Month: June 2022

A tax on luxury items of all classes that goes directly towards funding tax credits for low income families or some form of UBI Example: Automobiles above $X0000 are taxed an additional 10% Houses above 2x the median house price in a city are taxed an additional 10%, or 15% above 3x, 20% above 4x etc Restaurants charge an extra 10% tax when the bill is more than $XX per person (I’m no economist and those numbers are by no means optimal) This way, you can make $3000000 a year and still not get taxed more than your normal tax bracket unless you want to SPEND it on luxury items. If you choose to live frugally this tax doesn’t concern you. The idea is that equity isn’t just about money. It’s about quality of life. Every time the mega rich splurges on fancy yachts and designer bags, some of that…

A long time ago, I went to a meeting in the company I worked for then to brainstorm ideas to raise retention, since we were losing workers like crazy and losing huge amounts of money due to not having enough people who were fully trained. You can guess the idea I brought up. You can guess how well it was received. Just tonight alone, I've seen two other people on this sub who went to the exact same meeting. Well, not the same one, since they work in different companies, but meetings which went exactly the same. So I just want to do a quick brief poll. Let me know if you've also been to a meeting which went like that.

Every time I hear this phrase (that is made out of sheer ignorance), I cringe hard at the thought of subscribing to such slave behavior. The very same people who don't think that taxation is theft are instead blaming it on “lazy” workers who leave their low-paying jobs for better-paying jobs. There's a reason why 99.9% of the “easy” jobs I find on Indeed are retail and food service jobs, most likely controlled by faceless corporations that pretend to be “progressive” (when they are the complete opposite income-wise).

Ok, it's a hard story to explain but I'm going to try the best I can. I started working for a small resteraunt franchise and the work is easy enough. After a few months I wanted to quit my second job and at the time my employer could not find workers at all. He made me an offer where I could have near unlimited hours if I would do it without being paid the overtime rate. The way he facilitated this was to make a second employee profilevin his other store and use that profile for anything above 40 hours. The reason it seemed like a good deal at the time was that all cash and cc tips in the store went to me the majority of the time, with that I was being paid as much as I would be with ot, sometimes more. The problem now is that…

My ultimate goal in life is having a stress-free lifestyle where I don't have to worry about going hungry or not having medical care in the US. I have dual citizenship from Spain so I've thought about moving abroad if that is what it takes to live a better life without the struggles from the United States. I currently live with my parents, but if I were to live on my own I'd live a miserable life paycheck to paycheck with tough working conditions. I am tempted to find a solution that involves moving somewhere where the government peovides you welfare and you don't have to struggle as much to get by.