#tax-increases

[rejectingrepublicans]

#stop voting for those fucking republicans #tax the rich #capitalism #late stage capitalism #corporate greed #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #maga morons #republican family values #unionize now #stop stock buybacks #increase minimum wage #end corporate subsidies #end corporate welfare

[vote-democrat-president-congress]

#Democracy #Voting Rights #Codify Roe #Stop White Supremacy #Tax the Wealthy #Increase Equality

[vordemtodgefeit]

someone official on bbc news this morning saying that energy and gas bills ‘needed to increase or the companies getting them would go out of business’

no the fuck they wouldn’t???

extremely poor taste on his part to listen to a room full of vulnerable older people crying and saying they don’t know how they’re going to survive this winter, then come out and say ‘well the companies making record profits in the billions HAVE to charge you this much, there’s no other option.’

#solution: guillotine. #it’s been forecast to increase to about 4250 in january and i’ve heard rumours of it rising AGAIN to 6000 in april #and still afaik both candidates for pm refuse to even consider a windfall tax #because god forbid the megarich energy companies that finance and vote for the tory party not be pleased at every occasion #uk politics

[freaky-flawless]

I still have my issues with the Haunt Couture line, but I'm really glad that they went back to the classic style of face-ups for the newer ones.

(Image description: Two close up photos of Cleo de Nile from Monster High of her Haunt Couture dolls. The first one is her original Haunt Couture doll, while the other is her Midnight Runway doll, in which in her eyes resemble the style of her original gen 1 doll.)

#monster high #monster high haunt couture #haunt couture #cleo de nile #i never liked the face ups of the original hc dolls #idk they just didnt look like the characters to me #and some of the eye colors were off #like cleo's here are a much more saturated blue and clawdeen was given brown eyes #which is a gen 3 thing which made it even more confusing #i hope if she ever gets another hc it will have the yellow eyes #tho her eyes are better cleo's lips are still oddly thin #like im still wondering why they did that #i dont like her outfit but i do love her face #if she was cheaper id maybe buy her #and also....$75 plus shipping and taxes...and they couldn't giver her a little rhinestone on her cheek? come on mattel #i know the barbie movie made them bank i better see a steep increase in the quality of all their dolls #text post

[goatsandgangsters]

fun activities while sick with covid 😌😌 : paying taxes.

#when you moved states. but your income stayed in the original state. #but also they didn't update your address to take taxes from your new state and kept paying everything to your old state #and also you CAN'T BREATHE THROUGH YOUR NOSE and your brain feels like oatmeal #they keep asking me increasibly convoluted questions and I'm just blinking at turbotax like....... i dobnt dknow (<sound of my mucus) #the state of new york wanted to know how long I've lived here...... calculated in DAYS 😟 #did I mention I have not only covid but also my period. AND I have to pay taxes?? #karmically what did I do

[slutdge]

anyways is anyone else kinda obsessed with this whole titanic submarine thing rn cause its all ive been thinking about for the last like 24 hours lmao

#like im just watching the video about this submarines construction like... yeah no shit it failed #the passengers had to sign a waiver before they went that said the submarine didnt follow any regulations like 💀 bruh #why are resources being wasted on recovering this submarine when its almost 100% certain theyre all dead #stupid ass rich people that do stupid ass rich people things like this shouldnt have time and tax money wasted on rescuing them #they knew what they signed up for lol you signed up for dumbassery bc yall think life is a movie where nothing bad can ever happen to yall #also that one lady that cried bc she wasnt able to go on one of the earlier expeditions like. #imagine being able to drop $250k casuaply for a ticket and expecting sympathy lol #''im worried ill never see her in person :('' bestie 99.99999999999999999999% of the population will never see the titanic wreck either #this whole thing has really just increased how badly i want to kill the rich by 474737478539%

[atlxolotl]

#usa #mexico #gentrification #latin america #expats #working remotely #digital nomad #colonialism #gringos #rent increase #rent prices #rent prices increasing #paying no taxes #colombia

[aeide-thea]

