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Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Smythe posted:

consuming and digesting multimedia content. what ever happened to watching and reading. god drat, you loving food obsessed bitches!! JESUS!!! Try thinking about something pure like air, rocks, and sunlight instead of big greasy burgers for once.

I literally can never stop thinking of big greasy burgers, literally

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

im glad gawker got a sugar daddy
https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/736289197716348928

exe cummings
Jan 22, 2005

Mr. Nice! posted:

i cannot fathom how anyone who is not a direct beneficiary of the 1%'s tax rules can support them.

uh, because im not poor. i'm a temporarily embarrassed multimillionaire. supporting these rules will pay off once i others realize my true potential.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
"Also if we raise marginal tax rates then we are punishing the rich, then there is literally no reason to want to work hard to become rich." -someone who wasn't going to work hard to become rich anyway

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

show that guy the hose, please

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

i'm glad ebay hates thiel

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
I'll never get tired of the fact that Joe the Plumber was famous for not understanding how marginal tax rates work. He had it patiently explained to him by candidate Obama (which made everyone like Obama more), but learned nothing and got on every news outlet being really loud and angry about how making $200,001 was somehow worse than making $199,999 (even though that isn't true and is patently stupid).

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

GameCube posted:

show that guy the hose, please

what would you have me do to him? my liege?

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Stereotype posted:

I'll never get tired of the fact that Joe the Plumber was famous for not understanding how marginal tax rates work. He had it patiently explained to him by candidate Obama (which made everyone like Obama more), but learned nothing and got on every news outlet being really loud and angry about how making $200,001 was somehow worse than making $199,999 (even though that isn't true and is patently stupid).

thats the very same brain error that got Careless Cums ran out of the YOSPOS, my friend.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
I don't know who that is

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

Smythe posted:

what would you have me do to him? my liege?

wait don't do anything yet. not until he answer this question:

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

how do you feel about martin shkreli

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Stereotype posted:

I don't know who that is

He misunderstood marginal tax rates, and also jizzed his hot load into his wife a lot to create many children. One day, he sneaked into her room and pulled her diary from her drawer and openened it up. He probabably had her panties in his mouth and his dick hard while he read it, I dont know if that part is true - but I do know that he read the words inside the Secret Wife Diary and found her 2-year plan on how to leave him and keep the kids, all orchestrated in the shadows for perfect execution. He posted a lot of bad opinions, and then got trolled out of the forum.

heated game moment
Oct 30, 2003

Lipstick Apathy

Triglav posted:

from my understanding (tbh i have my cpa do all this now so i might be wrong on something):
  • capital gains are considered unearned income and undeductable
  • unearned income is still income and will raise your earned income tax bracket
  • short-term capital gains are taxed progressively at earned income rates but are still unearned
  • long-term capital gains are taxed at a flat preferred rate at your maximum income bracket
  • dividends are unearned income and taxed at your preferred rate like long-term capital gains
  • you still need to pay SECA/FICA taxes, as well as ACA taxes if you don't buy insurance
  • after a level of income, i believe $200k, you are subject to a 3.8% NII tax
  • california taxes capital gains as income without preferential treatment, 13.3% after the mental health tax levied against high-income individuals
  • if you run a financial company in california (e.g. ventural capital) it is taxed 2% higher than anything else
  • there's probably some other nickles and dimes i'm forgetting, beyond property taxes and whatnot
personally i like the preferred tax rate. i do a lot of my short-term market speculation with section 1256 contracts so my otherwise short-term capital gains are taxed as 60% long-term capital gains with easier IRS reporting. but i'd be fine with long-term capital gains being taxed at normal income rates, especially if capital gains were redefined as earned income (so i wouldn't have to draw income from my company to have a 401k). middle class folks only in the market so they can later afford a house would hate it, but whatever. it wouldnt really change the receipts of the united states much since most securities are held in 401ks and other tax-advantaged accounts, but it could add another billion to federal receipts


only for corporations, which are taxed off profit, not income. individuals are generally limited to $3,000 annual losses, though they are ways to carry losses across years. capital gains are also only taxed at preferred rates for natural persons

some of this is right, some of this is wrong technically, and some of it is wrong semantically. most of it is completely irrelevant though to what we are talking about

Stereotype posted:

I'll never get tired of the fact that Joe the Plumber was famous for not understanding how marginal tax rates work. He had it patiently explained to him by candidate Obama (which made everyone like Obama more), but learned nothing and got on every news outlet being really loud and angry about how making $200,001 was somehow worse than making $199,999 (even though that isn't true and is patently stupid).

this poo poo is depressingly common, my own sister believes it and refuses to listen to me when i try to explain otherwise. ' i cant work more hours because of my tax rate!!!'

