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by graeme 1y ago
I recall my left leaning economics professor arguing for the abolition of corporate taxes along similar lines actually. You don't really deserve the downvotes other than perhaps for the aggressive tone. (I'm not committing myself
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by graeme 1y ago
>Tariffs are flat taxes on corporations The OP said tariffs are not progressive taxes. You are agreeing with them while believing you are disagreeing. Further tariffs are not specific to corporations. Individuals pay them. Small business
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by graeme 1y ago
The thing is actually stopping the warming involves: 1. Cutting emissions to zero. Not cutting back, zero 2. Extracting a chunk of co2 from the atmosphere and sequestering it Cutting back just means things get worse less quickly. They still
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by graeme 1y ago
I didn't say profits down. The OP was talking about revenue for some companies potentially declining.
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They used the word in an irregular way. They meant a decline in software company revenue, not an economic recession. You might well see more software profits if costs go down but less revenue. Depends on Jevon's paradox really
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Huh, glad you dug into that. Below that chart they link the youth rates, and they're way down. Teenage labour force participation peaked in 1978, with a mini peak in 1989, and 20-24 in 1989, with a mini peak in 2001. The answer there i
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by graeme 1y ago
Unfortunately I think that's just aging of the population. There's no upper age limit in that calculation. It includes retirees as "not in the labour force". If you look at the participation rate of people aged 25-54 it&
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by graeme 1y ago
Not correct actually. Checked dictionary, tariff applies to an import or an export. It just isn't commonly done to apply an export tariff.
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by graeme 1y ago
The South Park owners don't have a billion dollars in liquid wealth each. They have ownership of south park, which is worth billions. If you make them cut their assets down to $100 million each then they don't own South Park. And
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by graeme 1y ago
If you buy a stock from a new share sale, that goes to the company as capital. The company then spends the money. The unenployment rate is quite low. There are complaints you can make about the economy but the model of money you laid out is
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by graeme 1y ago
Great list! Hadn't realized you were also Graeme/Graham
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by graeme 1y ago
Oh to be clear I meant working memory. As in, if you have a rough idea of the passage in your head, and then you read a question, can you keep that rough idea of the passage in your head while doing the question or does it fall out of your
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by graeme 1y ago
The test pretty much only tests: 1. Raw reading skill 2. Precision 3. Working memory. (Less of this now that LG are gone) You've got #1 and #2 covered it sounds like, and presuming you're a programming you're likely also top
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by graeme 1y ago
This works if you're already smart. Have seen plenty of people grind through all the tests while barely improving their score or ending well below their goals.
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by graeme 1y ago
Google's ads are the outcome of google's success at capturing attention. They aren't the cause of google capturing attention. Newspaper's had everyone's attention and then they lost it to a million and one alternati
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by graeme 1y ago
No it won't. If society builds more dwellings society is richer. Wealth is the actual physical production of goods and services. We wouldn't get richer if we blew up car factories to protect the market value of existing cars. The
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by graeme 1y ago
That's the local council. Local council meetings are notorious for attracting people willing to oppose any development. Not the same thing as an electoral force. Recent zoning changes in Texas came from the state legislature and remove
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by graeme 1y ago
Realistically basically no one is aware of the details of zoning policy or the mechanics. Are there pitchforks in Denver or Austin? Are angry homeowners overthrowing governments and blocking homebuilding? People seem to complain that housin
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by graeme 1y ago
This article suggests rents are high because we make it difficult to build homes. Are Denver landlords less greedy than landlords in Seattle?
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by graeme 1y ago
>But, the convention in the US is that people see their houses as a form of savings. Realistically, we should account for that. Why? If it makes society as a whole much poorer. The convention is fairly recent and the cause of enormous pr
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by graeme 1y ago
Hold on. Take the first claim. Derek Thompson called the author of the paper who effectively said "no my paper does not support the claims made". So either: 1. Derek Thompson is flat out lying 2. The author is wrong and confused,
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by graeme 1y ago
It absolutely would if you start hitting working memory constraints. And at the margins some people who would be 50:50 on a given math problem will have working memory constraints.
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by graeme 1y ago
I remember when the corn subsidies were introduced. I don't recall seeing any favourable commentary. Nor do I remember anyone in real life discussing them or saying "gee I'm glad we're saying the environment with biofuel
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by graeme 1y ago
You still have not reckoned with the fact that they are leaving. Whatever else is true the non-domiciled have determined that "somewhere else" is more attractive than the UK without the non domiciled tax regime.
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by graeme 1y ago
The world has to be dealt with how it is. For example: >The question is: are they? If not, why not? Because they're non-domiciled and for several centuries the UK didn't tax foreign income of non domiciled residents. It's
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by graeme 1y ago
They do pay taxes though. Non domiciled are roughly 0.11% of UK residents and pay about 1.24% of UK taxes. This change is likely to lower tax revenues.
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This might be persuasive if the reports didn't indicate that substantially more non-doms are leaving the UK than expected. The options are not a binary UK or Andorra.
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It's not an assumption. The article stated that non domiciled residents DO pay a lot of taxes. That's why the UK is concerned that they are leaving and modelled against that risk. I did a quick check and it seems like non dom&#x27
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by graeme 1y ago
A lot of magical thinking in policy these days. Global rich people went to London BECAUSE of the tax treatment. There was no magical property of London that attracts people DESPITE higher taxes. Very difficult to have any policy discussion
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by graeme 1y ago
>if the sum spent on screening everyone was cheaper than long term cancer care

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