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[Han @Han_Dee_]

@AmazonHelp link took me to the same amazon orders page. I already had an interaction with amazon as posted in this thread which says they cannot help me unless I submit my government ID. Please send me a link where I can file a complaint

[Han @Han_Dee_]

does anyone experience this with amazon? they are keeping the product I returned and the refund until I provide government ID to them.

[Han @Han_Dee_]

@AmazonHelp This link takes me to Amazon. Amazon already said they can’t issue the refund unless I send government ID. I don’t think we have the law that required ID to transact stuff yet.

[Han @Han_Dee_]

@AmazonHelp I contacted @amazon 2x regarding this. I got the same response. Government ID to get a refund doesn’t sound right. I want my product then. Both the product and the refund is in your possession

[Han @Han_Dee_]

WAZZUP https://t.co/Yu4jQZcSBt via @YouTube

[Han @Han_Dee_]

BRIGHT WATER https://t.co/iAqvtPR3Tr via @YouTube

[ADAM @adamemedia]

CHINA JUST DREW A LINE ON AI

A court in China has ruled it ILLEGAL to replace human workers with AI purely to cut costs.

They have put responsibility back on corporations.

They can’t automate just to boost margins while workers are pushed out.

China has decided that wages, fairness, and employment aren’t optional.

And that’s a big shift.

While the west races to replace labour as fast as possible, viewing AI as a free-for-all… China has set a precedent that profit alone isn’t enough and corporations must answer to society.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 LMFAO! New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is being mocked nationwide after she BEGGED people to move back from Florida

4 years ago, she was GLOATING, saying Republicans should "jump on a bus and head down to Florida"

Mamdani will make the problem EVEN WORSE

[Steven Fiorillo @stevenfiorillo]

As a lifelong, taxpaying New Yorker, I am extremely worried about the ramifications of the estate tax proposal on New Yorkers if it gets signed into law. I want to be clear up front; this isn't about politics for me. I'm not fighting for the billionaire class, and I'm certainly not one of them. What I am is someone who understands basic math, economics, and business, who has watched what happens when states push tax policy past the breaking point.

Here's what's on the table right now: a proposal to reduce New York’s estate tax exemption from $7.1 million down to $750,000, an 89% cut while increasing the top rate from 16% all the way to 50%. This is embedded within a batch of revenue ideas sent up to Albany to try and plug a $5.4 billion hole in the city budget.

I want to discuss who this estate tax actually hits, because it’s certainly not the ultra-rich. The ultra-rich weren’t exempt as only the first $7.1 million avoided estate taxes. A $750,000 threshold in the New York metro area is not reasonable. The median home price in New York City hit roughly $809,000. In Nassau County you're looking at $820,000. Suffolk County sits around $675,000. Westchester is $754,000. If you bought a house in the city, Nassau, or Westchester and you spent 30 years paying off that mortgage like a responsible adult, congratulations, you're now above the estate tax threshold. What’s even better is that you hit the threshold before even factoring in your 401k, life insurance, savings, a family business, or other investments.

This isn't a tax on the wealthy it’s a tax on a retired couple in Bayside who paid off their split-level. It's a tax on the family that runs a deli in Astoria and owns the building. When you force those families to come up with 50% of the value above $750,000 after someone dies, what do you think happens? They sell. They liquidate. The house goes, the business goes, and the generational wealth that took a lifetime to build disappears in a single tax event. Family businesses which are the backbone of employment in neighborhoods all over this city get gutted.

According to the State Department of Taxation and Finance's own numbers New York's tax structure is incredibly top heavy as millionaires paid 44.6% of all personal income tax collected in 2024. The top 200,000 filers covered 51.9%. The bottom half of all earners paid 0.2%. Think about how fragile that makes us. You don't need a mass exodus. You need a few thousand people to change their mailing address to Palm Beach or Austin and the budget math falls apart.

Here's the part that really gets me though. The biggest victims of "tax the rich" policies aren't the rich. The rich utilize their resources and leave once they have had enough because their resources make them mobile. The people who get crushed are the ones who stay such as teachers, firefighters, nurses, and the small business owner. They can’t simply pick up and go. The harsh reality is that when the wealthy leave and the tax base shrinks, the city still needs the same amount of money to run the subways, pay the cops and keep the lights on. So where does it come from? It comes from everyone left behind as they are forced to pay higher taxes, and higher fees.

What may bother me more is the double taxation piece. The money in someone's estate didn't just appear from thin air. They earned it and paid income tax. They invested it and paid capital gains. They bought property with it and paid property taxes every single year. They bought things and paid sales tax. Every dollar in that estate has already been taxed multiple times over the course of a lifetime. Now when they die the state wants to take half of everything above $750,000? At what point does it stop being a tax and start being confiscation? That's a genuine question I have because if you work your whole life, play by every rule, pay every tax along the way, and the government still takes half when you die what exactly was the point of saving any of it?

A $750,000 threshold doesn't catch billionaires it catches the middle class. It catches people who were never wealthy, they were just disciplined. They bought a house, they didn't sell it, they put money away for retirement, and they wanted to leave something for their kids. Punishing that with a 50% tax rate sends a very specific message: the state believes your assets belong to it first and your family second. I don't care where you fall politically that should bother you.

I'll say this very simply. When you tax people to the point where they feel targeted, they leave. When they leave the burden falls on everyone who can't. When that burden gets heavy enough, more people figure out a way to go. That's not theory, that's exactly what IRS data and Census numbers have been showing us for half a decade straight.

New York is standing at a fork in the road right now. One direction is more punitive taxation with an increasing dependence on a shrinking pool of high earners who increasingly have one foot out the door. The other direction is putting forward competitive tax policy, fiscal discipline, and creating an environment where building wealth and creating jobs isn't treated like something the government needs to punish. I know which path leads somewhere good. I just hope the people making the decisions figure it out before there's nobody left to tax.

@amitisinvesting @BillAckman @chamath @patrickbetdavid @PBDsPodcast

[Han @Han_Dee_]

@Iberia had no English speaking agent on the phone. I was advised by the hotel to go to the ticket office to resolve my issue due to cancelled flight. At the ticket office they were disrespectful, joked about the situation asking me if I speak Chinese or Japanese. Very rude!

[Merica 🦋💞 @Merica197138]

Insurance is such a scam! 🤬🤬🤬

This video proves it!

There should be no price difference between the insurance companies paying and paying cash. This is why insurance companies charge so much and have a high deductible. What an absolute disgrace!

[Han @Han_Dee_]

@elonmusk Elementary level public schools in Blue States should also testify and justify their teachings to kids on this subject

[Reuters @Reuters]

‘We need responsible gun ownership,’ said actor Matthew McConaughey, who joined the White House press briefing to discuss gun regulations and eulogize victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School https://t.co/uSsBKxhHMH

[Han @Han_Dee_]

@AmazonHelp @amazon did the right thing and reimbursed me for the damage caused to my car by prime delivery while shopping at @WholeFoods.

[Han @Han_Dee_]

Dr. Beach: Rip Currents https://t.co/hkr4FCjxZ7 via @YouTube

[NBC 7 San Diego @nbcsandiego]

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