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California gets plenty of tax revenue, trust us. We’re reminded of that every paycheck.
How convenient that you're an expert on the resources required to govern one of the top economies in the world. I suppose California should adopt a pay-what-you-want model, given the prevalence of such experts.
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... and I feel that less than $1 per cigarette so somebody else enjoys 2nd hand smoke doesn't come even near to covering it.
Okay, how much do you think a cigarette should cost?
I think they should be banned altogether in locations where non smokers might be. Putting a price on this seems the odd way to go.
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I don’t know anyone in England that means million million when they say billion, especially people working in finance or tech. I wonder if there even are any places that still use billion = million million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion > American English adopted the short scale definition from the French.[3] The United Kingdom used the long scale billion until 1974, when the government officially switched to…
Germany. 10^9 is “Milliarde”, 10^12 is “Billion”.
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Anyway India market is huge so big corps want to sell products. Apple ordered ODMs to build factory in India. The tax works.
So does this mean that presumably, going forward, when the factory starts working at full capacity, the taxes imposed will be lower, and hence Apple products will be cheaper in India?
Depending on the costs of manufacturing, the price of might not go down by much however, or Apple might keep the difference.
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It's a term people use to either be funny, or it's because they're somehow offended that people from USA use the demonym "American" even though there are other countries in the Americas, yet despite the fact that no one else in those countries seems to care because they have their own demonyms they use. The former are just having a laugh, and the latter are looking for things to be offended by. I don't know which cam…
I don't think you know many people from Latin America. A lot of them will absolutely not like American to refer to the USA only. Especially as the USA imperialism has done so much damage in many places there. It is not as strong as say the Macedonian debate but it is very real.
You acknowledge what America means when you use the English word "Americas" to refer to the regions within North and South America, because in English that is the word to use and has the other meaning.
The same logic applies to "football", btw. The vast majority of English speaking people refer to soccer as soccer. That people who speak other languages use a word in their language that sounds like "football" to refer to soccer does not give them standing to sound off on what Australians, Americans, and Canadians call soccer. There is room for the British to bicker about it, but they are a distinct minority among English speakers.
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Taxation is theft!
In that case, you using any publicly funded service or good - including education, roads and defence, is theft.
Freedom is theft!
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Taxation is theft!
Public road is a crime! what else... Free oxygen is communism!