Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by wang_li on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @11:59AM
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Your average unemployed homeless person is dodging enormous amounts of taxes simply by not having an income. Do you also complain about them or is your bitterness simply a result of envy?
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Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by nerb on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @12:10PM
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This reeks of being an outside observer. WA has no income tax, but has a sales taxes which homeless people are subjected to. The only taxes are from property which renters also don't pay. When people complain about the rent seekers it's from a place of empathy, not envy. The extraction of wealth done by them always has and always will be more negatively impactful than homeless folks.
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by pnutjam on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:19PM
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Renters pay property taxes. I know I do.
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by fragmede on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:17PM
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You also pay for your landlord's vacations, and their food. And their drug and alcohol and gambling addictions.
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by scotty79 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @12:04PM
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You can't dodge something you don't owe. Homeless pay all taxes they owe. Mostly salea tax I imagine.
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by wang_li on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @12:26PM
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The vast majority of wealthy people who are commonly accused of not "paying their fair share" and of dodging taxes are simply structuring their financial lives in ways that allow them to reduce their tax obligations. Very few are engaged in actual tax evasion and all the rest pay all the taxes they owe.
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by soco on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @12:36PM
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Structuring by moving their wealth to Bahamas which is indeed fully legal because they are the ones writing same laws (or golfing with the authors) - something the homeless cannot. So this legal trick allows them to fully enjoy their wealthy status locally while paying close to zero taxes. While supporting the Bahamas economy, yay I guess.
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by telotortium on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @12:16PM
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And they get $100k/year of services. Their life is still not particularly good, but mismanagement can burn even the largest resource pile.
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St...
by beaeglebeached on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @12:30PM
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Christ. At that point just hand them the 100k. The addicts will quickly end the public problem and those who just needed a starting seed will emerge anew with at least a van to live in .