Youtube comments of Jeremy Barlow (@jeremybarlow2291).

  1. 24 FPS is the standard FPS for traditional motion picture film, which is fairly standard for animation.
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  2. Think about it, the situation is worse than him being a trust fund baby. He is a second generation securities fraudster.
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  3. Isn’t it great that Gabbard verbally gave Harris a knock out blow to the nose?
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  4. The lawyers who plead that should be disbarred and sanctioned for advancing a legal argument that is wholly without merit.
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  5. A lot of French people will be renouncing French citizenship.
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  6. Remember when Intel, AMD & Arm built a backdoor into all of their BIOS for the NSA?
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  7. Kyle plagiarism in law school is grounds for the Bar's character and fitness committee to reject you from admission to the bar, because it is evidence of moral turpitude.
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  8. It is less expensive & there are less headaches for my cousin to fly to Mexico and get an MRI on her shoulder than to get it done WITH insurance here in the US. Her insurer has denied her an MRI for six months and has her do physical therapy which has left her with a numb arm she cannot use and they continue to deny her the MRI. If they grant her the authorization to do it, it will still cost more than a ticket to Mexico & the $100 to get the MRI. She still won't listen to me about making the trip.
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  9. Looks like a list of candidates for the guillotine if things ever go French.
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  10. S.H.A.D.O.W. Secure Hegemonic America's Dominant Oligarchical World-Order!
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  11. I can't wait to hear him call Bernie's coming win in South Carolina Dunkirk.
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  12. ​​ @Thurston-q6q Living on the northern border, it will represent a 40% drop in the local retail economy, so, yeah kind of a big deal. We pay attention to license plates at restaurants and stores here and about 4 in 10 say Ontario "Yours to Discover" or Quebec where I live.
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  13. Pete Buttigieg's father is a communist who translated the writings of Antonio Gramsci, so Pete is not one to talk.
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  14. While ignoring completely the fact that the Mac Kernel is FreeBSD, ie open source.
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  15.  @bobbyboy1125  Americans have good visa free access. There are multiple temporary residence visas available & after 9 months in Chile you can apply for permanent residence. After five years you can apply for citizenship. Chile has a Teir A Passport with access to the US, Canada & New Zealand. If you run your own international business, you may be eligible for an APEC Business Traveler's card as Chilean if you naturalize that adds potentially visa free access for 30, 60, or 90 days to China, and Australia along with other Pacific ie Southeast Asia, East Asia & Oceana countries too.
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  16. As a lawyer, I can tell you I’ve had to go through a metal detector to enter any courthouse I have ever visited, so they know the people are unarmed.
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  17. AMD still has my support because they moved first, but this is clearly NVIDIA reading the handwriting on the wall from SteamDeck and SteamOS gaining so much steam with gaming.
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  18. Bernie Sanders keeps suffering from devastating landslide victories. When will he drop out?
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  19. They are most definitely upset about digital nomads in Europe, Canada, and the USA extricating themselves from the Western tax base by for Europeans and Canadians, moving to Dubai & setting up a free zone company, and either living there for a year or living briefly in a country with rules that allow them to be tax resident in a low or no tax country while living there for 2 months or less. After you are no longer in the European or Canadian tax system, until you legally become resident there again, I do not presently see the UAE chasing you down to tax you while you continue a digital nomad lifestyle seeing the world. The US is upset that backpackers earning up to $120k a year or maybe a bit more if they utilize travel expenses appropriately and add the right income channels to their mix of strategies are escaping the US tax system to a large degree. They are far more upset that those people are using the tax savings to buy a Caribbean passport and renouncing their citizenship, but what they really hate is money is being spent by those "citizens" ie slaves, in other countries. What they really don't like now is that people because of YouTube are seeing people who grew up in their "first world countries" experiencing a better quality of life in poor "third world countries" with lower tax burdens, more to do, lower costs of living inspiring others to leave the rat race they created in their countries. I mean the "first world" already has a labor shortage because Westerners are telling people in the "third-world" the opportunities are better or at least as good in your home country as they are in the "wealthy" countries. Those same people are seeing those same videos in their country. They have labor shortages exacerbated by the fact that a person with a laptop and an Etsy store can make up the salary or wages from their low wage job selling trinkets and trash online while working 10 hours a week. They have the problem of many people ditching apartments and houses for life in a Van because minimalism and an unencumbered simpler life allows people to work less not only fueling a labor shortage, but also hurting the real estate investor market. But when people begin to decide to leave for greener pastures by deploying those minimalist strategies, they know they cannot allow travel to be as easy as it has been in recent years. It is very bad for their incumbent player advantages.
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  20. We need about 600 people like you in Congress and various key positions in federal agencies.
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  21. The build speed improvement will help anyone using Arch who doesn't have access to an RT Kernel binary blob in their repos. I know I can't find an RT Kernel in Endeavour OS so it has to be built and compiled from the AUR with a git pull.
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  22. How do the new FINCEN rules requiring the disclosure of the beneficial owners of LLCs and corporations which are not already public record, or which are not publicly tradable securities effect the use of anonymous Wyoming LLCs? I mean the penalties for failure to file the FINCEN forms look substantial.
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  23. There is already US case law from the Supreme Court that forbids a tax on unrealized gains. It is unconstitutional.
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  24. “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” JFK said that on Sept. 12, 1962. In February of the same year the USA had put John Glenn on a rocket and sent him orbiting around the earth 3 times. That was the first time we had successfully orbited the earth. Less than 7 years after Pres. Kennedy’s speech we landed two human beings on the surface of a foreign planet , the moon- for the first time in July 20, 1969. We did that not because it was necessary, but because we just decided to go. In October of 1939 Alexander Sachs met with President Roosevelt to discuss Einstein and Leo Szilard’s letter about that atomic bomb and the need to build one. No one has ever even refined uranium or causes a chain reaction controlled or otherwise with the material at that point anywhere on earth. It was theory. At that time most of Europe and Asia were already at war. Most people thought the US would be drawn into the conflict and many believed that Hitler was developing the weapon as Heisenberg the leading nuclear physicist on the planet was in Nazi Germany. While Heisenberg was working on a bomb the entirety of teams working on the bomb in Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union included 11 human beings in total. The American physicists were correct about how powerful the weapon would be if it were created. What they hadn’t thought about was the consequences anyone who would have convinced Hitler or Stalin to invest in such a weapon and failed to deliver would have suffered. 120,000 people went to work on the bomb project in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom and on July 16, 1945 the trinity test in Almagordo was a success. These projects were impossibilities. We didn’t know how to achieve them. We didn’t have the technical know how, merely the will to succeed and we achieved those goals in a matter of less than 6 years for the A-Bomb and 7 years for the moon landing. The bomb was arguably a necessity in the minds of the scientists building it because if the Nazi’s had built one first the world would have been decimated. The moon shot was just a whim. Anyone who thinks that we cannot achieve a goal we know how to meet technologically, we don’t need to create new tech- and do so in 12 years also missed the entirety of the New Deal era which in less than 12 years gave all of rural America electricity for example. We know how to go 100% green. We have the technology. We have the resources. We simply need the political and economic will to do it. We could easily accomplish this goal in 5 years if we decide to do it.
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  25. Ingo Molnar is the RT Kernel maintainer. He is one of the most important figures in Linux, so if he wants to do something it will be worthwhile.
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  26. Ric Chambs Trump was a co-conspirator in all of Cohen’s crimes and they have proof in his sworn allocution yesterday and on tape from the recorded conversations. He is a felon.
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  27. The standard subpoena language used is just that, standard. They all say "You are commanded" that is how subpoenas work. They can be issued by defendant's attorneys too. It allows them to secure exculpatory evidence and witnesses as well.
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  28. It's possible for a US person who has renounced US citizenship -preferably obtaining another citizenship first, if they hold a college degree, I would highly encourage a CBI in one of the OECS countries then using their membership in Caricom to obtain a skilled worker certificate to secure freedom of movement rights in Barbados, Belize, Trinidad & Tobogo and other Caricom countries. If that US person is a permanent resident of the US or a temporary worker under an H1B or similar visa, then by ending their residential connection with the US to use a US based LLC -preferably in one of the state corporate & income tax free states, Wyoming, Texas, Washington, Nevada for example, and have a tax free operation, if they live in the right country as a tax resident, and manage the company ie hold formal annual board meetings in the right country or countries. I suggest the Caricom citizenship because under the US-Barbados tax treaty, holding a board meeting for a US organized company in Barbados doesn't make a company tax resident in Barbados. As long as there are no employees or contractors in the US, legal precedent in the US does not make this pass through entity subject to US tax, necessarily. Under the US-USSR tax treaty which the US recognizes, but Georgia does not, the tax rate on even royalties from a US business to Georgia is a 0% withholding rate. A company not managed and controlled or organized in Georgia with no permanent establishments in Georgia is not subject to tax in Georgia under Georgian law currently. A high networth individual with $3 million in assets or over about $65k a year in income for the last three years who owns requisite property in Georgia and has a residency permit due to that property ownership can avail themselves of tax residency in Georgia by not being tax resident elsewhere and proving they have a high networth and maintain residency in Georgia. This would give a digital nomad the ability to move rather freely. The republic of Georgia does not tax individuals on offshore income. The US tax resident company per the US-Barbados treaty as a pass through entity under US law would only be taxable in Georgia under current US law if the pass through owner was tax resident in Georgia. In this instance, even royalty payments typically subject to a 30% withholding rate in the US would have a 0% withholding rate under the US-USSR treaty which the US recognizes and as the owner & not the company would be considered the owner of the royalties, even some of the most difficult income to extract from the US tax free could pass tax free to a Georgian resident through this US LLC. So long as a digital nomad in this scenario did not become tax resident elsewhere, by holding annual board meetings for the US LLC in Barbados, it would not be taxable in Barbados under the treaty or Georgia under Georgian law, but would be a foreign company as a US LLC. It would still have nonresident reporting requirements to the IRS, but should not be a taxable entity, and as long as the nomad does no work in Georgia, they should not be taxable on the company profits in Georgia either. The US LLC provides fairly easy access to good online transactional banking for an operating company and a Wyoming LLC provides strong asset protection both against liabilities of the company to the owner, and liabilities of the owner in regards to assets of the company with charging order protection. This means if the owner got into a car wreck in a country where that being their fault could be costly, it would be almost impossible for a judgement creditor whose claims exceeded the nomad's liability insurance to liquidate the LLCs assets. I bring this up, because it always makes me laugh that a US LLC is one of the best tax haven assets in the world for people who are not US citizens if they plan how to use it correctly. In terms of US citizens reducing taxes, a C or S Corp or a foreign corporation in a zero tax jursdiction where economic substance requirements are not an issue with proper use of foreign residence exclusion, foreign earned income exclusion, per diems, health insurance deductions, health savings accounts, IRAs and 401(k)s, along with travel expenses can get a US taxpayer north of $200k a year tax free. The combination of a US C or S Corp with the right zero tax foreign entity as a subsidiary using a check the box election can be useful -if you can get banking for that zero tax entity. The recent introduction of economic substance requirements in many zero or low tax jurisdictions to satisfy the OECD and avoid being blacklisted from participation in international bank clearing of transactions has made a lot of low or zero tax jurisdictions nearly impossible to use because bank accounts are hard to get, or economic substance requirements are costly to comply with in ways they did not used to be. There are exceptions, but if you want to be a nomad, then it is harder than ever before. The way around this is proper planning, structuring and use of the right entity types in countries that are not on any blacklists which are easier to secure banking for than headline rate zero tax countries.
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  29. My father spent a year there before I was born. He really didn't like the place. People kept shooting at him.
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  30. A promise from the US government even in a formalized multilateral treaty isn't worth the toilet paper it is written on. The US Supreme Court has held a US President can unilaterally cancel any treaty and as for any other promise, just ask a Native American how well they are honored, if you can find one. Sometime in June or July at the current burn rate of cash on hand and a group within the House & Senate committed to not raising the debt ceiling, the US Treasury is likely to be forced to show bond holders just how worthless an IOU from the US government is as well, and when that happens I don't think the US "putting in a word" with the European Commission about Caribbean CBIs will mean anything to anyone. People need to learn how to read the chess board.
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  31. Maybe they should let us Greens have an unobstructed shot then? Let’s say the Democrats sit this one out and stop being spoilers. We will run Ralph Nader with Howie Hawkins as his VP candidate.
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  32. I saw the video in question because it was promoted to me and I thought you were spot on and by the way, I have an LLM in Entertainment and Media Law, so I understand the industry and that isn’t how the legit industry works. That is how the assholes work.
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  33. St. Kitts as a member of the Commonwealth can potentially get some diplomatic assistance from a British embassy as I understand it.
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  34. I mean there are multiple countries where you could be a citizen which would need to impose a tax at all before they could even think about imposing a tax on citizens abroad.
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  35. ​ @dimmacommunication  Do you spend your days reading obscure passages of tax laws in various countries because as a tax lawyer I do and Andrew is not wrong about tax incentives for foreigners in Italy.
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  36. Mannie Fresh the GAO tracked the people who got free college educations thanks to the WWII GI Bill and guess what? For every dollar invested in tuition for the beneficiaries, they grew the GDP by $28 and returned $7 to the treasury. The program literally paid for itself by growing the economy. In the 1990 GM explained that Medicare for All would save the company $1400 per car produced in healthcare costs. The GAO study of Medicare for All showed that it would save US citizens and businesses $17 Trillion less over the next decade versus our current system. The Woollhandler study showed that almost 2 decades ago the American government was already spending $6k per year, per person on healthcare -more than $2k per person per year more than any nation with universal healthcare and not getting what it paid for because having a middle man with 3% administrative costs versus a middle man with 30% administrative costs and getting rid of company overhead to manage insurance plans is more efficient than the tax subsidy scheme we have had since the 1940s.
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  37. America where even when you win, you lose. In other words just like Soviet Russia where we were warned about.
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  38. I mean food outside the United States is on average healthier. With exceptions for very few places, the cost of living is lower. In a fairly significant part of the world Internet access is cheaper and faster. In a majority of the world, people are far less likely to take as many risks with negative impacts on your health and well being as Americans do. In a majority of countries on earth you are about 10x less likely to be the victim of a murder, or severely injured do to violence. In a significant number of countries you are far less likely to require a car to live, further reducing your cost of living and your carbon footprint even if you travel by air a lot, because your percentage of the emissions from a commerical flight are miniscule. A large percentage of countries give you the opportunity to improve or maintain neural plasticity by exercising your brain learning a new language and many of these countries are small with neighbors who offer an opportunity to learn yet another language. Your healthcare costs will dramatically drop and in many countries not only will those costs drop, the level of care will dramatically improve too. The fact that you can walk more easily as your primary mode of transportation in many countries will improve a large percentage of Americans overall health.
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  39. WTF?
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  40. Paraguay would be one of the most survivable areas of earth in the event of a nuclear war because of the wind patterns.
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  41. It's time for all 5 Caribbean CBI countries to push back against US Dollar hegemony by adopting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero as official currencies in addition to the ECD. When they make the adoption, they should restore their Zero Tax Corporate rate at least for companies operating in the Crypto space to spur investment in solar and battery storage in the islands as well as mining operations. I mean with the amount of sun those countries get there is no reason they shouldn't have really cheap clean energy.
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  42. Congress DOESN'T have to. "individual" is not defined in the code. It is defined in Treasury regulations. That means if "individual" is defined not as a US citizen, a US Permanent resident, or a person who meets the presence test. It would mean that citizen is removed as criteria and bona fide residence, or meeting the terms to qualify for the FEIE makes you a non-resident.
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  43. Honestly having looked at Monaco real estate prices recently $600k for a parking space there is probably a good deal. A nice apartment with 2 parking spots was $15.9 million. The benefit of Monaco as a tax haven is that essentially you are in the South of France and can take a day trip to the Alps, or be in Nice or Cannes in very little time. You get France without the French taxes.
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  44. ​ @DrSamIAm if a charity has to advertise for donations, it shouldn't exist.
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  45. In Africa Botswana & Namibia seem like interesting places beyond Egypt or Mauritius or South Africa.
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  46. I think between the immutable file system of SteamOS, the incorporation of flatpaks into SteamOS's standard design, and it's adoption of KDE Plasma as it's desktop environment, especially with Pipewire and Wayland becoming standard, the odds of proprietary developers releasing a Linux version supported at least for a curated distro like SteamOS even potentially as a paid version of Flathub or via an expanded storefront on Steam providing productivity software in addition to games is quite likely in the near future.
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  47. rouge1ful Clinton committed perjury -a felony by lying under oath during a deposition. He belonged in prison and so does Trump. They are both felons who have not been prosecuted for their crimes.
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  48. Isn't Finland in a treaty with Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland regarding citizenship and free movement allowing their citizens to more easily obtain citizenship in one of the other Nordic countries?
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  49. Chile is not that fast, that easy, or that cheap. It is on par with obtaining a Portuguese passport via a D7 visa and residency.
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  50. I mean Turkey has access to Japan, Morroco, South Africa, Namibia, Thailand, and Mexico with either visa free, e-visa, or Visa on Arrival and they are all countries that a lot of countries do not have easier access to.
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  51. ​ @stephenmaxam 🙄Weird people don't know they are weird I see.
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  52. Lake Placid was not hurt by hosting the Olympics. It like most winter Olympic Mountain Towns is small. Of course the state was going to foot most of the bill. The village of Lake Placid is one of the most visited tourist locations in Upstate NY to this day. They capitalize on the Miracle on Ice to this day. If you want to see how much it didn't hurt the town just drive up for Columbus Day weekend any year to see how busy it is during the leaf peeping season, not to mention the hectic summer trade or winter trade. There is one month a year locals take a break from tourists, November, why? Because the leaves are gone and the snow isn't there yet usually.
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  53.  @thebigpicture2032  I need a car maybe 40 minutes a day if I'm the average commuter. If I'm the average retiree I need a car maybe 1 hour a week. If I'm self-employed and work from home -a growing segment of the population, again, maybe 1 hour a week I need a car. Which means if I'm the average commuter that in a year, I will need a car 200 hours out of 8,670 hours at the high end when you factor in special trips. If I'm not a big commuter, I will need a car maybe 60 to 70 hours per year out of that same 8,760 hours.again factoring in special trips. If you take a big road trip to visit family across the country or to see sights, maybe add 40 hours of trip time for the car usage. Now let's assume that the ride share companies with the reduced fleet costs of self-driving EVs and the reduced fuel costs of solar powered charging, and the reduced costs of no longer needing a driver can charge $0.60 per mile for their service and be profitable. That means if I'm a commuter and I'm not in a car sharing version of the service which car pooling would likely become more common in this scenario reducing costs to maybe $0.20 per mile for a daily commute, that means I can spend $4,800 per year to get back and forth to work at the high end, or $1,600.00 per year at the low end with car pooling. If I'm self-employed or retired, I can spend $1,440 per year at the high end with no car pooling -more likely in this scenario, and $480 at the low end with car pooling. To buy a car at the $35K range which is not super expensive these days, you are going to spend easily $7,500 to $8,000 per year just to pay for the vehicle or more if bought on credit. You are going to spend another $1,200 per year or more maybe less depending on the state and city of residence for insurance. Those are fixed costs for the commuter and the retiree or self-employed work from home person. You are also going to spend $0.04 per mile on electrical costs, or $0.10 per mile for gasoline costs on average so $320 for an EV or $800 for a gas car if you are a commuter. The self-employed work from home person or retiree will spend $96 for electricity for the EV or $240 for the gas car. What economically rational actor will buy a car in that economic reality, especially when wages are falling or stagnant for most people? Now with the number of people living in vans, on your other point, I would say you are onto something, but people will fall into one of two camps. They will either be van dwellers who save on having the expenses of a house, or they will be house dwellers or apartment dwellers who save on the expenses of having a car. Oh, and one more thing, in many cities, the cost of parking a car makes this equation even more of a no brainer for the apartment or house dweller.
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  54. I Occupied Wall Street because I knew who Obama's owners were and I wanted them to fear us. When one of them threatened to kick me in the head while I slept in the street, I pointed out that doing that in front of video cameras the police had recording the place 24/7, and in front of police was a good way to get arrested. Then I pointed out that under New York law he had committed the crime of Menacing by making the threat and those cops had more in common with other workers than him and they might be inclined to listen to 10 witnesses to his crime. When I pointed out that I had law school classmates who worked in the Manhattan DA's office, who I was sure would happily prosecute a Wall Streeter who threatened a classmate exercising their first amendment rights, he ran away sufficiently scared in my mind. They are all cowards. Remember that everyone. They are all cowards and they know we outnumber them.
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  55. The courts in the US have in the majority of precedents held freedom of movement should not be impeded, so while they may allow some enforcement of tax obligations under the 16th amendment jurisprudence by the cancellation of passports, it seems unlikely long established precedents impeding the freedom of movement otherwise would be obstructed. However, as you and many others watch or reading this will know one of the greatest impediments to travel would be a criminal conviction of any kind as the nations you may want to travel to are likely to exclude those convicted of crimes from entering their country. That makes the US with it's exceptional high rate of criminalization of a variety of activities a place that puts you at increased risk of being barred by other countries from entering their borders just because so many people are drawn into the US criminal justice system. For young black men in particular, obtaining a passport and leaving the US as soon as you are 18 is probably the best way to protect yourself long term, from a purely statistical analysis.
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  56. I love how you said, Russia is potentially a place to go if you're in the dating scene, because long time viewers know that your wife was a Russian citizen before she was able to claim her Armenian citizenship by descent.😏
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  57. What makes me laugh is that they don't understand Bernie is the compromise we are willing to make that will spare them. Our fallback candidate is Guillotine.
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  58. My understanding is that while Chile has a relatively short initial stay to obtain permanent residence. That you need to actually live in Chile for the vast majority of the five years leading to eligibility for naturalization already. Are the on the ground requirements as stringent as Canada or the United Kingdom? No, but you need to be living in Chile more than 183 days a year for those first five years and tax resident in Chile throughout the stay which subjects you to their CFC rules as I understand it, so while the early tax breaks are enticing, you will be paying significant taxes in Chile more likely than not, even with proper structuring.
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  59.  @sr9253  There are plenty of baby boomers already retired. All of them born from 1946-1955 are over 65. The Jonesers are starting to retire now, the mico-generation between the Boomers and early Xers.
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  60. You just explained why paying the high costs of starting a UAE free zone company are probably worthwhile. It will cost you 15x as much to obtain the residence permit needed to operate a company from the Bahamas and pass the new economic substance test rules as it will to set up business in Dubai and it is a lot easier to import the workers you need for any tech company in Dubai as a free zone company than it would be in the Caribbean. And the Bahamas won't give you the plethora of double tax treaty benefits that the UAE offers. The UAE's oil reserves make them important enough not to be blacklisted and they have enough useful double tax agreements to operate a Saas through independent cloud operators and subsidiaries in places like Canada, the UK, Ireland, Georgia, Armenia, and Singapore to give an app the ability to service markets all over the world without a permanent establishment or with benefits from transfer pricing studies and royalty regimes associated with those subsidiaries that will give them essentially zero tax treatment, or maybe 1 to 2% tax rates even when that service is being used by people in countries as vast and adverserial as the United States and Russia.
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  61. Yo quiero Taco Bell es muy peligroso.
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  62. Yang is the capitalists class’s answer to maintain the oligarchy. They don’t care about money, but don’t mess with their power.
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  63. A Calyx Institute MiFi Hotspot ordered with a computer running Tails over a public WiFi bought with XMR shipped to a mail drop for a Wyoming LLC at a registered office ran by your attorney and forwarded to you by the attorney's office is about the most private access point you can get as an entry point to the Internet. After that connect via Tor over a VPN paid for with XMR. That is about as anonymous and private as you can get thanks to Attorney-Client privilege. Of course never put the sim into that hotspot anywhere near a location that can be associated with you.
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  64. Antigua is the CBI passport I would look at first in terms of bang for the buck. I would think about North Macedonia before Turkey because while I doubt it will ultimately join the EU, it might, but it gives you Japan. You don't get Thailand, but a Thai Elite Visa or a Thai Investor visa can take care of that. Would Turkey give you a few more countries visa free, sure, but are they countries likely to be at the top of your list of places to visit? Aside from Thailand which is not that difficult to obtain a visa for, not really. Kazakhstan? Mongolia? If you have the money to buy a CBI, you have the money and income to go to a Mexican consulate and get a Permanent Residency Permit for Mexico for your Antigua or North Macedonia passport which would put Mexico back on your list. Now after that, Bulgaria or Portugal become appealing for getting an EU citizenship, but you need to structure your investments correctly if you are going to become tax resident in either one. They are mostly appealing for non-EU citizens. If you are already an EU citizen, having a backup citizenship like any of the Caribbean citizenships is probably a good idea in the event they ever adopt a US style citizenship based tax regime. If you are single, then spending vacation time in any of the EU countries that offer citizenship to spouses of their citizens after a set amount of time, regardless of the location of your residence becomes appealing because your spouse potentially gives you the ability to live and work anywhere in the EU which can be helpful for structuring transactions.
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  65. In 2016 there had not been an attempted coup. I mean an effort to thwart democracy is kind of a game changer.
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  66. Los Angeles is relatively safe, but you can have a high speed chase happen anywhere. I was stuck at a light at the corner of Sunset & Laurel Canyon when the cops chased.a speed racer around the corner one direction then 20 seconds later back around the corner the other direction all while I was stuck in traffic at the light. Very odd almost being smashed into by the same guy running from the cops twice at the same stop light.
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  67. Denmark may not be corrupt, but it is said to be quite xenophobic and insular, so that takes one of the three off the list for most non-Danes even if taxes were of no concern to you.
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  68. Americans have Freedom of movement with the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau.
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  69. Bank accounts are the tip of the iceberg. There are also permanent establishment issues, the new economic substance test regimes, the clout to avoid banking issues or not, and the ability to benefit from double tax treaties. Where are your personnel working from is a vital question thanks to the new economic substance tests. Where is the IBC registered to operate is another question. I mean yes you are BVI corporation, but are you only authorized to do business in the BVI, or have you registered as a foreign corporation elsewhere? You haven't? Where are your personnel in the BVI, how many of them are there? Where is your managing director located? Who is that person? What ownership stake do they hold in the company? Do they have checkbook authority or are they merely a nominee director ie are they a sham? Most of the jurisdictions which had IBCs excluding the truly territorial tax jurisdictions, ie Panama, Hong Kong and the like will tax the worldwide profits if the business is actually operating in their jurisdiction, and if you aren't, well where are you registered to do business otherwise? It takes a lot of planning of various parts to avoid taxes as a multinational corporation which is what you personally must become to avoid taxes. Find a video explaining the Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich or the Double Irish with a Single Malt to begin understanding the kind of thinking that is actually involved. If you are an American add to that complexity GILTI and Subpart F, but also add to it foreign tax credits, FBAR, FATCA, and the foreign earned income exclusion. If you are in the EU -not the UK, Brexit was clearly about their overseas tax havens, but the rest of the EU, get ready for something like the US worldwide tax regime to take effect soon, and understand there are a lot of moving parts to consider. You have to think like a multinational corporation's tax attorneys and tax consulting accountants. You need to be reading KPMG, Deloitte, and PWC reports on various countries corporate and personal income tax regimes. You need to understand how to obtain residency in favorable tax jurisdictions. You need to figure out which countries have favorable double tax treaties with the country where you situate you primary business, and which countries have regimes that will allow you to have subsidiaries with favorable transfer pricing studies to hire employees at the lowest wages and get the best performance while paying the least tax on the profits those companies must show for the services they provide to the primary company. You must figure out which country has the economic might to avoid issues with the EU blacklist. You need to figure out how to get money out of major markets with withholding regimes like the 30% tax the USA imposes on most transfers of money out of the country, except to jurisdictions who benefit from favorable double tax treaties and you must probably find such countries which have favorable double tax treaties with your primary country for your business because they likely aren't the same country. You also need to figure out how to get proper transfer pricing studies done to make sure that the countries in question do not take issue with transfers out of their country of the profits those subsidiaries earned without taxes inside those nations being imposed. You are going to need to understand IP licensing, loans and interest payments for this, or you are going to need to find low tax jurisdictions for this to work. There are a million moving parts to international tax planning, and that is what Andrew is trying to say, without saying it. You can figure this all out on your own if you are a lawyer or an accountant working at an international tax planning consultancy. If you aren't and you have the 120 IQ needed by most to complete graduate school, you can probably figure it out too, but it will take a lot of reading and research. It will probably take hiring translations for various treaties and statutes as well because there will be a lot of languages that laws and treaties you need to worry about are written in that you probably won't be able to read. Hell there may even be treaties in effect as far as one country is concerned that another country disregards that would be a huge advantage to you which you will need to figure out how to use regardless.
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  70. "Nothing will fundamentally change." -Joe Biden to a room full of well to do contributors. So far the leadership in Congress and his own actions have shown his policies & their policies do not differ significantly from those of the Trump Administration. This to me means that the destabilizing effect on democracy that the previous administration had on the United States is likely to worsen. The US has been a flawed democracy for quite some time & the failure of leadership & vision inside the United States to address the challenges facing the nation due to crony capitalism's consolidation of power & anti-competitiveness, the failure to alleviate pressures stemming from income inequality by implementing policies that will alleviate overly burdensome healthcare expenses on American business while providing better coverage for all Americans by implementing sensible employment taxes & regulation in place of the current private insurance scheme that is creating a disunity in the populace is hurting the country. What I find interesting is that a country like Singapore, and a country like Uruguay have been able to implement a fairly low territorial tax system, while also creating systems of universal healthcare & creating an environment that has not priced most of their citizens out of the housing market either as buyers or as consumers of quality housing, yet the United States is failing in this mission with far more land, far more resources, and a highly productive people. The reality it occurs to me is that no political leader in America has said, we can have a tax system that provides better for the basic social welfare needs of it's citizens AND costs less for both workers & business owners than our current system. Not one political leader in the United States has said, we can provide a system of universal healthcare and have low taxes. Singapore does this with very little government spending and has some of the best healthcare in the world with a system that is universal. Uruguay's healthcare is not the enviable system that Singapore has, it isn't even as solid as it's slightly poorer South American neighbor Chile, nor fellow Latin American territorial taxed neighbor Costa Rica whose universal healthcare system, like Chile's places it ahead of the USA. Why am I mentioning healthcare so prominently as an issue that is causing the problems in the US? Because it is THE issue which to a large degree stifles enterprenuership in the USA. It is also one of the two leading issues that creates significant income inequality, this despite the fact that the current system which not only leaves too many people without care, costs American business FAR MORE than all of their competitors around the world. Can the USA adopt the Singaporean healthcare system entirely today? No, it really can't because of how the current system is designed, but it can redesign the current system to transition towards a Singaporean style system over the course of two generations. It will easily take forty years to make health savings accounts the major source of payments rather than insurers, be they private or public, but it can be done. Hell the US could adopt an entirely territorial tax system & it would probably increase revenue returns to the treasury so long as the destabilizing pressures of the poorly managed healthcare system were addressed. Are there other issues in regards to crony capitalism that need to be dealt with to get the US on the right track, yes, but no one in either of the two main parties in the US are in any way prepared to address them because the political leadership of the country in both parties is owned by a myopic group of kleptocratic crony capitalists who are blind to the risks the failure of the US as a democracy will have on their consumer base & long term business interests.
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  71. Jeff Bezos takes a salary of $80k a year. This proposal will have zero effect in entrepreneurs. It will cost overpaid employees more, but it will also be a good reason to shed overpaid employees from staff.
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  72. Transfer pricing studies for staffing companies is a big part of any international business tax plan now.
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  73. You hit the nail on the head with everyone save Bernie. Obama fooled me once with his fauxgressive stances. I won’t be fooled again. You have to prove yourself first and Bernie did that his whole life.
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  74. If you are a citizen of one of the Mercosur member states, one of the EU states, you have a college degree & are a citizen of one of the Caricom countries you have a lot of places where you family can live. Many of those options are very tax friendly countries, especially for citizens of other Mercosur, EU, or Caricom states. I mean being able to live in a country you are not a citizen of as a matter of right can be more valuable to you than even being a citizen of the country.
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  75. The fact that under it's laws any North Korean that is able to leave or escape if you prefer, is entitled as a matter of right to South Korean citizenship makes at least one great passport instantly available to them though.
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  76. In America MOST of the homeless population IS EMPLOYED. Large swaths of homeless people in California have jobs. Many have more than one job, but rents are so high they cannot afford an apartment.
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  77. I hate to think about the people who go to Uruguay & hope to get naturalized only to find out that there is literally a second class citizenship for naturalized people, even if they succeed in getting it, which they probably won't.
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  78. Google and Apple both suck. You don't get a trillion dollars by being nice.
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  79. You do realize that humanoid robots were tried in one factory and almost immediately removed because they were too inefficient.
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  80. I think Indonesia really destroyed themselves with their recent introduction of regressive laws regarding consensual relationships amongst adults.
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  81. I would agree that amongst EU passports the German and Irish passports in particular the Irish with the CTA is a very strong one, but I wouldn't discount a Luxembourgish citizenship either because as a quiet tax haven for foreigners much like the US can be for non-resident aliens, Luxembourg is not likely to follow you around when you leave and you could benefit greatly from their network of double tax treaties when you do leave.
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  82. As far a citizenships go, one of the things I look at is the nation's ability to provide embassy assistance, while most of the Caribbean CBI countries are well serviced not by their own embassies, but by the British Embassies as members of the Commonwealth afforded such support, Turkey has a very strong network of embassies, much stronger than some countries with better visa free access where you can naturalize relatively quickly. For me, this became a criteria to consider because I have seen videos by several YouTube travel vloggers who have either lost or had their passports stolen in foreign countries and the process for obtaining a new passport even in a country were you can access the embassy of your nation of citizenship can be difficult. Not having access to embassy support in that situation would be a nightmare.
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  83. Monero wins this round.
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  84. How is it that Dubai, one of the world's most vital air travel hubs can remain open and be one of the places with the lowest incidence of Covid merely by requiring pre-flight Covid screenings and pre-entry Covid screenings and quarantine, but Australia doesn't have the technology? I mean 186k immigrants to Australia were admitted during the lockdown, but Dubai has had millions of international passengers transit through it and maintained a fairly low rate of Covid. Is the problem that Aussies are as unwilling to take reasonable precautions for their own safety as frat brothers from the University of Alabama on a weekend when there is a game with Florida State, or is it just a power grab?
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  85. You're wrong, about there having only ever been one Depression, but thanks for playing. There was a Depression in the United States in the 1870s. From 1873 to 1879 or possibly 1896 depending on who you read, the Long Depression as it was known in Great Britain was an extensive downturn that hit the United States and Europe the hardest. Before the 1930s it had been known as the Great Depression in the United States and now it is mostly known as the Long Depression. Some of the triggers included the demonetization of silver in Germany and the US, the Franco-Prussian War, the Great Chicago and Boston Fires of 1871 and 1872, over-speculation in railroads in the United States, the depletion of banking reserves in New York and financial failures in the Vienna markets.
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  86. As an American, Everytime someone tells me if I don't like it here, to leave, I ask them if they have written their Congressmen and Senators urging them to pass the Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad Act, because taxation without representation is wrong.
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  87. She is afraid that the New York Greens might run a tough candidate against her. This is the year she is up for election in NY and Greens have gained traction here in recent local elections. Greens got more votes than Republicans for the Syracuse Mayor’s race and an indie won. 29% of the vote in a city council race went Green in NYC. Greens in Glens Falls got 30% of the vote in City Council and Mayoral races in November. The Greens have at least two or three viable contenders for Senate that could run and are a balloted party in NY.
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  88. The one industry that Panama has been particularly useful for as a jurisdiction to incorporate and obtain banking for has often been adult entertainment websites. The privacy regime there has been useful for many entreprenuers who want to keep their name out of the public eye in association with that aspect of their business. Panama also has some favorable tax treaties in regards to royalty treatment for one of the major content platforms' home jurisdiction in regards to withholding taxes.
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  89.  @becaSidekick  every study shows universal healthcare in the US would save $2 to $5 trillion over the next decade in healthcare costs. it just cuts out the unnecessary rent seeking insurance companies.
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  90. Imposing a VAT is also a stealth way to implement a highly regressive sales tax that hurts workers and the poor more than any offset by UBI. It squeezes the middle class much harder! I knew there was a reason I always liked you Jordan and the reason is more than anyone else you get it and are skeptical of everyone. No one gets a pass. They all have to earn trust through actions. I also find it interesting that industrial agriculture in the Midwest is earning farmers in Illinois with the best soil on earth $244 an acre, while labor intensive small scale farming in Upstate NY on a five acre farm with multiple crops planted a year in the same beds and multiple harvests per year in regions with much harsher climates in terms of winter and a much shorter growing season can make a 5 acre farm earn $60k per acre or $300k per year. That farm has a 1/10 the carbon footprint of big Ag and Feeds 10x the calories per acre per year. It requires dramatically more labor and uses hand tools and fire weeding and routine pruning and re-planting which all requires a lot more thinking laborers, but that 5 acre farm which employs 10 people is putting $30k a year in each worker’s pocket. Which isn’t great money, but it’s a solid working class income. It is also exactly the kind of intensively productive farming that reduces carbon emissions per pound of food which we must have to fight there climate crisis.
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  91. Not understanding that low wages and concentration of wealth is the problem, is the problem!
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  92.  @gonzapacini5668  you literally mail a form after obtaining another citizenship. Unless your loss of nationality because you chose to acquire a different nationality is challenged, 6 months later you are considered no longer French from the day you acquired your other citizenship. That does not sound too difficult.
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  93. It is not just wealthy Americans who have decided the juice is not worth the squeeze here. Plenty of Americans from every socioeconomic class, racial, and ethnic background are moving to Latin America, Southeast, South, and Southwest Asia, Africa, and Europe because the cost of living, access to healthcare, and lifestyle in general is more amenable to a comfortable life than life in the US because the cost of living and healthcare are more affordable elsewhere. Dollar for dollar the US is punching well below it's weight these days and thanks to the Internet Americans have figured that fact out.
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  94. My plan is to get a business that earns most of its income through royalties functional, move to Portugal on a D7 visa and residence and earn an EU citizenship while benefiting from the NHR and Social Security Totalization Agreement as an American self-employed in Portugal. A royalty based business has few litigation risks, and most litigation risks that could apply would not be protected by a corporate liability shield regardless, so it is a practical way to operate in terms of tax efficiency and asset protection. After gaining Portuguese citizenship, the options for how to operate and where to live become a lot easier to deal with, especially as it opens up multiple EU jurisdictions for corporate structures and tax planning because as an EU citizen I could work as a board member in any EU country. Ireland, Hungary, and Cyprus offer some solid structuring strategies. The potential tax savings while living in Portugal may also allow enough savings to purchase a Caribbean citizenship, assuming the programs remain open. Dominica's current visa-free access is probably the most appealing as a supplement and compliment to Portugal. Securing a Skilled Worker Certification for Caricom would be part of the strategy when obtaining any Caribbean citizenship. After obtaining Portuguese citizenship, a residence permit in Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Barbados, or Georgia would all be likely possibilities. Cyprus, Ireland, and Malta might also be in the mix for residency.
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  95. You do not need to be a bit tech savvy for the average user. My cousin's mom who was in her 60s was a very casual user who 99% of the time was just using her desktop for the web browser. She had a computer that was still running Windows XP in 2013. It was always having problems. We installed Linux Mint and all the tech support issues for her went away. I showed her how to do updates and told her to run that at least once a week. She died two years ago, but she used that computer daily for 6 years without issue. The typical non-power user has zero issues using Linux.
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  96.  @WilliamWatrous  What is more it has been identified by security researchers in all three major chip manufacturers and shortly after it's discovery China started building their own chipset. The CCP understands the problem.
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  97. China is okay with crypto as long as it is their crypto from their bank and they can take it away from you on their central server.
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  98. Saudi Arabia and Mexico are joining the list as it sounds as well.
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  99. My choice for VP would be Dennis Kucinich precisely because him being re-districted out of Congress means he means what he says and they won't want Bernie dead because Dennis would hurt them worse.
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  100. I don't know if you have no heirs to leave the money to and enough to live on for a couple of lifetimes, why not spend it all without a significant ROI? Why should you leave a penny behind when you die?
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  101. A year ago a Briton explained that the reason the Labour party would lose is because they went anti-Brexit.
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  102. Seeing a protest in a country usually means they have a functioning democracy, OR soon might have one. Are there exceptions, sure, but by and large that is what it means.
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  103.  @TheEricrya  not by the original definition, but under the definition that emerged in the 1990s when it was no longer about non-aligned countries of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, but broken poor banana republics, the US is most definitely a third world country today.
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  104. My understanding is that in a study 100 mcg per day of K2 MK-7 supplements were shown to have a beneficial effect on preventing & reversing calcification of the arteries.
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  105. If you are not making sizeable income, I think there could be some advantage to especially Americans moving to less tax favorable EU countries in the short term like a Luxembourg, Sweden, or Germany when they have a long term plan to build wealth and a patient timeline to accelerate their wealth building. There is a lot to be said for having an uncontroversial citizenship as a travel document if you plan to renounce and you may want to from time to time visit family in the USA. I mean no one at the IRS will think you moved to northern or western Europe to save on taxes and no one at customs is going to bat an eye when you return on ESTA waivers. I mean even if they ask why you are no longer an American and you can tell them after paying a 40 plus percent tax rate in Europe you really didn't want to have to deal with paperwork for Uncle Sam anymore especially when it made having a bank account in your new country harder, they are not going to be anything other than sympathetic.
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  106. They have developed an international trading currency that is gold backed and digital in which participating member states can self-custody their gold, an independent auditor will report on their gold holdings and the participants will be able to freely facilitate trade deals in their own currency by using their digital token as a claim against a counter-party country's participant's gold reserve. It is a restoration of the Bretton Woods gold standard with no need to trust the United States.
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  107. Antigua & Barbuda is also part of the Eastern Caribbean States treaty with more expansive free movement than Caricom. Caricom has free movement to more countries, but only for skilled workers -which is a select category or professions, but also college graduates with I believe at least a bachelor's degree that must be authenticated and approved for classification as a skilled worker. The Eastern Caribbean States is less countries, I believe Antigua & Barbuda, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada, and Dominica are the ECS countries. Not all Caricom members have signed or been accepted as part of the skilled workers free movement regime, but all six ECS countries are part of it, as are I believe Belize, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Suriname, Guyana, Jamaica, and I believe Haiti is part of the single market, but may or may not be part of free movement, and while Montserrat is part of Caricom, as a British Overseas Territory I don't know if they are part of the single market or free movement, and the Bahamas is part of Caricom, but I don't believe it is a participant in the free movement regime.
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  108. Self-defense of another is in fact lawful in New York.
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  109. If you cannot claim it anonymously, change your name before you claim it legally and tell no one about doing that, so no one knows it is you. Also wear a mask like that one winner. Change your name again after that legally and continue to go by your old name. Never own anything outside of a trust that does not identify you. Remaining anonymous is the most important part of winning the lottery. In states where you can claim anonymously by right, do that, in states where you can claim anonymously via an LLC do that, but remain anonymous regardless.
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  110. Well Putin invaded Georgia along with Ukraine & has had Russian forces occupying part of Georgia for 14 years, so I could understand some Georgian animosity towards Russia and solidarity with Ukraine in the country. The former Georgian President you mentioned is very pro-western and did implement several key reforms gearing Georgia towards a more robust free market orientation, while also fighting a lot of the corruption that was far more pronounced in Georgia before his election, so I can see why he is a symbol of solidarity with Ukraine.
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  111. British Overseas Territory Citizens of Bermuda who also have Bermudian status have the same level of visa free access to the USA as Canada. I suspect that you can thank Hamilton for that particular special relationship. No, not the city.
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  112. Evan C. Treasury Secretary. Labor has no power. Treasury is the most important domestically.
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  113. Yes, the ISS can only function because of Windows 98, oh, no what's that the ISS is Linux based, ya don't say.
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  114. What is interesting to me is that regardless of your political leanings, there are countries where Americans could go that are more in line with their purported political ideologies. More people speak English fluently in the Philippines than in the UK and it's policies are more in line with the thinking of a lot of people on the right wing in the US than the US because of its heavily Catholic influence, but of course the racism inherent in a lot of those people's thinking means they would never move to a country like that, and the same holds true from many Latin American countries whose Catholic roots influence policy more in line with their way of thinking. Of course they would need to learn Spanish, so they are unlikely to leave for those countries. On the left there are plenty of welcoming countries in the EU that have economic policies already in line with what Americans on the left want in place in the US. For either side continuing to have a political fight over issues that are well resolved in other countries already more in line with their thinking seems to me like a better use of time, but convincing people that doing what their ancestors did for the most part and moving to a country more to their liking is heresy. I understand that it involves some sacrifices that some people are not willing to make, but I don't feel any connection to the US that makes engaging in these political struggles seem worthwhile.
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  115. Not to mention the fact that even in regards to tariffs which are the less sexy part of tax avoidance, products are specifically designed, and the process of creating a product is phased out amongst specific countries just to avoid tariffs, let alone the effort required on the part of a multinational via transfer pricing studies to minimize the tax in each jurisdiction where components are manufactured. The problem with journalists is they have an agenda and nowhere near the understanding of the complexities he as an entrepreneur in the trenches just explained in regards to the amount of taxes these companies actually pay. Who pays the VAT, the consumer or the company? Well at the end of the day, the company makes the payment to the tax man, the same with the corporate tax rate, but who really pays either of them, or the tariff? The consumer pays. Every dollar in tax that a company avoids is a dollar in tax consumers do not pay. The same goes with sales tax. I mean you as a consumer get to see the tax bill in the US in the case of sales tax, but every tax on business is actually another hidden tax on consumers. If they wanted to tax capital disbursements or capital gains at 90% and they stopped taxing businesses, the working class would no longer be paying most of the taxes. The problem with the current system is that good business people who are keeping prices down for their consumers are being villianized.
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  116. Of course if you apply for a visa you can probably visit what, all of those countries, with a possible exception for the US depending on which consulate officer is reviewing it?
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  117. You can only see the Grand Canyon in the US and having been from Maine to Los Angeles and Seattle to Wilmington, NC and all points in between there is not a lot else to see in the US aside from the Grand Canyon that you cannot get elsewhere. I mean even if you want to see Niagara Falls which is the only other highly impressive natural wonder I've seen, the Canadian side is the one with the view.
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  118. Argentina should be on the list, especially because there are so many Argentinians who through ancestry are also eligible for Italian citizenship which too has a citizenship by marriage path to citizenship.
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  119. What is funny is that they don't understand that electing Bernie is the one thing that PREVENTS people like him from being executed in Central Park. Matthews isn't smart enough to understand that Bernie is the pressure relief valve that gives the capitalists another 25 years before they are done. Maybe 50 years at most.
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  120. She was a Republican until age 47 joining the Democrats after Clinton made them a thoroughly right wing party. She was a Republican through Reagan and Bush Sr. She was a Republican through Gingrich’s Contract With America and became a Democrat after Clinton passed NAFTA and signed most of the Contract With America including welfare reform and the crime bill into law. She has never been a progressive. She is a fauxgressive.
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  121. IronskullGM 37 of the 56 founders of this country were lawyers. 55 of the 56 owned slaves. Every single one of them was rich. Hancock was the wealthiest man in the Americas BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. George Washington was the wealthiest man in America after the revolution. The only people they allowed to vote were men with property. They didn’t get to vote for the Senate or the President. They have never allowed anyone to vote for judges. Literally this government was designed for elitists, by elitists. Having knowledge doesn’t necessarily make someone an elitist. It allows them to understand complexity. Perspective makes someone an elitist. Wealth and seeking control makes someone an elitist. Ralph Nader is an educated man. He lives in the house his parents who owned a small grocery store that they started left him. The million dollars he won in a lawsuit for defamation against GM was all donated to a not-for profit. No one who has ever met the man would call him an elitist. Educated and intelligent yes, but not an elitist. He isn’t part of the ruling class. He is part of the working class, from the petit bourgeois certainly, but not from the ruling capitalist class. Despite an Ivy League education few would call George W. Bush intelligent, but he comes from old money on both sides of his family. He is from the ruling capitalist class. His mother was a relative of President Pierce. His father’s father was a business partners of the son of the owner of the Union Pacific railroad. Despite a false humility he is the definition of an elitist because he went to schools for rulers and he has a family fortune which he will pass on to his children. He owned an MLB team for Christ sake. Most people would call Jack Kennedy an elitist too for the same reason - he came from a wealthly capitalist family and went to the private schools that train rulers. Elitism is about wealth and the perspective of a ruling class. Knowledge doesn’t create an elite -wealth and privileges that come with that wealth make someone elite.
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  122. If I wanted a Tier A Passport other than the US passport I currently have, then I would suck it up and move to Chile for five or six years, or perhaps Mexico as an A- passport with Canada, and New Zealand access, but that is because I'm not a seven figure business person or likely to become one in the next five years. If I were a seven or eight figure person, I would be working on either Singapore or South Korea as a route to a Tier A Passport. If I wanted to take the risks that you and I both see associated with a European passport, I would be looking into the various digital nomad passports in the EU nations as a potential path towards EU citizenship, or the UK entrepreneur visa, as a lower income individual. If I had a fair sum of money Portugal's golden visa is the only viable looking option.
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  123. The one big benefit Turkey offers with it's passport is their excellent consular protection as compared with many countries. If your Turkish passport was lost in just about any country that Turkey gives you visa free, visa on arrival, of e-visa access to, it is a safe bet you could walk into a Turkish consulate and obtain assistance getting a replacement passport. The Caricom countries that offer CBI are personally lacking in terms of consular protection, but as member states of the British Commonwealth, the UKs extensive consular protection network offers similar benefits to the Turkish embassies and consulates around the world. Interestingly enough, the UK Commonwealth's extensive network of embassies is often useful for Canadians, Australians, and New Zealand because while the CNA countries of CUNA like the US are quite selective about who they allow to visit or reside in their territories, their embassy networks are no where near as extensive as the US or the leading European powers of the UK, France, or Germany. While it is unlikely anyone would obtain citizenship by naturalization in Singapore or Malaysia, it is good to know that the extensive network or diplomatic missions those nations which do not allow dual citizenship are backstopped by the UK's nearly universal network of diplomatic missions as member states of the British Commonwealth. Like the US, the UK's network of consulates has a few minor gaps in countries that are not likely to be high on anyone's list of places to visit, but there are some gaps, but Turkey has an embassy in most of those countries. A lot of Latin American countries where you may obtain citizenship through naturalization fairly quickly have good consular protection, but not as extensive as Turkey or the British Commonwealth provides, nor as good as the US consular protection coverage generally although the US leaves something to be desired in a few places you might suspect, but they are countries where travel on an American passport would likely be a poor decision. Citizenship in an EU country typically provides not only an excellent travel document, but also consular protection not only from your country of citizenship, but also every other EU country in the event your home country does not have a consulate in a particular country. This means that France or Germany will likely be able to provide assistance if your home country cannot. I believe the consular protection considerations are something people should consider when obtaining a second citizenship, but also, something to consider when planning to obtain a portfolio of passports.
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  124. The second you tell any homeowner that this method of taxing unrealized capital gains would mean that a home equity line of credit they would use to buy a new furnace or central air unit or fix a falling down garage would be taxable if this theory of taxing unrealized capital gains were to pass this proposal is dead in the water, but honestly, it's an election year and the Democrats won't have control of the House or Senate after November and have no ability to pass any changes to the law this year so this is a thoroughly moot point.
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  125. J- Wall I agree 100% with this statement on both George and Kevin Hart.
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  126. Given Harry's connection to His Majesty's Government he could possibly be stationed at the UK consulate in Los Angeles under a diplomatic passport and diplomatic visa which would mean his tax liability in the US could be zero.
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  127. I wonder when Matthews will realize that Bernie is the pressure relief valve that keeps people like him from being dragged into the streets and put to the guillotine.
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  128. So a young black girl had a butt that was probably let’s be honest a little larger than the white girls she was competing against and in the swimwear which is the same size as the swimwear the white girls were using her butt exceeded the capacity of the garment; however, it was the standard size swimwear and because she won, they want to disqualify her. Why? Well because she is black and her anatomy reflects the anatomical differences which often manifest themselves as a racial variation. Are they? No, but white girls with larger posteriors don’t join the swim team.
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  129. I watched a video from a real estate investor in Argentina explaining the process of buying property as a foreigner in the country which is by and large the same as citizens, but the one thing he was clear about is mortgages do not exist as a product in Argentina and most purchase contracts are quoted in USD because of the inflation in Argentina and it has been this way since the 1970s. Loans in Argentinian Pesos don't sound like they happen much.
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  130. The way this dude is with Bitcoin pimping, I suspect he was into mining in 2009-2010 and she is really pissed that after the divorce he became a billionaire. You know the successful ad guy who took up break dancing as a hobby in 2012 then becamee famous for it a few years later all while sitting on not just millions he made as an ad man, but way more from letting his computer run 24/7 in 2009.
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  131.  @WilliamWatrous  It was literally put in for the NSA. I suspect as part of a classified national security order.
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  132.  @Goodtimes4100  anyone waiting for a bottom is going to be disappointed, because it will not come. The average landlord can cut rents enough to keep their properties competitive and the people who are out of work for the most part are renters. Do you think the average Walmart worker owns their home? What percentage of those who do are married to someone else who is the primary breadwinner who is in an essential job or one that easily became work from home. Remember the Walmart worker still has a job, so does the McDonald's worker. What percentage of people working at Hot Topic lost their job? What percentage of those people owned a home? All of them lost their job, maybe one in 10k owned a home and they were the trophy bride of some middle aged lawyer who is still working as a DA. Who is still working? Homeowners. Who is out of work? Service workers at amusements and sit down restaurants, the cleaning staff at office buildings. There are maybe a million small business owners who were forced to close for good and those are the sellers in this market and a bunch of them will be renting their house before they go broke and moving in with their adult kids who are employed or their elderly parents to regroup. Some of them will move into a van while renting their house out. Some of them will keep their house as rental and take a crap job to pay rent somewhere else. There are a handful of mom and pop landlords who are overextended and there is mountain of REIT money waiting to buy them out. The people with a job who own a home, which is more likely than not 98% of homeowners are not seller's anymore. The homeowners who aren't working are on social security and this hasn't phased them at all. Their houses are off the market. Anyone who thinks this market is going down is wrong. There will be a market contraction. There will be less properties on the market. Market rents will go down, but sale prices are not going anywhere there is too much cash and credit is too easy for major players to consolidate against mom and pop landlords. Homeowners are not sellers in this market because it will be impossible to get top dollar, so market contraction is coming.
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  133. Portugal's tax regime is troubling for entrepreneurs because of the management and control rules for corporations, their permanent establishment rules, the fact that the US tax treaty has no bright line test of tax residency for a company, I mean Hungary and Malta use place of incorporation as the final determinate. Portugal also has an exit tax for corporations if management and control or a permanent establishment changes it's seat. If you want Portuguese citizenship, marrying a citizen and living outside the country for 4 or 5 years with your spouse is the only way to become Portuguese and not get sucked into the tax net as an entrepreneur. There are other ways, but only if the board of your company is in another country and you are not working in Portugal at all.
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  134. There may be others, and we know for sure St Lucia and Comoros, and likely Antigua & Barbuda now. Serbia seems likely, Georgia also seems likely. Morroco and Angola being available visa free leads me to believe likely Russian citizenship because your wife is both Russian and Armenian, and you have said you would not want to obtain Turkish and Armenian citizenship because of the historical conflict there, but Turkish citizenship is not out of the question with your properties there. As your adopted sisters are Russian by birth, that seems likely, but it would also mean this needs updating because the country formerly known as Zaire, now is it Congo or Democratic Republic of the Congo has added e-visa access to Russia and Turkey. I mean both Russia and Turkey have e-visa access to Mexico, and a Colombian residency permit gets you access to Mexico too, so your Colombian residency explains that, but with the changes in African access for many passports in the last few months, I suspect this needs some updating whether or not I am correct. Some countries have lost some African access and others have gained some.
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  135. I mean if you are a real estate professional in the US and you invest correctly in ancillary businesses operated as S-Corps, it if kind of hard to beat the US for most US citizens. You can earn a significant sum of money completely tax free thanks to the ability to use passive losses to offset income from other active businesses against the depreciation of your real estate. If you are using 1031 exchanges appropriately you can level up many times with no tax consequences if you meet the magic 750 hours annually and obtain that real estate professional designation, or structure enough of your properties as short term rentals so your passive business becomes active.
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  136. @You're Gonna Hate This that is not what first world, second world and third world was about when the terms were coined. Perhaps you should study history. The first world was the Western NATO aligned countries. The Second World was the Soviet aligned Warsaw Pact and communist countries. The third world was the non-aligned nations like India, Egypt, and Brazil.
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  137. Her: "Go where people don't even speak English." Me: "More people speak English fluently in the Philippines than in England. English is the lingua franca of the Philippines and it's a lingua franca in Malaysia, Singapore, and most of Europe. It's the first language in much of the Caribbean as well. I mean I like tropical beaches myself." Mi También: "Yo hablo Español y yo quiero aprendiendo más lenguas porque me gusta inteligencia."
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  138. Ya gotta love how the reich wingers keep advertising on left wing media thinking they will fool the best informed people on earth.
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  139. She is the typical gaslit American. She heard Chris Matthews say it, so it must be true.
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  140. Those polls all become moot the moment Trump is impeached. The second that happens Trump’s re-election is a forgone conclusion.
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  141. Socialism is not government ownership of the enterprise. It is worker or consumer ownership of the enterprise or a combination of the two.
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  142.  @ohyala  With CRS for 99.99% of the world & FATCA for Americans the tax authorities will know about all of your foreign accounts regardless. File the proper reports and accounting with the tax authorities where you are tax resident or in the case of US citizens and permanent residents with the US tax authority regardless of where else you are tax resident and avoid jail time. You will not and cannot hide money anymore. Between KYC laws and multilateral agreements sharing account information with various countries not reporting assets is going to get you into legal trouble.
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  143. They in fact DO conduct a criminal background check for residence.
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  144. Yes, never lookup on GD.
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  145. Mexico is not a good place to become tax resident, but it's a nice place to be a tourist, or have physical residence part of the year, but not enough to become tax resident. Of course avoiding Mexican tax residency is more complicated than a simple days test, so not having many genuine ties to the country is also helpful. Rent, part of the year, don't buy for example.
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  146.  @Arabzene  Despite & in part because of my father's history, I want to go there, DaNang specifically because it is actually one of the fastest growing private sector economies in Asia. Whenever I see YouTube videos of westerners in Saigon, DaNang, or Hanoi & the streets are filled with western brand signs for stores & restaurants I think it was such a massive waste of lives and resources to spend so much to protect the Firestone or was Goodyear rubber plant near DaNang where more than 80% of US & Aussie forces in Vietnam had been concentrated.
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  147. Americans have a better route available for the Netherlands under DAFT anyway, so... I mean EU citizens wouldn't need it anyway, so...
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  148. Wait until they host it in Vanuatu which the last time I checked had never adopted a copyright law nor became a signatory to IP treaties.
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  149.  @alwinter  Apple has their own targeted ad network that they use to push ads on their apps.
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  150. Pakistan is a nuclear power, so that makes it a country that will have adversaries. To my mind, the citizenships to obtain are those which have fewer adversaries than your original citizenship or those which cause you less problems with customs or immigration officials when entering another country.
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  151. If you can work anywhere & earn that amount, move to a territorial or zero tax country where you can get residence. If you work for someone else, make sure it doesn't make them tax liable where you live. If necessary pay taxes where you are at & with savings from the Foreign Earned Income Exemption save to buy a CBI, or move to a country where you will obtain citizenship & a second passport. You may even consider moving to an EU country where you can obtain citizenship even if you must pay the tax. Once you have a second citizenship, your options become more open. If you are working for yourself and earning that and can work anywhere, get yourself to a tax free country like the UAE, you probably can't afford the pricier zero tax countries yet. The first plan of attack should be figuring out how to get a second citizenship. If you have access to a citizenship by descent somewhere do the work and get that citizenship. If you cannot, then figure out how good your passport must be. Do you want a Tier A or is Tier B+ or A- good enough? Is Tier C good enough? If you want to live in the Philippines long term getting a passport from even Ecuador with no access to Europe might be good enough for you. If you will never get wealthy, Argentina might be fine, because they have talked about a global wealth tax on citizens regardless of where they live and you cannot renounce Argentine citizenship. If you want to move to a zero tax country eventually, Portugal may not be the place because of their five year tax rule when you move to a blacklist country. They will say you are a Portuguese resident regardless of physical or family ties remaining in Portugal. Luxembourg will tax you a lot while you are there, but won't chase you when you leave. Sweden will chase you. Mexico consider you a resident as a citizen even after you leave if you have a home there. You have to examine the quirks and figure out what citizenships suit you best. the reason St Kitts is so popular as a CBI is because they don't tax you even if you live there, but may tax your company under the current rules if it is managed there. I recommend reading PWC's reports on countries to figure out the broad tax rules there or Deloitte's highlights and looking at naturalization and residency rules for countries. You should of course examine the visa requirements for citizens of the countries you might want to obtain citizenship from and understand they change. The US now needs a visa to visit Bolivia a few months ago that was not the case. Once you have it narrowed down, examine the short list more closely by talking with immigration and tax attorneys in those countries. Many will be able to meet with you by something like Zoom, many will not, but a phone call is possible. You need to get practical advice from professionals in the jurisdiction. You will also want to speak with a US tax lawyer who is versed in international tax planning and a similar US accountant especially if you have a US based business. The 2017 tax reforms made moving existing US IP assets most businesses have offshore, more difficult in terms of tax planning for example.