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

Smythe posted:

He misunderstood marginal tax rates, and also jizzed his hot load into his wife a lot to create many children. One day, he sneaked into her room and pulled her diary from her drawer and openened it up. He probabably had her panties in his mouth and his dick hard while he read it, I dont know if that part is true - but I do know that he read the words inside the Secret Wife Diary and found her 2-year plan on how to leave him and keep the kids, all orchestrated in the shadows for perfect execution. He posted a lot of bad opinions, and then got trolled out of the forum.

he also admitted to having a porn addiction

guy was a real loving mess

heated game moment
Oct 30, 2003

Lipstick Apathy

Smythe posted:

He misunderstood marginal tax rates, and also jizzed his hot load into his wife a lot to create many children. One day, he sneaked into her room and pulled her diary from her drawer and openened it up. He probabably had her panties in his mouth and his dick hard while he read it, I dont know if that part is true - but I do know that he read the words inside the Secret Wife Diary and found her 2-year plan on how to leave him and keep the kids, all orchestrated in the shadows for perfect execution. He posted a lot of bad opinions, and then got trolled out of the forum.

lmao

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
lol oh is that what that stickied thread is about?

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Stereotype posted:

lol oh is that what that stickied thread is about?

no, that's about freeing cremnob, like the title says

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
look man I only know who like 10 people are because I've sent or received gifts from them or met them irl.

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

Stereotype posted:

Costco sells food for stupid cheap, also Safeway has a bunch of 50% off meat like every day. Also do your own car repairs, a new alternator is like $100 but the shop quoted me $500 lol gently caress them its like 2 screws and a belt.

Just be frugal you noodles.

Mods pls rename me to "frugal noodle"

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET

lol "invading ppls privacy for financial gain is actually free speech!"

GameCube posted:

how do you feel about martin shkreli

a few years ago when i first heard of him he seemed smart enough at chemistry to short bio bubble pump and dumps announcing fda trials for drugs that couldn't even physically pass the blood-brain barrier and work (see shkreli's role in revealing fraud at mannkind for example). but he started a hedge fund based off that success, ran it like a ponzi, shuttered the fund, and started a company that buys up exotics to crank the price up on to pay off his defrauded investors. he says it was for funding research and actually does have his name on some research patents, but bullshit lol. his company was no gilead sciences (increased prices on hep c management drug, put the money into hep c research, released hep c cure)

unfortunately being a dick to insurance companies isnt a crime so hes just being tried for embezzlement and lying (lying is illegal in securities law lol), but im happy places like his (also e.g. valeant, theranos) are eating poo poo. companies like that stand in the way of single-payer

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

Smythe posted:

He misunderstood marginal tax rates, and also jizzed his hot load into his wife a lot to create many children. One day, he sneaked into her room and pulled her diary from her drawer and openened it up. He probabably had her panties in his mouth and his dick hard while he read it, I dont know if that part is true - but I do know that he read the words inside the Secret Wife Diary and found her 2-year plan on how to leave him and keep the kids, all orchestrated in the shadows for perfect execution. He posted a lot of bad opinions, and then got trolled out of the forum.

i totally forgot about this guy lol

was he also the sex bunny guy?

