Taxes pay for my roads and schools. Regulating currency limits criminal money laundering and limits bubbles.
Also this is less trying to stamp out bitcoin and more trying to regulate a speculative market before it goes out of control and takes advantage of naive investors.
It's not wealth anymore. Not at the levels of income we're talking about here. You have a point up to about $250-$300k/yr. One you get over those amounts it's not wealth anymore because it's just plain more than anyone can spend, it's power. It's the ability to make everyone do what you say or they die of starvation and/or from lack of healthcare.
You tax income over $1 million at 90% to prevent the accumulation of power into the hands of a lucky few. Otherwise your democracy quickly gives way to oligarchy. Now, if that was you're goal in the first place I can't really argue with you.
what you can't do is incite violence. After WWII the EU is still a little more sensitive to the use of what we here in the states call a Dog Whistle. Actually the EU's always been like that. In America we let people violate the spirit of the law while adhering to the letter all the damn time. The EU doesn't tolerate that. I can't say I blame them. They do it with their banking system too and they're generally better off for it (except Greece who got caught holding the bag when the 2008 crash hit).
a 90% marginal tax rate on income over $1 million a year (note, that's _marginal_, meaning you don't pay it until you hit that threshold, before that you're paying the same as folks in the lower brackets).
The 1%ers take care of each other and make sure that wealth accumulates at the top. Then that wealth is turned into power so they can get away with stuff like this. Money is power and we've let about 20,000 people have nearly all that power because we're not comfortable with taking it away from them. This stuff is gonna keep happening until we do.
like it or not electrics are a lot more expensive up front. They tightened their emissions rules on long haul trucks without tightening labor regulations and the result was desperate truckers forced into "leases" for new trucks where they worked for pennies a week and eventually gave the truck (and all the lease payments) to the company owner.
This is all well and good only if it's followed by worker protections. My question is, is this actual progressive policy or a bunch of rich people that just want clean air for themselves? For the truckers it was the latter.
Congress passed a law making Mandatory Arbitration legally binding and SCOTUS upheld it. At this point if you want that to change you're going to have to vote people into office who will change it. That means two things:
a. Voting in your primary.
b. Voting for left leaning candidates. Yeah. I said it. Right wing politics hold that personal freedom trumps all. And that means you're free to enter into whatever contract you want. Hence Mandatory Arbitration.
only solidly middle class folks can afford to do otherwise and, well, we're running out of those. I knew we were in trouble when Mervyn's went out of business. The were the place you went when you made too much for Walmart but not enough for Macy's. They didn't even get Bain'd like most of the brands that went tits up (Toys R Us, Kay Bee Toys and of all things a local chain in my neck of the woods called Yellow Front come to mind).
Basically wages are down. Way down. Folks can't afford "shopping experiences" like what you're describing. They buy it online for cheap instead.
I keep hearing that phrase and it infuriates me. If your employer comes to you with one of these contracts you sign it. And it's been upheld by law since congress passed the Mandatory Arbitration Law this last year (and it was upheld by the Supreme Court). Sure, I can get another job, and likely get another one of these contracts put in my face.
And no, I can't just start my own business. If you don't have capital you can't do that. Most people need money coming in. Heck, 60-80% of us live paycheck to paycheck (depending on how you run the numbers).
And that's before we talk about all decisions made for you. Like our car based transportation system that was built in the 40s, 50 & 60s. Or our healthcare system that was built during WWII. Or if you're under 30 our college system. Or hell your parents.
Ever year I get fewer and fewer choices and get boxed in again and again. Meanwhile the number of times somebody says that stupid phrase goes up. Go figure.
so much so that the company will be tits up before long, then get $18 million for leaving plus another $17 million from selling my stock 2 days before it cratered due to my own bad decisions. All while suffering virtually no consequences. Must be nice to be a member of the ruling class. They sure take care of their own (unlike us working class stiffs, who spent the last two weeks arguing over who's gonna pay for health care).
they targeted BLM ads to people likely to oppose the movement in order to rile them up. They did the same thing with ads showing Hilary was popular among Muslim women. They were shitposting on an epic scale. What's more they weren't just trying to divide the American people, they were trying to rile up a very specific group of voters (angry white men) in order to get them to oppose a very specific, left wing agenda. That in turn helped Trump win, which is almost certainly the intended purpose.
