Pandemanium

These kinds of vague titles are not helpful. Every article is just the same fear mongering speculation.

What people misunderstand about the tax brackets is that your entire income doesn't get moved to a higher bracket. It's only the income in excess of it.

So for example, let's say you had $50,000 of taxable income in 2024 as a single filer, you’d pay 10% on that first $11,600 and 12% on the chunk of income between $11,601 and $47,150. Then you’d pay 22% on the remaining $2,850 that falls into the next tax bracket. The total bill would be about $6,053 — about 12% of your taxable income — even though your highest bracket is 22%. And this example doesn't take into account the standard deduction.

Bottom line, this won't save people as much as they think it will. Usually the person in the example simply complains "I'm paying 22%" because it always feels like the paycheck isn't enough.

Mormons have three tiers of heaven. According to some, even Hitler would make it into the lowest tier. I'm not sure what you'd have to do to actually go to hell, which is supposedly just lonely infinite darkness away from the presence of God.

There's a $4000 credit for qualifying used EVs.

Where did I say you should roll over and accept it or do nothing? The only thing I said was that protest won't change anything, specifically right now. There are plenty of other things you can do besides protest.

Personally, if we get to a point where there's an organized multi-state secessionist movement, I'll join that army in a heartbeat to try to take back at least part of our country. We're not at that point yet.

Your premise is flawed. A question doesn't beg an emotion, it begs a response. The response could be completely devoid of emotion.

Russia wants to pit the US and China against each other to distract and destabilize them both. So all of this is great for Russia's bottom line.

Democrats have to cater to like three different and mostly separate agendas to win. Republicans only have to cater to one. I think the problem is we've been expecting Dems to pull off what is essentially impossible.

Corps have been complaining for years already that people aren't buying enough. Millenials are killing this industry and that industry because we don't consume enough - "enough" being whatever level they've decided we should consume. They feel entitled to our dollars, whether or not their product or service is any good.

If they were smart, companies would lower prices to be more competitive and incentivize people to buy more. Instead they've doubled down and posted armed guards at the store exits to intimidate the customers they have left. They've slipped data collection into every interaction. It's pretty obvious they're not playing the long game anymore.

I first read that as "sheep medication" and... wasn't even that surprised.

There's a bit of a sugar replacement movement, which isn't necessarily healthier. Most of the sugar replacements have been linked with stuff like dementia if consumed regularly for a long period. And most of them taste a bit off. The other part of the problem is that when you eat something sweet, your body expects sugar. When it doesn't get the sugar it's expecting, it will feel like you are still hungry even though you just ate something.