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  152. I have a sneaking suspicion that a NATO member that participated in the Afghanistan occupation ie Turkey is not the country you think it is, but... I suspect you are an American and they don't know much about history, geography, or world politics.
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  153. As an Occupier who spent a week between K Street in DC and Wall Street in NY, I can confirm that I was definitely an early Berner and that I think he would be the best Democratic Nominee, but like in 2012 and 2016 I will likely vote for the Green Party nominee. If the Democrats nominate anyone other than Sanders, that is definitely the case. I voted for Howie Hawkins in 2010, 2014, and again in 2018 for NY Governor and the day after the NY primary was stolen from Bernie I officially changed my registration to the Green Party, so in 2020 voting for Howie Hawkins for President is something I will not hesitate to do.
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  154. Your facts on Ecuador requiring naturalized citizens to renounce their previous citizenship are wrong, in fact, a fairly significant portion of your facts are wrong, and I'm writing this on the day the video was posted to YouTube.
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  155.  @6-Iron  Canada is mismanaged because of the US influence in Canada. And the healthcare system is not the reason for Canada's spending problem. The US takes half of your income too, but you get nothing for it.
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  156. He is CIA, "Rhodes Scholar" equals CIA internship and training program.
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  157. Gitlab, Buffer, Automattic, Stripe, Zapier, Bandcamp, FlexJobs, just a few companies you may have heard of that were remote only and remote first from day one. You can start billion dollar companies that never have a set physical office, a few of them are on the list and they are not the only ones. The only thing a business needs is a bank account, the right paperwork sitting in an attorney's filing cabinet somewhere a registered agent in your jurisdiction of choice, and perhaps a mail forwarding service to receive correspondence from the state, vendors, or customers and those do not require you to do much more than sign a low cost agreement with one of hundreds of mail forwarding companies around the world or registered agent service providers.
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  158. If you are an investor time zone may not mean a whole lot to you if you are a coffee can investor like Warren Buffet though. I mean it doesn't matter if you buy Coke or P & G today or tomorrow if fifty years from now the shares in the company will be handed down to your kids by your estate.
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  159. Chile is pretty much perfect for trading the NY market I mean it is the same time zone.
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  160. Whether or not you are tax resident somewhere outside the US really depends on the rules of each locality. I mean Spain is going to do everything to say you are resident there. Thailand may not consider you a tax resident even if you have lived there two years on say the Thai elite visa. You have to examine the tax residency rules of each locality and structure your lifestyle, business and assets to ensure you aren't tax resident in multiple places, preferably for Americans structured in a way where you aren't tax resident anywhere else, or if you are tax resident somewhere else, it is in a country with a double tax treaty with the US that allows you to structure your affairs to avoid US taxes, and minimize the local taxes too. The US has a lot of DTAs and several Social Security Totalization Agreements that can prove helpful. The country where you decide to become tax resident in such a scenario would be one that it would be most beneficial to have its own Double Tax Agreements with the other countries you intend to spend time in, especially ones that make it clear qualifying for residency in your first choice excludes you from residency in the other place or places. I mean the general rule would be a short term rental in a place like an AirBNB for 3 months is less likely to make you tax resident than a year long lease you only live at for 3 months, while a place you own and live at for 1 month a year is more likely to make you tax resident than the rental, or at least maintain a tax residency. There are a lot of broad strokes that vary by country and general rules always have exceptions. I means for Americans the other thing to think about is are you still tax domiciled in the state you lived in before you left. You may be unless you properly severe ties and establish a nona fide residency somewhere else. In some instances it may even make sense to move to an income tax free state particularly one like South Dakota that allows you to obtain a driver's license with a one night hotel stay as proof of residency and a mail forwarder before leaving to severe ties with a state that will continue to tax you like New York or California. You may also need to get rid of storage units, and property ties like a vehicle titled in those states because they want to keep taking a pound of flesh as long as they can. Exiting the US correctly is phase one. Using the foreign earned income exclusion and foreign housing exemption and foreign tax credits is step 2 of dealing with exiting the US. Not becoming tax resident in the wrong jurisdiction is step 3, becoming tax resident in the right jurisdiction if you must is step 4. I've looked at the broad stroke tax guides published by Deloitte and Price Waterhouse Coopers for easily 50 or 60 countries to winnow it down to a handful of countries I would even think about becoming tax resident in and amongst those you still have to decide what the tradeoffs are and if the tradeoffs are worthwhile. I mean the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Cayman Islands, and the UAE all have great tax rates at 0% for the most part, but a) do you have the capital to move to them, b) do you want to live full time on a island or in the desert, c) if you can afford one and want to live there can it help you get citizenship in a reasonable period of time if you want or need an alternative passport? Then you look at a place like Argentina, the tax rate is terrible, it is difficult to exit it's tax net. It has a wealth tax too, but you can get citizenship there in a handful of years potentially and it is relatively inexpensive with a world class city in Buenos Aires and a multitude of climates in the country. You look at a place like Belize, and it has a mediocre passport for the most part, a tax system that can be very favorable to you, but you wouldn't want to bank there and the Cayes seem relatively safe with the Caribbean beach lifestyle as does Placencia. It takes a fairly long time to get the passport at over 6 years, but it is a relatively easy place to immigrate to, and so are some other places. You can move to Thailand or the Philippines relatively easily, but you are unlikely to ever get citizenship in either country and if you do, they are not great passports and dual citizenship is a no go for naturalized Filipinos. If you structure your affairs correctly you are unlikely to be liable for tax in either country even if you are there almost all year. It's not impossible to become tax resident in either country, but taxes can be avoided even as a resident with proper structuring. Mexico has a great passport, it's relatively easy to move there if you have some location independent income, you can naturalize in about 6 years or so, but taxes are extremely high in Mexico and even with a double tax treaty with the US it has a lot of tax risk for a US citizen who becomes resident there and leaving can be hard with its own exit taxes. Portugal has the NHR which can be beneficial for taxes, but you have to structure your affairs very precisely to benefit from it and you may have exit taxes to pay when you leave on capital gains. It has a fantastic passport which you can get in six or so years of living there, but you have to structure things just right not to get hit with high tax bills if you become tax resident there. If you can afford the golden visa investment you can be resident for the purpose of pursing the citizenship and may not become tax resident, but I think that to obtain the citizenship will involve spending more time there than the minimum to maintain the golden visa, but maybe less than the 183 days in 12 months to become tax resident, but you still might be found to have Portugal as your center of interest, and if that happened on the second year you were there, no NHR for you and really high Portuguese taxes. All of this is to say the risk reward ratio. Has to be examined for anywhere you are considering and you need to know what does and does not make you tax resident. You also need to know the incentive options available to immigrants if any. You need to figure out it you want to pursue s citizenship by naturalization and residency anywhere or save up and obtain a citizenship by investment. I mean Dubai is an expensive place to live, but it offers a pretty great tax benefit if you can afford to become tax resident there and can structure a company properly. If you structure trips to other places during the hottest parts of it's year, you can avoid the heat and maintain a tax residency there and with the tax savings maybe buy a CBI. Figuring out what place interest you, what the tax rules for each place are and how to avoid residency where you don't want to be resident, or become resident in a favorable jurisdiction if you want that is about doing the research. PWC and Deloitte have good resources online to start researching the taxes. Wikipedia does a good job of telling you what countries have what visa free access where to help you figure out where it might be a good place to get a second passport. The next step after that is a lot more google searching and talking with local lawyers and accountants in the countries you are interested in. This is not a one size fits anyone process.
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  161.  Bob Mama  A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. America's Capitalist Rulers Own Networks & Your Mind
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  162. Have you ever discussed the importance of examining the availability of diplomatic missions & consular assistance when considering gaining residence or making an investment with an eye towards citizenship either through residency or investment? Also the importance of membership in the British Commonwealth for the Caribbean & Vanuatu CBI programs regarding this issue in particular. Also the importance of the consular assistance agreements amongst EU members for their citizens in countries where they themselves don't have a diplomatic mission. I know Mercusor has adopted a similar freedom of movement regime to the EU, but has Mercusor also adopted a similar consular assistance agreement? The issue came into acute focus for me recently when a few American YouTubers in different countries lost their passport. One merely misplaced it on a plane, the other was robbed at gunpoint and lost it in the robbery. One was in Mexico, the other was in Syria and both needed to replace their passports to exit the countries and continue with their travels. While none of the Caribbean CBI countries have extensive diplomatic missions, all benefit from membership in the Commonwealth and the consular assistance the UK can provide to citizens of Commonwealth countries in conjunction with their country of citizenship, in particular the UK's extensive network of diplomatic missions, but it was almost painful to think about what would happen to an Argentinian citizen who lost their passport in Mongolia or another far flung nation where that country had no consulates or embassy. It's particularly troubling when you notice the visa free access of some smaller countries with no consulates in several nations they have visa free access to for their citizens.
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  163. And 50% of my ancestors left Sweden for the US, including a great-great grandmother who was a medical doctor in Sweden.
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  164. Zach Davis anyone who has studied economics thoroughly and examined multiple points of view knows that UBI as Yang proposes is a boon for the rich and powerful and fucks the working class!
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  165. How much did Trump’s daddy spend on other people doing his homework so that he finished college?
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  166. If Lake Placid, New York isn't on the list, it should be, a small town that has hosted two Olympics must be doing something right. I mean speaking of John Brown, as you mentioned Harper's Ferry, John Brown's Farm and Gravesite is just outside of town behind the Olympic Ski Jumps. Lots of things to do on Main Street and the Herb Brooks Arena is the site of the Miracle on Ice... So... I highly recommend the first two weekends of October as the leaves in the Adirondacks are a great site to see as well.
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  167. The thing about an EU citizenship that is underrated is that it gives you the ability to live and work -without a restrictive work permit, in a couple of the best tax havens on earth which just happen to be in the EU. They aren't on any blacklists. They can help you get your company to a zero percent tax rate. They can help you get your individual tax rate to zero percent or at least near zero percent too. Hell if you do things correctly and you have an EU citizenship you can live in multiple of the highest tax countries in the world, I mean countries at the pinnacle of the first world like a Taiwan, and have a zero percent tax rate.
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  168. Also the tax advantages for big mortgages have gone away and the ability to write off high state taxes on your federal return are gone. A downward price adjustment is inevitable because of that alone. When this is added to that, it gets even worse.
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  169. Jesse Edmondson JFK averted what surely would have been a nuclear war with anyone else in charge. That gives him top spot in my book, but Carter is the best of my lifetime.
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  170. David Sinclair Carter created more jobs during his four years in office than Reagan created during his first four years in office. Also the last time the working class got an actual raise was during the Carter administration. Since then real wages have been stagnant or declining, so how exactly did Carter hurt the economy?
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  171.  @SteveM-gj2vy  I hate to tell you this, but I come from paper mill country, and paper literally does grown on trees, so yes, money is a renewable resource.
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  172. Adriana Lima's ex-husband was Serbian.
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  173. Trump doesn’t care about a wall. Trump wants the government shutdown. It has nothing to do with the wall. Why would he want the regulators to police the criminals when he is a criminal?
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  174. Ireland, Hungary, & Estonia, in the EU oppose it. If their opposition remains, it's dead in the EU & it dies everywhere after that one. Kenya, & Nigeria oppose it in the African Union, this too could help put an end to it, but the three EU holdouts are vital. Barbados & Sri Lanka likewise oppose it, but the problem for any of these countries individually is what the major powers will do to retain their imperialist hold over their economies via the international banking settlements regulations.
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  175. This comment made me realize that Vietnam, like Cambodia & Thailand has joined the modern world and allowed for dual citizenship.
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  176. Charge Zuckerberg with perjurying himself before Congress! It is a felony he committed punishable by a decade in Federal prison. He needs to go to jail
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  177. Buttigieg because his word salad can fool some people. Bloomberg fools no one.
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  178. Of course a lot of the time it's easy to avoid a day in court with proper planning and documentation. If you have your structures properly set up and you have them designed to avoid tax in the first place by forming them in jurisdictions with low or no taxes, structuring their transactions to benefit from double tax treaties and if you also have solid transfer pricing studies in place you will survive an audit. If you survive the audit there will be no day in court.
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  179. Joel Spaulding I was using today’s numbers. Today’s numbers are what the insurers will charge automated cars. When those vehicles reduce traffic deaths, injuries, and accidents 100 fold as they seem likely to do. The Google car in over 2 million miles had zero accidents when the autopilot was in charge and one when the human driver was in charge and that is level 3 tech at best. The average human driver has at least one accident every 100,000 miles. Professional drivers earning 1 million accident free miles rate major awards at leading trucking companies because it is so rare. When the self-driver is 100 times safer premiums for self-driving cars may go down by 10% from today’s rates, but the insurance rates for people who want to remain behind the wheel will be increased 100 fold what they are today. In other words if liability insurance for a human driver today was $300 for $300k In coverage, the self-driver will pay $270 per year, but the human driver will pay $30,000 per year for the same coverage because insurers will not want the increased risks. There will be no choice left. That is how the economically rational actor will actually be influenced.
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  180. I mean if you watch a certain million plus subscriber Russian YouTuber who has been living in Georgia, but who is currently in Thailand you will become astutely aware of the additional burdens being Russian is placing on their citizens, including those living abroad who want nothing to do with the nation's government.
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  181.  Scott  well a seat on Walmart's Board of Directors, Arkansas' largest private employer, when your hubby is Governor will do that for you. Corruption pays well.
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  182. Darren Sweden literally has the largest and most successful tech community per capita in the world. Bigger than Silicon Valley per capita and the second largest in the world when per capita is not considered. They created the database software that runs most of the web. Spotify is Swedish, Volvo, IKEA, Saab, Husquevarna, H&M. There are more billionaires per capita in Sweden than anywhere else on earth EXCEPT Iceland. The Swedes are also home to Electrolux, Skype, and Ericsson. Truecaller is a Swedish tech firm, SoundCloud is Swedish, Tictail is Swedish, Mojang is a $2.5 billion Swedish video game company. King, the company behind Candy Crush is Swedish. Klarna a PayPal killer valued at over $1 billion is Swedish.
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  183. What do you think about Orbital Rings? I mean there is no unobtainium problem. We can make Kevlar tethers that could withstand a 300 mile or so climb to the low earth orbit design that is most feasible. We know how to create the copper wires that would create the magnetic fields the exostructure would float on. Don’t get me wrong massive engineering feats would be required and a whole lot of math, but no unobtainium issue. Terrorist target galore too with the added drawback of 1G for anyone working or living on the ring, but with the vacuum of space and access to unfettered solar power, magnetic assist launches for deep space exploration and its usefulness as a platform for orbital construction projects would be considerable. From what I’ve seen the price tag to build a ring if done properly could be under a Trillion Hell if mass drivers were used to launch robotic asteroid mining kits and most of the construction materials were mined in space and refined on say the moon and a mass driver launched finished goods from the Moon we could probably build it for under $500 billion. Some estimates suggest that initial construction that ultimately bootstraps a complete ring could be done for under $50 billion. It doesn’t seem likely given the costs of the ISS, but there were studies funded in the early 1980s. A ring would reduce costs to $0.05 per pound according to some estimates in terms of getting goods to orbit. But what it would be really good for would be getting people into orbit. Mass drivers seem like a cheaper way to get materials aloft. People can’t handle the G forces you need to worry about with mass drivers.
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  184.  @davelawson2564  he said they are on a list of countries the EU has scheduled to join the Annex II which is a list of countries with visa free access to the Schengen zone. Turkey has been a potential candidate to join the EU for a while, but Greece blocks it because of the long standing squabble between the two countries over certain Aegean islands & drilling rights in territorial waters that surround claims to those islands. Greece is who has continuously blocked Turkey from visa free access to the Schengen zone. The racist nationalists in the Eastern Region of the EU have been quite happy about this too. The EU collectively has less issues with Turkey than Greece does. The issue the US has with Turkey is that they have problems with the Kurdish minority in Iraq causing problems with their citizens of Kurdish descent and an independence movement there. Turkey has issues with terrorists in their country because of forces ie the Kurds who the US supported against ISIS using those weapons against Turkey. Once again Americans showing a complete lack of understanding of the geopolitics.
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  185. silverpairaducks of course because every US Army Major is a Russian mole. If they said she might be an Obama fauxgressive, I could buy that one and do after the Anti-BDS vote, but I have never trusted her and always thought she was a rope a dope candidate for the establishment. I hope I’m wrong about that, but I’m a fool me once type and you have to prove your bona fides to me more than she has done so far!
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  186. If you have been through most of rural America & a fairly large percentage of older cities ie the rust belt, the US is a third-world country with a Gucci belt.
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  187. They closed his accounts because he couldn't maintain the required minimum balance. Turns out he is just a grifter.
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  188. Lasse Indergaard I just want AOC to announce in 2022 she is either going to Oust Cuomo or Schumer and do NYers a favor!
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  189.  @azules9780  nope, standard PPO in New York.
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  190.  @454bb-cp  it doesn't work like that, you need visas and residency permits and you need the income or investments to qualify for said permits. Within 3 to 5 years I will have the investment income to qualify for most residencies I want or will be the age to qualify for the visas and residency permits, but not today.
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  191. So apparently these “freedom lovers” don’t understand that they have no authority to illegally detain someone. What they did there to you that was kidnapping to me if I put my prosecutor’s eyes on and examine what they did there to you!
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  192. I mean if you have a residence in a tax friendly place with solid banking like the Channel Islands or UAE or Switzerland and you have ties with a country such as a permanent home -that is in fact a vacation home as opposed to your true habitual abode, a d that higher tax country has a double tax treaty with the residence you want to be your primary tax home it may well make sense to have your banking in that primary tax home. You will want to have your banking there, your driver's license there, your doctor there, you will want your children if you have any enrolled in a school there, you will want to make it clear under most treaties that where you have a residence is your center of vital economic interest and your primary banking account that you pay bills from, perhaps not all of your money, but your operational accounts for you personal life at the very least ie a current account that pays your living expenses should be there especially if you are for example a citizen of the country where you have a primary residence. The tie breaker rules in Malta's Double Tax Treaties with those three even more tax friendly places will not resort to where you are a national to decide your tax residence if your center of interest is clearly in the other jurisdiction. If that jurisdiction is a solid banking jurisdiction as Switzerland, Jersey and Guernsey or the Isle of Man, and the UAE are, then baking there makes a lot of sense to secure tie breaker benefits under a tax treaty. You don't want Malta to consider you ordinary resident and domiciled there when you could have your money taxed at a zero rate in UAE or a lump sum regime at a favorable rate in Switzerland or even a capped rate in the Channel Islands that is similar to the Swiss lump sum regime.
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  193. gera aceves no that is nothing like universal healthcare.
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  194. If I were setting up a holding company even, I would not do it in Dubai, I would set it up in Labuan. Greater flexibility in terms of what assets you can hold. You can hold a brokerage account with stocks and bonds as opposed to just holding shares in a non-public company directly. You can hold cash in a bank account with a Labuan company at the zero percent rate, bank accounts for holding companies in Dubai or old school havens with substance rules like the BVI or the Caymans probably cause issues with substance which are more costly to comply with than Labuan.
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  195.  Go Live  The age of 35 was chosen because it is the retirement age for the South Korean military. It is also only 2-3 years before the 37-38 retirement age of US military with 20 years of service. The earliest soldiers in the US Army go to boot camp at 17, so that visa is particularly attractive to people with 2k to 5k per month in a military pension that will be untaxed in the Philippines.
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  196. You can legally travel with two passports, but you must enter and leave border control with the same passport and if you are a citizen, most countries require you to leave and enter your country of citizenship with their passport. I mean if you are on a direct flight from Atlanta to Santiago or Houston or Dallas to Santiago if there ever is such a direct flight you would need to show US passport control your US passport before you got on the plane and you would need to show Chilean passport control your Chilean passport when entering the country.
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  197.  @eminemrules121  their entire CV.
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  198.  N S  I know a woman in her late seventies who won't even talk to her son. She is 200% for Bernie and the son is a racist Trumper. I know at least 20 people in their sixties and seventies who are for Bernie and I don't hang out with that many people 20 years older than me.
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  199. In the 1920s.
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  200. Their contempt isn't for Bernie. Their contempt is for his voters. It is for the people. The peons.
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  201. keis Farrow he literally can’t. He would need to petition now in most states to get on the ballot.
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  202. Portugal has a D7 visa which might work, and many EU countries have self-sufficiency visas or work visas if you can obtain a sponsored job in the local market. There are freelancer visas in Germany and Luxembourg, also Czechia, and Croatia has a digital nomad visa as does Malta. There are a lot of digital nomad visa in the Caribbean and Latin America as well. Work visas through employers are typically the easiest other than student visas for working class individuals. Your next best bet is a local spouse with an EU citizenship or the citizenship of a country you want to live in. Traveling on tourist visas while self-employed remotely is your next best bet, see the Vagabond Budha for that kind of lifestyle.
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  203.  @steveb7600  Monaco, Bahamas, Brunei, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Bermuda, Turks & Caicos, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, St Barths, St Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, Vanuatu, are the ones I can think of off the top of my head, there are at least a dozen more that can be zero tax with proper planning and structuring of your affairs, including a lot of countries with very high headline taxes, that offer great incentives for immigrant tax payers.
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  204.  Layth Adrian  I'm not pretending. I do want communism. Wage slavery should be outlawed. Democracy should rule the workplace.
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  205. There are a few countries where if you are a naturalized citizen and you don't live in the country for a number of years you may lose that citizenship. You have to be careful with them.
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  206. Belgium has the benefit of being multilingual regardless of modern mobility. The disunity that a lack of a common language can cause in such a small area certainly contributes something to a lack of any unifying nationalism.
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  207. Bernie will be attacked tonight, and when he gets attacked tonight, Bernie will brush off those attacks with ease and make them all look bad. But what is more. Even as the front runner, everyone knows he is the underdog, and Americans love an underdog. When they all gang up on Bernie, he is gonna win more votes and surprise the hell out of everyone in South Carolina. He is gonna win. The polls say it is even. But that question last week, where everyone, but Bernie said they would steal an election and ignore people's votes are gonna turn those little old black church ladies into voters for Bernie.
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  208. I know you were incorporated in Hong Kong at the time you trademarked Nomad Capitalist as a brand with the USPTO.
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  209. Jimmy’s Top issue is peace. Number two for Jimmy is Medicare for All. At least that has always been my read.
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  210.  @jimsy7al  um yes you can. Your social security entitlement is an earned benefit and you are still eligible to receive it regardless of citizenship.
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  211.  @Learned333  I am literally a tax lawyer. You are taxed on any unrealized gains only. If you have previously paid tax on the assets ie you have cash in the bank that you paid income tax on, it is not taxed again. T-Bills are a cash equivalent like cash in the bank.
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  212.  @antediluvianatheist5262  a lot of rich people live in Thailand, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, India, and the rest of the Third-World too.
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  213. Mark Simpson it has been tested 29 times and every single time the conclusion was that it hurts the economy and does little to help the people it is supposed to help.
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  214. The problem is that a secretary at the US Attorney's office drafted a standard subpoena for data that includes the kitchen sink. The good news about that YOU ARE COMMANDED phrase is that defense counsel for a party uses the same language when they subpoena witnesses for the defense.
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  215. 800k NYers voted for Bernie 2 years ago. In 2014 200k NYers votes for Teachout in the primary and Howie Hawkins a Green Party co-founder who was our Gubernatorial candidate. Cuomo only got 380k votes in 2014 primary. If Bernie voters show up at 60 to 80 percent, Cuomo is toast.
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  216. I was more interested in her primarying Schumer or Cuomo in 2022. She won’t be old enough to run for POTUS until 2028 anyway. She is only 29.
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  217.  @jaminova_1969  I mean plenty of places they discuss are places you could move to and obtain residency or citizenship with less than $2k in travel and moving expenses if you are packing light. Some of those places you could live on less than $1k a month earned from a remote job easily as well, so you are not wrong.
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  218. If Sweden changed their rules to eliminate the exceptions from when they didn't allow dual citizenship which meant you had to register as Swedish at a time when you couldn't do that, then my 100% maternal lineage to Sweden would allow me to be Swedish by descent, but because my grandmother was born in the USA and my mother and because in the 1940s my grandmother couldn't file a piece of paper to become Swedish, my mother isn't Swedish, and so neither of us can become Swedish, despite being in my mother's case, 100% Swedish by descent, and in my case 50%.
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  219. I mean a nuclear test zone, and the others like the first are tiny islands in the middle of the cyclone belt.
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  220. A Senator from the corporatist state of Delaware in favor of corporations?
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  221. Greg Popabich Dennis Kucinich also from Ohio is my choice. Like Bernie I know he will never be in their side against us. They literally tried to kill Dennis 3 times in the 1970s because he was too much of a pro-working class mayor of Cleveland.
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  222. Bill Clinton was not a “once in a generation political talent,” he was a hack who benefited from a multi billionaire running twice and getting enough of the vote to allow a minority of voters to elect him. He lost seats in the House and Senate instantly for his party and never regained control. He was not at all a good politician.
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  223. 6'4" or 193 cm is 10 cm taller than the average Dutch man measuring 183 cm. It is 11.5 cm taller than the average Swedish man at 181.5 cm. At 6'4" tall he is taller than 99.5% of all men on earth. That of course is just one metric. He is also as he said broad. His shoulders are obviously at least 106 cm wide I would guess based on observing his size inside of that truck. Having a similarly broad set of shoulders myself that means his is about 30 cm wider than the average coach seat on most airlines given that leg room in coach where he is traveling from in the United States has been reduced to as little as 66 cm it is obvious to anyone who understands simple physics that he would be quite cramped in the typical airline seat. Having a similar broad shoulders frame myself I know that six hours in a middle seat in coach was no fun the one time I had to make such a flight.
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  224. If I own a company and I can pay Uncle Sam $7 million in taxes because the company earned $20 million under this scenario, and keep $3 million, or I can hire more sales people with that same $7 million I would spend in taxes and maybe pay scientists and engineers to do R&D so that next year the company makes $40 million and I get to keep $6 million instead of $3 million, even if that means this year I only get to keep $900,000, then I hire more people, and give my current employees raises. Why? Because it makes economic sense to internalize gains on the government’s dime. If I earn $20 million and only have to pay $2 million, but get to keep $8 million as is the current case and I can make my investors $20 million that will be taxed at a 15% capital gains rate by buying back $5 million worth of stock with that $8 million that wasn’t taxed, that is what I do, as happened last year. Why would I invest to create actual development and growth and progress when the shell game allows me to create paper gains for my investors rather than real growth? That is the debate we need to be having about taxes.
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  225. Botswana, Morroco, Egypt Tunisia, Kenya, Cape Verde Mauritius, and maybe Zanzibar in Tanzania all have promise, as does Ethiopia if it can successfully navigate it's dam projects.
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  226.  @andrewhewerdine  no, but losing in court yet again will and they will lose in court again.
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  227. "There I was with Corn Pop, we were surrounded by a hundred South African police. Brian Williams was on the plane we had just gotten off. It was taking fire. The Reverend who had lead the sit-ins I had attended in the 1960s was with us. I remember thinking why is it my wife was the first in her family to go to college. Why had no one in my family been able to get out of the mines in Scranton. It was because they didn't have a platform to stand on and I said, ask not what your country can do for you, fool me can't get fooled again. That's why I'm asking for your vote for the United States Senate. If you don't like me vote for Trump, or the other Biden."
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  228. Maybe the Philippines does what Panama did with a "Friendly Nations" Retirement Visa replacing the SRRV. I could see it catering to the South Korean military retirees that the original 35 age limit was set for especially as 37-38 is the age for the earliest US military retirees with 20 years of service. I mean the EU, US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, maybe other ASEAN member states, Australia, & New Zealand citizens being offered the visa on friendlier terms with a stricter investor-retirement visa being offered for countries they find less desirable seems likely to me to end up being the case. I can see Malaysia doing something similar with MM2H v 2.0, and Thailand following suite with a new version of it's Elite Visa with an even higher dollar requirement. I can also see each country adopting a formal Digital Nomad work visa & local tax regime for income earned or remitted into the country. My suspicion for version 2.0 of these new Friendly Nations style retirement visas would include proof of a passive annuity, overseas rental income, or overseas royalty income, in addition to the bank deposit.
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  229. I just hope that a week from tomorrow the establishment is crapping frisbees when Cenk gets to say, "Down Goes Cuomo!"
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  230. I had the same issue in Los Angeles, even the sketchiest parts of Los Angeles look no worse than the middle class suburban parts of LA. I mean it's a suburb in search of a city and it's hard to see where the good neighborhood ends and the bad neighborhood begins.
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  231. If you read Sanders M4A bill, and you review statistical data, the average worker in America who has health insurance will get an $11k a year raise AFTER taxes as it is designed to be implemented. The federal jobs guarantee and living wage law that Sanders wants to implement is a far better deal for most workers. It won't help people who don't want a job or to work, but voters don't like those people. I think Sanders has a stronger plan.
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  232. KyleQuest NY as the fourth largest state is. Our single payer plan has passed the Assembly repeatedly and will save New Yorkers $300 billion annually thank you very much!
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  233. No they have zero credibility! No human being could have hung themselves with the force necessary to break the bones from that short height. The physics do not work. According to the US Army’s hangman’s chart at 181 pounds Epstein would have needed to fall 5’7” to 5’9” to have achieved the 1000-1250 foot pounds of torque required to break his vertebrae let alone the much harder to break hyoid bone!
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  234. UpYours the pyramids are in Africa, the first great civilization. Africa was wealthy up until it was colonized.
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  235. Nothing about PR sounds appealing. It's another sort of Swiss Cheese of tax relief kind of places.
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  236. Not only is it not double taxation, it isn’t just the first time the money has been taxed as income to the heir, 99% of the time, it is the FIRST time the money HAS EVER been taxed! Jeff Bezos has not paid taxes on 99% of the wealth he has gained in his life because his wealth has come in the form of unrecognized capital gains. Bezos has X percent of the stock in Amazon when it started and the value of that stock has increased dramatically, but guess what, he hasn’t sold most of that stock, so most of his gains have NEVER BEEN TAXED! The same thing holds true or is WORSE for real estate investors like Trump who have actually depreciated the value of their assets and taken tax deductions on money they borrowed from banks to become rich and took a tax deduction for interest they paid on that borrowed money as their wealth was growing from commercial rents on those properties or residential rents earned from those properties. In other words they have deducted their growth in wealth from the value of their estate as the value has grown and gotten tax incentives to get wealthier. No taxes paid in the first place on that wealth and tax credits earned and deductions taken on the value of those assets as the value grew! That means 99% of the time the inheritance tax is the FIRST TIME that income has been taxed even to the estate, let alone the heirs who get a step up in basis!
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  237.  @therealestake  if they ever reneged on the deal you could still move away from there the same as you likely would if 0% went away in 11 years.
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  238. It may or may not, I mean Roger Ver has spoken about his federal conviction for unlawfully selling explosives, ie fireworks, and he obtained St. Kitts citizenship & a Japanese residency permit despite the conviction.
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  239. If you are subject to the exit tax and likely even if you are not, your 401(k), or IRA will be taxed upon renunciation as if you cashed it all out in the date of expatriation. If it is a Roth & you are over 59 and 1/2 and have held it for five years, zero tax. If it is a traditional IRA or 401(k) it will generally be taxed as it would have been, including penalties if held less than five years or under age 59 and 1/2. If you qualified for social security so long as you are not living in one of a handful of countries that it cannot be paid to, you will collect it and it will be taxed in accordance with any double tax treaty or at the FDAP rate of 30%. If you have a pension from a private company, the same rules generally apply. Of course there are variables, and individual advice is better than someone explaining the general rules, but as I understand those are the general rules and this is not legal advice. Once you cash out the IRA or 401(k) you could invest in in a brokerage account elsewhere and that country's capital gains rules will apply and if invested in the US FDAP income ie dividends and interest will be taxed at double tax treaty rates or the standard FDAP rate of 30%. Of course Irish UCITS ETFs are a good way to get around that if you have a European brokerage account and are in a country where the 30% rate would apply, FOLLOWING EXPATRIATION. If you are still a US citizen UCITS are a bad idea because they a Passive Foreign Investment Corporations to the IRS, even if they are not strictly speaking Corporations which have penalties.
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  240.  @seanpatrick1243  what does it have to do with it? If the Polish Supreme Court decided the Polish Constitution is inconsistent with the treaty, then the EU has grounds to say they never joined. It's a legal interpretation. That has been applied in many treaty cases throughout history. It's akin to lack of capacity to enter a contract.
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  241. That should be grounds for him not being allowed to be President because he could not go to countries to negotiate treaties.
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  242.  @torontovoice1  you don't see the problem with your hypothesis? I mean assuming arguendo you are correct, why would a foreign power have bothered the person in question if they were a citizen of St. Lucia What would they hope to extract from the tiny island nation? Being a US citizen put a target on her back. Not being a US citizen would alleviate the target.
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  243. He is at risk of suicide like Epstein was at risk of suicide. Meaning risk of homicide.
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  244. The US Supreme Court disagrees. Police forces can refuse to hire you because you are too smart.
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  245.  @GoldStorm07  they keep missing the fact that everyone but Bernie said they would thwart the will of the people and the little old black church ladies in South Carolina marched and had friends die for the right to vote. They noted the fact that those fuckers all said they don't care how you vote they will do what they want, all except Bernie!
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  246. Given the fact that the Saudis have stopped pricing oil sales in USD, and the Brics have so many countries joining it this summer and Bitcoin & Ethereum are now officially not securities in the US, the US dollar is going to be crushed in the next year or two. By 2030 the US will look a lot more like Argentina in the 1970s.
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  247. While the general rule on an area being overpriced or overvalued may be true. The job of a real estate investor is to find the deal in such an area. It has always been the rule that you make money when you buy real estate and the reason is you always buy the property that is undervalued. There is always someone who doesn't want a property anymore who must unload it at a bargain price for some reason regardless of location. The job of a real estate investor is to find that deal. That is why not just anyone can do it, and why not just everyone does do it.
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  248. If Cuomo had been half cool he would have just said its an insult to the late great genius John Cazale for you to call me Fredo. His body of work: “The Godfather 1&2” “The Conversation,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Deer Hunter.” The Godfather -winner Best Picture Oscar The Conversation -Nominee Best Picture Oscar -lost to The Godfather II -winner Best Picture Oscar Dog Day Afternoon -Nominee for Best Picture Oscar -lost to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Deer Hunter -winner Best Picture Oscar. All five films nominated for best picture 2 in the same year, 3 winners.
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  249.  @yangj08  you should be able to learn enough of a language like Portuguese in under 200 hours to pass the test & most civics tests required for citizenship by any republic will follow questions about the form of government so simple anyone with a basic understanding of government from just about any republic won't need to study much if anything to pass. I took a sample Armenian citizenship test without studying at all & got 100% of the questions right. Granted Armenia will allow a test taker for have their test translated so I took it in English, but if you know most republics are either parliamentary or Presidential with a legislative, judicial, & executive branch, and that most republics have some specified human rights you are going to do well on the basic civics part. If there is a history piece to the test that may require some additional study, but I doubt more than a week.
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  250. I'm 16 minutes into this and it seems obvious to me that this guy lies like rug, even to himself and like most narcissists masks his true intentions behind a myriad of textured bullshit.
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  251.  @OceanFrontVilla3  it depends on what state you live in. In New York or California you can easily pay between 50 & 60% in income tax with another 5% of your income going to property tax, and another 8 to 10% in sales tax the equivalent of GST & PST. Plus unlike Canada where taxes pay for healthcare the $17,500 in foregone wages on average that a family health insurance plan costs through an employer provider insurance plan is another 29% of the average income lost to private taxes due in the US.
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  252. I am improving the limited Spanish I learned in high school & teaching myself Portuguese now because Spanish gives you a lot of places to move and Portuguese because it's the EU residency & citizenship that is attainable by the largest number of people because of the variety of residency visas and permits. Portugal also has some beneficial tax treaties for an American living there especially in regards to social security taxes and benefits.
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  253. Your rant about leaving just explained why people should leave the USA, not just NYC.
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  254. I suspect the opposite is true and most self-employed individuals in the US are under reporting legitimate deductions like the home office deduction or mileage to avoid being audited. I know I never claimed the numerous legitimate instances where I could have claimed mileage just because it dramatically increases the likelihood of an audit & that was at a time when I was earning less than the current standard deduction, so all that it would basically do is alleviate some of the 15.3% self-employment tax that was due on my earnings and the time I was wasting with tax compliance was already costing me too much money. The last thing I needed was to deal with the time wasted by an audit.
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  255. They are called loopholes for a reason. They are not easy to find, you need to go looking for them and you should probably keep the best ones to yourself so no one closes them up.
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  256. Mandatory Military Service.
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  257. Let the conservadems destroy that shitty party. When the progressive caucus walks out afterwards in mass and says we are now Greens it will be the best thing to ever happen in American politics. The Republicans should keep the speaker chair.
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  258. You know where they wait a lot less time for primary care and urgent care? Cuba. Because there are a lot more doctors for a given neighborhood and they make house calls. Because they are a poorer country they don’t have as many resources for chronic disease related to end of life care to meet all of those needs, but that is an issue of money in society, not doctors. Cuba exports doctors.
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  259. Kamala Harris record speaks for itself and she is a fascist.
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  260. Ireland is a great citizenship, unless you want to take advantage of Ireland's non-domiciled tax system, then it's not a great idea.
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  261.  @TazExprez  after seeing what Peter Thiel did with his Roth IRA it has me thinking a ROBS Roth 401(k) may be the best tax avoidance plan available. Banking for US companies is easy. It's a huge market. If you set up the company as a South Dakota enterprise if you use a foreign corporation as an operating company and either opt for a pass through tax strategy or just paying the corporate G.I.L.T.I. or Subpart F rates you can get taxes to at the most 21% and even after the increase in 2025 only 16.5% under G.I.L.T.I. with the coming of the OECD global tax regime it may be impossible to do better.
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  262. Isn't he the guy who in February of 2016 said Democrats should try to make Trump the Republican nominee because he would be easy to beat? Why would anyone listen to that moron. In February of 2016 I was telling people if it wasn't Bernie that there was zero doubt Trump would win. Anyone out here in the areas that went for Obama in 2008 and 2012 then Trump in 2016 we would tell you the same thing. Look at those counties and you will know where America wants to go. Howard County Iowa and St. Lawrence County New York are good places to look.
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  263.  @devilmanscott  I've been running dual monitors on my Linux box since the day I installed it without so much as a hiccup & that includes when I changed out my graphics card. I didn't have to do a thing.
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  264. Barbados is the one country where dual citizenship may not be a hindrance for public office. I mean they encourage dual citizenship and changed the constitution to allow naturalized dual citizens to hold their highest office.
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  265.  @hainguyenvandong2321  Everything I have read suggest that Paraguay, Mexico, and Belize can cancel a naturalized citizens citizenship if they are away from the country for I think five years, although it may be less and Belize has an ability to cancel citizenship if a naturalized citizen returns to a prior country of citizenship for too much time.
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  266. Owners of US entities now have FinCen disclosure forms they must file too.
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  267. Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, St. Lucia and Uruguay all have territorial tax regimes. The Cayman Islands, Anguilla, the BVI, Turks and Caicos, and the Bahamas all have zero tax regimes, then Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis have zero tax personal regimes, so the tax free options in the Americas are not too shabby with the right planning.
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  268. The good news is she can waste time on that screenplay all she wants and IT WILL NEVER get past the lawyers in business affairs she has said it is based on this guy and unless he signs releases its a waste of her time and effort and he should pay her what she deserves by never signing a release.
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  269. They divorced in 2005. He divorced her before he started Bitcoin mining in 2009. The way this dude is pimping Bitcoin he is the billionaire next door that nobody knows is a billionaire. He was already rich as an ad man, but letting his computers at the office run 24/7 in 2009 made him well to quote Forest, he has more money than Davey Crocket.
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  270. ​ @BemaSeatAcademy  my sister was doing this for a while & finally convinced my mother to do so as well. They both have scores above 800 now.
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  271. Given the positive outcomes for Covid patient with high vitamin D levels & the negative outcomes for individuals who are vitamin d deficient in regards to Covid, Vitamin D is more important than ever before.
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  272. I think I’ve seen his name mentioned repeatedly. I’ve never seen anything funny about him. I’ve seen him being an asshole repeatedly. Who cares.
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  273. I'm wondering about the back door to UK citizenship via the tax beneficial British Overseas Territories like Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Turks & Caicos, or the British Virgin Islands. I know that you can be naturalized after 5 years of residence in most of the territories as a British Overseas Territory Citizen, but I also know that this potentially allows you to also be naturalized as a British Citizen as most Overseas Territory Citizens are now also allowed ordinary British citizenship as well. I mean live in a Caribbean tax haven & get a UK passport is not a bad deal.
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  274.  @yuriychemezov  If you have Bitcoin you may soon be able to use it to buy El Salvadorian citizenship. You can potentially use it to buy El Salvadorian residence if you have enough of it. If the El Salvadoran program becomes available for citizenship, it will give you the ability to maybe restructure your business. Converting your bank held cash to physical gold is probably you actual best bet today.
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  275. His records is worse than his words.
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  276. @Watcher Adobe is becoming less important with every iteration of Davinci Resolve and Fusion. With Maya, Nuke, and Blender all available for Linux, as well as LightWorks, every day Adobe stays off Linux they become less relevant. Windows is too unstable for most of Hollywood and the Mac tax is just not worth the cost with the lack of performance.
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  277.  @Learned333  the exit tax is only on untaxed gains and income. So if the person who just won the $2 billion Powerball were to buy a Maltese citizenship, and renounce next year, assuming they kept the money in T-Bills their exit tax would be the normal income tax on that year's interest.
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  278. It will be somewhat funny when SWIFT is replaced by BRICS.
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  279.  @87solarsky  tell it to the guy who was stuck in the Paris Airport for more than a decade.
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  280. 😂😂😂
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  281. The thing about liars Anna is that they talk very quickly because they don’t want anyone to catch them in their lie. The thing about people telling the truth is that they talk slowly because they don’t want to misspeak and say something that is incorrect.
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  282. Steve, we’ve argued in various social media platforms about economic issues in the past and we are both approaching economics with a more working class, and left wing ideology which makes our disagreements suck because big picture goals we agree. On this issue in particular we are in agreement 1000% as you said about opposition to UBI. Ownership by the working class is the key to an equitable economic future and until workers understand that they are either slaves or made superfluous under a UBI rather than a full, free, and fairly treated participant in a worker owned democracy they are going to be worse off.
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  283. Bitcoin is going to break the dollar because of this crap. Before this is all said and done the Saudis will price crude in Bitcoin or some other decentralized digital hard currency.
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  284. The only Democrat that might beat Trump is Sanders. The only Democrat that might beat Trump is Sanders. Trump will wipe the floors with Biden, Yang, or Warren.
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  285. Cenk, every Defense Attorney in America, let alone prosecutor is saying he is guilty!
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  286.  @NARKISDUDE  they are polling likely voters. That is why they were 17 points off in Nevada. Bernie's campaign has always been about winning unlikely voters. They don't exist in Iowa or New Hampshire, but Nevada proved that in most states they do exist. The 60% increase in early voting amongst Texas voters over prior elections suggest it too. Chuck Rocha has said they have been working the barbershops in South Carolina for 8 months. The most recent poll says South Carolina is a tie. That poll still is missing easily 10% of the voters that are going to show up because the Sanders campaign asked them to vote.
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  287. Capitalism is theft.
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  288. Louis, one of the leading indicators of a recession is a pullback on ad spending. It has nothing to do with YouTube and everything to do with the overall economy being not bad, but manipulated by the oligarchy to enter a recession.
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  289.  @joeybuddy96  For bonus points, you hire the attorney with cash and give him a psuedonym.
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  290. 27,000 votes in a Congressional primary IS ABOVE AVERAGE TURNOUT IN NY!
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  291. You mean Dutch citizenship because that is the citizenship they have and if you become Dutch, you are Dutch and nothing else, the Netherlands does not allow dual citizenship, except for native born Dutch citizens, they will allow them to hold the citizenship of their foreign spouse if that country allows dual citizenship.
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  292.  @robjus1601  the current statute DOES NOT DEFINE who is subject to that tax it just says individual. The Treasury regulations define an individual and who is and is not included. It can be changed with a simple change of the definition.
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  293. The appeal of the UAE from a tax perspective is great. The appeal of the Cayman Islands, Anguilla, the Bahamas, the BVI, or Turks and Caicos coupled with the fact that little things like relationships between consenting adults being none of the state's concern makes them more appealing. The fact that the EU and the CUNA countries are imposing neocolonialist and neoimperialist tax policies to preclude developing nations from utilizing the tax free environments they themselves developed under via banking regulations to "prevent money laundering" is one of the more laughable justifications the imperialists use to continue to exert their authority over their former colonies. It is a pity that those Caribbean nations who embrace greater individual freedoms are not sitting on a vast reservoir of oil that allows them to evade much of the control being imposed on their financial system as the UAE has.
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  294.  @7x779  personally I care about freedom. Any country that wants to interfere with people's ability to make medical decisions is not a free country in my opinion.
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  295. Especially given the fact that the Supreme Court in the US has long standing rules that make it nearly impossible to strip an American of citizenship.
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  296. The proof is in the pudding. Bobby and Huey showed up at the Capital in Sacramento with legal shotguns and within a month Governor Reagan signed the strictest gun laws in the nation into law.
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  297. While Arnold was becoming a world champion bodybuilder he was investing in real estate -his plan B. Before he had ever made a movie he had become a millionaire in real estate investing. While he was acting he was making connections in the political realm through his friends and family that allowed him to run for Governor of California a Plan B. While he was acting he continued investing in real estate, but also investing in the restaurant business with Bruce Willis & Sylvester Stallone at Planet Hollywood yet another Plan B. He was always working on Plan B's. He is a liar.
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  298. Joe Scarborough is literally a former Congressman from the Republican Party. He is a Newt Gingrich lieutenant.
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  299. Two fauxgressive peas in a pod.
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  300. Luxembourg may not look tax friendly on paper, but when you get down into the weeds Luxembourg can be a very tax friendly piece of you business structure.
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  301.  @bobo-uv9ls  That is because the government nationalized the oil industry. Should the USA or EU nationalize ie socialize the oil, gas, & coal industries? How about steel? Aviation? What industries should they nationalize?
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  302. Most of the CBI countries will allow this, some require you to live in the country for as little as 5 days and as he explained, Malta wants you there for 18 months. I have a friend whose father was a German citizen at the time of his birth in the US who is going through the process of obtaining German citizenship he is entitled to under German law by birth as a descendent of a German citizen. As I understand it, he should not have to go to Germany to obtain his citizenship. This is often the case for citizenship by descent. If you are eligible through descent, you can typically obtain a passport and other citizenship paperwork for most countries that allow it from an embassy or consulate in the country you are living in, so long as you can obtain the documents you need. My friend's parents are both alive and have the documentation he needed to establish his eligibility to obtain citizenship. If you need documentation from the country of your parent's citizenship, then you may or may not have to go there to get the documentation. It really depends on whether or not you can obtain the documentation by correspondence. My friend's father naturalized as a US citizen after his birth, if he had naturalized before his birth, he would not have been eligible to obtain German citizenship, but because it was subsequent to his birth he is legally German by birth through descent regardless of what his father did after his birth.
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  303. Have you examined withholding taxes and double tax treaties? Have you looked at new economic substance regulations?
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  304. September 15, 2018 at the latest Trump will be indicted by either the NY AG, the Manhattan DA, or the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the minute after an indictment is handed down the Congress Impeaches him and the Senate convicts. No way could it be otherwise. I also see a RICO Act seizure of all of his assets coming. The law and order Republicans are already abandoning Trump amongst the rank and file. Also Jeff Sessions yesterday threw down and said basically we are going to indict you!
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  305.  @jameskeefe1761  Iceland runs the world's largest crypto mining facility entirely with geothermal power. Geothermal cooling for these facilities could make them more energy efficient and solar farm investment funded by crypto mines are an actual thing, but ignore the facts.
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  306. Honestly given the plain language of the 14th amendment & the current court's emphasis on plain meaning, I fully expect a case to come before the court in the near future holding that not only can Americans including those who fraudulently naturalized to be stripped of their citizenship, but to take it a step further and hold that they cannot renounce their citizenship and repatriating all of those who have much like Argentina disallows expatriation.
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  307. Isn't it interesting at a time when more and more people were living vagabond lifestyles foregoing property ownership in the west with van life & with many location independent digital nomads living a Trifecta or tourist lifestyle that allowed them to escape the tax system, a coronavirus, a type of virus typically associated with a cold & a category of viruses which have not been known to result in long term immunity & for which an effective long term vaccination is unlikely to ever come to fruition strikes Wuhan China the same month that scientists from Ft Dietrich in the US where the Army studies pathogens are attending a conference in Wuhan where an equivalent Chinese research facility is located? That seems like an amazing coincidence to me. It also seems amazing to me that every country on earth has the exact same shuttering response to the virus within a few days, but what do I know.
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  308. This is correct, but structuring of your business and your residencies can optimize it even further. For EU citizens especially the opportunities are amongst the best available. If you are an EU citizen with a tax-free citizenship like an Antigua or St. Kitts in your back pocket you even have options for an escape plan that becomes more appealing. As an American planning around taxes is much harder, but there are even times when using an American corporation makes sense, especially if you have read the right double tax treaties and understand when what looks like a problem in regards to lowering your taxes actual creates an opportunity. This is especially true if you have friends in business whose assets are in no way related to yours that are happy to benefit by working with you on a plan to make you both wealthier. Avoiding taxes with international structuring and loopholes is a team sport.
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  309.  @lordmakubex9460  neither of them collected a single delegate. They are only hurting Bernie, which was Tulsi's job. She was the fox in the henhouse of the establishment. I never bought her BS.
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  310.  @InstantLuc  Turkey has great access to Latin America and the Caribbean too.
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  311. So Malta won the court case then, not surprising given the precedents.
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  312.  @Peter-MH  Monaco, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Singapore, and UAE, with that last spot probably flipping between the UAE/Qatar/Bahrain these days.
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  313. This is not opinion, this is advice from people who live in Thailand I've seen repeated numerous times by various people. You don't want to be in Chiangmai during the burning season. So maybe Koh Samui when the farmers are burning fields to prepare for planting?🤷🏼‍♂️
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  314. My criticism is that it doesn’t go far enough! Why do we need a Senate? It is undemocratic and 18 percent of the population controls 50% of the Senate seats! If we are doing half measures eliminating the Senate and term limits for the House is a middle ground measure. A better measure would be direct democracy with the use of sortition to create better citizen participation through precinct boards. Direct democracy with every 150 voters of a precinct being represented by a board of 9 community members with 6 month terms chosen by sortition so that every adult serves every 7 years to propose laws which are then approved for submission to a national referenda by a majority vote of the 600 members of a 10,000 member district’s 67 or so precinct boards with the people having final say at a monthly direct vote would be better.
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  315.  @pixelcat5281  99% of cards and peripherals work out of the box with Linux with zero need to obtain any drivers. nVidia stands out because of their refusal to open source drivers which would mean the Linux community would gladly help them make better drivers for their stuff. it's actually a piss poor corporate management problem. AMD just works out of box with zero headaches 99.9995% of the time. How bizarre? The same goes for a ton of peripherals. Are there some stand out problems with printers? Yes, but they are much rarer as noted by the super easy experience Linus and Luke had.
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  316. Swagoto Ghosh the polls got the popular vote right.
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  317. The thing that I found out about Labuan that I found most interesting is that it can become a branch, and place of management of non-Malaysian ie non-Labuan companies which are taxed as Labuan companies when managed and controlled in Labuan if you choose the right jurisdiction to incorporate or form such entities. The asset protection of a Nevis LLC coupled with tax residence for that company in Labuan, assuming you can get banking in a quality jurisdiction like Liectenstein, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Switzerland, Singapore, or even Malaysia for the entity would make for a solid holding company.
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  318. I saw a video of a guy who spent a day there waiting for the next flight to one of the more inaccessible islands of Oceania and even in the middle of the day the falling down pier on the one beach & the crowd there all looked depressing. He had no problems, but even the local who drove him to a store said, don't leave your hotel room after dark. Not just don't leave the hotel, don't even leave your room. The locals think the place is sketchy.
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  319. This is how the US Supreme Court would rule if the US signed a treaty that violated the constraints of our Constitution. The treaty would be void. Our Supreme Court has already held that our Presidents have the authority with the stroke of a pen to cancel any treaty and there is no doubt based on our legal precedents that the courts could do the same if a treaty in anyway violated the constitutional authority of the federal government.
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  320. DustyO'Rusty I think John Inslee would be better, but Dennis Kucinich is the only one I actually trust to fight for the Sanders agenda as VP.
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  321. It has been a while, but back in 1919 the US did invade Russia.
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  322.  @MGSavoy  The "Jonesers" term comes from Keeping Up with the Joneses. It is the term I've seen for the later half of the Boomers who often have more in common with Gen X than their older siblings or cousins born right after the War. The late 50s part probably has more in common with their older Boomer siblings and cousins, but Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were both born in 1955 & after '55 was the part of the Boomers more likely to have transitioned into using tech with no problems than the older Boomers earlier in their careers. I mean I'm part of Generation X, but also the micro-gen of Xennials, so most of the time I'm with X, but a good portion of the time I'm with Millennials too.
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  323. Nina is going to be Chief of Staff.
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  324. Kyle Medicare for All is one of the things that won the 1992 election for Bill Clinton.
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  325.  @MrKurt2233  I am getting my final ducks in a row to leave the US for good. I haven't decided where I will ultimately settle, but Mexico is one of several places I may spend some of my time.
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  326.  @filipalexandersson794  maybe he meant Mauritanian?
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  327. The fact that the drug dealers I mean doctors prescribed so many addictive and deadly narcotics has not helped.
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  328. Outlaw wage slavery and the problem takes care of itself. Capitalism is not just. Libertarian Socialism, social democracy, and egalitarian humanism is a better system.
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  329. Jonathan West the head of the Flight Attendant’s Union supports Medicare for All and said the workers in her union want the wages that Sanders bill delivers. Every dollar of cost savings to a company from the switch to Medicare for All must be paid in higher wages to employees under the bill. You can actually read it. Also she said this when GM took away UAW strikers’ healthcare. The greatest impediment to union organizing and. power is the fact that healthcare has been tied to employment. There is no “choice” in healthcare it’s a bullshit talking point of corporate spin doctors. A so called public option would in fact cost dramatically more than the current system while Medicare for All would reduce costs. Why? For exactly the reasons spelled out in this video. The insurance company would maximize profits by dumping their expensive patients into the public pool and they will take the profitable health patients. That is what they did in the 1960s when Medicare was created. There is a reason only the elderly and disabled are in the pool. There is a reason the companion Medicaid was created too, the poor can’t pay premiums, and if they are sick with communicable disease that could make the insurance company’s profit centers -which is how they describe their clientele, sick and that would cost them money. We have a system designed to protect private profits, not health.
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  330. I mean if you are minding your own business in a country you are not a citizen of and you are present in that country as the holder of a passport from a country that generally minds it's own business ie a second passport you obtained by descent, residency, or investment for most Americans, and you are there as a tourist, even if there is a serious geopolitical event that shakes the country, your ability to leave is unlikely to be taken away and the odds of you specifically being targeted are minimal if you are paying attention to what the local sentiment towards foreigners is and you don't overstay your welcome anywhere whether legally or in the case of sentiments being negative towards foreigners and you failing to leave early from the party. There is a lot to be said for having a few citizenships, and multiple residencies in terms of your ability to avoid outside forces from impacting your day to day life.
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  331. I think if I move anywhere it will be either the Algarve in Portugal, or Buenos Aires in Argentina. The most likely scenario is Portugal followed by Argentina after obtaining citizenship in Portugal, but I will probably be in Argentina some of the year on a tourist visa, Uruguay also on a tourist visa, probably a residency permit in Paraguay and probably a residency permit in Mexico with a rotation. Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Brazil may end up in the mix some of the time too. Why Portugal first, because if operations are structured correctly, I could probably cut social security taxes in half, despite the higher topline rates in Portugal, and reduce the income tax by as much as 90% or more.
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  332. As the son of a mechanic who grew up to be a lawyer they are lucky someone like me wasn't sitting on that committee because I would have made the guy look like a fool. It's hard to grow up with a mechanic as a dad and not learn when a con man is playing mechanic. That guy testifying to the committee was a moron.
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  333. Cenk, the fact that the genuine legal analysts at Fox Noise didn’t quash that interview and hide it as the propaganda arm for the right wing means that the Powers That Be have gotten their tax cut out of Trump and now can use him as the whipping boy and example to silence the rabble about corruption. They aren’t going to cut a deal with Trump. They are going to take his fortune away and bury him under the prison. He is going to be the “see, America isn’t corrupt” poster boy. The world of hurt about to be unleashed on him by the puppet masters who know enough Machiavelli to never become the king, but always remain the power behind the throne almost makes me feel pity for that sociopath -the key word ALMOST!
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  334. keis Farrow well because literally to get on the ballot in most states as a third-Party candidate ie independent he has to complete petitioning in about half of all states THIS YEAR. Howie Hawkins of the Greens is petitioning in Arizona right now, Oklahoma, and several other states because the deadline is before December to get on the ballot as a third-Party candidate. If he were to petition -Bernie that is, for an independent line he would be barred by DNC rules from participating in the Democratic Primary. Do you understand now? There are laws which govern this process and they are designed to keep third-party candidates off the ballot. You need to gather like 50,000 signatures in many states to get on the ballot which means that after the Democrats and Republicans challenge your petitions, you actually need 100,000 signatures in some f those states to get on the ballot. Do you understand now? Also in about half of the states if you participate in the primary of another party YOU ARE BARRED BY LAW FROM RUNNING ON ANOTHER PARTY LINE.
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  335. With the right trust structure I don't see why this can't be facilitated shortly. As in, the minute level 4 autonomous vehicles are available and legally able to drive themselves.
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  336. The 80/20 trifecta works really well is you are spending 4 months a year in the UAE and 5 months year in the Cayman Islands or Monaco, or Bahamas, or one of the other tax free islands in the Caribbean or even one of the territorial tax countries with a standar days test. Unless you want to spend the other three months in a country you are a national of that uses the center of interest test, unless they have a tax treaty with the other country. In the case of Malta for example, Monaco and the UAE would be helped by that treaty.
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  337. If you aren't thinking about a plan like the legal & accounting department at a large multi-national corporation, you are probably doing it wrong. I mean you need to worry (from an American perspective) about IP issues regarding transfers of any IP assets to a foreign company under the new rules surrounding GILTI which are designed to make it hard to expatriate a trademark, patent, copyright, or goodwill of a business. You have to look at the impacts of the offshore jurisdiction where the company is headquartered on GILTI liability now and give years from now when the rates become more punitive. You have to examine merchant account processors that will work with a given jurisdiction. You have to examine banks for the jurisdiction where the company is headquartered. You need to look at international double tax treaties with your primary market to see what jurisdictions can benefit you and how to possibly use multiple jurisdictions to get money out of a primary market without withholding and to your headquarters without a withholding from the jurisdiction you use to get money out of your primary market. You need to examine relationships potentially amongst multiple countries to make sure you can access markets other than the jurisdiction for your primary market. I say this because in this day and age most people going offshore I would assume have a business which is somewhat location independent thanks to the Internet. You need to examine payroll taxes in those various countries and local labor costs. You need to examine transfer pricing rules and controlled foreign corporation rules for jurisdictions where you may actually live, or with the trifecta approach you suggest you may need to make sure you can move between location a) b) or c) in a given time frame to avoid triggering tax residence in an undesirable location for you personally, or plan around that ever becoming an issue. Figuring out how to get company accounts is important, but so to are personal accounts for the places you want to live, which likely means residence permits are an issue too. I mean if you want to go to one jurisdiction and live in that jurisdiction and bank in that jurisdiction it may be easier, but if you want your company in one jurisdiction and you in other jurisdictions it becomes harder. If you want those two things and access to a specific target market without withholding issues regarding your customers from a given jurisdiction it is something else entirely. I mean if your target market is the US for your app or your SaaS and you want to get money out of the US without withholding taxes, that is going to take a lot of planning and probably multiple jurisdictions. You are going to be reading double tax treaties and local laws. You are also going to be looking at payment processors like a Stripe or a PayPal for jurisdictions that they freely work with and you will be looking at merchant account providers likely including high risk merchant account companies. On top of those logistics challenges you will also be looking for banks that will take your business in the approriate jurisdictions and nothing about any of this should ever seem cookie cutter to anyone. There may be solutions that are cookie cutter for certain scenarios, but a solution for a SaaS company is not going to look like a solution for an FBA company or a company that is manufacturing physical products where navigating tariffs may also become a significant issue beyond labor costs and tax implications. Let's not even get into transfer pricing and using a wholesaler to warehouse to export from the point of manufacturer take profits and resell to the import market.
