Re: Facebook Account

On 8/28/2024 5:50 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:02:54 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

On 8/28/2024 4:36 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:10:28 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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On Mon Aug 26 16:44:55 2024 Shadow  wrote:

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:18:28 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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the Hewlitt and Packard families are so stinking rich they don't even notice the excessive taxation.

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If they don't notice it, it's obviously not "excessive".
If the working class notices taxes, maybe they should be
reduced.
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Does your representative propose making billionaires "notice"
taxes too? (AKA, abolishing loopholes in legislation).
Or do you think rich people should be exempt?
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Why don't you move to California and then tell us that it isn't excessive. The filthy stinking rich not CARING that they lose and extra $40,000 from their billion dollar a year income doesn't mean it isn't excessive.

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Excessive? They probably laugh all the way to the bank. That's
0.004%. Less irritating than a gnat bite. Fire a few thousand or cut
their benefits and blame it on "Excessive Tax". LOL.

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Do YOU want to pay 12.5% of your income to the state to do NOTHING?

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In Brazil it's 27.5%. For salaries and "self employed".
Basic food (like rice, beans, meat etc) has 40- 50% tax.
Jet-skis. helicopters and small aircraft(usually for smuggling
drugs) are tax free.
Rich people(I mean really rich, not people with a piddly 1-2
million) hardly pay any tax at all.
Right wing regimes are unfair to > 99% of the citizens.
I sometimes wonder why people vote for parties that screw them
over again and again, and then I remember that half the population has
an IQ of under 100 and many others get their news from their
cellphones....
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Interesting, thank you.
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I can't speak to Brasil tax policy but 'self employed' has
grown more than 'employees' under very different (some might
say diametrically different) administrations:

  "Self employed" here means you work for a firm but have no
benefits at all. You have to pay your retirement, health costs, food,
eventual injuries etc. And you can be fired at any time.
Also, you don't have the right to a minimum wage. The road
sweepers in our town are "self employed" and make around 110 dollars a
month. That was illegal before the 2015-2026 coup.
The minimum wage currently is US$ 280 a month for a 44 hour
week.

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039345/distribution-employed-population-status-brazil/
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Brasil Real to gold shows weaker currency in the present
administration, similar to the US regime effect:
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https://goldprice.org/gold-price-charts/10-year-gold-price-history-in-brazilian-reals-per-kilogram
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Then again exports have strengthened (note: not a weaker
currency effect; shown in USD):
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https://trendeconomy.com/data/h2/Brazil/TOTAL
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[click 'line chart' and 'exports']
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So it appears that Brasil is functioning and growing, so
perhaps a crappy tax code is not yet at a crisis. Again I
don't know that.

  Brazil is growing, but very slowly. The Central Bank was
"privatized" by Bolsonaro and the Federal Government has to pay over
6% interest(over inflation) on the National Debt Bolsonaro left
behind. Around 95% of our GNP.
But life is better, unemployment is down, wages increased and
our poverty is diminishing.
I can't see your links under this OS, it's too hardened. I
check them out on Linux tomorrow.
TY
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Again thank you.  Standard statistical reporting needs standard definitions for comparison.
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