The lawmakers had three choices:
A) A flat tax,
B) A mileage/usage-based tax, or
C) Ignore the issue.
C is not an option, and B is a bear to calculate, so they went with option A, and just picked $200 for EV, $100 for Hybrid, and $20 for ICE.
The vast majority of vehicle owners will pay $20/car per year.
Do your federal income taxes trump your state and local income taxes so you don't have to pay them?
No.
The IRS audits low-income tax filers because that's where the money is. Middle income filers generally just pay the right amount, and high-income filers hire accountants to give them every legal advantage and to ensure they can pass an (expected) audit.
Trump was routinely audited before he ran for office - funny thing is, he never had a problem - it just took a long time to do each audit. (If he was caught cheating on his taxes, we would have heard about it in 2016, but we didn't)
Uh, the IRS performs plenty of audits, it's not really a problem.
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Always cracks me up - Republicans cut tens of thousands of gov't workers and get no credit for cutting the size of gov't, they they propose a small tax, and all of a sudden the Republicans are trying to grow the size of government!
That's far too low. Tax brackets should function to effectively prevent anyone from obtaining the type of wealth that the wealthiest Americans enjoy. The highest tax bracket should be a 99% tax.
It's been tried, didn't work.
Britain had a top tax rate of 95% at the height of the Beatles popularity - they wrote a song about it and moved their business location outside the UK.
We had a similar high tax rate before the Kennedy administration, then Kennedy cut the top tax RATE in half (IIRC) and tax REVENUE soared!
Ronald Reagan told the story about how he got around the aggressive income tax rates when he was in Hollywood as an actor. Once his income approached the highest tax level, he simply stopped working for the rest of the year. He hated doing that because it reduced the number of films produced in Hollywood, which limited opportunities for all the people that would have worked on those movies he didn't make. The high tax rate hurt the workers, not the rich.
NJ imposed a so-called millionaires tax on, among other things, yachts - guess what happened? Boat manufacturers and boat sellers all closed up shop and moved to tax-friendly states to avoid the punitive NJ tax on high-end boats. And who did that hurt? The folks that worked in the boat yards that couldn't afford to move out of state.
Thinking you can just soak the rich is pure folly, they can afford to move. I remember when one rich person left NJ and moved to Florida - the state of New Jersey had to re-adjust the state budget to account for the lost tax revenue from just the one taxpayer.
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In the long run, everyone converting to electric would be something to be celebrated and lost gas tax revenue would not even need to be replaced.
Because driving all those much heavier EVs on public roads wouldn't be an issue, the roads wouldn't need to be repaired? Or are you pretending that everyone would be happy to fund road maintenance and construction thru property, income, and sales tax revenue?
In Texas, the average driver pays an estimated $9.52/month in Texas road taxes.
We pay $0.20/gallon in taxes, $0.05 of each gallon's tax revenue (25%) goes towards education.
To burn as much gas to generate $200 in state tax revenue, a driver would need to buy 1,000 gallons of gas in a year, or about 80 gallons/week.
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Fees are the most regressive form of taxation. Put a $100 fee on all cars? That eats up FAR more % of income for people who are in poverty than for the rich.
The poor drive ICE vehicles, if they drive anything, and if they can't swing $0.40/week, maybe car ownership isn't for them?
Sales taxes? 2nd most. Those who are lower on the economic ladder spend month-to-month.
The vast majority of purchases made by the poor are for staples - food, clothing, etc which is tax-exempt.
Property taxes are the 3nd most regressive - they just get passed down in rent costs.
Property taxes fund the social and government systems the poor rely on most of all, why shouldn't they contribute to the schools, police, fire, parks, libraries, etc their property taxes go towards?
A FAIR tax system is a graduated income tax system.
Our current (U.S.) income tax rate is graduated, the first few tens of thousand of income is tax-free, and the tax rate slowly increases as your income rises... but you knew that, didn't you?
But that's been fucked over because the rich are fucking retard bastards who won't pay their fair share.
Funny thing about "the fucking retard bastards who won't pay their fair share" - the top 1% of income earners pay almost 40% of all collected income taxes, and the bottom 50% of income earners (the poor) pay almost 3% of all collected income taxes.
He has absolutely no leverage over China right now, and China knows it.
