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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by laughing_man on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:26PM (#50488477)
>Do low taxes in the US work for anyone other than the Epstein class?

Yes, as long as you don't allow companies to flood the job market with low cost foreign labor.

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by bijowo1676 on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:43PM (#50488684)
the issue is not nominal tax rates (whats written in the tax code), the problem is effective tax rates (how much of actual cash is paid to IRS).

there is a huge gap between working class and capitalist class.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/effective-income-tax-rate...

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by laughing_man on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:57PM (#50488820)
Again, the problem is a flooded labor market. When you get growth, the demand for labor increases. What should happen is the amount you can demand for your labor goes up, but if you have programs like H-1B and you effectively throw open the border, that won't happen.
Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by bijowo1676 on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:02PM (#50488888)
you are too low IQ to discuss this topic.

I am here to discuss Tax policy, not your racist jingoism

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by laughing_man on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:43PM (#50491156)
That sort of crime-stop thinking is what keeps working class people just scraping by. I said nothing about race or tax policy. You're so busy looking for "code words" only you can read you've missed the point.

Tax policy is a red herring even if you don't realize it. Wealthy people never pay more than about 25% in tax. If you raise the actual tax rate more than that their tolerance for risk goes down and you gimp your economy.

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by bijowo1676 on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:16PM (#50491537)
why do you care about wealthy people's tolerance for risk ? nobody thinks of my tolerance for being overtaxed

I have far more in common with tech visa workers who are overtaxed on their W2 wages, than with big capitalist who never sells and never pays a dime to irs

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by m4ck_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:55PM (#50489529)
I'd sooner see offshoring banned than programs that bring in potentially motivated/skilled workers here (though they should still have limits), and I think it'd be more impactful. Theres the obvious dev/IT impact, and we also have companies like Google and Tesla eliminating humans from the workforce with AI and farming out oversight of that AI overseas. When your Waymo or Cybercab makes an oopsie some guy in Manilla or Nairobi is going to be handling it while the out of work uber/taxi driver is shivering in a tent under a bridge.
Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by laughing_man on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:48PM (#50491225)
Offshoring restrictions tend to founder on practicalities. Exactly what constitutes offshoring? If a company creates a subsidiary in another country and hires people to produce a product, is that offshoring? What about when it buys a product from an independent company in another country?

If I fire a bunch of people in the US and hire the same number of people in another country to work on the same project, that's clearly offshoring. But what if I don't fire anyone in the US? What if I fire them five years later?

The whole thing is a mess for regulation and I suspect if you wrote regulations that weren't easy to bypass you'd hamstring local producers.