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FAUXTON posted:I'd prefer to see Bezos et al react by pushing for the abolition of sales tax in all states, for the most part it's regressive as hell even if in Amazon's specific case it's being collected from people who largely can absorb the extra cost. Sales tax is maybe a better way, definitely an easier way of taxing retailers. Bookkeeping is a massive dumpster fire and there's tons of ways you can pretend revenue is actually not revenue, profits are not profits, and things that aren't losses are losses, etc.
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Third World Reggin posted:Don't worry, all white people probably should be. I'll just ask that whoever is throwing me up against a wall that they take care of my doggos. They did nothing wrong. Except for the time Zelda ripped open her bag of dog food while I was doing yard work.
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Dance Officer posted:Sales tax is maybe a better way, definitely an easier way of taxing retailers. Bookkeeping is a massive dumpster fire and there's tons of ways you can pretend revenue is actually not revenue, profits are not profits, and things that aren't losses are losses, etc. Except you're taxing consumers, not retailers.
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Jun 21, 2018 16:47
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Michael Avenatti owns so hard
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Jun 21, 2018 16:49
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Right? The lack of an accessible and codified tracking system is nuts, even if one were on board with separating kids from parents. 
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Jun 21, 2018 16:57
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mlmp08 posted:According to CNBC the mean retirement savings of someone around 35 or so is in the low $30,000s range. Hey that’s me! In that low 30,000s range and I’ve had a 401K I’ve been contributing too since at least 2011. But you know between my wife and I we have over $200,000K in student debt, my fathers Alzheimer’s has forced my mom near bankruptcy and I’m throwing as much money her way as possible, and every time I managed to save SOME money I get hit with a heath expense (our work provided medical insurance is awful), car expense, or god knows what else. But I LOVE it when condescending boomers simply tell us how we are just lazy, and just need to hunker down and devote 22% of our paychecks to savings because they were able to! It’s easy! My wife and I have basically given up on retirement. Might as well try to enjoy life now before climate change turns it into a hell hole so we changed our honeymoon plans from staying in country to doing our dream vacation to Europe.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:06
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It's morbid but barring any windfall or massive societal change, I plan on eating a bullet at 65 if I can't quit working.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:14
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Hi. While regressive sales taxes are an important way for states to raise revenue for things like roads and schools and taxing online sales is long overdue.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:16
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I don’t know much about this candidate, but the link in the tweet leads to a very slick ad. https://twitter.com/mjhegar/status/1009410731224248320?s=21
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Jun 21, 2018 17:16
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If we really want to do away with a regressive tax we should ban the loving lottery.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:19
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Wasabi the J posted:It's morbid but barring any windfall or massive societal change, I plan on eating a bullet at 65 if I can't quit working. My wife and I will work until we are dead. And if at some point I’m forced to leave work early due to health issues or whatnot and it looks like I’ll be homeless or destitute . Well, there’s always the Anthony Bourdain way out..
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Jun 21, 2018 17:19
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Also I told someone once my retirement plan was a shotgun shell as a joke. I don’t think it’s a joke anymore 
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Jun 21, 2018 17:21
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:I'm fairly certain they tried it once on Always Sunny. If only I could remember how that worked out for them. It ended up with Dennis and Dee addicted to crack
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Jun 21, 2018 17:21
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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1009832937548865536 Guess Melania heard this is where you go if you want to be forcibly removed from your family.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:23
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1009832937548865536 GodDAMN.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:28
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loving  if anyone working age today expects to have a retirement outside of winning the lottery or being born rich. Boomers mortgaged the future of the country to have a wild economic party and now the bill is coming due.What resources are people going to retire with, and what will they do it in? Home ownership is a cluster gently caress happening right now that's going to get really wild (again), student debt is a boat anchor around people's necks that's not going to get any better and the ACA's "bending the cost curve" of health care is beyond a joke. Retirement. 
