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by bpt3 5y ago
Define "fairly".
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by bpt3 5y ago
He only has a 1% effective rate if you change the definition of effective rate. I assume you're fine with making that change, but the federal government isn't currently.
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by bpt3 5y ago
> major corporations aren't paying their fair share Define fair share. > From underpaying workers (who have to use public assistance) I'll never understand this line of reasoning. Would you rather have people who can't
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by bpt3 5y ago
For Bezos (and the wealthy in general), the interest rate on the loan is lower than your capital gains, so you can just keep rolling the loan forward forever.
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by bpt3 5y ago
> It's literally creating more opportunity for more people to earn money? If person A isn't doing the work and making the income, person B is. So inequality will be less! That's not how things work in reality. Whatever wo
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by bpt3 5y ago
Taxes will still be calculated in the local currency, not in BTC.
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by bpt3 5y ago
Are your taxes calculated in Swiss Francs or Bitcoin?
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by bpt3 5y ago
I don't see any analysis of what you're getting for your rent vs. your mortgage. For example, if the cost of renting a 3 bedroom SFH is significantly less than the cost of owning the same home, there's a problem in the market
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by bpt3 5y ago
> Our overall system is not progressive. Yes, it is, overall: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/13/tax-day-taxes-statistics... > Once you factor in the regressive nature of social security taxes Social s
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by bpt3 5y ago
I'm not shifting the goalposts, this conversation is about federal income taxes and every reference in the post you originally replied to is discussing federal income taxes. On top of that, the top 20% of income earners do pay a larger
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by bpt3 5y ago
Right now, the top 20% pay a significantly higher share of the federal income tax collected than their share of income.
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by bpt3 5y ago
That article fails to address a key point: the vast majority of those "regressive" taxes are really forced savings for retirement, where you get a return based on your contributions. FICA taxes are capped because the benefits are
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by bpt3 5y ago
> However, there is a lot that says that the 1% actually pay the vast majority of taxes collected: Yes, that's an argument against people who want Europe-style social programs while simultaneously making the US tax code even more pr
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by bpt3 6y ago
> Orwellian "there are two fingers" moment Would you mind sharing what this means and what the context is? I think I get what you mean, but don't understand the reference.
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by bpt3 6y ago
> What's the point of a philosophy that is impossible to live up to. Nobody audits a substantial fraction of their dependencies. It's a choice to be ignorant of your dependencies, not a law of nature. The fact that most people
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by bpt3 6y ago
As someone with a similar skillset, I decided to use React for a the frontend for a new project as a learning experience, since I assumed I'm missing out on something by using JS + JSON from a Django view when something asynchronous or
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by bpt3 6y ago
Agreed, I think it's much easier to make a list of what is not a huge pain in javascript that it would be to make a list of everything that is.
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by bpt3 6y ago
> unless you're doing a lot of math - where python/numpy/sklearn/scipy/BLAS/LAPACK/Tensorflow is unparalleled - you should do everything in JS/TS In my opinion, JS development is unpleasant because
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by bpt3 6y ago
You've described every service provider on Earth, and that's not a justification for them to avoid transparency in pricing or billing.
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by bpt3 6y ago
So this guy really likes functional programming and wanted to create a rubric to justify it, got it.
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by bpt3 6y ago
Okay, that's not decline, and not all of those figures are facts. Also, you seem obsessed with quantity of infrastructure built, which isn't really a great metric for measuring what you're claiming is happening. The other po
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by bpt3 6y ago
Please provide these facts.
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by bpt3 6y ago
Yeah, it does matter. Fortunately (for those of us who aren't members of the CCP), control over domestic and international affairs isn't decided by sheer headcount. Also, I think it's likely that Trump has made leaders in th
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by bpt3 6y ago
Probably not? I'm not sure what your point is here.
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by bpt3 6y ago
> I wish I shared your confidence, but this suggests otherwise: That's a pretty recent poll (on the timeline you provided in the earlier article), so maybe it's a sign that a more comprehensive transit system will be built soon
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by bpt3 6y ago
> If authoritarian government is by default this effective and easy to success, why most of them failed? Because the decision makers will inevitably make very large mistakes, and generally don't have the ability (or capacity) to cou
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by bpt3 6y ago
> I'd argue China has embraced capitalism and we are moving in the opposite direction. The CCP has embraced capitalism when it's convenient for them. What they haven't embraced is a consistent rule of law or anything appr
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by bpt3 6y ago
It says that infrastructure accomplishments shouldn't be the sole metric on which nations are measured.
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by bpt3 6y ago
> Are you saying there are no lessons the West can learn from China's infrastructure projects without resorting to authoritarianism, IP theft, or environmental harm? That there is no way to pick apart and separate some positive lear
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by bpt3 6y ago
> I pointed out how well they do infrastructure, related to the article. And then you projected that all of western civilization is in decline because the US hasn't prioritized high speed rail. Among other things, this completely

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