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by 34679 7y ago
Import/Export tariffs, excise tax (like VAT), payroll tax (also down), corporate tax. Though according to the following link, personal income tax is the largest chunk in the US. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-
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by 34679 7y ago
2,000,000,000,000 / 250,000,000,000 = 12.5% That's the amount which will be sent out in checks directly to families. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-seeking-85...
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12.5% of the $2T is "helping ordinary people". And some of us have been teargassed protesting wars..
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..and an additional $60,0000 national debt per household.
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Where did you hear this rumor?
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The only people who need to consider the fairness of a transaction are the parties involved. With their consent to the contract, and the determination that no force was used, we can objectively consider the transaction to be fair. The inher
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>Why aren't those employees fairly compensated They are, otherwise they wouldn't have agreed to work there. Not one person who works for Whole Foods is employed by force.
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While grocery stores are essential, any individual employee is not. These are not skilled positions. Grocery store employees can and should be easily replaced. The alternative is the potential for a group of unskilled laborers to hold our n
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Nobody uses the same arguments for handwashing, even though they would apply. It sounds like education is what's lacking, aside from masks.
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China Is Legally Responsible for C19 Damage and Claims Could Be in the Trillions(warontherocks.com)
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I know this may sound ridiculous, but Kimchi and Sauerkraut? Are any other countries with a high consumption of low pH fermented foods also showing a lower CFR?
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The source is shown at the top of this article: >Liu Zhen South China Morning Post 22 March 2020, 6:29 am CDT
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According to The South China Post.
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What percentage of the sky do you envision will be occupied by man made objects?
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If you spread 50,000 cars over the surface of the planet, how much of the Earth's surface do you think would be blocked from view by the ISS? Because we have millions of cars scattered all across the Earth and from space, you can'
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Why don't we know the extent of seasonal transmission? At the very least, we have data from areas that are in opposite seasons, even if we've yet to collect data on the transition from one season to another. Can't we get some
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Ah, I misunderstood.
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I use the free version of Alfred. Works great on Android, I have no experience with it on iOS.
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High-yielding continuous-flow synthesis of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine(beilstein-journals.org)
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"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." Milton Friedman
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1. This, too, shall pass. 2. We're all gonna die. But for most, not today, and not from this.
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Don't thousands of people work in each warehouse? Are Amazon workers immune? At some point, some of these facilities are going to have closures. I wouldn't predict smooth sailing for Amazon just because they're mail-order ins
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Boeing never intended to build a product that an average American can afford. Ford set out to do exactly that.
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The same thing happens in Oregon. People flee the high costs of living in California that is being driven by California's policies, and then they largely vote for the same practices after relocating.
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I don't disagree with the article, but the false equivalency at the beginning is pretty annoying. >It should be obvious that this story doesn't work: Boeing would most certainly be in trouble if they had to pay their workers su
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In times of increased demand, it becomes necessary to increase production. I assume you are aware of the concept of overtime pay? In California in particular, 150% pay is guaranteed for hours over 40 in a week and hours over 8 in a workday,
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That may be, but when I click on the NYT link for the article, I get the following: https://imgur.com/aionwnv Not technically a paywall, but certainly a wall.
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The NYT article is behind a paywall.
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Yes it will absolutely lead to inflation. But for the well connected banks who are first to benefit, and coincidentally, I'm sure, the ones who run the Federal Reserve, the money will get to be spent/loaned before it causes much o
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky#Centre_f...

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