Comment Re:AntiReusedJoke (Score 1) 166
In other other new, bad looking women don't seem to notice the change.
Leave your mother out of this.
In other other new, bad looking women don't seem to notice the change.
Leave your mother out of this.
Not exactly.
Federal taxation exists to take currency out of circulation, thus propping up the value of the remaining notes in circulation.
As such, your taxes don't "pay for" anything except perceived value.
If you have a bunch of notes, those notes become less valuable the more you accumulate.
If you have to destroy, say, 50% of your notes every year, however, and everyone else must do the same
Most Americans are woefully unaware of the way the Federal Reserve, fiat currency, and our fractional reserve banking system works.
They have an almost infantile notion that they send in a tax check, and that check goes to pay for government services.
The Federal Government never sees your tax money. It goes to the Treasury, which in turn goes to the Fed.
They central bank just want as little money in your hands as possible, because it makes the notes the Fed prints and hands over more valuable.
This OS and these devices are not new. If these companies were that concerned about iPeople, they would have made the transition to an iPhone OS compatible technology long ago.
This is why large companies often preferclass action suits over individual suits.
Class action suits mean that, if the company loses, they never have to litigate over the matter again.
If they lose an individual suit, every consumer on the planet is free to chase the same reward the original litigant won, and they are not bound by any $5 off coupon settlements.
Or maybe people don't feel like joining real life out of High School. Maybe they just want to drink lots of beer, smoke pot from a bong made out of a toilet paper roll, root for the school sports team, and have bitchin' spring break parties while going into debt for the extended vacation.
Then again, maybe it is about all of that altruistic shit.
Anything's possible.
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