landemva

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by landemva 3y ago
The Fed is a contractor with pomp and circumstance to make it appear different. Any private group charter can require their club leader to be approved by the Pres. and the Pres. may or may not play along.
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It's a club funded by interest rate skimming with opaque structure and reporting requirements which don't conform to typical reporting requirements. CEO of Silicon Valley Bank was on BoD of SFO branch, which failed to adequately r
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It's like a centralized exchange in which funds can be seized, censored, and the participating brokers are licensed. Nothing like bitcoin.
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I received W-2 wages in cash in the military. I suppose I'm old.
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Those voting won't recall the politicians because the people are distracted by the latest divisive outrage.
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Another alternate is to eliminate the federal personal income tax. W-2 employees would get immediate increase to their take home pay and employers would get out of tax withholding chores. Feds can just increase the already large deficit spe
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It makes me question why we allow government to be in charge of our money, and the price of money (interest rate meddling by govt contractor federalreserve). I suppose we grow up with it and don't question it.
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65,000 vertical feet would be expensive and a spectacular record depth. Drill bits and casings would struggle to retain form at 900 degrees F.
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ITA matrix has options to remove 737MAX, so I start there.
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I don't know anyone, in western countries, who got polio vaccines and suffered illness. I know people who took the covid shots and boosters and got sick with covid and variants. Some got it multiple times, so somehow the covid shots ar
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Nothing is absolutely perfect, and polio vaccine has great results.
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> Deutsche Bahn still required masking in January. I was surprised Germans didn't do anything about that policy. They did seem to widely ignore it, but it remained enforceable.
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Like USA, Sweden mistakenly put old infected people together instead of isolating those people. It tore through the elderly in both countries.
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The push for early diagnosis skews the statistics. Early diagnosis gets the drug companies paid more. The actual lifespan may not have changed.
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The monetary union is flawed. It won't last another decade unless they somehow federalize the member state debt.
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> 50% of people who are contributing less than they take Do you have a citation for that broad brush number for what they take?
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Your body, your choice.
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>> it would imply the standard of living is increasing. In USA, GDP includes the explosion of numbers of hospital admin staffers, energy prices doubled, and production of munitions which are given to Europe. That GDP does not increase
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The local politicians (city, county) provide the funds. Can you take this up with them at a city council meeting?
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Savers get higher income from interest, so less likely to spend savings and instead spend interest income.
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by landemva 3y ago
I use both power sources, and have used a 3" electric impact on track jobs and it would get hot. Air tools don't get hot, which is great when it is repetitive wrenching.
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I'm curious if by volume you primarily eat veggies, then fats, then meat. I'm generally healthy and have found this works great for maintaining body weight and minimizing cravings. This morning I had a few carrots for breakfast al
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It's almost like something in political water compels USA to be actively fighting all the time. USA had wasted lived and enormous treasure over the past three decades, and keeps losing.
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>> of your income Rich people have investments and that is not income for tax purposes if it is correctly set up. For many rich, they have escaped from W2 taxes on income. "Income" according to the personal income tax code o
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>> Simplified taxes does not have to mean lower taxes. You're conflating 2 issues. When did I suggest lower taxes? I suggested sales tax increase which would offset removal of personal income tax.
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by landemva 3y ago
To clarify, I suggest remove the personal income tax so there is no need for W2 withholding. Replace with a sales tax, with basic necessities having zero rate sales tax.
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Having lived and worked in Europe, I submitted yearly tax returns to various countries. The German payroll taxes were particularly troublesome to understand. And the countries had high sales taxes with VAT which causes more paperwork and en
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The rich already laugh because their gains are not mostly W2 income. The rich already opted out.
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Poor people don't have mortgage interest deduction and other tax deduction acrobatics, so poor people are harmed today. And removal of paycheck W2 withholding would be a take home pay increase. The tax prep sites and government paper p
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There was no employer withholding originally. People wrote a check each year, which made the amounts very visible to each person. Employer withholding keeps it quiet and low-key so few resist the takings. "Current Tax Payment Act of 19

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