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Eisenstein284 karma

estate tax

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It’s easy then, knowing this, to advocate for a nominally higher tax he’ll never pay.

Won't he be dead? I imagine that is a good way to not pay tax, regardless of how many attorneys you have.

Eisenstein86 karma

Are you in touch with Louis Rossman?

How do you feel about his efforts in enacting 'right to repair' laws? If you agree with 'right to repair', what are you doing to help further this effort?

Eisenstein53 karma

Looks like we killed it :(

Here is a cache

Eisenstein51 karma

Similar to you with Urdu, knowing Russian and English and trying to read Polish breaks my brain. It is spoken like Russian but written in Latin script. When I was in Poland I wrote phrases down transliterated to Cyrillic so that I could pronounce things properly, otherwise it was difficult. I am sure that after enough practice it would have been fine, but for only a week or so I didn't have nearly enough time to adjust.

Eisenstein47 karma

You still have to make up revenue somehow -- usually it is property or sales taxes, which can disproportionately affect lower-income people since they spend more of their income in consumables. If they don't make up the difference somehow, then they have a less funded state system, including schools, roads, such things that require state money to run.

No income tax doesn't necessarily mean that people want to live their if the state is filled with mostly poor people and a few really rich people and generally underfunded. And without a middle class jobs tend to be less attractive to professionals, which makes it difficult to appeal to a middle class.

With shitty educational systems, poor rural populations, and super-rich people you tend to end up with shitty republican elected leaders who don't do anything to help poor people or fix education and pride themselves on being 'free' -- and this is how you get 'Florida', the state which most people in the USA wish would fall off the fucking map.