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Comment: Re:Why dance around the issue? (Score 1) 1064

by mdmkolbe (#38978111) Attached to: The Zuckerberg Tax

If those taxation rates are marginal instead of effective, you adjust the rates to meet the current US budget(*), and you ammend item 4(**), then you've got me sold.

(*) The US government budget is around $1T. Average US wage is $40k. US population is 300M, so total US wages are around $12T. Thus the average effective tax should be 8.3% to meet the current budget. Of course the progressive aspect of the tax rate means that the average doesn't mean much, but plugging in a few sample salaries seems to indicate that those rates are already about right. I'd just want see a proper analysis to be sure.

(**) I'd want to be able to split my income among any group of people (roommates, parents, children, friend I'm putting though graduate school, etc.). A spouse would be only one example of that relationship. Provided the money is truely communal, then the tax code needs to reflect the effective income of the individual.

Comment: Re:Where's the OCR? (Score 2) 234

by mdmkolbe (#38541846) Attached to: Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise

Yes! Please! So many QR codes are in-place-of rather than in-addition-to a human-readable URL. If I don't have my phone with me or don't want to bother digging it out of my pocket (or don't even have a QR-enabled phone), then the QR code is just obfuscation.

Smart people will always include a human-readable URL next to the QR code, but given that most QR designers evidently aren't smart enough for that, I'll settle for a human-readable QR.

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