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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (6 children)

She actively plotted and traveled to get revenge and clearly didn't act in self defense. While it's easy to be sympathetic to her story, her guilt seems difficult to deny.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Tips should definitely be taxed. Otherwise you'll end up with businesses shifting entire income of their staff to tipping which IMHO is horrible (on top of depriving the government of income)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They aren't really, they are just upgrading it to a full set top box and rebranding it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Nah they are "illegal migrants". There are places you can go and some you can't and that applies to everyone. There's a wide gap between "compassion" and "free for all anything goes".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Intel has also made a similar blunder by trying GPUs and abandoning them (they got there early with the i740, then Larrabee). Saving a few dollars by gutting emerging products line has cost them billions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh please explain to me how marginal rates work... 🙄

If your marginal tax rate is already 30% and you decide to earn an extra $1, that $1 will be taxed at 30% and you get $0.70 in your pocket. That's what "marginal" means.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“Taxing at 100% also brings no tax revenue” is already a stupid statement, and is Tautologically contradictory

It's not. If you work 40h per week and can do overtime but that overtime is taxed at 100% (because yes, that's what marginal rate means, it's the rate the extra income will be taxed), virtually nobody will bother doing that overtime. The handful who do will probably not clock-in because anyway, there's no point since it will bring no income after taxation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You can't because the French Constitution and Human Rights guarantee the right to private property and a fair and proportional taxation. And that's likely similar all over the western world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If your wealth is from owning a portfolio of apartment buildings, good luck taking those with you.

Sell it to a holding company incorporated abroad. Own shares of that holding company instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And only the US actually collects on it, because they are so at the heart of the financial world they can strongarm banks to report on their US clients.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Exit taxes are "one shot". You pay them when you move out and then enjoy a lower taxation level for the rest of your life. Not much of a deterrent, at best a last ditch attempt at grabbing a few more dollars as your highest tax payers leave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (9 children)

It's not. If you accept that :

  • Taxing at 0% brings no tax revenue
  • Taxing at 100% also brings no tax revenue

Then you accept that between those two extremes there's a tax optimum that for a given rate gives the most tax revenue. This is the Laffer curve.

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