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With the release of 23-and-me, a lot of people are doing DNA tests. People are finding out that they’re not even related to their family, and were a swapped baby in the NICU or whatever. Some people are finding out that their wives cheated. Some people are finding out that Fertility Doctors are using their… Read More Fertility Doctors are Sus
Imagine if you’re in highschool and there is a ‘cool kids club’ that also was in charge of student government. Now, replace highschool with adulting real life, and replace the student government with the real government. That ‘cool kids club’? That’s the Deepstate. And you’re sort of both born into it as well as indoctrinated… Read More WTF is the Deep State?
So there’s this idea and theory that Taxes can be used as a sort of carrot and stick to incentivize certain actions and disincentivize certain actions. A Sort of ‘pragmatic policy decision making’ for a lack of using Vulgar Pejoratives. You can provide tax credits to people who do X thing, like drive electric cars,… Read More The ‘Tax Economy’
I can assure you, dear reader, I hate the IRS and Taxes way more than Cosmically Fathomable. What ever you are feeling, you are not alone. Suicide is not the right choice, that’s just letting the government win. And that’ll piss me off more. Literally- Fuckin’ Don’t kill yourself. God damn. As it turns out,… Read More People commit Suicide due to taxes
Should Capital gains tax be linked to inflation? If you buy an asset and it appreciates in value, but Inflation makes that appreciation a net loss. Then Inflation just made your taxable event worse. For example, if your Stocks go up 10% and inflation goes up 20% since buying. If you sell for that ‘10%… Read More Inflation makes Taxes worse
It’s like you pay taxes, And the Government will tell you every tax season, once a year, that you might’ve paid too much. Or that they garnished your wages and stole too much of your money because ‘income tax’ or whatever. In which case, they end up paying you back the money that they took… Read More Tax refunds are weird
This is a very long article, I apologize, I don’t like long articles either. Hell, I wrote the damn thing. – And it’s sadly really really long based on many moons of research. This is of course an opinion backed by what little evidence that I can scour to paint an opinion editorial piece to… Read More Comprehensively Extensively Long look at the Naked Short Selling Phantom Menace of the Markets
Yea, you want a good society. Then you think that people will have to pay for that society and all those nice things, that people will have to do it and that people won’t do it for free. Sounds reasonable enough. Then you think Taxes will pay for that society. So the whole of society… Read More Taxes are antithetical to Socialism
If you thought “Surveillance Capitalism” was bad, just wait, there’s more. And to be honest, you can combine Both. As a suggestion, I highly recommend you check out these articles to get a primer and an even more deeper Compunctive feeling to this whole piece on ‘taxes’. It’s like a four course meal, it’s great;Fines… Read More Monetary Financial Fascism
As a defense for taxes, people wrongly espouse that Policy makers can use tax policy to incentivize a Direction in citizenship and social structure, thereby incentivizing certain acts and disincentivizing others. But to use taxes as the metric and the stick to beat people in a specific direction, is economic violence. Because what happens if… Read More Taxes as an economic lever to guide consumerism is a scam