They were basically trying to get a whole bunch of folks who normally stay home to show up at the polls and without thinking about individual issues, vote their feelings. Worked too.
where you and me watching different campaigns. Racial divides were a big part of it. The tough hombres & rapists comments come to mind right off the bat. One of his chief advisors, Steve Bannon, made his mark first and foremost playing to that shtick. And let's face it, there was a lot of resentment over having a black president for 8 years that brought a lot of folks to the polls.
I'm not saying it was the only that got Trump elected, I'm just saying he wouldn't have been without it. Hell, he wouldn't have made it through the primaries.
folks don't go into Liberal arts because it's too costly. They do it because they can't hack the work for a medical degree. And nobody I know goes into CS. That's not because of the cost, it's because there are no jobs and haven't been for at least 10 years. Bring the jobs and the students will come back.
And can we stop dumping all over the liberal arts? You know Journalism is a liberal arts degree, right? And History? Jeez, and you wonder why things are going to pot in this country.
why the hell would I let my kid go into IT. There's no jobs except for the top math wizs, and there's always jobs for those guys. This is just another transparent attempt to lower wages for the few folks left who have jobs.
End the H1-B and J1 programs first, then us parents will talk about giving you our kids. Until then my kid's going into Medical because they have a bloody Union (the AMA) and have so far resisted mass importation of cheap labor.
who could support their positions with facts. There were literally folks with torches marching, flying the Nazi flag, wearing red arm bands with Swastikas and chanting "The Jews will not Replace us!". These are literal Neo-Nazis (and I am literally using the word literally correct here).
People went on with their lives in Germany too. Surprisingly few Germans were aware of Hitler's Final Solution. It didn't take that many to run it. What it did _take_ is the German people looking the other way when Jews were hauled off to Gettos. We're not there yet, But keep crapping on the working class and we will be. Why? Because we're going to need a scapegoat. And one that has money enough to feed a war machine. The Nazis didn't just target the Jews in blind fury. They took their money and used it to jump start a wartime economy.
Seriously, what's the point of Government jobs if they're not going to employ Americans? This is what my tax dollars go to? Sending money overseas? And yes, it's my tax dollars too. State School systems get federal money.
This is why you're seeing the resurgence of neo-nazis and white supremacists. We're abandoning the working class. Same Bloody thing happened in Germany in 1944 and we ignored it then too because nobody wanted their taxes to go up. How's that quote go? Something about business getting out of hand and us being lucky to live through it...
The class action will let them pay some lawyer a fill million and basically get indemnified against all future damages. OTOH with how weak our consumer protection laws are class action is about the only thing keeping companies, well I wouldn't call it "honest"... maybe just barely sorta in check.
btw, if you're reading this and have been one of the ones railing against 'job killing regulations' (their words, not mine) this is the consequences of the relentless drive to stop government oversight in the name of freedom. Nobody ever cuts the rules about using squirrels for the purposes of gambling because those kind of silly laws are no longer enforced. They go after stuff that would punish Equifax for ignoring security.
Who thick is screwed up to have people in their 50s working these kind of jobs? It's not because they're bored. They're found this out of desperation. Mostly because Wall Street took their pensions and their life savings. And if you don't think it's a problem well, you do realize Wall Street is planning to do it to you too, right. And no you're not one of them. Not of you're reading this post. Billionaires and multi millionaires don't waste their lives reading slashdot
folks don't really pay for utility software much anymore. They've gotten used to just having it. Which means a lot less gets written. Still you're right about the cost of electricity. But then that's at full load. I think the idea would be to limit how much it uses so your CPU isn't under full load. That might not accomplish much but if you've got, say, 150k users it might. I don't know enough about crypto currency mining though to say.
the cost of the electricity is pretty minimal. I think the main thing is to limit how much CPU it uses. Maybe if you could get it to run on an empty core. Lord knows there's a ton of unused processor power out there. I'm posting this on a quad core where 3 out of 4 cores are doing basically nothing 90% of the time.
It's why she lost. She didn't campaign in the rust belt swing states. There were stories of the DNC down there freaking out because nobody was showing up to help them win. She bought into that "Blue Firewall" nonsense and figured since the voted Obama they'd vote for her. She lost by a hair's breath. All she had to do to win was stop wasting time in Arizona and hit the pavement in the states that mattered.
But well, she always was arrogant as heck. That was one of the main faults people sited for not liking her, and well, elections are popularity contests...
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sounds like Equifax didn't like what it heard so it disregarded their consultant's advise.
Taxes pay for my roads and schools. Regulating currency limits criminal money laundering and limits bubbles.