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Triglav posted:

lol "invading ppls privacy for financial gain is actually free speech!"


a few years ago when i first heard of him he seemed smart enough at chemistry to short bio bubble pump and dumps announcing fda trials for drugs that couldn't even physically pass the blood-brain barrier and work (see shkreli's role in revealing fraud at mannkind for example). but he started a hedge fund based off that success, ran it like a ponzi, shuttered the fund, and started a company that buys up exotics to crank the price up on to pay off his defrauded investors. he says it was for funding research and actually does have his name on some research patents, but bullshit lol. his company was no gilead sciences (increased prices on hep c management drug, put the money into hep c research, released hep c cure)

unfortunately being a dick to insurance companies isnt a crime so hes just being tried for embezzlement and lying (lying is illegal in securities law lol), but im happy places like his (also e.g. valeant, theranos) are eating poo poo. companies like that stand in the way of single-payer

Didn't read but quoting to prevent modifications.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Necc0 posted:

i totally forgot about this guy lol

was he also the sex bunny guy?

Sex bunny guy?

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

has anyone ever heard of Zoox? how many driverless car companies are we up to now, six?

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Stereotype posted:

I literally can never stop thinking of big greasy burgers, literally

same except butts

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

Smythe posted:

Sex bunny guy?

some dude was bragging about his sex bunny wife and how he bought her a lux suv to keep her happy

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Necc0 posted:

some dude was bragging about his sex bunny wife and how he bought her a lux suv to keep her happy

oh, no - that was the "girlcum in my ears" guy who posted his pic once and he was like a super typical flyover dad with newbalances, dockers, company polo, and receeding hairline on a bulbous gut. i forgot his username, but i do remember that tori ran him.

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Mr. Nice! posted:

i cannot fathom how anyone who is not a direct beneficiary of the 1%'s tax rules can support them.

most people do benefit in some way or another though

like one of the most used "tax loopholes" is the homestead exemption

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

computer parts posted:

most people do benefit in some way or another though

like one of the most used "tax loopholes" is the homestead exemption

yea ok but how does that fit into the batman vs superman lore?

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



Triglav posted:

lol "invading ppls privacy for financial gain is actually free speech!"


a few years ago when i first heard of him he seemed smart enough at chemistry to short bio bubble pump and dumps announcing fda trials for drugs that couldn't even physically pass the blood-brain barrier and work (see shkreli's role in revealing fraud at mannkind for example). but he started a hedge fund based off that success, ran it like a ponzi, shuttered the fund, and started a company that buys up exotics to crank the price up on to pay off his defrauded investors. he says it was for funding research and actually does have his name on some research patents, but bullshit lol. his company was no gilead sciences (increased prices on hep c management drug, put the money into hep c research, released hep c cure)

unfortunately being a dick to insurance companies isnt a crime so hes just being tried for embezzlement and lying (lying is illegal in securities law lol), but im happy places like his (also e.g. valeant, theranos) are eating poo poo. companies like that stand in the way of single-payer

that's basically a nonanswer

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost

Dislike button posted:

this poo poo is depressingly common, my own sister believes it and refuses to listen to me when i try to explain otherwise. ' i cant work more hours because of my tax rate!!!'

:sigh:

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Dislike button posted:

this poo poo is depressingly common, my own sister believes it and refuses to listen to me when i try to explain otherwise. ' i cant work more hours because of my tax rate!!!'

Your idiot sister deserves to be poor.

nah thanks
Jun 18, 2004

Take me out.

Tusen Takk posted:

did anyone post this pro uber yet: https://imgur.com/gallery/owJrB25

I would paste the text but imgur apparently had blocked C&P on mobile devices

late to the party, but :vince:

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

fishmech posted:

i'm glad ebay hates thiel

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Ghost Farts posted:

lmao ok this i have to see

it's terrible :ssh:

Ghost Farts posted:

wait for reals? didn't know that. i wonder if i'll see anything in trieste - i was planning to go there later this year on a short holiday.

different region (friuli-venezia giulia), similar but slightly different deal. a rich region of the northeast like veneto, but unlike veneto not flat, mosquito-ridden lowlands of protestant work ethic despair. they're also a true, multilingual border region

