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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:$11.5k a year would leave me with $2500 all year to spend after rent on a studio apartment nearby. Though I'd say the problem is that housing is bullshit. If you assume that nothing else about the economy would change in a world in which wealth was massively and equitably redistributed on such an enormous scale, than yeah I guess it would suck. But we might as well imagine a post-scarcity Star Trek world at that point.
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caps on caps on caps posted:I have some questions: Holy moly maybe if you have such basic questions you should do some outside reading and then come back to the thread. You know that employee owned companies exist, right? And that they function pretty much the same as any other company except, whoa, lo and behold, employees enjoy livable wages, better benefits, and the ability to vote on company decisions. Is your mind blown yet?
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call to action posted:America's only "low tax" if you're rich, once you combine all the regressive nickle and dime fees like car registration that costs me $500 a year on a newer Prius, the school fees for your kids, PIFs/sales taxes that apply on food and other goods that subsidize developers, the private garbage service you need to pay for now because the city one went tits up, the water bill that spirals higher and higher every month due to boomers wanting to pass the buck for repairs to younger folk, road tolls, healthcare copays, etc. we're feed and taxed out the rear end for comparatively nothing. Look at a disgusting state like WA where the rich get by completely scot-free while people who actually need to buy goods to live pay 11%+ sales taxes WA state is pretty weird. Politicians here keep putting income taxes on the ballot, and people keep voting them down, so regressive taxes just keep getting added and increased to make up for it. What I don't get is why they don't make a bill that introduces an income tax while simultaneously doing away with the sales tax. That might actually have a chance if voters can be decently educated. My guess is there may be something in WA State laws that prevents this, but I haven't looked into it that deeply. Either that or we just have lovely politicians which I can absolutely believe also.
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