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[hector13]

Reading the transcript of his defense of his great replacement comments is just more great replacement nonsense.

He mentions black people only in relation to them wanting to leave Los Angeles but makes his own conclusions about why that is, and also says immigration reduces the power of his vote even though immigrants can’t vote until they get citizenship (BUT ILLEGALS VOTE ALL THE TIME AND STEAL ELECTIONS) though he fails to mention the same thing also happens when natural born people get old enough to vote because naturalized immigrant votes are bad in a country built on immigration.

[Starver]

the same thing also happens when natural born people get old enough to vote

But as the bard himself very nearly said:

All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
“Fear not, MacTuck. No man that’s born of woman
Shall e'er have power upon thee.”
Then fly, false memes.

And you can't argue with that!

 

[McTraveller]

Submitted my federal and state taxes this week.  6.3% effective federal income tax rate (total cash paid / AGI).

3.6% effective state rate, again relative to AGI.

Other random facts:
Home property taxes:  2.6% of AGI
For comparison, Mortgage interest: 5% of AGI  (I refinanced a month ago though - this will be much lower next year)

social security/medicare: 6.3%/ 1.47% AGI (note that because some benefits are not in AGI, but are in FICA, this is not the 6.20%/1.45% that is expected)
Again for comparison: My out-of-pocket health care premiums are about 3.6% AGI.

A rough estimate is that 30% of my AGI is subject to sales tax - which in my state at 6% means 1.8% of my AGI is sales tax.  If ALL my available AGI was subject to sales tax, sales tax would only go to 4.8% of my AGI, so not much difference.

Spoiler: Regarding "Fair Tax" (click to show/hide)

This is why the so-called fair tax can't fix wealth inequality.  A "filthy rich" person probably only spends, what, 10% of their AGI on taxable goods? Even if you taxed that spending at 100%, you'd only end up with an effective tax rate for the rich of 10%.  And not even that, because you'd have to exempt probably $100k of taxable spending to not destroy the lower and middle classes with the VAT.  I'm slowly having my philosophy move more toward only having wealth taxes and no income taxes.  With some kind of modifier or exemption for primary residence - I disagree with forcing someone to work to keep a house.  So maybe you say "the first <median house price in your region> of wealth is exempt from property tax" or something, and have no exemptions for business property.  I haven't yet formalized a method to prevent landowners from abusing renters and avoiding loopholes.

This is a total tax burden of about 21-22%.

I really don't understand why people scream about high taxes in the US.

I'm sort of curious what others' total tax burdens are.

(For those not in the US, AGI is "adjusted gross income" - it is wages plus interest/dividends/business income, minus some specific classes of losses and expenses; for me it is health care premiums because I don't have anything "complex.")

[bloop_bleep]

And Amazon paid negative recently.

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/TXCivilRights/status/1382113593118883851

More news on the border wall construction going full-speed ahead.

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[martinuzz]

This is a total tax burden of about 21-22%.
I really don't understand why people scream about high taxes in the US.

21-22% is REALLY low tax rate. People on the minimum wage spectrum over here pay about 40% of their income to taxes and (mandatory) health care insurance. If you're at median income, make that 50%, if you earn even more, think 70%.

[dragdeler]

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[martinuzz]

Probably Ireland

[Iduno]

Make yourself a protected trademark, then pay a 100% of your income to yourself in licensing fees. Or was that ireland?

I think that's quite a few places. The US allows it for large corporations. Sweden allowed the similar "give 100% of your income to a charity that exists to support your company" and it prevents the government from looking at their finances to prove IKEA isn't a charity.

[Starver]

Probably Ireland

Untile Ireland changed its rules to not need it, apparently a Double Irish (or Single Malt) tax-'creative' scheme was quite often paired with something like a Dutch Sandwich...

(Not that I can remember the details, though I have heard it explained comprehendably once. I think the more people know how they work, the less likely it is that they do. It's Quantum, I suspect.)

[anewaname]

Where is your god old tresspassers will be shot,  I mean the construction sureely have a mexican tint so it's a double win nah?! Property rights only so long as they dont intefere with more shittier projects.

I'm assuming this post was for me... EDIT: Please call me out using my nickname, and leave my gods, those Greek philosophers and them that perpetuated their work, out of it

This is the best I could find for the court data.... where this family's property includes 6.6 acres of the 27.4 acres seized.

This is a google map of the area where property is being seized (4109 S.Conway Ave is the mailing address from the court data). If the link will not refresh properly with an F5, then searching on google maps for "4109 S Conway Ave, Mission, TX 78572" and clicking the Satellite button will find it. That square loop of road (labelled Conway) is only about 0.5 acres, so, I am not sure where remainder of the 6.6 acres actually is.

What I know about "eminent domain land seizure" in the USA is google; like no one actually owns the land, they only own "rights" to it, including the right to compensation and the right to contest. So that family is receiving payment of some sort.

The history of eminent domain land seizures in the USA is probably bad overall. "Eminent domain land seizure" was used by states to seize property in a city's minority neighborhoods to build overhead highways, which devalues the entire neighborhood (pollutions), and limits access into that neighborhood allowing for traffic-stops to specifically target traffic from those neighborhoods <-- part of the institutional racism problem that was intentionally implemented in the 1950's by the white politicians and white businessmen of the local state and city committees.

Two questions I pondered but do not want to take the time to answer... does that section of the river relatively cause more deaths than other sections? And, is that section of river being used heavily for illegal traffic?

So, is the seizure wrong? Maybe... Find some more information.

[martinuzz]

According to the FSB, the Russian secret service prevented an assasination attempt on the life of Belarus president Loekasjenko.
Two men have been arrested, one is a US citizen.

EDIT: meanwhile, the UK is sending two warships to the black sea in response to the Russian troop build-up at the Ukrainian border.

[Starver]

<TheGoonShow>We're going to send a Gunboat!</TheGoonShow>

(As this is AmeriPol, I don't think that'll make as much sense. Nor will talking of date fertiliser or Little Ji-iiiiiim! But definitely my first thoughts.)

[Arx]

As this is AmeriPol, I don't think that'll make as much sense.

I don't wish to know that.