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Hyrax Attack! posted:In WA state they finally managed to enact a capital gains tax on high dollar amount transactions, after years of our plutocrats kicking and screaming and even involving the state Supreme Court. Let’s see how it’s going: Do you have a link to the article that's from?
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Mustang posted:Do you have a link to the article that's from? https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/was-new-capital-gains-tax-brings-in-849-million-so-far-much-more-than-expected/?amp=1 It’s paywalled so I was reading it through the KCLS library’s free portal
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Thanks! Wanted to send it to some other folks.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:In WA state they finally managed to enact a capital gains tax on high dollar amount transactions, after years of our plutocrats kicking and screaming and even involving the state Supreme Court. Let’s see how it’s going: Just wait. I'm sure the state gov will find a way to use just this money and cut regular school funding. Much like what california did with the lotto money. It started out with schools getting a shitload of apple //e computers and quickly stopped being bonus money.
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May 28, 2023 19:59
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Washington already famously stole money earmarked for schools by dumping lotto funds into the general fund to obfuscate what money was going where. Big fan of taxing the rich, and looking at that law it's pretty well aimed at only big-r Rich folks. And we desperately need more schools in the state. I'm sure by next year everyone affected will have figured out how to move their assets around to tax shelter from it though, and we'll have a massive budget shortfall.
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https://twitter.com/AndrewKossack/status/1662900354478907392?t=d8_pzbArACZpAm3ljmOV9g&s=19 Indy 500 last 20 laps, crash caused tire to detach from tether and go flying. Thankfully missed grandstand and landed in parking lot
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/AndrewKossack/status/1662900354478907392?t=d8_pzbArACZpAm3ljmOV9g&s=19 I wonder who has the liability for that insurance claim
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May 28, 2023 21:22
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Kesper North posted:I wonder who has the liability for that insurance claim I am sure the Speedway has an indemnity like with your car getting broken into that it isn't their fault. Wild end to the race with Newgarden winning
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May 28, 2023 21:29
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Nick Soapdish posted:I am sure the Speedway has an indemnity like with your car getting broken into that it isn't their fault. Those "by parking here you assume the responsibility for broken bits of your car" waiver statements generally don't mean too much in court.
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A Festivus Miracle posted:Those "by parking here you assume the responsibility for broken bits of your car" waiver statements generally don't mean too much in court. You can buy off a state judge for a few thousand bucks and the people who own racetracks are generally loaded. They'll take the chevy owner to the cleaners.
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May 28, 2023 21:39
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Midjack posted:You can buy off a state judge for a few thousand bucks and the people who own racetracks are generally loaded. They'll take the chevy owner to the cleaners. Or they could just have the good PR of fixing it or replacing the vehicle(if it wasn't a rental) being a Chevy and all
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May 28, 2023 21:43
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Midjack posted:You can buy off a state judge for a few thousand bucks and the people who own racetracks are generally loaded. They'll take the chevy owner to the cleaners. I can't imagine telling all your fans to gently caress off from attending your events in person would really be the business move a racetrack owner would engage in. I'd bet the car owner is gonna be made whole without much of a fuss.
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Yeah they have access to mechanics, they’ll fix the car and give the owner some free tickets. Or they’ll give him a “be quiet and go away” check.
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May 29, 2023 00:44
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It's just an auto claim. You file with your own insurance while they go collect from the responsible parties and refund your deductible after they get their money. There's no personal injury. There is a fixed amount of damage capped at the value of the vehicle. It will be a pretty trivial claim and should be paid without too much fuss. That looks like just some body damage at first glance, as well. Not likely to be more than $10-15k and that's if something is majorly damaged. It probably won't even be that much. The racetrack and racing org will pay that claim immediately. If someone got physically hurt, there would be protracted litigation. Presently, though, this is minor property damage and may not even eclipse the local jurisdiction's small claim maximum.
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May 29, 2023 00:44
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Midjack posted:You can buy off a state judge for a few thousand bucks and the people who own racetracks are generally loaded. They'll take the chevy owner to the cleaners. It's a couple damaged panels on a crappy old sedan. The racetrack owner isn't going to go full Godfather horse head on that dude.