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  338.  @dlukton  GILTI makes it much harder, not impossible, but much harder to keep money offshore without it being taxed, so yes big multinationals with an army of attorneys and accountants will be able to take advantage of some savings, but loopholes are being closed all over the place. The biggest Irish loophole the Double Irish with the Dutch Sandwich and the Double Irish with the Single Malt was closed, and even if it weren't closed, the GILTI tax regime would bring any income taxes below 13.5% currently and 16.5% in a few years up to at least 21% for C Corps and as high as 37% for any individual owner who doesn't make a an IRC 962 election if they personally are considered a US shareholder of a controlled foreign corporation. It is making it much more complex for smaller firms, but it is making it a lot more complex for larger firms too. Between FATCA and CRS, along with the EU blacklist regime and the OECD's efforts to close loopholes and the new economic presence tests which have been adopted for sales tax and vat being pushed into the income tax realm as well, a lot of international tax planning will become increasingly complex, not just for those seeking to minimize their taxes, but also for those simply attempting to comply with increasingly complex laws when they are operating any business connected with the Internet for example. Basically the tax code is becoming an excellent way to stifle free speech.
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  339. All Buttigieg does is a bad Thurston Howell the Third Impression from Gilligan's Island.
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  340. If Bernie wins WITHOUT winning the black vote in South Carolina -which Chuck Rocha has lead me to believe is possible by turning out Latinos, then black voters will either have to fall in line, or become a footnote to the Democratic Party because securing the Latino vote would be enough.
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  341. You lost a million cool points Kyle. In N Out are my favorite fries ever and burger.
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  342.  @johnq.public2621  Malaysia along with many other majority Muslim nations do not allow Israeli citizens to enter their territory. That is beginning to change with relations having normalized with Bahrain, the UAE, & Morocco, along with Saudi Arabia allowing commercial overflights between Israel & the UAE, but there are still numerous Muslim nations that do not allow Israeli citizens entrance.
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  343. There is a lot to be said for Anguilla being much less developed than other Caribbean Islands, but only a 15 minute ferry ride to St. Maarten too. I mean less to do on Anguilla, but if you want to go to a big event on the weekend St. Maarten is right next door.
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  344. Nwamaka Okobi if you have a job there is no choice either. You get who your employer chooses.
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  345. Because that doesn't help with the neocolonist and neoimperialist policies of control over their former colonies. The system as it is imposed today allows the imperialists of old to look more fair and benevolent while still maintaining their control. An automated low cost transaction tax would give the colonies and their people too much power over their own lives and futures.
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  346.  @Dylski.  yeah they have a $650k bounty on it's encryption because they can review it.
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  347. You know the best way to fix a MacBook? Install Linux on it like Linus Torvalds does!
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  348. I gotta be honest with you, as an American, Tiblisi, Georgia is on the list of places I would think about moving, because their immigration policies are welcoming to foreigners, they make it fairly easy to operate a business there as a self-employed person, and they have very tax friendly situations for a lot of different kinds of businesses and a lot of options to make your business tax friendly.
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  349. Yet in America we routinely sell 6 to 8 foot by 3 to 4 foot plots of land. Typically these small titled plots sell for several hundred to a few thousand dollars each. The expense for these parcels is often incurred at a most inconvenient time and the person to whom ownership is bestowed generally makes perpetual use of it, but gets no discernable enjoyment from the small plot.
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  350. How quaint. Cenk believes that there won’t be a national emergency that Trump declares to suspend the elections and some further action that he takes to disband the Congress.
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  351.  @jshawsworld  the best thing about European loopholes is that the top line tax rates are so high, the poor people will never know you don't pay any taxes because they don't understand not only what the loopholes are, but how massive they are. I mean you could literally have a European company in a country with a tax rate that appears to be 35% that actually pays 0% and you could live in a country where the tax rate is 50% or more for individuals and pay 1% or maybe 2% on your total income, but on the income you spend inside that country your tax rate might be 40% or more.
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  352.  @jakeryan2805  They are investing in and improving infrastructure in the Philippines they haven't done that in the US in so long that it is deteriorating. Most of the world has better or on par infrastructure with the US these days with rare exception.
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  353. A freshman congresswoman forced the Republican Controlled Senate to have a vote on a Green New Deal and has Republican Senators from Tennessee suggesting we need a “Manhattan Project” on clean energy to get us there in five years. A Republican Senator from Tennessee. Let me say that one more time. A Republican Senator from Tennessee is willing to put a “Manhattan Project” in the table for a five year plan to get us clean energy. The Manhattan Project cost $100 Billion adjusted for inflation 20 years ago so $300 billion today and employed 120,000 people to build a bomb on 4 years. If we put 120,000 people to work building rockets to deploy an orbital ring and solar farm satellites to beam power back down to earth and spent $300 billion on the project we would eliminate the need for fossil fuels in the US and the project would pay for itself in 3 to 6 years through the resale of that new electricity source. If we invested the same efforts into commercializing fusion reactors we could make that project a reality on 3 to 5 years too. But a freshman member of the House got that type of action on the table in the Senate. Tell me again what a Bernie Sanders Presidency couldn’t!5 do! Elected officials can only say no if everyone is saying no. The second that it becomes obvious they can be replaced and that if you replace them with even one real representative they all start to fall in line. You elect someone President with a citizen focused agenda they ask how high when the President tells them to jump!
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  354.  @enjoyslearningandtravel7957  most EU countries have exit tax rules for companies that are re-domiciling, the EU prevents exit tax on individuals moving with the EU, Mexico has exit tax on companies transferring assets. Australia, Japan, and Canada all have exit taxes when an individual ends their tax residence in those countries. Those are just the ones I know off the top of my head.
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  355. Or a fund that is controlled by a Worker's Council should be created to compete which allows its members to easily vote their shares democratically.
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  356. Lexort 420 Bernie is as far left as the Democrats will go. In many safely blue states the better option to push Democrats left will be the likely Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins.
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  357. xadam2dudex or use state eminent domain laws to seize the wirelines.
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  358. I wonder if the Obama people understand that Occupy Wall Street was a reaction to him and them. We hate you too.
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  359. @You're Gonna Hate This I'm not talking out of my ass, I lived through the Cold War. https://www.history.com/news/why-are-countries-classified-as-first-second-or-third-world
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  360. @You're Gonna Hate This well tell me about Czechoslovakia's extensive nuclear program. Or how about the Belgium bomb or the Italian nuclear arsenal. So there are first and second world countries without the bomb. Now explain to me how India and Pakistan both clearly Third-World countries under both definitions and both nuclear armed states are the first world. You are the epitomy of s Trumper. Fact free minds.
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  361. It's a plateau not a peak and will drag on for many many months. The oil crash is coming.
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  362.  @ssanonswu2010  my impression was that they left the Commonwealth if that is not correct then it may be less of an issue, but the consular assistance available to Commonwealth nation's citizens is a tremendous benefit for the smaller island nations within it. It takes a fair amount of resources to staff embassies and consulates around the world.
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  363. As to why a Canadian would move to Australia? I mean Andrew it's obvious. The weather. Yes summer in the part of Canada where most Canadians live isn't generally oppressively hot nor too cold, but the winters are a lot worse than Australia, for a very similar tax regime, and very similar society overall. Maybe the Aussies aren't quite as polite, but sunshine and warm weather are more in abundance in Australia than Canada.
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  364. ​​ @jimmymars619 Almost all field crops grown in the USA contain glysophate and it is in the run off water spreading even to nearby organic farms. It was outlawed years ago in most of the world.
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  365. OriginalTharios the people are fine. The problem is that democracy is not practiced but a republic with an oligarchical ruling class.
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  366. If you pay attention you know he transits through Istanbul not Dubai or Doha.
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  367. Walkable cities are the best reason to leave the USA.
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  368.  @anonymousanonymous6735  Residents of British Overseas Territories who naturalize as BOT Citizens often at the discretion of the Home Office in the UK are also naturalized as British Citizens, the majority of the time if you are naturalized as a BOTC you should also obtain UK citizenship as I understand it, but technically that is discretionary to the home office. Having said that, if you were not going to be granted UK citizenship, I suspect you also would be denied BOT citizenship. You technically "register" as a UK citizen after obtaining the BOT citizenship. It is a fairly wonky and bureaucratic process. Native born BOT Citizens & those who were BOT Citizens on the date the law went into effect granting British Citizenship to all BOT Citizens were made citizens of the UK proper automatically. There are lots of ways to become a UK citizen, but BOT Citizenship does not necessarily convey permanent residency or "belonger" status rights to a particular British Overseas Territory. Some BOTs do grant all rights of "belonger" status to BOT naturalized citizens, others require as much as 20 years of residency on the island to obtain "belonger" status and depending on the territory - in most you can obtain BOT citizenship with 5 years of residency just like 5 years living in the UK will provide UK citizenship so long as you have went through the process of obtaining "permanent leave to remain." The UK citizenship & residency laws and the BOT Citizenship rules confused the hell out of me and I say that as a lawyer who spent forever reading the rules. Oh and UK proper citizenship does not in any way so far as I can tell grant any residency rights to a British Overseas Territory. The internal immigration rules of the territory provide for that.
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  369. BernieBro Clinton/Cuomo voters are as arrogant as Cuomo. They don’t think their person could ever lose.
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  370. It is easy. Howie Hawkins will be on the ballot!
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  371. tdsm19 I’m an attorney and that isn’t whataboutism. It is about having standards and a code. Perjury is a felony. I know I once defended a 16 year old rape victim accused of it for allegedly lying about their perpetrator -whom they believed they were in love with, violating an order of protection in their favor. He was facing 5 years in the state penitentiary for the alleged perjury. Which didn’t seem fair given the fact that the 36 year old woman who had statutorily raped him was going to serve 18 months. It especially always stuck in my craw because a sitting President and a licensed attorney who should have known and done better faced precisely zero punishment for his crime. If the standard is the same for everyone I’m fine with that, but if it isn’t I have a problem with that, call me old fashioned. Call me crazy.
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  372. Shakera Thomas and if you examine what I have said earlier you will note that I have consistently said Trump is a felon who must be impeached and convicted too. I have said so and will continue to say so, but being consistent about the law and the facts matters.
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  373. No, the places the US bombs are dangerous.
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  374. The fact that the ACT 20 company MUST provide services for EXPORT should not be lost in the HYPE. This is especially true in light of new Treasury Regulations which are beginning to source the income of digital sales at the point of consumption. AT LEAST for downloadable digital content, ie non-SaaS software and/or eBooks, or downloadable videos. This could dramatically hamper the potential tax benefits of the ACT 20 NOW ACT 60 loophole. Let's be honest it is a loophole and Congress is very good at plugging loopholes. What about this plug for the hole, they grant Puerto Rico statehood and it loses its tax advantaged status. Don't get me wrong, Puerto Rico looks good, in fact, today, with the rise of CRS and FATCA, the EU blacklist and the OECD forcing its economic substance requirements on the tax favorable jurisdictions of the past, there is a lot to be said for ACT 20 and ACT 22, now ACT 60 as I understand it, but it is likely to be a short term solution. In fact, by law, IT MUST BE A SHORT TERM SOLUTION, 30 years maximum if the 10 year renewal is granted at the 20 year mark. What good does ACT 20 do for the business person who wants to sell real physical products to actual human beings? Yes, you can convert a portion of the profits from such an enterprise to service based income by providing marketing services to your physical products company, but wouldn't you rather pay the 9% corporate tax rate on the profit from selling those goods in Montenegro and not have to worry about how the income is categorized by the IRS in a dispute, and maybe pay Zero Percent on the dividends you receive for those distributions as a citizen and tax resident of St. Kitts & Nevis, or a tax resident of Panama or Malaysia receiving those dividends at your home in one of those countries where you have the option of pulling up stakes and changing your tax residency if needed to minimize your taxes, or where you have the option to move the company from Montenegro for a better deal if you find one. I mean the piece of paper creating a corporation can sit in any drawer in any country. As long as that country gives you access to banks that let you move your money and use it freely, it doesn't matter what country the corporate articles are sitting in at the end of the day.
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  375. Imagine what the police could investigate if drugs were all decriminalized and fully legalized and they no longer wasted time investigating prohibition cases which are not crimes. Imagine what police could investigate if prostitution likewise were legalized and decriminalized as it was in several European countries, most of Australia and New Zealand. Sex trafficking and any form of forced labor can of course remain a crime on the books, but that is a different beast than consensual self-employment in the sex work industry, but the point is, when they made alcohol and prostitution illegal in the US 100 years ago, the police had just finally started implementing scientific investigatory techniques to solve real crimes, like robberies, burglaries, arson, rapes, and murders, but 50% of murders go unsolved, 95% of citizen reported robberies, burglaries and crimes that are not against corporate enterprise is barely investigated as you pointed out with examples from your own life Cenk, yet we have about 3 million Americans incarcerated mostly for drug crimes, and our actual crime rate has fallen to record low levels, but we don't investigate actual crimes and we don't prosecute actual crimes, and we don't investigate those actual crimes because the government cannot confiscate wealth by investigating actual crimes. That doesn't seem right to me. I don't think it seems right to most citizens on any side of the political spectrum, but are we having a discussion about that issue?
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  376. In nearly every video whether Andrew or another member of his staff, they state "We help seven and eight figure enterprenuers go where they are treated best." If telling you that they cater to millionaires didn't tell you that.
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  377. Clinton got 3 million more votes than Trump. He lost. The fact that 18 percent of the population controls 50% of the Senate is the sole reason that Trump is in office.
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  378. I have watched a few of your videos at this point & you reiterating something I had seen before about finding one channel that allows you to sell $1 million worth of one product or service in a year is the key to being able to build a business that will be able to grow bigger than that & it made me realize that the idea I had for a business was mediocre because it was highly improbable that such an event would occur in that business. A minor tweak in terms of what to do and how to do it, focusing on a different opportunity with a similar sweat equity versus capital equity ie bootstrapped approach popped into my head within a day of hearing that sentiment which I had seen previously, and I knew I had found the right opportunity. There are opportunities in this service where as few as ten clients per month could get it to $100k in revenue or as many as 200 clients per month, but there are recurring revenue opportunities, one-off opportunities and way more potential, but the best part of the opportunity is that it has zero capital cost. Can be entirely bootstrapped, and even 1 to 2 low end clients per month would pay living expenses for me as the founder. Thanks for rewiring my thinking.
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  379.  Real American  explain to me where Sanders has called for the end of private property and worker controlled enterprises then and you can call him a communist otherwise shut the fuck up you disingenuous asshole!
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  380. A process for commencing a lawsuit.
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  381. Thom retire you are as out of touch with the left as Pelosi the corporate scumbag is. You really are not on the right side of history here.
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  382.  @guilhermesalesferreiradaco2934  I know, on paper, but I'm pointing out the fact that in reality it isn't always the case, as with Bulgaria and Australia. As Andrew has pointed out in past videos, on paper Turkey has visa free access to Serbia. When you get to Serbian customs with a Turkish passport as a practical matter the hassles may not jibe with that status. The real world application of the on paper law isn't always respected. Knowing that going into something is beneficial. I mean on paper after five years of permanent residence you can apply to become Panamanian. 10 years later you are unlikely to actually be granted Panamanian citizenship.
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  383. Mac OSX has 12% of the desktop market and runs on very limited hardware and charges an exorbitant Mac Tax for each system. One intelligent Linux hardware maker doing smart marketing and the same thing can happen for Linux easily at 2 to 3x the adoption rate of Mac Linux is more secure. It doesn’t get viruses even though it runs most of the Internet and 70% of smart phones. When you point out to Mac users that it too is a Unix cousin of Linux built on a free and open source BSD kernel that pricks up some ears if that company supports its hardware and its software and packages the productivity tools that creatives want. Let’s be honest, creatives will leave Adobe quicker than office workers will leave MS Office and you can get both of those markets with the right marketing. The right $3 million Super Bowl ad from a company like System76 would be all it takes to create the seed change.
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  384. If you want wages to go up in the US, then outlaw wage slavery. Self-directed work must become the only legally acceptable form of employment. Capitalism even bourgeoisie capitalism of small owners is the problem. Democracy at Work in the form of solo entrepreneurs with no employees and no contract labor, partnerships with only partners as laborers, worker owned cooperatives, and worker directed not-for-profit corporations and for high investment and high return enterprises hybrid worker/consumer-owned cooperatives as well as civil service employment should be the only forms of employment. Even in terms of civil service most work should be farmed our to contracted worker owned cooperatives. If we make that change there is no need to worry about “automation” as work hours will be reduced, but workers will earn drastically more per hour. A fundamental shift to a hybrid market/community based socialism an anarcho-socialism/democratic socialism/libertarian socialism hybrid is the only thing that is going to fix this economy.
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  385. The Constitution is sacrosanct. You guys always say so now you want to change it. No, no and no. And by the way if a foreigner who is not a legal permanent resident of the US gives birth to a child in the US like while on vacation, they are already barred from re-entering the US. The child is a citizen, but that foreigner parent will be deported and declared persona non-grata from entering the US under current law. There is no such thing as an "anchor baby." What they have done to the child is cursed them with a lifelong tax burden from a country they probably will never even live in nor want to. The United States is a developing nation based on all of the metrics, nobody wants to live in the US you are delusional.
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  386. A deduction for the trust is not a deduction for the beneficiary. It is reportable income for the beneficiary.
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  387.  @user-dy2qq5wh4b  I'm a tax lawyer and beneficiaries of trusts are taxed on income of the trust paid to them while the trust itself gets a deduction.
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  388. It is where I think smart people will hold their cash.
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  389. Abortion is legal in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay amongst the Latin American countries with pathways to immigrate and obtain citizenship. Most of Europe has legal abortion. Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam all have legal abortion in Southeast Asia. I hope this is helpful for anyone wondering about that issue. There are other countries I missed as well I am sure, but amongst places people might look at to move, these are high on the list.
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  390. @richunggoy3960  it already has been outlawed in a majority of US states
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  391. Howie Hawkins of the Green Party will be running and Howie is for an NHS system. If he won they might negotiate him down to Medicare for All and he came up with the Green New Deal only a bolder version, when he ran for NY Governor in 2010. He is working to get on the ballot in all fifty states right now and is the likely Green Party nominee.
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  392. ​​​ @mirceadraga7421  Because they have no exemption right from Schengen. The UK had and Ireland has as an EU member an exemption. With "an emergency" ie COVID, some countries without Schengen exemption rebuilt borders which are essentially illegal under the EU treaty -absent the "emergency" aka excuse.
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  393. ​ @Rondigity  MOST POINTS BY A ROOKIE. THERE IS A RECORD.
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  394. Here is my prediction. Biden will win NC, VA, TN, OK, AR by slim margins, Bernie will get zero delegates from at least one state and they will be called by 10 pm. MA will remain too close to call until Wednesday. MN will be called for Klobuchar at midnight. CO and UT will be called in the morning for Sanders. VT will be called at polls close for Sanders. ME will be called Wed for Biden - remember IRV is used in Maine- he will get all of the delegates. California will be half-heartedly called for Bernie early Wed PM. Just before the 6PM news hour on the east coast Buttigieg on Wed will drop out and endorse Joe Biden and talk about how the party must rally behind the then delegate leader Joe Biden as the Texas results are announced for Biden by a slim margin. And that is how you manufacture consent.
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  395. There are no true new housing starts right now. Projects that were in the pipe and custom homes that were already ordered by people who are employed are moving forward, but new housing starts from speculative builders are dead. The rental market is overbuilt and the homeownership market is fairly locked. You will see an odd real estate deflation cycle where there are no sellers and just enough buyers from the REITS looking to build out rental stock with a declining rents market to a degree and a massive uptick in homelessness. There will be a fair amount of REO for banks who will carry that shit as they have for the last decade, but not too much.
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  396. ​ @swish6143 in fact if you offer service on an IP address to anyone publicly anywhere on earth, it is a violation of EU law to deny access to citizens of an EU country, which Germany is and as Google has offices in EU countries they are subject to the jurisdiction of the EU, so you are wrong as a matter of fact and law.
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  397. It is relatively easy to beat the high taxes in Portugal for 10 years so long as you structure operations correctly. The NHR can do the trick. Otherwise for a D7 visa holder in Portugal for example, being subject to the self-employment regime is probably the best bet. In terms of living in Ireland, being an EU citizen elsewhere is probably the easiest way to live there. Being married to an EU citizen is an easy way too. Not being an Irish citizen and not having reckonable residence in Ireland so that you are subject to the non-dom status there is where you get the best tax treatment.
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  398.  @orlandogonzalezarias6123  the hassles of flying private are almost none.😏 The truly high networth live very different. Even flying first class is not that big of a hassle. Just watch nonstop Dan or numerous other travel vlogs from the midst of the pandemic. The airline reviewers have kept up travel at a heck of a pace
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  399. All evidence to the contrary.
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  400. IncognitoTorpedo the 40 minutes per day number is based on the average commute time according to Census data. The hour a week is based on my own usage as a self-employed at home worker. Are there variations, sure, but these aren’t crazy estimates.
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  401. If you have a couple of million dollars in the bank or stocks, or bonds, or crypto & you can document your assets and you have a passport that gets you into Europe visa-free and if you have a residence just about anywhere, so long as you aren't a felon or a citizen of a nation the west is at war with or defacto at war with in essence, and you are not a criminal, the odds of you not being able to get a tourist visa to visit Canada, Australia, the United States or New Zealand seems pretty slim to me if those countries are following their laws which they usually do. I mean given how the US has treated some visitors from ESTA countries during Covid, I think getting the 10 year B1/B2 visa is probably the better idea.
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  402. ​ @Arthagnou  XMR does not have that flaw and has all of the privacy that people thought Bitcoin had.
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  403. I have been watching videos about Albania. It was a more interesting play before they introduced CFC rules earlier this year, but with the right structure an American could live in Albania and reduce their taxes with the FTC and FEIE there while earning a passport that fills some interesting gaps that many other citizenships leave out.
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  404. Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory, so I mean it's an English country.
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  405. There are 19 million millionaires in the US. In Indonesia a country of similar size and population there are 106k millionaires. In the US until you reach $30 million in net worth you are still essentially upper middle class or lower upper class. There are only about 81k ultra-high-networth individuals in the US worth more than $30 million. If you want to know Uber wealth become a millionaire in America and move to a country where that million dollars means you are essentially as small of a percentage of the population as the UHNWI in the US. Go to a country like Indonesia and your money will go farther.
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  406. As a six year old in 1982 I fell in love with George Carlin when he said, “I was listening to my Rice Kryspies the other day, and I distinctly heard snap, crackle, fuck him.” Yes, my family is very libertarian about language and the truth and demands people think rigorously about the world. I thank my late aunt who was babysitting that night for bringing George into my life at such an early age. He was a genius. His last special was strong. And Jeselnik is wrong. I watched the special he claims is only available as a bad recording. I think these guys hate the fact that they will never be as funny as old Georgie. George Carlin only ever had one heir apparent in his lifetime and Bill Hicks died of cancer as a very young man. There are people who were inspired by George and Bill who will tell you they ain’t as good, like Jimmy Dore and Lee Camp, then their are putzes like this who will never compete with the guy whose star is at the corner of Selma and Vine because where now stands a Bed Bath and Beyond once stood the radio station in LA that gave George his first job in Hollywood. Not his first job in radio, but the first one in Hollywood. He went there with no contacts after doing radio in Louisiana, Boston, and Dallas for a few years, knowing no one and within 5 months he was doing the Tonight Show back when there were three channels and he had booked a national comedy tour. No one could hold George’s jock strap as a stand up!
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  407. In terms of obtaining a long term multiple entry visa to China the US, UK, and Canada provide that more easily than most countries. If you can obtain residence in Canada it's a little bit more than 3 years living there to obtain citizenship. Argentina is another country with a 10 year multiple entry visa available, but Argentina has a lot of things to make you leery of obtaining their citizenship, so if you are okay with that and willing to put a couple of years in on the ground there, it's an option for a long term access via a visa. I bring those up for people who want to maintain the US level of access. A few other potential alternatives via the APEC Business card if you were a citizen of Peru, a little more than 2 years to naturalization, at least theoretically, Mexico, a little more than 5 years to naturalization, or Chile, a little more than 5 years on the ground to naturalization. Also Australia and New Zealand potentially provide APEC Business Card access to China. There are a few routes to making travel to China easier, but it's not necessarily as interesting of a place to visit as it was a decade ago.
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  408. Sam, if you live to 2040, there is according to most scientists investigating life extension and anti-aging research, a 50% chance that you will healthfully live to see an infinite timeline. So you might be around a lot longer than you think.
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  409.  @Adam-ie8ed  Will you also pay to educate the workforce that produces your goods? How about the education that allows consumers of your goods or services to benefit from them? I mean it would be hard for someone who is illiterate to use Google. How exactly is that steel going to get to your factory if not via a road funded by the public. Your myopia is showing. Oh, and what court is going to enforce that insurance contract & who is going to pay for the sheriff to garnish the person or company that fails to honor their contract when you win in court?🤔
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  410. After 3 years of living in Canada legally you can become a citizen and that provides an essentially drop in replacement passport for a US passport. The difference being Canadians can leave Canada and not face global tax, so Canada can become a path to lower taxes with a passport that is virtually identical, including essentially hassle free travel to the US as a visitor.
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  411. The foreign earned income exclusion & the Dubai digital nomad visa for less than $300 as long as you are earning more than $50k a year & can work from anywhere. Getting a corporation that can pay you without having to pay social security withholding taxes is a bit more tricky.
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  412. My best friend was murdered by a white man. My aunt was murdered by a different white man. And let's not forget fifty percent of murders are never solved. Why? Because moronic thinking like Bloomberg's pervades police departments all over this country.
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  413. I literally live within 10 miles of 12 first cousins & at least a dozen second cousins & 2 of them have visited me in the last five years for maybe a grand total of 40 hours. Not one of my three uncles have stopped by to say hi in five years & I live with and watch after my mother who is their late brother's widow. Family, beyond immediate family is quite frankly overrated. If I go overseas I'm 99.999% sure my mother would leave too. During the periods I have lived away from those relatives within the United States over the course of 9 years I received one telephone call from those relatives aside from my mother & my sister.
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  414. When you start talking about outlawing wage slavery, requiring only employee ownership of businesses, employee direction of not-for-profits, and solely civil service in other words outlawing capitalism then you are leftist. Anything else is centrist window dressing. If you start talking about Social Security for All with a UBI that is paid for first from private savings accounts of workers, then community savings and insurance pools with 50% of Social Security tax going to the private account and 50% to the community insurance pool, and replacing the welfare state with Social Security for All and Medicare for All then you are a centrist. The only leftist position upsets the ownership class and the oligarchy. The rest is window dressing.
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  415. @Brent J. Cooper The only reason I even remotely care about a tier a passport is the increased ease of access through ESTA to return to the US for my mother's funeral hopefully decades from now. Also aside from Turkey most of the CBI countries require a visa for Japan & not needing one would I think be beneficial since I am fairly certain I want to end up in Asia. Improved access to Australia -which Chile doesn't afford, would be nice, and New Zealand which it does would be less useful, but nice to have. The other reason Chile looks good as I said is improved access to Asia. Except for Brunei, Chile has very good visa free access to the ASEAN countries. Being able to spend a month in Bali, a month in Cebu, a month in Koh Samui, and a month in Da Nang without needing a visa for any of the countries for those places would be useful if you don't want to do residencies. The other thing lacking from most CBI passports visa free access to the UAE. As my long term strategy will likely include a UAE free zone company easy access to the UAE without necessarily having a residency there would be useful.
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  416. Interestingly some of your thoughts on the changes which have occurred in Russia since you have left are reasons I am working very diligently now at getting my affairs into order so that I have a location independent income and am able to leave the United States shortly after the start of the coming year. I can see similar troubling changes coming to the United States very soon. I never in my life thought that a citizen of the US and a citizen of the former Soviet Union would need to worry about the rise of totalitarianism in both nations after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 or the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. There was a great reason to be optimistic about libertarianism's rise the world over. It is sad to see that coming to an end.
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  417. Because nobody in the South knew who he was before Super Tuesday because he garnered a total of 17 minutes of airtime on cable or network news in 2015. 17 minutes!
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  418. Anyone who thinks that Oz has the same guarantee to be able to care for his mother in Turkey with a US passport vs a Turkish passport is disingenuous too. I mean policies could change on a whim, but citizens won't be denied access to the country unless we are talking about Australia.
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  419.  @TrueEarth369  Thailand has territorial tax so if you are not working and your passive income is earned outside Thailand as long as you keep it in a bank account outside of Thailand the year the dividend is paid, my understanding is the money will not be taxed because they use a remittance based system as well. Thailand has a few double tax treaties with some countries which may also prove beneficial. If you are not an American, but you have US dividend paying stocks for example, I think the Thai treaty will reduce your withholding rate in the US from 30% to 10%. In other words they may or may not be as beneficial as some other countries, but they are not bad. As I understand it, in SEA Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore all have a territorial tax regime. In Latin America, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicarauga, Honduras, Panama, and Costa Rica are territorial tax jurisdictions as I understand it. To a degree, ie no CFC rules, Ecuador is as well if you are not taking money out of a company that is based overseas, but Ecuador has some exit tax risks and does tax worldwide income of individuals. St Lucia in the Caribbean along with Belize in the Anglophone world of the Caribbean are territorial tax, as is Dominican Republic in the Latin American Caribbean. Georgia in Europe/Asia depending on where you draw the line, has a personal territorial tax regime, but a worldwide tax for local companies. On the zero tax front you are looking at Turks & Caicos, the BVI, the Cayman Islands, Anguilla, -for personal income only Antigua & Barbuda, and St. Kitts & Nevis, but their management and control rules regarding corporations may bite you without proper planning. You have Monaco, St. Barthalemy -with some exceptions for zero tax options, Vanuatu as well. Then you have the Gulf states, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, but only some have realistic residency options. If you want low tax, Barbados is good for companies, but not so much for individuals. Labuan likewise is good for companies, but I'm not as sure it works in terms of living in Malaysia. I would want advice from local tax counsel about the treatment of dividends & salary paid by a Labuan company to a resident of Malaysia. Then you have Lump Sum tax countries or lump sum tax countries for travelers with Anguilla, Gibraltar, Malta, Switzerland, Jersey, and Guernsey in the Channel Islands. There is also a lump sum regiment for Italy, and there is a 10 year NHR in Portugal that may be zero tax if you have the right circumstances in place. My take is with the right planning SEA provides great options for low or no tax living. If you are somewhat nomadic ie not anywhere for more than 4 months a year, then the territorial tax countries would be great and making a St. Kitts or Antigua your country of citizenship and spending a month or two there may provide you a tax residency certificate if you need it with a bank that is helpful, otherwise in the right circumstances even less time in Georgia may give you one. With the right lump sum payment like 1 month a year in Anguilla will get you.a tax certificate if you aren't in any other country more than 183 days a year. Antigua has a similar deal for non-citizens. Malta has such a deal too. Cyprus may have some non-domiciled residency benefits I haven't quite figured out yet myself. There are a lot of ways to play it, but I will say if your business is structured properly, and you are not actively working in the business Thailand has some potential. If you are working in the business, with the right structuring Thailand could work, as long as you comply with foreign branch rules and hire enough locals to get you a work permit. But it is going to add the expense of transfer pricing studies and may be a giant PITA, although it may be worthwhile. If such a scenario is necessary, ie you working for the business, then a Labuan company in Malaysia might put you in a 3% tax bracket. The Philippines would have the same PITA regarding transfer pricing studies that Thailand would have. Of course if you are living on portfolio income and dividend from publicly traded companies, that is a different story.
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  420. My French ancestors were in Quebec before the French & Indian War. My Dutch ancestors were in New York when it was still New Amsterdam. My Mohawk ancestors are in no way helpful with a citizenship by descent especially since they are too small a percentage of my Great Great Grandparents to allow me to be a member of the tribe even. My Irish ancestors moved to Canada at the height of the potato famine, so that means it was my Great Great Grandparents. My Great Grandfather moved to the US & if I knew when I was a kid what I know now, I would have told my grandfather & father to claim their Canadian citizenships so that I could claim mine potentially, but they were both proud soldiers in the US Army who respectively fought in World War II, and Vietnam & the first Gulf War, so that would probably have not went over well with either of them. My maternal Great Grandparents all came to the US from Sweden early last century along with my matrilineal Great Great Grandmother who had been a doctor in Sweden. I have a relative who traced my matrilineal line in Sweden back to a Grandfather born in the 1770s who lived to see the US Revolution & the US Civil War's beginning. I can tell you all that, but as Andrew I am sure knows, Sweden's cruel ironic punchline for me is that while a Swedish mother has always been able to pass citizenship to their children, my Grandmother born in America in 1923, even if her mother never became an American citizen was born an American so unless she went to Sweden before the age of air travel and before she was 21 & opted to be Swedish, she and my mother are both American citizens. Hmmm what was happening in the world by the time my grandmother was 6 years old, a worldwide depression, hmm. As a young adult what was going on in Europe? A World War? If Sweden alters their citizenship by descent rules to allow the descendents of Grandparents born of Swedish ancestry, I'm probably Golden, but as a country that only recently recognized dual citizenship, unless I've read their citizenship by descent statute wrong, and I don't think I have, citizenship by descent for me is a cruel, cruel joke. In no small part because my ancestors were mostly in the United States before it was a country, or Canada before it was a country, left Ireland before it was a country, & well too long ago for British citizenship to apply as well. Canadian citizenship was potentially obtainable in my lifetime, but my grandfather & father would have needed to take some actions. That is a cruel irony because I could be at the Canadian border in 25 minutes & my father routinely went to the Canadian auto-racing track 40 minutes away to work on cars and even played fast pitch softball in a cross border league when I was a kid.
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  421. So given the criteria of where you can't go and where the US passport would have gotten you, I have concluded that in addition to Comoros & St Lucia, that only Serbia would give you Kazakhstan & Mongolia without Paraguay & as an added bonus Vietnam. After that examining who is in & who is out for Paraguay, Mexico, Thailand & South Africa eliminated South & Central American countries from contention. I don't know if Thailand gives some special treatment to the MM2H visa holders, but assuming that it does not that leads me to believe citizenship by exception & a Georgian passport is on the list, & finally either Antigua & Barbuda or possibly though highly unlikely Saint Vincent being on the list. Alternatively if there were some exception to the rule against dual citizenship, I would say a Maldives passport gave you South Africa & Thailand with Serbia filling out what was lacking from Saint Lucia & Comoros, but it would have also given you Brunei. I can't be too far off can I? There is also the highly unlikely possibility of South African citizenship.
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  422. Those tax cuts for the rich are not permanent. They go away next year and a progressive tax code gets enacted. There are going to be 120 AOCs in Congress next year and I guarantee you that when the Draft AOC for US Senate starts to ramp up against Chuck Schumer that he decides where the bread is actually buttered.
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  423. Even if Joe Biden is elected with a supermajority his tax plan will NEVER RAISE TAXES on wealthy Americans. It may raise taxes on the working class, but never wealthy Americans because of how US elections are funded and who controls both parties through campaign purse strings.
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  424. Chadillac They don’t have to be powered by coal. They aren’t in Germany. They aren’t in France. BLM owns 245 million acres of empty land that is essentially worthless except for the fact that most of it is in a desert. Hmmm deserts get plenty of sunshine.
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  425. Chadillac regenerative braking now saves the NYC Transit system 400 megawatt hours per year. One of the power plants for the transit system provides 104 megawatts of power. A wind farm near my house has 192 megawatts of installed capacity. The largest US solar farm is 400 megawatts of installed capacity. These are comparable to the 10 plants that power the NYC transit system. There is a 2 gigawatt solar plant in India, as well as a 1 gigawatt solar plant. There is a 580 megawatt solar farm in Morroco, a 648 megawatt solar farm in India, and an 850 megawatt solar farm in China.
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  426. Deflation last happened during the Great Depression. Deflation leads to 40% unemployment.
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  427. Jimmy it is good to see that you still follow CARLIN'S simple rule. "I don't believe anything the government, or a company, or a politician or the media says."
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  428. Well, unless you are amongst the 80-100k people with a networth over $50 million, then your needs are very well catered to by the US government. Until you hit the $50 million or more networth club you are fairly well ignored. I mean with proper tax planning a US citizen can avoid almost all taxes while living in the US, so that is pretty impressive, but you need to be exceptionally wealthy to avoid all taxes in the USA.
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  429. What is “weird” about Greens suing? In 2004, David Cobb the GP candidate sued in Ohio and discovered all sorts of irregularities there which were never reported. The Greens have always cared about election integrity.
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  430. Except there will be no money to buy houses with because Delfation is gonna hit like a hammer and there will be no money to be had. A dollar today will be worth $10 tomorrow.
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  431.  @januarybaby1063  she went to Trump's wedding, not Bernie's. Why oh why can't you post meme with the guy pointing to his temple on YouTube!
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  432. What is interesting about this statement is that it is true for people on either side of the political spectrum in the US. It's democracy is so disfunctional that people on the left & right both want to go elsewhere for a functional democracy & a more reliable government.
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  433. You just explained why a generation of entrepreneurs is coming.
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  434.  @TheBeatle49  nothing more strategic than pushing everything left in the safest state in the electorate.
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  435.  @torontovoice1  ha hahaha as an attorney, you thinking that the US does things to help it's citizens when they break the law overseas is the best laugh I have had all week.
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  436. If the Democrats want to give more money to a generation that stole $21 trillion from Generation X, Millennials, and later generations, then I can’t vote for Democrats. I’m a leftist and I say this because my generation was robbed by Boomers.
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  437. This is true even for people educated on the subject. I am trained as a tax attorney and I don't make enough to use any of the loopholes available, but the time I would need to waste on an audit for the pittance of an amount I would be required to pay is not worth the effort to me or the IRS. They would spend more on even a day of an auditor's salary than they would recover as a result of an audit.
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  438.  @divinecomedian2  ideally yes, but at this point a functional Republic would be nice. Direct democracy is of course the dream.
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  439. Contracts of adhesion such as this can be struck down by the court and often are struck down.
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  440. Antigua is higher on my list than St Kitts, but mostly because if I were looking to replace most of a Tier A passport I would add North Macedonia and Turkey to it for better coverage in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
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  441.  @LiveLifeLivTrucking  Antigua like St Kitts has no personal income tax -although they do tax corporations just like St Kitts. Antigua is one of the most crypto friendly countries on earth and in many cases is cheaper than St Kitts for a CBI. They both have the same OECS and Caricom freedom of movement rights. Antigua has better access to the Republic of Georgia, not as good access to Taiwan or Bangladesh, and does not give you Argentina or Uruguay, but is otherwise very similar to St Kitts as far as visa free access. It's big improvement over St Kitts is visa free access to South Africa - the only Caribbean CBI country with that.
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  442.  @747-pilot  because the citizens in the US reacted so irrationally to reasonable measures to prevent the spread of a contagious disease a US passport became a bar to travel rather than a facilitator of travel. The US is the only country that hampers its citizens ability to move abroad by continuing to tax them when they choose to do so. Taxation without representation, as those overseas citizens are unable to vote for Congress or Representatives in the legislatures of states which often continue to claim domicile over them upon their departure from the US. Recent changes in the US tax code have made it impossible for US persons to re-domicile the ownership of their intellectual property overseas without participating in a costly tax compliance procedure forcing them to pay a capital gains tax and likely ongoing taxes on phantom licensing fees for the continued use by them of intellectual properties such as copyrights, trademarks, and patents they created. The US is essentially treating the intellectual property of its citizens as the property of the US government, in essence making it's citizens little more than chattel slaves. Does that explain to you why the term noose seems appropriate?
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  443. The American public accelerated the demise of the US dollar as a reserve currency this week. It will be dead within 18 months or less at the outermost. The bond market and crypto markets reaction is very telling in regards to the issue. BRICS CBDC is a big reason the demise will occur.
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  444. Red Hat never made any money in open source by providing support. 😂
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  445. TCt83067695 I knew from the second it all started that there would be a mountain of Fauxgressives, a mountain of corporatists and Bernie. I didn’t expect Mike Gravel the only legit progressive other than Bernie to run. I would have been happy if Dennis Kucinich had gotten in to throw a few punches to help Bernie out, but I knew it was basically Bernie from the start. I held out hope Gabbard would prove me wrong, but she didn’t. In my lifetime the only progressives in the House were Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney, and Sanders. Everyone else has to earn their stripes by gaining the right enemies. If they try to redistrict AOC out of office I might believe she is legit, but her record thus far leads me to believe she is a fauxgressive too.
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  446. Gary, Indiana's traffic alone could kill you and I've lived in Los Angeles.
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  447. We spent $14 Trillion bailing out banks. If we spent 5% as much lofting an orbital ring and geosynchronous solar farm satellites into orbit it would cost $700 billion. It would require 18,000 rocket launches. We have the tech to do that and if we started factory producing rockets like we did Aircraft in WW II we could produce 200,000 of them in 3 years. That geosynchronous solar farm we could lift with a $700 billion orbital ring would collect enough solar energy that could be beamed back to earth to power North America 100% including our vehicle fleet. Oh by the way, at current electrical rates in the US that project would pay for itself in 6 years. At current rates in the EU about 4.5 years. At current rates in Japan, in about 3 years. That project would then allow us to asteroid mine, have hypersonic transit between New York and Tokyo that takes 2 to 3 hours depending on the ascent time to the ring in the elevator. We have 12 years to solve this issue. If we launched a Manhattan Project for it, we could do it in 3 to 4 years. We could do it easily!
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  448.  @msing6741  You don't understand how deflation works. We are in deflation right now, even with the money printing.
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  449. Depending on where you are in Latin America, walk ability and public transport can be quite similar to Europe. Of course there are areas where it is no better than the US too though.
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  450. This is the kind of thinking that has to be done in regards to any international tax strategy. You have to find the exceptions to the exceptions for your specific use case. I mean the EU blacklist is very short right now because most former IBC jurisdictions have adopted economic substance tests or similar criteria that keep them off the OECD radar, or the benefits accrue in countries with some kind of clout to avoid OECD's ire like the UAE, but if you aren't looking for the next Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich for your specific need, you will not find it.
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  451. PolitiConsumer it is time for the mealy mouthed wuss wing of the Democratic Party to sit down and shut the fuck up and let strength lead.
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  452.  @VAOdin  thanks for pointing out that I left out Hegemonic.
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  453. Does Mauritius grow its own food?
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  454. Well the interbank overnight lending market didn't need a trillion dollars injection from the Fed since last September for no reason. I'm glad other people know this is a cover story for chicanery.
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  455. Barbara Lee is the strongest VP choice.
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  456. ​ @vipdemand5965  but it is easier to play dumb when you are Polish.
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  457.  @michaelnollner  the entire EU is likely open to you for travel. There are more than a few countries that have don't ask, don't tell policies which will let you in, but expel you if they find out.
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  458. I always knew your point of view and my point of view while divergent, are not that divergent and we can both agree when a party is completely averse to genuine freedom. We may not fully agree on economic policy, but we both agree about basic freedom ie personal liberties.
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  459. I think the more interesting question for an American obtaining a Caribbean CBI is how easy is it to obtain a Canadian visitor visa. I know the typical Canadian visitor visa is a multiple entry visa that allows many trips over 10 years and if you can obtain a residency permit in Mexico for your Caribbean CBI, there are enough direct flights from Mexico city to Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal to allow you to transit to Europe from Canada without having to obtain a US visa if you can visit Canada. I ask this because unlike obtaining a visa for the US you could at least theoretically arrange a Mexican residency permit for the CBI before renouncing and also obtain a Canadian visitor visa for the CBI before renouncing and if you can visit Canada and reside in Mexico at least part of the year, even if you cannot obtain a US B1/B2 visa or with Grenadian citizenship an E-2 nonimmigrant investor visa you could still fairly easily visit US relatives who have visa free access to Canada or Mexico in those US neighbors. Having Canada as a transit option on their 10 year multiple entry visa would not be a bad thing to have either before renouncing. Sure Sao Paolo, Mexico City, Panama City, and St Maarten provide pretty good access to Europe, Africa, and Asia, but Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver are not the worst places on earth to be able to transit through.
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  460. There would be questions about why you do not have an entrance stamp. It would be easy enough to replace the St Lucian passport regardless. It is a Commonwealth country with the ability to get aid from a British embassy in such a scenario, but also St Lucia I believe has an embassy in Belgium for its mission to the EU.
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  461. Thoughts on Olive Video Editor 0.2?
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  462. Ana how could he possibly be expected to live on the $13.8 million he would have left after a top marginal rate of 70% on income over $10 million with only a 40% rate on that first $10 million?
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  463. Isn’t it interesting that the Justice Department which is investigating Trump is the part of the government whose workers aren’t being paid, or who are not working because they were furloughed?
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  464. Clinton LOST one of the five Burroughs of NYC -Staten Island!
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  465. The Common Reporting Standard requires banks in nearly every country to report information to tax authorities in countries where you reside. The same way FATCA requires banks around the world to report all accounts and transactions of US citizens to the IRS. If you want to use SWIFT you comply with the rules of CRS and FATCA or your banks end up on the FAFT watchlist and your countries banks end up on the blacklist. Same holds true if you don't comply with KYC rules about properly identifying who owns and controls accounts in your banks.
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  466. GILTI made that far more difficult to achieve for most US multinationals.
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  467. You know what they say about going into organized crime in New York. Is that with the government or private sector?
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  468. My uncle a Boomer paid $1200 that's twelve hundred dollars cash for his house with 5 bedrooms. He did it with a job that paid $75 a week at a time when Harvard cost $1400 a year and his car cost $2300. $75 a week was a good paying job at the time and he had 7 kids. He got that job with an 8th grade education. $285 a month was the pay for a private in the army including separate housing and food allowance. The BAH for a private today is $1100 a month and base pay is another $1100 a month and that is crap pay today, but in the 1970s $285 a month was enough to pay for a house and a new car and kids. I know because my parents did well on that pay. After the mid 1970s inflation eroded earning power so badly that no one in America has gotten a raise since 1978 EXCEPT the top 1% who have stolen $22 trillion from Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. Ok Boomers pay up. No more social security or Medicare for you!
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  469. chickendinner2012 I live in New York and we don’t have to write anyone in. Our Green Party candidate for Governor Howie Hawkins is probably the smartest person on policy and movement politics in America. In 2014 his 5% of the vote in the general moved Cuomo left on the $15 minimum wage, we want $20 now. His positions caused the fracking ban in NY. Hawkins positions caused NY to pass the paid medical leave act too. If Nixon loses which is what smart money predicts because of the machine in NYC, Hawkins will get a large piece of the vote this fall and in a 6 way race between Cuomo, Nixon on the WFP line, Larry Sharpe on the Libertarian line, independent Stephanie Miller -former Syracuse Mayor and former Democrat, and Rob Molinaro, the Republican, Hawkins will likely stand out because he is exceptionally bright and able to speak. He is also a retire teamsters union truck loader for UPS with a Dartmouth degree who started a worker cooperative construction company back in the day and who helped Bernie run in the Liberty Union Party for Senate in Vermont back in the 1970s.
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  470. The percentage of Dutch and Swedish citizens who are fluent English speakers is fairly considerable.
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  471.  @imrankhan-hm2ie  their fuckery was exposed 4 years ago. Nobody brought Guillotines to Philadelphia when they should have done so.
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  472. The loophole that works best for Americans is getting a citizenship in another country. Getting a residency permit in the UAE. Renouncing US citizenship, and setting up a company that operates in the UAE. If you don't want to live in Dubai, then the Cayman Islands would be your next best bet, or the BVI -if you can get banking. Aside from that a company formed in Cyprus with management and control in Costa Rica might do you well. If you want to operate in the US, then a C-Corp with plenty of 1222 Stock as the founder, and re-investing and deducting as much as possible into the company is the best tax savings plan you will have in the US. Deduct every penny the business earns by hiring new sales staff, building new physical plant and writing it off, writing off any interest on money borrowed to build out the business, and then when you sell the company sell your stock and take the $10 million per year exemption on capital gains for 1222 Stock.
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  473. An Israeli passport really does you no good if your ultimate goal is to renounce US citizenship so that you can live in Malaysia on a residency permit though.
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  474.  @m0wfo  but UK citizenship comes with the right of abode in those dependencies, much like Irish citizenship comes with freedom of movement in the EU and the CTA. My understanding is the Cape Verde is part of a freedom of movement regime in West Africa amongst 15 member nations, which has had varied degrees of usefulness for citizens of various countries, not to mention the access they might have as s college graduate to Caricom's free movement regime and the OECS free movement regime with their various Caribbean citizenships. The only way to further increase free movement for the record holder greatly that I could think of would be citizenship in a Mercusor country.
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  475. I saw that video and my reaction was pretty much exactly what your reaction was, total cringe.
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  476. In the US, the best way to avoid the capital gains tax you presented would be to have structured the company as a C-Corp early on and held founders shares under 1202 of the code as a qualified small business, at least after 2010 when the current exemption rate was put into place. In that scenario, assuming the company stock was held 5 years, up to $10 million of gain or 10x the original basis, whichever is greater is exempt from capital gains tax assuming the company has less than $50 million in assets. Why would anyone sell a business with $50 million in assets for $12 million? That would mean instead of paying $2.4 million in federal income tax, the seller would pay $400k in income tax under the current 20% federal capital gains rate. Assuming arguendo the founder is a resident of a zero income tax state like Nevada, Florida, Wyoming, South Dakota, Texas, or Washington, that would be the entire tax bill due. The 1202 provisions of the code make a C-Corp a smart move for any business owner with an exit strategy that has an eye towards selling the business. A healthy salary can eliminate any double tax issues and given the discount presently available for dividend income on Qualified Dividends, that isn't much of an issue these days. The C-Corp also provides additional avenues, especially for the offshore founder to greatly reduce taxes with expenses such as per diems, the FEIE, the Foreign Housing Exclusion, and other travel related business expenses, and or insurance coverage provided by the company to the founder as a means of getting money out of the company with the lowest tax impact.
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  477. "I am invoking my right to remain silent and my right to have an attorney present during any potential questioning." Is what you are now required to say the way I read a court which has completely gone off the rails in every possible way's most recent ruling.
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  478. There are golden visas in East Asia and Southeast Asia, some of which might allow you to become a citizen if you live there.
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  479. Just over a year after you first suggested it, the EU Parliament enacted a law making cold storage wallets whose ownership is not disclosed or preferably held by a centralized exchange as a custodian illegal. You are a soothsayer about what the government will do to destroy the value of a competitor to their central banking system. I agree wholeheartedly that Monero is the superior technology because of it's built in privacy scheme, its radically lower transaction fees and it's aversion to centralization and commitment of developers to an ASIC & GPU resistant algorithm for hashing.
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  480. Alex Fitzgerald the VAN that the DNC maintains and which every Presidential candidate connects their database to makes it easy to exclude voters who won’t give you the results you want from the people you will randomly choose to poll.
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  481. If anyone is truly concerned about the polls, it is easy to buy a list of 1k telephone numbers or even 5k telephone numbers of voters from around the country and it is fairly easy to distribute portions of that list along with polling questions and a script to a group of 50 to 100 volunteers to conduct a poll. I did just such a poll in an afternoon for a grassroots congressional campaign with volunteers. The results were spot on with the actual election results and we only polled about 1 month ahead of the election.
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  482. Alex Fitzgerald the only reason the campaign I helped with in 2016 conducted its own volunteer poll was because no one had conducted any polls in the three way Congressional race. 2 years earlier the Green Party candidate I helped had earned 11% of the vote more than any other Green Party Congressional candidate anywhere had earned to that point, but he was a great candidate -a long time community activist and business owner and a long time friend of Ralph Nader who Ralph personally endorsed and campaigned for -if you look into how often Ralph does that you will find out just how rare a candidate he was but anyhow, every other upstate NY congressional race bordering the largest district east of the Mississippi had been polled, but not ours. We gathered the numbers and got 20 volunteers together to call on their cell phones using a one page script and answer sheet for recording the answers. It took about 4 hours to make the calls and tally the results with people who had never done polling before. The hard part at that point was getting the numbers and cross indexing the voter list for a random sample, but a few months later I learned where I could get the polling sample and numbers cheap through I think Aristotle is the name of the company that does voter information lists like that, and it would have saved a lot of time. It took me a week to compile information I could get from that company’s voter database in a couple of minutes. It took me about a half hour to write the script for the poll callers and the answer sheet to record their answers. Honestly with volunteers campaigns could conduct such polls for almost no money. We did. Traditional polling firms charge tens of thousands of dollars for such polls.
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  483. John Meyer most polls are landline only because an even more restrictive set of rules regarding unsolicited calls to mobile phones than the Do Not Call list regulations for landlines apply to cell phones. If you are in the do not call list as a landline pollsters and political campaigns can still legally call you. If you are in the do not call list as a cell phone even auto dialers with real people on the line, let alone full on robocalls are not allowed to be used.
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  484. If you are earning enough "passive income" which could be dividends or distributions from your own business Portugal, Argentina, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, & Mexico spring to mind as departure points for residency and potential citizenships. If you are a freelancer, Germany, Spain, Croatia, or the Republic of Georgia may provide a path to residency and citizenship. If you can teach English, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand may provide residency permits, but the path to citizenship is much more difficult. Figuring out how to operate a location independent business that brings in at least $2k to $3k a month is your best bet for making an exit long term.
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  485. Funny the Democrat from the hometown of Howie Hawkins the Green Party USA co-founder who nearly won multiple Syracuse city elections as a Green and who is the likely 2020 Green Party nominee for President thinks that upstate NY which elected the deciding vote on Obamacare in the much more conservative North Country with Bill Owens -isn't progressive enough to re-elect him. HA! Syracuse's biggest employer Carrier left over a decade ago because of NAFTA -Bernie's history on that alone wins him upstate NY. He won almost every upstate county 4 years ago. If not for the Brinidisi type machine in Onondoga he would have won there too. Also, an independent won the Mayoralty in Syracuse. What Brinidisi fears is the Hawkins people running a real progressive as a Green.
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  486.  @sarahjaynescott  The only time I ever was in Memphis was a night it started snowing, being from the lake effect snow belt in NY state, not a problem for me, but the criminals were not out that night. Had the town to myself it seemed, but the whole place looked pretty sketch.
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  487.  @HroiG  Vanuatu in the South Pacific the last time I checked had no IP laws or treaties on the books.
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  488. The carbon cycle explains why it makes zero difference. I mean live animals only consume carbon already taken out of the atmosphere by live vegetation. Those animals also trap large amounts of carbon like the plants.
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  489. You get a citizenship other than the US as fast as possible. You get residence in yet another country or two. If possible you get a third passport. As the military says, 2 is 1 and 1 is none. Then you ditch US citizenship. That takes care of the later concern. As for place likely to be unaffected ASEAN counties & Africa will have little impact from the US implosion. Latin America south of Mexico will largely be unaffected, but no country will escape with zero impact. Just some are less likely to see major impacts. Africa is probably the least effected area. Eastern Africa like Tanzania, Seychelles & Mauritius seem unlikely to experience major impacts. Ecuador and Paraguay in Latin America seem least likely to be effected, although Ecuador has more exposure with a dollarized economy than Paraguay. Just my take, but look at trading partners & what they are trading this is telling.
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  490.  @bloody_albatross  if you can "clearly see" a lower frame rate film, they are shooting it wrong using a shutter angle below 180 degrees or a shutter speed of significantly more than 2x the frame rate. The beauty of cinema is motion blur and a lack of clarity that more naturally matches how the human eye sees the world via the phenomenon of persistence of vision.
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  491. There are plenty of guys who are 2s that get zero play anywhere to approach her.
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  492. The reason Democrats lose elections is simple. Their voters cast ballot on economic issues they pay lip service to and never fix while engaging in a culture war that is superfluous. Conservatives win those elections by firing up their base who benefit from an inequitable financial system about cultural issue to disguise their satisfaction with the benefits of their imperialist grift.
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  493. A Pied-a terre in Instanbul.
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  494. CRS coming into effect. The fact that their neighbor has previously invaded them and a lot of Russians have moved there to dodge the draft and raised rents might have something to do with it.
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  495. I'll believe that the bought & paid for neoliberal Democrats will raise taxes just as soon as the paleoconservative Republicans raise taxes & pay the debt. Neither bought & paid for party has raised taxes EXCEPT on workers in my 44 years of life. I mean this literally, only the social security & Medicare tax which have traditionally been a tax on earned income were raised in 1982 & 2009.
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  496. BAH is about what $1200 a month so that is $37,400. Or an hourly rate of $4.26 per hour when deployed to Afghanistan for 365 days and a wakeup. You can earn $15 an hour at McDonald’s in NY granted even on a 40 hour week that is only $31,200, but the odds of being shot on the job at McDonald’s is about 1/10,000 what it is for a soldier in Afghanistan. If you are single then BAH comes in the form of a barracks room smaller than most college dorms or a tent in the desert when deployed and second rate grub that comes in vacuum packed bags.
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  497. There are also some in the middles class and the poor who can't save enough money to seek opportunities overseas who recognize that there are better opportunities elsewhere. I mean if you can't afford a $400 emergency, you aren't in a position to buy a plane ticket from the US to Cambodia, have a few months of rent money, and pay the costs even $300 or so needed for a Cambodian business visa that would cut your tax rate in half on your first $110k of income, and that is one of the cheaper relocation opportunities for a working class American who can work remotely as an online freelancer. Hell many of those people would have a hard time affording a move from a higher tax state like California or New York to a lower tax state like Nevada, Florida, or Texas. Why else do you think there are so many young people in the US living #VanLife with South Dakota tags and a South Dakota driver's license? Because the cheap rent of the van, and the one night stay in a South Dakota hotel with a receipt which qualifies you for South Dakota residency is the cheapest way for those people to reduce one of their biggest expenses, state taxes. They already eliminated their largest expense of rent and most utility costs by moving into their van. The smarter and more adventurous ones then spend half of the year driving around Canada and half of the year driving around Mexico and Central America specifically to reduce the federal tax expense to just their social security tax on what are often fairly small incomes just to build a nest egg they could never save living in the states.
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  498. There will be no EU in five years. The common market may be reconstituted amongst the original western states, but it will look very different than today. Nationalism has become the order of the day in too much of Europe for it to survive.
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  499. Joe Biden was the Senator from Delaware. He worked for the corporate interests which are all located in Wilmington and he did nothing of importance for working people in 50 years. Let me reiterate, he was the Senator from Delaware, the smallest state and he was big business's guy. Of course he was always going to win there. It's Delaware. All of that is to say, you don't have to be a good politician to be the Senator from Delaware. To be a Senator from Vermont who is not a Republican which the state was from 1854 through Bernie's election in 1990 as an independent, you have to be a world class politician. To win without a party a state wide race when you aren't a corporate lap dog, you have to be a stupendous politician.
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  500.  @jshawsworld  oh you need to understand non-dom rules. You don't want to be a citizen of some of the best countries in Europe if you want their greatest tax benefits, but you do want to be a resident of them. Only you want to be a non-domiciled resident.
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  501. This is why leftists should run as Republicans and just do what typical politicians do. Lie about their positions. Run as status quo apologists and then take a hard left turn when elected.
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  502. I love that you used a word that has fallen out of the lexicon, especially since the imperialism at the heart of merchantilism was one of the few dragons both of the most influential economists in history abhorred. Both Smith and his greatest critic Marx agreed that the imperialism at the heart of merchantilism was a problem for free people everywhere. Hard to believe that so called communists in China missed the anti-imperialism and anti-merchantilism at the heart of Marx works.
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  503.  @jpaul8589  I agree, but it's funny to me because they missed the fact that the one thing Adam Smith and Karl Marx 100% agreed on was that merchantilism and imperialism were an affront to freedom and human prosperity.
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  504. You find it strange that the generations older than Xers who put the country on a path to steal $22 trillion from future generations, the most selfish people in history are more worried about what they want today than maybe hurting someone else with their actions? I don't find it strange at all that the generations who know they need to work together to fix the problems they inherited from those selfish assholes are more altruistic in their thoughts and actions.
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  505. Delaney had a whopping 8k contributors. How the hell did he get on stage over Gravel?
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  506. There are actually 6 branches of government in a republic. The legislature, the executive, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, the media, and the electorate.
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  507. Livestock via regenerative agriculture also are responsible for soil sequestering more carbon, but nobody is talking about that much are they.
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  508. You are one of two NY small business owners whose personal integrity inspires me. The other owns a bakery in glens falls. Both of you do things that are right even if it costs you money.
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  509. Heath Fletcher how about being taxed once? Do you think Jeff Bezos has ever paid taxes on 99% of his wealth? No, do you know why? Because he invested X dollars in Amazon when it started and owns Y amount of Amazon stock because of that investment. As the value of the company has grown, so has the value of the stock from his initial investment. He has also gotten stock options which have vested and grown in value. The “strike price” ie the value of those options at the time they were issued has been deducted from Amazon’s income against its tax bill. The company created money to pay Bezos out of thin air in doing so. As the value of the stock that can be bought with those options is now worth more than their original “strike price” the value of Bezos wealth has grown. Bezos paid income tax on the “strike price” of that stock which under current rules had to be priced at the market price of the stock on the day the options were issued, but if Bezos was paid $100,000 in stock options that are now worth $10,000,000, he has not paid income tax on $9,900,000 of that income if he has not sold those options or executed them and bought the underlying stock. If he invested $500,000 to start Amazon and his initial stock is now worth $125,000,000,000 that’s $125 billion -because he has not sold the stock, he has not been taxed at all on the growth in value or the unrecognized income. Under the estate tax rules, the heirs get what is called a “step-up” in basis in the value of the assets they inherit. That means that while Bezos May have paid income tax on $2 million of the $150 billion in value of his estate, $149,998,000,000 of that estate has never had income tax paid on its value. It gets worse with wealth real estate investors such as Donald Trump. Under IRS rules investors pay no income tax on money they are loaned, but they do pay income tax on the money they pay to pay down the principle of the loan and get at tax deduction for the interest they pay for loans to buy or improve investment properties; however, they also get to deduct phantom depreciation losses from income to account for declines in value of a building from its wear and tear to nearly zero -only the value of the land itself cannot be depreciated. They also get to write off repairs and maintenance costs of the property essentially defeating the phantom depreciation losses. This happens even if the actual underlying value of the real estate is growing through appreciation. In other words, real estate investors could literally have never paid one penny in income taxes for their value of the assets they own if they manage their taxes correctly, but under the rules of the estate tax laws their heirs could get a “step-up” in basis to the market value of the underlying properties and never pay one penny in income tax on the gains from the income of selling those properties at the market value of the property that the original investor never paid any income tax on while buying the property. This is why the rich get richer in the first place -because they never pay taxes on 99% of their unrecognized capital gains while workers pay double taxation in the form of social security and Medicare taxes plus the general income tax on all of their earned income. Do you still oppose the estate tax?
