🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@h4890 I asked to better understand how you could come to such an inaccurate conclusion and add it to my mental data, nothing more.

@h4890 Having people close to your traveling there extensively doesnt mean much IMO, its the first hand expiernce im curious about. Its good to hear youve been there... How much time did you spend the musslim side of the middle east? What parts?

@h4890 Hey points for consistency, so I'll give you that much.

How much time have you spent among arabian culture in the middle east?

@TedMD So a lot of different things flying around here... first off lets just agree your initial comment, being a miscommunication, isnt really that important to the topic, clearly i thought you meant the tax ont he groceries themselves, but you didnt.

But to the point, I wouldnt say getting rid of the IRS is such a stupid idea, but it is stupid if all they wanted to do was tax everything at 30% even. Thing is, I dont think thats the case, though even the reality is lacking. A 30% tax rate or other high sales tax, on goods such that luxury goods are taxed higher than neccesities would be a great solution. It would eliminate the IRS, create a fair system where those who spend moneyu on luxury carry the bulk of the tax burden, and ensure those so close to poverty that most of their expenses are food and neccesities would be tax free. In the end it would achieve a far superior system of taxation with far less overhead.

That said as usual the system being proposed here doesnt have the proper elements (like tax rates determined by the luxury of the purchase) to make that a reality.

@TedMD Well nop your original statement was not accurate. Groceries are sales tax exempt. so no tax is paid on them at the counter or otherwise. So your statement about paying your taxes for them with your groceries isnt accurate.

That said it isnt really important about the groceries, and focusing on that detracts from the more important part about what I said, how sales tax makes sense, particularly if structured correctly.

If you do it correctly then luxury items get more tax than non luxury items. So people who waste money on nonessentials carry the bigger tax burden while those who can only afford essentials bear little or no tax burden.

@TedMD Its usually paid everytime money changes hand for a product.. so you pay at the counter when you buy the item, and the store paid when they bought the items to stock them too.

@h4890 The liberal side of the fediverse is pretty damn vocal about hating free-speech instances too.. just mentioning you support free speech is asking for mass suspension.. this is hardly limited to the fediverse and seems to be a recurring theme across american liberal communities in my expiernce.... I guess american liberals are barbaic and incompatible with democracy too then?

So spent the weekend trying to decide between NixOS and Guix and finally decided to go with NixOS.. Installed it on my company laptop and my main desktop and one of my employees computers... so far I'm loving it and exited to learn this new distro.

The more I read up on the two I think I picked the right choice too.

#linux

@rastinza Your optimism is refreshing, if not a bit misplaced.

@fredds yup...

@TedMD Your interpritation isnt accurate. Sales tax does not apply to groceries.

Normally the GOP are idiots but moving to a purely sales tax based system makes a LOT of sense, in general, but it has to be done with more care. Only way such a system would work is if tax levels were better correlated to the luxury of an item. We do this already but the current way of doing it is far too coarse to work in a sales-tax only system.

Americans are like a paradoy of themselves at this point.

@state

Sorry for the slow response, I've been very busy.

The earliest memory I know the exact date of I was 4 years old, when my mom got a new car and I was playing in it. I remember the day she got it well.

I have an earlier memory from when i still was in the crib and before I could talk of my mom holding me and singing to me. I distinctly remembering saying "mommy" back when it was the only word I knew.

@Micromineral That looks like lung disease :)

When was your earliest memory?

@elan

#dont_tell_me_what_to_do :) Good advice though actually.

@admitsWrongIfProven yea, i usually dont care too much about follow-spam as long as it isnt too bad.. but message spam im pretty strict on.

@admitsWrongIfProven I just heard about it yea. You may want to silence or block the server if you dont like random followers.