#rebecca traister #marriage #uspol #this article is honestly a bit of a muddle structurally #but i think she touches on some good points #and i also just. appreciate the invitation to give the increase in lobbying for Marriage a good skeptical squint #because honestly i've encountered very little skepticism about the institution even in liberal parts #and i do actually think it's like. seventeen weasels in uneasy harness #like fundamentally the fact that you get a tax break for being married is. what the actual fuck. #similarly i know it's like. considered irresponsible to be down on marriage because it's important for queer ppl to have equal access to it #in the face of a society that has often refused to recognize our relationships‚ and i get that #but like. in an ideal world i think more people ought to explicitly set up medical proxies‚ iron-clad wills‚ etc #rather than the current setup where Marriage is meant to serve as shorthand #for a bizarre assortment of statuses‚ some of which should be more broadly available— #people ought to be able to share their health insurance more broadly! #(i mean for that matter health insurance shouldn't depend on employment‚ for many reasons.) #(but like. it's a whole fucked up chain. you depend on a company affiliation; yr spouse depends on a spousal affiliation) #(and anybody who can't or won't get themself within the pale of a network that will shelter them? is just fucked) #—and some of which shouldn't exist at all. like. i'm sorry. governmental financial incentive to enter into wedlock??? #anyway i don't think i've ever seen any skepticism/alienation wrt marriage on here except from soph #so i can't imagine this tag rant will be a particularly popular opinion #but it's like. marriage IS a conservative institution and societal pressure to engage in it is part and parcel of the machine #that's trying to grind us all back towards christian white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy etc etc etc. #(and yes there are many people of various marginalizations who dig marriage) #(and to whom their own personal marriage is imbued with its own individual meaning) #(and like. a marriage between marginalized people does not cause them to perfectly fit the trad model and receive perfect acceptance) #(like. just look at buttigieg.) #(but like. similarly it's true that the attempt to restrict abortion access is a deeply conservative project) #(even as there are more nuanced conversations it's possible to have about particular axes of reproductive justice) #(was that enough disclaimers?)

[awkward-teabag]

Can't even mention that a store near me is clearly using abusing the TFW program because they refuse to pay little more than minimum wage in a high cost of living area (also you won't get benefits and you'll only be part-time) because the fascists and right-wingers will jump in to say it's about immigration and white replacement.

No, it's because rich white people want to hoard even more money and found an intentional loophole to both make more money (via paying employees less) and also have more power over employees, employees who may or may not know Canadian employment laws (or safety laws) and even if they do, don't have the ability or support to try to hold the company accountable.

You can absolutely criticize the federal government for keeping the loophole open but it predates Trudeau by decades and it was Harper who both expanded the program and added a way for companies to fast-track TFWs. It was also under Harper that companies started firing Canadians (or not hiring them) and then requesting permission to mass-hire TFWs instead.

But the way the right wing talks, you would think Trudeau started this whole thing and the poor multi-million and multi-billion dollar companies are being taken advantage of. Also that housing prices, lack of new developments, and zoning issues started with Trudeau and are the fault of mass-immigration he has a boner for instead of being an issue for decades and experts warning this would happen if governments didn't act ASAP.

Instead the neolibs and cons kept cutting back and kicking that can down the road, a can that started being kicked by Mulroney and the Conservative Party.

#as a 90s kid i grew up with warnings about healthcare and housing and how we needed mass immigration or a massive baby boom #because of the utter lack of federal support and an aging workforce #the systems were already being strained to their limits and there literally weren't enough millennials to replace retiring workers #*or* bring in enough taxes to fund said systems when the system needed it the most #not even increase funding just keeping the same funding that was already not enough #also the right conveniently ignores (or doesn't know about) the extremely predatory recruitment industry #that targets people overseas while lying and charging large amounts of money to bring tfws to canada #you could even blame chretien for expanding it to include 'low-skilled' workers which is what companies are abusing it for #hell even trudeau sr for creating it in the first place even though it was originally made for high-skilled or niche jobs #but no the blame is always trudeau jr with a ton of racism and brownnosing capitalists #because all these problems sprang up suddenly under him #and in no way did harper start/expand/not end/be complicit in any of this /s #though i guess for some of the fascists it seems that way 'cause they weren't personally affected by it until now #and companies have stopped trying to pretend they aren't grabbing as much money as possible because fuck anyone else #even though it's been like that for decades and capitalism itself encourages companies to skim money off the top #while not having the checks and balances to limit just how much #for that you need governments to regulate things and that doesn't work when you have leaders who are anti-regulation #and who believe in trickle down economics #just... the whole thing is not happening in a bubble and involves multiple people and both the neolibs and cons #because it's been building for decades #but you can't bloody say that because the moment you mention housing/jobs/healthcare and/or tfws #you get inundated by fascists who think you're one of them and hit you with some of the most unhinged shit #or who don't even care about you and just want someone to rant at about how it's the evil left's fault for everything #hell you can't even say you don't like trudeau because same thing: fascists think you're one of them or someone to bring into the cult

[bibleofficial]

ok actually ? based

#stream #yes it’s performative but slayyyy #now get them to increase taxes on corporations headass 🙄

[thesickpanda]

The Cost of Living when Chronically Ill

It’s only the 24th April and already we have spent $1500 AUD on (desperately needed) supplements, medicine, a physiotherapist appointment, a counselling appointment, a nutritionist and my specialist. Absolutely none of the above was covered by our Medicare system. NONE.

