
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Not a food but I can no longer read a garment care label without being reminded of the infamous Tumble Drylo
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But do you track the face and junk sides across showers?
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/c/DadJokes
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
I don’t get it. I work full time and have no problem wasting my
lifeI mean time here…
