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by jl2718 5y ago
> if the loopholes were closed, … almost everyone in the economy would win 1. Tax is not zero-sum. They take as much as they can from everybody. 2. Any additional spending would likely also have zero benefit to most people. 3. Greater ta
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Correct but irrelevant. I was there and did all that, and most of the people with me would have agreed with the expressed sentiment as it relates to taxes.
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Money very clearly has a social coordination effect. You can’t get people together predictably and repeatably without it. Interestingly, it doesn’t matter whether it’s positive or negative cash flow. Elite private colleges are an example of
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So, they observe a bias toward the average, and the dependence goes exactly as one would naively expect. If scientists exist to explain things we find interesting, statisticians exist to make those things boring. Seriously, work as a data s
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Or that life affects your business much more than the other way around. Mess it up and you’ll start failing at everything for a million tiny reasons.
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I don’t think it’s a minority position, but we haven’t figured out how to make it work yet.
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There is a difference between ‘unregulated’ and ‘poorly-regulated’. The more defensible position is that regulation never works as intended; it just benefits those that can hire the most lawyers, and state power is used against their weaker
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An interview with a DPRK defector about this: https://unchainedpodcast.com/yeonmi-park-on-why-doing-busine...
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TSMC is people. Not just people, but the hearts and minds of free people. It cannot be taken by force. The machines are irrelevant. This was on me of the first revelations I had in my first job after leaving the Air Force, which was at Micr
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You’d think so, but, actually the opposite. Tax collection pays the interest on the debt. Higher taxes means more debt load. The government, like any modern public company, does not care about profit. They operate to maximize cash flow. Inc
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My take is that the independent dial-ups killed their ISP business long before cable (1996). Then came their $2/mo IP-only service, which was okay, but slow to develop new features. Then came the AIM days, which seemed to dominate an e
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1. 25 years ago a 28.8k modem and Cyrix 486 with 8mb ram on AOL had better end-user performance than today’s most popular web apps. There is still no mass-market equivalent to the appeal of those chat rooms. Technology will never defeat lat
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I don’t think that ethnicity will be a factor. It will be an economic breakdown and then a fight to control natural resources and trade routes.
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What specific document or witness mentions “affluent neighborhood”? Without that information, this article is about a judge making an political statement.
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From here looks like we’re headed into the fall of the Russian Federation, and an endless series of NATO interventions in regional conflicts all over Russia. The Chinese strategy will be to trade debt for resource access, and wait for this
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CPT and OPT are interesting cases for collective bargaining. Not my area of expertise. However, I found a different answer that seems like a more concrete protection regardless of labor classification: > The U.S. Citizenship and Immigrat
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Yes, and working is a violation of the student visa.
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Is this not a direct violation of the student visa?
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1. Yes, broad redistribution of money (demand) and poor productivity growth (supply) creates price inflation. ‘Fiscal Policy’ seems like a meaningless term, so I can’t comment. But you know what is both designed to redistribute money and ma
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Seems anachronistic to me. There are many resources other than land which define an economy and a nation state.
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1. Price inflation is almost unrelated to monetary inflation. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=O2ZH 2. Tax collection does not change a governments ability or willingness to incur debt. 3. Government spending may n
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by jl2718 5y ago
Altruism might be believable if: 1. He lived in the same neighborhood as his renters, and not 1000s of miles away in the UK 2. He didn’t kick them out after a few years by flipping it. 3. It was a slow, long-term acquisition of rentals for
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I have never thought of “justice is blind” as relating to race specifically, until recently when race became the central theme of all public discourse. I had previously thought of it as being rational (scales) and impartial (blindfold) in t
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You should always vote for less taxes on yourself. Voting for more taxes on other people does not reduce your taxes.
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This will just create complicated sales contracts, and advantage bigger landlords. The simple solution is market-valued property tax, because it’s basically unavoidable.
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A lot of home owner occupant tax advantages were specifically introduced to disadvantage landlords. If you get rid of them, it may make the problem worse because there will be no way out of the rental trap. Separately, there are many tax la
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This is called “Blockbusting”. Wonderful.
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What exact problem are you trying to solve? I can think of a lot that this would cause. Analyze any specific tax policy deeply enough and you’ll find that there is no way to fix something that starts off as unnecessary and harmful.
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Maybe stop government mortgage insurance. It’s nothing but public liability for private gains.
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There’s also the possibility of using homomorphic encryption to make it blind on both sides.

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