That doesn’t stop him from borrowing real money from real banks using this supposedly imaginary stock value as collateral. I’m sure he’s more than happy for people to call it fake news while he buys yachts and islands and surrogate mothers with that money.
Taxes can be variable depending on income, net worth, number of children, nipple circumference, or any other measure we decide to use. Don’t talk about them like you’re in the same category as Elon Musk because there are very few categories in which that is true.
If you have a retirement account or an index fund you are one of those cunts
It’s not my job to make up for government spending. I voted to help those people with tax dollars. Most of the country didn’t. This is the society we’ve collectively decided to build and now we all have to live in it.
The numbers vary from study to study. The one cited here says 67%.
For real. Most people live paycheck to paycheck, including people who make $100k+ a year. They just have bigger bills. Living within your means is one of the most essential adult skills there is. It’s also lacking in most adults.
Late to streaming? Netflix was the first big time streaming service that I ever heard of. The main reason their streaming service was able to take off like it did is that nobody else of significance thought that streaming was worth pursuing. What other companies were offering streaming services at anything approaching scale before Netflix?
Unless you live in Siberia or parts of Africa then I am 100% confident that rural Montana is more sparsely populated with both people and EV infrastructure than wherever you are. I can make it work. If you can’t you either haven’t tried and are therefore only speculating or you don’t want to. Either way, that’s a you problem
I don’t know about that. There are many people in this thread who have clearly never owned an EV making all kinds of false statements about them. Unless oil and gas companies are sending bots to Lemmy now I think people just don’t understand EVs.
I wouldn’t call any car affordable these days so that’s a moot point. The rest of your description of EVs is not accurate at all. I drive an EV long distances across rural Montana regularly. If it works for me I can guarantee it would work wherever you are.
Are you saying you think it’s never happened?
You know what, I think I will go watch some George Carlin. Thank you for the suggestion kind stranger
In theory they could be reading everything you’re typing right now. Better not give them any ideas
I’ve got Android TV on a Rpi5 and it works fine. It does have some bloat but it gets the job done.
I get that you like Jellyfin but you don’t have to lie about Plex to make the point that this is a shitty move for them to make. Despite this decision Plex’s service works just fine. That may change one day but it hasn’t yet.
Yes, in my opinion, a simple but unfair (in a largely meaningless sense of the word) tax is better than a perfectly fair tax, especially when ensuring fairness comes with cumbersome compliance requirements that both eats into tax revenue and doesn’t provide a significant change in the amount owed. $150 vs $75 over the year is not meaningful so even a 50% reduction doesn’t change much of anything.
Well the article is about the federal government so your state laws are not the subject of the discussion at hand.
You said it was simple to collect odometer readings from all EVs. I disagree. I think that’s the most labor intensive solution we could come up with.
We meter every gallon of gas sold because that’s an easy thing to do at the point of sale. The gas station already tracks how much fuel you’re buying so they know how much to charge you which means there is no extra work required for anyone. You could say the same for DC fast charging an EV but using any other power source would require additional work by someone that does not currently have to happen. That adds complexity and cost to the proposed solution that is not necessary.
That’s a great idea that I fully support. Unfortunately, you and I both know it will never happen.
No, there are no annual safety inspections. Some states do emissions tests but mine does not and EVs would obviously be excluded from those anyway.
You make less than $6000/year? How? I feel like you could make that much collecting cans for recycling