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by beaglesss 2y ago
Depends. If no one currently cares, there is no significant structure or personnel or political change in the future several years, and they don't have any assets worth taking, and the government doesn't get any more desperate fo
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by beaglesss 2y ago
The statute of limitations is long and HSI often delays their indictment until the investigation is mostly wrapped up.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Many cases it's not to override law per se as it is to make someone care to follow the law and issue your paperwork. US law actually carved out businesses can "bribe" foreign governments for access to services to entice forei
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by beaglesss 2y ago
And now you've understood why every handyman job is on paper $1 under the limit at which they need a trades license.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
I will tip counter if they have a jar or the terminal asks, but if I do I treat them as tipped workers -- i.e. I will leave all my trash sitting at the table and wave them over when my food is ready. Generally my rule is 10% tip for bussing
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Tip 0 and see what kind of service you get the next time. I used to work food delivery and naturally the customers ordering takeout at fancy restaurants would always tip 0 to the restaurant even if they tipped me for delivery. I quickly fou
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by beaglesss 2y ago
I don't think so either, but they likely have useful data that politicians can draw off of. Remember Milton Friedman, who wanted to eliminate many forms of taxes, came up with a lot of his policies after working at the Treasury depart
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by beaglesss 2y ago
What's more likely is some bean counter at the IRS realized enforcing taxes on tips cost more money to enforce than they gained, or was barely break even. It's an easy political win at no risk.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
In fact it is in many rural lawless areas where there is effectively no state, like gold mining regions of Brazil/Guyana/west africa Fiat dominates in strong nation states because in part everyone needs it for taxes.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Or they could buy/rent a half of a duplex where both owners consent to indoor smoking.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
The obvious solution is to let people pick if they want to rent/buy in a smoking complex. Presumably if this is so popular it has democratic assent, it would create a market advantage and through the free market most everyone gets what
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Commodity money has been a thing in many times in history.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Things may have changed, but for awhile it was the cheapest way to buy stuff online in high-risk legal markets like precious metals if you wanted the transaction to clear in under 30 minutes. CC have high fees in high risk markets, wires a
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by beaglesss 2y ago
>t where it doesn’t you must add a bunch of overhead to make it work. Unmetered water/sewage access is not popular with taxpayers and likely would be a regressive tax in favor of wealthy/corps. > You are freeloading on work
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by beaglesss 2y ago
>And this is how it already works in “most places”. Where it isn’t currently doing that you propose installing meters that aren’t already there, or determining pipe size to every user to determine the proper amount to charge for their sh
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by beaglesss 2y ago
>So we agree it doesn’t scale. You can’t have 1,000 people each digging their own septic system around an apartment complex. What you’re proposing is adding cost and complexity to sewage in order to ensure you only pay for your shit. The
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by beaglesss 2y ago
>How does this work in Manhattan? How about for a single apartment complex? It doesn’t scale. Waste treatment system similar to many public systems. Charge by drain units, sewage pipe size, or maybe metered. Point is sewage treatment p
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by beaglesss 2y ago
It scales fine, you can have private waste treatment en masse. Why should someone pay for my shit? Why is it their fault if I poop? It makes no sense. Also you can build your own septic for 5k if you do your own work. I'm honestly
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Sure you could. In fact many do in places like San Francisco where regulations and taxes and construction costs are so high many end up homeless then poop all over the streets. Where I live there is absolutely no public sewage and I built
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Gold and many other useful commodities are valuable with or without fighter jets backing them.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
That's why I'd argue each service should be 'taxed' at the point of use. If you like a road, pay the toll. If you like sewage, build a septic system or pay for treatment. If you want to help Ukraine, fly on over or
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Yes under the commerce clause in recent history has been interpreted to mean interstate commerce is something as simple as growing a weed plant on your own land and smoking it. The precious CRA is an oft cited law as to why we need expansiv
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by beaglesss 2y ago
In intrastate commerce I see no reason how the feds can constitutionally stop them.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
The CRA explicitly allows discrimination of say off res private businesses in favor of employing Indians, but not say in favor of blacks near historically black neighborhoods. The CRA itself is quite racist, and not only that is used to ho
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by beaglesss 2y ago
It might be easier to discriminate against Asians via immigration status, if that's the goal.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Civil rights act as imposed on private entities is blatantly unconstitutional violation of the 10th amendment IMO. I think current SCOTUS may have the cajones to actually nix it.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
I've been detained 12 hours or so without arrest, including imprisonment, by feds. Pulling my FBI report confirms no federal arrest record, so it was just a detainment.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
More like it requires protection from one of the few blocks of nations resistant to extradition to the US.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
You can always refuse. They can't kidnap you or the baby if for whatever reason you don't want a wheelchair, and it's almost always illegal to block the exits without a court order or documented altered mental status.
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by beaglesss 2y ago
Sure if you ignore all the examples of it happening, after you so rudely lied about in your other reply where you claimed I cited no evidence despite citing sister comment that included articles such as children being taken into cps custody

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