Whats funny about this tragic situation is the father publicly came out saying parents need to be more alert and mindful of there children. Since the boy who shoved her was autistic he blames himself for not being more alert. Most autism cases are falsely diagnosed and even if he was autistic why is he at a park without adult supervision? Secondly, violence isnt an inherited trait. He learned violence from somewhere and he needs to be taught right from wrong. Autism isnt an excuse, and it isnt an exception.
Taxing the rich to fund the 99% doesn't work. Why? Because top 1% of America runs businesses, food chains, and provide services. Tax them trillions and they inflate prices to match the taxes. Its not that the rich don't like you, but they already take the risks you don't. Owning a business isn't for everyone and its not free either.
The real way to make lives more affordable is by increasing sales tax and abolishing Income, Property, Death, and Capital gains tax. You simply can't have a prosperous life without serious innovation due to our current tax system.
Socialism sounds good on paper, but in reality it doesn't work. You want more money? You want stability? Focus voting for politicians that intend to remove taxes and not make new ones or increase preexisting ones.
Curious to see what the "scam" is. It's a company that focus on space flight and development. Recently acquired XAI for development with AI to continue thay development.
Spacex is rapidly producing more rockets than any other entity in the world. Life prevails for now, but one day disease, global threats, and the inevitable issues we will face as humans will come knocking soon enough.
Last I checked IPO talks have happened many times before and now that SpaceX intends to ramp up production even more they want to open up some availability for the everyday person to invest in space exploration.
I personally don't see where you get the idea its a scam or even think that the company is going to crash. SpaceX is alive and well, thriving even more than before. I'm open to your reasoning as someone from the outside looking in, However just know you don't have to invest in SpaceX you can simply admire it fly in the green and tell your grandchildren about the day you could have made some generational wealth, but your personal ego against Elon swayed your judgment. You are also ranting about this on X the social media app that XAI currently is in control of.
Not everyone has the opportunity, but those that do can join the United States Military.
In 4 years that GI bill will pave your bachelor's degree while funding you monthly. Tuition Assistance programs to fund school while serving.
VA home loan will give you ease of mind on buying your first property. No mortgage insurance, just a flat VA funding fee added to the top of your loan.
Retirement is a tricky one... In today's United States Income/Property/Death taxes, Inevitable yearly inflation, Government spending behavior, and much more won't be helping you retire.
For now atleast focusing on savings and investments can build a favorable cushion to sit on when working becomes to much. Create and innovate a product that can fund you yearly with low maintenance or physical labor.
Just because its not great right now, doesn't mean it won't be great in 20 years. Income tax was a measure to fund the Civil War temporarily. One day hopefully someone pushes for all the taxes to be consolidated into sales tax. Id rather fund the government through my purchases and not my hard labor or assests. To provide context to your state of hopelessness there are options out there and very obtainable. Just need to go out there and find them.
Prop 19: Reassessment of property tax on current value of home after death.
Your child inherits Grandma's ol' fixer upper from 1989 that she paid 30k for and what do you know the county assessors office is In your mail box. Your 30k property has been adjusted to 1.8m and you owe 30k annually now! YAY!
No, Gavin Newsom isn't Pro-Family. He is Pro-Control and this is one of many instances where this has been displayed.
Palisades didn't just miraculously happen after driving insurance companies out of California. Coincidence talks about "L.A. 2.0 were also going on around that time? Yeah, No he is not a family guy. Im open to debate if you have a counter argument.
Socialism is a flawed system. Corporate America is backed by the top 1% which drives innovation and development. The government does not drive innovation, in fact they still use Windows XP in the IRS. Making everyone get paid fairly/equally forces businesses to inflate prices to turn a profit. You pay more and by time the Fed ups pay for inflation prices get pushed up higher. You never make enough to live "comfortable", you kill the development of humanity and technology advancement develops at an all time low. Why because you want free healthcare, equal pay for less experience/skill, and more goverment control? The true potential is when the goverment releases its grasp. Abolish Property Tax, Income Tax, and Death Tax. Increase Sales Tax to cove Goverment Funds. Cut spending into the black and remain in a Surplus. Stay out of anything thats not Military, Healthcare, Public Safety, Law and Order, or National Security. Everything else should be handled at the private sector level and within our own communities.
