#tax subsides

[tybutler]

Do you know you can get free government money if you had a business during the pandemic? Click here and find out more. You don't have to pay no money and if you don't get paid we don't get paid:

#free government money #government grants #government subsidies #ertc assist #entrepreneur tax credit #taxes and taxation #pandemic #relief #financial assistance programs #money for business #covid business relief #entrepreneur government programs #government stimulas relief #tax subsides #free money for business #business recovery funds #economic stimulus package #business support services (nec)

[2700k-moogie]

ive been watching a lot of Cities: Skylines 2 playthroughs lately and i saw one guy do this to "incentivize the poor people to get richer" and then like 2 episodes later undid it. and he was like "this must be a bug" because the poverty levels in his city didn't really change?? Excuse me???

#mogimage #mogtext #actually come to think of it i don't think ive seen people subsidize low wealth cims. like at all. even though that's an option #because you know if you're wondering why everyone's complaining about taxes maybe your impoverished guys shouldn't be at 17% tax rate #“but what if they don't get out of poverty because they're being paid to be poor” you are falling for the TRAP #anyway another thing that's amusing in all of these playthroughs is that these guys build police stations instead of addressing #the structural reasons that incentivize crime #like idk maybe that 25% unemployment rate has something to do with that crime #and it's funny because the police departments don't really affect the probability of the crime succeeding #rather only the probability of doing crime #sooooo take that as you will

[ainawgsd]

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#work continues to be rough #the coworker who's mom died last week fell and broke her arm yesterday #i had to call the fire department to send an ambulance to take her to the hospital #she plans on trying to keep working while it heals #we'll see #thankfully our city's ambulance service is tax subsidized #so at least she doesnt have to pay for the ambulance ride #because shes a resident

[sukimas]

my unpopular opinion is that tax deductions are stupid. just give people money in lump sums for doing things you want them to do instead.

#subsidize electric car purchases you fucking idiots #maybe this way people wouldn't have to hire a barbershop quartet to help them do their taxes

[judasvibe]

Damn, the economic illiterates on this website struck again

the world is definitely overpopulated from an ecological standpoint. and some regions (including a good number of the richest) are overpopulated from a density, high rent high tax etc perspective. low birth rates are in fact the symptom and natural consequence of overpopulation increasing the cost of highly demanded resources (today, mostly real estate either for rent or property). anyone who's studied population biology for 5 minutes knows this but somehow think humans are exempt. too many people is the reason people can't afford kids. so no, immigration will not solve this, not even if it's rich educated immigrants (but even less so if it isn't).

but the question i have for people who think they said anything insightful with the above is: is there a birthrate/population density under which mass immigration to replacement levels and beyond is justified ? should mongolia, the least densely populated country on earth, just invite 200Mio immigrants there to 'enrich' (and necessarily replace) its 3.2M residents?

#1st kid should be tax neutral not subsidized 2nd kid should be taxed and any more taxed punitively #but nowhere is thinking of doing this because economic growf

[skeilig]

me when i have to submit something by mail: that's insane, it's 2024 and you want me to print out a pdf and buy a stamp??

me when i have to submit something online: websites should be illegal

#anyway i just submitted my 2022 tax returns so i can keep getting government subsidized health care [covered in blood and limping]

[girderednerve]

i just think that if you get a radio then you get the radio content for free. that's the radio deal: you buy radio receiver, you can listen to radio broadcasts for free thereafter. we lost this one with TV and i'm still mad about it. digital broadcasts blah blah whatever all that means is for me that it's increasingly impossible to get a cheap antenna & pick up the local stations, which is trashass garbage. you bought the TV, the TV broadcasts oughta be free, i don't give a fuck if mr. nielsen has his ratings. don't get me started on streaming

#OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD #feels related to the whole ebook 'licensing' garbage but perhaps i am just grouchy & clueless #everyone feels compelled to talk about FCC balanced broadcasting & i get it i get it #but what about Broadcasts Is Free. i think this is also an important ethic #actually while i am yell about FCC wtf is up with 5G #why did we start selling frequency bands that conflict with altimeters & interfere with weather forecasting #i love the erate program ok i am all for it but why couldn't we just have an industry tax & subsidize library broadband with that #i KNOW why. but why

[darthfoil]

"Only 1 in 4 families that qualify for any kind of housing assistance (rental assistance, public housing) receive it. The waiting list for public housing in a city like L.A. is not counted in years anymore it is counted in decades. " "The reason that waiting list is so big, is because we haven't invested deeply in housing our poorest families. And one of the reasons we don't have enough money to go around is because we have things like the mortgage interest deduction."

Matthew Desmond on The Real Cause of Poverty with Matthew Desmond - Factually! - 215

The Mortgage Interest Deduction is a tax deduction rich people get for owning a home. It is a housing subside for the wealthy.

