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This is a pure scam on tax payer money. But what else would be expected?
by carlosjobim 5mo ago
This is a pure scam on tax payer money. But what else would be expected?
- jrm4 5mo agoUnlike the big companies who do this, which often are merely impure scams on tax payer money a little more downstream.
- carlosjobim 5mo agoGreat, now we're defending embezzlement and fraud with public funds on HN, because we really really hate big business. A child caught doing something bad will cry "but my friends also did it!", is that the level of reasoning hackers want to be at?
- jrm4 5mo agoWhat part of that said "defense?" They can both be bad.
- blanched 5mo agoThat seems like a bad faith read to me. Nobody is defending it, just pointing out the irony / hypocrisy. Two things can be bad, and they can be related.
- carlosjobim 5mo agoYou'd be surprised to hear then that I'm not the owner of any big company which embezzles tax payer money, and have never been involved in such.
- blanched 5mo agoI don’t follow how that makes sense as a response to what I said?
- carlosjobim 5mo agoWhy would I be a hypocrite for pointing out public fund embezzlement?
- blanched 5mo agoYou’re not. The originally mentioned “big companies” are.
- sdevonoes 5mo agoThere are no hackers around here anymore. HN is mainly about business nowadays
- dmix 5mo agoHN has always discussed business
- lostlogin 5mo ago> Great, now we're defending embezzlement I might be missing something, but I don’t see anyone defending the the scams.
- philipallstar 5mo agoCompanies that generate loads of corporation tax, income tax, and VAT revenue are the exact opposite of wastes of public money.
- jrm4 5mo agoYes, when they do so proportional to what they take, especially as compared to individuals and their tax liabilities. You'll have to let me know when that finally happens, because that ain't now.
- philipallstar 5mo agoSorry, I've no idea how to read your first sentence. Your second one - that's how everything public is paid for. Private individuals pay tax, either through their corporations paying corporation tax or the tax bill on top of their wage bills, which a) drives up prices of the goods and services they offer, or depresses wages, and b) funds all the public sector employees and orgs that don't pay tax (orgs) or don't pay net tax (employees).
- jrm4 4mo agoNot surprising. The point of my first sentence is; private individuals and small businesses generally pay their fair share. Larger corporations emphatically do not.
- philipallstar 4mo agoWhat's not surprising?. Larger corporations pay loads of tax. Shed loads. They pay all the employee and income tax, as well as corporation tax and their sales generate VAT. Small businesses are the ones most likely to have softer tax burdens due to progressive taxation.
- jrm4 4mo agoOh, so you are either deliberately, or ignorantly, spreading utter falsehoods. I think we're done here.
- hootz 5mo agoApparently no public money was involved.
- jdiff 5mo agoThis is contrary to the mayor's words on Twitter. > An open AI model trained in Rio with public funding over the last year by @Prefeitura_Rio surpassing all other models. https://x.com/CavaliereRio/status/2065984620626129026 https://x.com/CavaliereRio/status/2065984620626129026