I don't know much about friuli tbh, but I know they're not as proverbially hosed up as veneto. anyway? no, I don't think you'll see anything, it happens in places too boring to contemplate, let alone visit

some time ago, some people stole a yellow audi wagon in milan, and joyrode it across the northeast for weeks. it drove them crazy, people reported sightings of the yellow audi everywhere, the thieves were accused of one burglary, no, two, no they're killers, no, adrenaline junkies, newspapers even interviewed local wrc legend miki biasion for his opinion on how a big car could outrun the police on the freeway in a straight line, are they pilots or stuntmen maybe?! ("no, they just have a big car and they speed on the freeway, where's the skill in that". reminds me of when they interviewed fuksas on the wtc collapse and he was like "uh yeah a fire can collapse a building"). there were facebook groups for reporting sightings, theorizing... as much as it drove them crazy with fear, rage, confusion ("this is the last straw, I'm getting my carry permit" says the typical northeasterner in the typical interview), the rest of italy barely noticed. basically in the northeast every day is slow news day

(the audi? it was found abandoned and burned. some say the gang switched to a black bmw but afaik no connection was ever proved between the two gangs)

oh gently caress! wait! how could I forget. meet the quintessential northeasterner, joe formaggio, mayor of albettone:




("nomads" being, of course, gypsies)



(note the ripped "republic of the north" sticker - the northern league's secessionist campaign. you put your political stickers on bumpers, we put ours on city limit signs)

the sign says:

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!

Notice is hereby given to all:
THIEVES, BASTARDS, THUGS, TROUBLEMAKERS AND UNWANTED ELEMENTS
that in this town we won't hesitate to shoot you if you violate our homes and threaten our families

Therefore, for the peace of all, do not enter our territory, or keep going without stopping

Thanks,
The mayor

what is it that makes him the perfect northeasterner though, so perfect he's almost a parody of himself? is it the shotgun? is it the antiziganism? the castle doctrine? no, what makes joe formaggio the perfectly ridiculous northeasterner is that he's all this, and the mayor of a lovely little town of 2000 people

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



hackbunny posted:

it's terrible :ssh:


different region (friuli-venezia giulia), similar but slightly different deal. a rich region of the northeast like veneto, but unlike veneto not flat, mosquito-ridden lowlands of protestant work ethic despair. they're also a true, multilingual border region

I don't know much about friuli tbh, but I know they're not as proverbially hosed up as veneto. anyway? no, I don't think you'll see anything, it happens in places too boring to contemplate, let alone visit

some time ago, some people stole a yellow audi wagon in milan, and joyrode it across the northeast for weeks. it drove them crazy, people reported sightings of the yellow audi everywhere, the thieves were accused of one burglary, no, two, no they're killers, no, adrenaline junkies, newspapers even interviewed local wrc legend miki biasion for his opinion on how a big car could outrun the police on the freeway in a straight line, are they pilots or stuntmen maybe?! ("no, they just have a big car and they speed on the freeway, where's the skill in that". reminds me of when they interviewed fuksas on the wtc collapse and he was like "uh yeah a fire can collapse a building"). there were facebook groups for reporting sightings, theorizing... as much as it drove them crazy with fear, rage, confusion ("this is the last straw, I'm getting my carry permit" says the typical northeasterner in the typical interview), the rest of italy barely noticed. basically in the northeast every day is slow news day

(the audi? it was found abandoned and burned. some say the gang switched to a black bmw but afaik no connection was ever proved between the two gangs)

oh gently caress! wait! how could I forget. meet the quintessential northeasterner, joe formaggio, mayor of albettone:




("nomads" being, of course, gypsies)



(note the ripped "republic of the north" sticker - the northern league's secessionist campaign. you put your political stickers on bumpers, we put ours on city limit signs)

the sign says:

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!

Notice is hereby given to all:
THIEVES, BASTARDS, THUGS, TROUBLEMAKERS AND UNWANTED ELEMENTS
that in this town we won't hesitate to shoot you if you violate our homes and threaten our families

Therefore, for the peace of all, do not enter our territory, or keep going without stopping

Thanks,
The mayor

what is it that makes him the perfect northeasterner though, so perfect he's almost a parody of himself? is it the shotgun? is it the antiziganism? the castle doctrine? no, what makes joe formaggio the perfectly ridiculous northeasterner is that he's all this, and the mayor of a lovely little town of 2000 people

are you sure this isnt about north east new jersey

Babies Getting Rabies
Apr 21, 2007

Sugartime Jones
this could also be basically all of eastern germany outside of the bigger cities. but especially saxon switzerland

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

I know Sicily joining the US was never serious but lol

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