• Funkytom467@lemmy.world
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      I wouldn’t call it sharing… don’t know about you but where i live you pay less taxes when having a child, and i’ve never seen a service make you pay less to share it.

      That’s taxes. Life in general though, well that’s literally sharing.

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        The joke was that someone else was paying for it.

        Parents pay more sales tax on things like diapers, clothes, etc.

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          I know I just thought the free trial would be more accurate.

          I haven’t thought about sales taxes, i guess you do pay more taxes if you count those.

          Although not really similar to a subscription in that case.

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            Although not really similar to a subscription in that case.

            I mean, you have to keep paying for more food all the time…

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    Do you enjoy roads, indoor plumbing, or schools? I can assure you that the “invisible hand” does not care about those things

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    I don’t think I got that free trial. Where I live, pretty much everyone pays taxes regardless of their age.

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      Technically yes, but didnyoubgo to work to earn money to pay taxes as a child?

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        Technically yes, but didnyoubgo to work to earn money to pay taxes as a child?

        No. But technically speaking, ididnbgo to work to earn money to pay taxes as an adult either. So I’m not sure where this line of questioning is going.

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    fly that coop, expats out of the US more than 330 days a year ain’t got no taxes.

    in most other countries you don’t pay taxes for whatever time you’re not in country.

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      So that’s why the CEO is always touring the European, Asian, and South American sites, and maybe once a year does a whiplash tour of the US sites… Makes sense now. Fucker makes $6,000+/hr, but I guess paying taxes on that is just too much to handle.

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        The cap on foreign earned income exclusion is $126,500 for 2024. That’s not gonna make much of a dent for Chadbro McTechnut

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        yup, you don’t pay personal income tax up to about $113,000 right now under those conditions, but If you’re making $6,000 an hour, it’s a lot easier to hire people in countries with stricter privacy laws to hide your cash in shell corporations so that you can pretend you don’t have any money at all, just carry around “debt” because one of your companies owes your other company a bunch of money, even though both companies are far in the black.

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        Live wherever you want at a price point you can afford(lots of choices out there) for 11+ months out of the year and income taxes up to 120k(as of 2023) are gonzo.

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    And homeowners don’t actually “own” their home, what we call homeownership here is really the government acting as your landlord and renting your house/property to you in the form of taxes.

    Whatever your yearly tax rate is, is your yearly rent. Which is why they can imminent domain that or kick you out for nonpayment of taxes. That’s why they can raise taxes if the value on “their” property increases, regardless of what causes the price increase.

    We make homeowners a special class of renter so that they can build wealth/equity while also getting more freedom to modify their home. That’s also why it takes longer to “evict” them. Homes cost so much to buy initially (but are better over time and if you move/sell) specifically as a filter to keep them for the wealthy unless you participate in the military, farm industry, or colonization via USDA loans (VA loans ofc for the military)

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      Whew… I did not have “not living in a city is colonization” on my bingo card for today.

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        That’s not what I said. What I said is, that moving to the country to buy a house via USDA loans is an extension of colonization policies. That’s basically what homesteading is in the US.

        And that’s not the city.