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by washbrain 4y ago
Population A is a miniscule fraction of today's earners. Even if it doubles 3 times, it will still be a small percentage. We have a long, long runway until we need to figure out of $400k is too big of a population.
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by washbrain 4y ago
Surprising to see this downvoted. The OP is saying, "the wealthy have more resources to protect their wealth from audits." Which, like, is objectively true? And if you think money can't buy political goodwill these days, I&#x
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by washbrain 4y ago
Whew boy, no. Revenue Agents and Revenue Officers do not carry firearms. Revenue Agents perform audits and are not police. Take the tin foil hat off and quit spreading this FUD.
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by washbrain 4y ago
It's widely reported and widely understood that lobbying has specifically killed bills that have been introduced to simplify tax prep.
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by washbrain 4y ago
I make more than $400k, and my tax bill is criminally low.
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by washbrain 4y ago
Oh, I totally agree with you. Random sampling is the wrong approach. There should be weighted random sampling by income.
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by washbrain 4y ago
Another way it's extremely expensive to be poor.
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by washbrain 4y ago
This is 100% the story. The IRS can help make sure everyone is playing fair if we sufficiently fund them. And they can stop policing all the little issues and go after the big ones if we sufficiently fund them. AND sufficiently funding them
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by washbrain 4y ago
Wait what? What about defining "correspondence audits" is political?
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by washbrain 4y ago
This seems to have a statistical backing to me: I'd assume lower income folks take less time to audit than wealthy folks. I'd also assume there are more low income than high income people. My final assumption is that the IRS will
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by washbrain 4y ago
That... Doesn't strike me as absurd. When I was a kid, I'd definitely use more than that. McDonalds serves like 70M meals a day alone. Customers often grab a couple straws and use one. Ask anyone who has worked fast food -people t
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by washbrain 4y ago
Wait, the article you linked said he called manufacturers to get a range of daily production/market estimates of straw production. Hardly seems fair to say based on "nothing".
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by washbrain 4y ago
The parasitic placenta is not my thinking, it's a fairly widely understood, perhaps not anodyne, scientific description of the relationship. See: https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-archive/press-releases/pr9938...
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by washbrain 4y ago
Sex is cheap entertainment, and should be. It feels good, it's your body, why should anyone have any judgements about how you use it. Let me fuck the men and women and non binary pals I want, it doesn't affect you. One should be
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by washbrain 4y ago
> In all likelihood, it was healthier than the average child born at 28 weeks How do you know that about this case? "Statistically speaking" only works when talking about groups, not individuals.
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by washbrain 4y ago
Ok, I'll bite, how would making them a "town square" have helped the defendent here?
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by washbrain 4y ago
For me, personally, I believe that human pregnancy is unusual. Most mammalian mothers can self terminate pregnancy if desired, by cutting off the flow of resources to their fetus. Humans are somewhat unique in that they can't. Our fetu
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by washbrain 4y ago
And you have sufficient information about the parents in this case to say there were no complications factors or social challenges that may have caused those numbers to deviate from "normal"? My point is you cannot apply the avera
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by washbrain 4y ago
My understanding is that a court order is not an immediate, absolute command with zero recourse or ability to have one's lawyers respond? Surely Facebook could have done something , even if it wasn't ultimately successful?
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by washbrain 4y ago
You don't know the circumstances, though. I can imagine dozens of scenarios where someone would be forced or feel forced to wait this long, or experience a change in their life that makes them rethink carrying the fetus to term. The vi
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by washbrain 4y ago
The US justice system isn't about reformation or improving the country. It's a system designed to mete out punishment and revenge. It is both deeply tragic and entirely typical that a case like this is progressing in the US.
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by washbrain 4y ago
The saddest part to me is that two women are going to face prison time, effectively ruining their lives. Could the fetus have survived? Who could say. Would the fetus have had a good quality of life? Who could say. I can say for sure that
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by washbrain 4y ago
Disagree, cultural norms are not just formless things that can come and go entirely without context. We can never have a discussion about the morality of slavery without the historical context.
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by washbrain 4y ago
FWIW, I want to serve on juries. I just know my political beliefs are genuine, sincerely held, and quite leftist for America.
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by washbrain 4y ago
For sure, but that's definitely not universally the case today.
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by washbrain 4y ago
It's not true. The real answer is that execs don't want to pay the costs of slo violations. If the checkmark status green, who could say whether the service was down?
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by washbrain 4y ago
I'm a prison abolitionist who believes the police are generally too powerful and have too many incentives to lie under oath. If a lawyer asked me about these things during jury selection I strongly suspect they'd move me out.
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by washbrain 4y ago
"this anonymous person stands on trial for their role in spreading hoaxes in their show about Sandy hook shootings, they have made millions selling supplements online and host their own talk show catered to right wing conspiracies. &qu
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by washbrain 4y ago
Yes, they did. But we've improved as a species. We may not recognize what our descendents will consider barbaric in our behavior, but we can be the ratchet that prevents us from repeating the barbarism of our forbears.
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by washbrain 4y ago
Even if they can vote equally, there's no guarantee that minority populations will have the numbers to protect themselves from the tyranny of the majority. We haven't even gotten to the "equal access to voting" part here

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