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  510. If it’s time then why not support Tulsi who has better policies of Warren who pretends to have better policies.
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  511. I predict they will prop the economy up until the day after the election and by economy I mean the faux stock market Ponzi scheme.
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  512. How could anyone eating a whole foods plant based diet not be eating whole grains, legumes & lentils. I mean they are what fill you up.
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  513. Ashton Kutcher was saying "Sick Burn," in the late 90s and early 00s while playing a character in the 1970s. Sounds dated to me.
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  514. You missed Russell Brunson & Nathan Barry. I mean $60 million a year in revenue doesn't really require an exit.
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  515. Montenegro's biggest value that I see is the fact that citizens of Montenegro are eligible for Panama's Friendly Nations Visa, so for the American who wants to renounce, and wants to run their business from Panama because its territorial tax regime is beneficial, Montengro citizenship also provides a fairly decent travel document as passports go. Does Grenada give you more Visa Free countries? Yes, but it gives you access to Vietnam relatively on par with the US, and it gives you Russia Visa Free. Grenada is a much better passport value, but If you could couple Montengro with Turkey, then Mexico, South Africa, Morrocco, Thailand, and Japan along with Mongolia and the other former Soviet Republics Turkey gives you would probably rival Grenada in terms of value as a travel document, but it also gives you a beautiful coastal region of Europe on the Adriatic and a very low tax rate of its own versus a tiny Caribbean Island nation as a potential home base. If you were building a passport portfolio that also included potential home bases Montenegro would be a useful place to be able to live. If you could combine it with Turkey, and Grenada it gives you access to most of the visa free world. Is Grenada a better cost for more access, yes, as would be most of the Caribbean CBI countries, but the ability to inexpensively add Panama via the friendly nations residency has some value I believe that the Caribbean CBI countries do not have.
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  516. Worldwide tax just like everyone else there.
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  517.  @now591  I didn't say a well functioning democracy. Those are rare, but by and large even the poorly functioning ones maintain a certain degree of individual rights and property rights. Which is not a bad thing.
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  518. They are not all called digital nomad visas, but Luxembourg has a visa that works for nomads, as does Germany, Portugal, Czechia who want to work towards an EU citizenship.
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  519.  @pmb6667  Barbados & it's citizens made a huge mistake leaving the Commonwealth. They lost UK consular assistance which was available essentially everywhere they traveled. Most of the time a traveler won't need it, but if you lose a passport while traveling, it is a valuable lifeline.
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  520. It makes no difference both of those are bad ideas. Getting a hard asset that retains real value is probably a better idea. My money is on the value of beans, rice, and potatoes right now.
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  521. Fox News is not owned by Disney. It was spun out and is still owned by the Murdocks. Fox Studio is owned by Disney.
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  522. Um Cenk, they were calling ‘em Nutty Buddies in the 1980s when I was in middle school.
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  523.  @pmb6667  Barbados is the best Caribbean passport overall -especially if you have a college degree and can get the Caricom Skilled worker certificate for freedom of movement. I mean you have visa free access to China, Mexico, and Canada, not that a Canadian needs to worry about that, but as Barbados already has visa free access to South Africa, any of them except St Lucia will give you access to Russia and fairly good coverage in most places Barbados already gives you. I would probably opt for St Kitts if money wasn't an issue because it upgrades the e-visa access both Canada and Barbados provide to visa free access for Turkey. With the importance of Istanbul as a hub airport, that would be my reasoning.
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  524. The problem with these idiots is that they don’t understand how polling works. When they say that Democrats are “plus 12 nationally” that doesn’t matter. When they say that Beto O’Rourke is up 2 amongst registers voters and down 9 to Cruz amongst “likely voters” that matters. When you tell Republicans in Texas that Beto is up, every single one of them will show up for Cruz. When you tell Democrats that Beto is up 2, half of them will stay home because they don’t understand math. Clearly the TYT crew like the Clinton team don’t understand gerrymandering or the electoral college. Al Gore garnered 500,000 more votes than GW Bush and if the entire state of Florida has been recounted he would have won that recount too -thanks Supreme Court for aborting that count. But Bush got 270. The Democrats have routinely garnered several million more votes for Congress and the Senate than the Republicans, but that is because just 18% of the US population controls 50% of the seats in the Senate. All of those small states are over represented in the Senate and the House. Are there some offsets? Yes, Democrats have Rhode Island, Delaware, and Vermont, but Republicans have Alaska, Wyoming, most of the plains states and most of the mountain west and there are no people there. The Democrats represent more people in the Senate with either California or New York than is represented by all of the people in that 18% of people making up 50% of Senate seats. The Congress hasn’t increased its numbers from 435 in the House in over 100 years. When it was set at 435, about 200k people were in each district. If we had similar numbers today, New York would have 90 seats in the House. Wyoming would get 2 possibly 3. California would have like 185 seats in the House. Yes, Texas would have many more representatives too, as would Florida, Ohio, Illinois, but our system represents empty land, not people. The Democrats will probably get 5 million more votes for House and Senate than Republicans this year and lose seats because of gerrymandering and which states they have to defend in the Senate. Gillibrand will win by at least a million if not 2 million vote margin in NY. Nelson will win by a couple of touchdowns in Florida thanks to Gillum, then McKaskill will lose, Hietkamp will lose, and Tester will lose. Cruz will win easily. Arizona and Nevada will stay red. Manchin will have a close call or may lose in W Va. because Trump people will GOTV to protect him from impeachment. The same will happen in Indiana where the Democratic incumbent will face a nail biter. The fact is that even Sherod Brown in Ohio is going to have a tougher slog than expected because the Trump faithful will GOTV to protect their guy from impeachment. He has delivered on more of his promises than any President in my lifetime. I disagree with 90% of what he has done, but he has mostly done what he said he would do and that is going to GOTV amongst his supporters and they live in places that he won. All those Senate states are places that he won handily -save Nevada, but they have an incumbent Republican and tie goes to the incumbent usually. I say this all as a hard left leftist. The problem with progressives is that they think we live in a democracy. We don’t. We live in a Republic that was designed to protect slave owners and their land. Absent a Tahrir Square style peaceful revolt with a strong democracy movement calling for abdications, resignations, and a New Democratic Constitution, there will be no change until the places that are dying in America kill the places that are still economically viable. Ie rural America killing off the urban economies.
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  525.  @TheSiapajadeh  oh there are tons of options in terms of potential citizenships, no disagreement there, but becoming American during it's long steady decline is not a good idea.
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  526. John Brattan impeachment is a political process. The judiciary handles any criminal prosecution.
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  527. Motherfuckers like that are gonna make us Xers in the middle say listen asshole, your Boomer ass stole $21 Trillion from us. You don't want Medicare for All, we have a new program, Medicare and Social Security for None. You get nothing, Pay what you owe mother fuckers!
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  528. We are already in a recession two quarters of negative growth already happened. If we do not hit two years of negative GDP growth I would be far more surprised.
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  529. It is much better to be in a place where the tax rules for you are that you are paying no tax or basically no tax, but the top line rules require fairly hefty taxes so most people do not look at them. Also those countries tend to have infrastructure. I mean which with all of the loopholes and deductions makes the US a very tax favorable place for many. I mean if you plan your deductions correctly you may be paying zero tax even with the AMT because you have enough expenses that are considered ordinary and necessary business expenses to avoid tax.
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  530.  @coocoocachooglin  I have got to be honest, in reviewing the new "economic substance requirements" the OECD has placed on entities based in most of the no tax jurisdictions, and the numerous other onerous requirements that are being imposed thanks to the FATCA and CRS threats to banking in those jurisdictions, a lot of business ideas in the digital space that would greatly benefit from being based in a low or no tax jurisdiction are getting tougher to do tax free. Not impossible, but you need staff on the ground in some very tiny countries with inadequate work forces for the kind of work that needs to be done. The nations where that wouldn't be the case like Vanuatu are on the EU blacklist for the most part and will be tough to get bank accounts to run your business through.
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  531. I just apply the Walmart parking lot test. In February my local Walmart parking lot was full up from about 6am to about 8pm most days. Now it is about 1/3 or 1/4 full even at the noon rush and it is the only store open for the most part. I also apply the Texas Roadhouse/Olive Garden test. In February you had a 30 to 50 minute wait to get a table at either restaurant all the time. Even at 50% seating capacity today I can get right in at either place and about 1/10th of the 50% capacity seating is empty. There is no demand in the economy. I also apply the Lowes test and it's parking lot was usually at about 80% capacity most days. Now when I go there at best it is at 50% capacity and mind you people have a lot of time on their hands to do yard work and to fix the problems in their house, but there is still very low demand. There is zero demand in the economy right now and even though most people are sick and tired of being cooped up, they are fearful to some degree of getting sick or getting a family member sick and causing their demise. They also in large numbers have serious economic concerns because they are unemployed or a family member is unemployed, or they have a job that they fear will be eliminated. This even includes people like my sister who is a tenured public school French teacher and the only French teacher in her school. She wonders if the school will re-open at all in September and this is a rural school without 100% internet access for it's students. Online and distance learning was not working for their district very well. She is also concerned that with the dried up tax revenue that the French language program may be eliminated and only Spanish will be offered as a foreign language. She is fairly certain that the Mandarin language offered at her school through an extension program with the Board of Cooperative Educational Services will be eliminated because it has the smallest number of students and it will save a lot of money for the school if it is eliminated. If tenured public school teachers are worried about the potential for unemployment, there are plenty of factory workers worried. Hell the local hospital laid off staff in the middle of a pandemic because the lack of elective surgeries put them tits up, so you tell me.
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  532.  @wrockd  perhaps I worded it wrong, but I was talking about connecting to the VPN via Tor network, not tunneling through VPN to get to Tor, I probably didn"t state it all that well, but even if your ISP knows where you are headed initially, they don't know where you are going. Even if you land on 2 honeypot Tor nodes, they still know next to nothing about you. I mean it is going to be hard to figure out who you are with the hotspot, but the hotspot through Tor, to a quality VPN in a genuine privacy jurisdiction paid for with Monero that you purchased in a non-KYC manner through Tails on a public WiFi is going to be very hard to link to you. The same goes for the MiFi Hotspot when you use your attorney's office with a pseudonym as a confidential mail drop. This is the type of OpSec you would use if you were building say a true DeFi crypto exchange and you did not want any entanglements with either the IRS or the SEC. This is assuming it is an entirely programmatic exchange that you are not planning to benefit from, but which you have zero desire to be questioned about for writing the code for example. I mean the code is not unlawful. If you are not benefiting from it financially, you are not necessarily subject to any licensing rules or personal liability, but if you wanted to pull a genuine Satoshi Nakamoto disappearing act off, you would want to start with at least that level of OpSec for it's deployment.
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  533. She went to a Top Tier university, that didn't happen because she grew up broke. Do a few poor kids get in and make it through? Yes, but a miniscule number do, and you can see in those people's faces that they started with nothing. She oozes privilege. She also contradicts everything she says within 2 sentences of saying it.
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  534. Tony McNeill until George W. Bush we paid 50% on an inheritance over $300,000 or $600,000 for a married couple. My great uncle had a $7 million estate and only $600k was shielded from the estate tax when he died in 2001, but his wife could own all of it without estate tax implications. By the time my great aunt died a year ago the estate had mostly been exhausted, but if it had not, the taxes on her estate would have been $0.
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  535. I wouldn't trash him, but I would point out that he probably isn't aware that as implemented in Sanders bill M4A will give most workers who have health insurance an $11k a year raise AFTER TAXES are accounted for, and his living wage and federal jobs guarantee proposal would both put more than $12k a year into the pockets of most workers and grow the economy in a less inflationary manner, which means it would be more beneficial in the long run to most workers. It will do nothing for people who don't or won't work, but most voters hate those people, so I guess I would take the better economic plan overall.
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  536. If it’s time then why not support Tulsi who has better policies of Warren who pretends to have better policies.
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  537. That Thurston Howell the Third Impression does not impress anyone.
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  538. To take advantage of the best tax benefits in Ireland you don't want Irish citizenship. Hell you don't even want reckonable residence. You want non-dom status for as long as you can possibly keep it. The best way to live in Ireland is to get EU citizenship elsewhere via any of the numerous easier to obtain residency visas and permits become a citizen of another EU country and use your EU citizenship and freedom of movement go live in Ireland as a non-dom. Equally viable, marry an EU citizen and live in Ireland again as a non-dom. Better bet still marry an EU citizen from one of the countries you don't need to live in to become a citizen, do that first, then move to Ireland.
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  539. The Great Turnover is a lot less scary.
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  540. Bulgaria also gets you Visa free travel to Australia allegedly except that it doesn't because Aussie's turn it down 80% of the time for an eVisa.
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  541.  @rainbowodysseybyjonlion  Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao.
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  542. Erik Reyes Tulsi is against Medicare for All. She is Obamaing it and lying by omission and whispering her truth. Bernie is the ONLY candidate who is actually for Medicare for All.
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  543. ​ @dustinfowler7868 stop voting for people with a D or R behind their name and start voting for people who do not take PAC money.
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  544. If a large segment of the male population is not getting sex, the odds of revolution, civil war, and war in general goes up.
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  545. Cambodia too.
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  546.  @ThuyPham-lr5dc  He really was quite skinny at the time.
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  547.  Ted Freddy  ok Boomer.
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  548. Why isn't Andrew Cuomo at the top of the fauxgressive list?
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  549. The dirty little secret no one will point out is that the investors in private equity often own controlling or significant shares in public competitors to the companies private equity firms buyout, ergo, imploding those competitors is an ancillary benefit for many of the limited partners involved in the deals who use the opaque nature of private equity funds to hide their monopolistic practices.
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  550.  @thierrysf  I looked into it when day dreaming about the billion dollar lottery that someone in Illinois won here in the US a couple of months ago. I thought about where I would buy houses. All total the 9 places I would've wanted a home would've come in at just about $30 million with about half of that coming from Monaco obviously, and it would just be a place to go during the spring or fall in years that Montenegro or Cyprus didn't win the honor. After setting up a Private Foundation and DAF to shelter most of the money from the US tax authorities on such a windfall, that would have been about 10% of what you could easily hold onto for personal use, so obviously money would be no object.
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  551. I’m with you Medicare for All is cheaper and we know for a fact that the GI Bill added $7 in increased tax revenue for every dollar invested in college tuition for returning GIs from WWII and Korea. That built the middle class and it means that these programs are fiscally conservative investments that pay for themselves.
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  552. I mean Cheyenne the biggest city in the state is smaller than the rural county seat in most of the Adirondack mountain counties of NY & there are hardly any people in that area.
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  553. A director work permit & residence visa for a Labuan company is beginning to look more attractive, imho.
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  554.  @Shamrah.A  I was just about to say, I investigated and saw multiple new articles just published in the last few hours.
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  555. I was thinking pliable myself.
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  556. Linux is complicated because it's greatest strength is also it's greatest weakness. The abundance of choice is Linux's great strength, but that is it's weakness too. if you give people 3 choices they can pick one. I mean Windows, Mac, or Linux would be an easy choice, but it's not Windows, Mac or Linux. It's Windows, Mac or Arch, Manjaro, Gentoo, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Pop! OS, Linux Mint, MX Linux, Zorin, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Hannah Montana Linux, etc. But the choices don't end there. While one Mac looks mostly like another with minor tweaks between updates, and this same holds true with Windows for the most part, with Linux you get to decide if you like a tiling windows manager, or a more traditional desktop environment. Do you want Gnome, Cinnamon, XFE, KDE, Pantheon, Mate? Oh the choices don't stop there, what theme do you want with that desktop environment? Oh, is that file manager not your cup of tea, well maybe you should try Nautilus or Dolphin, or whatever the myriad of other choices may be. Yes, it's great that you can make Linux work for you the way you want it to work, which makes it complicated, but it also makes it a tinkerer's operating system and a coder's operating system that is never quite ready for the masses. Are there Distributions that would be great for mass market adoption? Absolutely. There are super stable and fairly easy to use offerings fro. The Ubuntu, RHEL, and Debian lines amongst others that would meet most desktop users needs are great, but unless and until a company chooses one distro and tweaks it to be absolutely perfect to sell to schools, or government agencies, or businesses for office work and really puts a sales force on the ground to secure big contracts, Linux will never gain mass market adoption on the desktop. The smartest move Apple made was aggressively going after the public school, college and university markets in the 1980s and 1990s. A Linux hardware company choosing a rock solid distro with the bells and whistles to make desktop Linux easy to manage for school IT admins would be the smart move. System 76 would be better served employing a sales team to get Pop! OS desktops and laptops I to schools than building a new DE in Rust. Google Chrome has made inroads to the school sales market because it's an easy system for school IT people to administer, but with state and federal educational privacy laws, Linux is far better positioned to take those contracts. A company just needs to go after those sales.
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  557. Might want to bone up on Michael Sussman. The Green Party candidate for AG in NY. The best lawyer for the job. He has a thirty plus year history of winning civil rights lawsuits for fair housing and prosecuting police brutality cases as a private attorney. He literally had David Simon of The Wire fame make a mini-series about the events surrounding the fair housing case he won in Yonkers in the mid-1980s. He has a history of standing up against corruption and winning.
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  558. Tax savings are not the only reasons to renounce. Opposition to the empire is reason enough for many people, but familial relationships can be harder to severe than citizenship. Having listened to Andrew's comments over the years, I suspect US adventurism abroad was one of the many reasons he decided to renounce and if may have been the primary fuel for his initial departure.
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  559.  @choreomaniac  Roger Ver was convicted of a federal explosives charge as a young man dealing with fireworks charge before obtaining a CBI from St Kitts & renouncing US citizenship. He established residence in Japan and he has a B1/B2 visa to return to the US, so it is not impossible to obtain one. You need to establish ties to your place of residence. You need to have the economic means to provide for yourself and evidence that returning to your place of residence will be likely. Renouncing your US citizenship & establishing citizenship and residency elsewhere is I dare say stronger evidence than most would present that you have no plan to illegally immigrate to a country you emigrated from and established a life elsewhere from. As Andrew has pointed out he paid in the single digits in taxes to the US and elsewhere before renouncing. While no longer being required to fill out a lot of forms and no longer being barred from investments that the SEC regulations made impossible overseas were part of his reasoning I am sure, taking up citizenship in a Commonwealth country that you have no tax obligation to and which has no standing army is very different from being a citizen of a country that has been at war every year of most of its citizens lives, especially when those wars were fought halfway around the globe.
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  560. If the NATO leaders actually support freedom & democracy as they claim & not merely the bottom line of their arms industries they should talk with Zelenskyy and confirm their commitment to an agreement to provide Asylum in the NATO member country of their choice to all Russian soldiers who peaceably surrender to the Ukrainian forces. They should airdrop Leaflets and smart phones connected to video of the NATO leaders making the offer. With an Army made mostly of conscripts and 75% of the forces in Ukraine, most of them would surrender within a week and Putin would be deposed shortly thereafter. Of course that is just my take as someone who has been paying attention to what the Russian people have said on video here on YouTube for the last decade. This is entirely Putin's war and his support is an inch deep in Russia. Having said that the war mongers of the west will never make that offer it's bad for their weapons manufacturers and their own people might get the idea that their governments should be replaced with ones that actually answer to the people as well.
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  561.  @25Soupy  one correction, Millennials are between the ages of 23/turning 24 and 40 assuming the 1980-1997 generational cohort is the accepted norm with Xers born between 64-79. The Zoomers are between 8 and 23 now with 1997-2012 their accepted generational cohort. The Xers between 40 and 56 depending on where they lived in North America have had some really good times or some really bad times, but have definitely taken some of the hardest hits to retirement savings of any generation with the 1991 recession, the 2000 stock market bubble, the 2007-2009 market crash, and the Covid crash. Every time I have been ready to get my career going the economy has been crashing. It was bad when I finished high school, it crashed again when I finished college. The year I finished my LLM after becoming a lawyer it crashed again. As I was transitioning into starting a business doing drone videography for real estate because I realized the stress of being a litigator who usually worried more about their clients cases than the clients did was not a good way to live, Covid hit, so I definitely understand what you mean about trading for the opportunity that suits your needs.
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  562. In all honesty Sweden or Mexico. Neither country was big on lockdowns.
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  563. NY State's Constitution specifically forbids a wealth tax. It is codified into the state constitution.
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  564. As a former public defender in Ellicotville, the crime rate was typically Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a motor vehicle for people who failed to pay fines, or had a DWI, a fair number of DWIs, the occasional harassment or simple assault charge from a bar fight, every once in a while there would be burglary typically drug seeking related usually of a seasonal camp, and back in the day a fair number of unlawful possession of marijuana charges, but that is not enforced the same way anymore, so...
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  565. Turns out just in time production and shipping leaves a lot of room for massive breakdowns.
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  566. I would make a bet that the Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad Act has a better chance of passing in the next 4 years than an increased tax on the wealthy. A) the Democrats will never end the Social Security cap, because it is too easy for real business owners to avoid the tax by taking their earnings in dividends, while even though loan-out companies make it relatively easy for celebrity actors, musicians, and athletes to avoid as well, it could hurt new celebrities who haven't put their financial plans in place and there is no way the Democratic Party is going to hurt their donor base B) Making a case for ending Taxation Without Representation strengthens the case to admit Puerto Rico and DC as States. The Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad Act creates a new valuable loophole for the Uber wealthy that the Democratic and Republican donor base highly support. If rates were to go up, the TFAAA would definitely be the pressure relief valve for the Uber wealthy. You would almost immediately see a Mark Cuban, a Mark Zuckerberg, and a Bill Gates dividing their time between newly acquired homes or previously owned homes in the Bahamas, St. Kitts, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Anguilla, BVI, Vanuatu, European residences, New Zealand, Australia, and South and Central America deploying your Trifecta strategy while their tax residence is an Anguilla, UAE, BVI, St. Kitts, Gibraltar, Monaco, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Mann or some other baseline zero tax or territorial taxed residence where they have no business holdings. I mean Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Panama, the Philippines all with high top line, but purely territorial taxes would be common place. New beach house construction in the Caymans would boom.
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  567. US tax rates have been nearly halved since you started this channel. The evidence says precisely the opposite of what you do. The same holds true in a lot of high taxed countries in Europe where top marginal rates have been cut. The only people facing high rates in most of the developed world are workers suffering under high taxes for socials which outside of the US provide healthcare, daycare, K-Grad School education, and survivable safety nets during downturns. Safety nets which have made Sweden and Denmark the birthplace of Unicorns because entrepreneurs can fail easily and not suffer devastating poverty.
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  568. I wonder if the Disney heiress who says that she deserves to be taxed more, and the fact that she is one of the largest shareholders in Disney still had anything to with the about face?
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  569. Joe Biden is not going to raise taxes. The August recess is almost here already & next year is an election year. There is a zero percent chance of a tax increase under this dysfunctional Congress & after the midterms the Democrats will be in the minority in the House & Senate again. Neither of the wholly owned subsidiary parties of major corporations, ie Dems & Reps will ever raise taxes in the US, except on workers.
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  570. I was recently reading on the EU website about work rights available to citizens of 59 African, Pacific, and Caribbean nations, including the 5 Caribbean CBI countries that provide equal work-permit free access to countries aside from the EU nation where such citizens may have obtained a visa. I must admit, as is often the case with the EU website the answers were fairly opaque. It does appear that the right to self-employment would attach which could be useful for a budding Nomad Capitalist in such a situation, but it is unclear if the right of establishment ie to set-up and manage a corporation as opposed to a sole proprietorship in multiple EU countries would attach for such citizens after obtaining a residency visa in at least one Schengen country. If these rights along with the OECS freedom of movement rights for several Caribbean countries attach to a CBI passport along with the CARICOM rights of freedom of movement for skilled workers, then anyone with a university degree including certain associates degrees or other specified skills they can meaningfully demonstrate is given a lot of added value by a CBI passport. I mean the CARICOM skilled worker rights include a right of establishment which can be very valuable in one market specifically which has significant tax advantages. The CARICOM & OECS freedom of movement rights of citizens is very clear. The potential freedom of movement/work & freedom of establishment rights that may attach to a Caribbean CBI passport when it is used to obtain an EU residence visa if that is the case would in my opinion make those Tier B Passports at least a Tier B+. I suspect you have found out more about this opaque aspect of passports from the 59 countries and EU residency visas, but I don't think I have ever heard it discussed. If the right of establishment & freedom of movement without a work permit attaches for these passport holders when the obtain any EU residence visa this makes it much easier to structure international companies in the most tax advantageous way. I mean having to obtain residency in multiple EU countries just to set up and manage various subsidiaries would be much more difficult than securing one residency because you did so with a Caribbean CBI passport that allows you to work in any EU country without a work permit or residency visa just like an EU citizen when you are merely a resident of one EU country.
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  571. They think that the working class is mean online, they better hope they don't see how mean it will be in real life if they cheat again. They will know what a guillotine mob looks like.
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  572. A Tiblisi fee zone company with common shares owned by the entrepreneur and preferred shares owned by an Antigua & Barbuda company looks like an interesting way to potentially avoid most taxes. It will cost a little over $5k a year in company fees and free zone license costs to keep the Georgian and Antiguan companies in good standing, but if you took a $12k a year salary from the Georgian Company, then depending on whether or not a non-resident employee of the Antiguan company is that same entrepreneur director of the Georgian Company could likely pay up to the limit the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and it would likely cost about $8k or so to set up the structure. No one would think that the Antiguan company with a 25% corporate tax rate is saving you money, but if the Antiguan social security taxes don't apply even with annual licensing and company fees you are at 6% tax and with those Antiguan social security taxes you are still lower than just the US social security rate on a US based salary, like 12% overall, but I suspect the social security tax will not apply to such an Antiguan company. That requires more research. Of course anyone other than US taxpayers have less issues to think about here, but if structured properly an American can reduce their taxes a fair amount with this structure for a company that isn't a start-up, but isn't a really large enterprise yet either. I mean a blogger or online marketer with a solid low six figure business could save on tax while growing the company and saving up for an economic citizenship for example. Even though Georgia doesn't recognize the legitimacy of the old US-USSR Tax treaty, the US does, so operating servers through AWS won't create a permanent establishment in the US. Georgia's tax treaties with Ireland and Singapore allow a SaaS start-up to make use of AWS servers in those countries too and avoid a permanent establishment. Georgia looks very good indeed for a bootrapped start-up if you structure the company correctly and take advantage of it's free zones. If an American entrepreneur positioned themselves to be able to renounce US citizenship and travel on say a St. Kitts passport even, they could with a proper buy-sell agreement executed at the time of purchase between the Antiguan company and the Georgian Company reacquire the preferred shares and close down the Antiguan company. If the company became a big success and the entrepreneur was earning more than $200k a year they could easily take advantage of short term stays in Georgia for the purpose of tax residency coupled to the permanent residency that should be available by operating their company to travel the world quite freely without too many tax concerns, except of course spending too much time in the wrong country. If they are staying in Malaysia, Thailand, the Phillipinnes, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, other territorial tax countries, or if they move to the Caymans, BVI, Anguilla, Antigua, the Bahamas or St. Kitts, their tax free lifestyle would be very easy to maintain. I mean once they have permanent residency in Georgia there is no reason to draw a salary when they can be paid tax free with dividends from a free zone company. Upon closer inspection the Antigua plan has a problem. That problem is the lack of deductibility of salaries.
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  573. Steyer is the only one who will say anything good about Bernie.
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  574.  @starchild1314  The other reality is that no such law will be enacted as 100% of the politicians in the USA are wholly owned subsidiaries of corporate America & despite what Andrew thinks, G.I.L.T.I. & it's progeny ushered in a 50% tax cut, not a tax increase, so the US government despite the rhetoric from the faux progressive Democrats is not going to ever raise taxes.
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  575.  @blenrythblenryth3949  and it will get struck down.
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  576.  @GK-yi4xv  The UK does still have a non-dom status, but Ireland allows it for a much longer period presently than the UK. Malta allows the status for up to 5 years. Cyprus allows it for up to I believe 17 years. I am not sure how long the UK allows non-dom status, but my understanding the last time I looked into it, was Ireland allowed it indefinitely, so long as you don't take steps needed to naturalize.
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  577.  @utube7917  Google is your first friend. Start looking at PDF files that Deloitte publishes annually for most countries. They are called Deloitte Highlights. They will be labeled by year, 2019, 2020, etc. Start looking at the Price Waterhouse Cooper's website again Google is your friend. Look up a country and withholding tax. You will find standard withholding rates on the Deloitte Highlights, but PWC's site will usually tell you country specific withholding rates. This begins showing you which countries have tax treaties with other countries. Google the two countries' names and double tax treaty. In many instances you will be able to easily find the double tax treaties of the parties. Some times they are harder to find. The IRS has them for the US. Ireland has a good collection of theirs. The Republic of Georgia does well providing text of theirs, Singapore & Hong Kong both do a good job of providing their double tax treaties. Canada does a good job of providing theirs. Countries that are unexpected tax havens are places like Malta. You should read their tax treaties, and look into information on tax residency, tax domicile and articles or videos about how it is seperated. The usual suspects locations like the Caribbean have almost all been forced by the EU blacklist & restrictions on their banks to adopt economic substance rules that make things tough. You should read a few articles on how territorial tax works & you should review how it works specifically in Panama - pay attention to how Panama's management & Control Rules work in regards to taxation. You should read or watch a video about the Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. You should read up on the Single Malt & realize that the EU & Ireland & Malta have implemented some rules to shut those loopholes down & read how to get around the efforts to close the loop holes. I highly recommend close scrutiny of Malta's tax treaties en masse. Google and read a few articles more academic the better about "web servers as permanent establishments." Read the OECD postion on the webserver as permanent establishments. Carefully read the permanent establishments sections of double tax treaties. Look for subtle differences. Compare Barbados US tax treaty with the Barbados Canada one closely. Countries that could be big players in any strategy using some of the complicated structures that may need to be deployed are Singapore, Hong Kong, Malta, Ireland, Luxembourg, Barbados, Laubuan companies in Malaysia, read the Australia Malaysia treaty to see how troubling Laubuan can be to some of the Tier A countries. The UAE of course & their tax treaties. Google free zone companies & read various statutes on Georgia Free Zone & Virtual Zone companies. Google economic substance act or laws in Cayman Islands, BVI, Barbados, Anguilla, Turks & Caicos, Bahamas, Bermuda. Google how to get a bank account for an XYZ company for any country you are interested in deploying as part of a structure. Today this is often the hardest part. Getting a bank account for operations & payment. Next start thinking about work permits & residency in countries you would want to or need to operate from. I mean getting a work permit for your Thailand Representative Office of your Philippine subsidiary of your UAE holding company for your Singapore company that is managed & controlled from Malta not to mention work permits & residency visas for Malta, Thailand, & the Philippines while finding a resident director for that Singapore company who lives in Singapore could present some challenges, not to mention the costs of maintaining the UAE company. Work permits for the people you need to operate that Cayman Islands company you were thinking about may be tough after you read the economic substance laws. Do you have a university degree? That Saint Kitts citizenship may have some added benefits under the CARICOM Freedom of Movement & Establishment rules & laws. You may want to think about how big the CARICOM workforce is & the benefits of Barbados vs the Caymans if you really want that Caribbean lifestyle. You may also want to carefully read Barbados's tax residency rules for companies. Read a few of the Companies Acts in the various old school tax havens. I mean compare Bahamas & Cayman or BVI to Vanuatu. I mean what constitutes doing business where. Can you hold a board meeting their without having to register?
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  578.  @utube7917  For me figuring out which countries have treaties with countries with AWS regions that likely clarify using those services do not create a permanent establishment has been important. Reading the Singapore statute on Permanent Establishments was helpful too. I have been approaching the question of how to structure the business of a SAAS app that has to also provide royalty payments to it's users who sell digital products through the site in the most advantageous way. This means a lot of thought will be required for how to structure the business to maximize tax benefits for the owners, but also the customers who will sell through the service. It adds to the complexity of everything. It also means Transfer Pricing Studies will likely be an inevitability. So yeah read up on Transfer Pricing Studies. If you want to operate a simpler service business then other issues pop up. I mean a consulting company is not the same so you may need to operate in a low tax jurisdiction like Hungary or Barbados rather than trying to structure around a territorial tax regime or permanent establishment issues. I mean is the added cost of an employee in the BVI, Caymans, or UAE more valuable than the 1 to 5% tax rate in Barbados? Is it worth more than the low costs of employees in Hungary & the 9% tax rate? Is it worth more than the low cost of employees in Laubuan in Malaysia & the 3% tax rate? All of these questions are dependent on where you are operating & how.
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  579. Adam Weissman 4 years ago Howie Hawkins as a Green received more votes for his ballot line than Cuomo received on the WFP line. The WFP considered alternative candidate Zephyr Teachout at that time too. If the WFP crosses endorsed a candidate like Hawkins against Gillibrand, at the very least that could make her vulnerable to a strong Republican candidate like Golisano, Bloomberg, or Giuliani.
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  580. The New York Times is routinely hawking Ford’s while also hawking their conspiracy theories. Maybe it is time to boycott the Times and NBC, and MSNBC, and CNN, and the Washington Post? Maybe boycott their advertisers since that is a more powerful weapon.
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  581. Caymans have solid international schools from everything I've read.
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  582. When corporations like Amazon and about 50 other Fortune 500 companies earned $79 billion in profits, paid ZERO TAXES and received tax rebates from the US government as subsidies/incentives to the tune of $4 billion. That is neo-feudal-corporatism. Both parties support it, and a small segment of the Democratic Party opposes it. The Green Party opposes it and to a larger degree than the Democrats or Republicans the Libertarian Party opposes it while generally supporting other policies which align with a neo-feudalist agenda. If the working class is paying taxes and the feudal lords of corporations are given tax dollars from those peasants in addition to the profits they steal from their own workers and the cash they extract from other workers, how could this system be called anything other than feudalism?
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  583. It can become very complicated depending on where you live.
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  584.  @nenad6278  because Serbia does not allow dual citizenship for naturalized citizens and it takes 8 years to naturalize in Serbia. North Macedonia has a CBI program.
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  585. Hence why you need lawyers & accountants who understand transfer pricing rules, international tax treaties, & the use of independent agents.
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  586.  @edwardsiswantosantoso8933  I'll admit I'm not 100% sure about Malta. I know that you have to own or rent property there for a period, but I thought there was a residency requirement which may or may not also be a purely legal residency requirement.
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  587. ​ @MrSilverfish12  You do not have to live in the EU if you are an EU citizen and unlike the US if you are not living in the country of your citizenship, you won't be taxed by most of them with rare exceptions. I mean a Dutch national living in the UAE should have a zero tax rate and have a passport that gets you into the CUNA countries, Europe, South America, Japan, Mexico, most of Africa, and Southeast Asia. If you are an American and want to become Dutch under the current law you have to renounce US citizenship to obtain the Dutch citizenship, but with ESTA you can visit the US easily enough for 90 days a year.
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  588.  @hikerliz  I mean what if the country is efficient and does not require much direct taxation because it raises revenue through fees like the Cayman Islands does through work permit and residence permit fees? I mean a country has a right to choose how it taxes people does it not? Who says infrastructure must be provided by government? Rail lines operate successfully as private enterprise in many countries as do ports and airports. Private schools exist in most countries. Courts can run on court filing fees. Land records offices could operate with filing fees. Incorporation fees could pay for many governments which are efficient to operate. They already do in many countries.
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  589. Dennis Kucinich consistently argued that we need a Department of Peace and voted for peace in Congress.
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  590. Ranked choice voting will do about as much good as California’s jungle primary. No good at all.
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  591.  Scott  excuse me for not taking the word of a serial perjurer, by which I mean Clinton.
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  592. It is time for him to file suit.
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  593. What they will actually do is redistrict her into a narrowly drawn and gerrymandered district that will connect with a Long Island Republican in 2020.
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  594. ROBS Roth 401(k).
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  595. Cozimo I spent 20 years studying economics, the law, and public policy. I attended the #1 school in the world on public administrations. I’ve started companies. I’ve worked in the public sector. I’ve managed Congressional campaigns. I’ve worked in Hollywood. I’ve read Yang’s proposals and I’ve spent enough time researching and ruminating on the issue to know he is just flat out wrong. I don’t have to justify my reasoning to you. You have to sell me on why his ideas are good. I ain’t buying them!
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  596. Janice from Accounting i agree, if you haven’t read at least 2000 non-fiction books on psychology, philosophy, history, politics, economics, business, hard science, the art of storytelling, and read or watch at least 10,000 plays, books, and movies that are works of fictional storytelling you are not prepared to have an intelligent discussion on the subjects people need to understand to begin to hope to figure out anything resembling a solution to the problems we face today. You need a peak inside that many other considered minds on the non-fiction side to begin to grasp what is going on and have the collective knowledge to start formulating a theory about how things could work better and why we are at where we are at. You explained an important part of where we are at fairly succinctly, but I agree. It takes a mind exposed to a lot of other solid thinkers ideas to begin to talk intelligently about what is going on in anything resembling short hand. It probably takes someone with at least 2 decades of explaining complicated things simply to distill the ideas we need to fix the problems we face in a manner that most people can grasp. There aren’t enough of those people around right now.
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  597.  @Hana-kc1lq  would never risk those rules myself.
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  598.  @marinangelov  I tried reading it, but I have no idea who he is addressing, and I feel dumber for having tried to read it.
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  599. ​​ @CoolGobyFish well until 2000 if you became a citizen of a country other than Sweden, you lost Swedish citizenship automatically. If you were born a dual citizen, you lost citizenship in Sweden at 21 if you were not choosing to be exclusively Swedish. There was a brief window people who lost Swedish citizenship could regain it in this scenario. Had I known then, ie in 2000, what I know now, I would have had my grandmother regain hers and claimed mine through her and my mother.
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  600. @Jessy J I think you are confusing a US policy with a policy of all countries. Malta for example says it will take 4 days at a minimum to process a request at a consulate or embassy to replace a lost or stolen passport while traveling abroad and even then you will need to present ID to prove your identity for a re-issue.
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  601. Unlike you Cenk, I was never a Republican and even I will acknowledge that Clinton was impeached for committing felony perjury. He should have been convicted of it too and sent to prison for his crime.
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  602. kien spicer Trump has committed money laundering, tax evasion, campaign finance violations, obstruction of justice, and probably violated the RICO Act with his ongoing criminal enterprise corruption in addition to engaging in what certainly looks like outright bribery and graft. The felonies he should be charged with are too numerous to count and if there is any justice not only should he be impeached and convicted, but also imprisoned and lose his assets in civil forfeiture.
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  603. That's just the tingling in Chris Matthews' leg jumping from his body as he fears his imminent guillotining.
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  604. I was in law school when Napster came out. Understanding the criminal penalties for piracy as well as the civil made not using file sharing easy.
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  605.  @CopyrightStriker13  why? It is cheaper for companies to operate without the need for physical space if they can do so? What are you jealous?
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  606. You don't win on those issues not because of money in politics, but because of representatives rather than direct democracy. Libya had a far more democratic government than the US before the CIA attacked it. It was a direct democracy that elevated local citizens to representative positions, but all of the real power was in the voters hands, kind of like school boards in NY. Their representatives could propose things, but voters had to approve or disapprove directly.
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  607. Bezos actually didn't make that much real money last year. Lee Camp is correct in his analysis of the stock or securities market in the United States and around the world as little more than a ponzi scheme. Bezo's wealth is in the form of a fictional asset value to the stock of Amazon. How else do you explain a company which generated about $10 billion in profit, which means assets reasonably valued at maybe $30 to $50 billion being valued at $1 Trillion? Now Apple earned 8 to 10x Amazon's profits last year and realistically might have an actual asset valuation at between $300 and $500 billion, but again, not the $1 Trillion valuation it presently is given by the ponzi scheme known as the stock market. We need real regulations that change the game once and for all and that comes in the form of laws which outlaw wage slavery entirely. How? By making it illegal for any business that operates as a corporation to employ people, and requiring that businesses be either sole proprietorships, partnerships, worker-owned cooperatives, or hybrid worker/consumer-owned cooperatives. Of course, it should be illegal for sole proprietors to employ anyone other than him or herself, and it should be illegal for partnerships to employ anyone other than partners under such a law. Not-for-Profit corporations would be allowed to contract a worker-owned cooperative to carry out their mission, and you could still contract a worker such as a professional who was self-employed, like a gardener who mowed multiple people's lawns, or a lawyer, doctor, dentist, or accountant. You would be able to hire a full time domestic worker or personal security professional for a celebrity for example, but there would be relatively few exceptions for private employees. Government being another obvious exception, although realistically, probably should be contracted to a worker cooperative too with civil service rules and open membership of cooperatives -I digress. If we wrote a law outlawing private employment in 99% of situations - then the entire economy would be transformed to value labor and work in its superior position to capital as Abraham Lincoln, a Republican President said was its proper place.
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  608. My father would have kicked half of the pundit class' ass if he ever met them. They are very lucky they lived hundreds of miles from him because he really wouldn't have hesitated or given any of them a chance if he ever saw any of them.
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  609. The Bahamas & Barbados would be the jurisdictions with significant advantages.
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  610. Let's be realistic. Google Chrome is on Linux because Google knows that a lot of web developers and developers in general use Linux on the desktop & they want those developers to optimize sites for Google Chrome, so they make it as easy as possible for developers to do that. As Steve Ballmer once said, "developers, developers, developers, developers...."
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  611.  @dankschang  a holding company is subject to a 0% rate.
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  612. If he said "money" I suspect since Warren is an attorney, she might have explained how "actual damages" work in a sex discrimination lawsuit. Oh she gets her lost pay after she "mitigated" the damages by taking another job. It's not a penalty. It isn't even worth the effort most of the time.
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  613. Ant Man we have battery tech for grid level storage readily available at current market costs. We can build plants to allow for grid level storage batteries to be made. We have the solar hot water, and geothermal heating and cooling tech to replace fossil fuels for heating and AC. We have the technology to do solar and wind. We have the batter storage. Most studies say it would cost about $1.5 Trillion to go Green, not $30 Trillion. Electric cars are commercially viable today. We have the battery tech, and with the current grid it is not hard to add more fast charging stations. We also have cultured meats that are ready to commercially replace slaughtered meats within the next 3 years. We have 12 years and the tech to do what needs to be done.
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  614. That wasn't the case under the old NHR regime.
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  615. Abosutely people should be able to buy citizenship. I see you did not mention Eric Schmidt the deca-billionaire CEO of Google purchased EU citizenship in that same Cypriot program. Why did he do that? Because it allows him to invest in Europe in a manner that would be unlawful if he were only an American. Does anyone really want to prevent people with money from making investments in Europe that will improve job prospects & economic development? This is especially true in Eastern states of the Union & many nations of Southern Europe which will be greatly improved by the influx of successful Chinese, South Asian, Southeast Asia, American & Canadian entrepreneurs who have taken advantage of these programs along with investors from the Middle East hoping to improve their ability to travel after finding business success in a region which outside of the UAE has a terrible passport. No one outside of at a minimum a deca-millionaire is purchasing an EU passport because the investment in either Cyprus or Malta was a more than a million US dollars and about a million Euros or more. Most of the people using Golden Visas for secure EU passports through residency are at least worth a million dollars on average. No one is spending $350k US dollars to pay cash for a home in Portugal who is not at least worth $500k in liquid assets with a high income outside the country. While a golden residency visa was not involved in the grant of citizenship to Rita Wilson & her husband Tom Hanks, the two have maintained a vacation home in Greece for a number of years. Does anyone really have a problem with wealthy individuals spending money, paying VAT, paying property taxes, and in many instances taking up residence in the EU and becoming taxpayers at the top end of a progressive tax rate while setting up new businesses in the EU? I mean it is far easier to start a company in an EU country as a Maltese citizen than it is as a citizen of the Philippines, but the deca-millionaire from the Philippines who started a successful call center business in their country for example who now wants to build a new company in Czechia is a problem. The fact that he paid Malta more than a million dollars to do so and obtained a passport that affords him an easier ability to do so is a problem. Because let's be honest people who are obtaining these citizenships for the most part are successful business people from countries with bad passports who want to be able to travel & invest more easily than they can in their home countries, and a few Americans who want to be able to return to the US without hassle after they give up their US citizenship. The ones who are investing in Malta to obtain such a passport or buying a Portuguese Golden Visa to do so are successful business people who want to be able to structure their businesses in a tax favorable way without being taxed by the United States when they haven't lived in the US for a decade.
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  616.  @harisadu8998  I can make them work for holding company purposes, that is all that matters.
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  617. I mean Serbia is not Schengen, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Bosnia & Hertzegovena, Ireland, the UK, Moldova, Georgia, and in better times Ukraine are all non-Schengen parts of Europe to visit to stay out of Schengen so you do not run out of days. It's entirely possible to live nomadically in Europe as a tourist under the present rules.
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  618. We live in an oligarchy. There are caps on damages already in place on damn near everything. I'm a lawyer. The law already takes this into account, and guess what, when the new rules are put in place damage caps and corporate shields will take care of that problem. It is not a problem.
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  619. If I ever again in my life see an ad for Dr. Squatch'e soap which I could care less about, it would be beyond too soon. Annoying me is a surefire way to ensure I will never give you any of my money.
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  620. It would be criminal if the companies did not legally reduce and avoid taxes that it costs less to avoid than to pay.
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  621. Terminal Insanity no it is not immoral to trade labor and services so long as you own the fruits of the deal. What is immoral is capitalism. The theft of the fruits of labor that is required for anyone to earn $10 million in a year -with limited exceptions, is the problem. 99.95% of individuals or businesses earning $10 million or more do so because they have stolen the value of someone else’s labor. Rare exceptions might include someone like JK Rowling, Tom Cruise, or Lebron James whose unique talents and abilities create excess value. There is no excess value that Tim Cook is creating. There might be an excess value that a Jonas Salk creates, but again that is less than 1% of the people who fall into that category. And the funny thing is most of them understand that an exceptional amount of luck is part of that equation, and they typically give away most of their earnings.
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  622. Terminal Insanity will anyone other than you provide labor in this business? Why does “starting the business” mean you are entitled to more of the fruits of those other’s labor than they are entitled to receive? Historically “capital resources” have been paid a 4% rate of return, so if you are saying that the money invested deserves a higher rate of return than the labor necessary to make the capital productive please explain why! You begin from a set of assumptions that I find morally repugnant as morally repugnant as slavery. Wage slavery and slavery are equivalents in my mind. Even the most successful company in history with the highest profit margins, Apple would only provide about $400,000 in income per employee if it were a worker owned company and since you claim that laborers should be allowed to traded their services and labor freely and the only form of ownership which allows that is the worker cooperative that would lead me to believe you must have an idea for a company with profit margins that make Apple look like a pittance. Either that or you are a thief who refuses to see their theft.
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  623. Whytebio if the wealthy are paying 87% of the taxes -which they aren’t it is 40% and actually much less when property taxes, sales taxes, state fees, and the tax on labor is factored, more like 26% of the taxes then despite the top 5% owning and controlling 85% of the assets in the country then taxes are too low because the wealthy have a privilege that the working class does not enjoy, a control over their taxes and when they are paid. The majority of income to the wealthy is untaxed entirely in the form of unrecognized capital gains. Most of the $150 billion that Jeff Bezos has is the result of a 0% tax rate on unrecognized capital gains. When the tax rates were higher in the 1950s- 1970s there was an incentive to hire new sales people and new R&D people an borrow to build a new plant and buy new equipment and pay interest on loans to grow the productivity of a company because you could either internalize the gains by letting money you would otherwise pay in taxes be written off as a deductible expense that grew and strengthened your business, or you could pay the taxes. When the rate is 70 to 93 percent you take the deductions and grow your business to create untaxed and unrecognized capital gains. When the tax code is as it is written today, you pay the taxes and buy back stock to artificially inflate the value of stock options created out of thin air for insider executives and as long inflate the value of stock for key insider investors and hedge fund buddies who will manipulate the price to fleece the pension funds of the working class invested via mutual funds because the tax rates favor paper gains over genuine growth and the consumer class’s disintegration. Choose your path. One created a vibrant middle class the other destroyed a vibrant middle class.
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  624. I think gnome is great. I just installed it as a second desktop on Linux Mint and I use it as my main desktop environment. I modify it to look like Mac OS because I like the graphical look of Mac OS, but the launcher is great, the easy access multiple desktops are great. The keyboard accessible desktop is great overall. It is also super snappy on my computer. I don't see why anyone has a problem with Gnome. Of course being on Mint I have Nemo as an alternative to Nautilus.
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  625. Obviously people don’t understand that the Democratic Presidential candidate’s have all made the mistake, Bernie included 4 years ago of connecting their campaigns to the Democratic Party’s VAN voter action network this has allowed them to figure out which Democrats support which candidates and take progressives off the list of voters who get called for polls. This is how the polls are being manipulated more than anything. If you think that the polls seem silly it is because Democrats are using big data to skew polls to their favored candidates anyone who thinks otherwise is sorely mistaken.
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  626. If you are calling an allegedly “communist” country the third-world, you don’t understand what that term means. As it was amongst a set of terminology created by American propagandists, there was “the first world,” which included western aligned corporatist democracies, there was “the second world,” which included Soviet aligned communist nations, then there was “the third world” which included non-aligned nations both democracies and dictatorships that operated independently and without alignment to the United States or the Soviet Union. There is no longer a “third-world,” but if a nation is “communist” then by definition as outlined by the propagandists it is a “second world” country. Currently these nations would include one of the fastest growing and most robust economies on earth with China, it would also include a nation which has a stronger economy than its natural resources would suggest is possible with Cuba, and it would include one of the poorest nations on earth with North Korea. I’m unaware of any other communist nations at this point in time, but if anyone is describing a “communist” country as “third-world,” they are misapplying the propaganda terms as they were defined in the 1950s.
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  627.  @DeanAndDrums1  I missed the r in micro-gen as in micro generation. They break them down like that though cuspers or micro-generations. The late 70s to about 81 maybe 82 folks like me have been called Xenniels as a micro-gen or Generation Catalano by the fans of My So Called Life.
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  628.  @joyrunzel9203  You clearly did not read what I wrote. The thing most people understand about broad generalized generational truths is they always have exceptions. You are not the mean, you are the curve breaker, calm down.
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  629. He is a US citizen. He can go to the US if he wants. He could also renounce if he wants. He has a lot of options. There is an above average chance that as he became Antiguan as a result of his parent's actions, he could claim German citizenship as well when he becomes an adult.
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  630. I thought you were going to talk about Taiwan's Gold Card Visa program & it's limited pathway to dual citizenship for exceptional people in their field of endeavor.
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  631. Someone needs to explain to her that it is and always has been properly titled the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act because it covers 100% of medical expenses, not 80% and it expands to include prescription drug and medical devices with a hard cap of $200 per year of out of pocket expenses on such things, and it also includes dental and vision coverage at 100%. If you don't understand that it expands the coverage it looks less appealing than it really is at the end of the day.
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  632. They lost out on the right to claim the lump sum prize which is a huge mistake in terms of estate planning. The drawing was highly suspicious and the failure to claim the prize is making this even more suspicious.
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  633. if you travel through 85% of rural America the sea of underpopulated counties that vote Republican every election, they are already worse off than most developing nations. The same holds true in most major cities as well outside of a few pockets that have benefited from investment in the industries and technology that maintain US hegemony, ie the finance industry in NYC, the tech businesses in Austin, San Francisco, and Seattle. The entertainment industry in Los Angeles, to a lesser degree Nashville, Miami, and Atlanta, the oil industry in Dallas and Houston, and the military industrial congressional complex in Washington, DC.
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  634.  @mikenephilly  my aunt who is 70 & just started collecting social security sounds like you. She gets less than $900 a month, but has an offer to buy her trailer which sits on land she is being evicted from which is owned by her former employer for $28k. She cannot really afford to live anywhere in the US. I have advised her to buy a life annuity with the purchase money for the trailer. That would put her at around $1100 a month of income. On that small amount of money she would be eligible to retire in many South & Central American countries. She worked with a lot of Spanish speaking migrants to the US on the farm where she worked her entire career, so she has enough Spanish to get by & the cost of living there would mean she would live far better. The Philippines, Thailand, & Vietnam are also on the list of places she might retire more comfortably on so little money. If the Philippines revive their retirement visa it may be a viable option for residency. The medical care would be more affordable in those countries too.
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  635. Serbia, Mauritius, and Malta would give you most of the world. From a CBI perspective, the best would be Grenada, Turkey, and Malta. That would cost you north of 1.5 million. Grenada, Turkey, and North Macedonia would give you most of the world, except UAE, Canada, USA, New Zealand, and Australia. Adding Mauritius which you could get in about 2 years plus with a $500k investment, would give you New Zealand, UAE, and more of Africa. 5 years on the ground in Barbados which is possible for a Grenada citizen if you have a college degree and get a Caricom Skilled Worker Certificate with it, would add Canada and better access to Mexico, along with the ability to go to Equatorial Guinea -basically only a few African countries, the US, UAE and Barbados have that. If while in Barbados you did a Golden Visa to Portugal, you could potentially have that and Barbados which would give you the US and Australia.
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  636.  @MILE011  2 out of 3 of those countries are not very favorable to dual citizenship.
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  637. I think it is an interesting first step regionally, but I want to see how other gulf countries react. Will Bahrain or Kuwait follow suit. Will any of the Gulf countries allow dual citizenship. Highly unlikely with autocratic leadership, but as Kuwait begins to liberalize a bit more than other gulf countries with some moves towards democrscy, I'm interested in seeing if it will view the UAE's actions favorably & if it will work to attract outside investors & business people to transition it's economy to a post petroleum environment as well.
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  638. My sister's laptop was running slow, but it's got a 2012 i7 with 4 cores and 8 threads, so it's not underpowered. It had 8GB of DDR3, but only a 2ghz wifi card. I upgraded her to 16GB of RAM, and a dual band wifi card and replaced her 2.5 inch HDD with an SSD. I told her I could reinstall Windows 10 or I could set her up with Manjaro, because Windows 11 is not allowed on hardware that old. She was mad at Apple for slowing down phones. Microsoft pissed her off and she no longer needed Windblows for work because they eliminated the Windows only things she used to have to deal with. I put Manjaro on the new SSD after the upgrade and she cannot believe how fast it runs now. After that upgrade she is questioning the IT admin at the school where she works insistence that they replace their desktops with Chromebooks. She wants them to upgrade the SSDs and switch to Linux and save money and she is putting up a stink about it at staff meetings.
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  639. I am hoping Chuck Rocha pulls off another shocking victory tonight!
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  640. You didn't notice where her misunderstanding comes from. She thinks it is taking Medicare as it works today and giving it to everyone. She got the expanded part of the bill, but missed the improved part of the bill, where it eliminates the 20% co-pays that she discussed.
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  641. Poor and working class Americans pay a wealth tax on their non-existent wealth every year of about 2% if they own a home or rent that home they pay about a 2% tax on the value of their home, that is a wealth tax, and in most states they pay either a personal property tax or registration fees or other taxes to own their car. It may be an inspection fee or registration, but it is about a 2% wealth tax. If the poor and working class can and do pay a 2% wealth tax on their biggest assets, why can't the wealthy pay a 2% wealth tax on their assets too? It only seems fair.
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  642. What percentage of Sanders voters lie to pollsters to get Gabbard and/or Warren and/or Yang's numbers up to allow others to take some of the arrows on the debate stage that would otherwise be hurled at Bernie? I would put that number at between 5 and 10% wouldn't you? In other words when Iowa and New Hampshire roll around there is some padding to Bernie's numbers that no one is counting today.
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  643.  @zeroh3049  The reason your nation of birth is on ALL passports is rules the US enacted & required and enforced upon the world with banking rules.
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  644. You gotta love a “new idea” that FDR and Truman both proposed in the 1940s.
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  645. You have just described the deflationary scenario that the Fed needs to worry about.
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  646. Let's say that you won the current Powerball and had to split it with one other person who you play the game with in a partnership. You get about $60 million after paying taxes at least in NY. If you put that money into a municipal money market fund with Vanguard you would currently get about 3-4% in annual interest -most likely tax free as it has minimal exposure to income from private benefit muni bonds like those used to build airports or stadiums which can be subject to the alternative minimum tax. That means you will have just under $2 million a year in spendable cash from that jackpot. You can rent a very nice place in Monaco, or Dubai with that money and spend basically nothing to live on out of those funds annually. And as Grant Cardone pointed out, nobody asks if you rent the big house you live in or if you own it, but renting gives you even more freedom than buying. If you decide you want to move, you can do it next year. In this day and age with companies and channels like Nomad Capitalist around getting help to alleviate yourself from the tax burdens that come with being an American are readily available and you would have the money to invest to get Maltese citizenship and maybe a backup like St Kitts or Dominica without blinking an eye. That means you could grow that nest egg by investing in a diversified stock and bond index fund and if you do so correctly pay only about 15% at the high end on dividend income, while paying 0% on interest income or capital gains income. Or you could remain a US citizen and still pay relatively little tax on dividend and interest income with proper planning ie muni bonds for interest and the same diversified index fund with long term capital gains treatment for mostly qualified dividends. There are places to live with zero property tax like the Cayman Islands, Monaco, or Dubai if you want to buy a place to live, but nice places there will be costly with the biggest cost being lost growth in your investment portfolio. Even in the hottest real estate market on earth you will not get the growth you get with the S&P 500. Rent, don't buy, and charter whether it is a yacht, or a plane if that is how you want to travel, but aside from short haul flights to avoid connection delays, even then flying first or business class on international airlines is probably a better deal. You can live on the dividends and interest and live well without ever touching the principle, so why would you.
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  647. There are 21 million empty homes in the US and there are less than 3 million homeless people. There are 7 vacant homes for every person without a house. We don't need more housing, we need more jobs where the housing already exists.
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  648. Nobody has any fucking money. The last time that happened was in the 1930s. That was deflation. It's gonna happen in a big way following this mess. If you are the CEO of a company that produced more with it's telecommuting workforce how are you going to justify $100k a month in office space rent and overhead to your board? You are not and your workforce will remain telecommuters. There goes the commercial real estate prices. Oh so those office workers who now work from home aren't out to lunch with co-workers at the restaurant anymore so the restaurants aren't making any money and they closed up shop. Hmm, commercial real estate takes another hit. The loss of servers hurt the already struggling retailers and the mall closed along with a whole bunch of other stores. Oh, so commerical real estate takes another hit. What do you mean you are not renewing your $3000 a month lease here in San Francisco or New York City? You are moving to West Podunk Nowhere because you are afraid you could get sick in the next pandemic if you live in the city and you can buy a house in the country fro $75k. The house was $150k before all of the foreclosures brought on by the pandemic. Oh, seven of your other co-tennants in this apartment building who all telecommute are doing the same thing? Shit, I'm gonna have to lower the rent. Housing costs are gonna drop through the floor in cities around the country because of telecommuting and the loss of service work and retail and restaurants. Nobody went out to the new Avenger's movie because they are afraid they would get sick. They will pay $25 to watch it at home on their big screen, but they aren't going out to the theater even though it re-opened? Shit, AMC was already bankrupt now you are telling me 500 small indie theaters and Regal are in bankruptcy too. What do you mean no one is buying new shirts and we need to close down the line in our new Vietnam facility. Nobody is spending any money because 30 million people are out of work. What do you mean that government workers had to take a 15% paycut because the city doesn't have enough sales tax revenue to pay it's workforce. That is literally the headline from my local paper today! Deflation is gonna hit in a big frigging way!
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  649. Jimmy even this stuff that Bullock and Cuomo are doing continued corporate dominance of the country’s communications networks. It is the same kind of capitalist and ruling class protection measures that ROOSEVELT took in the 1930s. These are the kinds of weak protections which are no protection at all. The kinds of class protectionism for the rulers which allowed Reagan to begin dismantling the middle class.
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  650. The problem with polling is that it is done nationally and is completely irrelevant on a district by district basis because of gerrymandering. Also polling “likely” voters versus “registered” voters in Texas shows that Ted Cruz is 9 points ahead versus the 2 points ahead Beto is amongst registered voters. The reality is that the Democrats will get 4 to 5 million MORE votes than the Republicans, but those votes will come in places where Democrats live -ie where the jobs and economic lifeblood of the country is located, and the Republicans will win all of the empty rural spaces in America that are dying off and those areas that are dying off will kill whatever is left that is vibrant in America. Welcome to the realities of a failed system of government that is designed to value empty land over people. The Senate should no longer exist. It is an antiquated undemocratic institution and a vestige of concessions made to the slave states as is the electoral college which too should be eliminated. Voting is not going to solve this problem. A sustained non-violent revolutions carried out in a majority of state capitals and DC a la Tahrir Square is the only thing that is going to fix this problem. Abdication, resignations, and a new constitution should be the rallying call and cry of the day. When Democrats get 4 to 5 million more votes for Congress and the Senate this fall and remain in the minority and even lose Senate seats and probably a house seat or two, just remember that this system is not designed to represent people. It was designed to protect slave owners and their land.
