Just pay your fair share of taxes, and let us, collectively, decide on our priorities.
As if you live an in real Democracy. LOL. That tax money will be spent on Whitehouse renovations or Reflecting pools, all contracted out to the sycophants of whomever is in charge in order to receive kickbacks. The country is cooked and will inevitably become as full-fledged dictatorship.
As soon as cash is gone, taxes are going to be hiked because economic activity can't escape into the grey zone so easily.
Logically the opposite: as soon as cash is gone, taxes are going to decrease because economic activity can't avoid paying taxes by escaping into the grey zone so easily, and hence the people formerly dodging taxes will start paying their share.
I love your optimism; however, government spending grows to whatever amount is available and then shortly thereafter exceeds it. Taxes will grow until it is no longer possible to tax anymore.We will never get quite that far because the system itself will collapse before it can take everything.
The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs.
It's intended to made widgets that can then be sold at a profit.
It's not a social welfare program.
Who will they sell their widgets to if everyone is starving or dead? Nobody needs widgets when they are starving.
What comes next is the realisation that the majority of the labour force is not needed, but the whole society is completely unprepared for this.
What is there to be prepared for? A lack of food means the body dies. The body is ready for this even if the passenger ridding along is not. Starving to death happens all the time, just not normally in the numbers we are about to see.
Fuck the people about to die (including me). They should have been more prepared/stronger. If they were, they wouldn't die. Darwinism in action and enforced by society. It is merely coincidence that those born to wealthier families starve at a slower rate.
I hope they will make an official release of SteamOS on a variety of supported PC hardware next!
They did. It was released last week. 3.8.10 is runnable on any hardware.
Worst of the worst. Focus on them. 3 strikes and you're out
We tried that 40 years ago. It still kind of exists despite it being a proven failure. Got any other bright ideas?
Dude, we live in a society of "fuck you, I got mine". None of this discussion matters. Eventually, we will just execute prisoners because we don't have enough money to maintain prisons.
The worst part about that is that the "justice" system doesn't care whether or not you are guilty. As long as they can pin a crime on someone, the system is happy.
What a miserable bunch of fuckers we are as a whole.
Even if I go back to the 1990s and boxed retail software, you were never actually buying the software, your purchase was for the license to use it.
What law made software publishers able to enforce their bullshit licenses? Contract law does not as it requires a "meeting of the minds".
To my knowledge, software is owned unless specifically set up as a rental/subscription such as Adobe Creative Cloud.
I do not trust the companies doing the programming.
The company with arguably the best software engineers on the planet are completely incapable of writing a reliable operating system and you expect a company with theoretically less-capable engineers to write software maneuvering a multi-ton vehicle at high speeds around other humans?
Yeah, no. (the results so far are impressive in many ways, but still; yeah, no.)
You could have just asked them to perform a password reset rather than fighting a battle with the CEO. *shrug*
Uh, no, you are missing the GP's point. (1) Their assets are not necessarily liquid. (2) Their assets can fluctuate wildly in value, that includes sharp declines.
Are they REALLY missing the point? Or are YOU missing the point?
Those unrealized gains are good enough to borrow from, so they are good enough to tax. The simplest method is to tax the money as it is being loaned. Everyone agrees on the value then.
Billionaire trickle-down-fuck-YOU-pay-for-it-pleb economics will ensure retired homeowners on a fixed income end up losing their homes, because tax the shit out of those 'urealized gains' called home equity..
So what? There are millions of people within the USA that have never, and will never, own a fucking home. Let it all burn until we can learn to organize a society where people who are willing to work are treated fairly. What exists now is essentially slavery but without all the responsibilities of maintaining the slaves. Fuck that noise. That is no way to live. If you think what I am saying is unreasonable, that is only because of the social status of your parents.
You borrow against your portfolio to live, generating no income.
If the value is certain enough to borrow from, it is certain enough to tax. Lies and deception should no longer be tolerated.
I like paying taxes as long as those taxes are being put back into my community instead of into some rat bastard trillionaires pocket.
That is not the way it works. You pay taxes, the government (doesn't matter which level) assigns a contract to a buddy's company, kickbacks happen to the politicians who greenlighted it, and something hopefully gets done with the remaining value of your taxes.
If it goes through and eventually becomes law, who really believes this will be a ONE-TIME ever tax on the UNREALIZED wealth of individuals?
Well, if they can borrow against that unrealized wealth, they can be taxed on that unrealized wealth. Fair is fair.
Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