Also this is less trying to stamp out bitcoin and more trying to regulate a speculative market before it goes out of control and takes advantage of naive investors.
we had the single greatest growth in middle class incomes in history while the rates were that high. That wasn't a coincidence.
It's not wealth anymore. Not at the levels of income we're talking about here. You have a point up to about $250-$300k/yr. One you get over those amounts it's not wealth anymore because it's just plain more than anyone can spend, it's power. It's the ability to make everyone do what you say or they die of starvation and/or from lack of healthcare.
You tax income over $1 million at 90% to prevent the accumulation of power into the hands of a lucky few. Otherwise your democracy quickly gives way to oligarchy. Now, if that was you're goal in the first place I can't really argue with you.
what you can't do is incite violence. After WWII the EU is still a little more sensitive to the use of what we here in the states call a Dog Whistle. Actually the EU's always been like that. In America we let people violate the spirit of the law while adhering to the letter all the damn time. The EU doesn't tolerate that. I can't say I blame them. They do it with their banking system too and they're generally better off for it (except Greece who got caught holding the bag when the 2008 crash hit).
a 90% marginal tax rate on income over $1 million a year (note, that's _marginal_, meaning you don't pay it until you hit that threshold, before that you're paying the same as folks in the lower brackets).
The 1%ers take care of each other and make sure that wealth accumulates at the top. Then that wealth is turned into power so they can get away with stuff like this. Money is power and we've let about 20,000 people have nearly all that power because we're not comfortable with taking it away from them. This stuff is gonna keep happening until we do.
like it or not electrics are a lot more expensive up front. They tightened their emissions rules on long haul trucks without tightening labor regulations and the result was desperate truckers forced into "leases" for new trucks where they worked for pennies a week and eventually gave the truck (and all the lease payments) to the company owner.
This is all well and good only if it's followed by worker protections. My question is, is this actual progressive policy or a bunch of rich people that just want clean air for themselves? For the truckers it was the latter.
we enshrined them in laws. Our Congress passed a law making Mandatory Arbitration legally binding and our Supreme Court upheld it.
Don't get too comfy over there though. You're ruling class is watching us and taking notes.
Congress passed a law making Mandatory Arbitration legally binding and SCOTUS upheld it. At this point if you want that to change you're going to have to vote people into office who will change it. That means two things:
a. Voting in your primary.
b. Voting for left leaning candidates. Yeah. I said it. Right wing politics hold that personal freedom trumps all. And that means you're free to enter into whatever contract you want. Hence Mandatory Arbitration.
only solidly middle class folks can afford to do otherwise and, well, we're running out of those. I knew we were in trouble when Mervyn's went out of business. The were the place you went when you made too much for Walmart but not enough for Macy's. They didn't even get Bain'd like most of the brands that went tits up (Toys R Us, Kay Bee Toys and of all things a local chain in my neck of the woods called Yellow Front come to mind).
Basically wages are down. Way down. Folks can't afford "shopping experiences" like what you're describing. They buy it online for cheap instead.
but I'm curious since you got modded up. What else would you call corporatism except, well, corporatism?
I keep hearing that phrase and it infuriates me. If your employer comes to you with one of these contracts you sign it. And it's been upheld by law since congress passed the Mandatory Arbitration Law this last year (and it was upheld by the Supreme Court). Sure, I can get another job, and likely get another one of these contracts put in my face.
And no, I can't just start my own business. If you don't have capital you can't do that. Most people need money coming in. Heck, 60-80% of us live paycheck to paycheck (depending on how you run the numbers).
And that's before we talk about all decisions made for you. Like our car based transportation system that was built in the 40s, 50 & 60s. Or our healthcare system that was built during WWII. Or if you're under 30 our college system. Or hell your parents.
Ever year I get fewer and fewer choices and get boxed in again and again. Meanwhile the number of times somebody says that stupid phrase goes up. Go figure.
so much so that the company will be tits up before long, then get $18 million for leaving plus another $17 million from selling my stock 2 days before it cratered due to my own bad decisions. All while suffering virtually no consequences. Must be nice to be a member of the ruling class. They sure take care of their own (unlike us working class stiffs, who spent the last two weeks arguing over who's gonna pay for health care).
they targeted BLM ads to people likely to oppose the movement in order to rile them up. They did the same thing with ads showing Hilary was popular among Muslim women. They were shitposting on an epic scale. What's more they weren't just trying to divide the American people, they were trying to rile up a very specific group of voters (angry white men) in order to get them to oppose a very specific, left wing agenda. That in turn helped Trump win, which is almost certainly the intended purpose.
