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by bhupy 6y ago
That's because a VAT is charged directly, like a sales tax. It's its own line item. It's technically the government charging a tariff on the purchase, rather than the merchant passing on a cost via price increase, though in-e
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by bhupy 6y ago
You don't qualify for unemployment benefits if you refuse to take a job due to unfavorable terms.
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by bhupy 6y ago
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This isn’t a misdirection, it’s a euphemism. We use them a lot in the English language, especially in marketing. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is a separate question. IMO policing tone is a mo
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by bhupy 6y ago
It’s actually $120 for the highest deluxe edition, which includes the 787, SFO airport, and Heathrow. I imagine a decent chunk of folks on this site wouldn’t want to play without the decked out SFO experience.
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by bhupy 6y ago
I never doubted that it was based on what you see. It seemed rather clear to me that you were attempting to refute the idea of comparing coupons for medicine with coupons for food — with the claim that "most food coupons are for luxury
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by bhupy 6y ago
The difference between your description of your experience and mine is that mine is inclusive while yours is exclusive. You are making a claim (a quite bold one at that) that coupons are only used for "luxury" food. While I don&#x
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by bhupy 6y ago
If you make too much below the median salary in the US, you either qualify for Medicaid (at best) or direct ACA subsidies (at worst).
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by bhupy 6y ago
In general, Medicaid is one of the more generous health insurance plans available in the US. The maximum nominal deductible is $3, and the maximum nominal copay for managed care is $4. For drugs, it’s around the same: $4 for preferred drugs
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by bhupy 6y ago
Right. The goal here is to make healthcare a low margin business also. High margins are an indicator of a lack of competition.
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by bhupy 6y ago
That’s not true at all. Most coupons are for any type of grocery at a store, usually promotional in nature for new products or stores. I use coupons for all sorts of basic needs, like free ride share rides (transportation), clothing, grocer
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by bhupy 6y ago
What? Tax deductions absolutely are costs. They are represented as expenditures on the Federal budget. The deduction isn’t a default, it’s an affirmative benefit by the Federal government, and one that causes a heavy market distortion.
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Switzerland also enjoys some of the best health outcomes, though. Unlike America, Switzerland has the highest average life expectancy, the lowest infant mortality, some of the best cancer outcomes, and respiratory illness outcomes. Switzerl
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Well, thanks to the government, there's socialized food for those in need, in the form of food banks and SNAP. Yes. Why can't we have the same for prescription drugs? > Most healthcare systems in the world operate by havin
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by bhupy 6y ago
Purchases made via GoodRx almost always apply towards your deductible. https://www.goodrx.com/blog/how-to-use-goodrx-with-high-dedu...
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by bhupy 6y ago
Why is coupon clipping for food (without which you starve and die) not a problem? One of the biggest problems with healthcare today is a lack of price transparency, and GoodRx appears to offer that. Most healthcare systems in the world oper
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by bhupy 6y ago
Ironically, you get some of the best coverage when you're low income, since Medicaid is so generous.
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by bhupy 6y ago
Most of these changes still maintain the necessity for price transparency, which GoodRx still offers. There will always be some need for an online portal through which to shop for medication, regardless of whether or not there are price con
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by bhupy 6y ago
Aren't food companies and grocery stores in the business of profiting off human well-being?
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In the US, you're already covered if you're low income, through Medicaid and ACA subsidies, that's part of where the current taxes go. It's certainly debatable if the existing programs are optimally structured.
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by bhupy 6y ago
Just the tax subsidy for employer-sponsored health insurance costs the Federal government $273 billion per year: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-does-tax-e... The US healthcare system is a Rube Goldbe
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by bhupy 6y ago
You think that's cheap? Singapore's total per capita health expenditure in 2017 was $2,619[1] per person per year, or $219 per month. It's just about the lowest per capita health expenditure in the developed world. [1] https
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by bhupy 6y ago
> That is almost entirely orthogonal to your claim that there are no truly democratic industrialized nations. No, my original claim was that political self-interest isn't any nobler than economic self-interest. Your original claim
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by bhupy 6y ago
In practice, the entire stock market has reverted to a comically long-run view of the economy writ large. That's why despite a historic pandemic, unemployment, and GDP contraction, most indexes (including the un-weighted ones) are at c
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by bhupy 6y ago
> as Keynes quipped "in the long run, we're all dead" This is one of the more over-used quotes. In this case, it's not particularly relevant since US fiscal and monetary policy is almost entirely designed around incen
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Sure, and time wise we can witness countless examples of economic freedom increasing and material wealth while happiness decreases. The data doesn’t support your claim, almost every study on the subject doesn’t support your claim. You
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by bhupy 6y ago
> I never claimed that the US is democratic enough to fulfill that criteria. I’m not just talking about the US. I called out every single developed/industrialized nation > The entire point of the claim is how people feel Sure, an
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by bhupy 6y ago
> It's undeniably true when political power is distributed to the masses, and less and less true when it concentrates. In other words, it's only "undeniably true" in a direct democracy, where the people vote to decide
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by bhupy 6y ago
> This is a classic problem with power; it’s not uncommon for people in power to confuse what’s good for the country with their own self interest. It reminds me of a quote by Milton Friedman: "Is it really true that political self-i
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Which private info do they have?
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by bhupy 6y ago
Your numbers don't directly answer the question at all. You're just quoting their government contract volume. That's well and good, but we're talking about the degree to which Palantir works exclusively with the governme

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