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  651. Easy tiger they still have 300 seats in the house, 99 seats in the Senate and a Republican Governor of Vermont who gets to appoint Bernie's replacement unless he is defeated in November and that Republican Governor of Vermont has won with landslides when Clinton won the state and when Bernie won the state
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  652.  @rubensnogueira5838  do you manage and control the company because under Portugal's rules the place where it is effectively managed is where it is tax resident. If you do any work for the company while in Portugal under Portugal's tax law you have created a permanent establishment and the company is subject to tax.
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  653. My other sources would be having read the residency and permanent establishment clauses of the US double tax treaties. I paid particularly close attention because Portugal was high on my list of places to go to get EU citizenship, but the NHR would be of virtually no use to me because of the rules under the double tax treaty and the fact that me doing work in Portugal as an employee of my company would subject me to their tax regime including their exit tax even if I added a couple of board positions and paid a few friends and family members to enjoy a vacation/board meeting as directors every year in Florida. By the way, I'm a tax lawyer
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  654.  @rubensnogueira5838  Portugal is still high on my list, but only if I were using a Golden Visa and able to not be tax resident while gaining permanent residency & citizenship. Like Italy Portugal allows the third country national married to one of their citizens to claim citizenship while residing outside the country as well. Before this investigation, the D7 visa was high on my list. It still could have a place on my list, but only if my business was a sole proprietorship, so no exit taxes applied the EU free movement regime has fairly well precluded exit taxes on citizens, but not corporations, but then the NHR would probably be of very little benefit, unless by chance I managed to start selling the screenplays I've written over the years. TV and Film Artists are amongst the favored professions.😏
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  655. The Artificial Society if Texas changes which it will shortly -it was solid Democrat until 1990 or so. The 1988 VP candidate for the Democrats was Lloyd Benson the Senator from Texas. If Texas goes left, between NY, Texas, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois and Minnesota which are solid blue it will be impossible for Republicans to win. 10,000 Manhattanites moving to Cheyenne flips Wyoming. Same for South Dakota, North Dakota too.
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  656. There was no winner by the sound of it. There were losers. The biggest loser is the DNC and the Democratic Party. These debates make it clearer and clearer that a real worker’s party like the Greens is essential to our future and the Democrats have no reason to exist.
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  657. You millennials really need to learn some economics. If Saudi Arabia prices oil in Euros or Yuan instead of dollars, the United States loses its reserve currency status and our economy craters forever.
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  658. You cannot renounce Argentinian citizenship. They have a wealth tax in addition to their income tax and they have discussed imposing the tax on all citizens worldwide now that they are in CRS. Kind of the opposite of the point.
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  659. That will end in June. The biggest crash in world history is coming this summer.
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  660.  Layth Adrian  he is against Guns and Big Gulps, Republican voter would tar and feather Bloomberg.
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  661. DarkSideSixOfficial I am not talking about the watered down OFF Act or the fake Green New Deal proposed by Bernie or AOC, but the Green New Deal of Howie Hawkins the original Green New Dealer who first proposed the plan in his 2010 NY Gubernatorial run. Hawkins plan will transform the economy to a system of worker owned cooperatives. Retrofit ever US home for energy efficiency, do the same for ever government and commercial building. Rebuild the grid with smart grid technology. Provide a federal jobs guarantee that establishes a true wage floor. Move the entire economy to wind, solar, hydro, and tidal power while funding fusion research to the point it should be commercially viable within 5 years. Invests in battery and fuel cell technology to provide both grid level storage and a transportation infrastructure that eliminates oil usage within a decade. His original goal date was next year. The Hawkins plan also addresses monocrop agriculture and livestock agriculture’s negative impact on the environment and creates a path to sustainable local farms without corporate subsidies of the present system. Hawkins plan makes both the OFF Act and Sander’s faux Green New Deal look like a minor tweak to the system. The Hawkins plan completely transforms the US economy to address systemic changes needed beyond the environment to protect the environment. The most likely nominee of the Green Party for the Presidency in 2020 who is a co-founder of the Green Party USA and who was endorsed and encouraged to run by a plethora of Green Party stalwarts makes both plans look very weak by comparison. The Hawkins plan will put a Green technology factory with thousands of jobs in every single Congressional district in the USA. The Hawkins plan at a minimum will create 20 million new jobs to accomplish the task of getting us to zero carbon emissions in a decade.
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  662. He has shared it once before.
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  663.  @stevemyers2092  US B1/B2 Tourist/Business Visitor Visas are typically issued as multiple entry visas and can have a validity as long as 10 years. You can only stay up to 90 days per entry, but you really wouldn't even want to stay that long with the US presence test for tax residency.
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  664.  @andyb2977  but most of the Wall Streeters live in the buildings around Central Park!
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  665. Every time I watch one of your videos, I find yet another reason to leave the US for good.
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  666. I am not a dev, and I know that none of that spiel at around the 4 minute mark made even one bit of sense. A one page WordPress theme? You mean a zip file with a few PHP files packed into it? What do you need MS Access for exactly? For that matter what do you need beyond maybe an S3 storage bucket, maybe a CloudFront Instance to speed up delivery & a basic storefront connected to a payment processor?
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  667. The normal non-expedited process to obtain a first US passport just took me 7 and 1/2 weeks. Now I await the return of my birth certificate.
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  668. Kyle, you should shut up because you just proved you know nothing. The best third-party run in US history was in 1860 when Lincoln the third-party Republican won a 4 way race where all four candidates won electoral college votes.
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  669. Wah, my business isn't working because meat processing plants have hundreds of sick people and we centralized production.
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  670. Because as a public accommodation you cannot discriminate against patrons on account of sex, race, or religion pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that’s why. You cannot as a public business discriminate.
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  671. I can get organic non-gmo food at ALDIs for half the price of Walmart let alone Whole Paycheck.
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  672. Yet per capita Sweden is home to more billionaires than just about anywhere and it is one of the countries with the greatest social mobility.
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  673. The question is will Bloomberg, Gabbard, Yang, Klobuchar, Warren, and Biden all finish below 15% and will they take enough support from Buttigieg to keep him below 15% and give Bernie all of the NH delegates?
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  674. Its easy what you would do with that much money, especially if you take the lump sum payment. 1) Create a Private Operating Foundation and place 30% of the total dollars won -including those the tax man will be holding into that operating foundation which you will be a member of the board of directors of and with that money buy a descent regional bank worth about $500 million maybe more, maybe less depending on what that 30% looks like. Use the dividends paid by that wholly owned bank which endows the Private Foundation to fund scientific research, arts grants, housing grants, food banks, and scholarships. 2) Donate 20% of the total won, including the money the tax man will still be holding to various other private charities. This will leave you about 5% of the cash you received. 3) Re-direct the bank you own and run now to start loaning money to start-up worker cooperatives and to finance the conversion of existing businesses into worker owned cooperatives. This way you have control of a lot of money and you have economic power like J. Paul Getty did, but you don't personally own much, so you are powerful, but you aren't paying a lot of taxes, in fact, Uncle Sam and the state will owe you a massive refund, approximately HALF of what you received. This means that you will still have an enormous personal fortune, but you now have far more economic control and clout with the bank your foundation owns. 4) Pay off all of your personal debts from the initial cash winnings. 5) Next year, get that big tax refund. 6) Put 3/4 of the money into an index fund. Put 15% of the money into a personal investment account where you can take whatever risks you want and do whatever you want to do in terms of risky businesses. Set 2.5% aside into a trust fund for your family and invest that money into an index fund. Set this up as an irrevocable trust, and take the gift tax hit. With 2.5% of the money, pay the gift tax on that inheritance you set up as a generation skipping grantor trust for your family. With the remaining 5% do whatever the hell you want. That is your play and splurge money. 7) Put 1/3 of your annual dividends and capital gains into the charity foundation. Pay Taxes with 20% of the dividends and gains remaining. Re-invest 35% of the dividends and gains, and live on the 15% of dividends and gains remaining for the rest of your days.
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  675. Democratic countries tend not to invade one another and it becomes even rarer when they are part of a multi-lateral trade and travel agreement like ASEAN.
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  676. Roger Ver a convicted felon -he illegally sold fireworks according to him, renounced US citizenship after obtaining St Kitts citizenship and obtained a B1/B2 US visa when living in Japan, so it's not impossible, but if you are on the renunciation name and shame list like Andrew is, it may be harder to get a US B1/B2 visa.
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  677.  KQX571 Favorites  That would be a wise use along with some undeveloped land to grow food and an investment in a work from home business. I mean if you run a one man band that you can operate from home you have barely had a hiccup during this crisis if you have diversified streams of income from that business.
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  678.  @morhaimtyr4173  I think I read somewhere Cambodian Banks were paying 8% interest fairly recently & Cambodia transacts business in USD so currency risk is minimal.
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  679.  @enjoyslearningandtravel7957  Yes. A ship crewman whose boat was being repaired in Miami once was subjected to US taxes because he had to wait for the boat to be fixed.
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  680.  @ashsqx3246  So what you are really saying is Andrew's white privilege has blinded him to when the western passport has added perks that his complexion & accent in his native tongue do not already provide him.
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  681. I am only 34 seconds into the video mid-opening branding, and if Labuan isn't on this list, I will be very surprised.
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  682.  @rezzyg77  3% tax rate on trading companies and 0% tax rate on holding companies makes for a good reason to live there though.
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  683. When everyone is telling you that things are bad, but there is no real evidence of that, hold onto your wallets.
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  684. ​ @1337Jogi  I mean Bucees sells gas at a loss all day everyday because they make money in the store. YouTube is a great loss leader and data source for Alphabet, it also provides tons of near zero cost marketing for Google and locks millions of users into their echo system. If YouTube makes a profit or it doesn't it also gives Google a heads up on acquisition targets well ahead of competitors. The crowd sourced data they get from user reviews and traffic to those reviews of new services is a strategic advantage worth billions of dollars in and of itself.
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  685.  @UneducatedEconomist  at which point Bitcoin becomes the world's reserve currency. Dollars are already digital. They create credits and debits in the Fed's accounting ledger. The mistake is thinking that digital dollars don't already exist. The question is how long before the oil market recognizes a 9.7 million barrel per day cut in production is 10 million barrels per day short of what it needs to keep the oil price up. The next question after that is how long before the Saudis start pricing oil in Euros or Yuan, or Bitcoin? When that happens the Dollar's reserve currency status goes away and the Fed's power to print money is meaningless. Just ask Argentina.
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  686. Jimmy is not likely to leave the US & he is not tax averse at all. He typically grosses up his prizes to pay the tax for the winners of his contests or his outright largess. Jimmy is also not likely to ever sell his company. He may spin off businesses built from the marketing he provides them which creates independent value for his subsidiaries, but he is not going to surrender control over his central enterprise. This is only a tax problem in your mind.
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  687.  @scotttaylor4341  Jimmy Donaldson is the owner & creator of the Mr. Beast YouTube channel.
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  688. In January of 2016 I said, unless Bernie is the nominee Trump is gonna win. I was right and I stand by that assessment now.
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  689. suggarachel certainly because Pence has a smaller chance of surviving a re-election bid than even Gerry Ford had.
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  690.  @autokrator1  I'm 44 born in 1976. I'm an Xer. There are more of us with Sanders than against him.
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  691. Howie Hawkins has already secured the delegates to be the Green Party nominee, so Jesse can run in 2024. The Greens have ran our primary contest and Howie has clinched the nomination or at least will after May 12 when the New York mail in caucus is done for the party. Howie will easily win his home state here and that will put him over the top in the delegate race.
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  692. ExPats Everywhere did a series on the entire process they went through to get the D7.
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  693. joan anthony oh you don’t have to tell me. For the last three days I’ve been catching hell on Twitter for comments I made on a Kyle Kulinski tweet pointing out the fact that Yang is full of shit and a member of the oligarchy advancing the oligarchy’s agenda. I also pointed out the math doesn’t add up. To implement and pay for his plan would require a $3 trillion VAT which would consume 50% of wages and salaries according to Social Security tax numbers they are about $7-$8 trillion annually. This would steal every penny from the working class. It would make working entirely worthless.
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  694. And in the Midwestern the system is corrupt and no one can fix it.
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  695. Not to mention the ability for Mexicans to obtain an APEC Business traveler's card that gets visa free access to Southeast Asia, New Zealand, China, Russia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Chile, and Peru, and the ability to get access under the NAFTA replacement treaty to get a special worker visa available only to Mexicans, Canadians, and Americans in each other's countries.
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  696. joshua Murphy the VA gave my uncle great care and my neighbor.
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  697.  @debbiedogs1  as a Green who voted for Stein Twice and who was at Fight the Machine in DC which was planned months before Occupy Wall Street and who stayed at both events for a week, I was very much protesting Obama's shitty policies. I started protesting his policies in 2009.
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  698. Well Joe, lab grown steaks, chicken, bacon, ham, hamburger that will be grown at the grocery store in small scale bioreactors will put ranchers, slaughterhouses, warehousemen, and truckers out of work in a big way and when those lab grown meats incubated in stores with cashierless check out a la Amazon’s current experiments become a thing those are literally millions of jobs gone. When automated trucks are driving all of the chemicals to fuel those bioreactors to those stores there are millions more jobs gone. With the new generation of robots replacing seamstresses at clothing factories there are millions more jobs gone. Those robot masons and the robotic mason tender machines being built to replace the laborers feeding blocks to the current generation of robot masons seems like construction work is getting replaced. The real question seems to be -what jobs will be left? I mean automated snow plow drivers are definitely going to be employed by the various northern states in the next decade and that will reduce budgets. Why are we sending kids to schools when we can provide online learning courses with AI adaptive testing and peer grading and/or AI grading of exams? I mean we have solid AI grammar software that can check that and we know how to create document readers that could grade even essay exams and use peer review for further crowd sourced grading so what won’t be more automated? Hell there was an AI film editor that pieced together a pretty damned good trailer a couple of years ago already.
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  699. Sue Anderson oh and the fact that Gov. Ventura is likely to be the Green nominee if Sanders isn’t the Democratic nominee and that the billionaires will be running a third-party independent means that the Greens have a better chance of winning than you think.
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  700. The summer I lived in Wilmington UB40 played The Ice House. I also saw Ali Larter walking down the street before she was famous that summer. It is a lovely town.
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  701. Ultimately as a Marxist I agree with this analysis and the income tax, the corporate incomes tax, along with tariffs, VATS and sales taxes are all ways that taxes on labour are hidden. The capitalists have convinced the working class that more taxes on their labour are good, but taxes on capital which do not exist are unworkable and higher rates will be unfair. The corporate tax rate should be zero. The sales tax rate or VAT should be zero. The tariff rate should be zero. If you want to provide socials like a national pension scheme or a national health insurance scheme or public education or daycare, then you can have a social security tax, but that tax should be at a rate of 100% of a salary paid to an employee and the tax should be fully paid by the employer. The "sole" proprietorship or "general partnership" should not exist, or if they do, a clear delineation between salary or wages paid to the owner and capital accumulation should be drawn. As a Marxist then if you want to tax capital, how to do so is easy. You use a balance sheet tax and a capital gains tax on actual sales. It is not an income tax and it is not an unworkable wealth tax. It is a tax on capital accumulation. The current tax code and system of taxation creates an unnecessary cadre of bullshit jobs just to avoid taxes. I appreciate the capitalists who take the steps to avoid the hidden taxes on labour in the current system. The company that designs a shoe and phases out it's production in various nations to avoid tariffs is avoiding taxes on labour hidden to their consumers. I appreciate the company that avoids taxes on their intellectual property by setting up operations in tax favorable jurisdictions which again means another indirect tax on labour is avoided. The current system of taxation hides taxes on labour and convinces people that higher taxes on their labour are needed. No a tax on capital is what is needed.
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  702. Status Coup yeah people who don’t understand that the reason the economy grew under Eisenhower was that you could pay 90 cents in tax and increase the public wealth or you could pay 10 cents in wages and avoid paying 90 cents in taxes and grow your businesses and build assets and create real wealth for you, so you hired more workers, gave generous raises, took out high interest loans for capital improvements, rented equipment and facilities, and invested in R&D to make yourself richer. Then Reagan came along and doing the opposite made sense. They don’t understand the basics of why and how taxes and economics work. It is depressing.
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  703.  @dlukton  economically Ginsburg has handed down some of the most conservative opinions in the history of the court. Every federal district, appellate, and Supreme court judge since the Nixon Administration, regardless of party has been approved by the US Chamber of Commerce before any Senator or Representative recommended them for nomination to the White House.
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  704. If you could actually find a place to live & keep costs even under $1500 a month in the Algarve on say a D2 or D7 Visa, the Algarve might not be a bad place for someone with low income given the benefits of the society to low income workers and the value of the passport you could obtain within 6 years of living in the country. It has a lot of potential for ExPats from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Ireland & New Zealand given the high population of English speakers & English language ExPats already in the region too. it should make the transition easier.
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  705. It was extortion though which is illegal.
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  706. How has the event effected the KLCC?
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  707. 1. Gabbard 2. Yang 3. Inslee 4. DeBlasio 5. Booker 6. Gillibrand 7. Harris 8. Biden 9. Castro 10. Bennet -How did Colorado elect that mush mouth to the Senate? Sorry Kyle, I hear a bad Alan Arkin impression!
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  708. It's 18 months at a minimum until the economy is able to start to re-open. The virus is going to keep things shuttered until there is a vaccine. It won't recover for a decade or more.
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  709. How about this rule. Use statutory licensing of patents like we do with mechanical licensing of musical compositions in copyright. Set a fee of x percentage of the wholesale price of drugs and medical devices produced by generics manufacturers. Create a free market in patented drugs and medical devices, but preserve patent protection. Hell even lengthen those patents to 50 even 100 years with no extension rights.
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  710. I didn't believe anything he said anyway because he was literally one of the villains of "And the Band Played On," along with Dr. Robert Gallo who he was trying to help with patents while delaying accurate reporting and earlier treatment and prevention thanks for French research that had preceded the US research because credit and the financial interests of US pharmaceuticals was more important than lives. He is a purely political animal and always has been.
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  711. Hmmm, Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson -who had Greek ancestry, also had golden visas to Greece that turned into Greek citizenship. I know that there have been some whackadoos who have spouted nonsense about two of the nicest people on the planet, but most people are fairly clear that Tom and Rita are anything, but crooks just as an example. There are more than a few American FIRE folks who have retired to Portugal on golden visas some with successful channels here on YouTube. I mean one of them was an attorney for the US government who socked away every penny of their paycheck they could into IRAs and Thrift Savings Plans to retire early and they did. Are government prosecutors crooks now too?😏
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  712. sudo apt install doas, sudo dnf install doas, or sudo pacman -S doas is what I've heard is the best use of sudo.
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  713. I do that by staying Green! The Greens will be here when the Democrats nominate Buttigieg.
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  714. The fact that the average American reads at a fourth grade level and has the mentality of a second grader has a lot to do with it.
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  715. I wonder if Tim Canova trouncing Wasserman in November will be a message?
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  716. Chile I think is the best Tier A passport, because you can get it without CFC rules or much tax impacting you while you get your citizenship.
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  717. Jordan, you might be seeing a lot of Cuomo ads downstate and in the City, but at least in the North Country, NY-21 I haven’t seen a single Cuomo ad. Possibly because I watch YouTube and my TiVo skips most commercials, but not one spot during any live shows I’ve seen. If Cuomo isn’t buying the cable spots on Fear the Walking Dead, he isn’t blanketing very much upstate. That is probably because he knows that like Hillary he will lose almost all Upstate Counties this time. Teachout beat him or nearly beat him in most of Upstate 4 years ago and he hasn’t pushed a progressive agenda. He has been dragged kicking and screaming towards it and people are sick of that. He isn’t just going to lose Upstate because of the SAFE Act this time.
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  718. Bitcoin or other crypto currencies with strong controls are probably the other hedge being used as opposed to gold, I mean don't put it past Bezos or Musk to bring a giant asteroid full of gold and platinum back to near earth orbit and drop the bottom out of the precious metals market by flooding the supply chain.
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  719. This is Wall Street bottom feeding at its best. There are tens of thousands of large small to medium sized private companies that are upside down presently thanks to Covid that can be bought for pennies on the dollar pre- or post-banktuptcy that they are looking to gobble up right now. Why not get the suckers in the public market to finance acquisitions that will allow private equity to gobble the gems up while selling the public the turd parts?😏
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  720. Liz Warren is staying in the Senate. Bernie has better people to make Secretary of the Treasury.
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  721. A man overpaid to lie to dumb people about why their rich overlords who overpay him should be able to fuck them over is the epitome of evil! Call Shapiro what he is, a paid liar!
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  722. Can't have more than 1 store? I can open up and get a new EIN for an LLC everyday. I can open a Wyoming or South Dakota LLC for less than $500 and it costs less than $200 a year to maintain them. As a legal person, each of those companies could definitely have their own store. Also why do you need more than one Amazon store? You can sell multiple product lines via FBA under the same account? You can do that and have a KDP account and a Merch By Amazon account and an affiliate account all under the same EIN. Who are they trying to BS? Hell they could do all that and still sell music and movies on Amazon from a publisher account as well.
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  723. A novice heckled by an expert is fun.
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  724. I have a sneaking suspicion none of those people interviewed would be concerned about Americans or Canadians with Irish ancestry too far removed to claim Irish citizenship by dissent heading to the Emerald Isle to live.
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  725. Explain what intrinsic value gold has as a commodity. What use does it have that make it particularly valuable. It has no such value. The world's defacto currency since about 1920 has been oil & it remains such.
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  726. You nailed what Tim Ryan is doing and why he is doing it.
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  727. Trump will make Reagan in 1984 look weak versus Bloomberg.
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  728. I hate to tell you this, but if her attorney didn't subpeona every client it would be as bad of malpractice as his attorney letting him give her everything. He has a case against his lawyer.
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  729. How about we come out and vote the opposite?
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  730. None of us ever took a bike ride to his house like ever. Translation he stayed nearby the kids they could have visited him anytime they wanted to, he was likely only allowed to see them at specified times. He probably lived down the street for a couple of years got disheartened and then remarried and moved away when the kids didn't make any effort to see him outside the limited visits he was allowed under the divorce.
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  731. I'm voting for Howie Hawkins because the Democrats and Republicans both suck!
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  732. After June they will NEVER do that again!
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  733. I will have you know, like Microsoft & Apple I was born during the waning days of the Ford Administration.
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  734. Imagine being a struggling screenwriter from a truly broke family living in Los Angeles with expenses instead of someone who has probably continued to succeed because of dad's money and connections and deciding to give him a reason to write you out of the will.😂
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  735. If you aren’t willing to quit using the Internet to bankrupt the ISPs then you are just a whiner who should shut up.
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  736. What do you think about Trump acting like a mafia don saying to ByteDance, nice company you have here, if you don't sell it to Microsoft for 1/2 of 1% of what it is worth, I'm going to break your knee caps over Tik Tok? Should China be embargoing the US and building a coalition through the WTO to sanction the US to discourage these mafia tactics to steal companies owned by foreigners. I mean even if ByteDance laid off US workers & used Singapore, Irish, Canadian, & Mexican servers to reach the US market Trump is saying US ISPs and app stores have to censor the company. This is a mafia threat if ever I have heard one.
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  737.  @nomadcapitalist  I was intrigued by the Circle R next to your TM a while back and noticed your registrant is an HK company based in Georgia, how long before your "Chinese" company is a security threat to the US. I mean you are letting Americans know they don't have to be slaves for the American government, that is a very dangerous thing😉!
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  738. ​@@user-bb4xk6bb7nxxx you must've missed the video reciepts he provided of trips with the kids and things that I didn't get to do in a family that stayed together because we were broke.
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  739. What is more, while the more experienced you become as a Linux user and the more you learn about your system, the easier it becomes to use the command line, in most modern Linux desktop distributions, including Manjaro, the package manager is typically connected to a GUI based software manager that allows you to easily search for a program in a text box and install with the click of a button. Yes, when you know Linux well and you know the precise name of the application you want a command line install is fast and wiz bang simple, but in those instances where you don't know the quirks of the command line naming conventions for the application, the GUI takes almost no time too. This is actually a case of knowing too much and not enough about Linux at the same time. If Linus had simply used the GUI, no problem with that pacman install because he wouldn't have misnamed it apt. Why? We have a GUI for that and if works well. People complain you have to learn the command line to use Linux for the desktop, but 99% of the time that is not true. You need to learn to use the command line for tweaks and customization, of for edge case scenarios such as having unusual specialized hardware.
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  740. Government of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation is gonna kill a lot of people needlessly.
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  741. I mean she is not even remotely attractive, so maybe she should understand her value
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  742.  @priestesslucy3299  It is also a citizenship which does not allow dual citizenship.
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  743. Hmm, in 4 weeks I had a cousin turn $1k into $5k trading options. It wasn't risk free, but he IDed a trading range, an overall market trend, and an options arbitrage that worked out very well for him on the options for 3 stocks. It isn't something you do everyday, it takes observation & some effort, but he has been able to spot about 5 of these opportunities a year. He uses them to get down payments for rental real estate investments.
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  744. The $600 a week added to the $504 max for unemployment in NY would be less than half what my weekly pay in my last job before self-employment paid me. There are plenty of people unemployed by this for whom unemployment is a massive pay cut. The people in my old job who are out of work are amongst them. That is 11 people in my old office with a pay cut.
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  745. When countries offer expedited citizenship to citizens of certain countries the general rule is that it is only offered for citizens by birth in or descent of that country, see Spain re birth in Latin America, but also, yes, according to the research I have done, Colombia and the Caribbean as well. I will say, there are plenty of good search engines to help find answers to these questions and many countries make their laws available online.
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  746. In America, the capitalists don’t want employees to start competing businesses and if you free the wage slaves from the shackles of a good benefits package they are free to start competing businesses and take a risk!
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  747. If as one poll shows only Biden gets South Carolina delegates then he has the delegate lead going into Super Tuesday and he will win the majority or at least the plurality.
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  748. I think naming actual names like lawyer X at law firm XYZ whose clients include such and such corporation, with a picture of corporate lobbyist attorney who contributed to a House member’s campaign in the amount of $5,600 should be public knowledge. There should be a show with names and faces and addresses.
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  749.  @user-xg6yc8ho3w  if you are not tax resident in Turkey it may not be a bad gap filler passport. I mean it appears as long as beneficiaries of your estate are not living in Turkey and you are not resident there at the time of your demise, the Turkish estate tax won't effect you, and capital gains tax on a small portion of your wealth invested into some real estate that gives you a fair ROI from renters for the few years you must hold it would not be a bad way to get an essentially free passport.
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  750.  @LoveClassicMusic0205  honestly access to Sudan, Paraguay, Morroco, Brunei, and Angola look impossible to explain without a few other countries in Africa also having access available under the current rules, so the Mexico issue is less perplexing. It is possible that Morroco is the result of access via Schengen residency permit or an Irish residence permit. Sudan could be explained by either Turkish or St Kitts citizenship. Brunei, and Paraguay are explained by either Russia or Turkey, as is Morroco, but Angola with five passports assuming he did get Antigua makes Russia make the most sense, but also might mean Serbia is not one of the countries even though it seems really likely he obtained Serbian citizenship. The Russian nationality law would seem unlikely to be one Andrew complied with given the five year residency requirement, unless he has a good connection within the administration and was granted citizenship by exception. I have no idea how Angola is on the list unless Turkey and Angola have ratified their agreement for reciprocal visa free travel recently, but even then Turkey has aome additional access in Africa now that is not on the list. Turkey seems to make the most sense as he does own property in Turkey despite the fact that his wife has Armenian citizenship.
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  751.  @soundmind9772  Serbia has e-visa access to Vietnam.
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  752. The majority of Russians seeking to enter the EU from Russia are people who want nothing to do with Putin. Would you have denied asylum to those fleeing from Stalin?
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  753. Notice that New York is not on this list? Why? Because before the Republicans and Democrats got together to exclude Greens & Libertarians from the ballot those two parties had been putting pressure on the Democrats to enact reforms. Paid medical leave is on the books in NY. Free college at state schools is back on the books for most NYers. New York raised the minimum wage to $15/hr. NY finally gave farm workers union rights. NY has legislation that didn't get taken up this year, but which will create universal healthcare in NY if it is passed next year and with Cuomo out there is more pressure than ever to pass it, and DeBlasio as NYC's Mayor made UHC almost a reality in NYC. NY state enacted regulations to prevent NIMBY on wind and solar power. The state has been working to shutter aging nuclear plants. Should we be bringing new ones online, yes, but the NRC is the biggest impediment to that challenge. The west coast states are "blue" in name only or DINOs for the most part. I mean California despite the fake rhetoric from Hollywierd is still Reagan's California with it's property tax cap, and Outside of Portland and Seattle Oregon and Washington are as red as Alabama.
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  754. It’s entirely probable. Gerrymandering means that it is unlikely that Democrats will pick up seats. A national poll always skews heavily Democratic because we are a left wing country demographically, but by design the Republic undervalues people and overvalues land. 18% of voters elect 50% of Senators. It has been 100 years since seats were added in the House too and this skews everything hard to the right. If we had 1 house member for every 200,000 people instead of 1 for every 700,000 people in large states while Wyoming gets one for 580,000 people, we would have a Democratic House. Also the Democrats have to defend seats in the Senate in ND which Trump won, Indiana which Trump won, West Virginia which Trump won, Ohio, which Trump won, Florida, which Trump won, Missouri which Trump won, and Montana which Trump won. Meanwhile the Republicans only have to defend Nevada which Clinton won.
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  755. You're not going to go into it because you don't understand the difference between legal tax avoidance and tax evasion. 99.995% of what is discovered is perfectly legal tax avoidance which allows goods and services to be provided cheaper and higher wages to be paid than would otherwise. The problem is that we tax income and consumption and not capital. The rich would have you believe that taxing income is the only way, yet every REIT with a schedule K-2 delivered to it's shareholders proves otherwise. Those K-2s have balance sheets attached to them and you can easily tax networth and capital with a balance sheet.
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  756. After yesterday every Fortune 500 CEO in the US just 10xed their security budget and the NRA now has a lobbying group with enough money to shutter them who will be on the phone to Congress about repealing the 2nd Amendment.
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  757. Would you look at that the generation which already stole $28 trillion from the future by never paying any taxes wants to steal even more with their welfare program to pay for their retirement plan and by the time the Generation after them is eligible to begin retiring the program they paid for at a much higher rate their entire working lives will be bankrupt. You mean Generation X gets screwed yet again. I mean there were no jobs when we finished school so we built the Internet, then at around the time things were starting to have a mass audience to make money, the boomers shorted the market and stole all of Gen X equity. Then when Gen X was finally able to buy a house at an inflated price, they stopped paying their second mortgages and cratered the real estate market, but not in a way that let first time buyers get a house, but rather a way that let VC firms buy up real estate. When Gen X was finally back on its feet from the recession, the Boomers forced us to close all of our businesses because some of them might get sick and die. How about a zero percent Social Security Tax and let the thieves pay for their own retirement like every generation after them will have to do. How about that?
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  758. Richard Feinburg my cousin is a barber on a military base the haircuts at the PX barber are $8 actually and soldiers do pay for meals at the mess hall after basic training.
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  759. There should be an independent insurance board that is paid by consumers only who interpret insurance contracts as third-party arbitrators.
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  760. I'm guessing at least $5 million before I watch.
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  761. 12 US Army soldiers armed with light infantry weapons and the aid of a handful of 50 year old bombers operating tens of thousands of miles from home in some of the most difficult terrain on earth, and the aid of less than 1000 local insurgents obliterated 50,000 battle hardened troops with 2 decades of war behind them, equipped with heavy artillery and tanks in 3 weeks. Who exactly is a genuine threat to the long term security of the USA? China -one of our largest trading partners? Russia whose military budget is 1/2 of China’s which is only 1/3 of ours? I mean Russia has 1/6th our military budget and while its elections are questionable, Putin is actually popular in Russia, so technically at least as much of a democracy as the USA. The next 8 out of 10 largest military budgets belong to NATO members, the world’s largest democracy India, and our biggest client state Saudi Arabia. Who exactly is going to attack the USA?
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  762. A guy who grew up in the Cleveland area, a city with lake effect snow occasionally enjoys the snow? I'm shocked.😏
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  763. When a corporation or business -the usual “person” with more than $10 million in annual income is taxed at 70% they reduce their taxable income by hiring more people, paying higher wages, and investing in tax deductible efforts to grow the pie so they can keep more money -at least that is what the usual greed driven business does in that situation. It makes sense to internalize the gains from those dollars rather than pay taxes and extract those gains. If the top marginal rate falls to the 20% it is at for corporations today, it makes no economic sense to re-invest in a business. You pay or defer the tax and take profits. That is why there were $1 Trillion in stock buybacks last year. Low tax rates hurt economic growth.
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  764.  @mikey10006  not true, they do, if you meet a very specific set of rules regarding highly skilled people.
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  765. David, you missed what he was saying. You have to talk about it in non-commital bullshit language, and never doing anything about it.
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  766. Luxembourg is an undercover corporate tax haven though.
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  767. Colonization, slavery, and outright theft by the Vikings and their ilk, the same holds true for the Japanese and the Chinese as well as their European and American co-exploiters. Alignment with the US empire helps explain South Korea in this equation too along with Canada. That is the unifying factor which makes it a spurious correlation. It also explains the poor outlier in North Korea and the wealthy outliers of Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Singapore.
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  768. Why wasn't Harris disbarred for not doing justice as a prosecutor in California? She did not uphold her oath. The people of California should be demanding her resignation for her criminal contempt of court and dereliction of duty as a prosecutor when she dragged her feet in complying with federal court orders in regards to prison overcrowding and also when she tried to deny a man who had proven his innocence a release from death row. That is conduct for which she should have been disbarred and for which it is clear she has failed to uphold her oath to uphold the constitution and the laws of the US and she should resign from the Senate and end her public life. She is not fit for public office.
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  769.  @mkedzier123  A curated distro like SteamOS ie someone releases a distro with an immutable file system.
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  770. If they really believed in the value of the information/education that they provide they would deploy the Lamda School model or some similar deferred payment method with an income floor before payment started.
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  771.  @guilhermesalesferreiradaco2934  I said they were territorial and it's not hard to have your income from a corporation you own in the UAE pay for your life in a territorial tax country and pay zero tax.
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  772.  @guilhermesalesferreiradaco2934  The Bahamas, Anguilla, BVI, Turks and Caicos, and the Caymans which I mentioned all are and St. Kitts & Antigua are for personal income, so...
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  773.  @guilhermesalesferreiradaco2934  they have a tax residency plan where you only have to be there 60 days a year & any partial day you are there counts. It is only a 30 minute boat ride to St. Maarten. It would be so horrible having to live on a quiet island a short ride from the party island of St Maarten. That is for the lump sum tax. If you do live there, it's zero tax. Like I said, horrible being on a quiet island, where you can be at the giant party island after a short boat ride.
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  774. 24 Hour a Day Walmart ha, maybe before the plague.
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  775. Joe Biden will drop out before Iowa and New Hampshire let alone NY.
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  776. So when are you moving to Florida, Wyoming, South Dakota, Texas, Nevada, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Washington State or Alaska, you know one of the states with no state income tax or Puerto Rico where your service business could be subjected to only a 4% Puerto Rican territorial tax if you get Article 60 exemption?
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  777. I suspect that your staff would love to take the tax reduction for Puerto Rico.
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  778. The US without NATO is less than half as effective in terms of its ability to project power and collectively NATO has a better ability without the US to force project than any other nation on earth. I mean France, the UK, and Canada can all deployed forces anywhere in the world within 48 hours.
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  779. If you have your own company as an American some of the provisions for cross border transfers of personnel under NAFTA were retained under it's replacement treaty to make immigration more accessible.
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  780. In ten years it will cost you $20k every six months for liability insurance on one of those cars. As the autonomous cars become more prevalent and their safety record becomes exponentially better than people -it already is at level 3, the insurers will make it prohibitively expensive to operate older non autonomous vehicles.
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  781. F27 FPV electrical systems are easier to repair than ICE.
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  782. Yes 10 million subscribers in one day, $70 million a month on day one is a failure
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  783.  @scienceworksinmysteriouswa9463  They voted for Reagan. They voted for Bush. They voted for the Congress. The people are the problem.
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  784.  @scienceworksinmysteriouswa9463  There have been honest candidates running for most offices outside the major parties in every election since 1992. I have never voted for a Democrat or Republican because of that fact. Why can so few others say the same? In 1998 Minnesota proved 3rd parties can win. Why don't they? Because the people suck.
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  785.  @GoldDiggersImPoor  more Filipinos speak English than there are English speakers in the UK. Yeah more Filipinos speak English than the English do! The Philippines were a US territory and from the moment the US took control of the Philippines the US worked to provide the Philippines independence. The Philippines and US have great relations because of that fact.
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  786. In 2001 Kodak was making billions of dollars too. Cisco is in serious trouble.
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  787. I in fact rather enjoy lentils in the right soup or combination with a rice dish and spices. Just had to comment on the thumbnail.
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  788. The fact that the US Navy Carriers and Submarines are exclusively nuclear powered gives them a virtually unlimited range and ability to operate in ways no other Navy can really operate. The US is a Blue Water Navy. The British are to a large degree Blue Water, as are the Aussies to a significant degree. The Russian and Chinese navies, not so much.
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  789. If you think the NY AG’s office is important, you need to talk with Michael Sussman the Green Party nominee for AG. He has a record as an attorney that is more impressive than anyone in the race. The producer of The Wire literally made a mini-series about the Yonkers desegregated housing case he took to the US Supreme Court for the NAACP. He has fought police brutality and corruption for decades and was a US Attorney in the Carter Administrations Civil Rights Division who left when Reagan gutted them and went to work for the NAACP.
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  790. Wrong Al Gore went 56 for 56 in the Democratic Primaries in 2000.
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  791. Marx and Engels were not in favor of totalitarianism or opposed to democracy or liberty. On the contrary they were anarchists which is an extreme libertarian. Anarcho-socialism which is the ultimate goal of communism eliminates bosses and masters in favor of an egalitarian direct democracy with very little regulation even less than we have today. What has people confused about communism as it was practiced is the fact that Lennon, Stalin, and Trotsky were financed by the same international banking cartel that funded both sides of World War II and imposed a state capitalist system upon a feudal society which Marx and Engels never believed would work to bring about their vision. You need a strong libertarian and democratic culture for people to rule themselves and their workplaces without rulers.
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  792. It's awesome that an American YouTuber and entrepreneur living in Thailand and an American entrepreneur and YouTuber living in Costa Rica can discuss unicorns of the developing world on this platform.
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  793. This is why there is zero need for police. Detectives yes, and much better ones because they do not solve 50 percent of murders and 80 percent of rape kits go untested. No one in their right mind even reports a theft because they are never solved, so what are they around for? To fuck with citizens and steal from the working class for the government.
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  794. It would be a damn shame is CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, or 60 Minutes took a run at this guy Bilzerian as the epitomy of PPP fraud because of your video. I bet Twitter could make that happen.
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  795. Biden is done. Your final 6 are Harris, Sanders, Gabbard, Warren, Booker, and Inslee.
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  796. I guess I know why I’m not a Democrat. Democrats wouldn’t know leadership if it hit them in the ass and they drink the sand to borrow a phrase from the film The American President. Pelosi is a walking cluster fuck as Speaker. She is a completely inept and out of touch corporate puppet. The fact that there is anyone calling her anything else speaks volumes about how easily fooled the American people are and how brainwashed and indoctrinated they are collectively.
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  797. The market decline started in the summer of 2007, although the market continued to climb into October of 2007. I know because in July 2007 I discussed with my cousin a plan to exit the market when a certain piece of news was on Jim Cramer's show. In October of that year the week it peaked I got my mother out. The first major tremor hit in February 2008 with Bear Sterns. In September 2008 it worsened and Tarp was proposed and passed by October as the contagion spread. The downward spiral continued until April 2009 when the market bottomed. The week it bottomed was the week I advised friends and family it was time to get back into stocks. I was telling people to get out of the market last September because the fundamental problems this has been used to try to paper over were already showing. Nothing about the response to this disease has caused me to believe there is a genuine bottom in sight. This is a dead cat bounce.
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  798.  @timmyhiggins5220  It gives you the ability to live in Ireland as a non-EU citizen with a much smaller investment & in a tax advantaged way. I mean Anguilla is zero tax, BVI is zero tax, Cayman Islands is zero tax, they are all qualifying BOTC for UK citizenship, & I think Turks & Caicos which is also zero tax is too. UK citizens can also live in Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Mann, and Gibraltar, but as a non-citizen, Ireland has some great non-dom tax advantages and the CTA rules give UK citizens the ability to live & work in Ireland. I mean there are tax favorable ways to become a citizen of an EU country with access to Ireland too, but immigration to Ireland for non-UK or EU citizen usually requires a million dollar or more investment.
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  799. At this point there are a lot of provinces in Canada where the taxes are lower than the US.
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  800.  @TheRoyL  Alberta has reduced their tax rate a lot & depending on where you fall on the income scale literally every province could have a lower tax rate than most US states.
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  801. People who don’t know that “forcing it” is where all the savings come from should really do what all low information voters should do and that is stay home. Consolidation and streamlined billing and reduced administrative costs are how it saves money.
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  802. The reality is that gold, paper cash, or Bitcoin, despite real or artificial limitations has zero impact on real currency inflation.
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  803. Joshua Coleman the last time I checked Lamar Alexander is in the US Senate. https://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-green-new-deal-lamar-alexander-manhattan-project-nuclear-clean-1376942
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  804.  @steven-k.  BVI, Turks & Caicos, and Cayman Islands BOTC's access is not the same 180 days as Canadians and Bermudians. They also require a pre-clearance like other Visa Waiver Program participants. The Bermudians which is separate from even belonger status -Bermuda is the only one of the BOT's with 3 tiers of status the way I understand it, are eligible like Canadians to enter the US for a visit without preclearance. BOTC's of Bermuda who do not have Bermudian status -which is a possibility, have to apply for a visa to the US. There are Bermudians, then there are naturalized BOTC's of Bermuda who are belongers, but not Bermudians, then there are natural born BOTC's of Bermuda who are not belongers necessarily unless their parent's are Bermudians in which case they are not only belongers, but likely Bermudians. Then there are Permanent Resident's who are Commonwealth Citizens who if they have been in Bermuda since the 1980s may be Bermudians and are belongers, then there are Permanent Residents who are not commonwealth citizens who are potentially eligible to become belongers if they naturalize. Then there are people who might be eligible to become Permanent Residents who have a path to becoming belongers, but not Bermudians. Then there are residents with no path to permanent residency. Having actual Bermudian status which is a separate category and not merely belonger status is required for the special access to the US enjoyed by Bermudians. Unless you are married to a Bermudian or have been in Bermuda as a resident since the 1980s I do not believe there is a path to Bermudian status, but there may be a path to belonger status. It is a weird place in terms of how it's "citizenship" and nationality works. You may be a Bermuda citizen, but never become a national entitled to vote. As for TN visa access Mexican and Canadian citizens are both eligible for those visas under the NAFTA replacement treaty that creates a special business visitor visa category for all 3 countries under the free trade agreement.
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  805. Why not set up a BVI Corporation owned by the 401(k) plan as a zero tax UBIT blocker? A Crypto mining company is not subject to the economic substance regulations in the BVI requiring it to be managed in the BVI. What is more, a BVI company can get a US Bank account via Wise in the event it needs to cash out the crypto and as the 401(k) is an exempt trust, G.I.L.T.I. and Subpart F rules would not apply to it despite being a CFC. Correct me if you think I am misreading Subpart F, and the BVI economic substance rules.
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  806. Van prices were already shooting up before this because of #VanLife and they will be untouchable soon.
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  807.  @jasonhoppes8955  a large rural Congressional district with a special election in 2009 gave you Obamacare with the first Democrat elected there since BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. Rural America will vote it's own interest if given the chance. Bill Owens was the deciding vote on the bill cast the day after he won the special election. He was replaced by Trump apologist Elise Stefanik in 2014 when he quit the House. 11% of that district voter for underfunded 3rd Party Candidate Matt Funiciello in 2014 and even with his votes the Democrat would have lost, but Funiciello was for Medicare for All, a living wage law, and was pro-union. The Democrat was not.
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  808. Dude I drove a $65 car for 4 years and put 70k miles on it. Fuck 'em.
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  809. Yup! Because unlike the Obama CDC with H1N1 they didn't have people on the ground in China during early days figuring out R0 or death rate to know it is lower than the testing rate has you believe. 20% of NYC and Santa Clara County CA and Germany have had this according to random antibody survey. The death rate is way lower. To be fair though the CDC for the Bush admin was on the ground in China during SARS and worked to proactively contain that when it hit the US because they had ran those same numbers. Obama's CDC was heavily involved in Ebola containment during the Lagos outbreak and with MERS too. The problem is a failure of leadership in the CDC probably because of the lackluster leadership in the administration overall in terms of getting the data to know how to respond. The Swedes were smart enough to know that despite case tracing and testing the South Korea numbers didn't add up, that is why they rolled the dice. They damn sure knew that absent CDC leadership the WHO didn't have the data they needed to make an informed decision. They could always shutter later. It was a wise poker player's hand by the Swedes.
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  810.  @timothyreynolds5922  likely fired by Woody Harrelson's dad from within the storm drain in front of the grassy knoll if you believe Woody Harrelson's dad who did assassinate a federal judge.
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  811.  @jayess4062  Kennedy agreed to remove the nukes from Turkey because they were already obsolete because the Minuteman missiles were coming online and the targeting system in the missiles in Turkey was junk.
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  812.  @michaellin4553  both Darwin & FreeBSD are derived from the open source Mach Kernel as is GNU Hurd.
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  813. Andrew Wall if either Zephyr Teachout or Michael Sussman -the Green Party nominee for NY AG become NY AG in November, Wall Street has problems headed its way. If NY were to amend its Civil Forfeiture Act to allow for seizure under its RICO statute and either of them were AG, Wall Street would go out of business because NY State would seize all of their assets.
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  814.  @Zapotah  they named the documentary about Ralph Nader "The Unreasonable Man" because historically Unreasonable Men have typically been responsible for the biggest changes. From the 1960s through about 1992 all of the most important consumer legislation or environmental protection legislation in the US had some involvement by Ralph and his organization Public Citizen pushing the legislation through the halls of power in Congress. He only ran for President in 2000 because the ability to in any way effect meaningful legislation in the public interest died the day Bill Clinton was sworn in. That says a lot.
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  815. Probably not as part of the CBI program if you want to find a deal that isn't upside down.
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  816. If she isn’t ready to run for US Senate against Schumer or for Governor against Cuomo in 2022, her career will last 2 terms. The NY Democrats are already preparing to redistrict her out of office.
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  817. AOC 2022 for US Senate from NY. Oh by the way, I'm a New Yorker. Schumer needs to go. She needs to begin that campaign now.
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  818. Even if it took 10 minutes per phone call, you could call 1700 precinct captains for results in 283 hours by yourself. If you have 50 people making calls you could get it done in 6 hours. If rather than an app you had precinct captains email or fax the results to party HQ you could probably have the results in 30 minutes or less. The counting was done by 10 on east on Monday.
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  819. That will open the federal government up to a fifth amendment taking claim by all of the insurance companies who will sue for a violation of their fifth amendment rights.
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  820. What is funny to me is I think that it is going to be Bernie #1 in Iowa, Tulsi #2 in Iowa, Andrew Yang #3 in Iowa, and Elizabeth Warren #4 in Iowa, with the remainder getting no delegates at all because of the 15% delegate threshold for viability, and the media is going to have a fucking heart attack as the new Dixiecrats form a third-Party to run corporatists.
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  821. So what? Congress will not hold him accountable through impeachment and the courts cannot enforce their own orders. Trump has recently ordered his Justice Department and routinely tells his agencies to completely ignore court rulings. The law is meaningless in America and Trump has proven it. He is a dictator. The police in America are lawless henchmen who will do whatever they are told and the military is worse for the most part. I live next door to the largest base east of the Mississippi, so I am around soldiers daily. I know of what I speak.
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  822. I don't know after yesterday's episode, I think being a US business owner via a ROBS Roth 401(k) that spins-off some of their subsidiary controlled foreign corporations to the 401(k) plan that owns them might be one hell of a tax favorable way to do business internationally. I mean if you use the right entities & the right tax treaties with that method of ownership you could have zero corporate tax on the income, have no tax on dividends distributed by those companies & literally no tax on any of the assets you buy with the cash cows you build that fund investments in index funds, REITs & no capital gains or dividends taxes withheld on foreign stocks you buy in certain key markets on foreign exchanges. You could potentially do that while drawing a salary from that US corporation that you invested in with the ROBS & only ever have to pay social security taxes on the salary you draw from it. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me & rules forbidding ex post facto laws & fifth amendment takings give me a fair degree of confidence that you could function without having to worry, especially since the courts are stacked with corporate lawyers on the bench. The US Chamber of Commerce has a bigger say in who gets appointed for federal courts than the President.
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  823. That is two year old data. Last year’s data put the rate of newly minted millionaires at 685 per day.
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  824. Scorpion not according to the statistics. The number of millionaires being created is slowing down.
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  825. Kyle serious question, if the government used civil asset forfeiture under the RICO Act to seize the ill gotten gains of banks who committed securities, and insurance fraud -predicate offenses under the statute, would that be a problem?
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  826. TYT Guilty of sexism and myopia.
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  827.  @enjoyslearningandtravel7957  my example was based on someone who just won the lottery and paid their taxes on it. Yes it applies to the unrealized gains on all assets if you are subject to the exit tax because you owed more income tax on average over the last several years or had more assets than $2 million, but my specific example was someone who had a lot of assets, but no unrealized gains. They had already been taxed on their money. Same holds true if you had just sold your business and paid the taxes on it. Assuming you didn't have a lot of other assets.
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  828.  @enjoyslearningandtravel7957  exit taxes are fairly common actually
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  829. Section 1983 lawsuit under the first, fourth, and fifth amendments exposed!
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  830. Castro's answer is highly offensive in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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  831. James Carville in a nutshell. I got mine, fuck you!
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  832. I never claimed to be anything other than dated.
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  833. The Swiss have managed inflation better than any country because they literally have the best bankers.
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  834. Elizabeth Warren became a Democrat at age 47 in 1996 after voting for Reagan and Bush Sr. After Gingrich’s Contract With America was mostly signed into law by Clinton after Clinton thoroughly made Democrats right wing by signing NAFTA and welfare reform and the crime bill into law. Elizabeth Warren is about as progressive as Herbert Hoover.
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  835. The other way a NY State health act Medicare for All will create jobs is all of the people who can’t risk losing healthcare who will move to New York to start their businesses. If an entire generation of entrepreneurs move to NY to start businesses we will be the Empire State again!
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  836. I live in NY-21 the northernmost CD in NY. I live 20 miles from Canada. It don’t get more upstate than that, so I’m in favor of her and I was in favor of Teachout then Hawkins in 2014. Cuomo lost or nearly lost most Upstate counties in 2014. By the way, I’ve actually been a leading member of a Congressional campaign or two in Upstate and worked on a major State Senate upset race here too so, I might understand Upstate a bit.
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  837. Yeah and Anderson Cooper just inherited the Vanderbilt fortune too!
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  838. Because Tulsi Gabbard told a widely known truth about her on the debate stage and made her look like the corporate whore that she is and that doesn't play well with Democratic voters no matter how much the 1% is ready to spend on you.
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  839. Am I the only person who for some reason heard "Fortunate Son" start playing in their head?
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  840. @whyme8068  I do, but the replacement isn't quite complete.
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  841. Europe by dropping top marginal rates below 50% is joining the US on the race to the bottom. A top marginal rate over 50% encourages small business competition, a separation of real estate ownership from ownership of the businesses that occupy commercial and industrial facilities. It also encourages the sociopathic set in charge to the big business community to pay higher wages, hire more workers, invest in R&D, lease more space, and grow their businesses to privatize the gains from the taxes they instead reinvest in their companies.
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  842.  @87solarsky  freedoms from being stateless🙄😳. You have no ability to travel and likely have no ability to live or work anywhere legally.
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  843. I mean Uruguay and Chile are very safe countries. Chile is safer than the USA, not that, that is saying much, but...
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  844. Real in real estate has nothing to do with reality, rather real as in the Spanish meaning of real aka Royal as in the royal estate.
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  845. Ilfart 218 New York uses paper ballots and has an automatic annual hand counted audit of all ballots in at least one county Colombia, and 3% of precincts in every county in the state. New York voters were concerned about election integrity in 2002 when other people hadn’t even thought about it and we wrote a strong law that protected the integrity of the vote count. What we did’t count on was the VAN being used to purge Democrats from the primary rolls in 2016 because those Democrats were IDed as Bernie supporters. That mostly happened downstate. Here in Upstate I haven’t seen a single Cuomo ad. He knows he is gonna lose upstate by a couple of touchdowns.
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  846. Asset appreciation is gone. Cars are worth less, houses are worth less, automation and productivity increases have made most consumer goods cheaper and cheaper. Demand destruction has crippled the energy markets. Oil storage facilities are at capacity and idled plants and office space has reduced the demand for coal fired power. The negative interest rates caused by the Fed makes borrowing money cheap, but the consumer is maxed out and jobs are scarce, so they are not taking on more debt. Without consumers businesses have no reason to take on debt risks even if money is cheap. I mean would you buy a new 737 for your airline right now? Hell no! So what do you do with cash on hand? You hold onto it. Market disruptions from a lack of available labor because of the health risks and government regulations as well as stockpiling of food for the lean times is artificially inflating food prices and naturally inflating food prices all at the same time, but food is relatively abundant. Because of demand destruction in restaurants and packing plants crippled by illness food costs are inflating, but that is relatively temporary. Of course the velocity of money has slowed to a crawl. No one will invest in this environment because consumers know they can buy more car with the money in their pockets two months from now than they can buy today because inventory is only going up because there are no buyers. The same is true for houses. Businesses know that they can buy more office computers in six months than they can buy today for less money because there are no buyers. They also know in six months they will be able to get better workers for half their current rates, so why hire now when their money will get better people in six months. Deflation is inevitable for those reasons alone, but when you add in the fact that six months from now there may still be lockdowns because there is no cure, we could have yet another virus emerge as a pandemic too because of the interconnected supply chain, and all of those risks to normal consumption, no one is going to spend. The smart move is to keep your cash in a safe hedge against inflation, deflation, and otherwise. Why do you think Bitcoin and gold are both rising, they are both good hedges against the money printing spurring inflation which the average thinker believes will happen, but they are a good hedge against deflation too because they are more finite than dollars and are essentially a currency in and of themselves both historically and literally today. I mean 70% of the biggest e-commerce sites accept Bitcoin and other altcoins for purchases. A lot of international transactions when not payable in dollars are payable in gold. As the reserve currency of the day, the US dollar is probably the next safest currency aside from gold and Bitcoin to hold right now, but what if the Saudis stop pricing oil sales in US dollars? What happens to the dollar then. Hedging against that with gold or Bitcoin is a smart move right now, but it doesn't change the deflationary pressure on most of the stable world currencies. There is a reason Bitcoin has gone up $2400 in the last month and gold has gone up $200 an ounce in the last month while the dollar to euro conversion rate is essentially flat during the same period.
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  847. I live in NY-21, and I can tell you right now, that Ratigan wasn't even the best progressive in the race in NY-21. Katie Wilson is the real deal and is from the working class and in the working class. She earned $18K last year and has no assets. She garnered like 43 votes less than Ratigan for a 3rd place finish and if it were not for Ratigan's entry into the race and 2 wealthy well connected party insiders playing at faux progressives to split the vote, Katie Wilson would have beaten Tedra Cobb in a head to head match up. The crowded field sucked the oxygen out of the room. The only good thing about this race for the Democrats is that for the first time in 2 election cycles their candidate actually lives in the District, but Elise Stefanik will crush them. I say that as a person who worked on Congressional races in 2004, 2006, 2008, the 2009 special election which got the deciding vote on the ACA elected here when it was NY-23, and as a person who worked hard for the Green Party candidate here in 2016. This district might elect a progressive, but it would be a progressive Republican. This district with the exception of a brief period when Bill Owens was the Congressman from 2009-2015 has been Republican since before the Civil War, 1854 or 1856 to be precise. The first abolitionist Republicans were elected here. It was the home to John Brown, its where his grave is at. Teddy Roosevelt drew huge crowds in the district on his run for Governor and President from the back of a train giving speeches in small towns throughout the North Country. There are still progressive Republicans up here who will remind you that a Republican state Assembly, a Republican State Senate, and a Republican Governor, Nelson Rockefeller here in New York legalized abortion before the Roe decision legislatively and that the NY law was what Roe's decision was modeled on. There are progressive Republicans up here, but there are also Trump Republicans up here in droves too. It only takes 20,000 votes in a primary to beat Stefanik here though for a progressive, and that is an obtainable number for the grassroots. There is zero chance that a party that lost by almost 100,000 votes to the incumbent beats her here, sorry, not happening.
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  848. I agree, Serbia might get into fights with other countries because the Balkans always have had their ethnic beefs, but St. Lucia's neighbors are all mostly fellow Caricom members. The South and Central American countries all pretty much play nice with the islands. Cuba is a wild card potentially, bur mostly just helps other countries with Doctors since the Angolan involvement ended. Canada & Mexico leave most places alone. The EU is certainly pressuring every country to stop being tax havens, but the territorial tax in Gibraltar has gotten no guff even at 10% so St. Lucia's higher territorial tax definitely keeps them off the grey or blacklist. Most developing nations are potentially beneficiaries of China's Belt and Road policy, so if St. Lucia got on their radar it likely ends up being beneficial. For the most part the US takes advantage of the islands as tax havens and tourist destinations, but it is the only country that might bother St. Lucia realistically. It would be hard pressed to call a nation with no military a threat. Even if St. Lucia developed a set of Freeport policies that put it on par with Singapore and made it an attractive assembly point. If it then somehow used the freedom of movement under Caricom to expand it's workforce to rival Singapore which is a similar size land wise, the US would be hard pressed to sell a stable English speaking democracy with a common law system of justice integrated with a unified court for various British Overseas Territories and multiple other former British colonies that are now independent countries as a security threat. I mean if St. Lucia experienced a sudden and rapid economic growth out of nowhere to become the next Singapore and lifted much of the population of the Caricom states out of poverty in doing so, it still wouldn't be much of an economic rival for the US. It may be despised as an entry point for untaxed goods into the US market, or in this day and age more likely as a services empire, but it's not likely to be a home for companies the US or Europe would try to steal.
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  849.  @samjordan8800  I'm not saying a country should take the deal. I'm only saying that China's policies towards a country like St. Lucia are unlikely to be adversarial. Much like US and IMF lending it would be an enslavement policy, that is without question, but Singapore has certainly shown a way to navigate towards development without foreign entanglements even for a resource poor country. The straits of Malacca were a definite advantage, but being close to US, Mexican, Canadian, and South American markets and just far south enough in the Caribbean to have only been hit by 14 hurricanes since 1850 means St. Lucia which is the only CBI country to have retained a territorial tax system after the EU pressure with the blacklist & greylist means it is the one country that I could see using Freedom of Movement under Caricom to attract a workforce to grow into a Singapore through the proper use of tax and investment policies to attract foreign entrepreneurs. If St. Lucia adopted a Virtual Zone Enterprise policy like Georgia, and gave entrepreneurs a relatively inexpensive and renewable business visa/work permit less than the price of a Caymans or UAE work permit, and more than a Cambodian annual business visa, so well below the Cayman Islands fees of potentially tens of thousands of dollars and less than the $2k for a UAE freelancer visa, but more than the $300 for a Cambodian business visa, with an income & social security tax exclusion for key employees of a company with Virtual Zone status employed pursuant to a business visa/work permit for salary & wage income of up to the US foreign earned income exclusion plus the US standard deduction & maybe adopted a Singapore like remittance policy where any money in a Virtual Zone company with a non-exempt bank account was taxed at say 10.5% until 2025 and 13.5% after 2025 to avoid GILTI, I could see digital nomads flocking to St. Lucia to build the next major tech company. I mean it would be easy enough to do, set up a banking regulation for Virtual Zone companies that allowed them to make an exempt bank account election or a non-exempt bank account election when they open an account and you have the ultimate tax planning vehicle for digital nomads and digital expats. If St. Lucia also enacted a Free Industrial Zone Enterprise policy like Georgia or the UAE and offered reasonably priced annually renewable licenses for those companies to allow for duty free import, assembly, re-export, or for the provision of services from those zones it could attract a fair amount of investment as the Philippines have with similar free trade zones. When those free trade zones are coupled with a corporate tax exemption and salary exemptions for key personnel holding business visas/work permits if those fees are low enough St. Lucia will attract a lot of investment and entrepreneurs. They also wouldn't need to impose much of a tax rate because a lot of US companies and US investors would opt into the exempt/non-exempt tax regime with annual remittances to avoid GILTI. I mean 10.5% of five to ten multi-million dollar companies becomes a windfall for a country like St. Lucia. Especially if 5 or 10 thousand small entrepreneurs spend $1500 a year for a work-permit/business visa and maybe another $300 a year for a Virtual Zone Enterprise License for their company with a $500 annual corporate renewal. I mean $2300 a year in fees for a small company to avoid $20k a year in taxes is a pretty good deal for someone with a successful, but small blog for example. If they can set up that St. Lucia business with a visa and work permit that allows them to also get a tax residency certificate by staying in the country for at least one month a year, it becomes really valuable for not only US digital nomads, but also European, New Zealand, Canadian, and Australian digital nomads. St. Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis, Dominica, Grenada, and Antigua and Barbuda could all supplement their CBI programs with this kind of regime. If they used a Singapore style rule to require a resident Secretary or a resident Director who must be present in the country for at least 183 days & if they implemented annual audit & reporting requirements like Singapore for these companies -even if they allowed for nominee resident directors or implemented minimal substance requirements like a registered office and a certain amount of spending as Malaysia has done for Labuan companies, these businesses would not run afoul of the EU substance requirements. Of course the annual licensing regime would probably provide an adequate substance in and of themselves. The policy should require a stringent KYC process for initial registration and renewal to confirm the identity of key shareholders and personnel too, but for start-ups on a budget the option of the key executive remaining in the jurisdiction on the work permit/business visa would meet most substance requirements.
