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by munk-a 8mo ago
There's a reason the acronym TACO exists - every time Trump goes after the really deep money the backlash forces him to change his tune. If only the tariffs disproportionately affected the rich then we would have been done with them w
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Companies could just reduce the amount of tracking data they're trying to harvest - then they wouldn't need a banner. If you're annoyed then be mad at the company - not the law trying to offer you some way to protect your da
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by munk-a 8mo ago
The rich and ultra rich tend to borrow against their investments rather than spending their own money. As long as the number continues to go up it's basically a free money pipe for everyone over a certain level of wealth.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
The US recently rolled out a childhood investment account that offered to pump a thousand dollars per child into the main market index funds backed by the US government. In the SOTU there was also a mention of matching the first thousand d
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Pharma companies want to make money - they'll charge what the market can bear up to what they're allowed to. Some countries cap this - others don't. In the US the government actually subsidizes medication costs in a graduat
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by munk-a 8mo ago
At the end of the day it isn't US tech companies that'd suffer (outside some minor short term pain) it's the US. If being in America is bad for business those companies (which already exist multi-nationally in most cases) wi
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by munk-a 8mo ago
But I was certain that now that the tariffs were overturned the merchants would voluntarily lower their prices to pre-tariff level and not just hope the consumer doesn't notice that the only direction prices go is up.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
You don't think Target is going to send me a check? I had assumed it would arrive by mail in the next few days.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
OpenAI is not viable. OpenAI is spending like Google without a warchest and they have essentially nothing to offer outside of brand recognition. Nvidia propping them up to force AI training to be done on their chips vs. google in-house co
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Oh man that hits the biggest nerve in me. Never again should we allow primaries to be skipped. I don't care if the incumbent is the most popular candidate in history - running a primary makes sure the best candidates will be picked a
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Oh, they're absolutely responsible and will suffer a fair amount of consequences for their votes. But the legislature should have stopped the bleeding a long time ago.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I mean like that and dozens of other excellent examples that should have caused the legislature to remove him from office. Trump coin alone (including all the shady World Liberty Financial funding) should have been worth the boot and that
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by munk-a 8mo ago
The modern anglo-saxon world has been pretty limited in this respect - but Charles I of England is an excellent example of pretty much just this playing out and being solved with a national razor.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Genuinely, I think the US is pretty doomed if the Trump family and administration cronies aren't stripped of their wealth, tarred and feathered. If it is known that being president is a great way to make a bunch of money through corru
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by munk-a 8mo ago
The majority of American voters can be as dumb as they want - the two big failures here are the legislature and the judiciary. The judiciary let an obviously illegal thing sit for far too long while the legislature is too partisan to actua
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by munk-a 8mo ago
To better spread the tax burden. In an idealized system taxes would be levied in such a manner where a good contribution of labor allowed a more comfortable lifestyle that scaled with diminishing returns. All people should be guaranteed a
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Inflation! Just use the money printer to print more money! Subsidy checks for everyone! Unexpected bonus checks for military personnel, brand new accounts for children with money that needs to be invested in an approved stock market inde
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Impossible - such a script would invalidate the need for Intuit and Intuit is critical for national security or something.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I don't work in the IRS so I'm not certain what all of that is doing - but here we've got an organization that is highly efficient that's being targeted and downsized for political reasons. If we want to discuss wastefu
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Most law enforcement related entities end up being a money sink while enforcing our laws - the IRS actually runs a substantial profit while enforcing laws and additional funding would increase that funding. This also isn't a case like
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I'll admit - the 415:1 was pulled from an article detailing information from 2024 but the main point isn't the actual value but the fact that it's more than 1:1. When the IRS receives more funding the US government gets more
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Consumption taxes are almost always regressive and improperly place the majority of the tax burden on the poor - they're good to have (especially the sin taxes and tax discounts on specific encouraged behaviors) but they should be coup
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by munk-a 8mo ago
That's an excellent criticism of the parent and why we really do want a somewhat complex tax code even if it should be far simpler than what we have today. We also want to balance regressive and progressive taxes, we do want to influen
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I wholly support drastically simplifying the tax code - I disagree with the extent to which you'd simplify it since there is a very good reason to have property taxes and some of the sin taxes have notable social benefits. Additionall
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Yes, it was completed and operational and the new administration pulled it from public use.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
They have worked recently to implement a self-hosted tax submission system and given their rate of return while there may be some mismanagement it is one of the most provably efficient organizations in the government netting 415$ for every
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I agree that the complex financials are generally intentionally created for sheltering and that complexity is only possible because of our overly complex tax code which has been made significantly more complex by tax preparer lobbyists from
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Defunding the IRS is nothing but an effort to reduce tax enforcement. People that have relatively straightforward finances can be trivially audited in a formulaic way with data that's on hand - a lack of human auditing resources tends
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I'm actually all for automated measures of program correctness and I think that manual testing is the last resort of tight budgets outside of highly complex integration issues. Adding more automated test cases that are built in to the
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It isn't, no one is buying code on it's own - but it's a component of the product. I dislike the phrasing above since it assumes the two are distinct things.

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