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https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1365559594173489153 Bill's now in the Senate, likely to be modified and passed next week, then final passage the week after.
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Feb 27, 2021 08:18
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Saw that and now I can't sleep. The Deficit  Golden is a pretty left leaning dude so it's not impossible he wanted more dollars and said gently caress it and voted no for whatever reason
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Feb 27, 2021 08:45
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Looks like Cawthorn isn't going over that well with the base. https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1365539786413535232?s=20
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Feb 27, 2021 08:53
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Germany is currently experiencing the first proper punch of the British variant, and I'm absolutely dreading the fact that it could undo all our efforts to keep the new-infection graph on a downward trend. This from a day or two ago but I need to say here and now that although I utterly detest Johnson and the Tories with every fibre of my being and I am 100% a Remainer, the person they put in place as head of vaccination has done a brilliant job, admittedly by mainly doing nothing but getting the right people in our NHS and armed forces to sort it out for her. The sorry state of EU vaccinations is just utterly down to the EU and no one else, they were way too late in ordering vaccines and had no plan on how to organise it when they did get some.
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Burt posted:This from a day or two ago but I need to say here and now that although I utterly detest Johnson and the Tories with every fibre of my being and I am 100% a Remainer, the person they put in place as head of vaccination has done a brilliant job, admittedly by mainly doing nothing but getting the right people in our NHS and armed forces to sort it out for her. The sorry state of EU vaccinations is just utterly down to the EU and no one else, they were way too late in ordering vaccines and had no plan on how to organise it when they did get some. This is true to a point. The NHS really has done a great job with the vaccinations, and the EU bungled it's rollout. The vast majority of problems in the European Union are caused by EU and national government incompetence. That said, when you order a certain amount of vaccines from a manufacturer, they agree to terms to deliver X doses in Y timeframe, and they then announce they have problems meeting their targets and will not deliver as many doses to the EU as agreed upon, but they will deliver the agreed upon number of doses to the UK, then something rotten is going on here. Either deliver what you promised, or cut each order down proportionally. So the "partially EU fault/partially UK and US loving with the supply chain" is correct, it's just that the ratio is more like 95% EU fault/5% US & UK fuckery, if even that much.
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Feb 27, 2021 09:59
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https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-the-eu-and-uk-astrazeneca-contracts/ This Politico article explains differences in how the AstraZeneca contract was written for the UK vice the EU. To paraphrase the article, the UK contract communicates, "you will deliver and if you take action that compromises delivery, we will hurt you", while the EU contract leans towards, "if you don't try hard, we won't pay you". Now what else happened? Were the EU lawyers amateurs? Were the EU willing to pay the margins necessary for more strict language, or did they worse at negotiating or in a worse negotiating position? Was some greater leverage used to negotiate the contract since AZ's HQ is in Cambridge? Are you guys even talking about AZ or a different vaccine? It's all hard to say.
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Feb 27, 2021 10:17
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Nessus posted:Looks like Cawthorn isn't going over that well with the base. For as big of Nazi fan boy as Cawthorn is he can't seem to remember what they did to the disabled.
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Feb 27, 2021 13:02
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piL posted:https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-the-eu-and-uk-astrazeneca-contracts/ It also didn't help that the fact that a lot of EU states said the the AZ vaccine was no good for people over 65, which, TBH, is a massive handicap. In the UK, it was "old? infirm? got an arm? Here have this jab". Who knows if it's the best but it is at least doing something.
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Feb 27, 2021 14:01
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He also skipped out on the vote and lied by saying it was for "health reasons."
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Feb 27, 2021 14:08
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https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1365729100510486532
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Feb 27, 2021 20:37
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help my brain is pinging off the walls of my skull after watching that
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MA-Horus posted:help my brain is pinging off the walls of my skull after watching that
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Feb 27, 2021 22:37
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Feb 27, 2021 23:50
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Gab is leaking https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1365416337493868544?s=20
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Feb 28, 2021 03:13
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Maybe consider salting them too. I mean don't for all of our sake, but...
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Feb 28, 2021 05:21
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High earners furious because no one willing to acknowledge that they aren’t gently caress You Rich. https://twitter.com/danriffle/status/1365884652414771201?s=21 People have been making posts like these and getting furious replies for a day or two. Maybe because of the covid relief check phaseout? But even with the phaseout, would be more accurate to post the pre-AGI income.
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mlmp08 posted:High earners furious because no one willing to acknowledge that they aren’t gently caress You Rich. I think people are taking issue with the parent tweet. https://twitter.com/DanRiffle/status/1365869852079095809?s=20 I know I can't take my 80k job anywhere and basically had the choice to live where I do and take it or take a similar pay job in an area where housing costs 2x more than what I already have.
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Feb 28, 2021 12:22
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That Works posted:I think people are taking issue with the parent tweet. why are some people against paying people more money?? everyone should be getting paid more
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Feb 28, 2021 12:53
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Hot Karl Marx posted:why are some people against paying people more money?? everyone should be getting paid more Folks buy into the lovely line they're fed that an increase in minimum wage will have a direct and equal increase in the price of consumer goods. Enjoy your 18 dollar Burger King, or whatever. EVEN IF MaccyD, BK, etc. did something like that, then they deserve to lose customers. They pay livable wages in some other first world countries that resulted in only tiny increases to the cost of a burger.