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  850. You must have forgotten Operation Desert Eagle.
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  851. Sweden is a social democracy with more billionaires per capita than the United States. Economists did a study and found that the freest markets in the world were in Denmark and Sweden, both strong social democracies.
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  852. I am not a fan of the management based tax residency for corporations in most of the CBI countries. It would concern me in regards to any business I participated in as a director or manager if I were to live there. I do think Anguilla has a real advantage in terms of it's close proximity to St. Marten. I mean a 20 minute ferry ride or whatever it is to go from an island with no cruise ships docking to one of the major cruise destinations and an active tourist trap island makes Anguilla a bit like the tranquil suburb where you can get to the hustling bustling city in minutes. I mean live in Anguilla and party in St. Marten would be a bit like the live in Kuala Lumpur & party in Bangkok mantra. I suppose setting up your corporation in the BVI or the Caymans would be a bit like banking in Singapore as an aspect of it, but not nearly as useful as it was in the past. Maybe bank in the Bahamas or Barbados in the right situation, but...🤷🏼‍♂️ I also like the fact that under current rules any partial day you spend in Anguilla counts as a day towards residency for citizenship if you want to naturalize as a BOTC & the fact that it could provide a backdoor into full British citizenship without the tax burden of living in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland & also better weather than living in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.
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  853. I predict that the faux stock market will remain over inflated until after the election. The reality is that the powers that be don't even see that it doesn't matter which idiot the village sends to Washington either will be ousted in the looming Revolution.
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  854. Meanwhile the people in Germany have taken to the streets in staunch opposition to the right wing party after their extremist views were revealed when internal party memos were leaked which literally moved a German citizenship bill which had been in purgatory to the top of the pile in days. The right wing party in Germany has become less relevant.
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  855. I really wonder how the little old black ladies from all of the churches in South Carolina who marched for the right to vote who had friends who were beaten and friends who died making sure they had the right to vote are going to respond to Democrats except for Bernie advocating the stealing of elections. I wonder who that makes them more likely to support?
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  856. Now add a 100% income tax rate for any contributions over $175 and you have the beginning of a workable anti-corruption statute. Also a 100% tax for all independent expenditures.
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  857. So how much you wanna bet Linus tanked it on purpose?
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  858. I mean my father's extended family was very close knit here in the US growing up, and while my mother's side of the family was more dispersed with 1 uncle living in the mountain west, another aunt following her Navy sailor husband from port to port, my grandparents, an aunt, and one uncle in Illinois, we visited those relatives at least every couple of years and as an adult with more money I visit relatives in Illinois where most returned after retirement at least once a year, so extended family is fairly important -at least in rural America. The more urban and suburban families I think are less tight knit, just my observation. I will say my father's family became less tight knit after my aunt who was always the host of holiday events passed. I think her absence made some things too painful to enjoy.
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  859. dharma6529 hey dumbass he is blaming “elites” that is BOTH PARTIES, because they are both to blame. Who drafted NAFTA? George H. W. Bush. Who got NAFTA ratified? Bill Clinton with a Democratic Congress. Who enacted the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act and the Commodities Futures Modernization Act. Well the primary author of the law and its champion in Congress was Texas Republican Senator Phill Gramm. That is why it was called the Gramm-Leach-Blilley Act as well. Who signed it into law, Bill Clinton a Democrat. Who gave the banks a bailout when exactly what North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan said would happen because of that bill which he opposed happened 8 years later? George W. Bush signed TARP into law. It was a bill authored by his Secretary of the Treasury and passed by a Democratic House and Senate with bipartisan support. Both parties are bought by the exact same people. Clinton had Goldman Sachs executives in his White House. Bush has Goldman Sachs executives in his White House. Obama had Goldman Sachs executives in his White House. Trump has Goldman Sachs executives in his White House. It doesn’t matter which fake corporate spokesperson from which team you put in the White House they are all owned by the exact same people and Trump is owned more than most because he OWES billions of dollars in commercial real estate development debts that can be called in at any time by creditors. He is on the shortest leash of anyone to ever hold the office and he has some people snowed into believing he is independent. He isn’t and neither was Obama or Clinton or Bush. The same people run all of them and I’ll give you a hint. They are a family of European bankers who own the Federal Reserve Bank which is about as Federal as Federal Express. Until you stop playing the left versus right paradigm and start playing the worker’s should own every penny of value that they create -because as Lincoln said -labor is superior to capital because until labor exists, no capital can be created as capital is the fruit of labor, until you start saying that workers should own where they work and control the way where they work operates by a majority consensus of the workers, you are playing the game that the wage slave master wants you to play. You are the obedient Uncle Tom house negro they want everyone to be. You sure as shit ain’t an American rebel.
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  860.  @kneesusforjesus2879  or you get stuck with $20k of lumber you will never get paid for when the banks start calling in construction loans to shore up their balance sheets and prevent loses.
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  861. This is complete propaganda. It has zero basis in reality. Sure the managerial class which includes the police and prison guards are doing okay, but essentially this is a kleptocracy. The founding fathers included the wealthiest man in America BEFORE the war for independence, John Hancock who was mad that crony capitalists at the British East India Company were given a tax exemption on tea which is why he financed the tea party. And they included the man who was the wealthiest in America AFTER the war for independence, George Washington, who enacted a tax on Whiskey at a time when he owned one of the largest commercial distilleries in the country. He used the tax to strangle his competitors. This country’s government has always been corrupt and has always favored a caste system.
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  862. No revolutionaries are not conservative in any way. As Carlin said, give me an Eddie, Frank, or Joey over a Kyle any day.
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  863. xadam2dudex it only takes 1 or 2 non-aligned members of the NY State Senate to start that ball rolling.
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  864. I hope that this backfires and Warren tanks more, and it steels a lot of people's resolve for Bernie and has that MSDNC reverse effect and sends a bunch of people to Bernie.
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  865. So if I understand what you are saying, a bunch of companies in the worst financial position had issued bonds which were convertible at the election of the company to stock if certain triggers happened, or perhaps those in the best financial position as that would make more sense. I can't see a secured creditor wanting to become an unsecured equity participant at the election of a borrower even with positive triggers and definitely not with negative triggers, so it seems that the A rated traunches would have an equity participation trigger, unless the security for the debt was in fact a publicly traded stock which commercial banks would not be able to participate in and at default the securities were surrendered. If that is the case, then the security held by the banks would be worthless to the banks. Either scenario in this environment would be a nightmare for banks. I mean if the A rated debtors could convert to stock because they exceeded a goal at the same time the junk bonds convert to stock because the debt is in default, the banks would be left with completely worthless commercial paper essentially.
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  866.  @SteveM-gj2vy  so a right wing Swedish party thinks that an Eisenhower Democrat like Sanders is a Commie, that's rich!
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  867. The DNC and DSCCC are insolvent and can’t raise money. The DCCC has adopted policies which mean the only National Democratic Party Committee that is not essentially bankrupt from liabilities and whose assets make the other two solvent has killed its fundraising appeal. Bernie has more than 3x the cash than all three Democratic committees and zero debts. The DCCC has crippled its fundraising ability and in so doing made itself irrelevant. The Democratic Party is already irrelevant with the DSCC and DNC unable to fundraise, so the party will die in 2020. It just doesn’t know it yet. The reason Democrats can’t raise money anymore is because 5 members of the House with D behind their name support policies which help people, the 0.025% AKA the 81,000 Americans worth $30 million or more aren’t giving them cash anymore or paying their surrogates to give them money.
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  868. You want to know why John Kasich lost his Presidential run. There is why. Politics is always about winners and losers. What Kasich is afraid of is that his people are going to lose by winning. It is a misplaced fear. The reason liberals lose is because they don’t know how to go for the kill shot and win when it is in their grasp. Case in point. The Democrats could have denied a quorum to the Judiciary Committee on the vote to release Kavanaugh to the full Senate and won this whole battle. Instead they folded like a cheap suit and lost and they are going to lose seats in the House and Senate because of their folding. Until leftists who know how to fight by the Chicago Way rules of, if they send one of yours to the hospital -metaphorically, send one of theirs to the morgue, the liberals are going to lose because while liberals are so f’ing smart how come they lose so god damned always?
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  869. True socialists do not care about race, religion, gender, or sexuality. The communist party in the Soviet Union was from day one so much better on race than the US that W.E.B. Dubois considered it better on racial issues. Did the Soviet Union have a ruthless dictator in charge? Yes, Stalin was exactly that, but the fundamental philosophy of Marx is entirely humanist.
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  870. If you have to cite your grandfather being "a cop" as your most recent claim of anyone being working class in your family when police are henchmen for the slaveholder class, well then member of the slaveholder class and that is what all capitalists are because this gaslighting false narrative about workers having a choice which is only available to the slaveholding class such as Mr. Douche who Lord over their rented slaves rather than chattel slaves or feudal slaves needs to be called out at every turn and just because your Uncle Tom grandfather was able to kiss the right ass to allow your father to kiss the right ass to allow you to be born into the slaveholder class doesn't make your slavocracy fair and democratic or just or right Mr. Douche!
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  871. The majority of working people have 99% of their wealth in the real estate that is their primary residence. Some in cars. In every state you pay about 2% in property taxes and 1 to 2% of the value of a vehicle in registration fees or taxes of some kind. The working class also pays 15% on dollar 1 of their labor in Social Security and Medicare taxes their entire life. My father never got Medicare he died before he was eligible. He collected 12 months of Social Security and at that time I lived in his household and paid MORE in social security taxes than he collected and this was after he paid in from age 14 to age 64. In other words my father would have been better off if I gave him what Social Security took from me. The working class also pay income and sales taxes. Stock traders don't pay sales tax on their trades. Boo fucking hoo! If you can't get more than a 2% ROI on over $50 million in assets you are bad at business.
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  872. It's actually quite hard to hide money overseas with FATCA and CRS. It's also not so much hiding or avoiding taxes as it is setting up the most efficient tax plans. I mean the same earnings could be taxed at the corporate level for a subsidiary. A dividend from that subsidiary could be subject to withholding tax in it's country of tax residence, then that money could be taxed at the corporate level again, then if the ultimate or that profit could be untaxed at the level of the subsidiary, maybe paying a royalty expense to another subsidiary. The royalty may be subject to withholding tax in the original country, but maybe not. That royalty subsidiary could be taxed or untaxed then it's paid out dividends could be subject to withholding tax or maybe not then the dividends could be taxed again at the corporate level, then once the dividend is paid to the ultimate shareholder the profits could be subject to withholding tax on the dividends in the country where the corporation is located, and the final profits could be subject to tax in the investor's home country too. I mean the same money could be taxed 8 or 10 times or more without proper planning to minimize tax, and without that proper tax planning a lot of important companies that make a lot of things or supply a lot of things would go bankrupt and a lot of people would be out of work. Just a thought.
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  873. Honestly as a guy there was never a better opportunity in life to find a high quality girlfriend or potential spouse than when I was in college as an undergrad and I went to two professional graduate programs after my undergrad degree. There were a few attractive women in those programs and there were exclusively smart women in those programs, but as a percentage attractive and smart was far more common at my undergrad institution, but my problem was I was working my ass off to afford school and get through school on time. I did not have time for a social life and definitely did not have this skills to have a social life. If I hit the lottery, other than paying off my debts, the first thing I would do is apply to get a second bachelor's degree. I enjoy learning new things, so if I had the money and time to do whatever I wanted, I would be a college student again, but the second time around I would make use of having a social life. Yeah, what they don't tell you is that getting even professional degree that give you careers which are supposed to pay better do not pay enough for the investment to be worth it for the vast majority of people working in those fields as licensed professionals. Really the US is designed to be a hamster wheel for most people. Playing a different game is probably your best bet, but this piece of advice should be heeded by young men and young women alike. Finding women smart enough for you is hard in many places. Attractive is kind of the easy part, even though it's a low percentage game. If you have one of those "great" professional careers, you are a catch in this country if you are even moderately good looking, but smart and sexy is rare amongst women. If you do come across that combination, most are taken, and if they are not taken, there is probably a reason for that fact.
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  874. Did you miss the fact that the US is one of the leading tax havens for non-resident aliens of the US? The US is amongst the biggest tax havens in the world along side the UK, the Netherlands, Malta, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Ireland. I mean half of the EU is a tax haven and the US is a major tax haven as well.
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  875.  @vitsadelhole  I mean the UK changed Turks & Caicos law on a dime not too long ago, perhaps it is you who doesn't understand how colonies work.
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  876. After January she will never work in government again and she will have trouble getting a job with any major law firm. They don't like her and she will not work because of it.
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  877. Well in most of Australia the world's oldest profession is legal, so...
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  878. I’m talking about taking away people’s guns, including those belonging to the police and the military. We should not have an army, navy, or Air Force. Police should be armed with nightsticks and nothing more as they were for most of British history. No one should have a gun. Period. They have served their purpose.
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  879. No, you can move if you want to, I will keep fomenting the revolt that will make it so.
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  880. One side has morality and righteousness on its side. I’ve found that 999 times out of 1000 that side wins. Revolutions are won without firing a single shot. Ask Vaclav Havel. Ask Lech Walesa. Our side is winning everyday with the creation of open source projects like Linux, WordPress and Bitcoin which are building an unavoidable future. Our side is winning as it always does by creating art which demonstrates the possible future. Star Trek was created by a liberal. That is why the current incarnation doesn’t work. It is misaligned with its message. That is also why The Orville works.
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  881. keith mcdowell umm asshole did you get the memo in this video. Cars which are functionally designed to get people and things from point a to point b now kill less people in the USA annually than guns do. LESS!!! And with rare exception those injuries and deaths are accidental. By design, guns have one function and purpose to kill. That is their sole and exclusive use. Guns do not save lives ever! End of story. Guns take lives. Guns injure and maim tens of thousands more than they kill now too because doctors keep getting better at treating gunshot wounds. Cars on the other hand kill fewer and fewer people because by design they allow fewer and fewer people to be injured because of improved technology from seat belts, to airbags, to crumple zones, to lazer and radar guided computer assisted accident avoidance systems, and even simple innovations like anti-lock brakes and snow tires. Guns only get more deadly as a product in general with higher capacity magazine designs, larger caliber bullets, and such. The fact that doctors have gotten better at treating those severe injuries is a miracle. Has that contributed to improved auto accident survival rates too, yes, but not merely as much as improved safety technology on automobiles. Civilized societies should eliminate guns in the hands of their citizens and police and should never have a standing military, but most Americans are not civilized. The fact that you would say cars which keep getting safer and have non-lethal uses are more problematic than guns is enough evidence of that, especially when saying so in response to a video which demonstrates that cars were literally safer than guns last year is very telling.
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  882. keith mcdowell and if you aren’t a vegan, you have no right to talk on this issue of climate change. Literally 50% of all global warming related pollution is caused by animal agriculture and just 16 Panamax freighters cause as much pollution as the entire world auto industry including the use of the car and truck fleet annually.
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  883. Being old and speaking English seems to make you dumb universally regardless of which English speaking country you live in.
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  884. Getting hit by a car doesn't require your health insurer to pay out. It requires the car insurance policy to pay out more than $50k in medical expenses first and the limits of the car insurance policy before they pay a penny and the health insurer can subrogate even pain and suffering payouts and steal any Court won recovery you make.
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  885. ​ @l2xsniper1 not in an environment where AI weeds out every resume which does not include all of their specific keywords.
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  886. ​​ @donaldmacdonald4901  so you must be a Scottsman because no one of Irish ancestry would say that bullshit, but if they did, their ancestors disowned them. And we all know the Scotts are the biggest wankers in history.
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  887. If she was walking down the street with a gun she is 7 times less likely to end up in prison and 9 times less likely to be shot by a cop than he is if he was also walking down the street with a gun. That is just a statistical fact.
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  888. Anyone want to explain to any of these people that what happened when the top marginal tax rate was 90% was that companies privatized the gains on their income by immediately re-investing the excess profits into hiring more workers to sell and produce more goods, perform research and development, or provide more services so that they could create capital gains by growing their business and increasing its value, rather than pay taxes? If the government is going to take 91 cents of every dollar you make over X then essentially if you want to keep as much as you earned this year over that amount you need to grow your business 10x as large as it is today. But the government will let you re-invest those profits of raises to your work force, new hires and some non-capital expenditures equipment or research and development tax free, so that is what you do. That high marginal rate incentivizes innovation and economic growth. Any tax rate at the top end below 50% incentivizes stagnation and break ups of companies or other reorganizations that result in downsizing the workforce or reducing worker pay. The proof is in The pudding in our own economic history from 1941-1980 and 1980-2018.
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  889. I'm a middle ground person. I tinker a little, but I don't need the bleeding edge. I want a stable system that works the way I want it to work. I will try a different browser. I will update different things, I may change desktop environments or even install a new one if I want a different look and feel to the OS, but I like stable and relatively easy, so Mint is my distro of choice. I like being able to use PPAs when needed for certain things and I like stability, without it being older than dirt like Debian, and I like it a bit less nosey than Canonical.
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  890.  mariobroselli3642  I mean that is the role Indonesia & the Philippines fill for Australia.
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  891.  @dealman3312  yup, that is what we use.
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  892. I’m 43 and if Sanders had decided to run as an independent in 2012 he would have had my vote. If Sanders somehow wins the Democratic nomination he will likely get my vote. If anyone else is the Democratic nominee likely Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins will get my vote because Howie was to the left of Bernie when he helped him run for US Senate in the 1970s on the Liberty Union Party line and he is still to the left of Bernie.
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  893.  @dmillzzz1918  name a practical value of gold. It is a fiat currency too. The difference is Bitcoin has a truly finite supply.
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  894.  @dmillzzz1918  in the next two decades someone is going to lasso an asteroid four or five miles long and two or three miles wide made up 99% of gold and platinum and when that material enters the market place you will find that the supply of those materials are not so finite, and more importantly in the case of the gold it has very little practical use to give it value and it is just another Fiat currency. All currency is Fiat currency. It is all just an artificial means of storing value. The difference between Bitcoin and gold is that people can't lasso an asteroid and mine more than the 21 million Bitcoin allowed by the algorithm. They can create alternatives which are other currencies with their own rules and will. What Bitcoin does and what all crypto currencies do that you fail to see is decentralize economic power in a nontrivial and novel way.
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  895. Elite Super Hero Club, Affleck has played Daredevil, Superman, and Batman. The next closest that I know of are Brandon Routh as Superman and the Atom, then Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern and Deadpool.
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  896. Pro Male Revolutionary clearly they mean to wear as a mask like Leatherface or Ed Gein.
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  897. Note how only the black cop is in any way trying to do the right thing. White guys become cops because they were bullied in school and want to feel important and powerful. Black guys become cops because they were terrorized by cops and want to stop that from happening to anyone else. I said what I said and I stand by it.
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  898. You don’t need a Constitutional Amendment BECAUSE public financing is okay. When you draft the public financing law you make it clear that if XYZ contributes in excess of the public maximum, that all candidates receive 5x that amount and anyone or corporation contributing in excess of the maximum pays an excise tax equal to 25x their contribution.
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  899. James 1992 called it's the economy stupid and just because you are in the 0.02% now does not mean this economy works for everyone. In fact you and your boy broke the economy for everyone and that campaign lie Bill got elected on, Yeah, that one, healthcare for everyone, Bernie is gonna deliver by building a movement for it!
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  900. As someone who has lived 30 miles from the Canadian border in Upstate NY most of my life, although born in Tacoma, Washington & having lived for a brief time near Peoria, IL while my father was stationed in Germany & my mother was attending college while I was an infant. Whenever I have visited NYC it's subway was depressing in a way the DC subway was not, the Buffalo subway was not, and the Los Angeles subway was also not. I lived in Buffalo for 3 years during law school & while it has much of the rust belt decay, it never had the rampant garbage smell that is all over NYC. I lived in Los Angeles for a year and despite being the second largest city by population, it too even in it's worst neighborhoods did not have the trash and decay problem that is pervasive in NYC. Which is its own problem for Los Angeles. The bad neighborhoods and the good neighborhoods have few tell tail signs, but while NYC keeps you on guard even in the best neighborhoods, Los Angeles can lull you into an unhelpful calm even in the worst neighborhoods because they don't look that bad. Palm trees and sun make even sketchy neighborhoods look nice in ways that garbage and worn out subways do not. I will say I am happy that you are enjoying the experience of peace that comes from a more rural life. It has its own pitfalls certainly. It's hard to get the great variety of cuisine available in more urban areas. You will be hard pressed to attend a great Shakespeare play. The local high school football game is a poor substitute for the Giants or Jets game. The little league does not compare to the wonderful ball park in the Bronx, but you can Netflix and chill with the best of 'em in even the most rural parts of America these days.
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  901. The correction is to do what the wealthiest nations per capita do, Switzerland and Singapore mandate a 10% savings rate. Require workers to invest 10% of their income automatically then the participation rate across the board becomes 100%.
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  902. They aren't going to have to steal it from Bernie. He already lost.
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  903. Things I have read seem to suggest Ireland's Stamp 0 is only valid for at most a 3 year stay and it has no path to either peemanent residence, or Irish citizenship.
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  904. Don’t ignore the climate change related drop in agricultural production. Field crops planted declined drastically this year because of flooding and temperatures that delayed planting by months.
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  905. I assure you that California will slow release numbers in such a way to help Biden and hurt Bernie.
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  906. Wah, pay me to bitch on the Internet. No!
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  907.  @Jellybelly008  more Americans have lived in cities than outside of cities since 1930. About 75% of the US population lives in cities.
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  908. I think the analysis of it being an effort to help Klobuchar and Warren in MA and MN, and also get people over 15% in CA is spot on he is doing his donors' bidding.
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  909. You don't you remain enslaved.
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  910.  @impudentdomain  Not looking to learn Chinese, but at some point I may either learn Swedish or Luxembourgish because my future plans involve moving to one or the other country to pursue a citizenship there. I am considering Sweden because my mother's side of the family is entirely of Swedish ancestry, unfortunately all so long ago that I am not eligible for citizenship by descent. I am considering Luxembourg because it is not where everyone else is going and while neither country is particularly beneficial in terms of tax treatment, both have an excellent passport and Luxembourg has a somewhat better tax regime of the two, and Luxembourg has double tax agreements with some obscure countries I might like to move to after becoming Luxembourgish. Both are countries where English is widely spoken I mean like 90% of Swedes speak English fluently, but in 2025 the naturalization rules will require knowledge of Swedish. If I were to move to Luxembourg I would probably learn French as well. My sister would probably appreciate that because she is a French teacher, and French would come in handy at the place I would like to move after I obtain an EU citizenship with a Tier A passport to replace the US passport I hold or at least provide an alternative that is less divisive around the world.
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  911. @Jason try being Manning. I mean they exposed war crimes filmed on video got released from prison then held again because they wouldn't tell lies to build a case against Assange, a reporter who has never had to retract a story because they have all been accurate.
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  912. Does she think Bernie Sanders wants her stanky ass funk on him? She lost three key states to Trump that had gone Democrat since 1988.
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  913. It's a dead on balls accurate assessment of the current situation.
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  914. So are the bankers doing that to help the Republican candidate? I mean it seems to me that the way to attack candidates you don’t want might be to endorse them with organizations like “Americans for Pedophilia.” I mean it seems to have kept Roy Moore out of office. Of course with this one the bankers win either way.
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  915. There are more than 100,000 adults in Montana not registered to vote and of registered voters with a 75% turnout rate in 2016 almost 200,000 Montanans did not vote who were registered. Yeah, they need candidates who will get more people to pull the lever for them.
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  916. I mean Monaco is a tourist trap for the wealthy and the upper middle class. It is also a tax haven and a networking opportunity several times a year as part of the billionaire travel circuit. It is also a playboy's shangri la and a place for young would be starlets to rub elbows with wealthy people with the connections to make them the next IT Girl in entertainment because of that fact. It is the Old Money answer to Dubai with a more liberal French sensibility, yet a more reserved European sensibility about fashion. Dubai is liberalising to be acceptable to modern western fashion and social decorum, but Monaco is staying more 1950s style about such things. It also has no CFC rules which means its residents can set up & run their companies in other offshore tax haven jurisdictions without too much worry about Monaco's high corporate taxes. It also has double tax treaties with many of the corporate tax havens ensuring that operations remain tax free for their residents.
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  917. I use Mint with Gnome themed to look like Mac OS.
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  918. He would blend in, but he would blend in, because the US has a melting pot of accents from non-native speakers, and multiple regional dialects and accents, and with Canada, the UK, New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia putting out a fair amount of movies and TV shows that make their way into the US market, Americans are exposed to a lot of English accents and dialects and we accept them routinely because of that melting pot thing. I mean these days we also get content from English speakers in the Philippines, the Caribbean, and multiple African nations, plus India and Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore. We have a mismash of accents swirling around in the US and many more entering our consciousness from the Internet. I mean you have probably heard Bahamian accents, and Jamaican accents, and any one of those could belong to an American. I mean the melting pot of English accents is common in the US.
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  919. Except Tik Tok open sourced a majority of their site, so you are not correct about not being able to audit them.
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  920. They also don't install a puppet government that will negotiate an IMF deal so upside down that you WILL never repay it. I mean if you think the deal is fair you can take it. If not you can walk away. The IMF only operates with offers you can't refuse.
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  921. I mean the Russian passport isn't great, but it has great access in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It is bad for Europe, Japan and the CUNA countries, but everywhere that is not "the West" has pretty good access on a Russian passport.
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  922.  @Liamfoleylogan  Caitlin Johnstone.
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  923. What happens if Chuck Rocha pulls off the upset.
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  924. That fucking soap commercial, fuck that guy.
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  925. Hungary is very nationalistic, very opposed to immigrants, and has imposed citizenship based taxation on non-resident citizens in the last decade.
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  926. Angst in your 20s is not a mental health issue. It is a natural part of figuring out how you want to live your life.
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  927.  @maximilianbeyer5642  What makes you sure of that? I suspect they are legally structuring their businesses to pay the least tax, but that is the point. It is legal.
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  928.  @TheSiapajadeh  The US has a golden visa scheme, but not a golden citizenship scheme. The US residency requirements are five years & they have to pass the citizenship test. No one in their right mind wants to become an American & subject themselves to tax from the US no matter where they live or do business. In fact, becoming Maltese is far more valuable.
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  929.  Shadow Company 1984  Only the US taxes citizens on income no matter where they live & there is dual & multiple citizenship. There are people alive today who are citizens of 8 or more countries. Only the US & Eritrea tax citizens on worldwide income. Obtaining a citizenship by investment does not mean you will ever live in that country. How you structure your business & where it operates in most of the world determines it's taxation.
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  930. New Yorkers come out for Presidential primaries, and in Presidential years, but not Gubernatorial primaries typically. For the left this will be different because Cuomo is a crook and a bought Trump stooge. What qualifies her to run the state! She is over 30 and a resident of the state more than 5 years. I absolutely think she should beat Cuomo in the primary, but the best candidate in the race is Howie Hawkins make no mistake about that one.
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  931. Getting the Q value into the right range would be a major breakthrough. Designing a gadget that can achieve those Q values and sustain the temperatures a successful commercial reactor must operate at while extracting usable energy is easily another 30 year engineering project. Could a Manhattan Project like investment get it down to 4 years? Maybe, but it's a considerably larger engineering challenge.
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  932. Chris Matthews problem with Sanders is really simple. Sanders supporters made sure his corporatist wife did not become a member of the House and he is still pissed that they dashed his dreams.
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  933.  @cl9826  Jill Stein encouraged Howie to run. He is a co-founder of the Greens and in the 1970s he was one of the Vermont Liberty Union Party organizers that worked on Bernie's campaigns. He is also the father of the Green New Deal. He came up with it during his 2010 NY Governor's run. Howie got 5% in NY Governor's race in 2014. He also has pushed Cuomo left on a bunch of issues for the last decade. He is the reason NY banned fracking. He fought for the minimum wage increase NY got and the paid family leave act NY passed.
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  934. Mike Bloomberg will not get to the convention.
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  935.  @clintholmes2061  you think that electoral politics is going to decide this, I know that it is not going to fix this country.
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  936.  @clintholmes2061  if you think an actual revolution isn't coming you are blind.
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  937. No wonder San Francisco sends a wealthy out of touch white woman in her 80s to Congress those are the only people who can afford to live in that city as evidenced by their efforts here on behalf of Harris. They are clueless about “real America” and wonder why people living in the rust belt gave them Trump. Well as a person living in the rust belt, I can tell you it is because despite best efforts none of them knew Jill Stein was an option and you elitist pricks in coastal America wouldn’t put Bernie on the ballot. If you do it again Trump will be re-elected in a landslide. I didn’t vote for him last time, but I will this time and in a state that was a lot closer than it should have been which went for Clinton last time. There were a couple hundred thousand of us in my state who voted for Jill Stein!
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  938. Hungary will never allow the UK to return. Poland will also be vehemently oppossed.
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  939. I concur having been there on occasion.
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  940. I mean Alex is running a business that for the most part buys $10 million companies or at least buys into them, grows them to $50 or $100 million companies and then sells out. If he doesn't think Act 60 in Puerto Rico with a 0% rate on his capital gains until the middle of the next decade or a 0% rate by leaving the US altogether and becoming St Kittian while his Aquisition company is operating in the Cayman Islands or Guernsey, or Jersey, or Dubai with a 0% rate on those same capital gains and he is living in one or several of the countries that would allow him to treat that holding company as a non-CFC and/or pay a 0% capital gains rate where he is then living saves him money that is worth the cost of moving, he is not someone whose business advice I would give much creadence.
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  941. The Socialist Republic of Ithaca, home to Ithaca College and Ivy League Cornell University is one of the most grammar concerned cities in Upstate NY.
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  942. Clark made one mistake, that mistake was not taking a contract with the upstart league and making the WNBA irrelevant.
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  943. It's not the first time scientists have been able to get more heat out of a fusion reaction than they put in. The first time they did that was in the 1950s, but it wasn't a very safe or controlled reaction.
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  944. Kyle you accuse Republicans of being dumb, but you support a party that says it represents people then actively chooses to represent corporations instead. Republicans say they represent corporations and their constituents believe that will benefit them in the long run. They are wrong in their assumptions, but at least they are not fundamentally inconsistent in their logic and suffering from cognitive dissonance. How do you justify being a Democrat? It has no logical consistency with your political ideology.
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  945.  @jimbeam4111  The most dangerous states in the US are all run by Republicans, with Louisiana having 6x the murder rate of NY.
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  946. @UCNOURAl_52gPRnKUxER1ohQ I lived in Buffalo. I lived in Los Angeles. I lived in plenty of places that would scare you.
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  947. Who are the people that don't understand that there are LITERALLY more English speakers living in the Philippines than in the United Kingdom aka England. What is more English is the most common second language in all of Europe including Eastern and Southern Europe. English is widely spoken in India, Malaysia, and Singapore too because they were British colonies for so damn long. I mean I've seen sold out stand up comedy specials filmed by English speaking comedians in Manila, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur on Netflix, that isn't because there are so many Expats there to sell out arenas that is because everyone speaks English there. Add to that Belize, & the majority of the Islands in the Caribbean, Mauritius, South Africa, Botswana, and a large part of East Africa that too speak English because again the British empire, not to mention many areas of the Middle East where English is as commonly spoken as Arabic because of International Business. More people speak English in India than speak English in the USA. English will get you by in a lot of the world. If you can learn Spanish & French in addition to English you can get by in all of the Americas and most of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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  948. Greenspan & Bernake would have already gone to negative interest rates, but the Bank of Japan just accelerated this by ticking rates up and the Yen was propping up the entire world via the carried trade that had made borrowing in Yen essentially an interest free loan facilitating transactions that businesses otherwise could not gave afforded. That is why the market corrected earlier this month.
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  949. Yeah which is why half of the voters cast a ballot to elect a man to run the country who the majority of countries don't trust. So why would they trust it's currency to park their wealth in. I mean people who can't see the global chess board at all just doomed themselves to inflation 100 times worse than that which they are complaining about which was caused by the guy they elected's ineptitude in disbanding the US pandemic response team which had prevented the outbreak of SARS and a rapidly developing ebola outbreak in the past.
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  950. You need to read the ballot access laws. It is not 1992. It is damn hard to get on the ballot and in more than half the states Bloomberg's run ends his ability to run 3rd party. It is against the law. Howard Schultz tried and quickly realized it won't work. You can't buy a third-party run anymore.
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  951. KingJustice98 when was the last time that Anheiser-Busch paid to have someone whacked? I’ll wait. The only reason illegal acts happen around drugs is because the Central Intelligence Agency needs a way to finance their illegal clandestine wars and coups off the books. They keep drugs illegal and make their use criminal specifically to keep their black budget funded.
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  952. Tulsi Gabbard was born in American Samoa. That means she was a US National by birth, but not a citizen. She is constitutionally ineligible to the office of the Presidency.
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  953. Cruz and McCain were both constitutionally ineligible too. Trump would actually sue to enforce the Constitution and Obama didn’t which was a mistake.
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  954. You are right he is complaining about the fact that he has a highly specialized unsupported piece of hardware, yet someone within the Linux community created for free software drivers to support that specialized piece of unsupported equipment having bad documentation on GitHub, rather than saying I know this is a documentation issue with the developers instructions and being thankful that a person volunteered their time and energy to make his quirky equipment work. Yes, Linux occasionally takes extra effort, but again that extra effort comes almost exclusively during edge case scenarios. I mean for me my edge case scenarios have involved attempts at installing Davinci Resolve only to find out my Core i7 is a couple of generations too old to be supported, and installing a screenwriting software that hasn't been updated since 2014, so it requires dependencies that are nearly impossible to find now unless you get a flatpak that a random user created for this old software that continues to work perfectly well and which there is really no reason to update. Those have been the biggest quirks other than preferring the gnome desktop over cinnamon on Linux Mint & even installing that DE was not a huge challenge with various tutorials on the subject readily available.
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  955. Louis, you are aware Australia was a penal colony right?
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  956. She took more Wall Street money than her opponent during her first Senate run. She has always been a phoney. Follow the money, it always tells you the truth. She is the "controlled opposition," just like TYT.
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  957. That guy is so stiff he actually was able to make smartphone blurred video work. Think about that! There is video of him from an earlier Rising where his use of smartphone blur was discussed because people thought he used a Green screen, but you could see the ai blur around his hair.
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  958. 4 new mom & pop restaurants opened in my hometown since the pandemic. Which is more than we ever had.
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  959. I understand the irony of me posting this here, but it sounds like most YouTubers are being urged to tick the box to disable comments on all videos going forward and eliminate them from old videos. I guess Google doesn’t want to pay for the server space to host comments.
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  960.  @GiantCosmicSnail  no he isn't in front of a Green screen. If you look carefully at the edges around his head it is obvious the fake bokeh effect is from a digital enhancement on his smart phone. It's probably a Samsung.
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  961. This kept happening to me with a plate that had been destroyed more than a decade before which I had before the state changed the design of the plates, but because someone with a different state's plate with the same number kept crossing the George Washington Bridge without paying the toll. Mind you I live in New York, but five hours from the City. I had to contact Albany and the DMV multiple times to get it to stop. Mind you, I'm a licensed attorney in the state and because there is no judicial process this was nightmare for even me ro figure out how to resolve the issue.
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  962.  @wrockd  it is adding one more hop of obfuscation and adding yet another layer of fruitless investigative sourcing. The ISP doesn't know you were connected to Tor. Tor doesn't know where you are coming from, and the VPN provider only knows that you came from a mobile hotspot and went out to a Tor node. It removes single points of failure.
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  963. Facebook ads are ineffective for most products & services. When they are effective is typically for high ticket items where re-targeting is useful for an overpriced digital product in one of the scam niches essentially. Weighloss, make money, etc. The other place they are effective is for impulse purchases of stupid humor products. I mean dumb T-Shirts and mugs with sloganeering. The people who will click "allow" are the ideal customer for scammers, so...🤷🏼‍♂️ the re-targeting will be as effective as ever, but the one off impulse purchase crowd should have less competition for that 75% majority of untracked customers.
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  964. John Jay Econimics no. Bernie endorsed fellow Vermonter Zephyr Teachout for AG, not Nixon. But everyone has endorsed Teachout.
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  965. The oligarchs also like slaves being tied to their jobs for their healthcare it allows them to control workers and decreases employment mobility.
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  966. That poll does not count!
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  967. Might as well profit from the crash inverse short ETFs will let you make money as the market goes down and help speed up the crash and revolution to follow
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  968. The smart phone I hold in my hands has had a better camera than any iPhone had at the time it was made and a faster processor. It also cost $200 less. I think it's just that Android is for people who are more intelligent and frugal.
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  969.  @Blockoumi  Ok, so you are telling me as a professionally trained DP that a camera which had 4k HDR two years before Apple wasn't better. Whatever fanboy.
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  970. If you're gonna close with what you said at the end, maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't have taken a shit on Bernie Sanders every other day, and maybe, just maybe, you should have called out the manufacturing of consent against him by your fellow broadcasters.
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  971. No they don’t because of IRS regulations and US banking laws that require foreign banks to disclose US account holders if they want to do business with US banks and they all do.
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  972. h h the Koch’s are very different than Bezos or Gates or Zuckerberg because their business is a privately owned company whereas the others are publicly held. The paper value of Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook is controlled by a heavily traded liquid market, whereas the value of Koch Industries is because of its physical assets and cash reserves, with some value added for its goodwill and its inherent value as a going concern. When it comes to Amazon or Microsoft or Facebook, their valuations are highly padded by the public market. Neither Amazon nor Facebook earns more than $30 billion per annum in profit, yet both have been valued well north of 15 or possibly as much as 30 times annual revenue or more. By contrast Koch Industries brings in about $100 billion per annum and is the second largest privately held company in the world and the brothers who until one of them’s recent demise who owned it each had a net worth of only about $50 billion each by their estimates. Realistically, most privately held companies have a market valuation of between 2 and 5 times annual earnings when sold. Amongst Koch Industries’ many holdings is included Georgia Pacific. That well known construction materials company alone was valued at over $13 billion by the publicly traded market when Koch purchased it and took the business private. North of 90% of Koch revenue is reinvested into the company and its growth annually via acquisitions and investments in new physical facilities and equipment. If Koch were a public company it is safe to say that the estate of the late David Koch and his brother’s fortune would both easily be valued at north of $500 billion as the company would easily be valued at in excess of $1 trillion in the public market.
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  973. Blue states typically pay more into the federal government in taxes than they get back and typically have a higher GDP workforce per capita. The highest per capita GDP is NY at about $95k followed by California and New Jersey. The blue states are the most productive and pay the most taxes. The "dependent" states with the highest percentage of poverty, lowest per capita GDP and highest instance of people on welfare are typically red states like Mississippi and Kentucky. The problem is that the hardest hit states are these highly productive states. When you shutter a company that makes $20 million a month and pays out $15 million a month in wages, that crushes the states income and sales tax base. I mean California and New York's payrolls from film and television production alone are probably higher than the GDP of Montana for example and those industries are shuttered. The sales and income tax revenue lost from that shuttering is crushing for municipal governments in those states not to mention the state government. A city in my region is asking it's workers to take a 15% paycut because of the loss of sales tax revenue. During the 2008 recession my friend who is a local government attorney in a county in Northern California had to take a 15% paycut and just got back to his 2005 salary from before the cut last year and the pay raises scheduled for the next 3 years would have brought them back to similar pay rates for other government lawyers in California. They are already talking about asking for another paycut there. He will literally have had no pay increase for 20 years in all likelihood before this is done.
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  974. I was a member of a NABET/CWA Local 20 years ago. The TV station tried to strong arm our union. We put up billboards encouraging a boycott of their advertisers until they gave us a fair contract. We won the battle. Tell YouTube and their advertisers that you WILL SUPPORT the advertisers who support independent media and free speech, BUT YOU WON’T SUPPORT the advertisers who support corporate news channels on YouTube. Watch how fast consumers can get the algorithm changes to our favor with a nuanced message.
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  975.  @carolynlamb3433  no, there is another. He was there working on Bernie's campaigns in the 1970s when nobody took Bernie seriously. He got 5% against Cuomo and the Republican in 2014 in the NY Governor's race with no money. When they steal it from Bernie, Howie Hawkins a co-founder of the Green Party USA will be the nominee and he will be ready to pull an Abe Lincoln!
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  976. Calling Reagan a moderate is laughable. Everything bad that has happened in this country in my lifetime has been the results of Reagan’s extreme right wing policies.
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  977. It is making me consider exploring Endeavour rather than Manjaro, but on the LTS kernel I have had zero issues with Manjaro, so I don't know.
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  978. Well I see it this way, a lot of commerical office space is going to go vacant after this because why would a company spend $50k a month for office space when their workers did more at home than they did in the office. That is happening in a lot of places. When that happens restaurant lunch traffic dries up. More commercial space is devalued. A lot of workers freed from having to report to an office and realizing that there will be future pandemics and cities are infection vectors will decide they want a nice cheap place in rural America. Oh I can buy a 5 bedroom house in West Podunk Nowhere that cost $150k two months ago for $75k now, or I can pay $2700 a month for a studio apartment in San Francisco. West Podunk Nowhere is gonna get a massive influx of coders, and telemarketers, and telecommuting office workers. Only dumb landlords won't be dropping rental rates, so that is probably smart thinking on your part. This is going to have massive changes in how business happens going forward that most people aren't even thinking about yet.
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  979. Let's see, I can be broke and deal with a bunch of assholes all day, or I can be broke and get by with 14 little online side hustles that pay more than the old job with assholes all day and work half as much. Whatever will one do?
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  980.  @samjordan8800  If I am, it is so distantly that I am completely unaware of it.
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  981.  @waggyn  there are other options, but it involves importing from Europe.
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  982. I live in the US in a reasonably affordable, but not unpopulated area. He got someone to come out to fix something in 3 days, that must be nice. We called multiple people -including a relative who we have no problem paying market rate, to do a relatively minor chimney repair, ie putting a cap on it after a heavy rainstorm had chriosol soak through into the drywall. We called them in August. A few came out to look at the job about two weeks later. We agreed upon a price, they said it was about a two hour job. We had more than one person say they could do it. No one has actually showed up to do it. It's November. This misconception that the US is service oriented needs to go away. It is not the case.
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  983. A friend of mine is friends with a guy who is a friend of Dennis Kucinich. He had lunch with Dennis and their mutual friend once and he asked Dennis why he never switched to the Green Party because he was a better fit there. His no bullshit response was "because they'd kill me." Given the fact that there were no less than three attempts on his life as Cleveland mayor, I wouldn't discount what Dennis said, and I would not take that as anything other than the threat that it was to Bernie.
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  984. The entire Warren controversy happened because CNN is where Bernie hammered NAFTA JOE AND CRONY CAPITALIST JOE AND END SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE JOE with those facts and they don't want Bernie saying that in a debate. It will kill the corporate Democratic party.
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  985. Joe Biden is just the majority of white America, institutionally racist and so institutionalized in his inherent racism that he doesn’t know he is racist.
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  986. Sanders/Kucinich for me. Ohio is more important than Hawaii.
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  987.  @Snarkonymous  There is a Chinese manufacturer who went back to the swappable battery model and has built a network in China of swappable battery stations. The battery can be changed automatically by a robot in a drive thru facility in 3 minutes. The other one people don't talk about enough is wireless induction charging. Once the /kwH price of batteries makes EVs the norm, it won't be long before utilities are competing for the contract to put metered wireless charging under the major roadways so that re-charging is unnecessary outside of the car. The witricity companies have already made massive advances in rapid wireless charging too.
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  988. Built to Last and Good to Great are why US companies care about company culture. Unfortunately even the study companies missed the important parts of the studies, except possibly Disney.
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  989. The dollar is going to lose its reserve currency status. The EU is replacing the Swift settlement system. The BRICS are encouraging trade in BRICS currencies and an alternative to the IMF from the BRICS. The only thing saving the dollar at the moment is the Saudis pricing oil in dollars and buying those Russian and Chinese bonds that were sold. If the Saudis dump US treasuries and cut a deal with either the EU or China to price oil in Euros or Yuan, the dollar won’t be worth a nickel.
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  990. Kyle, I was 12 when Dukakis ran and I can tell you that at the peak of the Cold War he looked like Barney Fife in that tank. That is why he lost.
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  991. I thought warriors fought wars, not a special military operation.😂
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  992.  Physical Removal  Citizenship rules and residency requirements are different things.
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  993.  @punchcat1234  no they are worse than Republicans.
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  994. As an IP attorney You explained the law accurately. The reality is that if they file suit your attorney should hit them with a Rule 11 action to make the suit go away because it is clearly without merit and they should be sanctioned.
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  995. Hmmm, yet no one under 25 can rent a carrier. Weird.
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  996.  @ronz101  if you have been POTUS you are not allowed to drive again. It's literally in the law.
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  997. BERNIE GOT 18K MORE VOTES THAN TRUMP!
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  998. Someone else can’t PAY Facebook to target ads at people who might like their stuff because it is similar to yours. Shareholders of Facebook have a cause of action here because it is hurting the companies profitability. Buy a share of FB and file a derivative lawsuit action as a class action lawsuit. That is how to combat this bullshit. Use capitalism against the capitalists!
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  999. ​ @Luke-rn3sw most countries have far more resources than the US, but the US empire steals from them. Americans benefit more from this farce than most.
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  1000. ​ @keking2178 this is the way.
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  1001. Biden won't last half as long as Hillary did in 2008. He is toast after South Carolina.
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  1002. We did not see the same debate because the winner of that debate was Donald Trump and I say that as someone who is to the left of Sanders. The Democrats are offering up feeble old people and feeble minded young people. There is no there there!
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  1003. Why would you make videos marketing to poor clients who won't pay your fees when you can make videos marketing to people who have zero problem paying you a 6 figure fee for planning and assistance with getting the right team of lawyers, accountants, and other advisors in various countries as well as assisting you with the paperwork you need to obtain second citizenships & residencies or setting up business entities in various tax friendly nations, and introducing you to bankers to facilitate your strategies.
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  1004. If cops a) lost their pension if a civil rights lawsuit was founded against them, and b) had to provide their own insurance for civil rights malfeasance they wouldn't harass people for no reason anymore!
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  1005. John Delaney’s Dad may have been a union electrician, but his uncle John Wallis Rowe was a senior executive at Aetna by senior I mean Chairman and CEO who set him up with a business partner that invested $25 million in the health care lender Delaney started that provided loans to doctors, hospitals and medical clinics that Delaney sold for basically a half billion dollars. Delaney’s uncle was the President of Mount Sinai Hospital and a member of that Board of the MacArthur Foundation when he helped his name sake nephew get started on business. John Delaney didn’t grow up working class like he pretends. He grew up the favorite nephew of a leading executive for one of the US’ largest insurance companies.
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  1006. My prediction is at least one AAA rated game developer will release a game for Windows 11 that has an EXE that launches a 100% Linux game in WSL that runs as an AppImage with all dependencies incorporated into the package including display drivers and a tiling window manager to control it's GUI and it will be a major success on Windows and Linux that will open the floodgates for single platform cross platform development. I mean Windows baked Linux into their OS why not take advantage of it to make it easier to make your game cross platform and speed up development. I mean what are the odds that Windows 11 isn't just Windows 10 with a new theme running on top of a Linux hypervisor anyhow?
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  1007. Definitely not Presidential acts as he was not President.
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  1008. If you are not making big money, or if your business is structured & operated with management in a country not on Portugal's blacklist, I'm looking at you Hungarian companies managed in Malta, you could save a fair amount of money by getting the D7 Visa instead & living in Portugal if the point of the Golden Visa wasn't to reduce time in country to two weeks a year & still avoid most taxes with the NHR status.
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  1009. There is case law on the books in Germany which has already held this argument to be valid. By the way I'm a lawyer.
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  1010. Jimmy Carter. That isn’t even a remotely tough call. He didn’t start a war. He brokered a peace deal in the Middle East. He presided over stronger job growth than the four years of Reagan that followed him. He put solar panels on the White House. He raised the CAFE standards. He didn’t triple or double or quadruple the debt like the Presidents since him. He was a genuinely honest man and a good hearted man.
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  1011. The reason Mueller put Cohen’s prosecution in the Southern District of New York other than being geographically appropriate is because he knew the politics on the ground meant that the NY AG was facing a strong anti-corruption progressive challenger and Cuomo was facing a strong anti-corruption progressive challenger so that the State officials could indict Trump and force Congress to act before the mid-terms. If you don’t think Mueller who has done the Potomac 2 step for a few decades isn’t playing 8 dimensional political chess I have some ocean front property in Nebraska to sell you.
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  1012. Haden Wilson I’m actually an attorney. I actually have helped manage Congressional campaigns and I’m actually familiar with the campaign finance laws and a) the Trump Organization -a corporation paid Cohen and had the expense invoiced as legal expenses which means it was both a tax fraud by Trump and his company, and a campaign finance violation as corporate payments and the payment by Cohen as an in-kind contribution were felonies in excess of the campaign limits, and Trump improperly credited the personal debt on his personal financial disclosures as the President. Your copy and paste analysis isn’t anywhere near as concise and reasoned as someone who actually deals with criminal work and has actually dealt with the campaign finance law and ethics rules for candidates and elected officials would do when analyzing the transactions. but thanks for pretending to know what you are talking about. How the transactions were structured matter in campaign finance law. Could Trump have legally paid the hush money? Yes. How? By paying corporate tax on the money then personal tax on the money and contributing it to the campaign as a candidate contribution and paying the payment and properly documenting and accounting for it in his disclosures -which would have defeated the purpose. You can’t make secret expenditures. You see, when you have more than a cursory understanding of the law and how it works, you understand that Trump was actually involved in a money laundering transaction, a tax fraud, and a campaign finance violation himself. Regardless of the source of funds, because he failed to disclose the expenditure. When you understand the if he were going to claim this was a personal expenditure and he simply paid Cohen a fee for handling a private matter paying it through a corporation and writing that off as a deductible business expense on his taxes was tax fraud. Also that failure to report the debt to Cohen on his Presidential financial disclosure statement, that was a crime. Trump admitted to committing multiple crimes during his television interview, but because he listens to “legal analysts” on Fox News who should be sanctioned for ethics violations for lying in their statements about the state of the law, he wasn’t even aware that he was making admissions of guilt during his television interview.
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  1013. Haden Wilson According to the documents proffered by the US Attorneys, the Trump Organization, a corporation paid an invoice which was “grossed up,” to pay for the taxes owed by Cohen for paying the hush money to the mistresses. As this was on the orders of the Trump Organization and according to the recordings in the US Attorneys also captured on the audio recordings invoiced to the Trump Organization as a legal expense - that is tax fraud. As the CEO of that organization at the time that tax fraud was conspired to happen, Trump is guilty of Racketeering under New York law and federal law. He is also guilty of tax fraud and conspiracy to commit tax fraud. As a candidate for federal office who was heard on recordings conspiring to hide the disclosure of campaign expenditures, he is guilty of felony campaign finance violations. His ethics disclosure as President which must list his debts -if he was going to claim that the Cohen expenditure was a personal expense, then he needed to disclose the debt and he did not. That is also a crime. It also means he intended to at the very least commit tax fraud and/or campaign finance frauds. The evidence is voluminous based on the proffered corroborating evidence the US Attorneys for the Southern District of New York provided to the judge in the Cohen plea.
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  1014. Haden Wilson Obama’s campaign didn’t commit tax fraud or fail to disclose anything. It did fail to timely disclose several small dollar contributions by a few days and was fined $375,000. The last time anyone did anything remotely similar to what Trump did, the Obama Administration prosecuted the candidate. His name was John Edwards. If convicted on all counts, he faced up to 20 years in prison. The case resulted in a hung jury. Of course the federal prosecutors did not have as much evidence in that case and they certainly did not have a confession from Mr. Edwards or an incriminating audio recording with a co-conspirator or multiple corroborating co-conspirators as they do here. Also, I firmly believe Ms. Clinton committed multiple crimes as well. That is one of the reasons I did not vote for her or Mr. Trump. Your whataboutisms do not matter to me, but the law does and the proper enforcement of the law matters very much.
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  1015. People follow strength. Ojeda is as strong as they come. If he is going to run, he is going to win.
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  1016.  @xyzsame4081  Biden is gone before Super Tuesday. That is all Bloomberg. Of course Joe is not looking good to get delegates in the early states right now. No one is, but Bernie because of that 15% threshold. They have come to realize their split the field strategy was folly, but it is already too late. People don't want late arrivals or return visitors to win Survivor.
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  1017. Lindl Hubbard HR 676 changes all of that. No co-pays, no deductibles. The FICA tax for Medicare is only an increased Employer’s share, and it adds Dental and Vision care too.
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  1018. Lindl Hubbard that is the bill to change Medicare to the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act which will end the co-pays, co-insurance, deductibles, and change the tax structure so that no employer has an incentive to hire three part time workers for a job one full time worker could handle and so that no company gets a pass on paying their fair share for healthcare. The tax burden under that bill is one hundred percent on the employers.
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  1019. The top tax rate kicks in earlier than the US, but it is 2% less than the top US rate. The corporate rate is 9% higher than the US federal rate and under Mexican law, a US corporation would be considered a tax haven domiciled corporation unless it had a state income tax, and then deductions might mean it's subject to CFC rules in Mexico still meaning you owe more tax in Mexico on corporate profits.
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  1020. Danny Windham you are going to find out just how wrong you are the second that the House of Saud is ousted and the only OPEC holdout still pricing oil in US Dollars starts pricing oil in Yuan. The US status as the world’s reserve currency is ending very soon!
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  1021. Danny Windham they have stable economies at the moment because they trade in dollars and their currency is priced against the US dollar. They cannot borrow endlessly and in fact the reason for Brexit is that if Britain joined the Euro its ability to deflate its currency to hide the weakness of its economy would suffer. Japan has a different problem altogether in that it saves too much, and the fact that Japanese corporations have outsourced to Southeast Asia has made its economy considerably weaker than you think. I don’t listen to Alex Jones and I’m not a Keynesian or a disciple of Hayek or Friedman either. Marx was right when he borrowed Adam Smith’s labor theory of value, but finite commodity goods are the measure against which value is stored and in today’s world petroleum is the measuring stick. When the reserve currency changes and there are plenty of signs and evidence pointing to that change being imminent, then the depression which will follow as a result of the great deflation will prove MMT is bunk! If you need proof that it is bunk, Argentina which had experienced growth better than the US from the 1940s through the 1970s is all the proof you need that currency manipulation always results in the piper being paid in full with interest.
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  1022. This story demonstrates why Gabbard will remain a career legislator and has no business being in the Presidential race. She will never make it to the Senate, let alone the White House. She is a flat and uninspiring candidate who is a wonk with zero fire. She is Al Gore 2.0 with female anatomy.
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  1023.  @kevinwinters5426  when the biggest city has I think 4 exits on the Interstate if I remember correctly it's going to be hard to find a town that isn't small in the state.
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  1024. What about setting up shop in the UAE & obtaining residency there via a free zone company work permit for your own business. Then once you have residency in UAE applying for a Schengen visa and residency from the UAE is that possible? Can you apply from another area you have a residency because the UAE seems like one of the places most open to foreigners for residency.
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  1025.  @Neucher  I haven't found them. I haven't looked that hard yet, but I will take your word that they can be found.
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  1026. The EU will not exist in 5 years
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  1027. Biden knows that if he doesn't get out soon he will have to run for Senate again to retire the campaign debts. It wasn't a gaff.
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  1028. Jimmy, you just explained the difference between Geeks and Nerds. Geeks are good people who don't lie. Nerds those fuckers are liars!
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  1029. It's not the plane, it's the pilot.
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  1030. I didn't notice it before, but while Entourage was a great show, Entrapment with Sean Connery & Catherine Zeta-Jones was the film that first highlighted the Petronas Towers in the mid-1990s.
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  1031. It would have been fun watching Ojeda verbally assault Delaney.
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  1032. NAFTA WAS PROPOSED BY REAGAN, NEGOTIATED BY BUSH THE ELDER, AND SIGNED INTO LAW BY CLINTON.
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  1033. I have 3 cousins who were 18-35 from 1977 to 1995. That all became millionaires. I have 15 other cousins who all had and have typical high middle class jobs who were young adults in that era. Maybe you just didn't hustle.
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  1034. I can only tell you about the slow rolled re-opening by region here in NY. We have 7 criteria. 30 case tracers per 100k people -so we can do what South Korea has done with testing to slow the spread with follow up tests for those exposed and quarantining potentially infected individuals. 14 day average declining hospitalizations or 3 days with less than 15 new hospital admissions, 14 day average declining deaths or 3 days with less than 5 deaths total, an average infection rate per new case of less than 1.1, at least 30% available ICU bed capacity, at least 30% of all hospital beds available for COVID-19 patients, and at least 30 tests per month per thousand people available which in my region with about 700k people translates to 419 tests per day on average for 7 days to mean we have the testing capacity to do South Korean styled tracing and testing to prevent the spread. There are 4 of 10 regions in NY state that have met re-opening criteria. A fifth region is likely to meet the requirements tomorrow because they have ramped up testing which is the only thing they lacked. 4 out of 10 regions have met 5 of 7 criteria with hospitalizations and deaths being the area where they are lacking. For NYC region they have met only 4 of 7 criteria. These criteria being met after Friday will allow construction projects, curbside retail, wholesale sales, and manufacturing businesses and drive-in movie theaters to reopen for 2 weeks during phase 1 in a region. If any of those criteria fail, but particularly the case infection rate rising over 1.1 new cases for each person who tests positive, lockdown begins again. Phase 2 starts two weeks later if that first phase is successful. During phase 2 in office professional services like accountants and lawyers will be allowed to reopen. Phase 2 allows retail to reopen their stores for more than curbside pickup. It also reopens realtors, insurers, and administrative offices. A lot of small retailers are unlikely to reopen during this phase despite the go ahead because the costs of outsourcing a cleaning if there were a case in store would be prohibitively expensive as it will likely need to be outsourced. Professional services reopening in phase two in NY will likely include barbers and dentists too. Phase 3 will start two to four weeks after Phase 2 in NY regions and that will allow restaurants to reopen with social distancing rules, but it will also allow hotels to reopen gyms and pools, and in house dining and other common area facilities. While rooms have been available as essential services, most of these aspects of hotels have been closed. Phase 3 will allow public gyms to reopen. Phase 4 which will come two weeks to a month later will allow arts and entertainment venues and schools to re-open with distancing rules in place and all of this assumes masking which I don't understand how masks work in a bar or restaurant, I mean how do you eat through a mask, but anyway, big events and possibly big attractions like the state fair or a live concert or a major amusement park like Darien Lake or the Great Escape, the biggest amusement parks in the state are unlikely to be able to re-open unless the entire state has entered phase four. Now there are 7 counties in my region of the state and it is one of the regions that will be allowed to start phase 1 reopening on Saturday. It already is home to the largest single employer in the state the Fort Drum military base which employs more than 20k soldiers and civilians which has been open the entire time. The county with that base is my home county. It has had 68 total cases in the last two months with more than 110k residents. There are currently 3 active cases. The county next door with 26k people had 11 total cases in the last 2 months and is home to the largest farm in NY state which had remained open with several hundred employees and a Kraft plant where most of the Philadelphia Cream Cheese for the US market is made which has also remained open with several hundred employees. There is currently 1 active case in that county. The other county next door has 110k people and it's home to Alcoa's largest plant in the US which was essential and has remained open with a couple thousand employees. The region is also home to multiple paper mills which have been deemed essential and remained open throughout. There was a major outbreak in a nursing home in that county. About 185 total cases in that county and it has less than 30 active cases with the rest recovered. In these 3 of 7 counties only 2 people died during the last 2 months. The county with 185 cases was the worst of the seven. One of the seven counties only had 3 cases and it only has 4k people. No other county amongst the 7 had more than 70 cases total. Similar numbers are true for the Southern Tier region. There are bigger numbers in the Mohawk Valley region and Finger Lakes regions of the state which will also reopen, but only because Utica and Rochester are larger cities which out them at higher case counts, but still low per capita. The Central NY region which is also likely to be able to open on Saturday has higher numbers because of Syracuse and an outbreak amongst migrant workers at a large scale Greenhouse. This didn't happen at work, but rather because they were sleeping 4 to a motel room at 4 hotels in the area outside of their job. The cleanup for the hotels was exceptionally costly. I guess what I would say is that some states are taking a slow and cautious approach, but honestly, the numbers from Sweden which never shuttered tell me the entire exercise was a complete waste of effort. The death rate is marginally higher, but the infection rate is not overwhelming just by practicing distancing. If case tracing and follow-up testing is part of the re-opening regime, South Korea has shown that can be an effective way to stop the spread.
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  1035. U. S. S. A. Except California has a jungle primary designed to protect the status quo and maintain the two party duopoly. If Californians want her gone they need a ballot proposition that replaces the jungle primary with traditional party only primaries AND ranked choice voting!
