Yeah, but we keep it up in the mountains where it doesn’t harm anybody

Look it’s OK to admit you can’t answer the question

Move from Wisconsin to Texas - lower taxes AND higher wages. Or better yet, no income taxes at all in Alaska.

So the first AI robots will all be really hot sex slaves, that either don’t speak, are permanently imprisoned, or both. Yeah, we’re screwed.

It’s always disappointing when the people discussing well-developed economies don’t understand what makes an economy well-developed or why that’s important.

Pop quiz #2: Out of YOUR overall tax burden, exactly how much of YOUR money is being wasted by the federal government on defense, education, social security, or medicare? This is multi-part, so please select one and give the total amount of YOUR $5,500 (~11% of your $50K income) in taxes being wasted.

Every Airbus A320 I’ve flown on (JetBlue and United, mostly) has a shudder that runs through the fuselage before the plane hits 10,000 ft.

You can tell turbotax about your sales tax payments, but it’s an option. You can deduct state/local income taxes (what you earned) or state/local sales taxes (what you spent), but not both. And yes, payroll and property taxes are figured into your IRS tax return.

but they do not set it aside from other well-developed countries

the overall tax burden

Except that’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.