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Feb 28, 2021 13:08
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I think big macs went up by like 20 cents when Ontario/Canada went to $15/h
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Feb 28, 2021 13:10
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There may be a point past which the minimum wage would cause more economic friction than its benefits create, but that point is clearly well north of $15.
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Feb 28, 2021 13:14
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Hot Karl Marx posted:why are some people against paying people more money?? everyone should be getting paid more People are lovely I guess. I was dirt poor through pretty much all points of life till 4 yrs ago. I don't wish that constant stress and worry on anyone.
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Feb 28, 2021 13:56
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Nessus posted:There may be a point past which the minimum wage would cause more economic friction than its benefits create, but that point is clearly well north of $15. Ding ding ding ding ding! The reason they don't want the minimum wage to go to $15 is that if the sky doesn't fall as they've been predicting it would - and have been lying about - there'd be precedent for raising it even higher. They want to cripple and/or *kill* the middle class, not let more working-class people/families just barely claw and scratch their way into it! See, the American Dream is only for those ~to the Manor born~, college graduates, and lottery winners. Because the burger flipper at McDonald's doesn't *deserve* a decent life unless they're working three jobs which ensures they'll never actually be able to *live* any kind of life outside their jobs.
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Feb 28, 2021 14:20
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But the ruling class should be smart enough to provide enough to keep bread riots from happening, so they're going to have to lift it a little. Since every dollar left in the pockets of a worker is a dollar that doesn't make it to the flush pockets of an owner, they need to do real careful math on it.
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stealie72 posted:But the ruling class should be smart enough to provide enough to keep bread riots from happening, so they're going to have to lift it a little. "If we give them what they've been asking for, they'll be emboldened and just end up asking for more. Then their bosses, bosses' bosses, and bosses' bosses' bosses won't have as much money to bribe us with to pass legislation loving over their workers. They're so *greedy*!" 
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stealie72 posted:But the ruling class should be smart enough to provide enough to keep bread riots from happening, so they're going to have to lift it a little. Inherited wealth and power tends to end up with a ruling class that is no more intelligent or forward thinking than the average or even worse.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:I think big macs went up by like 20 cents when Ontario/Canada went to $15/h If you’re a smart CEO you’ll turn that 20 cents into “billions in costs for the consumer”
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I wonder what the 15$ minimum would do to the DoD pay scale. https://www.dfas.mil/MilitaryMembers/payentitlements/Pay-Tables/Basic-Pay/EM/ You'd basically have to be E-4 over 4 or E-5 to clear 31,200. I just looked at my last couple of tax returns while I was in and I definitely didn't clear that bar unless you considered BAH. Let alone trying to do some sort of lol comparison to a 40-hour work week.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I wonder what the 15$ minimum would do to the DoD pay scale. I think you need to put a lot of weight into the healthcare costs since healthcare is expensive enough to uproot someone’s entire livelihood. I don’t see the troops getting a raise if minimum wage goes up. I did the math once and I was making like $3/hr when I was deployed.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I wonder what the 15$ minimum would do to the DoD pay scale. I'm guessing military is, or would be, considered exempt.
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boop the snoot posted:I think you need to put a lot of weight into the healthcare costs since healthcare is expensive enough to uproot someone’s entire livelihood. That's a good point. I often discount it due to my personally overwhelmingly negative experiences with the Military Healthcare Industrial Complex.
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Also speaking of minimum wage what they should do is figure out a way to do minimum wage post-tax. $7.25 is more like $5 after taxes, and even though we all know about taxes, nobody actually knows what the gently caress they make per hour bottom line going into a job.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I'm guessing military is, or would be, considered exempt. I guess my question would be more geared towards what it would do to recruitment/retention.
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If the military were any other organization, the lodging, food, etc would all be considered taxable income.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I wonder what the 15$ minimum would do to the DoD pay scale. Yeah we were talking about this at work. I mean, BAH, health insurance, and the GI Bill are still things to consider, but I wonder if recruitment numbers drop since most people will just say they can make $15 on the outside. -military pay won’t be affected I don’t think-that would mean all pay scales would need to scale appropriately. nwin fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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I'm just glad my VA poo poo isn't taxable.
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That Works posted:I think people are taking issue with the parent tweet. I’m feeling annoyed by his tweet, and maybe one reason is because he lives in the Trinidad neighborhood of DC, which is a hood that has become increasingly gentrified and displaced its older, poorer Black residents into Maryland as predominantly White people bought low-cost real estate and have ridden the home equity wave since. I also don’t know what his family situation is, but I can tell you that if you aren’t lucky enough to have childcare subsidized by your employer, you’re talking about costs approaching the level of a second mortgage payment for two kids. A lot of my friends and I make over $150k in household income but a bill like that would push a lot of us dangerously close to that “can’t afford a sudden $1,000 expense” level, and no one’s buying a $6 latte to go with their $11 avocado toast at that point. There’s a hectoring tone in this guy’s tweet. Not all industries and cities are created equal when it comes to careers, and just because someone lives in a place like NYC or DC or LA doesn’t mean that everyone there is living in the lap of luxury. Hell, in my neighborhood, if I go a half mile in one direction, it’s ambassador’s residences and old money mansions, but a half mile in the opposite direction results in public housing and visible indicators of urban poverty.
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