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SKJ

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  1. The reason is because it's better to make 3mm and take home 2mm than it is to make 300k and take home 250k
  2. Tax isn't punishment. Stop acting like it is
  3. I would guess that it's quite disingenuous to think that at a certain rate, people are going to stop working. Most of the wealthy make quite a good bit of money from investments, though, and would just be paying capital gains on it... I don't know, but I'm willing to trade if any of you want. I'd be pretty happy keeping a few of the millions
  4. Most of "entitlement" spending (known as mandatory, btw) is social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Usually people like to throw around the word entitlements to make it seem like it's all "welfare Queens."
  5. I'm sure they're already back in North Korea dismantling their nuclear program now. I guess Trump forgot the "verify"part of that shit
  6. The funny part is that pretty soon, we'll all be back to zero.
  7. Yoooooge feat on crazy Sally
  8. Here's a bit more... Documents filed in the case showed that in 1993 BCBSM implemented a scheme through which it would collect additional revenue by adding certain mark-ups to hospital claims paid by its self-insured customers. Most of the country’s largest employers self-insure, which means that they are on the hook for medical claims when employees and their dependents get sick or injured. Self-insured companies hire firms like BCBSM to do the paperwork. It is the employer’s money—not the insurance company’s—that is “at risk” in such arrangements. After suing and getting documentation from BCBSM, attorneys for Hi-Lex were able to show the court that BCBSM marked up hospital claims by as much as 22 percent. BCBSM didn’t disclose the markups, however. As part of the scheme, regardless of the amount BCBSM was required to pay a hospital for a given service, it reported a higher amount to Hi-Lex and pocketed the difference. https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/05/11/17317/court-case-shows-how-health-insurers-rip-you-and-your-employer I can go deeper, show more, or you could do more research down the rabbit hole
  9. Here is an overview. It's more detailed than this when you dig into it https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/15/364064088/they-paid-how-much-how-negotiated-deals-hide-health-cares-cost
  10. Well, I did graduate business school, so...
  11. Well, if they've been in prison, they'll most likely be unemployable to a point
  12. Your model is the model that gets us to a nanny state. Don't you see?
  13. It's shameful for the fucking companies that externalize the cost of living to the government in the form of government assistance, rather than paying a living wage.
  14. Oh Lord. Here we fucking go. It's called "externalities" and it's another form of corporate welfare Just shut the fuck up
  15. If you fucking qualify for welfare, you fucking qualify for fucking welfare. I would guess (since I don't have the numbers) that the upper class avoids more in tax revenue than all other classes combined
  16. I have a very small pool. Been using this Clorox test kit and shit. I think it's fucked. The levels are always fucked when I use the app. The alkaline shit is driving me nuts
  17. This shit never happens to me. I can imagine the ads I'd get though
  18. I don't get why one would want to make nothin out of somethin though
  19. Umm... Is that even near an equivalent thought? Wouldn't it be more representative if your tax burden was the percentage of income you make? I mean, if I earned 30% of the total income in America, and you earned 1%, do you think if I paid 30% more of a total tax burden that it would be unfair? I'll tell you right now that paying that much tax wouldn't make me want to change incomes with you
  20. Well, it's not a punishment for being successful... It's a tax
  21. How the living fuck does that sound like word salad? Medicare/Medicaid/MCs= government insurance, which has price caps Free market insurance does not have price caps.
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