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by ppereira 13y ago
I think you are falling for Zeno's paradox. There exists an equilibrium with a constant percentage rate of tax redistributed as a lump sum that will not affect inflation at all. If the lump sum is larger than the tax revenue, there wil
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by ppereira 13y ago
> If by "wealth" you mean "net worth", then because that is even harder to administer than income taxes. That is the standard argument, but countries have been taxing property a lot longer than they have been taxing i
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by ppereira 13y ago
> Republicans are also openly for reducing burdens (both regulation and taxation) on the wealth producers so they can make more of it and spread it around. Wow, you really do drink the trickle-down effect Kool-Aid.
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by ppereira 13y ago
It would not be regressive overall. The corporate tax and basic income need to be considered together. You are combining a corporate tax that might be regressive or flat, with a lump sum payment of equal magnitude. The net effect is most ce
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by ppereira 13y ago
A basic income is much more like a change in tax rates. In fact, the existing Earned Income Tax Credit is already much like a basic income for a certain segment of the population. Requiring a constitutional amendment would create much too
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by ppereira 13y ago
No, because the basic income would be paid for by a tax. Tax revenues increases with inflation too.
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by ppereira 13y ago
There is a near balance between those who would vote for and against a basic income based. The simplest implementation would involve a flat income tax that is distributed as a lump sum. For this case, families earning less than average woul
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Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction(guardian.co.uk)
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Laundering money with shell companies in India(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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by ppereira 13y ago
I use Latin Modern Mono Light from my TeX installation.
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by ppereira 13y ago
To be convicted of most crimes, the criminal must be found to have had a particular mental state (mens rea), such as a specific intent that the words be taken as a threat. By including "lol jk" along with the threat, I can guess w
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by ppereira 13y ago
Monad transformer hell.
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by ppereira 13y ago
I don't understand your critique. A book manages to condense the design of a computer -- from gate-level to operating system -- in a 300 page tutorial and you do not like the fact that it glosses over some details? I doubt any single p
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by ppereira 13y ago
I don't understand your problem with a basic income guarantee. You say that it is unhelpful, but it is a very clear description of the mechanics of redistribution. It is much easier to explain a "basic income" to my mother than a "negative
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by ppereira 14y ago
There is also John McCarthy's database-like language, Elephant 2000. Elephants never forget, so I think there will be many future databases named Elephant.
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by ppereira 14y ago
The information asymmetry you highlight is why directors of Canadian (CBCA) and Ontario (OBCA) corporations are personally liable for the wages of their employees.
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by ppereira 14y ago
I once did this for a client that needed spec sheets with unit-specific test data from a database. LaTeX is great because it is easy to generate programmatically. Making nice PDFs is easy. Exporting to HTML via htlatex is possible, but may
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by ppereira 14y ago
Try converting quick reference card into a deck for Anki. If an online quick reference is not available, the regular structure of language reference manuals and apis makes it straight-forward to create a card deck for the tool of your choic
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by ppereira 14y ago
iOS Developer Program License Agreement 3.3.16 Any master recordings and musical compositions embodied in Your Application must be wholly-owned by You or licensed to You on a fully paid-up basis and in a manner that will not require the pay
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by ppereira 15y ago
... unless, of course, you happen to be in that narrow window in life where it is optimal for you or your partner to have children. A woman's biological clock waits for no job. Here in Canada, parental leave is self-paid through Employment
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by ppereira 15y ago
1. These plots are derived from Thomas Pickety and Emmanuel Saez's famous work, http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/pikettyqje.pdf . Their research has spurred similar analyses around the world, much of which is in the World Top Income Database
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by ppereira 15y ago
Just interpret "it costs" as "it costs the user" and use the plain English definition of cost as "asking price, market price, or selling price" and you'll arrive at the original poster's intended meaning. I assume that for the second part o
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by ppereira 15y ago
You don't copyright from storing someone's work. Scanning is a point-and-click affair, as I discovered while copying pages from some early Aldine editions last summer.
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by ppereira 15y ago
That seems like a pretty silly design. Can you imagine if cold war era ICBMs did the same?
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by ppereira 15y ago
I've found the law and programming to be quite different. In programming and engineering in general, you are often working towards one particular goal. The optimum is in the distance and you are on your path to achieving it. In the law, you
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by ppereira 15y ago
This may be an interesting piece of rhetoric, but does little to advance the argument. I know that GE employs some of the most sophisticated international tax planners on the planet (as they should). I have no idea how much tax they have av
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I think that bracket creep has very little to do with simplification. If one plots the page length of the US Tax Code over time, that figure continually increases. Simple page count is probably more highly correlated with the complexity and
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by ppereira 15y ago
Wealth taxes are actually just as old as income taxes, predating even Hammurabi. To a degree, the two are highly correlated. For example, a flat property tax on a farm is just a wealth tax while a tax on the farm's crop would be an income t
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I have heard that the legal system of the Roman empire became highly technical and arcane just before its collapse.
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For a paper that discusses the Google example in some detail see Ed Kleinbard's "Stateless income's challenge to tax policy". http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/tax/symposia/Documents/Klein...

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