In 2 billion years the sun with reach its red giant phase in which it's 1% growth every 100-200 million years will have reach 10% and life on earth will be completely eradicated. 100's of trillions of years after that all stars will be completely burnt out. The black hole era will reign and swallow up the last bit of life and existence that was or has ever been. So quite honestly it doesn't matter what you buy. The reality is BYD didn't exist prior to Tesla. One man decided to do the unthinkable and made it happen by using some of humanities most talented engineers. Innovation struck and made Tesla, and all the copycats are here to suck in your money for greed. Only one company stands out at the current moment to continuously expand humanities horizon and potentially increase the longevity of the human race. If you want a BYD go ahead, but boycotting Tesla is like Morgan Stanley telling Nikolai Tesla to kick rocks so he can meter power with Thomas Edisons model.
I don't think Donald Trump is the one running California to ground. Just saying the United States as a whole is fairly expensive, but California on its own is unlivable. A massively Democrat state. So maybe the post would be better like this:
America is unaffordable.
It's because of corruption and improper fund usage.
But if everyone filed for Social Security benefits and other government aid programs fraudulently they'd be investigating into the working man within a heartbeat. The double standard needs to be fixed or we will spiral into chaos just like Rome did. History repeats itself when we avoid the signs.
@gothburz Not against these measures as they were necessary, but could've been a little less of an efficiency measure and more on the understanding side if the employees were of a good quality. If they weren't than yeah I stand by the decision of a purge at 6 am
Does slide 3 also mention the employees that were let go without a reasonable notice that had good merit and work like mentalities? Or was everyone of those 30,000 just collecting paychecks with low performances? I understand the lay offs if they just weren't good enough, but if they did as they were told and did good work I think you should've atleast let them read the email before disabling there accounts.
@elonmusk Its not about suing Tesla for the death. Its the negligent driver trying to shift the blame to the manufacturer and not having to hold them self accountable to what truly caused the accident.
Ok. Let's dive into this one...
So @Elonmusk has 100% paid more taxes in one year than you and your entire ancestral lineage has ever paid in taxes as a whole.
If we took 100% of the 1% of America's assets and liquidated everything we would still be severely in debt.
The solution is more about solving the tax code for the other 99%. We refund 90% of the tax based of child tax credit, itemized deductions, irresponsible gambling losses, and the list goes on. We should be fair and taxing everyone equally regardless of dependents or economic class structuring. Do that for 20 years and we'd see a huge surplus to the point where we can finally cut down on some of that debt.
Thats not it though. We can't be funding endless wars (unless completely necessary), donating billions to Ukraine for war aid, and definitely not using it to make the average person dependent on it unless they have proven efforts to overcome there financial situation.
If input and output of funds were watched aggressively and everything transparently explained nobody would have a problem with this. Once our debt was slashed significantly the federal reserve rates would lower and our children's generation would have a 100 times better opportunity of affording a home with reasonable interest rates. We could lower corporate tax, lower than every other country making us prime real estate for business increasing job growth. If we removed our debt we could even remove income tax or property tax as a whole and live much happier lives.
I know this is the problem because I see all the deductions I'm given every single year when I file taxes. We blow more money and give more tax cuts than any other country in the world.
point fingers at the rich all you want, but they can leave and there isnt a single thing anyone in D.C. can do about it. Fix the problem by addressing the problem not by making more problems.
Space flight is in fact the future to our species. Mastering space travel and propelling humanity into a space travel capable race will indefinitely increase the possibilities of the ladder. Your outlined free school lunches and ending world hunger will not increase our chances of diddly squat. What it will do is cause the world to become dependent on "free" and be very disappointed when its taken away.
@grok@GovPressOffice Seems pointless and we should focus on global diplomacy for peace. Collaborate great minds and deploy the human race into an advanced focus driven multiplanetary species. I don't see a future in which we travel the cosmos without a united earth.