Because the tax code is a worm-hole infested pile of rat droppings that only a politician could love, and all those "deductions" have to be recorded somehow. The easiest place is the taxpayer since they are the ones taking the deductions.

I work for a small chain of grocery stores and I feel it's likely we get more shoplifting at our stores because of big chain store's policy of basically doing nothing about shoplifting. Von's could easily afford to hire specialized security people to deal with the problem of shoplifting at all of their stores as we have done but they choose to not to which just emboldens the shoplifters. Plus giving criminals free reign of the place likely creates a work environment that feels less safe to its employees.

Living in California as well I'm particularly sensitive to this because we have all these major chains that don't do a thing to stop shoplifting and then turn around and blame local and state government for their problems in this area. Fox News loves capitalizing on this nonsense.

Nintendo app appers app apps! Only LUDDITES say four is too many! APPS

Two wrongs don't make a right.

But three lefts do.

I think they mean sink.

The method we use to calculate unemployment stats was explicitly designed to hide the real unemployment.

Unemployment is going to be closer to about 8 and 1/2 to 10%. That's the underemployed and people who gave up on looking.

It also doesn't include people who don't are elderly and would be working if they could get jobs but who are basically unemployable and a doctor wrote a disability script for them so they could get enough benefits to not die in the streets. That's a dirty little secret of our economy we don't like to think about let alone talk about.

But a better statistic is 2 and 5. That's the number of quality jobs. There are two quality jobs, defined is a job that can support a adult and isn't paycheck the paycheck, for every five Americans. Basically the majority of jobs cannot support an adult.

We are rapidly becoming a failed state. A third world country if you will. It's why we keep doing stupid crap like electing a game show host with a history of sexual abuse. People under a lot of pressure don't make good decisions. That's a TV trope but the real world that's not how it works

Four simple apps that do four different things. Or one bloated app that tries to cram four apps’ worth of functions into one messy UI. Nintendo made the right decision.

No you didn't.

Yeah I don't give a shit if they claim this isn't a problem because it unlocks when the fire alarm goes off screw that noise. This is a little bit of improper maintenance away from being a death trap.

I want to say I wouldn't shop there but I know damn well that with all the monopolies around nasty shit like this will spread everywhere and most places only have two or three grocery chains.

I want to take away the power corporations have to do this and I want to take away their power to starve people so that people aren't feeling the need to shoplift groceries.

As for shoplifting booze since a fuck wad like you is bound to bring it up, people over the age of 21 don't steal booze for the hell of it they're using alcohol to cope with the misery of modern Life. And kids do it here and there and that's nothing more than a youthful indiscretion. Alcohol is cheap and ultra high profit and don't be an idiot if you think corporations will cut prices because shoplifting goes down you don't know the first thing about supply and demand.

What happened to you to make you so mean spirited and angry that you would revel at the thought of people getting punished for stealing food or a little bit of booze to cope with life? Did your dad beat you or something? I get it that sucks but don't take it out on the rest of the world. Be better than your dad or whoever the fuck did this to you. End generational trauma.

No he meant unhoused. And what the fuck is wrong with you? Do you really think you're going anywhere but hell with an attitude like that?

On the other hand Trump said he's not going to heaven so maybe you just want to go to the same place Trump's going...

Don't be a dumbass. Multiple YouTube influencers, including former victims of predation on Roblox, have been lobbying for actions like this for years:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/rob...

But hey keep towing the corporate line. Way to show your true colors.

To take food out of the mouths of hungry kids. They couldn't possibly give less of a fuck about children. I mean except for like they did in the Epstein files but I don't think that's what anyone means here...

The only question is which ulterior motive is the most prevalent. On the one hand this is red meat for voters so that they can offer them something other than a functioning economy. On the other hand they are trying to eliminate anonymity on the internet so they can relentlessly punish anyone who says anything they don't like while also pretending they are persecuted.

Whatever the result it won't help children but it will hurt you and me.

In order to produce enough food to feed a nation let alone the amount of excess food that the United States needs to produce in order to keep the rest of the world even moderately stable you need to do large scale industrial farming.

Small family farms are a pipe dream. They are also kind of pointless because as it stands we only need a few percentages of our population to grow all the food when it's done industrially. If you start trying to turn everybody in the farmers what you're going to have is a bunch of people who do not want to farm and who don't know how to do it and you're going to get food shortages.

Giving everybody a farm like Ubi is a overly simplistic solution favored by libertarian types who want to dream of Independence. We are not going to get away from having a large complex social structures even if teenagers hate them.

To understand that it could never fly in the current system and environment.

I get it libertarians get obsessed with Ubi because they think they can have the capitalist Paradise but they want and that they were promised as kids while having the socialist Utopia that deep down they really know they need.

It doesn't work. There's no simple answers to complex problems and just handing out cash, the simple answer to the complex problem of human beings tending to accumulate too much wealth and power coupled with our tendency to indulge in various forms of disdain and bigotry for people beneath us on the social ladder and the ability for the wealthy and powerful to exploit that tendency.

The billionaires are not going to sit quietly while you improve the quality of life of everybody at the expense of even a microscopic amount of their privilege and power. Remember if you create a system where everyone has a good quality of life then I can go online and tell Elon Musk to go fuck himself and there's not really anything he can do to hurt me. He's not going to like that because a huge part of his power comes from his ability to destroy anyone that significantly crosses him.

Not just Elon but all the billionaires.

That's a lever they are not going to just give up even accounting for the fact that they want that money for themselves.

Never mind the fact that you don't even have the political power to even try to do Ubi.

We watched as the private insurance company methodically sabotaged the affordable Care act until it was barely functional resulting in a law that while popular is still open to attack from a variety of vectors. If you think the billionaires wouldn't do that with Ubi then you're just not paying attention and you're not a serious person.