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by valuearb 6y ago
So you and your friend John are foreigners investing foreign capital in the U.S. company Apple. Why do we want to use the tax system to discourage this?
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by valuearb 6y ago
Why should we tax foreigners for investing the in the U.S?
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by valuearb 6y ago
Investors almost always pay a minimum of 40% in taxes on earnings from their investments in corporations. First the corporation pays 20% (soon to be 28% again) on the profits. Then it pays state income taxes on the remaining profits (0-11%)
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by valuearb 6y ago
If you spent your 20s making money, little or no, you didn't have losses. If you spent your 20s conducting losing trades in the stock market, you accumulate capital gains losses that you can only apply $3,000 per year against your regu
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by valuearb 6y ago
I invest $1M building a great new store for selling widgets. My first year I make a $1M profit. I want to build a second store, but I can't out of profits, because I only can net $700k because of state and federal corporate income taxe
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by valuearb 6y ago
Of course the eviction moratorium is being gamed
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by valuearb 6y ago
I believe the Trump tax cuts only provided a temporary benefit for repatriation of foreign earnings.
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by valuearb 6y ago
First of all, if you want foreigners to pay U.S. income taxes when they invest capital in the U.S., I have to ask, why do we want to discourage foreign investment in the US? Amazon pays sales/gas taxes for much of what you mentioned, a
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by valuearb 6y ago
Again, SS was designed to be a fairly funded retirement plan, where your contributions determined most of your payout. The amount of the contributions were designed to fund those payouts, and nothing more. Of course we can remove the contri
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by valuearb 6y ago
You can easily reach the hard cap on future SS payments while earning barely more than the median pay in the US during your career. So every dollar you contribute above that earns you nothing. Someone who contributes 100x gets nothing for t
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by valuearb 6y ago
Profits are frequently reinvested, taxing them means less to reinvest, and lower returns for investors, which means less incentive to save & invest.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Only three things can be done with profits. 1) They can be reinvested back into the business. 2) They can be held by the business pending future investment opportunities. 3) They can be dividended back to the shareholders. Taxing profits me
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by valuearb 6y ago
Corporations should not pay income tax at all. It's a direct tax on savings and investment, which leads to slower growth and lower incomes for the country as a whole. S Corps and some other legally structured corporations (such as some
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by valuearb 6y ago
There is a real reason FICA has a cap, because it's not an income tax. It's sole purpose is for a retirement & medical benefits program that was sold as fair to all when introduced. Forcing someone to pay 10X or 100X over thei
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by valuearb 6y ago
Corporations are merely shared collectives owned by groups of individuals, who pay taxes on it's earnings when they receive dividends or sell their shares.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Yes, because driving defects can cost lives?
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by valuearb 6y ago
It’s just another WSB wormhole where some amateur who doesn’t understand anything about how the market works writes pages of misleading conspiracy theories.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Hundreds of iMac failures out of tens of millions sold?
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by valuearb 6y ago
This would have been a great slogan for Steve Jobs. Apple was rarely first with anything, but often first with something useful and special.
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by valuearb 6y ago
How does this solve the causality paradox?
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by valuearb 6y ago
He just announced another delay to 7 nm.
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by valuearb 6y ago
There is a cost to everything.
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by valuearb 6y ago
He never had a rough patch running the Buffett partnerships, or changed structure. He made money every year and his returns were roughly 40% annualized. Source: I’ve read the partnership letters. And I’m pretty sure 2/20 was already a
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by valuearb 6y ago
Nope. Short sellers are the white knights of the market. They take on incredibly difficult and dangerous trades, and keep market prices honest. Without them the market would be nothing but a lair full of pump and dump longs, like a certain
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by valuearb 6y ago
Yea, the “hedge” part has seemed to have been lost to history long ago.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Buffett was 0%/25% (over a 4% hurdle IIRC).
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by valuearb 6y ago
Yea this title is total click bait.
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by valuearb 6y ago
HR doesn’t work for you, the fact that you’ve witnessed a few random cases where they helped coworkers doesn’t change that. My experience is that HR conspires with managers to serve their aims, so why not just deal with your manager?
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by valuearb 6y ago
The rich accumulated wealth because they earned it. You are angry that our tax laws didn’t take as much as it could from them. Still doesn’t change the fact that federal spending is out of control.
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by valuearb 6y ago
I feel like naming your child Sunshine is just setting them up for some kind of delusional life choices like fraud.

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