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May 29, 2023 00:56
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I was responding more to the "disclaimer won't hold up in court" part but my reply was badly phrased.
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May 29, 2023 01:00
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have our Next Mideast Flashpoint: https://twitter.com/Terror_Alarm/status/1662481600939016192
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May 29, 2023 01:06
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Yeah the Taliban is not going to win that fight.
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May 29, 2023 01:08
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Irans had a lot of internal unrest lately. Wheres their military on all that?
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That Works posted:Irans had a lot of internal unrest lately. Wheres their military on all that? Zeroing in, I'd say
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May 29, 2023 01:14
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So, which side are we going to stupidly funnel arms to (again)?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:So, which side are we going to stupidly funnel arms to (again)? We already funneled it to the taliban by all the equipment we left them yeah?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:So, which side are we going to stupidly funnel arms to (again)? Saudi Arabia
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It's a couple damaged panels on a crappy old sedan. The racetrack owner isn't going to go full Godfather horse head on that dude. Yeah You know how much a horse head costs these days?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Ladies and gentlemen, we have our Next Mideast Flashpoint: Good luck dudes lol
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Grip it and rip it posted:I can't imagine telling all your fans to gently caress off from attending your events in person would really be the business move a racetrack owner would engage in. I'd bet the car owner is gonna be made whole without much of a fuss. Yup https://twitter.com/RichNye13/status/1662966467107618816?s=20
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May 29, 2023 01:49
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I’m assuming they want it back after
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How true is the adage that Regan “won” the Cold War by outspending the USSR?
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It’s very reductive of what was going on at the time.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Good luck dudes lol
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Nystral posted:How true is the adage that Regan “won” the Cold War by outspending the USSR? iirc from Zubok's Collapse, not very. the Soviet military industry was relatively efficient and produced goods that could find foreign buyers. the rest of Soviet industry not so much Gorbachev bungled economic reforms horribly between waffling between competing advisors' reform proposals and slow-rolling changes. Chernobyl was also a massive economic hit at an already tenuous time political reforms also contributed significantly to the growing power of individual SSR governments (Yeltsin in particular) and the loss of confidence among conversations party elites that led to the coup attempt the Bush government at least did not want the USSR to split, since it was a known quantity
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Nystral posted:How true is the adage that Regan “won” the Cold War by outspending the USSR? About as true as saying Truman won the second world War with America's superior logistics. Technically true, maybe, but it misses a ton of background.
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I'd say less true, the USSR mostly collapsed from internal pressure, the Empire of Japan and Third Reich were crushed out of existence by external pressure.
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:iirc from Zubok's Collapse, not very. the Soviet military industry was relatively efficient and produced goods that could find foreign buyers. the rest of Soviet industry not so much A small part of that I recently learned was when microchips were becoming a critical component for defense & well, everything, the USSR’s usual approach of copying western designs & making them internally simply didn’t work with the technology, as by the time they got a chip & reverse engineered it, it would be a few years out of date. That combined with the complexity of manufacturing advanced designs even if they had the plans was a huge issue.
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Alan Smithee posted:Yeah Seeing how disposable horses were during the Kentucky Dirby, probably pretty cheap.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:A small part of that I recently learned was when microchips were becoming a critical component for defense & well, everything, the USSR’s usual approach of copying western designs & making them internally simply didn’t work with the technology, as by the time they got a chip & reverse engineered it, it would be a few years out of date. That combined with the complexity of manufacturing advanced designs even if they had the plans was a huge issue.
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Cyks posted:Seeing how disposable horses were during the Kentucky Dirby, probably pretty cheap. Nope. A horse is comparable in price to a car still, partly because they just don't make many of them nowadays so they are scarce.
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Ain’t nothing cheap about a horse.
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RFC2324 posted:Nope. A horse is comparable in price to a car still, partly because they just don't make many of them nowadays so they are scarce. A quick Google search says you can adopt a wild, untrained horse for $100 That's a good price for a decapitatin' horse.
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