They were basically trying to get a whole bunch of folks who normally stay home to show up at the polls and without thinking about individual issues, vote their feelings. Worked too.
where you and me watching different campaigns. Racial divides were a big part of it. The tough hombres & rapists comments come to mind right off the bat. One of his chief advisors, Steve Bannon, made his mark first and foremost playing to that shtick. And let's face it, there was a lot of resentment over having a black president for 8 years that brought a lot of folks to the polls.
I'm not saying it was the only that got Trump elected, I'm just saying he wouldn't have been without it. Hell, he wouldn't have made it through the primaries.
folks don't go into Liberal arts because it's too costly. They do it because they can't hack the work for a medical degree. And nobody I know goes into CS. That's not because of the cost, it's because there are no jobs and haven't been for at least 10 years. Bring the jobs and the students will come back.
And can we stop dumping all over the liberal arts? You know Journalism is a liberal arts degree, right? And History? Jeez, and you wonder why things are going to pot in this country.
if they could get Americans for that $20k/yr.
why the hell would I let my kid go into IT. There's no jobs except for the top math wizs, and there's always jobs for those guys. This is just another transparent attempt to lower wages for the few folks left who have jobs.
End the H1-B and J1 programs first, then us parents will talk about giving you our kids. Until then my kid's going into Medical because they have a bloody Union (the AMA) and have so far resisted mass importation of cheap labor.
who could support their positions with facts. There were literally folks with torches marching, flying the Nazi flag, wearing red arm bands with Swastikas and chanting "The Jews will not Replace us!". These are literal Neo-Nazis (and I am literally using the word literally correct here).
People went on with their lives in Germany too. Surprisingly few Germans were aware of Hitler's Final Solution. It didn't take that many to run it. What it did _take_ is the German people looking the other way when Jews were hauled off to Gettos. We're not there yet, But keep crapping on the working class and we will be. Why? Because we're going to need a scapegoat. And one that has money enough to feed a war machine. The Nazis didn't just target the Jews in blind fury. They took their money and used it to jump start a wartime economy.
Seriously, what's the point of Government jobs if they're not going to employ Americans? This is what my tax dollars go to? Sending money overseas? And yes, it's my tax dollars too. State School systems get federal money.
This is why you're seeing the resurgence of neo-nazis and white supremacists. We're abandoning the working class. Same Bloody thing happened in Germany in 1944 and we ignored it then too because nobody wanted their taxes to go up. How's that quote go? Something about business getting out of hand and us being lucky to live through it...
The class action will let them pay some lawyer a fill million and basically get indemnified against all future damages. OTOH with how weak our consumer protection laws are class action is about the only thing keeping companies, well I wouldn't call it "honest"... maybe just barely sorta in check.
btw, if you're reading this and have been one of the ones railing against 'job killing regulations' (their words, not mine) this is the consequences of the relentless drive to stop government oversight in the name of freedom. Nobody ever cuts the rules about using squirrels for the purposes of gambling because those kind of silly laws are no longer enforced. They go after stuff that would punish Equifax for ignoring security.
Who thick is screwed up to have people in their 50s working these kind of jobs? It's not because they're bored. They're found this out of desperation. Mostly because Wall Street took their pensions and their life savings. And if you don't think it's a problem well, you do realize Wall Street is planning to do it to you too, right. And no you're not one of them. Not of you're reading this post. Billionaires and multi millionaires don't waste their lives reading slashdot
folks don't really pay for utility software much anymore. They've gotten used to just having it. Which means a lot less gets written. Still you're right about the cost of electricity. But then that's at full load. I think the idea would be to limit how much it uses so your CPU isn't under full load. That might not accomplish much but if you've got, say, 150k users it might. I don't know enough about crypto currency mining though to say.
the cost of the electricity is pretty minimal. I think the main thing is to limit how much CPU it uses. Maybe if you could get it to run on an empty core. Lord knows there's a ton of unused processor power out there. I'm posting this on a quad core where 3 out of 4 cores are doing basically nothing 90% of the time.
It's why she lost. She didn't campaign in the rust belt swing states. There were stories of the DNC down there freaking out because nobody was showing up to help them win. She bought into that "Blue Firewall" nonsense and figured since the voted Obama they'd vote for her. She lost by a hair's breath. All she had to do to win was stop wasting time in Arizona and hit the pavement in the states that mattered.
But well, she always was arrogant as heck. That was one of the main faults people sited for not liking her, and well, elections are popularity contests...