#Matthew Desmond #Housing insecurity #poverty #mortgage interest deduction #public housing #rental assistance #wealthy #rich #tax deduction #subsides #investment

[pinkstreetlight]

people should be able to have a whole rainbow of bra colours if they so choose without spending like a million pounds

#right uk gov remove the tax on bras and subsidize them at least #i hate bra shopping so much

[brendathewriter]

The Bipartisan Misstep

ABC News: House passes bipartisan tax bill that would expand child tax credit “It includes new low-income housing tax credits..” Hello?! Sorry, but somehow I feel this is going to be far short of what is needed in the US housing crisis. The section 8 wait-list in New Hampshire is 7 to 10 years, and in Strafford County in 2023 only 1 new development (Easter Seals in Rochester) had any new…

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#Democrats #disabled #elderly #human rights #Patriotism #Republicans #section 8 #Socialists #Subsidized Housing #Tax Credits

[biollyante]

welp. i did a meme

#i aint fucking him in the butt. but the PRINCE sure is. #and the prince was the wizard in charge of his physiomagical alteration (MOSTLY to make him the perfect killing machine) #so let's just say arlecchino's butt pleasure stat was... subsidized by fief taxes #shitpost #arlecchino von pierre #jdksafldjalkf you know how modern military submarine propellers are kept EXTREMELY under wraps? thats his dick #(haha yeah i definitely didn't not draw his dick because ive never drawn a dick before...)

[odinsblog]

🗣️THIS IS WHAT INCLUSIVE, COMPASSIONATE DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

Minnesota Dems enacted a raft of laws to make the state a trans refuge, and ensure people receiving trans care here can't be reached by far-right governments in places like Florida and Texas. (link)

Minnesota Dems ensured that everyone, including undocumented immigrants, can get drivers' licenses. (link)

They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families. (link)

Minnesota Dems dropped a billion dollars into a bevy of affordable housing programs, including by creating a new state housing voucher program. (link)

Minnesota Dems massively increased funding for the state's perpetually-underfunded public defenders, which lets more public defenders be hired and existing public defenders get a salary increase. (link)

Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion. (link)

Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040. (link)

Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded the publicly subsidized health insurance program to undocumented immigrants. This one's interesting because it's the sort of things Dems often balk at. The governor opposed it! The legislature rolled over him and passed it anyway. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded background checks and enacted red-flag laws, passing gun safety measures that the GOP has thwarted for years. (link)

Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system. (link)

Minnesota Dems restored voting rights to convicted felons as soon as they leave prison. (link)

Minnesota Dems made prison phone calls free. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed new wage protection rules for the construction industry, against industry resistance. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a new sales tax to fund bus and train lines, an enormous victory for the sustainability and quality of public transit. Transit be more pleasant to ride, more frequent, and have better shelters, along more lines. (link)

They passed strict new regulations on PFAS ("forever chemicals"). (link)

Minnesota Dems passed the largest bonding bill in state history! Funding improvements to parks, colleges, water infrastructure, bridges, etc. etc. etc. (link)

They're going to build a passenger train from the Twin Cities to Duluth. (link)

I can't even find a news story about it but there's tens of millions in funding for new BRT lines, too. (link)

A wonky-but-important change: Minnesota Dems indexed the state gas tax to inflation, effectively increasing the gas tax. (link)

They actually indexed a bunch of stuff to inflation, including the state's education funding formula, which helps ensure that school spending doesn't decline over time. (link)

Minnesota Dems made hourly school workers (e.g., bus drivers and paraprofessionals) eligible for unemployment during summer break, when they're not working or getting paid. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed a bunch of labor protections for teachers, including requiring school districts to negotiate class sizes as part of union contracts. (Yet another @SydneyJordanMN special here. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a state board to govern labor standards at nursing homes. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a Prescription Drug Affordability Board, which would set price caps for high-cost pharmaceuticals. (link)

Minnesota Dems created new worker protections for Amazon warehouse workers and refinery workers. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed a digital fair repair law, which requires electronics manufacturers to make tools and parts available so that consumers can repair their electronics rather than purchase new items. (link)

Minnesota Dems made Juneteenth a state holiday. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned conversion therapy. (link)

They spent nearly a billion dollars on a variety of environmental programs, from heat pumps to reforestation. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded protections for pregnant and nursing workers - already in place for larger employers - to almost everyone in the state. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a new child tax credit that will cut child poverty by about a quarter. (link)

Minnesota Democrats dropped a quick $50 million into homelessness prevention programs. (link)

And because the small stuff didn't get lost in the big stuff, they passed a law to prevent catalytic converter thefts. (link)

Minnesota Dems increased child care assistance. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned "captive audience meetings," where employers force employees to watch anti-union presentations. (link)

No news story yet, but Minnesota Dems forced signal priority changes to Twin Cities transit. Right now the trains have to wait at intersections for cars, which, I can say from experience, is terrible. Soon that will change.

