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Re:What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education by douche on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:08PM (#12112540)
Wow, that is an idiotic tax policy. Of course it originated in California...
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Re:What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education by vacri on Sunday July 17, 2016 @09:58PM (#12112858)
From an outsider's viewpoint, the entire US tax system is idiotic, fragmented, hard to understand, and predisoposed to creating conflict.
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Re:What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education by ForHackernews on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:08AM (#12113945)
Why is that idiotic? It seems pretty sensible to me that you'd pay tax where the money was earned.

To take a simplified example, if you lived in low-tax Nevada, but traveled to high-tax/high-population California to play shows, you're earning money based (at least in part) on the large audience in California. Why shouldn't you pay California part of that revenue?

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