landemva

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by landemva 3y ago
In USA, income taxes are not apportioned uniformly. Sales tax, property tax, and most everything else is applied uniformly based on price. I still can't believe there was a civil war about slavery, yet the government takes my work prod
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by landemva 3y ago
It could look like reciprocal easements throughout the entire town and the roads. The people own the infrastructure and use legal structures to cooperate with their neighbors.
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by landemva 3y ago
I live in a town where the "roads" are private property and everyone has an easement to travel on everyone else's piece of what look like roads. Most of town budget goes to "road maintenance". Everyone understands t
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by landemva 3y ago
But the Turnpike upgrades are awesome.
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by landemva 3y ago
How to degrowth USA federal spending?
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by landemva 3y ago
Maybe there could be a way to put aside some cash and coin at home as an emergecy fund. I keep a box of 500 half dollars, along with paper money.
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by landemva 3y ago
If you find a 25 year old buried bucket of Portuguese Escudo, US dollar, and gold, which still spends? Which was cancelled or went to zero? Europe has frequently cancelled their currencies over past 25 and 100 years. Those who were born int
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by landemva 3y ago
> the exchange rate of fiat currencies for goods and services simply is inconsistent with the facts. Those who did well in the birthing geo lottery of North America have a different experience than most others. Even European nations in p
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by landemva 3y ago
It's a free handout in a basketcase economy, with bells and whistles to take advantage of desperate people.
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by landemva 3y ago
Usually doesn't even get that far because IRS bribes parents with a small deduction if they voluntarily get a beast number for their child. A motivated person could set up an LLC and do everything through that EIN. But few are motivate
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by landemva 3y ago
That is what Thousands Standing Around say, but it's not the law. And there are ADA considerations (hint). I have never done more than metal detector or massage, and have been 1K flier. A friend flies with no ID and a federal ankle bra
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by landemva 3y ago
FTX investments, err donations, were unregulated and not listed on a regulated exchange. Big brains took SBF's bait and maybe got to rub shoulders for a moment.
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by landemva 3y ago
What's stopping you?
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by landemva 3y ago
> Why wouldn't such people be allowed to profit off their biometric data? And legalize selling kidneys. My body my choice.
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by landemva 3y ago
SSN is voluntary. USA passport application has a spot for SSN and it may be left blank or may accidentally contain rando numbers (I have done both). TSA full body scan is also voluntary, along with voluntary showing ID at their (Soviet era)
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by landemva 3y ago
USA had that until a former President was indicted to rabid cheering. Even Nixon was pardoned. Peaceful power transition may have ended.
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by landemva 3y ago
You may want to research your State election law for major/minor party. That is how the two party system in USA is perpetuated. Of course the Ds and Rs, and TV, will not tell you about it.
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by landemva 3y ago
I have found that voting on local city and county does have impact. And leaving the federal races unvoted shows my choice of none of the above.
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by landemva 3y ago
> how the executive should raise the money Only Congress can raise money through spending bills.
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by landemva 3y ago
That part of 14th was to validate northern civil war debt and exclude Confederate debt. The 14th does not override Congress' authority to tax and spend ... or not spend. Article I, Section 8.
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by landemva 3y ago
US was bankrupt in 1895. JP Morgan set up a bailout. https://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-1895-crisis-and-1862-... Now that dollar is fiat, there would be no reason for US to go bankrupt. New unbacked dollars can be issue
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by landemva 3y ago
> It’s levied across the whole society according to ability to pay. In US, sales tax is not based on ability to pay. The very rich often have minimal W-2 income, so they often opt out of progressive income taxes.
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by landemva 3y ago
This sums it up, "The convention of using a cloud platform is to use a cloud platform". If you rent compute space, then you trust them to responsibly use the hypervisor instead of snooping. If you trust that or not, you are all in
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by landemva 3y ago
Until the people go on a general strike and stop working, the gears will continue to turn and squeeze the vice tighter.
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by landemva 3y ago
The consoles at big hosts typically require good 2fa to log in to the web management console, which typically can open a command line on the instance. This is a nice authN layer.
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by landemva 3y ago
USA, and some western Europe, exported dirty manufacturing energy use and pollution outside the borders. Any nation rich or strong enough to export pollution of manufacturing will tend to show the numbers you highlight.
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by landemva 3y ago
Can we agree that energy released and used in war fighting is wasteful? In the general view of war fighting "over there". Britain did not improve the living conditions of those in Dresden.
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by landemva 3y ago
Induction stove. Electric car. Heat pump. Those are indicators of being born in privilege. What about your AC in car and hotel and home? USA setting off nukes and Britain fire bombing Dresden are examples of energy use which is wasteful and
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by landemva 3y ago
Energy consumption is an indicator of living standards. I hope we harness and use much more reliable energy!
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by landemva 3y ago
> the risk profile is SO different from wind. As is the power generation profile. Wind/solar/tidal are important to develop, and the risk profile should include whatever peaker or storage backs up the variability in generation.

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