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Should be a wild four years.

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Can we not allow literal children on the forum please?
We don't have property taxes in the UK. You don't pay anything to the government if you don't produce income so I was surprised the US had such a tax where you did regardless.
Owning property is not essential as you can always rent
You're still paying the tax since the property owner is likely incorporating it into your bill. Yeah you can make the same argument for any and all taxes but still. Taxes are compulsory and useful for maintenance and all, but this particular tax feels like fiscal rape. Considering the tax is tied to the market value of your property, which is permanently increasing thanks to demand generated through mass immigration (or just a continuously rising population in general), you're constantly paying just a little bit more every passing year.

I'm not a lolbert either, it's just that property tax seems particularly unfair as far as taxes go. I've seen the "eminent domain" perspective on why you never technically own your property, but it's better to have fewer ways of having your home foreclosed on rather than more. It's probably not as big a deal as I'm making it out to be.
 
Yes but I think the implication was him saying fuck it and getting it out there and writing an apology letter. If someone was actually blackmailing him then that's the easiest way to make the blackmail have zero value.
He didn't mention blackmail in his statement or explain why he retweeted it. Everyone is assuming blackmail for no reason.
 
Wait until you learn about state excise taxes.
Excise taxes are probably the most inefficient tax and seem to only serve as a way to deter specific behaviors, but they just end up creating black markets and loopholes instead. Consider how much corruption Nevada created because of its gaming board.

In my opinion, taxes go like this as far as fairness and efficiency, from most efficient to least:

Tariffs > property tax > VAT > sales tax > income tax > capital gains tax > estate tax > excise tax

IMO, everything at sales tax above I consider ‘good policy’ and everything below I consider ‘retarded’.
 
Chinabros. I don't feel so good. Surely this had nothing to do with zombie tier workforce, Styrofoam walls or fake safety equipment, right?

Maaaaasive explosion at a pesticide chemical plant.

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A facility like this, undergoing rapid discombobulation, has probably emptied metric tons of organophosphates into the environment. Which... is BAD. Like... Generational impacts bad. That area is probably fucked like 1/4 of Chernobyl levels fucked. Someone will probably dump videos of the actual explosion before too long. Looks fucking epic.

Someone finally got a video of the event out to the rest of the world.

 
state excise taxes
I was already vaguely aware of those through osmosis. When I went to Florida a few years back I took out 15 dollars to pay for something that was only ten because I thought the actual price you had to pay at the register wasn't actually displayed with the the product. I was mildly surprised when the price was as listed. But yeah not having the price listed up front is just needlessly confusing.
Yeah go away faggot.
I will continue to support the idea that the government ought not continue making you pay for property and land you legally purchased because I care about you. :)
 
This fails to appreciate the role of the Devil in the stories in which he appears and the overall point of that scene. What is the Devil's MO? Temptation, deception, trickery. The Devil tricks men into taking actions which seem like a good idea at the time, but when the long term consequences play out, cause lasting harm.

You are completely correct that the Devil is a supernatural being, and isn't bound by human laws at all. But men are. Men institute laws amongst themselves to govern their own behavior and temper their darker impulses, to set a standard for what should and should not be done, and make it harder for evil men to do evil.

Now, if the Devil wanted to bring more men under his yoke, and men obeying their own laws made that harder for him, what do you suppose the Devil might want to do? What about offering himself as a prize? All Man has to do is cut down those pesky laws that are getting in the way of bringing the Devil to justice. Pay no attention to the fact that men institute laws among themselves to protect themselves from other men who have fallen under the Devil's sway. Don't you finally want to capture and punish the fucking Devil? Do it, faggot. Burn down all your laws, your rules, your morals, your traditions. Is not the prize of the Devil himself worth it?


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Part of the devil's MO is that he loves to bait people into being the agents of their own undoing. "Why so mad? I gave you exactly what you asked for!"
 
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