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Greater Atlanta Twitter refugee. Retired IT professional. Humor, cats, cooking, science fiction, politics. Dabble in fanfiction.
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Everyone paying in according to ability (i.e. income) and receiving in according to need is, shall we say, a socialist concept. That's the intent behind progressive taxation. The rich have distorted it into them *not* paying to ability. More than comparing states, that IMO, is what needs fixing.
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The traditional way is cash under the table. 😺 If you're an employee, you could file a W-4 with your employer with a high number of deductibles they aren't allowed to question to effectively halt w/holding Fed income tax. FICA w/holding isn't affected at all. State is a separate declaration.
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Smart German shepherds ran at the sight of Gangsta-roo!
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"You will go to Dagobah, where you learn the ways of endless debate from Yoda."
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"States" pay in, yes, but really, every employer is required by law to be a tax collector, and employers send payroll withholdings directly to the Fed, bypassing state governments. I'm not sure how that could be changed to depositing directly to states, that then send it on... or not.
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We're still driving our first and so far only 2007 Honda Fit 5-speed manual.
The rest of the world knows them as the Honda Jazz, and they're still sold everywhere, except here in the U.S. Bring back the Fit!
(Picture of a 2025 Honda Jazz. Not sure about the blunted nose look.)
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The problem, of course, is that when farmers, swayed by right wing propaganda, vote for their own destruction, we all lose when family-owned farms are forced to sell out to farm corporations, further consolidating a food monopoly, from field to grocery aisle.
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The Circle of Life.
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If you put it off, Judge, it won't be long before Trump will claim he can fire Federal judges with lifetime appointments.
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I'm all for a Kash-free society.
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"The name is Bond. Grand Nagus Bond."
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Oh, so not every advertiser need worry? Spasibo! 😺
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Or is it a proctological deep clean that will sting your ring.
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Nothing to fret about.
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This retired old white guy will happily vote for either to be president in a heartbeat!
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Hitler turned Germany into a dictatorship in 53 days. I think Trump is trying to beat Hitler's record. If nothing happens now, the midterm elections will be an origami swan.
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No more audits for high income people. Unaccountability achieved.
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So basic customer service and taking responsibility for damaging passengers' DME is a bridge too far?
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3AL...
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6-sigma is a 99.9997% success standard. Assuming 7,500 flights daily, that's 2,737,500 flights per year. Applying the 6-sigma standard, that predicts 8 crashes per year.
Which shows air traffic control did better than 6-sigma, until Trump took over.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, per Google AI, has a 99.34% success rate. Seems high, but lets go with it.
If air traffic control only had a 99.34% success rate managing 7,500 planes a day, there would be about 49-50 crashes daily.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, per Google AI, has a 99.34% success rate. Seems high, but lets go with it.
If air traffic control only had a 99.34% success rate managing 7,500 planes a day, there would be about 49-50 crashes daily.
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Here you go.
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Trump: "We'll have 'peace for our time.' What a tremendous thing. No one has ever said 'peace for our time' before."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gGp...
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You're coming across as having never heard of any well documented dirty play, like Watergate. Are you demanding proof of the Watergate break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972?
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Boss Tweed was a Democrat. Try reading a little history.
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And privatized police.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfg...
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You left out a step.
* Blame Democrats for not fixing what Republicans broke.
Low info voters don't get that building/repairing always takes longer than destruction, and go with Republican messaging.
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That would not surprise me at all. Dirty tricks have a long history. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. Republicans in particular have played dirty since the Nixon days, Watergate in particular. And then there's Newt Gingrich's scorched earth policy that's only become more extreme over time.
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One possibility: it was relatively "safe" (never mind mass arrests) to protest while Biden was president, because Biden, for all his faults, isn't a dictatorial dingbat. It's a different story now that Emperor Trump is seated on his golden toilet throne.
palestinelegal.org/news/trump-e...
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I'll go for a cockwobbly shitgibbon.
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The poor whale confused gummy bears with gummy humans. 😸
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Imagine things getting to the point where the rich fly to Canada for vaccinations, because they can't get them here in the US. Or at the very least, suspect the quality of available vaccinations.
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The problem is that those who are too stupid to believe reality live long enough to breed.
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The judge Elon wants.