Minnesota Dems provided the largest increase to nursing home funding in state history. (link)

They also bumped up salaries for home health workers, to help address the shortage of in-home nurses. (link)

Minnesota Dems legalized drug paraphernalia, which allows social service providers to conduct needle exchanges and address substance abuse with reduced fear of incurring legal action. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned white supremacists and extremists from police forces, capped probation at 5 years for most crimes, improved clemency, and mostly banned no-knock warrants. (link)

Minnesota Dems also laid the groundwork for a public health insurance option. (link)

I’m happy for the people of Minnesota, but as a Floridian living under Ron DeSantis & hateful Republicans, I’m also very envious tbh. We know that democracy can work, and this is a shining example of what government could be like in the hands of legislators who actually care about helping people in need, and not pursuing the GOP’s “culture wars” and suppressing the votes of BIPOC, and inflicting maximum harm on those who aren’t cis/het, white, wealthy, Christian males. BRAVO MINNESOTA. This is how you do it! And the Minnesota Dems did it with a one seat majority, so no excuses. Forget about the next election and focus on doing as much good as you can, while you still can. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1660846689450688514.html

#politics #minnesota #social justice #culture wars #this is what democracy looks like #republicans are evil

[piratesexmachine420]

Gamers be like "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding" and then when Nintendo puts out One Single Game that costs $70, "despite" a "merely tolerable" framerate and resolution, and re-uses the map from their last game- pirating it is inherently ethical?????????

I know there's no ethical consumption under capitalism and that nobody is perfect and that better doesn't mean good and you contain multitudes. I know this.

But good god I hope none of you turn your Opinions™ to LEGO, or like, passenger rail.

#ethics costs money #greed also costs money tho so don't jump to conclusions #maybe japan should nationalize nintendo #mario odyssey 2 will be subsidized by the tax payer and cost three dollars #nintendo

[pjharvey]

everyone should be able to go whale watching before they die. everyone no matter how far they live from the ocean should be allotted at least one government subsidized whale watching trip. if u don’t at least see dolphins you get a redo. i would be proud to have my tax dollars fund this instead of frivolous and silly things like the military

[judasvibe]

just learned that french state employees, if they're female, could apparently for decades get a high pension at age FIFTY if they had 3 kids ???

this is fucking insane omg

#blatant financial exploitation of the nonbreeding adults to subsidize mommies who by dint of having multiple kids #HAVE NOT EVEN CONTRIBUTED TO INCOME TAX AS MUCH THEMSELVES

[the-bibrarian]

I see a lot of incomprehension online about our pension reform and the anger it generates in France, and what it often boils down to is "why are they so angry, 64 is plenty young to retire?"

I don't agree, but even if I did I would still oppose the reform. Here are some of the reasons why:

We already need 43 full years of work and tax contributions to be able to retire. Which means college-educated people were never going to retire at 64 anyway, let alone 62. This reform is aimed at people who start working early, mostly in low-paying jobs.

There's very little provision made in this law for hard/dangerous/manual labour.

There's no provision made for women who stop working to raise their children (51% of women already retire without a "complete career," which means they only retire on a partial pension, vs. 25% of men).

At 64, 1/3 of the poorest workers will already be dead. In France, between the richest and the poorest men, there's a 13 years gap in life expectancy.

Beyond life expectancy, at that age a lot of people (especially poorer, non-college educated) have too many health-related issues to be able to work. Not only is it cruel to ask them to work longer, if they can't work at all that's two more years to hold on with no pension

Unemployment in France is still fairly high (7%). Young people already have a hard time finding work, and this is going to make things even harder for them

Macron cut taxes on the rich and lost the country around 16 Billions € in tax revenue. Our estimated pension deficit should peak at 12 Billions worst case scenario.

While I'm on wealth redistribution (no, not soviet style, but I think there should be a cap on wealth concentration. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.): some of the massive profits of last year should go to workers and to the state to be redistributed, including to fund pensions. The state subsidized companies and corporations during the pandemic, Macron even said "no matter the cost" and spent 206 Billions € on businesses. Now he's going after the poorest workers in the country for an hypothetical 12 Billions??

Implicit in all of this is the question of systemic racism. French workers from immigrant families are already more likely to have started their careers early, to have low-paying jobs, are less likely to be college-educated, more at risk for disabilities and chronic illnesses, etc., so this is going to disproportionately affect them

This is not even touching on the fact that he didn't let lawmakers vote on it, meaning he knew he wouldn't get a majority of votes in parliament, or that 70% of the population is against this law. Pushing it through anyway is blatant authoritarianism.

TL;DR: This is only tangentially about retirement age. The reform will make life harder for people with low incomes, or with no higher education, for manual workers, for women—mothers especially, for POC, for people with disabilities or chronic conditions, etc. This is about solidarity.

Hope (sincerely) this helps.

#long post #france #french politics #réforme des retraites #49.3 #pension reform #macron explosion #I know this post is mostly me talking to myself and preaching to the choir #but I needed to get it off my chest #up the baguette #upthebaguette #social justice