cwhiz

Most of the immigrants in the US are not authorized to be here.

The scarcity is technically real, but practically pointless.

Every Bitcoin represents 100,000,000 tradable assets. If there are 30,000,000 Bitcoin in circulation that means there are 100,000,000x30,000,000 individual assets available to hold and trade. Do the math, and then realize that we’ll arrive at the heat death of the universe before Bitcoin is ever actually scarce.

Don’t want to end up in a US prison for the obvious scam they’re running.

Based on that chart, the effective tax rate is not near 42%. It actually appears to be closer to 31-35%, which is almost exactly what the $100k person in NYC would pay.

I think the issue that most non-US citizens fail to realize or comprehend is that most people in America don't pay any tax at all. The labor participation rate is 61.5% and then half of the people that do work still don't pay any effective taxes due to all the credits and deductions. A minority of earners support the entire tax base.

...and then, of course, we frivolously waste the revenue we do generate.

Do you think someone earning $100,000 in NYC is not an ordinary person?

That’s $125 billion over a decade. Less per year than the MTA spends on a single city.

You said it’s not a spending problem, but it sure seems like a spending problem, no?

I was wrong. The latest expansion was $3.5 billion per mile.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

Call it whatever you like. The MTA spends $17 billion per year.

And we get rickety subway service and piss stained stations that make you feel as if you’ve traveled in time back to the 80s.

How much does Germany spend per year on rail?

The “Hey” email service toes the line well for me. I’d prefer all of my communications were based on a similar idea.

Not a spending problem.

Proceeds to list things that we spend and invest unnecessarily on.

We have a subway system in NYC. Run by the MTA. A bloated and incompetent organization that needs a billion dollars to extend a subway line a single mile, and will routinely spend hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary bridge painting and other shenanigans.

There’s a reason we don’t have nice things, and it’s not because our taxes are too low.

Edit: It is actually $3.5 billion for a mile.

Does physical violence not exist in your worldview?

Taxes are already too high in NYC. A single adult in NYC with a $100k salary has an effective overall tax rate of 31.5%, and 9% of that is city and state.

Trying to raise the rates higher is insane. We have a spending problem, not an income problem.

Not to mention that the timing of this is just absurd. Everything that makes NYC great has been closed for a year. The next mayor wants people to pay more, but won’t commit to reopening the city? Why would the “rich” stay? Why would anyone stay? For the trash, and piss?

No one said it had to be by force.

Getting to the point where we’re going to need phone, email, and SMS to be deny all by default. Can’t reach me unless you’re information is already in my contacts.

Even more absurd hyperbole. Countless? Executing? So many that it is impossible to count?

Link me some examples. There are so many that it cannot be counted, and so surely it should be easy for you to send me a dozen examples.

>If someone has a problem with dogs, or anything else, then they are not qualified to perform a job that requires interacting with dogs, or whatever their particular disability involves.

An allergic reaction is not just a "problem with dogs." An allergy to dog hair is no more or less important than any other disability. The law requires reasonable attempts to accommodate the individual with a service animal, and the individual with an allergy. In the case of Uber or Lyft, it seems relatively trivial (to me) to classify drivers with allergies, riders with guide dogs, and to prevent those two groups from connecting for a ride.

The real problem here is that Uber/Lyft don't want to take any action that would further blur the line between employee and contractor.

Uber lost $8.5 billion in 2019, $6.77 billion in 2020, and recently reported a $968 million loss in Q1 2021. As a company, Uber has lost around $35 billion total.

Which really begs the question of... who the heck is making money here, how, and why?

I did. Did you? 0.3 deaths per 100k across the state.

But if we keep moving the goalposts, we can stay hysterical for as long as we want.

Another predictable outcome of taking funding away from the police.

Based on the comments it looks like we’re at the denial phase. Maybe another year or two until we wise up and restore the budgets.

Such absurd hyperbole.

Don’t physically fight with police, and you’ll be fine. Simple as that.

Corporate taxes are such a waste of time. Corporations aren’t ever going to pay them so we just end up with all the downsides.

Missing out on local investments, IP offshoring, and the capital gains tax rates.

So what we have is a class of people paying significantly lower tax rates than they should be, corporations not paying anything at all, and investment money shifting out of the US.

But at least we can claim to have a progressive tax system, or whatever it is that idealists want to call it.

Same reason most Americans are poor. Inability to prioritize long term goals over immediate gains. Save $50 today, but spend $500 more over the next decade.

This is predicated on the idea that the rich will pay their taxes if we just close all the loopholes.

If you polled the top brackets I think you'll find that they are more than happy to continue with our current tax system.

The tax problem is actually relatively simple to solve. Tax at the point of consumption. Unfortunately, people would rather have an ineffective game of cat and mouse where they FEEL like it's progressive, even though the rich still aren't paying.

Michigan 0.24 deaths per 100k.

Cases up, but hospitalizations and deaths down. Giant nothingburger.

It is already not a significant cause of death. Highest death rate in any state is 0.54 per 100k people.

I agree with you overall. However, I think I what you’re missing is the value of eliminating the minimum payments so that you can consolidate on the higher interest loans.

You’re simplifying the calculation to suit your point.

It’s a decision of waiting 2-3 weeks for a 28% increase in efficacy. Am I more likely to get covid in those 2-3 weeks, or is the reduced effectiveness more likely to result in getting covid?

It does not seem irrational at all me, and clearly also not to others making these same decisions.

> It is absolutely not hubris to encourage people to take the vaccine available to them now, rather than wait a month for the one with 90%.

Who is to say it’s a month wait? That’s the issue.

>Humans are notoriously irrational in their decision making, and focusing on which is better in order to make the best health decision may lead to making a decision that is far worse.

This doesn’t matter on an individual level. There are public health reasons to try and get as many people as vaccinated as possible, no matter the vaccine. But aggregate math means little to the individual person. The difference between. 70% and 90% is fairly profound, profound enough to weigh against individual people making a decision on which vaccine to get.

It’s not irrational at all for an individual to prefer the vaccine with the highest efficacy. It’s hubris, or insanity, on the part of public health officials to expect an entire nation of people to put individualism aside for the sake of greater good.