johngladtj

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by johngladtj 2y ago
There is no such presumption. I can assure you supply and demand works the same way, even when behaving randomly. Perhaps you mean that people don't behave in a way you deem "rational" and that therefore the outcomes are diff
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Promoting peace and democracy? By arresting politicians opposed to them and funding and supporting wars?
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Lick his wounds for years, and die. This Ukraine debacle wasn't the clean win he wanted.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Those terms exist. The payout ratio is the percentage of net income actually paid out to equity investors. For utilities it's around 50% of net income, though it obviously depends
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by johngladtj 2y ago
That's not how the power grid works
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by johngladtj 2y ago
The retirees would pay for their own retirement? Is the concept of saving and then drawing down your savings to pay you living expenses unknown to you?
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by johngladtj 2y ago
There is no choice. It is literally illegal for me to buy a decent laptop with cash in Portugal for example.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
The effects of deforestation most certainly are contained locally
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by johngladtj 2y ago
>Even at that I'm not sure it really helps. Lawmaking is still fundamentally a "single member" operation: a bill either passes or it doesn't. You still get pushed to be in either the majority or minority coalition. Th
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by johngladtj 2y ago
The people who caused the problem say they weren't responsible for the problem. Do you see the issue here?
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Would you call all options and futures subsidies? Are airlines subsidizing oil companies when they purchase oil futures in order to hedge their oil costs? There is no indication that these commitments were underpriced by the government, so
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by johngladtj 2y ago
If you need a license to operate you're not free.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
If you're counting that you should add the +30% for social security in Portugal as well. Straight up if you actually do the math and count every tax paid directly a d indirectly someone making minimum wage has a effective tax rate abov
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by johngladtj 2y ago
None of that about Portugal is true.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
That's just censorship by another name. No thanks.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
I couldn't have put it better myself. If you don't want others to use what you say to make money... Shut up.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
So you want to kill all low margin businesses?
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by johngladtj 2y ago
You're so close, but so far. What happens if the banks don't close it?
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Yes, always. There is nothing unique about sports gambling here.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
The adjustment is to compensate for the estate tax that takes a far higher amount than the capital gains tax. Up to 40% of assets.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Pro-tip, the step up basis happens after the estate tax, which is much higher than the capital gains tax, and only applies to the top 1%
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by johngladtj 2y ago
The net tax rate after subsidies is essentially zero% for the bottom 50% in income terms.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Lithuania? Just pitch it as a way to fight back against Russia, and it will pass in a jiffy just like all the other anti-russian laws they've been rolling through
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by johngladtj 2y ago
It wasn't. Do nasties fell when that army decided to open the gates
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by johngladtj 2y ago
What exactly do you think justifies censoring either of those examples you gave?
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Laws that are purely intended to enforce cultural norms, rather than having an actual societal purpose. What I see when someone proposed stuff like this is someone saying "my views on how you should behave should be forced on others th
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by johngladtj 2y ago
This sounds like it would give rise to a class action fraud claim by any customers that purchased these products based on these reviews.
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Can I also ban anything I dislike seeing around in public? Or is this one of the "rules for thee, but not for me" things? I'm genuinely curious about what goes through people's minds when they propose these obviously fla
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Everything is securities fraud
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by johngladtj 2y ago
Up until a couple of years ago you were not legally allowed to build a house without at least one bathroom with a bidet, so essentially all houses built in the past 80 years in the country have bidets

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