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More bad news. A death pool stunner. Koko the gorilla dead at age 46. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622160278/koko-the-gorilla-dies-redrew-the-lines-of-animal-human-communication
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Jun 21, 2018 17:31
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I definitely plan on retirement and came from a family with no money, but I live rather atypically in order to plan on retiring. And there are still so many curveballs life could throw to grenade my plans.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:32
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Jun 21, 2018 17:32
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I have a pension plan. For now
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Jun 21, 2018 17:33
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mlmp08 posted:I don’t know much about this candidate, but the link in the tweet leads to a very slick ad. She has a varied rep in the community. The story is legendary and they were very lucky to come out alive. They got ambushed in a SAR trap and lit up on both sides in a steep valley. By the time they put the bird down, both miniguns (~4500 rounds of ammo per standard load out) were totally dry. The bird was covered in fuel, oil, and hydraulic fluid. Despite this, some people don't like her because they think she embellished her career and stepped on people to get into politics, or simply because she's not a republican. I take what they say with a grain of salt. It's hard to exaggerate the details of a mission that's caught on multiple video feeds and resulted in a DFC with V device. Whether she had to ruffle feathers or not to get to where she is, I don't care. She flew rescue and isn't your cookie cutter republican dicksuck. If I lived in her area I'd vote for her. Internet Wizard posted:It ended up with Dennis and Dee addicted to crack I was kidding. I know how it ended. Come on, dude.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:33
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I contribute 6% of annual income to my 401k and have like 25k put away at a 28 so yay? Still not good
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Jun 21, 2018 17:34
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mlmp08 posted:I definitely plan on retirement and came from a family with no money, but I live rather atypically in order to plan on retiring. And there are still so many curveballs life could throw to grenade my plans. I have enough memories of listening to my dad talk about how he didn't start a 401k until his mid 30s that by the time I started work I had a pretty good idea that "retirement" was depending on saving in my 20's before I had kids and ruined any hope of budgeting again.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:41
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Union pension baby, if my hours keep up I'll be making more while retired than while working. I don't think I'm going to live that long tho so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Jun 21, 2018 17:42
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Waroduce posted:I contribute 6% of annual income to my 401k and have like 25k put away at a 28 so yay? Still not good You don't get employer matching? I'm using acorns to beef up my savings. 10x multiplier round ups really help, and I barely notice the 100 bucks a week I get from it
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Immanentized posted:You don't get employer matching? You have to stick around long enough for the match to vest though and since you only get pay increases if you switch jobs...
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the market isnt a retirement plan yall
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Jun 21, 2018 17:45
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Vesting is a 5 year schedule so meh
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Proud Christian Mom posted:the market isnt a retirement plan yall If the market fails to be a retirement plan (for people who load up in 401ks and do it "right") there are bigger issues to deal with, like rad roaches.
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https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1009838615436898304?s=19 Let him rot until he dies, the state isn't executing him, just restricting his freedom until he's has freedom from life
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Getting a job in higher education is the way to go. You either have a pension or are instantly 100% vested with the 401k. I switched over from the corporate world a few years back and am never leaving.
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Smiling Jack posted:I have a pension plan. Same. My state pension does so well, Illinois borrows from it to pay into other pensions.
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Jun 21, 2018 17:55
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I have an excellent retirement plan execution sucks tho
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http://www.iuoe.org http://www.liuna.org https://www.teamster.org
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DINK for life, save money like crazed hermits, gently caress having debt ever, paid off the property very rapidly. So far, so good, but life has a lot of curve balls it can throw at you.
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Jun 21, 2018 18:02
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My employer has a 401k and they match 50% up to 6% and it vests after three years so I figure I’m here for at least three years. I figure if I ever get married it’ll be in my late 30s with a successful woman who has a great career who is more interested in saving a bunch of money than having kids so we can retire and vacation ASAP.
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boop the snoot posted:My employer has a 401k and they match 50% up to 6% and it vests after three years so I figure I’m here for at least three years. Same on the first part, but I'm probably going to marry a hairstylist without a college degree. Fortunately, I have in-demand skills, and a rocksolid network. The parents are all very well off, so I might tell them they can have grandkids if they pay for college, other deferred big ticket costs. My "retirement" plan is teaching community college or something. I'll have a good nest egg, but drat if I go off benefits.
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Immanentized posted:Same on the first part, but I'm probably going to marry a hairstylist without a college degree. Fortunately, I have in-demand skills, and a rocksolid network. The parents are all very well off, so I might tell them they can have grandkids if they pay for college, other deferred big ticket costs. I have some bad news...
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mlmp08 posted:DINK for life   mlmp08 posted:So far, so good, but life has a lot of curve balls it can throw at you. Yeah this is the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night. I grew up dealing with a ton of loving curve balls and I'm constantly reminded another one could hit me at any time. I'm just glad I made it to where I am today and I'm hopeful that I've braved the worst of it. boop the snoot posted:My employer has a 401k and they match 50% up to 6% and it vests after three years so I figure I’m here for at least three years. My employer does the same. I'm 31 and I've been putting money into it since I was 24 (a lot more seriously since I was 27) and I've got about 60K in there right now. I think we become 100% vested after 3 years, so I just keep upping my percentage every year. Right now I save 13% and will probably cap myself at around 20 or so. Also, your plan is solid enough. My fiance and I don't want kids, she has a solid career as a veterinarian (she's now a veterinary professor with a state school), I am cool with my steady low key career as the work life balance is loving amazing so I can actually get poo poo done around the house without stressing, and we save money while also enjoying ourselves, because gently caress it, we're only gonna live once. I think you need to find a balance between being frugal and saving if you can, but while also enjoying the fruits of your labor by spending a little. People who go to the extremes in either direction weird me out.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I have some bad news... It depends- pretty much every education union is fighting for benefits for adjuncts right now, so it's possible they could have them in 30 years. They won't though. You have to have a masters to teach at a community college though, so plan accordingly.
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