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Cell phones are a necessity and cable provides enormous entertainment value for the money.
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Corporations do not represent employees.
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All true, the objection comes from the limits placed on individuals that don't apply to businesses. Businesses are allowed to "use up" all of their losses, both current year and carried forward, in a single year. Individuals
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There are losses that individuals can't take, but can carry forward due to the amount of income they make, notably real estate investments when the individual is not a real estate professional. Think about how messed up that is, DJT an
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Double taxation is generally a bad idea. What you think is double taxation is not. Double taxation is the concept where a dollar could, in theory, be taxed at over 100% from the aggregation of taxes owed on it. There are to my knowledge onl
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by dlp211 8y ago
That is not how marginal tax rates work. I'm also completely fine moving to an inflation based basis system if capital gets the same tax treatment as labor.
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And by extension be able to make better and more accurate decisions leaving more people alive. I fail to see the issue here.
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You have no idea what you are talking about. The vast majority of drone use is for military surveillance that have no strike capabilities, and are used to determine whether to put soldiers on the ground. Good drone surveillance is literall
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The secure driver model.
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I believe Washington is the only state that allows this anymore. Even then, you still need to be an understudy before you are allowed to take the Bar in Washington.
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Stop looking at only the bay area. Google has offices in Pittsburgh, Kirkland, Austin, and Boulder. If you are willing to work at one of those locations, you can get pretty close to getting everything you want.
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Or it could be that you were looking to techno-optimists for your predictions while others were looking to those that actually were involved in the tech.
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There are literally tv shows and contests where they do exactly this.
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Considering that Bezos derives the vast majority of his wealth through capital gains as opposed to income, I'd say yes.
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Then it's a good thing that globalization has lifted the vast majority of people out of abject poverty and most of the world is considered to be middle income now. Source: Factfullness
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Racial Bias in Judicial Decisions: Evidence from Virtual Reality Courtrooms(nber.org)
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The Simpson's cartoon did it first, and they didn't paraphrase[1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=simpsons+fox+news+helicopter...
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> Wait...So lack of affordable housing is a bad thing, and housing becoming more affordable is also a bad thing? Yes. They just are bad for different sets of people.
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So sustained top 5% in household income.
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Citation needed. This is one of those things that large swaths of the internet believe is true, but is filled with anecdotal evidence and not actual research.
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They can go into default, they can't be discharged in bankruptcy. Default just means not being paid in full and on time.
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Don't attack the source, debate the content.
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This is an example of perfect being the enemy of good.
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There is no way you are taxed 30% by the IRS and can be considered middle class.
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Consider that we started with nearly everyone in extreme poverty 200 years ago.
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They don't, because it isn't true. Source, first link when you search "BLS wage growth" which links to the BLS site a PDF that shows wage growth is flat over time with some volatility.
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The world, by almost every measure, is better today then the 60's. What has changed in my opinion, and especially in the US, is the explosion of wealth celebrity which is creating dissatisfaction in our lives.
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It's impractical for the same reasons it's impractical to prosecute every crime. This also means it's less than ideal, but with limited resources you apply them to those who are the most egregious.
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The cake shop is free to discriminate against Alex Jones for the sane reason the YT, FB, AAPL, and Spotify are.
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To pile onto this comment, the Republicans in Congress can join the Democrats any time they want to and ensgrine net neutrality as the law of the land.

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