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  1036. Barbados rewrote their constitution as I understand it to affirm that not only dual citizens, but also naturalized citizens could hold any political office in the country.
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  1037. What it means to me is buy iBonds from the Treasury with about 50% of your savings. Stay in cash and keep your powder dry with T-Bills for the other half of your money being ready to go bargain hunting in the real estate and securities market next spring.
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  1038. Installing Linux on your computer if it came with Windblows is illegal in Mexico now. Hell replacing your hard drive is illegal there.
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  1039.  @bologna3048  See what I mean choices are endless, but do you agree with the key premise that the greatest strength is also the greatest weakness? Overwhelming people with choice has slowed adoption. I mean the free as in beer aspect of Linux should be a much bigger selling point for businesses with offices, and also creative companies with users, but choices making it hard to standardize has been an impediment to wider scale adoption.
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  1040. I wonder if Levin understands that a lawyer lying about the law as he did is a violation of the ethical rules of the legal profession. Arguing for an alternative interpretation or making an argument for an alternative interpretation is okay, but outright lying about the law is a different thing and probably an ethics violation in most jurisdictions.
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  1041. When an ultra-high-net-worth individual says, “you can’t pay someone less than the market value of their labor” he is telling the truth, but he is leaving out an important fact about that market value. The anti-abolitionist’s most successful argument against freeing the slaves, the argument that meant Lincoln only earned 38% of the popular vote while winning a 4 way electoral college victory in 1860 was that freeing slaves to compete would drive wages down for industrial workers in the North! The reality is that paying no actual pay, but providing a roof over a slaves’ head, clothes on their back, and food in their bellies, even in the bondage slave system kept wage slaves wages high enough that they could earn a living that provided them with enough money for the basics of survival. The part of the equation that is being left out is that in a capitalist market economy as opposed to a slavocracy which valued slaves as property and kept them fed and housed and clothed as an investment. In the wage slave economy, the wage slave is disposable and replaceable. The value can be less than the cost of living. As employees are not balance sheet assets in the wage slave economy, actual bonded slavery was intrinsically better for more workers. I can make that argument about markets and the logic is not flawed. You know it, I know it, and that rich asshole knows it. Now a minimum wage law that is a living wage as Teddy Roosevelt a Republican first argued for in 1912 will provide a livelihood that is better than subsistence slavery and allows a worker to enjoy leisure time and have a life outside of work. What actual socialism -the workers owning and democratically controlling business enterprises and in certain situations of natural monopolies the consumers owning and democratically controlling the enterprise, when tried with the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain teaches us is that the poorest people can build real wealth and grow their economy through cooperatives which are true libertarian and democratic socialism those systems have only exclusively been used in an economy briefly in Catalonia in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and they were a success. Cuba is moving from state capitalism to this libertarian socialism as we speak and it seems to be working there too. The cooperative model has a 6x higher ten year survival rate than capitalist enterprise as well, so maybe we should actually try socialism which is not outside of a market, but is actually the only form of ownership in the free markets that will produce the best results. What this rich prick doesn’t know or understand or which he routinely lies about is refuted with hard data. Mondragon started with 6 worker owners in 1956 in the Basque region of Spain which was amongst the poorest parts of Europe. Today there are 120,000 worker owners at Mondragon with open membership to the workers after a probationary period that makes them owners of the business with one share that collects a patronage dividend based on their proportion of the total man hours of the profits and pays them a market salary and benefits. As worker owners they are outside the unemployment system and the disability system so they take care of themselves. They each get one vote in the management equal to all other workers. They on average have a net worth of $750k and the Basque region today is one of the wealthiest in Europe because of Mondragon which is I believe like the 6th largest employer in all of Europe or something like that.
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  1042. There will be a shakeout period when tariffs will hurt American consumers and American workers, but a return to a tariff based trading system will mean that manufacturing does return to the US over the course of two decades. In the long term protective tariffs will help American jobs.
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  1043. As long as petroleum is traded in US dollars and let’s face it 3% of world GDP is oil which makes it bigger than agriculture which employs 60% of the global workforce, oil is the peg commodity of modern economics for not just the US dollar, but all currencies that routinely trade in international commerce for dollars be that the Yen, the Euro, the Pound, the Peso, other dollars, or the Yuan. Because of the commodity linking to the dollar as a peg with intrinsic value -oil $1.47 per gallon, crude, the dollar is not a fiat currency and neither are those currency which routinely trade against it. Which is precisely why MMT is bunk.
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  1044. I have not watched, but my guess would be NY, NJ, FL, CA, with some random state like RI or NE having an unusually large population for some obscure reason.
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  1045. I guess my Jewish friend in college from MO gave me too much faith that a random Midwestern or Plains state would make the list, but I think Delaware is basically Rhode Island and I should have known about Maryland's Jewish community I had a TA turned professor in film school from Germantown.
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  1046. The actual left, I’m not talking about you people who think you are leftists who want to tweak capitalism and institute a bigger social democratic safety net, but the actual libertarian socialists and democratic communists who advocate for worker ownership because unions are a two century ago idea will make that fauxgressive framing and even your social democratic framing sound pretty weak in the next year or two as the second phase of the greatest depression hits.
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  1047. LMDE should be their only version. Ubuntu no longer matters for the most part.
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  1048. I can't wait till November when they are saying Bernie Sanders has won West Virginia. Bernie Sanders wins Kansas. Bernie Sanders wins Nebraska. Mitch McConnell has been defeated for the US Senate in Kentucky on Bernie Sanders Coattails as Sanders unexpectedly wins Kentucky. Richard Ojeda will be the next US Senator from the great state of West Virginia. Bernie Sanders wins Arizona and we can tell you now that former astronaut Mark Kelly becomes the Second Democrat to defeat McSally for the US Senate in Arizona. Texas is too close to call.
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  1049.  @choreomaniac  Going back to the US 3 to 6 months out of the year would be entirely different to the reason to obtain a B1/B2 visa which would be primarily I think added transit options between Europe & the Americas, but also the occasional visit of maybe a few weeks to see family, or attend a funeral.
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  1050.  @choreomaniac  Yeah I was thinking more from a genuine pragmatic prospective of someone who is actually likely to renounce. Even with reason far stronger than merely tax planning, taking the step of renouncing is a big one. I doubt I would return much, but pragmatically there are funerals I would have to return for and there are some other events that would require return trips and having looked at how difficult it can be to route from almost anywhere in the Caribbean to Europe without a trip through the US from a practical standpoint there is a reason to want the multi-year multi-entry B1/B2 just for transit purposes.
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  1051. ​ @scyphe  there is no provision of the EU treaty to remove a member. There is a provision allowing a member state to withdraw as in Brexit, but there is no way to kick a member out of the EU.
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  1052. How about this, understand that political opinion and commentary should not receive any monetary support from advertisers or anyone for any reason. Get money out of politics including political commentary. If you are doing front line reporting like from a war zone that is something entirely different than punditry. There is no reason that corporate advertisers and there is no reason that individuals should pay someone to discuss their political opinion. The fact that you are given free bandwidth and hosting is overly generous. Just because you want this to be your job does not make it your job.
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  1053. My understanding is that one of the best ways to get a bank account is to get a residency permit. The best way to get a residency permit is to set-up your business as a self-employdd individual business in Georgia. It is grounds to obtain a residency permit, and a residency permit will help you open a Georgian bank account. Also, if you are tax resident in Georgia and your account is being paid by YouTube to the Georgian tax account you get when opening up your business in Georgia, as YouTube is a US company, and the US recognizes Georgia as part of the Commonwealth of Independent States, once you are officially tax resident in Georgia, you will be eligible to be paid from YouTube without withholding on the royalties deducted. I'm pretty sure unless you ree earning north of $200k USD the tax rate on self-employed in Georgia is only like 1 to 3% or something like that too.
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  1054. Every time I see an ancient relic that stole $21 Trillion from my generation who now steals my retirement money and gets healthcare on my dime I think to myself why not become a Republican and end Medicare and Social Security and see how fast these old bastards get with the program. Fuck the olds!
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  1055. Bernie WON Missouri in 2016. Well it was a tie then Claire McKaskill’s superdelegate vote gave Clinton the win! Oh and he won Jasper and Newton County Missouri where Joplin is located, so FUCK YOU Brian Williams! Bernie also got 44% of the vote in Trumball County Ohio where Youngstown is in 2016.
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  1056. The problem the neoliberals in both parties are going to have is when the working class says, we want lower taxes, but we want equity. I mean wages are great, but if the John Deere workers had to take a pay cut to keep the company going in lean times, they should have been granted equity in the company for their sacrifice. There are people now who are pointing out equity grants should be part of all employment contracts and workers should participate in gains as they already suffer losses. The data bears out that workers having a legitimate ownership stake and control of a company improves the long term success of a company every examination of worker-owned cooperatives shows this. The problem the neoliberal authoritarian tax and spend left and the authoritarian borrow and spend right has is that workers actually understand now that Marx's idea about workers owning the means of production is very different than taxing success, now. Workers want their boats raised with success they don't want to be taxed and they don't want to be left holding the bag anymore without equity. The problem politicians in both political parties have is that workers regardless of which team's jersey they don are seeing that workers getting their own piece of a company and a say on the board of directors makes more economic sense than taxing success. Because every tax on success falls onto the backs of workers. Every tax on success is paid by people who do the actual work. People who don't work - be they wealthy passive investors who get tax breaks that workers pay for, or the non-working poor, whether due to disability or lack of necessary work or lack of needed skills because society doesn't provide adequate training and education, who get very limited welfare to act as the reserve army of the unemployed to hold as a threat to the livelihood of workers are benefiting from gains, but worker's piece of success is being taxed away. Workers are not getting their fair share and that seed change in thinking is coming quickly.
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  1057. She has 10x your Twitter followers, and you have 2x the YouTube Subscribers. I would call it a wash.
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  1058. That is a group of appointees of the Chamber of Commerce fundamentally misunderstanding the law. Even Scalia understood that Christianity did not exempt someone from a generally applicable law. This misreading of the Civil Rights Act sets a precedent which could be used on a “religious freedom” basis to justify ritualistic sacrifice. Plain and simple this is people who had no business passing the bar exam not understanding at all the implications of their decisions. I say that as a lawyer myself!
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  1059. Tomorrow is the State of the Union. The next day is the Impeachment vote. It will never be reported who won Iowa. Not on TV, unless Buttigieg won, then they will ignore the SOTU, and Impeachment and report nothing else.
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  1060. This dude divorced in 2005, was already a success in business and I suspect was into Bitcoin in 2008 as a hobby, just like break dancing by 2012. This guy probably has BILLIONS if he was mining in 2009 or 2010, and I bet he was.
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  1061. ​ @machismo4256 they are also sitting on a huge lithium reserve, a major rare earth metals deposit, and a newly discovered shale oil & gas reserve that is sizeable.
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  1062. Lies and the lying liars who lie them into war. I don’t think it will work for them this time.
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  1063. I mean US politicians with a straight face are saying that the first amendment which allegedly protects the freedom of speech & the fifth amendment which allegedly protects you from the government taking your stuff without due process of law previously forced GRINDER to sell to US owners and now it is trying to do the same with TikTok with a straight face. I mean the US Constitution is meaningless to them and the court has reversed long held precedents without unanimity like they did in Brown v Board of education where the evidence demonstrated prior policy was factually incapable of maintaining the equality presumed by the Plessy decision it overruled. The most famous incident of this non-unanimous precedent reversal has already demonstrably increased infant and maternal mortality rates. I mean the country through policy is demonstrably making life worse for it's people.
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  1064. None of the grifters are accounting for the Kremlin. Putin was a hard line KGB operative in the late 1980s and he knows that the US with the help of the Saudis bankrupted the Soviet Union by cratering oil prices which limited Soviet access to hard capital which prevented them from trading for goods they needed which caused their economic problems. Russia eliminated it's national debt during the last decade and really has the Saudis over a barrel. If Russia keeps dumping oil on the market the Saudis will be paying their 20% GDP national debt and $27 Billion owed by Aramaco back with deflated petrodollars. This creates an incentive for the Saudis to price oil in Euros and end petrodollar hegemony which will kill the US dollar's status as the world's reserve currency. If that happens hyperinflation a la Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s hits the US economy in the middle of what could be a depression and we are bankrupt with $30 Trillion in National Debt. Russia is in the cat bird seat right now and prepared to get revenge for what we did to the Soviet Union with the help of the Saudis in the 1980s and 1990s.
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  1065.  @FiredAndIced  unethical?😏 You're kidding right. It's currently illegal. The second the airline lobby gets the law changed pilots are gone, same with truck drivers and cabbies. They don't give a fuck about employees or customers, only the bottom line as they are required to by law. A corporation as a matter of law must be a sociopath.
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  1066. @Rich Smith they already do.
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  1067.  @joesterling4299  and you overestimate what pilots are doing on commerical flights today.
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  1068.  @speedbird1598  Yeah and you need about 30x the flight hours to become an ATP, so...
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  1069. It's okay as Ryan's business holdings grow in value and Disney declines in value Ryan will end up owning Disney, so it's all good.
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  1070. Mexico has relatively obtainable residency permit options too. I mean Mexico has a pretty good passport too and citizenship is obtainable within 6 years. I mean Canada, New Zealand, the EU most of Asia and Africa and Latin America is visa free for Mexican citizens. Mexico also has a way to legalize residency from inside the country. Mexican lawyers would happily tell you. Mexico has a lot of very nice parts as well as the parts where the cartels are running things.
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  1071. Yes because poor people kicking in their last few dollars to get someone who will actually represent their interests and give them a re-leveled playing field that actually provides them something for the tax dollars they pay is buying the election.
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  1072. In half of the states because Bernie participated in this caucus he is statutorily barred from running on any line, except the Democratic line.
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  1073. At 78 it’s a big deal it didn’t kill him, but it will kill his campaign.
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  1074. Time for Joe to drop out.
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  1075. Liz Warren is the sheepdogging Fox in the henhouse.
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  1076.  @wd8005  Portugal will grant citizenship to spouses of Portuguese citizens who have "ties" to the Portuguese community after 3 years of marriage and it does not matter where you reside.
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  1077. robinsss H. Ross Perot. In 1992 Jerry Brown fought Clinton tooth and nail as did a dying Paul Tsongas. Brown in 1992 -pre-Internet as we know it, ran a campaign where he limited contributions to $100 and Brown stayed in until June. Tom Harkin and Dick Gephardt also ran against Clinton, but were out after Iowa in 1992.
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  1078. robinsss in 1992 the candidates were not the same people they were following the November election. I also had no control over who ran. I could merely report the facts of who ran. In1992 Jerry Brown was well to the left of Jerry Brown today. Losing to Bill Clinton in the primary caused that move.
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  1079. robinsss I was 15 when I watched the first New Hampshire primary debate in 1991/1992. I supported Brown at the time because I knew his self-imposed money in politics cap on contributions was already the most important issue of the election. I convinced both of my parents to vote for Brown in the NY primary that year. That fall I convinced my friend who turned 18 at the registration deadline to register to vote and he voted for Perot who I likewise voted for in 1996 because he was right about NAFTA. Honestly the elections were pretty bad in the 1990s in terms of the choices we had.
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  1080. At those prices you could "date" a new elite escort every night with a lot less headaches.
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  1081. So this guy is saying that search traffic to Google was bots, ignoring the fact that false clicks would hurt Google financially so they have created AI which attacks suspicious searches. If you have ever done any SEO research on Google to find blog topics you know that their CAPTCHAS are used to kill bot searches. What is more Google tracks incoming searches by IP address and MAC address and also usually keeps data on logged in users which make 99% of this guy’s foolishness 100% nonsensical. Google tracks legit trends and does a good job of weeding out bots to prevent fake clicks and to track them to prevent advertisers from being fleeced by competitors attacking their sponsored links because Google has been sued in the past for false clicks on ads. Everything these “elites” make up flies in the face of common sense!
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  1082. Georgia reopened restaurants and nobody came. What is more when the CEOs start running numbers and they find out that a ton of office workers were more productive at home, they won't be able to justify $100s of thousands of dollars a year in commercial rents and real estate expenses to their boards. When that happens the commerical office space market is going to crater. A large part of the workforce will work from home from here on out. That long term will kill the lunch business at a lot of restaurants. Office workers travel in packs to casual dining at lunch and fast feeders. The end of office life is going to kill that and a lot of restaurants will die because of it. This disruption will have long term impacts most people aren't thinking about. I mean what percentage of coders who will soon be telecommuting all of the time, or telemarketers who will work from home, or debt collectors who will work from home, or even secretaries who will work from home in the near future because companies will eliminate office expenses, are going to move from places like NYC and San Fran with high rents to West Podunk Nowhere when they can get 5x the space for 1/4 the price and their job no longer cares where they live? What percentage of them will make that move not only because it is cheaper, but because they do not want to be in a zone like a major city with it's risk factors in a future pandemic? A lot and that is going to deflate real estate prices in cities as much as the loss of commerical rents from offices and restaurants. When those workers leave it is going to crush retailers who are already hurting even more. The changes this will cause will be so massive most people haven't even begun to think about the rsl long term effects.
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  1083.  @UneducatedEconomist  it will depend on the job. I mean if you are a top tier coder for Google they are still going to pay top tier wages. If you are a debt collector making phone calls, I think that is mostly commissioned work based on your recovery rate, so probably not. If you are doing a relatively non-skilled job as a virtual assistant, ie you used to be a secretary to some VP and you still are, but neither of you have an office anymore, you might be out of a job and a couple virtual assistants in the Phillippinnes and India may replace you at half the cost.
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  1084. There is no suggestion of ballot stuffing in any of the faux indictments, so what the fuck are they talking about? They influenced people to vote? The Democrats suck then if the Democrats couldn’t influence better than Russia!
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  1085. I think it's more likely that the US ends citizenship based taxation than any other country implement it.
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  1086. In 1968 the US Supreme Court held "stop and frisk" was perfectly acceptable police procedure in Terry v Ohio. Look it up. As George Carlin said, you have no rights. You have a few privileges that can be revoked at any time.
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  1087. You are telling me that guy went to Harvard Law School and he doesn't understsnd if the Fed releases a CBDC it happens under rhe authority of rhe US Congress via the federal reserve act and ergo the Supremacy clause says his law is worthless?
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  1088. ​ @leiyoh3311 Nike does not exercise that kind of control over their spokespeople's career choices. Jordan playe minor league baseball and Nike supported him.
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  1089. Thoughts on Trump's announcement that he favors an end to the double taxation of Americans living overseas? I mean the IRC does not define an individual. The regulations define an individual as a US citizen and a US resident person, but a Treasury Secretary could change that regulation to define an individual as a person resident in the US for tax purposes, thus ending US citizenship based taxation by regulation. It would obviously cause Congress to scurry to redefine who is subject to the exit tax as any American becoming non-tax resident, but the Trump campaign has announced its support to end the double taxation of Americans living overseas. If that were to happen I think you would have a new influx of clients at the low end of the market.
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  1090.  @Jehauvv88  source taxation rules still typically apply in residence based tax systems, but social security itself is not taxed even if you live in the US. It is only taxed in the US if you have additional income beyond social security which puts you above a certain threshold.
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  1091. Fedora based using APT would be interesting.
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  1092. With the exception of Putin's decision to start a war that will inflate food prices because farmers in Ukraine will not be able to plant or harvest a significant percentage of the world grain harvest, politicians have virtually zero to do with inflation. Unless you are saying their failure to regulate price gouging by corporate players is incompetence? In a free market with very little regulation, businesses have decided to increase prices on staples because workers have decided they can earn as much working for themselves in the current environment as they made working at the low wage jobs they had before the pandemic, but what is more those workers decided a more diversified set of revenue streams made more sense than devoting their lives fo making other people's businesses successful. If anything competent politicians increased the rate of capitalism in the market and those buddy capitalists that competent politicians crested have made it more difficult for incumbent players to compete. The response of incumbent players to this threat to their hegemony, monopolies, and monopsonies in the market has been to raise prices to force workers to re-enter their controlled employment market, falsely blame workers who became capitalists for their woes by calling them lazy and blame increase labor costs -which are not true, as data has shown nominal real wage gains if any, for increased prices. The reality is incumbent corporations with waning sales increased prices to hide sluggish volume, but also because they misread the changes in the market. They assumed workers had downsized their lives, when many have been better off working for themselves and working in a diversified manner. Plenty of people who worked at a very low wage for someone else now have an online store that generates part of their income. They also have a small crypto mine in their home and trading portfolio that generates part of their income. They also DoorDash or Uber with their car from time to time. They realized that not working for someone else saved them $800 a month in child care, but that time at home with their kids also gave them time to start a YouTube Channel, Blog, or Podcast that not only replaced the income they used to earn at their old job, but meant they keep the $800 a month they used to spend because they went to an office. The miscalcution by incumbent players that they can outlast people who replaced their old income by raising their prices to pad their bottom line is what has caused "inflation." It has nothing to do with politicians and everything to do with market capitalism and more people figuring out how to be free.
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  1093. @conveyor2  there is literally international law that says it should.
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  1094. @matthewnirenberg  maybe you should tell the French consulate how their process works then.
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  1095. The problem I have is when I need to kill a process it's usually when the entire system is frozen & I can't open a terminal to kill it.
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  1096. Given the fact that even in the developing world we are reaching a tipping point where replacement value numbers of children are no longer being born because survival of children to adulthood is reaching that magic percentage where people stop having children and we in the developed world have been below replacement value for some time, doctors need to solve this problem because the capitalists are reaching a point where they may start to run out of both workers and consumers. Lack of consumers being the larger problem for the capitalists.
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  1097.  @altneu8129  The UK slashed corporate taxes by north of $16 billion a year over the last decade. The average corporate rate in the EU fell by more than 0.2% which means that corporate rates overall have been cut. Are there countries that disregarded the trend. Yes, but even with those the trend is down. The corporate rate in the EU is the lowest it has ever been. Those are the facts. The US cut the corporate rate from 37% to 21%. During the last 2 decades the average corporate rate in Europe has been cut by 12%. The EU cut rates first and the US was a laggard with it's tax cuts. During the last 2 decades the corporate rate in Germany was cut by 27% and the top personal rate was reduced by 9%. Again these are the facts.
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  1098. In the US we answered the question of which is supreme, the constitution or a treaty a long time ago, and the answer was the Constitution. If a treaty is inconsistent with the Constitution, it is cancelled.
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  1099.  @LudvigIndestrucable  I am pointing out the legal precedents I am making no judgments as to the right or wrong course of action. Historically what the people want in any society even a supposed democracy is always secondary to what the moneyed interests in charge of the country want.
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  1100. At least one of them does. Now go start reading statutes to figure out which one. It's fun.😌 It is more than one actually as I understand it, but...
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  1101. I mean a US LLC with no workers in the US can be a very beneficial structure to use for someone collecting US royalty income who is a tax resident of certain jurisdictions with the benefits of the right double tax treaty with the US. I mean if done correctly it can result in zero tax.
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  1102. Also as always there were 3 million homeless Americans before all of this started. Ghost malls were a thing already and there were 21 million empty homes. There are 7 vacant houses for every homeless person. We don't need more buildings. We have plenty of empty buildings in the US.
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  1103. Am I the only one who really wanted Richard Ojeda on that stage attacking John Delaney. He would have hit him with facts and a venom in his voice that would be like an 80s wrestling match!
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  1104. Nail meet head! The people who don't understand the difference between price appreciation, inflation, deflation, and price increases due to disruption will not see the real picture. It is pretty obvious what is happening if you understand the difference. The stock market has had not price appreciation. It has had price inflation. Real estate has had no price appreciation. It has had price inflation. Goods and services are overproduced for the most part, that is deflationary. The price increases for certain goods are pure disruption. The price decreases for some commodities are demand disruption, but the demand disruption is what triggers real deflation. Even if people start going back to work, oil usage is not going to go up enough to move the price dramatically higher. That demand disruption is going to continue.
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  1105. Rob Delakovias Larry Sharpe is the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor. Like in 2014 when Howie Hawkins the Green Party candidate got 190k votes and the Libertarians didn’t get 50,000 votes to get ballot status Howie will beat him. If Cynthia isn’t the Democratic candidate with 7 people on the ballot I put Howie’s chance at pulling off an upset pretty high because Sharpe will pull some Republican votes. Howie has a base. Nixon should remain on the WFP line. The Rent Too Damn High Party Guy will get some votes. Stephanie Miner the former Democratic Mayor of Syracuse will draw some votes from Cuomo too. It could be a real race.
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  1106. $3k per month in income in the Philippines puts you into the top 1% of income earners in the Philippines. It's enough money to have a nice apartment in BGC the best neighborhood in Manila and potentially also have a vacation home in the provinces like in the mountains to stay cool in the summer. Oh & that is enough money to have a live in maid and driver in the Philippines too if you budget correctly.
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  1107. Ask Boris Johnson.
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  1108. Not true. Warren raised $1.2 million from Wall Street and has $10 million in corporate pac money she transferred to her Presidential campaign from her Senate funds. She is bought and a fauxgressive former Republican. I will trust Open Secret’s reporting on that issue.
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  1109. This is a good reason Dennis Kucinich or Nina Turner are the only acceptable VP nominees, except in the event Ralph Nader was somehow persuaded to run.
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  1110. The case law already says they can force you to be vaccinated. It has been on the books for 100 years. It was a small pox vaccination case.
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  1111.  @salemdesigns65  A new permit that wasn't already in the pipeline BEFORE Covid.
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  1112. The US because the rest of the world does not want people with limited intelligence.
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  1113. Outsource the marketing to your offshore company and do the transfer pricing study to get that income to you and your second business tax free if possible. Hell if you do things right you expense all of the income to the US business and extract all the profit from an offshore UAE, Cayman, or Bahamian company that you are paying zero tax on if structured correctly and you are taking a sizeable salary out tax free and obtaining tax free benefits like per diem when traveling for business, foreign housing expenses paid for tax free, and tax free plane tickets for business travel and tax free health insurance benefits taken out of the companies as well.
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  1114. Further reading seems to clarify, but I say only seems, to clarify that those 59 nations enjoy equal working conditions under these rules, but the general rule of the EU is that no work permit is needed for self-employment. What is less clear is a question about whether or not working for a corporation you 100% own is self-employment. It doesn't necessarily appear to be, but for purely managerial or director level tasks that may not be the case.
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  1115. As I understand it, if you are from one of 59 countries, including 5 Caribbean nations that sell passports for 1/10th the price & you invest in for example the Portuguese Golden Visa you secure virtually identical rights to the people buying a Maltese or Cypriot or Bulgarian citizenship save for the travel benefits of the passport that secures immediate visa-free access to 3 or 4 of the most difficult countries to secure visa access to, by which I mean Australia, the USA, Canada & New Zealand.
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  1116. I click on pay per click ads to cost companies money that they will never make back because fuck them. If they want to pay to play, they ill get played.
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  1117. Domestic Asset Protection Trusts have generally been fairly ineffective and have been routinely pierced or disregarded by the courts, unless you are living in the state in question and even if you are living in the state where they are organized they have been pierced. Hybrid Asset Protection Trusts with a springing clause in the Trust document that transfers Trusteeship to a Cook Islands Trustee for example have been effective in terms of avoiding tax complications for the most part and avoiding the expense of maintaining a technical foreign trust while allowing the Asset Protection Benefits to be utilized in the event a potential claim against the Trust Assets emerges, but the value of Domestic Asst Protection Trusts seems less sound than the charging order protections of single member LLCs which too have been pierced in many states, granted Wyoming is not among them, but if you are not living in Wyoming the full faith and credit clause could do damage to that protection if a claim arising in a California or New York Court for a car accident says your charging order protection is meaningless to that sister state where you reside.
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  1118. Make sure your lease has a force majuere clause that covers pandemics and you have an out clause written into having to pay rent as a tenant. If your commercial lease has no such clause, don't sign it.
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  1119. The guy became a multi-millionaire as a political consultant. I ran a Congressional campaign as essentially the campaign manager and lead media guy on the campaign. Most people doing that take a large salary. In my candidates previous run his campaign manager was paid $600 a week for 6 months. I took zero dollars and in my opinion that allows you to keep the message of a campaign and a candidate pure. The problem in America is people like Carville who make campaigns a business.
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  1120.  @douglasduda9826  That is a mischaraterization of the court's holding in the Heller case.
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  1121. How is an unprofitable company worthwhile? Easy, if they spend $2 billion on a product that will replace $5 billion a year in wages or more likely $50 billion a year in truck driver wages or more, then $2 billion in R&D IS A PITTANCE.
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  1122. @J Hamm I would focus on an easier to get EU citizenship and residency first, personally, either that or marry someone from the EU.
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  1123.  @GK-yi4xv  it's definitely possible. The UK is interesting in that BOTs also present backdoor ways to naturalize first as a BOTC citizen often in a tax free jurisdiction like Anguilla, the BVI, the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos with the possible added benefit of obtaining UK citizenship including the right of abode to exploit the same backdoor. Now you need to be fairly wealthy or extremely skilled and valuable to obtain a work permit residency in one of the BOTs to obtain backdoor UK citizenship this way, but it is still a possibility. You are right though, even as an attorney myself I would consult with attorneys and accountants in the jurisdictions in question directly before making these moves.
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  1124.  @judymckee5992  I am an international tax attorney and a filmmaker, I'll keep my own counsel.
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  1125. Is it true that the change in the property ownership law forbidding the ownership of agricultural land ie any land outside a few major cities in Georgia by foreigners means that a backyard garden for that foreign land owner is now a no no?
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  1126. There is no provision in the EU treaty to remove a member. There is a provision for a member state to voluntarily withdraw as Britain did, but you cannot kick a member state out. The propaganda you have bought into is all Russians are bad. Most Russians seeking to enter the EU want nothing to do with Putin. Would you have denied asylum to those fleeing Stalin too?
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  1127. @Cardinal Sin as a generation they took more than any other, they stole from their parents, they stole from their children and grandchildren, and they continue to steal now.
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  1128. If it’s time then why not support Gabbard or Warren who are at least running on Democratic policy agendas?
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  1129. I smashed that dislike button because YouTube and Alphabet are idiots.
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  1130. They don't get that we understand Bernie is Obi-Wan-Kenobi and he is our only hope. Yeah, Yoda might be musing about there being another, but those whipper snappers won't be ready for a Presidential run for at least a decade or two. There is nobody else on the bench with Bernie's resume and street cred.
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  1131. My reaction on hearing it during the debate was he just broke the law. I still hope he is prosecuted!
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  1132. Joab Johnstone for the same reason I hope G W Bush and Dick Cheney, and Barack Obama are prosecuted for crimes against humanity. For the same reason I Hope Trump is prosecuted for campaign finance violations. Because no one should be above the law.
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  1133. Buy a Framework if you can. Buy a FairPhone or PinePhone Pro if you can and stop giving money to Big Tech.
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  1134. Why he isn’t seeking the Green Party’s nomination baffled me!
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  1135. You can create all the money you want. If it isn't in the hands of consumers/workers ie purchasers, that money is not going to create new demand for products. The problem is that despite all of this money, the demand for everything from oil, to housing, to food, clothing, electronics and even films has dried up. That means we are overproducing. Milk isn't being dumped without cause, it is being dumped because there is no demand for milk or dairy products. Oil isn't filling storage tanks to capacity and filling tankers without port for no reason, it is happening because there is no demand. There are some supply shortages due to the illness, but they are the exception, not the rule. The reason people are protesting to reopen the economy is because a lot of small businesses that employ them will be gone if they are not reopened immediately, and even if they reopen a lot of them will still be gone within two weeks because consumers have no money, or if they do have money, they have no desire to put their health at risk to spend that money. Georgia reopened restaurants and nobody came. There will be plenty of people ready to go get s haircut because they really need one if they or a family member weren't able to cut their hair, but there are plenty of people who won't spend that money today when they don't know if they will have the rent, mortgage, or car payment tomorrow, let alone money for food. Even with unemployment. Even if they are actually employed in what should be a safe secure job, like a firefighter, or a cop, a prison guard, or a teacher, or even the fucking post office. The local city government is asking it's workforce to take a 15% paycut to avoid layoffs due to the loss of tax revenue. My friend who was a public defender took such a cut in the 2008 recession and he finally got back to his old wage last year and they voted in a new pay hike on their negotiated contact which over the next 5 years would bring them back to normal for lawyers in their region. That pay raise is gonna be gone and they are gonna get another cut and he is going to be back to the payrate where he started at 15 years ago. My sister is the only French teacher in her school district and she is worried that in addition to Chinese which is outsourced to BOCES a unified School resource for vocational and other education for multiple districts we have in NY, that because there are about 2/3 as many French students as Spanish that her job is going to go away because of the decline in state aid due to a lost of income and sales tax revenue. She just hopes it doesn't happen before November because in November she is supposed to be eligible for loan forgiveness. Despite paying her student loans for 12 years, the first two the loan forgiveness program wasn't made available to her, she owes as much as she borrowed still, which means she has been working for nearly free for 12 years. She has paid the interest and paid for the reliable car she needs to get back and forth to work. She has lived at our parents home because she can't afford her own place and if the loan forgiveness goes away, she is ready to riot because this system has screwed her over so badly. I mention that because this is why we have deflation. No one is going to spend anything with these daggers hanging over their heads. This means we have and will continue to have overproduction. Everyone was already overextended on credit BEFORE THIS HAPPENED. We had massive default rates on commercial mortgages, auto loans, student loans, mortgages, and credit cards. This has exacerbated defaults on small business loans, commercial mortgages, commercial rents, mortgages, rents, credit cards, student loans, and all debts. That means it doesn't matter how much money the Fed pumps into the banks, there are very few people, even those with strong balance sheets willing to take on new debts right now because we have an oversupply of most goods, commercial property, and housing in terms of the ability for that housing or commercial property to generate revenue anyway. The big problem in commercial real estate at least office space is going to be that a ton of companies as a result of this are going to examine the expense of commerical office space and conclude it is an expense to eliminate because their work force was as productive if not more productive from home. I mean would you spend $50k or more a month for office space, insurance, and utilities for that space when renting 3 servers in a data center and setting up a VPN for $600 a month allows your company's staff to work from home and make just as much money and do just as much work as it always has during this pandemic? Hell no, your board of directors won't allow you to waste money like that going forward. Commercial rents are gonna fall through the floor. That is not discounting for the loss of retailers that will be liquidated as a result of this shuttering. Are you really gonna risk your life to go to Best Buy for a USB charging cable for your phone when you can get one to your house tomorrow or the next day from Amazon even if those stores reopen tomorrow? Hell no, because you are rational. There were thousands of stores at risk of bankruptcy BEFORE this happened, they are not coming back from this mess. That is millions of jobs that will be lost. This is only going to accelerate R&D for trucking companies and car services looking to have self-driving fleets of vehicles. It is also going to lead to a massive migration of work from home office workers to rural America. Do you really want to live in a city which had a higher likelihood of contagion during this event, knowing that another one IS VERY LIKELY TOO HAPPEN SOON, because of the interconnected nature of the world economy today? The shocks this is going to cause to the system will be felt for at least two decades as the shakeout continues. Think about this too, I mean if you are making $40k, $50k, $200k living in San Francisco or New York City, or Chicago, or Austin and paying outrageous rents or a high mortgage and you can move to West Podunk Nowhere and buy a house for $150k two months ago, but buy it for $95k in six months following the coming foreclosure wave and your job is now entirely remote from home because the business has gotten rid of the commercial office expense, are you going to keep paying high rents when you can own a nice house in the middle of nowhere that puts you at lower risk of getting sick? Now discount for the people who have family in those small towns. Brain drain from rural America to the cities has been massive during the last two decades. This is going to change politics in a big way in the near future too as demographics are going to shift. Think about the knock on effect from millions of square feet of office space going vacant and office workers working from home will have on the restaurant business. Are you going to drive to McDonalds for lunch when you are working from home as an office worker and you can have a good meal in your kitchen? Are you going to go to the sit down restaurant with a bunch of co-workers you don't go into an office with anymore? No! Even if you don't discount the restaurant business for the illness, I've had 3 take out restaurant meals in the last month and a half and I usually have at least 3 meals a week at a restaurant or more, so they are crushed in general right now and one of those meals was an Easter dinner deal that the restaurant provided a prime rib meal to be cooked at home at a massive discount on acting a grocery because they had too much meat. Point being, the illness is going to crush restaurants for the next several months at least and the change from commerical office space to work from home is going to be permanent for a lot of businesses as a cost saving measure which will hurt restaurants even more. If movie theaters reopen they won't get new product until they can all reopen. Let's be honest, they are not going to reopen anytime soon. Even if they were to re-open I don't know that Hollywood will be producing content anytime soon because it is going to be hard to convince millionaire actors and directors to risk their lives to produce a movie. There will be a glut of animation because that can be made on home computers and via remote render farms in data centers with VPNs for studios and with voice actors recoding themselves on a computer in a closet turned into a vocal booth in their home, but there are not going to be a lot of live action films made in the next year or more unless it incorporates face masks and the current state of the world. There may be some TV shows like cop dramas that do that, but family sitcoms are out. Are you wearing a mask in your house with family? Hospital shows would be cool with masks always on the characters, but it will end all of the steamy love triangles. Anyway, the bigger point is that we are in massive oversupply mode and the dollar in hand is king right now. No one wants to borrow the money being printed. Cash is king and the dollar in your hand today will be worth what cost you $10 today in six months, so you are going to keep that dollar and make it go further tomorrow if you are smart.
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  1136. Capital H it’s not only coming, it starts this year. Mercedes is delivering self-driving tractors to major companies this year and Tesla promises to do the same.
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  1137. Food is going to get more expensive for one key reason. If you are a farmer you are going to grow less of it because there are too many redundant people with no money to pay you. Starve them out to make them clever enough to pay you more for what little is left and kickstart the economy so you can grow more and earn more.
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  1138.  @AKlover  the farm bill is corporate welfare at its finest on that we surely agree, but farmers are going to not grow because the government wants them to not grow. Anyone who has done the math knows 60 to 70% of all jobs are bullshit jobs that add no real value to the world and those people are redundant. When a lot of them die climate change becomes more manageable and with automation getting ready to make a quantum leap in the next decade a good man made famine is just what the doctor ordered to trim the redundancy.
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  1139. Hell, he ain't first, check out Carlton Sheets and Dave Del Dado.
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  1140. Welcome to the deflationary cycle.
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  1141. Fifty million people are unemployed officially and about 50% of working age adults are not employed or engaged in the workforce overall which is down from just under a 70% workforce participation rate. The reality sadly is that most of those people will never work again and were superfluous BEFORE Covid, but we had enough excess capital floating around to keep them employed in bullshit jobs. The real trimming of the fat has yet to start. That will come in the next two years as the municipal, state, and federal workforces are halved or more. Over the next decade at least another 10 million jobs will be shed through automation, and the one area that will have some continued demand will be software development, database programming and management, and IT Administration. Learn to fucking code, or expect to be unemployed. However, even the demand in those areas is outpaced by supply with 50 or more applicants for nearly every position. The reality is learn to create and run your own business, or expect to be bored and on the dole as the British put it.
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  1142. That is definitely part of it, but also, if you reopen and go bankrupt it will be harder to sue the government for a fifth amendment taking.
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  1143. They have some interesting tax treaties, but they also have some oddball quirks in those tax treaties. There are some advantages in terms of Barbados as a holding company especially for Caricom citizens living in other Caricom countries. They also don't have a terrible corporate tax rate overall for an active company, but their personal income tax rate is not the greatest.
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  1144.  @LamaTantrapa  EU citizens I believe can still move to Gibraltar for work rather easily under the freedom of movement regime which as I understand it remains in place in regards to Gibraltar as part of the Brexit deal. If you are worth more than £2 million you can move to Gibraltar and enjoy Category 2 residence as a tax resident as long as you have suitable accomodations available to you via lease or property purchase. You can also potentially move to Gibraltar as a third-country national if you are Highly Skilled as defined in their immigration rules and you have a job I think. It's not an impossible place to move, but there is some red tape. Gibraltar also requires a lump sum tax of about £44k pounds a year from Category 2 tax residents as I understand, but that I believe fluctuates with inflation i.e. goes up annually. The thing that is beneficial is that you can be there 1 day a year and maintain the tax residence as a Category 2. That would be beneficial for some nomads who are living mostly on tourist visas to use it as a home base. It seems to me like the slightly poorer, slightly grittier, slightly less tax favorable, but slightly better weather cousin of Monaco, or at least it will if Spain, the UK & Gibraltar can ever fully hammer out its inclusion in the Schengen region. And like Monaco with it's French neighbors, the Spanish-Gibraltar Double Tax Treaty which was just put in place makes Spanish tax residents who move there remain subject to Spanish taxes.
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  1145. Guess what, come November she is probably going to be beaten.
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  1146. johnlucas1.public you think people pay more attention to politics than they do. If more than 30,000 of those people live in her district I would be amazed.
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  1147. Well Medicare for All is cheaper, so we know how to pay for that, and the GI Bill of World War II was tracked and the tuition free room, board, and books free part of that created $28 of increased GDP for every dollar invested in it and returned $7 to the treasury from the increased earnings of the beneficiaries for every dollar invested in it, and if the government employs more people fixing dams, schools, post offices, fire department buildings, police buildings, libraries, the power grid, the telecom lines, roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure, then the money those workers spend will create new demand that will create new private sector growth and jobs that will mean we need more immigrants to do all of the work and we will have a booming economy whose tax revenue will pay for the jobs guarantee.
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  1148. They lost the search engine battle IN COURT. Precedent sided legally with Google. The old media is going to lose in court AGAIN. You cannot copyright a fact.
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  1149. Nothing is wrong with your accent Roman, but there is a twinge of Russian in your speech patterns that is the same little twinge that any non-native speaker has regardless of how long they have been a fluent English speaker. I mean Selma Hayek will always have a subtle Mexican accent, Arnold Schwartzenegger will always have a German accent, Ryan Reynolds always has a Canadian accent. I mean he is a native English speaker, but there are subtle things that native speakers will always hear no matter how long or how well someone speaks the language. I'm sure the same holds true when you hear a fluent non-native Russian speaker even one who has worked hard to perfect their accent. It's an indescribable thing that is just there. I mean your inflection has this subtle Slavic thing that is just there. Your pronunciation is perfect, but there is a weight and sort of heavy masculine deep thing in your voice that seems common amongst Slavic speakers who speak English regardless of how well or how long they speak it, or how much they work to have a neutral accent. It's just a thing that is there. It's not a problem though because like I pointed out with Ryan Reynolds, to most native English speakers even other native English speakers will always have their local accent or dialect show through in certain moments. I mean my understanding is that Arnold Schwartzenegger's German accent when speaking his native language is kind of a countrified bumpkin sounding Austrian accent that would be reminiscent to certain strong Appalachian accents in the US which was so out of place that Arnold doesn't dub his own lines into German since the days of the original Terminator because it would be out of place. I would assume that different cities, Russian provinces, and also countries that made up the former Soviet Union all have their own accent and dialect quirks that are obvious to you as a native Russian speaker. They aren't wrong, they are just there. I mean I would suspect that you would hear a different accent from a native Chinese or Japanese, or English speaker from Australia when they are speaking Russian which you could not help but hear. It's the same thing when you speak English for native English speakers. It's just a subtle thing that is definitely there.
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  1150. Because corporatist mayor of South Bend, Indiana isn’t as impressive as technology entrepreneur and lawyer with an economic plan the reflects the evolving reality of the economy.
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  1151. I do see a way Trump doesn’t get anyone on the court. This process is stopped until the election. Mueller presents evidence that both Trump and Pence participated in multiple felonies. There is a landslide for Democrats in the House and Senate. The Democrats impeach both Trump and Pence and the Senate Republicans fearing they will be unelected if they don’t vote to convict side with the Democrats and convict. The Speaker of the House becomes President and appoints the next justice.
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  1152. And like half of that 8% own private equity funds which own every other big company not on the public markets and they are buying up mom & pop shops and keeping mom and pop on the books as employees to own EVERYTHING.
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  1153. ​ @TehPwnerer  absolutely.
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  1154. Why hasn’t the SEC issued a cease and desist order against this phoney? He is violating Securities law by acting as a Financial Advisor without a license.
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  1155. How are you gonna pay for healthcare for all through Medicare for All? By spending $2 Trillion LESS than we already spend according to a right wing think tanks conservative numbers that undervalue the savings. How will you pay for tuition free college? By growing the GDP by $28 for every dollar invested and returning $7 to the treasury for every dollar invested just like we did with the GI Bill after World War II.
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  1156. Anon YMouse the trouble with the most recent poll is that like in Florida they were polling “likely voters,” and in NY -especially Upstate, there are going to be an exceptional number of unlikely voters this year and the same is true in the City. The thing is that if 2/3rds of NY Berniecrats vote against Cuomo, not an unlikely guess, that is more than 300,000 votes more than Cuomo has ever drawn in a primary and despite his warchest, I have not seen a single Cuomo ad and I live in a the rare Upstate county and media market that he carried 2 to 1 in 2014 and it is a county that Sanders won in 2016 with more votes than Cuomo received in 2014.
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  1157. BRICS is launching a gold backed digital token to facilitate international trade which allows each participant in the deal to trade in their local currency. It also allows each participating country to self-custody their gold with an independent third party audit of their gold supply on a routine basis. They are replacing Bretton Woods with a digital trust less and independently audited gold standard wherein each participating state's central bank is responsible for their own gold and can make claims against the reserves of any other participating state with no need to trust the United States. You will not need to trust South Africa's banks. You need only trust the banks of the country you operate in.
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  1158. 13.28 million workers AKA 8.3% of the workforce is a hell of a lot of people!
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  1159. Kyle every progressive policy he adopted was from the platform of Howie Hawkins the Green Party candidate for Governor in 2014 who earned 5% of the vote in New York the only independent party to run a candidate outside the Republicans and Democrats candidates in the state that year.
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  1160. Except Howie Hawkins is a perfectly acceptable other place to go as a voter!
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  1161. So the newspaper that Jeff Bezos owns is opposed to this? I'm shocked to find gambling in this establishment.
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  1162. A.C.R.O.N.Y.M America's Capitalist Rulers Own Networks & Your Mind
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  1163. No
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  1164. Jordan, I live in Northern NY, near Watertown which is now the binge drinking capital of the state -probably because the war machine through Fort Drum has degraded the community, but I digress, living in “real America” as the RepubliCONS call it, I can tell you that a new economic system and new ideas other than PILOTS and tax breaks for big corporations are wanted to help create jobs here in real America. People would like to get things like Medicare for All, tuition free and room and board and books free college like the Land Grant College Act and the WWII GI Bill provided, absent that, less taxes sounds good to people, so they vote RepubliCON. Give them a reason to vote and they do. With no money -less than $10k a GP candidate for Congress here got 12k votes in 2016 and almost 20k votes in an open seat race in 2014 with $38k that he raised with the help of his friend Ralph Nader who personally endorsed him. He drew more votes from Republicans than Democrats both times according to polling and the Democrats ran two corporate Democrats including a Pentagon and defense contractor shill in one of the races. The Democrats in NY-21 had a robust primary that Dylan Ratigan participated in and in my humble opinion as a Democrat who joined the Green Party the day after the NY Presidential Primary in 2016, the best candidate was a local working class single mom who came in second. There were three other progressives including Dylan who drew votes that would have otherwise likely went to her and the corporate Democrat in fake progressive clothing won and she is going to be handily defeated by the Republican incumbent because the Democrats didn’t run a candidate who full throatedly endorsed Medicare for All, and tuition free college and they don’t have a candidate who can explain an alternative system of economics that works for everyone. The GP in NY with Howie Hawkins has the best candidate remaining for Governor. He was a co-founder if the national Greens and is a walking encyclopedia of movement political history. The GP candidate for AG here in NY literally had a miniseries made by David Simon of The Wire fame about his most celebrated case. He as an NAACP attorney set the gold standard for housing desegregation with the Yonkers case. Michael Sussman without a doubt is the best lawyer in the field for AG. You should really interview them both because they will pick up the Nixon and Teachout torch and carry that message and politics in the right direction come November.
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  1165. This video convinced me that the enshitification of life will continue, so why should we continue?
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  1166.  @FUGP72  I'm turning 48 later this year.
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  1167. Honestly these days my music player is the flatpak from Spotify. The free as in beer endless music library is great and I have a playlist with enough songs to do a cross country road trip without a repeated song.
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  1168. ​ @tomgann9383  I'm disgusted Biden didn't order DevGru as an official act to end the problematic court Luigi style.
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  1169. I'm thinking that avoiding the Philippines, most majority Muslim countries, many African countries & a lot of Eastern Europe will be some of the advice, as well as being careful as to which Latin American countries you visit. I suspect sticking to Canada, Western Europe, Australia & New Zealand with a few outlier countries in every region will be th advice.
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  1170. Jimmy, Carmen is the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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  1171. Mauritius also has New Zealand access. If you could combine Mauritius with St Kitts, Turkey, and North Macedonia's CBIs you have most of the places a US passport has except the CAR, Equatorial Guinea, Burkina Faso, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and most of CUNA is lacking save the UAE, UK, and New Zealand. If you have a college degree and a Caricom passport, spending a few years in Barbados as another add on passport gives you slightly better access to Mexico, gives you access to Canada, and gives you Equatorial Guinea too. I mean you would still be lacking CAR, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, but you would only be lacking Australia and the US from the CUNA countries. With how Australia has been, that may be a godsend, but if you are wealthy enough to obtain those 3 CBIs and a Mauritius Residency by Investment that became a citizenship there, getting a B1/B2 visa to the US should not be difficult if you wanted one and probably more reliable than having an ETA under the Visa Waiver Program, though maybe not as good as a Canadian passport - but then again this past year has shown that isn't what it used to be either.
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  1172. epiphany aka gnome web isn't bad, but it lacks the ability to deal with DRM or obvious extensions. I suspect because gnome doesn't want you to use extensions on their desktop.
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  1173. My favorite part of their bullshit argument is that none of them discuss the fact that with the wealthy and their corporations able to control the amount and timing of their tax liabilities through deductions, that the working class would end up paying a larger percentage of the taxes because wages would go up to avoid the high tax rates, new hires would be made for sales and marketing as well as R&D, loans with high interest would be taken out for capital investments and new plants would be built and more workers hired to internalize the gains from what would otherwise be money lost to tax expenses. Those high tax rates of the past were why there were raises and why there was investment on Main Street.
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  1174. Nobody with the lawyers that guy could afford is ever likely to be convicted especially when he has a double jeopardy defense.
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  1175. Let Trump end all of these trade agreements. They are bad deals. There is going to be shake out from these bad deals regardless of who ends them, but the only way to fix the problem is to end the old system. Better to let the last leader under the old government destroy the system from within so that the revolutionaries can start with a new system and new ideas.
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  1176. Take advantage of the DAFT while you can.
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  1177. The great thing about the daily dozen is if you do it as directed on most days you would be hard pressed to exceed 1700 to 2k calories.
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  1178. This crisis is what is going to prove that MMT is total bullshit, just like it was total bullshit during the Weimar Republic and just like it was bullshit in Argentina during the 1970s and 1980s. If when the Saudis and OPEC cut oil production Russia announces it will continue flooding the oil market from it's reserves, watch the oil price drop again as they increase daily production and watch the Saudis start pricing oil in Euros. When that happens and the dollar loses it's reserve currency status watch for the crash and hyperinflation to exacerbate.
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  1179. How did the media attacks on Trump work out for them 4 years ago?
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  1180. I like the rounded entrance. I think it adds character.
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  1181. How much do you want to bet that the losses were fiction and an investigation would prove it is false and he did it to criminally evade taxes?
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  1182.  @kotare86  I mean Hungary has a fairly low corporate and personal rate too.
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  1183.  @leandrog2785  I should think it was obvious that I was aware of that fact, although technically the Netherlands in limited instance allows native born Netherlanders to acquire the citizenship of their foreign spouse without losing their Dutch citizenship.
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  1184. Al Capone might disagree.😊
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  1185. 18% of the US population lives in the 25 smallest states which is 50% of the Senate. 31 of the Republican Senators are from the smallest states and 19 are Democrats. California and New York have more people than those 25 smallest states. 22 Republicans are from the largest states. 28 Democrats are from the largest states including 4 from New York and California who have more people than those 25 smallest states. Why in the hell should the 50% of voters casting ballots in states with 18% of the population meaning 9% of the voters and then only about 5% or just over half of them agreeing with Republicans stop the will of the majority? Even in Texas the race for Senate was almost 50-50. Way more people are on the left than the right and Gillibrand wants to yield to a minority of a minority of a minority, no!
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  1186. It takes a fundamental restructuring not only of how businesses function in terms of ownership and management, but also a fundamental restructuring of how power is wielded by a government. A Constitutional Direct Democracy with certain guarantees of rights, and certain imposition of general duties upon each individual citizen in terms of their contributions to society overall must be part of any fundamental restructuring. Private property must be abolished in land in favor of a community trust which holds title to the actual land. Buildings and improvements can be owned by an individual in either a life estate or fee simple, but there should be restrictions on the sale of buildings in terms of the appreciation in value of those properties as used in the Burlington Land Trust. There should also be a Medicare for All program that has a two-tiered savings account. Each individual must contribute 10% of their income to the savings accounts. One is the personal account which is drawn upon first. The second is the community account which is drawn upon second as an insurance pool to cover costs. Individuals should have the power to negotiate costs as happens in Singapore, and any amount left in the personal account following death should be heritable by the family members of the decedent, to encourage people economically to take the best care of themselves and be frugal in terms of their health care expenses, but there should be a societal insurance pool that covers all excess costs if someone is not able to fully fund their healthcare costs. This is different than the Singapore scheme. The same funding system should be put in place for a lifetime learning and educational fund, but that fund should impose additional contribution requirements upon the parents of children during the children's minority. This encourages better family planning because of the reduction in spendable income due to the additional forced savings for each child. Education should be provided so long as someone is enrolled in a proper institution without charge, but individuals should be able to negotiate costs in a similar manner with the medical account to keep costs low. A similar funding system should be set up for a Social Security for All account which would replace unemployment insurance, and welfare programs, but also provide as it does now, retirement savings, and disability insurance, but it should in fact provide a minimum basic income which can be utilized during times of economic weakness at a cooperative business or during a period of self-employment or partnership employment for up to five years, with additional extensions available if a minimum number of users per employee are using the services of the business in question as a subsidy to socially valuable enterprises that may not be as valuable to the general market. Users in this instance would contribute to the employees MBI from their personal savings accounts. These accounts would of course all be heritable following a citizen's death by their heirs. The payments would be made into the respective personal accounts of the individuals, however, 50% would also go to the community accounts. Between those 3 obligations which provide for the payment of individual rights to education, healthcare, and a minimum sustainable income, including housing, food, and clothing, about 27% of an individual's income would be paid into savings, with 13% paid into individual accounts, and 14% paid into the community accounts. How would the direct democracy work in such a system? Every 150 individuals would constitute an election precinct, and each precinct would have a local board with 7 members. These members would serve 6 month terms on the precinct board. The Board's meetings would be open to the public for all members of the precinct. The members would be chosen by sortition as members of juries are now. Every 11 years, every member of a precinct would serve on the board. There would be exceptions for mentally incapacitated citizens, and infants who had not attained the age of majority, and those with physical disabilities for whom service would be a hardship could opt out as often happens in jury duty, but basically everyone would participate in a precinct board. The precinct boards would propose all laws and budgets for the precinct, the towns or villages where they are located, as well as the counties, states, and the federal government. All rules would begin locally with a precinct board proposing them. Every 67 precincts would be organized into a representative district of about 10,000 members. When the majority of the precincts of a district propose legislation or a budget for a larger jurisdiction, be it a village, city, town, county, state or the federal government, all Districts composing such jurisdiction would be presented with the rule to vote on it. Votes would be by the citizens whenever a proposed precinct rule or budget is adopted. Executive positions would be upon appointment by a majority of the precinct as chosen by the precinct boards for each jurisdiction, but most of those positions would be civil service positions which are based on testing, with only the highest echelons by appointment. Judges would be chosen by sortition from members of the bar for the state and jurisdiction wherein the court is set, and those judges would be subject to the same appellate court system as is set up now, but the terms would be for a fixed period of years, say 5 and most attorneys would return to practice after a period on the bench, which would mean those attorney judges would want to maintain stare decisis to make sure that cased they handle later conform with existing rules, so that laws remain relatively fixed. The appeals process would have oversight by the precinct boards with a separate review that allows for the precinct boards to propose a change in the law by appointing alternate panels of appellate judges who could draft alternative decisions to be approved by the precinct boards for the appropriate jurisdiction and the citizens with an instant runoff aka ranked choice voting scenario. These changes would only be for new cases going forward in terms of a change in the law, and not an ex post facto change to existing law, although the boards and the people can pardon people through this process when justice demands it. Juries in this system would have the right to nullify or pardon a crime when it deemed that in an instance a law was unjust, and when a jury votes to nullify, a similar change in law procedure would begin at the precinct level for that jurisdiction. Of course wage slavery would be outlawed in this system, and only sole proprietorships with one employee owner, partnerships with employee owners and or retired employee owners, worker cooperatives, hybrid consumer/worker cooperatives, not-for-profits with open membership, and government agencies would be able to employ people in such a system to ensure that capitalism and dictatorial economics is eradicated. This system would vest duties of carefully crafting laws and budgets in the hands of the precinct boards, but thoroughly engage the public in their democracy with the open board meetings. These precinct boards would communicate with the other precincts in their district and the districts would communicate with other districts in their city, village, town, county, or state in regards to those jurisdictions needs, but also all other districts in terms of federal needs, but most control would be local and vested ultimately in the voters who would cast ranked choice votes on various legislation, including a none of the above choice when legislation is not appropriate, but also in terms of budgets and priorities such as that these boards would function much like local school boards do in many places today, with voters ultimately approving what the boards propose. Power is ultimately with the voters, but there is still representation, only everyone is represented by regularly participating in the board. The average adult would serve 5 to 7 terms on the board during their life for 2.5 to 3.5 years total, one night per week for there 6 month term. This dispersed power would mean in a precinct of only 150 people that most members of the precinct would know at least one of the seven members of their precinct board personally at all times, and with the board's meetings open to the public, democratic participation in the process would increase, but more importantly, laws would probably be relatively fixed, and regulations would usually be limited because it takes a long time and a fair amount of effort to get the majority of the precincts in a district to act to begin the process of changing the law.
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  1187. Of course corruption matters and the most corrupt country is the USA.
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  1188. Taiwan also has a dual citizenship possibility for highly skilled immigrants now too. It's rare, but they have granted it.
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  1189. Prostate cancer is one of the more easily curable forms, so that was a bad example even. Of course the recent discovery of the T-Cell that is responsible for eliminating mutant cells ie cancers from the body and the early testing showing that increasing those killer T-Cells artificially being likely to safely rid the body of cancer means T-Cells may become THE cure for that disease in this decade!
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  1190. ​ @luism5514 the Democratic party in the US like the Republican party in the US is wholly owned by the five families that own the Federal Reserve Bank & the companies comprising the S&P 500.
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  1191. This nation’s government has zero legitimacy and must be dissolved. It is not a lawful institution.
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  1192. On Wednesday Pete will endorse Biden, UNLESS Bloomberg overperforms.
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  1193. If he doesn’t want to take away everybody’s incentive then he should support true socialism which outlaws wage slavery and requires that the ownership and management of all businesses be on the basis of one worker, one vote, one equal share of the surplus AKA the profits in proportion to each worker’s percentage of the total man hours for the given measuring period of the surplus. In such a system there would of course be wage and salary variation to reflect variations in knowledge, skills, abilities, and the inherent risks of any given work activity, but that true socialism takes away no incentive whatsoever. In fact it provides a greater incentive to work smarter and harder and be more productive because you will directly benefit 100% from your increased productivity or a change in how things are done that increases the overall productivity of the business you work at daily. Does the right wing want us to start talking about real socialism, because I would love to talk about real socialism. I really want them to justify someone who does not work benefiting from people who do work in a system where the workers own the businesses and only the workers. Versus the system we have now where people like Donnie Boy and the Walton kids who have never done an honest day of work in their lives benefiting from the sweat off other’s brows, and then not only do the workers have to pay for those lazy rich bastards, they also have to pay for all of the other workers those rich bastards keep perpetually unemployed by hoarding wealth and demanding more work from less people for longer hours and lower pay. In a true socialist system if the workers can turn out 2x the goods or services in half the time, they will work half as much and may hire an equal number of people to work the other half of the day to produce 4x as much if there is a demand. Why? Because they will still make more by hiring more workers and work less and that is what most workers want. More free time and more money. If worker owners can accomplish that they will.
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  1194.  @Thurston-q6q  I predicted the 2008 crash in July 2007, but knew it would run the market a bit higher before the pull back, got out the week of the peak in October 2007. I knew the market had bottomed in late March early April 2009 and got back into the market, never lost a penny. I knew Trump was going to win the minute the Democrats shut Bernie out in January 2016. I knew Trump was going to tamper with the January 6th certification of the election by August of 2020 and I told fellow attorneys such who can attest to the fact that I figured it out. I knew he was going to win again the second the morons from Gen X who never were involved in politics this past spring said they were going to fix things because I knew they understood nothing about government or economics and are the bullies who just want to break things and pull everyone back down into the crab bucket with them. They proved me right. I mean you can believe me or you can not, but I am very good at paying attention to the details that matter and what I can tell you is that absent Republicans in the Senate growing a backbone or a few very good victories for Democrats in the looming special elections for the US House, this is likely to be the last time there are fair and open elections in the USA and this is likely the end of US dollar hegemony regardless, and we are going to be experiencing a massive depression that will make the 1930s look mild within 18 months. Have a nice day.
