a 9.9% income tax on earnings above $1m

advocacy groups and unions opposing the initiative say taxing the state’s 20,000 highest-earning households could raise approximately $3.5bn in necessary annual revenue

Backing out the numbers (also rounding the tax up to 10%), the $3,500,000,000 in revenue is on $35,000,000,000 in income. Spread over 20,000 households and add a million per household for the portion not taxed, that is an average of $2,750,000 in income per household being taxed an additional $275,000.

Seems fair like a fair price for living in a safe and stable community that makes possible earning so much.

Clearly reprehensible, but consider for a moment. Los Angeles and San Diego, at least 20 years ago, were the Republican voting big cities in California. Even if Republicans are not getting that same share of the vote now, there will be many Republican leaning people there. It seems just a shade worse on an already pitch black message.

There are so many other systems. We haven’t even tried most of them in your lifetime.

Thank you. This is great.

Yes. Please list one.

Pulling forward the first paragraph of the article, as we are far from universally reading articles these days.

Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers” gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y Combinator, projects soft power, promotes startups it funds, and feeds people with ideas into its incubation program. Hacker News is one of the most popular forums for discussing technology online today – perhaps the biggest.

Does any know of a pro-union or pro-cooperative startup incubator?

Might mean “silicon”, but might want to bang the LLM. Hard to know.

Words have meaning…

See! You don’t need a care for most errands.

indigenous nation

We don’t know the player’s characters aren’t indigenous.

I know this one! Not all countries provide tax deductions for marriage. I was going to say there is not one in Japan, but on looking it up, it is more complicated than I care to look at. (I understand spouses tend to have separate finances, but I am far from Japan.)

The historical lens on taxes and marriage is also as complex as one might think.

Point being, in your setting, marriage does not need to have any tax implications at all.

Edit: Removed paywalled link about history of marriage.

It would seem the amount of rent one can charge relative to purchase price is country related (likely also region dependent). Everything you have described is a strange version of the opposite here.

It is often repeated on various “build up your wealth” guides as the “1% rule”. here is a random link I found by searching, but there are many others, that directly states “The 1% rule says: monthly rent should be at least 1% of purchase price. On a $200,000 property, you’d want monthly rent of $2,000+.”

We clearly head different things about “landlording”. My knowledge of landlording is mostly from online references suggesting how to do it well, and the remaining if horror stories from associates who didn’t do any research.

Thank you! I thought Kraft was in Macklemore.

Edit: I have since learned Macklemore is a person, not a band, and I have been playing his music.

Yup. Rent needs to go up so as the monthly rent needs to be 1/100 of the purchase price. (A general rough guide on rent prices.)

Not going to escape this until we have free places to live and store some stuff.

Great send up of Swap!

Swap is great though. And to point out again that there are ratings on quality SSDs for the lifetime writes. Pull up the data sheet and look for “DWPD”, which is “Disk Writes Per Day”. Typical numbers for good swap drives are 1 and 3. If DWPD is not listed, then plan for frequent drive failures if using heavy, heavy swap (like for ZFS swap drives (Yes, these are different from a OS swap partition)).

Anyway, I just wanted to point out the DWPD statistic.

That is a much better garden than mine.

I thank you for the reddit discussion link. I always wonder how these actually work out. (The posting account made 3 total posts, the first 14 years ago, and the last 13 years ago, though they are still making comments.) Were deer an issue? Did others benefit?

Man appears to be in a death cult. Can someone check on his family?

The trick is learning to not touch the hot stove. Here’s a link to the top 10 reasons not to touch a hot stove.

One can tell with a simple test.
Does Trump sue people for saying he shits his pants?
If no, then he does as in the USA the truth is an absolute defense.
If not, then he likely does not poop his pants, but discovery will reveal it.

(Trump does not sue people calling him a pedophile.)

STOP BEING DEFEATIST!

YOU ARE NOT FIGHTING AND THEY LOVE IT!