Really? How long can China afford to keep manufacturing things without US buyers? I think each has some leverage over the other.
If China really wanted to hurt America, it would start dumping our treasury bonds, making it more expensive for the U.S. to sell debt/raise capital for deficit spending.
Last year as Mason paid $9BN in income taxes:
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He attacked the menu system after being fired, you know, an act of revenge.
"Scheuer remains remorseful and apologetic to his former co-workers."
What? He feels bad he made extra work for his former fellow employees? That's it? It doesn't sound like he doesn't really appreciate the impact his actions could have had for countless children across all the Disney properties...
Yeah, the guy was a dick
A dick? That's it?
Imagine you go to a restaurant with your peanut-allergic child, and you ask the waiter if the dish your child ordered had peanuts in it, and the waiter said "Nope, no peanuts in that dish". So the food comes, your child starts to eat, has a reaction, and you jab them with an Epi Pen to save their life.
Is the waiter really just a "dick"?
Now, multiply that one example across thousands of resort guests that visit Disney with children with allergies every day and rely on the guidance in those menus. As the former manager of the menu department for all park restaurants, he had to be aware of the damage his actions could have, and still he did them. He's not a "dick" he was an attempted murderer, and only because he was sloppy and Disney apparently had a rigorous review process were his efforts foiled.
Now, ask yourself this - having read this story, and understanding the responsible party is being punished, would you, as a parent of a child with a life-threatening food allergy maybe re-think your plans to go to a Disney park?
The damage his actions have done to Disney are huge, and his penalty was appropriate.
Yeah, the guy was a dick and arguably put people's lives at risk by altering the allergy info on the menus. I expect a strong disincentive to this kind of behaviour; but nearly a million in fines and three years in prison seems a bit harsh.
$690K isn't nearly a million dollars, and let's not forget, along the way he broke the menu system, which likely cost Disney serious money to repair, and I suspect the court imposed treble-damages (3x the cost to recover what he damaged) - I don't think the court just "made up a number"
That seems especially true in the context of an administration which gets away with sending an innocent man to a Salvadoran concentration camp, then defies a Supreme Court order to bring him back.
"Innocent man"?
He went trough his due process and was found to be in the country illegally, was twice found by two different immigration court judges to be a member of MS-13, and only when he argued that he fled to America because an El Salvadoran gang was harassing his moms app USA shop and rather than help her, he fled the country and left her behind to face the local gang alone, so a judge said "OK, we won't deport you back to El Salvador" then the world changed over the course of 9 years and he was deported back to his native country, El Salvador.
He was originally sent to a high security prison, and was soon moved to a lower security prison, where he has his own room and furniture.
He's not an "innocent man", he's the victim of a mistake - he was sent to the wrong prison, and arguably should have been sent to another country - if one would take MS-13 gang members.
As an El Salvadoran citizen in an El Salvadoran prison (not a "concentration camp"), the US can not force El Salvador's to turn him over to US, and the Supreme Court said the government needs to "facilitate" his return, which is a very specific term, you may want to look it up - that means if El Salvador's wants to send him to America, we owe him a plane ticket, nothing more. But, once in America, he'll go back to court, be found eligible for deportation, and then be sent deported again, this time to who knows where? The President offer Salvatore aside, in front of the world press, that El Salvador's will not be returning their citizen to the US - do you think we need to threaten El Salvador's militarily or financially to force them to return this MS-13 gang member, just so we can deport him to some other country? Really?
Oh, and add to that deporting a 2-year-old US citizen undergoing cancer treatment. Along with other heinous transgressions too numerous to list.
Just sayin'.
OK, deep breath...
The mom was deported, yes she has a child that was born in the US, a US citizen, yes, the child has cancer, but do you know why this administration didn't separate this child from their mother? Well, because the father refused to take the child, no relative stepped forward to take the child, and, this may blow your mind, the mother DEMANDED to take her sick child with her. And, the child wasn't "deported", the child was "transported" with the mother, the child can return anytime it wants to...
Are you really arguing that:
A) Parents with citizen children can't be deported?
B) Parents shouldn't be allowed to keep their child with them?
C) Sick children can't leave the country?
Nothing personal, I don't know anything about you, but you may want to expand the number places you get your news from... just a suggestion.
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