And those expenses for April are BEFORE my EMDR session today and the 3 scans I need of my abdomen. I will soon be getting a bill in the mail for the 2 blood tests I took, as well. Next month will be a repeat of this month plus an additional $1300 for a medical treatment for my partner, AND he needs to see a dermatologist, too. In June we will be seeing my long-awaited immunologist who is also not covered by Medicare. :)

And of course I now, by law, have to pay $80 to have a 3 minute telehealth appointment with my medicinal cannabis prescriber to say “yes, everything is fine” because the government insists that any patient taking the drug has to report back every 2 months that that they are not dying because of it and are not addicts. I have enough scripts to last me the year and have been on medical cannabis for 8 years  - I know what I am doing and I am FINE on it.

 Oh, and those bottles cost $270 a pop.

I have also started a new plant-based fiber-rich diet to try to heal my rapidly declining gut wall at a time when food prices are skyrocketing. We went to the local fruit and veg shop and bought the required fruit, veggies and spices to support the two of us for 1 week, and it came to $135 (and they didn’t stock everything we needed). $135! For two people! To eat healthy for ONE Week! And that was just fresh produce and not even things like pasta, laundry detergent etc. WTF?!

At the same time, just this month alone, we had most everything break on us and spent several thousand in car and house repairs.

I don’t know man I just want to be able to sleep at night without having nightmares about our finances and how we're going to afford all this. Even being one of the very lucky millennials who lives in a house we (very partially) own, we're struggling to maintain things.

I’d eat the rich but I am pretty sure I’d have a food intolerance to them too.

#I am aware I am one of the lucky ones #having a mortgage is a luxury which is wild #I know many don't have the money to spend at all #and are suffering terribly as a result #my point is basic things like healthcare and housing should not be putting even the middle class into financial stress #the divide between rich and poor is growing #debt is exorbitant in Australia and it is no wonder we have the highest household debt in the world #yet we pay plenty in taxes #like where the fuck is it all going #why has medicare not seen an increase in spending in decades #my health is so fragile and I need all of the above and yet it costs the earth #how the hell is someone without resources supposed to survive?

[aerialaim]

I have not made a YCH in quite some time and never an anthro one! I will only be doing 5 of these because I’m not sure what my overall limit is. If interested just reply or message me! Ponies/Hoofed characters only!

+$5 if you’re character is complex, ie extra wings or limbs, swirly demon horns, fur patterns like a jaguar’s, etc

+$10 if you want me to design a cute outfit! Otherwise, you get Looney Tunes-esque SFW nakey.

#unless you wanna drop the ok you paid me enough for this tax #then I will draw n s f w #but I will no post it here and only on FA and the secret blog that I rarely post to #bc I don't like drawing n s f w but you know what I do like? MONEY #I am mr.krabs up in here #plus Silo's parents increased our rent to $800/month and we did not budget for that high so here we are #YCH #Your character here #commisssion

[ukdamo]

Love’s Growth

John Donne

I scarce believe my love to be so pure As I had thought it was, Because it doth endure Vicissitude, and season, as the grasse; Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore, My love was infinite, if spring make’it more.

But if this medicine, love, which cures all sorrow With more, not onely bee no quintessence, But mixt of all stuffes, paining soule, or sense, And of the Sunne his working vigour borrow, Love’s not so pure, and abstract, as they use To say, which have no Mistresse but their Muse, But as all else, being elemented too, Love sometimes would contemplate, sometimes do

And yet no greater, but more eminent, Love by the spring is grown; As, in the firmament, Starres by the Sunne are not inlarg’d, but showne, Gentle love deeds, as blossomes on a bough, From love’s awakened root do bud out now.

If, as in water stir’d more circles bee Produc’d by one, love such additions take, Those like so many spheares, but one heaven make, For, they are all concentrique unto thee, And though each spring doe adde to love new heate, As princes do in times of action get New taxes, and remit them not in peace, No winter shall abate the spring’s encrease.

#poetry #love #john donne #increase #growth #superabundance #devotion #taxes

[piratefalls]

You know what, it’s been almost a week and I’m still mad at how shitty my pay raise was.

#I know rates were agreed on between my union and employer but c’mon #I do twice as much work now and it’s not even $2 more an hour #I know people would look at my annual salary and think it isn’t bad #but like…I lose about 11k in taxes and deductions you fucking walnut #what people need is cost of living wage increases #like whoop de doo this raise means I can buy groceries out of pocket for the first time in years #I’m so tired of scraping by

[summer-fire]

Ughhgggg

#why are my tires still showing as low pressure why why why why why #I’ve checked them three times now. all readings are coming back fine #basically I’ll get back from this work trip and immediately have to pay for an oil change and system check that I would have been able to pu #put off until AFTER taxes got pulled. but NO. #anyway 7% pay increase at work so that’s. good I suppose. harumphf. #I can pay with the credit card I’m fine I’m just mad about it

[burningartist]

#oof #anime #anime japan #japanese politics #anime industry #invoice system #tax increase #anime studios #anime production #voice actors #animators #japanese culture #Not about JJK #I know that thumbnail got me too #share #Youtube