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Phone and chat support has already happened, robotic law enforcement is the future. Now pick up that can citizen.
Notably that isn't an accurate reference. The Combine officer is not a robot, so no robotic law enforcement happened.
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I can provide evidence that the IRS and the majority of its employees have good relationships with democrats. The equivalent question is can you provide proof that ICE provides power and is loyal to Trump? I don’t think you would say that’s a deep state conspiracy.
OP talks about policing high net-worth individuals and organizations, causing most of the taxation headaches. You’re shifting the discussion to organizations being political, hoping it becomes a divisive topic. A well-worn and sleazy playbook to dodge any discussion of a problem that has exceeded the tipping point.
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I'll admit - the 415:1 was pulled from an article detailing information from 2024 but the main point isn't the actual value but the fact that it's more than 1:1. When the IRS receives more funding the US government gets more money than what it is budgeting - this doesn't scale to infinity, at some point you'll have nearly complete auditing capture and more budget will just be burning money but we're no where near tha…
They already have another money printer that they’re perfectly happy to rely on, at least for the time being.
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Everyday I am more and more pleased with our company's (or at least our company's tech department) to effectively ban AI.
My manager thinks if we give it a year or two, no one will write code by hand anymore, we will just generate everything from specifications in English.
Except for things like hardware drivers, most of the code that will ever need to be written already has been. It will just need to be refactored and recast for new systems and applications, and current-gen LLMs are already extremely good at that.
The line that separates specifications and source code will get increasingly blurry over the next couple of years, eventually reaching a point where it's no longer worth arguing about.
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Why would you simplify the tax code if the whole point of the tax code is to create loopholes so you can pay way less taxes than the public would vote for? The tax code exists for Welfare Queen Billionaires like Elon Musk.
Well see, you actually missed the catch that by eliminating everything except income tax people like Elon wouldn't have to pay any tax, it's even better for them. He's not getting a W-2, virtually all of his income is actually capital gains or similar.
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Well, local governments (cities and towns) also have expenses -- police, fire departments, trash collection, water and sewage, roads, public works. Schools are partially funded locally. That has to be paid for. It's theoretically possible for a local government to levy an income tax, but a lot would need to change -- much more than just changing tax rates. Employers and banks report income to the federal government (…
> It's theoretically possible for a local government to levy an income tax, “Theoretically possible” in that thousands of local jurisdictions, among about 1/3 of US states, already do either income or payroll taxes or both.
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OP talks about policing high net-worth individuals and organizations, causing most of the taxation headaches. You’re shifting the discussion to organizations being political, hoping it becomes a divisive topic. A well-worn and sleazy playbook to dodge any discussion of a problem that has exceeded the tipping point.
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You and only you brought party politics into a discussion about the wealthy needing a disproportionate amount of tax policing and oversight, yet getting policed less and less as the years and decades to by.
Irrelevant, bad-faith tactics and playbook.
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Is there a single private sector more removed from market incentives than healthcare?
I’m going to drop my doctor this year because he abuses appointments. I call in about an issue and he charges me $75 for telehealth. Then he wants me to come in to run labs for the telehealth call. Another $75 at least. Then another telehealth call for the results. And another one for the results from the radiology department. I told him I have a high out of pocket and he says “I’m sorry to hear that.” Then books me…
I live in EU country with public universal healthcare and healthcare over here looks exactly the same. These cunts travel to US on holidays and as kickbacks, and salivate at how the American healthcare is "organized".
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My manager thinks if we give it a year or two, no one will write code by hand anymore, we will just generate everything from specifications in English.
At the current rate of progress, that is a reasonable thing to expect. But I'd say give it two to three years, myself. This kind of wholesale paradigm shift tends to take longer than you think it will, and then, once it happens, it tends to happen faster than you think it will. Except for things like hardware drivers, most of the code that will ever need to be written already has been. It will just need to be refacto…