Hmm, I thought top left was Orgasmo, top middle was Ermagherd, and bottom left was Gas Station Shelob
Nah, you just don't understand or appreciate the economics of our tax system at all. It's OK for people who make less to pay less in taxes or even no taxes. We have a so-called progressive tax for this very reason. Those who make millions and pay no taxes are the real problem with our system in the US. They find all of the loopholes and pay almost zero taxes, while people who are barely scraping by pay punitive tax percentages relative to their take home pay. The bad solution is wanting to fully tax people who can't afford housing or healthcare while letting the billionaires skate. Trying to frame it as "their fair share" is absolutely laughable. The lack of concern for the billionaires not paying taxes here is very telling.
They will still pay income taxes, just not on the tips portion. This is not at all different than the tiered taxes we already have.
I think tips in general are bullshit and the real answer is to raise minimum wage much higher, so it keeps up with worker productivity. I would prefer that, and to do away with tipping culture entirely. However, passing a tax relief thing is always much easier goal in the US than raising minimum wage, so I'm not letting an ideal internet reply guy solution get in the way of something that actually helps workers. As for it not being fair to the cooks in the back, different jobs pay differently. And believe it or not, some wait staff do share tips with the cooks.
Because employers use tips as a reason to pay workers less, even less than minimum wage. It's a tax on the lower working class. Meanwhile executives like Bezos pay almost zero taxes.
Good. Taxing tips is bullshit. Even 45 can be accidentally right once in a while. Do Tax on Wall Street Speculation instead.
The void left behind by the decline of most small local newspapers has never been truly filled, IMHO.
Reminds me of microfiche, which was very popular in libraries in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. This lady was ahead of her time.
Americans want affordable housing, affordable health care, better gun regulations, a true ceasefire, and many other things that the establishment politicians don't give AF about.
The CADT model...that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.
Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people's code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a "maintenance programmer" which was something of an insult, but I didn't mind.
Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else's code, think others' code is "garbage" (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it's a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there's tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.
view more: next ›
Eric Kripke: We need a cutaway kissing scene. No! Not like that! Wait, wait, wait....yes....exactly like that.