SPY returns an average 12%

1. pay off high interest debt

2. top off your emergency fund so you don’t run into expensive short-on-money situations

3. take care of deferred maintenance on your car or house that might turn into an expensive repair

4. If you have an employer sponsored 401k, increase the contribution amount to get 10k more tax free into it before the end of the year and use the $10k cash in hand for expenses.

5. Open a roth IRA and contribute the maximum amount you can (which may vary based on your income)

VT, VTI, and SPY are good broad-market funds with good historical growth.

Linkerbaan, where are you yourself from?

most Americans enjoy the benefits that come from being an economic, military, and diplomatic heavyweight

The threat to American citizens is that they are steered away from their own interests and the interest of furthering democracy throughout the world because they see a curated feed that excludes information critical of China and amplifies information that promotes China as a country of harmony, peace, and prosperity.

And in some cases, the trends amplified on Chinese social media apps directly fuel American political division.

Yeah, I agree the tax needs to be visible in the price to be effective

Good argument for the price inclusive of tax to be the price shown.

I think it’s fairly uncommon for sales taxes in the US to be intended to incentivize behavior - moreso, they are for funding local government and higher taxes are placed on things that are politically palatable in local elections - hotel rooms or restaurant/alcohol sales come to mind.

So I just don’t think we’re well practiced at mechanisms that make them work as a point-of-sale incentive, and changing the way a single class of items are priced would be complicated and surely receive pushback from retailers and the industry involved.

I think it’s possible media’s attention to scandal has made you cynical.

Most politicians do not do shady, illegal shit. Most “elites” (do you mean billionaires?) do not torture and rape people. Most law enforcement officers are just trying to do their job.

My perspective is from the USA. I understand many other places internationally have a culture of corruption and naked power structures.

So, maybe a good question so answers can be in context is, where are you from?

faze, not phase

vinyls

FYI it’s called a “record”, or music could be “on vinyl”. They were never referred to as “vinyls”.

Also VCRs were never called “VHS’s”

Fifth Element

Implicit in “profit so much that money becomes trivial” is that they think this tax rate should apply to very high profit businesses/individuals.

In fact the US’ top tax rate was 90% for almost a decade and over 70% for 40 years - during a time many would consider “golden years”.

They could have worded their statement better though.

That’s an interesting possibility - is there any data to support it?

Here in Georgia the fight is in the center, for sure.

lol

What’s good is that it might get them in office so they can continue making incremental progress.

I got a heat pump this year because of the $3000 tax credit they passed - no chance of more incentives like that under Trump.

You may need to go back to when he showed up here, when people responded to the concept of third party candidates in general, not him or their assumptions about him specifically.

After a while he made a name for himself, and people started to respond to him differently after evaluating his many interactions.

Let’s compare, for example, to mozz, who probably has a fair amount of respect for his thoughtful and comprehensive replies. Or jeffw, who also seems to want to generate traffic but appears to be much more genuine about republishing political articles of general interest.

UniversalMonk has earned some of the negative response he’s getting.

I think she is undeniably a better choice for the presidency than Donald Trump, that’s for sure

bam!

It’s like far-left rhetoric (especially the kind that seems to come from people who have never seen how e.g. spoilers work or who have never had to find a compromise) isn’t actually that popular, so you see pushback from the instance that dominates the user population, especially with it having users who aren’t “ideologically aligned” with a specific instance and who may have a perspective outside the bubble. I don’t know, just a theory.

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