https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minimum-wage-2019-almost-half-of-all-americans-work-in-low-wage-jobs/

You can understand something and still get a headache thinking about it, the two aren’t mutually exclusive.

I know for a fact that I have seen channels that already had the count disabled. There must have been some algorithm penalty for disabling it I guess because I always wondered why everyone didn’t do it.

what? literally opposite is true. You dont want cash, you want that money in an asset that grows (and hopefully outgrows) the inflation rate. You dont want $100 in your pocket. You want $100 in something that grows faster than inflation.

No room for a middle class, huh. Just too poor to have any extra cash and wealthy. Nothing in between.

It’s not OK to drive with these defects, PA has mandatory statewide annual safety inspection, and this stuff has to work at the time of inspection or you don’t pass and don’t get your windshield sticker.

signed, former PA licensed safety inspector

Sure, the law is applicable to both the rich and poor in the same way that laws banning sleeping under bridges or begging in the street is also applicable to both rich and poor.

Naw, it’s rich people’s math. She leveraged a million dollars. Poor people don’t have a million dollars.

So when is the post about poor people math?

You know how when you owe someone money, like a bank, so they charge you more for owing them so little. Then charge you more if you don’t automatically pay them, more if you don’t pay them using the method they prefer, more if you want to pay it off early, more if you have…

I mean, I understand taxes to an extent doing accounting and managing my own investments.

Every bit of delay means she can reinvest the money saved. If she invest wisely, the money owed to the IRS in comparison to her net worth will be much smaller 10 years from now than it is today.

Maybe we should focus on the other 70%?

That is... in no way a comp for a gas station.

It’s 30% of all fatalities. That’s a huge percent.

Don’t listen to the other self righteous jerk. People can change and grow to be better. Your perspective is helpful to this conversation.

I agree 100% that cell phone use is a huge problem, but I’m not blowing it off like you are diminishing drunk driving. 

When “enforcement” is the “answer”- you already failed the test.

maybe easy pickings that could save 10K lives a year should be celebrated AND we should demand more?

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, nearly 30 percent of all people killed in traffic fatalities each year — about 10,000 people — are the result of drunk driving.

i can’t imagine what galaxy brain you gotta have to argue that we shouldn’t try to save 10,000 lives a year because something else kills more people.  do you also sit down to chew gum?