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  1195. The biggest thing they miss about Sanders is that he can win white rural men. Case in point Ojeda was amongst the 1 in 10 Sanders primary voters who voted for Trump in the general. Why? Because they don’t want to be screwed by their own people. The rural white male blue collar guys will vote for people who are actually for them and Trump’s trade stance was more in line with them. You know where those white male rural voters made a difference? Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Those Bernie voters gave Kansas a Democratic Governor last November.
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  1196. ​ @CalDale-i6z  Have you seen the AI powered NPCs in Unreal that can carry on a real conversation with you?
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  1197. ​ @dejanhaskovic5204 OpenAI, and Stability AI are working on that right now.
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  1198. Howie Hawkins 5% in New York is why a Green Party is absolutely necessary to push Democrats left. Cuomo didn’t support a fracking ban, the 15% minimum wage, paid medical leave, tuition free college, or a 100% renewable energy by 2030, but Hawkins candidacy in New York forced Cuomo left, just like the Communists and the Socialists in the 1932 election forced Roosevelt left. The New Deal was the Socialist Party’s platform in 1932.
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  1199. She took more money from Wall Street than the incumbent Republican she beat to win her Senate seat. She has always been 100% full of shit and it was perfectly obvious to anyone who realized anyone Obama liked is a piece of shit because Obama is a piece of shit!
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  1200. Time to clean up in South Carolina and roll through Super Tuesday!
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  1201. Except Lori Laughlin and her husband were Trump supporters! Jared Kushner's father donated a $2.5 million building to Jared's alma mater the YEAR BEFORE Jared was admitted and Kushner's high school teachers and school administrators are on the record saying that he did not have the grades to be admitted to that school.
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  1202.  @Timithos  this is probably about right, the due diligence fees and other add-ons depending on the country make each country slightly more or less attractive based on family size. Spouses, parents, children, & in some cases potentially siblings as add-ons.
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  1203.  @rivenoak  Peter Theil has proven otherwise.
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  1204. MetalDetroit no it is feudalism and slavery with a different name.
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  1205. MetalDetroit also communism lifted peasants in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe out of poverty and put the first human being into Orbit. Communism lifted a billion Chinese out of poverty and made the second largest economy on earth with the largest middle class on the planet. Communism lifted 1.5 billion people out of poverty. Capitalism hasn’t done as well. Communism made a poor island nation one of the leading biotech research centers on the planet and a net exporter of medical doctors. Capitalism could never do that and the fact that you believe capitalism frees people means you have been so successfully propagandize into a lack of critical thinking that it is disheartening.
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  1206. I can charge upwards of $1500 an hour for my labor easily, sorry to disappoint you. Facts are facts though. In 1917 the Russian people were starving. 40 years later they put the first man in Orbit. In 1948 the Chinese people were starving they have almost 3x the population today and can export food and have the largest middle class on earth that is thanks to communism. Cuban biotech research has developed the most promising lung cancer treatment in the world to date. Those are facts. You may not like them, but they are facts. By the way, I’m in my 40s and have had careers in farming, trucking, broadcasting, film production, and the law. I’m not a wet behind the ears kid. My current business is a worker owned cooperative film studio. I put my money where my mouth is.
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  1207. MetalDetroit as to your other ludicrous notion how many years of 115 hour work weeks have you put in, because 7 years of 115 hour work weeks was my limit and I have the gray hairs to show it, but I know most people think that working yourself into an early grave is a good idea. My father convinced me otherwise, thank god.
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  1208. MetalDetroit 6% of China lives in poverty. From the 1920s through the early 1960s China has suffered from routine famines. Today because of communism they export food and while as much as 88% of Chinese lived in extreme poverty last century, 6% live in poverty in communist China today. 14% of Americans live in poverty today. Let me say that again, 6% of China is in poverty, but 14% of Americans are in poverty. Capitalism doesn’t fight poverty. Communism does and those are actual facts.
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  1209. Ordinary working class Americans pay a wealth tax of about 2% every year when they register their car, or in the form of "property taxes" if they own their home or by paying those property taxes indirectly if they rent. The working poor pay a wealth tax for their landlords in other words, but billionaires are crying about maybe having to pay a wealth tax equal to the wealth tax the working class has always paid. Cry me a river!
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  1210. Cal Bear I support the original Green New Dealer Howie Hawkins because his policies will fundamentally restructure the economy into worker owned democracies.
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  1211. Win1@atime Howie Hawkins co-founded the Green Party USA in 1984. In the 1970s he and Sanders worked together to build the Liberty Union Party in Vermont. Howie was the first to propose a Green New Deal when he ran for NY Governor in 2010. Hawkins Green New Deal fundamentally shifts the structure of ownership of the enterprise in the USA. First it converts all utilities to consumer/worker owned cooperatives. Second it provides government grants to retrofit homes and commercial buildings for energy efficiency with better insulation, doors, windows, and efficient lighting, geothermal and solar thermal heating and hot water, as well as converting the energy grid to renewable resources. The Hawkins Green New Deal also provides contract incentives for worker owned cooperatives to get these grant based contracts with bidding advantages for All grant and general government contracts. This will include contracts for the manufacture of solar panels, batteries, and wind turbines, as well as research and development for clean energy fusion technologies and the like. Hawkins Green New Deal provides incentives for manufacturers of public transportation and commercial vehicles to utilize worker owned cooperatives in the supply chain as manufacturers. The same Hawkins Green New Deal supports a federal jobs guarantee that will fill many of those jobs by funding the creation of worker owned cooperative enterprise to rebuild infrastructure. The Hawkins National Health Service plan is superior to Medicare for All in that it will nationalize the pharmaceutical industry, we already pay for 98% of primary medical research through the CDC and the NIH, so why are we subsidizing corporations, and reorganize them as consumer/worker owned cooperatives with consumers having co-equal voting power with the workers who manufacture the medicines. It will nationalize hospitals and reorganize them as worker/consumer owned cooperative enterprises as well. Hawkins’ plans fundamentally reshape America into a worker owned democracy and that is what I support more than anything else. The collateral benefits of his plans are a much cleaner environment, a healthcare system that cares for everyone. And a much more productive and efficient society where the workers own the means of production and control the economy.
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  1212. Brad Taylor no I actually don’t support the UBI at all its a bad idea.
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  1213. Brad Taylor it makes it easier for oligarchs to strip away the power of the economic weapons the working class uses against it.
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  1214. Jordan in 2006 the UNIPCC said that we had until next year to meet carbon reduction goals that we have not met before reaching a tipping point that is irreversible without the use of carbon stripping technologies which take CO2 out of the atmosphere which we still do not have. Guess what? The UNIPCC was right in 2006. The climate crisis is not solvable even with the 2030 goals with present technology. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you know that it is all rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic at this point. It doesn’t matter who becomes President or who you elect to Congress. Human extinction is inevitable and soon.
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  1215.  @UltimateBargains  in communism property is not taxed and income is not taxed either. In genuine communism money does not exist so there are no banks.
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  1216. Credit Unions are owned by the depositors and are democratically controlled with one member ie depositor one vote rules. They are like banks, but totally different. They are not capitalist enterprises. They are socialist businesses.
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  1217. By August 1st most Americans will be broke because by August 1st the US Dollar will no longer be the reserve currency because of the looming national debt default. BTC will be at $1 million USD & XMR will be at least 5% of that while gold will be north of $75,000 to $100k USD an ounce. The Yuan will be stronger than ever.
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  1218. On a different note in regards to how long it takes to get work done in the States now. We had a 35 year old hot water heater spring a slow leak in the bottom. It was a drip not a spring, so not ultra emergent, but a problem. It took 6 weeks to get that changed out. 6 weeks. So 3 days in my experience is fast.
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  1219.  @CoolGobyFish  my grandmother was born to Swedish parents in the US. She was born dual citizen & in 1944 lost Swedish citizenship by birth when she turned 21 while working in a US war factory. She also died 16 years ago, so...
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  1220.  @CoolGobyFish  hell I can trace my lineage in Sweden back into the 1600s on both sides of my mother's family, but my grandma was born in Illinois and was Swedish until 21, but as I read the rules, she was not a citizen after she turned 21 in 1944 because she had never been to Sweden and did not choose to be Swedish, and because she did not file to have it restored, when dual citizenship was allowed during the brief window they allowed people to regain in it the early 2000s, there is no option.
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  1221. *George McGovern.
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  1222. As an American I will point out Americans are too dumb for democracy. The US is an oligarchy.
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  1223. FACT: These not so bright women believe liars that are not making anywhere near as much as they believe them to be making A) because they assume they are making it, or B) the guys lie and say they are making it and these naive women believe them. I think A) is the more likely scenario. I think they assume a lot of facts not in evidence. 70% of men will never earn $100k in a year, that is why that number is being chosen. As many very wealthy people tell you getting to $100k a year in earnings is the hardest step. Getting to $1 million in assets is the next hardest step. They all say it is easier to go from $1 million to $10 million than it is to get to $100k a year or $1 million in assets. They all say it is easier to get from $10 million to $100 million than it is to get to that $100k? Why? Your leverage route have changed. You have a lot more leverage to take advantage of once you hit $1 million in assets. Even if you had won the recent $750 million Powerball or $1 billion MegaMillions lottery jackpot and had to split it two ways, after paying the tax bill, if you want to keep the money growing and are reinvesting 75% of the dividend and interest income left as Shaq of all people recommends, you would be hard pressed to have $500k a year in spendable money. I point this out to explain how extravagant the lifestyle these women want really is because at $500k a year you are not flying in private jets. You may have more than one home, but you will be spending a fair percentage of that spendable income on maintaining two upscale homes. I mean a 7 bedroom house as the one women described, even in a relatively inexpensive country overseas, at least one with good infrastructure and a favorable tax rate at the low end will cost $3-5 million to purchase and at the high end will be upwards of $40-$50 million to purchase. I mean a 7 bedroom villa or penthouse in Monaco will cost you, a 7 bedroom villa in the Bahamas or Cayman Islands will cost you, a seven bedroom villa in Dubai would cost you. Even a seven bedroom penthouse in a place like BGC Manila is going to cost a few million dollars. A seven bedroom mansion because 7 bedrooms is a mansion, in a podunk town in even a state like Tennessee or Georgia is at a minimum going to cost $3 million. It is going to cost you even more to maintain than a more expensive place in Dubai, Monaco, or Cayman would cost you because of property taxes you would not be paying, insurance costs, and pricier staffing costs for gardeners and maids. The point is even mega jackpot lottery winners would have trouble keeping up with these expectations.
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  1224. Condo buyout aka you will own nothing and be happy phase 2.0 while you become a not only a free range slave on a tax farm, but a free range slave on a rent farm.
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  1225. James Buchanan was the first gay President and he was so bad that his term ended with the beginning of the Civil War!
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  1226. Is it possible that Wozniak is just pointing out how much of an ass Jobs was to people at times?😏
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  1227. Before Dylan Ratigan announced his candidacy, NY-21 had 10 candidates running. It still has 10 or so candidates running, including a Republican challenger to the incumbent Republican, a Libertarian, and a Green. There was an actual working class Democrat who was endorsed by the Working Families Party too. I guess that is why the business partner of a Louisiana Oil & Gas lawyer decided to run -namely Dylan. The grassroots candidate was beating the corporate candidates.
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  1228. The mainstream media keeps talking about little old black ladies from the churches in South Carolina who won't vote for Bernie Sanders. Excuse me, the same little old black ladies who had parents who were beaten demanding their voting rights. The same little old black ladies who marched for those voting rights when they were much younger. The same little old black ladies who had friends die gaining those voting rights in the 1950s and 1960s, those same people are gonna give these Democrats who said their votes and other people's votes shouldn't matter their vote? I don't think so, I think that question right there is why Bernie went from 30% of Nevada to 47% of Nevada and why he is going to go from 21% of South Carolina to about 40% or better of South Carolina next weekend. You told those little old black ladies their vote doesn't matter. They are gonna prove to you that it does by voting for the person who said the actual votes matter.
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  1229. Sir Spamalot as does funding the military. I can’t check a box on the tax form saying not one penny to the DOD, CIA, or NSA.
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  1230. If you crack commercialized controlled fusion generation of electricity at a Q value of say 20 you are a trillionaire.
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  1231. Here is the 1992 healthcare debate. https://www.c-span.org/video/?24826-1/democratic-candidates-health-care-debate
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  1232. In South Korea which deployed extensive testing to contain the virus, there were only 8400 cases and only 80 deaths that is a 0.9% death rate and they stopped it without shuttering their economy. In Germany they have done extensive testing and while they used a shut down, they have had only about a 0.26% death rate with almost 20k cases. In NY we have deployed extensive testing too and while we have the most cases, just s 0.49% death rate so far. All three high test areas have shown that the severe case rate is about 1/10th what it has been in low tested societies and the death rate is 1/20 to 1/4 what it has been on the rest of the planet where non-extensive testing has been used. Is it bad? Yes, but South Korea proved that if Trump ordered the testing kits in January and deployed the containment procedures that Bush did during SARS it is likely we would have been able to easily contain this virus. Most people have had mild cases more like 98% than the original reported 80%.
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  1233. Free public colleges and universities was so impossible that from 1862 when President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act AKA the Land Grant College Act into law until 1963 when Nelson Rockefeller a billionaire who inherited his wealth ended the practice as Governor of New York it was the norm in America and it wasn't until 1982 that California became the last public university system in America to do away with tuition-free public colleges and universities. It is so unaffordable that when the GAO tracked every dollar spent on the GI Bill following World War II where it even paid for books and room and board in addition to tuition, that the program returned $7 to the treasury for every dollar spent and created an additional $21 in GDP for every dollar spent. In fact, the vast majority of wealth creation in the US from 1862 to about 1978 can be tracked back to public education spending. When the US changed that policy in the 1980s for good and lowered the taxes on the wealthy at the urging of this idiot Laffer, the country went from $1 Trillion in debt to $22 Trillion in debt and over that period of time the Top 1% became $21 trillion richer while the bottom 90% of Americans LOST $900 billion in wealth. Reaganomics were so bad that there literally has been a $900 billion contraction of wealth in America once you offest the gains of the wealthy by their theft of the national treasury with the $21 Trillion national debt increase. The economics are simple. Investing in your people provides the greatest economic return. Not taxing the wealthy and corporations leads to a mountain of unnecessary debt and contracts your real economy. How else do you explain the deindustrialization of the United States of America over the last 40 years?
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  1234. It's little more than a pet rock.
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  1235. If you have a real estate portfolio of $4.8 million earning 5% in free cash flow after taxes & expenses you can live in many areas of the world without any need to work, and an ability to invest a significant percentage of the cash flow into a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, commodities, and a cash cushion that will continue to grow your wealth. You can probably get to that size of a real estate portfolio with as little as $900k in cash invested into the rental assets, at least in the US. If you buy in the past right areas, the downside risk on that portfolio will be rather limited. Despite what people believe there are plenty of markets in the US that are depressed on the purchase side yet which have strong rental markets.
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  1236. Rhyannon Ashford it had nothing to do with White Water, but when a special prosecutor is assigned to a case they are to investigate all possible crimes and Clinton was deposed in a civil lawsuit pending with Paula Jones an underling when he was Governor of Arkansas for sexual assault and harassment, so questions regarding an improper sexual relationship with a White House intern were entirely appropriate in the depositions regarding that lawsuit. He perjured himself. He could have told the truth and chose not to do so. Perjury is a serious crime. Just ask the teenage boy I once represented who faced up to five years in prison for allegedly lying about having had contact with the woman who had raped him and against whom an order of protection had been issued in his favor. At the time I first met him he was in jail awaiting trial and had spent more time in jail than his older abuser. He grew up on a world where Bill Clinton not having been punished for his wrong doing lead him to wrongly believe he was doing nothing wrong. Lying under oath is a serious offense and there are very few instances when it is not a felony!
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  1237. The board that Warren championed has done precisely bupkis for working people. If that is effective, I'll take the amendment king any day.
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  1238. Trump’s? The Democrats and Republicans are equal opportunity suppliers of the corporate welfare queens through the bloated defense budget. Neither Democrats nor Republicans will ever say no to wasting money on the offense budget to expand the empire.
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  1239. You mean the market is reacting rationally to a 30% drop in GDP. I'm shocked😏
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  1240. Arnold Slater the Senate’s purpose was to guarantee slavery, the same reason the Revolution happened in the first place. Taxes were the rouse to rile up the masses to protect slavery. The British courts had already outlawed slavery in Great Britain and were it not for the revolution it would have been outlawed in the colonies sooner than it was, which was still three decades before it was outlawed by the American imperialists. When it was replaced that was only because wage slavery had allowed for lower costs of labor than chattel slavery.
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  1241. You just made it clear WHO is actually middle class. The people who own a business and earn some of their income via that ownership stake, but who MUST work in the business they own to make it functional AKA the Petit Bourgeoisie. If you own a construction company, and you employ others to work in that construction company, but the business does not earn enough to allow you to hire a manager allowing you to live solely on the earnings of others, you ARE MIDDLE CLASS. You are sandwiched between the two modes of production. The same holds true for the baker whose bakery employs others, but which they must work in, and the lawyer who must work in their practice despite having associates who are employees and secretaries, and paralegals. The same holds true for doctors or accountants. The middle class are owners who must also work for the business they own to function. They might move into either of the other classes exclusively at some point. If the business fails they will become exclusively workers. If the business succeeds they will become exclusively owners, but the Middle Class are those with a foot in both worlds.
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  1242.  @LoveClassicMusic0205  😂😂😂😂😂
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  1243. The UAE, but buy a CBI in the Caribbean and renounce US citizenship ASAP if you are an American.
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  1244. The US is set for the biggest comeuppance in human history and the rest of the world is slowly putting the chess pieces in place to give it a huge economic catastrophe.
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  1245. So 14 years after the US banking debacle over real estate China has repeated it only instead of default swaps cratering their market, it is home builders.
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  1246. Dr. Michael Baden said the magic bullet theory was legit. Have Dr. Cyril Wecht who argued the other side examine it! Wecht also stood up to the NFL on concussions. The guy has integrity!
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  1247. Short sell Comcast.
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  1248.  @Bastian-Silva-Gutierrez  My point is actually, if Linux came installed on a laptop or desktop for most users, it's really easy to use. A welcome screen that explained how to run updates would be about the only guidance the average user would need in my experience.
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  1249.  @patricktraichal9287  most of Central America has a territorial tax regime that is particularly appealing if you have gotten your business to the point where say Bill Gates handed over the reigns to Steve Balmer.
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  1250. If he didn't have a prenuptial agreement that said his NFL income and pension was all his, then he had a bad agent, manager and lawyer working for him.
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  1251. Jimmy, you can’t figure it out, giving healthcare to part time employees is a competitive advantage for his business that keeps their turnover costs on employees lower. If everyone had healthcare his company couldn’t compete on wages for quality employees, it would be too expensive for them. They would also lose tax subsidies of 30 cents on the dollar for those healthcare expenses, and to compete would have to shell out an added 7.515% in the employer’s share of SS & Medicare plus the added employers costs for the new Medicare tax AND have to raise wages to compete. The $7 latte’s they would have to sell to keep employees happy might be a bridge too far, so they would only make $3.50 of profit on each cup of coffee after labor costs instead of $4.25 per cup.
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  1252. Every business is a media company now or at least any business that is trying to grow and gain customers is, which is why camera prices are up. Businesses are still buying cameras to produce marketing content.
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  1253. Warren Buffet is notorious for enjoying McDonald's breakfast, I have a sneaky suspicion if you showed him a well put together burrito he would eat one. He was at one point in time thought to be the wealthiest man alive and is still likely in the Top 10.
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  1254. Right now, today, and these changes in the law are a very good reason for small business owners to convert to worker owned cooperatives. Worker owners are self employed and not subject to most of these regulations pertaining to worker minimums. Petit Bourgeoisie on the other hand are very much subject to a requirement to pay sick leave and other special payments to workers in their employ.
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  1255.  @nsudatta-roy8154  well hurricanes are very rare in Barbados that's an advantage, Barbados also has both a corporate and an individual non-domiciled tax regime for foreign citizens and companies managed, but not formed in Barbados as well as a very low corporate tax rate to begin with which can be helpful in terms of tax planning. Barbados also has several tax treaties with important tax planning jurisdictions which can be useful for international companies. The Bahamas is less beneficial for avoiding hurricanes, but it has a zero personal and corporate tax rate, although it may introduce a tax rate for large corporations to comply with the global minimum tax that the OECD is trying to impose.
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  1256. Who is gonna pay for these tests, our fairy godmothers? Even the cheapest test costs $100 and there are large percentages of the US population who don't earn $100 a day. In fact most don't because that is $36,500 a year and the majority of Americans earn less than $30,000 a year, with 44% earning less than $18,000 a year and that was BEFORE COVID-19.
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  1257. Governments are irrelevant. The future is stateless. That is why Bitcoin or another hardened digital currency will supplant the dollar, Yuan, Eruo, Pound, Yen, and Rubble.
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  1258. No debtors prison is debtors prison and while the US had not before Clinton and Gingrich welfare reforms allowed debtors prison it is legally allowed now in the US and there are no constitutional protections against it.
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  1259. Might want to read the case law.
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  1260.  @randywatson341  might want to read Bloomberg's autobiography to find out he is not one of those people. He admitted to plenty of sexual harassment in his autobiography.
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  1261.  @randywatson341  you claimed he is a mark who would be embarrassed into a settlement. That is unlikely to be the case. What is more the law is very clear in terms of potential recovery. It isn't really worth the effort.
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  1262. The problem is that those young people never had the benefit of the socialization and mental hardening that came from having to live "outside." Not having that freedom and experimentation that came from "outside" because they live their lives entirely on a screen caused them severe deficiencies. It wasn't the pandemic it was the Internet. There is a reason that Gates, Jobs, and even we are told Zuckerberg would not allow their children online that has nothing whatsoever to do with personal safety or security of their families. Any parent that allows their children to be online, or socialize with friends via online video games rather than in person relationships is doing their children a disservice. The third/fourth generation of suburbia is causing serious problems. People are meant to live a significant portion of their day inside a community.
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  1263. Jimmy, do you think it is possible that now that Democrats can’t run a spoiler in November against him in his Senate race and because they have tipped their hand with DNC rule changes that preclude him from the Presidential nomination that Sen. Sanders is attempting to repair his reputation with a pro-Peace party known as the Greens before an effort to upset the Apple cart in 2020? Is he going to revert to his 1991 thinking on third-parties?
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  1264. Now factor in the remote work phenomenon and these cheap boring bedroom communities where people can stack cash by saving on housing become much better investment opportunities.
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  1265. The exit tax is only due on untaxed capital gains. The value of his publishing rights might be considerable, but a publishing catalog is easily sold.
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  1266. Why we didn't build more F-22s is beyond me, because they can dogfight if they have to do so.
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  1267. If any of these “progressive” freshman have a half of a brain between them, they won’t join the “Democratic Caucus” or the Republican Caucus, but start a third Communist Caucus just to freak the rich the fuck out for reals this time and say, NOT ONE FUCKING INCH OF GIVE.
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  1268.  @ampulsion  A dollar will be worth more, but you won't use it to buy anything because you will get more for it next week.
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  1269. It's only the big five now. I mean the Walt Disney Co. owns 20th Century Fox, so that is just one company now, AT&T owns Warner Bros., Comcast owns Universal, Viacom owns Paramount/CBS, and Sony owns Columbia.
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  1270. This guys acts like places in rural America haven't been available for under $100k all over the place in the rust belt the whole time that prices went up everywhere else. This is not a new phenomenon.
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  1271. I will point out the only exceptions. JK Rowling's. 14% royalty on a bunch of books isn't exploiting anyone. A small licensing fee on the use of characters they created exploited no one. George Lucas giving most of the cast and production team backend participation in Star Wars and still becoming a billionaire probably not exploiting anyone there. Artists can create a ton of value and exploit no one. Game developers in this environment can do the same too. I mean digital publishing of software, books, music, and movies allows artists to make a lot of money from their labor with zero exploitation involved
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  1272. Congratulations.
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  1273. Harlan Sanders proves this true. I mean everytime that guy would get things going okay, the world turned upside down around him & he started back at square one. Then he started KFC with his car and a pressure fryer traveling to other people's restaurants to sell them his chicken recipe on a royalty system & he finally had lasting success after being old enough to draw social security.
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  1274. Who are these people who have a choice of a health care plan? They don't exist. You get the one your employer provided, you get the one you can barely afford, or you get none at all. Those are the choices.
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  1275. The corporate tax rate in Singapore is 4% lower than the US. Hardly a panacea.
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  1276.  @piotrwaniek  equally likely the 3 Seas Initiative becomes a Union of Eastern Europe outside the western imperial sphere, and outside the Russian sphere.
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  1277. I've been hearing that Georgian banks have been harder to deal with than in the past because of the troubles that TBC's management had in regards to a money laundering accusation and probe. Have you seen problems with companies using TBC for an operating account?
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  1278. Bernie Sanders won Howard County Iowa and St. Lawrence County New York in the 2016 primary. Hillary Clinton won St. Lawrence County in 2000 and 2006 in her Senate race. She won Howard County Iowa in 2008. In 2008 and 2012 Barack Obama won both Howard County Iowa and St. Lawrence County NY in landslides. In 2016 St. Lawrence County New York and Howard County Iowa went to Donald Trump with landslides. If you want to beat Trump you need to win St. Lawrence County New York and Howard County Iowa. This cycle Bernie has raised more money from those counties than any other candidate including Donald Trump. If you talk to voters in either of those counties they will tell you that the Clintons screwed them and that the centrist NAFTA JOE type Democrats screwed them. Bernie has their back and they know it, they would have voted for him over Trump in 2016 and still will today. They went with Trump because NAFTA screwed them. It's that simple people. How do I know? I live in the county next door to St. Lawrence County NY and I helped with 4 Congressional campaigns in the district which includes St. Lawrence County and in the 2009 special election here we elected the first Democratic Representative since 1854. Bill Owens was the deciding vote on Obamacare and it wasn't what we wanted. We wanted Medicare for All. Simple enough for you? Clear enough for you?
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  1279. No one should be rich if one person is poor because property is theft. Case in point the Walton's get $100 million richer each day. That means that each worker for that company could get $95 more per day and they would still get $5 million richer each day. If you can spend $1.85 billion a year you are a monster.
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  1280. I actually like Gnome. It works well for me.
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  1281. Now Joe needs to have a conversation like a 3 hour one with Prof. Richard Wolf.
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  1282. I think how you get to a socialist economy that is functional is via a libertarian socialism coupled with social democracy that does impose community or consumer ownership of utilities and banking, that allows the sole proprietorship to continue, but which through tax policy, regulation, incentives and a change in the corporate law converts capitalist corporations to worker and consumer or hybrid cooperatives. This would mean that LLCs and business corporations would be outlawed as a business entity, but cooperative corporations and sole proprietorships or partnerships with UNLIMITED LIABILITY would continue. This would be a market economy and it would have social democracy with public schools and universities. It would also have universal healthcare coverage, but delivered by doctor, nurse and other medical professional owned cooperatives and consumer owned cooperative hospitals. I think that Cuba is attempting to transition from the state capitalism of its previous period to this kind of worker owned open market cooperative economy today from what I understand. In America, I think this would require a period of enhanced social democracy. With a lot of local efforts to build up cooperative businesses along the lines f the Cleveland model and a lot of focus on building publicly owned state banks and a drive to build out more consumer owned credit unions as well before a serious effort at converting the economy could begin in earnest. It would probably take half a century or more to set up the transition period.
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  1283.  @saintburnsy2468  I mean yeah, because his love for Malaysia a stable democracy that ousted a clearly corrupt Prime Minister despite a lengthy run for his party's control of the legislature and his pending trial for looting the government's pension scheme screams a love for authoritarian regimes. I mean it almost as much as the fact that the former President of Georgia, noted for cleaning up the problems in his government and strengthening both the free market, democracy, and civil liberties in his country spoke at his most recent conference screams it. If his criticism was that Andrew is a fan of countries with lax tax enforcement authorities it might be a legitimate criticism, but authoritarian regimes?🤷🏼‍♂️
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  1284. As a C-Corp. I mean you can can sell up to $10 million of original issue 1202 stock in a C-Corp per year for tax free capital gains from such an entity. I mean grow your business, take all of the numerous tax deductions, especially the bonus depreciation and pay almost zero tax while growing the business and at most 21%. Go offshore and take the FEIE, foreign housing exclusion, per diems, use IRAs and 401(k)s and HSA, and expense tickets for travel to the company along with all of the other deductions not getting money out of the company tax free for you or at most subject to FICA, FUTA, and worker's comp fees. I mean you could get north of $200k a year or more even more if you are married out of a C-Corp mostly tax free while growing the company then sell that original issue stock as 1202 stock for up to $10 million and have a zero rate on the capital gains.
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  1285.  @user-dy2qq5wh4b  Or go north to Washington. It works for Microsoft and Amazon.
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  1286. Cayman Islands works for that as does BVI and so long as you only hold equities you can do so with reduced substance requirements. Labuan doesn't work badly in that scenario either.
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  1287. If you want the Green New Deal maybe throw some support to Kenneth Mejia in California 34 an actual Green running against a corporate Democrat who survived the jungle primary to face him in November.
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  1288.  @AKlover  if the Saudis stop pricing oil in dollars ending the US Dollar's reserve currency status you will be proven right and that is an even worse case scenario Stagflation 2.0. If the US dollar remains the reserve currency, the productivity gains we keep making because of technology means it will be impossible to hide the redundancy in the workforce baked in over the next two years of shut downs due to the virus and deflationary pressure will roar. Wages will fall, and the value of a dollar will rise. It's a very simple formula.
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  1289. Greg Collins except under the no fault statutes in most states, you cannot sue them most of the time and in the rare event you could, overcoming the hurdles to impose product liability you have to prove damages that are significant for it to be worthwhile for a plaintiffs attorney to pursue a cause of action. In other words unless the victim is a young surgeon who loses the use of their hands, the damages will typically be small and you would need to demonstrate malice in a negligent design to impose punitive damages. Also software updates are so easy to make and so inexpensive that software makers would have zero economic incentive not to correct a flaw, so the odds of malice being found is next to zero.
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  1290. Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg had taken his entire savings from whatever jobs he had growing up & put it in a Roth IRA & used that as the seed capital for Facebook. What this demonstrates is an excellent business strategy for all founders who intend to have an exit someday.
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  1291. As an American I know the Canadians burned down the White House and precisely the kind of ass hat to make them do it again has just been elected.
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  1292. Christian Vennemann why would anyone in NY or California not vote for the Green Party in every Presidential election if they are a progressive. Democrats win both states by millions of votes. They are the two safest states in the union for Democrats.
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  1293. Dean Boeckman private schools should be illegal in democratic republics.
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  1294. Dean Boeckman Finland succeeded. You can win the argument in the US too. You just have to make the right argument. 70% of us are egalitarians. 30% are not. You will never win the 30%, but you don’t have to. You just need the 70%.
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  1295. Christian Vennemann it makes total sense in a safe state to vote Green regardless of who the nominee of the Democratic Party is precisely to tell the Democratic Party and the nominee that its corruption is unacceptable, but also to help get the Greens to 5% of the vote specifically to get them General Election matching funds so that an alternative to the corrupt Democrats can continue to grow. It seems pretty obvious that the Justice Democrat’s route of trying to reform a corrupt party is not working. Even in New York that resulted in only 2 State Senate seats and 1 CD changing hands and NY has districts that are 85-95% Democratic. It resulted in ZERO US Senate wins. And less than a half dozen House seats overall and they had literally hundreds of candidates running. In my CD 10 candidates ran and the Justice Democrat’s ran a corporate party insider. Dylan Ratigan also ran. A local working class woman ran and was advised by a Green Party candidate who had garnered 11% of the vote in this very Republican district in 2014 to run as a Green. She didn’t. She came in second ahead of Ratigan. The Justice Democrat who has been a staffer for a corporatist State Assembly member came in fourth behind Ratigan and the winner was a former county legislator who was a long time DNC insider. Her campaign manager was literally the former State Party Chair who cast NY’s delegates for Clinton in 2016. The Republican incumbent trounced her by 70k votes. The Green Party candidate who did run was not nearly as strong as the 2014 candidate and picked up about 3k votes. Mind you in 2012 when the Greens ran, the Democrats were able to win the seat against the Republicans. This district is literally the district which in a 2009 special election voted in the deciding vote on the ACA. The Democrat from the district’s first vote in the House was the ACA, and he was the vote that put it over the top. When that Democratic incumbent retired in 2014 even if the Democrats had the 11% the Greens garnered they would have still lost by more than 10k votes. That being said for a midterm that race with our Green Party candidate increased voter participation in the CD by 5% and according to polling he took more Republican votes than Democratic votes in fact he took more Republican votes than either Democratic or independent.
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  1296. Christian Vennemann I wouldn’t call Kentucky a safe state with Sanders on the ballot, but I would call NY and California and Massachusetts, and Vermont and Minnesota, and Washington, and Oregon and Hawaii, and Maryland, and New Jersey, and Delaware safe states. The only Red States I would call safely Republican and encourage Green Party votes in with Bernie on the ballot would be Idaho, Wyoming, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Did you read my original comment? I talked about NY and California. Clinton won both states by margins which was larger than Trump’s margin in as many as ten states combined.
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  1297. Christian Vennemann perhaps because Scandinavia is fat to the right of my politics!
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  1298. David, could you Canadians please send election observers?
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  1299. If he broke the law, don’t sue, prosecute criminally. He should go to jail.
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  1300. That guy doesn't understand the difference between the rank and file and the establishment.
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  1301. Inside Edition back with Bill "Do It Live" O'Reilly.
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  1302. Alexander Hamilton immigrated from The Caribbean. Lafeyette came here from France. Baron Von Steuben who was the revolutionary general that trained the army was obviously from a German principality.
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  1303. Given the G.I.L.T.I. tax would you suggest an American in the midst of say a phased withdrawal from the US prior to renunciation using a Hong Kong company which is always fully offshore from Hong Kong, but not claiming offshore status with the Inland Revenue Department until after renunciation to avoid G.I.L.T.I. even after that scheduled 2025 rate increase, or would you advise making the offshore exemption claim from the start & just paying G.I.L.T.I. plus any additional taxes due from the added salary or profit distributions needed to cover the tax? I know that's an in the weeds question, but...
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  1304. The dude could have 100 million naira and still wouldn't have enough money to buy a typical house in a good American city. 100 million Nigerian Naira is worth only $258k USD. The 50,000 Naira she talked about in the beginning is $129 USD.
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  1305. And he is the one who is right.
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  1306. Zuckerberg is not the clock builder that Steve Jobs was, and he is not as good of a thief or marketer as Steve Jobs was. Elon Musk may be as good of a thief and marketer as Steve Jobs was, but he definitely lacks the clock building skills Jobs had. No one in the tech space currently aside from Bezos appears to be a clock builder. Bezos lacks the marketing prowess of Jobs, but he is a master thief and positioned his company to have a data advantage to know exactly what to steal. If Zuckerberg is betting on the Metaverse you can without a doubt do better betting against it. I think the lack of genuine human connection and interaction is slowing boiling to a strong head of steam that will explode those fantasies.
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  1307. The Young Turks according to the US Army’s manual on hangings the hangman’s chart says that at 181 pounds Epstein would have needed to have fallen between 5’7” and 5’9” to have achieved the 1000 to 1250 foot pounds of torque necessary to break vertebrae let alone the much harder to break hyoid bone. That dog don’t hunt. A friend who is a NY prison guard says it is simply not credible from a procedural point of view as well!
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  1308. @keith parkhill I think we are agreement that this guy could not have caused the damage that was found.
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  1309. She could have said no. She did not.
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  1310. Personally I still think Dennis Kucinich and his Department of Peace would be the best thing that could happen to the world. You can tell that he isn’t actually one of their puppets like the rest because they redistricted him out of office.
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  1311. I think a consumer owned cooperative makes more sense, but public financing to launch such an endeavor also makes sense.
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  1312.  @GeeeAus  Yet I have had plenty of things that didn't "just work" on Windows or Mac. All operating systems have the occasional WTF just happened moment.
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  1313.  @GeeeAus  I am waiting for the distro that decides everything is an app image with dependencies installed or everything is a flatpak with dependencies installed. Oh wait they do that. Developers more and more if they are not yet in a repo are doing so as well, so that issue is being resolved.
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  1314. Jimmy in Vermont the voters got “sticker shock,” because as a very small rural state that borders NY, Mass, and New Hampshire, a large percentage of its residents are routinely treated in those sister states because Vermont doesn’t have enough big hospitals and doctors. That meant they couldn’t take advantage of the cost savings of the state’s Medicaid program with service providers because so many providers were out of state.
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  1315. And probably another 20% live in Vancouver, BC which has a milder climate than most places at that latitude because of the Pacific.
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  1316. What would they say about and how would they describe those of us who support libertarian socialism with elements of social democracy?
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  1317. Isn’t it interesting that the Democratic Elections Commissioner in Broward County was determined by a court in a FOIL lawsuit to have illegally destroyed the ballots from the 2016 Democratic Primary Between Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova for Congress there? Isn’t it interesting when Canova begged the state Attorney General the Governor, and the US Attorney General to act to punish the criminal elections official they did nothing? Isn’t it amazing that same Democrat remains in charge of Broward’s elections?
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  1318. Terminal Insanity you have nothing to eat, you must work to earn money to be able to eat. That is called coercion, not a choice. There is no freedom in a capitalist society. There is wage slavery and ownership.
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  1319. Terminal Insanity we don’t see co-ops because capitalists cannot exploit their workers. As only .08% of businesses co-ops account for more than and about $135.5 billion of GDP and have a ten year survival rate 3x that of capitalist enterprises, they do work. THOSE ARE FACTS. The economic system is structured to disfavor that business model as a matter of law and the banks which currently control lending disfavor that form of ownership as a matter of fact because of their structure. The securities laws make capitalization of consumer owned or hybrid consumer and worker owned cooperative enterprise more difficult to capitalize than corporate forms of enterprise and that is yet another fact. Despite these facts there are roughly 22,000 cooperatives in the US with about $3 Trillion of assets. There are 27 million businesses in the US and less than 1% are cooperatives because of systemic impediments to a superior business model.
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  1320. I purged myself from the Democrats here in NY and became a Green. Given the fact that our candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins was a supporter of Bernie when he first ran for US Senate in Vermont with the Liberty Union Party in the 1970s and that Howie is in fact a co-founder of Green Party USA and one of the smartest political minds I have ever seen speak, and a retired Teamster who loaded trucks at UPS in Syracuse, and a former member of a worker-owned cooperative construction company, and that he has been arrested for protesting environmental and human rights issues numerous times, and of course for demonstrating in support of peace, it is easy to believe Howie means what he says and says what he means. Last election I am proud to say I'm one of almost 200,000 New Yorkers who voted for Howie. This time, I hope we draw 500,000 voters and think we have a shot as Howie's numbers in 2014 nearly mirrored Teachouts with very little drop off. There are two kinds of people in New York, those who are done with Cuomo and the corruption and those who are brainwashed. The number who are done with Cuomo and the corruption grows daily.
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  1321. FreedomFox1 what if that is reverse psychology because the people in charge know that to manufacture consent they need people to believe an insider is an outsider?
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  1322. Am I the only person who thinks Game developers should take advantage of WSL to develop games natively for Linux that can then be used as a Windows version by having an EXE that is little more than a bash script to launch a command prompt to launch an AppImage of their new game in WSL. I mean they could have the AppImage includ the display driver and a Windows manager to run the game through WSL on Windows and basically use the same AppImage to configure the idealized environment on Linux by configuring essentially KVM environment for the game on whatever Linux system it is running on. Have a little script in the AppImage that IDs the GPU and sets it up to passthrough the optimized settings. Am I crazy to think that Microsoft gave Linux a backdoor to take them out once an for all that we have just failed to exploit?
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  1323. The last two South Carolina polls show Bernie in a tie in South Carolina. If Bernie wins the debate big tonight, South Carolina is going to be a bigger win than Nevada.
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  1324. Why? If you are a lawful permanent resident you should absolutely have the right to vote on how where you live is governed.
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  1325. ​ @jessicamoellerhndojhiplnvc1302 it is not a privilege. It is a right.
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  1326. Loius stop deluding yourself in America they would make the guy President.
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  1327. The thing about Antigua is that if you want to be mobile, keeping it available as a potential tax residence with a short 30 day per year stay as a non-citizen may be more valuable, especially as the OECS freedom of movement agreement gives you the right to live & work in any CBI country in the Caribbean with a citizenship in one of the other CBI countries. St. Kitts has more visa free access, Dominica has access to some interesting countries that Antigua doesn't give you. If you really need South Africa access visa free, then it's your best choice, but...
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  1328.  @KJ-bc3de  OECS has a freedom of movement that is separate from Caricom. OECS countries have indefinite stay & free movement rights like the EU for citizens as I understand. Caricom has a freedom of movement for skilled workers, including artists, & college graduates that is separate from OECS. Caricom does have a list of specific universities, but you can have a degree granted from a non-Caricom university certified for the Caricom rules. There are two freedom of movement regimes in the Caribbean one under OECS, the other under Caricom. Caricom has more countries, but more limitations. The information I listed was not false.
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  1329. Drm R 18% of the US population controls 50% of the Seats in the US Senate. We do not live in a Democracy. We live in a badly gerrymandered Republic with a Senate designed to protect slave owners and their land. Wyoming population 580,000 gets 2 Senators and 1 Congress person. I live in NY. My CD has 700,000 voters. I get 2 Senators too even though I live in a state with 18 million people. NY and California have more people than are included in the 18% of Americans who get to vote in small states that control 50% of seats in the Senate. While Rhode Island, Delaware, and Vermont are Democratic and amongst those small states. Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Alaska, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Idaho more than offset the small states Democrats represent. Democrats routinely garner several million more votes for the House and Senate than Republicans and remain in the minority thanks to gerrymandering and the fact that we are a Republic designed to protect slave owners and their land from the people. We are not a democracy and the sooner you learn that, the sooner you will figure out we need a new constitution.
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  1330. FACT: In Andrew's lifetime the United States Government has raised taxes 0 times. It has lowered taxes on income with 5 separate tax cuts enacted with bipartisan support in each instance, often with one party controlling Congress and the other party controlling the Presidency.
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  1331. Wow, when “journalists”outright lie like this, it gives Trump who is incapable of telling the truth appear like an honest man.
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  1332. Healthcare reform was the centerpiece of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. Jerry Brown's primary campaign had as it's centerpiece campaign finance reform and he limited himself to a maximum donation of $100 BEFORE THERE WAS AN INTERNET! Brown was my guy because I knew if you did what Brown wanted you would get what Clinton campaigned on. Even at 16 I could spot a con man!
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  1333. Bernie isn't far enough left for me, so they are gonna have big trouble getting anyone out for Bloomberg.
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  1334. SeaRose you can tell people how many employees to hire through tax policy. Eisenhower did it and the economy grew like wildfire!
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  1335. The US Congress is transferring all the world's wealth to the east this summer when they default on the national debt. It's planned and is happening in June. By August the Yuan will be the reserve currency
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  1336.  @SenorJuan2023  the value of the US dollar has fallen about 10% at the same time that the value of a barrel of crude oil has fallen 10%. That never happens, but when it does you can be assured the global economy will have a giant crash. Why? The same reason it crashed in the 1920s/1930s a transfer of power from one empire to the next. The British empire relinquished it's power to the US in the 1930s. Now it is time for the US to relinquish it's power to Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the emerging world economies in particular of Southeast Asia.
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  1337. I grew up in the era when Geraldo would bring klansman onto his show and let them expose themselves as morons and so would Howard Stern and Morton Downey, Jr. It was great because you could let assholes speak and they exposed themselves as assholes. I think your podcast does that and it exposes greatness as greatness too in the same way. The people who don’t get that like the people who don’t get Chappelle’s jokes. Fuck ‘em. I learned that by watching Richard Prior and George Carlin and Bill Hicks as a child.
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  1338. No Bernie is not making history. Al Gore went 56 for 56 in the 2000 primaries.
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  1339. Stripe operates in the same manner, but will refund the $15 fee if you win a disputed charge claim. Stripe has been doing this for two years. What are other merchant account providers doing? The two leading online merchant services are operating in the same manner, so what are other payment gateway/merchant account providers doing? Is this the new industry standard already? Amazon Pay does refund fees when you make a refund, but that disputed charge fee of $20 for them is charged whether you win or lose by the looks on an actual dispute. Only the $0.30 authorization fee or dispute fee are non-refundable.
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  1340. Someone should point out that a significant portion of the smart phone components are manufactured by Chinese State Owned Companies, so in essence the smart phone is a socialist device. Also the Internet which it utilizes was a state sponsored project of DARPA. The GPS the smart phone uses relies on government owned satellites too. There is at least as much socialism in that “expensive” phone as there is capitalism. Also Eastern Europe before the wall collapsed had cars and phones. It’s not like socialism precludes having goods and services.
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  1341. There may be a colorable argument that ad blocking and obtaining access to material which is served subject to a TOS that you will not circumvent ads served by the website is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the USA which would be a felony. It's a colorable argument the US Attorney's Office could make. Will they? I don't know are you blocking ads to access Disney's content because with the lobbying pull they have, the US Attorney's Office might enforce it against you to help them.
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  1342. This was brought on since the minute the Rothschild's, Warburgs & Rockefellers captured the US government in 1913.
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  1343. This looks like a case for Luigi.
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  1344. If economies are measured in purchasing power parity per capita, the USA is 62% higher than the EU, but the US data is skewed by the fact that like in the rest of the developing world, the US has pockets of extreme wealth and extreme poverty, those disparities in the developed world in Europe and much of the rest of the developed world like Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, Canada, New Zealand and Australia have mostly been softened through the social safety nets and other smart policy considerations ignored by crony capitalist oligarchies dominant in the developing world like the United States. When comparing GDP is measured as PPP equivalent, China outpaces the USA by 24%, and there are countries in Europe which dwarf the USA in real GDP per capita as well, Ireland, Switzerland, Luxembourg and in those countries PPP is essentially 1:1, so they are beating the USA massively.
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  1345. Mike Harrington the biggest reduction in that will come from the same reduced costs of batteries and reduced costs of solar panels that he mentioned, but also lab grown meats. The two Great disruptions of the 2020s will be autonomous EVs and the end of animal agriculture and mono crop agriculture which will drastically reduce CO2 and methane emissions. The agriculture changes and automation changes coming in the next decade will make what the Internet did in the 1990s and the car did in the 1910s and the computer did in the 1980s look like what the telephone, telegraph, and steam engine did to everything before them.
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  1346. It's going to be funny when in the Sanders White House NBC gets no press credentials, but The Young Turks do, or The Hill does, or Status Coup has a press pass.
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  1347. If that happens they will really hate Governor or US Senator Ocasio-Cortez running in 2024 for President and kicking their asses!
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  1348. El Espanol es una idioma muy facil de apprender. Now my grammar may not be the best there, but I suspect my broken Spanish translates. Aside from a spelling error, deepl only added El & de to that sentence to fix the grammar.
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  1349. He just espoused the position of the Democratic Party who has no ideas. That is why the party is bankrupt and a new party must emerge that is neither Democrat or Republican and one of the two corporate parties must subsume the other.
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  1350. The stock market rigging is all about beating Sanders.
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  1351.  Loraine Jones  no they are stealing pensions.
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  1352. He could have improved it even further by having Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt's speech on the subject of healthcare for all playing over his picture. There is a recording of TR talking about essentially 90% of Bernie's platform.
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  1353. When the company’s broadcast license comes up for renewal Black Lives Matter needs to Mount a national letter writing campaign against KTVU’s relicensing!
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  1354. Craig Harrison this isn’t about the crime it is about a publicly licensed broadcaster’s action. Clearly you have a problem with basic comprehension of the issue. The issue is about representation and characterization by the station, not the nature of the cause of the person’s death, rather the false characterization of the crime victim by the station. Either your racism or your lack of basic comprehension skills is showing. I suspect the former.
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  1355. Gabbard is going to take out Sanders and Biden for Warren.
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  1356. Atom was released under the MIT license, someone can take the project on as their own and keep developing it should they choose to do so.
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  1357. It's a fifth amendment taking under US law & the constitution to render a property valueless through government action.
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  1358. Knowing that Howie Hawkins is without a doubt going to be the Green Party nominee. If Jesse is on the ballot he beats Biden and Trump in enough states to be the next Abe Lincoln and end one of those two parties.
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  1359. Sweden has the strongest tech community outside Silicon Valley in the world. They also have multiple companies and founders worth a billion dollars or more. In fact, per capita more than the US. Forbes has called their fellow social democracy Denmark the best country for business in the world.
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  1360. Windows 95 was released when Bill Gates was 40. I mean he was born in 1955, need I say more?
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  1361. As it currently operates, the European Union is quite similar to the United States of America's government under the Articles of Confederation in that member states could limit action by the central government, with the European Council it also has adopted the quite assanine indirect democracy of the US Senate under the current US Constitution prior to the 17th amendment which allowed for the direct election of Senators by the citizens of member states. Any proposal at this late date which enshrines representative government over direct democracy seems antithetical to freedom and justice to my way of thinking, and any agreement which strips sovereignty from member states in favor of that is troubling as it allows forces of oligarchical tyranny to consolidate power from behind the scenes in Europe has they have already done in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
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  1362. Anthony Jeselnik or whatever his name is, is an idiot because that special was released on HBO a long time ago. I’ve watched it! He is just factually wrong about everything he said!
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  1363. Meanwhile I had two middle school teachers who remained in their teaching positions 30 years after co-founding what became a successful regional chain of franchised sub sandwich shops, ultimately becoming a publicly traded company of which they were board members when they were teaching me. No Cap!
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  1364. So the US government, the EU, Canada, Australia, the UK, China, ASEAN, Mercursor, South Korea, Japan & the African Union need to get together & legislate a global standard for the charging plug. Why are we letting idiots compete on something this simple & important for the future.
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  1365.  @drelliott2833  well I can tell you that in 2008 and 2012 Obama won the county next door by 3k to 4k votes. 58% of the vote. In the 2016 primary Bernie Sanders got 600 more votes than Donald Trump who won with 55% of the vote his primary. Bernie won the county primary with 58% of the vote. In November of 2016 Trump won the county with 51.5% of the vote. The county is fairly evenly divided as to registration numbers about 20k Democrats and 20k Republicans about 20k independents. Obama got 2000 to 5000 more votes than Trump got. Bernie GOT 3X THE PRIMARY VOTES OF OBAMA IN 2008. There were only 300 MORE DEMOCRATIC VOTES IN THE COUNTY PRIMARY THAN IN 2008. In other words there was MORE DEMOCRATIC ENTHUSIASM FOR BERNIE AND MORE ENTHUSIASM OVERALL. BERNIE WILL WIN IN THR BIGGEST LANDSLIDE SINCE 1964.
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  1366. You throw around all sorts of accusations, but it is slander without a shred of evidence. Prove that the money was made unlawfully. You can't, so you just make things up and point fingers. Shoddy journalism. People are legally avoiding taxation by following the rule of law. People are legally obtaining residency in jurisdictions because they want to live somewhere presumably, because they prefer the lifestyle in those locations, but somehow the mere fact that someone has been successful in business makes them evil. Just admit that you don't like when people succeed and you want Britain to become a nation of failures.
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  1367.  @kens4104  Having to, has nothing to do with it. Companies dictating obsolescence of hardware is the issue.
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  1368. TikTok is killing it with the TikTok Shop feature because it is a more honest way to earn money. They help sellers directly connect with creators and users to sell their wares to users and users buy, which gives TikTok a revenue share as a marketplace provider, and creators can get an affiliate commission for promoting something a business wanted to sell to their audience. The creator chooses what they support. The users know they are supporting the platform and the creator and the company that is selling them something they want. It's not ad supported content, but ad adjacent content and it is a more fair and more transparent way to fund content. YouTube would do well to learn from TikTok's example.
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  1369. I bet you wish that you had listened to my advice to move to Mexico now.
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  1370.  @305mom7  check the statistics on how many people are naturalized in each country in South America. It is edifying. Peru naturalizes more people than Paraguay annually, but it is still less than 1k people a year the last I checked. Paraguay was less than 500 I believe. Chile naturalized about 10k people, this despite the fact that there are about a million immigrants living in the country. Argentina has the highest number of naturalizations in South America and it is only in the tens of thousands of people a year. Mexico has the highest rate of naturalization in Latin America. Chile has stated they want to make naturalization easier, but they do put a lot of roadblocks in place, so it is a believe it when I see it scenario to me. Argentina and Mexico are your best bets for naturalization in Latin America and both are high tax countries. It is possible with proper planning to avoid Mexico becoming your center of vital interest and avoid tax residency there while naturalizing, but it will take a lot of planning and proper documentation. Getting caught in either the Mexican or Argentinian tax system takes some effort to leave.
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  1371. There is not going to be one penny of additional stimulus. The neo-liberals in both parties have stimulated their constituents -the Uber rich exactly enough and put them in a position to go bargain hunting, so the rest of us superfluous laborers can die now as far as they are concerned.
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  1372. One big problem is we don’t know how to create steel without a furnace that burns carbon. Hard to deal with fires in space. They are massive hazards for spacecraft.
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  1373. In baseball they have a luxury tax on excessive payrolls that means the Yankees don’t win the World Series every year. Actually a tax helps make things more fair in baseball so it is a worse analogy than he even thinks.
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  1374. A guy who pushed papers and presses buttons and makes money by robbing workers and investors’ perspective on a work day is nothing like a guy who lumps furniture for a living. When I was in college I worked a summer job with a guy in his late 50s who was moving furniture and a guy in his early 70s who was still moving furniture. They are both dead. Neither of them ever retired. My father died 3 months shy of age 64. He worked up until he got cancer. He started working when he was 12. He earned a military retirement he never collected which my mother gets. He earned a federal civilian employee retirement which he collected for about 10 years while he continued to work full time at another job. My dad was a mechanic most of his adulthood, but did construction and ran a hydro dam. That is actually tough work keeping ice out of the racks in the winter and keeping debris out of the dam. Also fixing part on in when needed is not easy. If that guy was out freezing his balls off chopping ice from a power dam at 63 he wouldn’t have wanted to keep working until he died. If he was lugging a baby grand piano up a flight is stairs with 6 other guys which the 70 something guy did with me more than 20 years ago he would not want to do that on a 90 degree day with 100% humidity either. The fact that those people who worked that hard are broke at the end of their lives and that rich prick wants to keep working and thinks it is great makes me understand the movie Falling Down a lot better than I did when I was a kid.
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  1375.  @PP-uv1kw  Mexico, Guatemala, and the USA are the only countries on earth that enshrine gun ownership as a constitutional right. Do you know what else they have in common? Murder rates that skew well north of the median for the globe.
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  1376. If I see corporate news in my feed I skip over it. Do you know what that means? Corporate news doesn’t hit my feed. I won’t watch it. Boycott the corporate crap.
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  1377. You know what is most frightening about homelessness in America? 43% of the homeless are employed.
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  1378. Pelosi literally lives next door to the grandson of IBM Founder Tom Watson I know that because his sister-in-law is a family court attorney in the county where I worked as an attorney. When she visited her sister who was a Vogue model before marrying the grandchild of the IBM Scion their kids went trick or treating at Nancy's House.
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  1379. The TikTok ban bill violates the original constitutions bill of attainder clause. It violates the first amendment on the grounds of restricting free association and free speech and freedom of the press. It violates the fifth amendment ban on takings of private property through an extortionist mechanism. Nothing about that bill is kosher.
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  1380. AMD for the win. Dual monitors have worked out of the box every time I have installed a new distro, regardless of the flavor.
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  1381. Jimmy that phrase means that even if more people can make use of doctors and hospitals, there are only so many doctor’s hours and hospital beds available, so there might not be enough capacity to meet the increased demands. That means jobs would be created to meet the new demand, growing GDP and the economy while saving money. Imagine that saving money growing the economy!
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  1382. Unless and until a pizza chain makes all of their dough in NY or at least with water from NY, no one will have great chain pizza.
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  1383.  @JokinJoe  I am not talking about NYC. I am talking about Upstate.
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  1384.  @JokinJoe  I live in the area of NY with the water filtered by glacial deposits & it makes gas station pizza better than pizza anywhere else in the US.
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  1385. That’s why Linux is my next OS and why I love BlackMagic Design supporting Linux versions of DaVinci Resolve and Fusion and Fairlight.
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  1386. A complete lack of genuine in person friendships has them replacing real human interaction with therapy.
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  1387. If Beto is going to win it will be when unlikely voters vote.
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  1388. Fellas, NOBODY in college is a millennial. The Millennials ended as a generation in 1997. There may be stragglers who went to college five or six years or started late, but Generation 9/11 is in college now. They have never lived in a prosperous America or an America not at war or in an America where privacy rights and individual civil rights were respected, cherished and defended. They have never lived in a world without the Internet. When they were 8 years old at the oldest, YouTube existed. When they were 7 years old at the oldest Facebook existed.
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  1389. You need working capital to run a business. That requires current accounts somewhere.
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  1390.  @vinnieray6789  I am not in disagreement, and some of SVB's practices requiring companies loaned money to have all accounts with them needs further oversight and regulation to disallow those practices. I was just pointing out that there are decidedly reasons in large enterprises where uninsured current account balances could exists. Of course using the former CDARS now IntraFi Network could alleviate the issue and keep all accounts under the $250k threshold by depositing in multiple accounts at various banks in the network controlled by the master account at the primary bank, but if you have a thousand employees there is an above average chance that rents, utilities, insurance costs, advertising costs and payroll each month is going to run into at least the mid-seven figures if not into eight figures of monthly expenses you need to pay from a bank.
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  1391. If either Michael Sussman, the Green Party candidate for New York AG or Zephyr Teachout a potential Democratic nominee for AG are elected to that office there is going to be someone in the New York AG’s office who will indict Trump and convict his ass in a lower Manhattan court.
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  1392.  @sreejith5966  despite the fact that most developers working on open source projects work at major companies or for foundations supported by major companies on projects that multiple large companies use daily. I mean Azure uses a lot of Linux boxes, as does AWS, and GCP. There are animation studios that run on Blender who have full time coders on staff contributing to that project. Not to mention the thousands of small companies that have a full time coder devoting a couple of hours a week to projects they use daily in their company.
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  1393. Welcome to the Civil Defense/Public Health case for Medicare for All that I made the second someone suggested terrorism crossed with biological weapons in 2001. Give a martyr ebola, and send them to the five biggest airports in the world. Pandemic to follow. Do you know what stopped that in Nigeria. A massive public health response and the pure dumb luck of patient zero being an ambassador from Liberia who had great healthcare and money.
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  1394. There are no progressives running for President as a Democrat. Howie Hawkins supports the BDS movement and is the most likely nominee of the Green Party and a co-founder of the Green Party USA. The Democrats ARE NOT A PARTY OF PROGRESSIVES!
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  1395. I'm glad that during all of this my neighbors and I have not been building a fence, but well I take that back, we did put up a fence, around the garden we tilled and planted together to keep the critters out. Of course that fence is wire and steel post though. We also cleaned up each other's yards and helped put a new walkway in for one neighbor. I mean a koi pond that one neighbor hasn't had time to maintain since the family member who maintained it died now has a nice lawn they can maintain in its place thanks to the work we've done to help each other. We will have carrots, potatoes, beans, radishes and plenty of other veggies thanks to that garden. We should have enough potatoes to keep a lot of us fed all winter even if things get worse and there should be enough beans to give us all a lot of meals too. Oh, and here in Upstate NY we have a fairly big logging community -my uncle was a logger and a couple of my father's friends owned substantial logging companies. We have a lumber Mill here too that is locally owned. It has been idle since March and it has the same product sitting in it's yard that hasn't moved. There may be price demand, but the genuine demand isn't enough for the local Mill owners to re-open and this is a mill that has always paid minimum wage. My cousin's neighbor had worked at that Mill for years making peanuts and when he finally found a better job it was one of the happiest days of his life. What I am telling you is you have called this correctly sir. It is entirely market manipulation and it is worse than that because they won't pay what they are getting for their futures contracts to the actual suppliers.
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  1396. How much do you want to bet a Sanders/Kucinich ticket would win Ohio?
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  1397.  @drandel23  destabilizing foreign democracies for the benefit of American oligarchs is not a good thing.
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  1398. Moore is a fucking idiot!
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  1399. Trump has served his purpose for the powers that be. He got them their tax cuts. He gave them a way to try to re-ignite the Cold War -but the American people by and large ain’t buying that, so now his head will be put on the block and if he isn’t in federal prison in 2 years I would be very surprised. The powers that be have no desire to let people who meet the dollar value net worth membership requirements for the club who aren’t actually members of the club think they can aspire to join the ruling class, so the lesson that will be taught with Trump will be severe. He didn’t learn the most important lesson of Machiavelli, it is better to be the owner of the King who no one sees or knows about than to be the King.
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  1400. The decades are about to happen in ways that fifty percent of Americans don't see coming. And which the other fifty percent are already planning paths to escape.
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  1401. In a similar situation 100 years ago your country men's ancestors killed those claiming dominion and authority over them and constituted a new government. Probably the best idea for all people everywhere on earth today.
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  1402. What they are really crying about is that the P/E Ratio of the publicly traded companies that make them billionaires are not based in reality, but a hyperinflated market value that is fiction and this tax will expose it as a fraud because if the free cash flow from the actual ROI on the stock value of your public company can't easily pay a 2% asset tax, you are not getting a good ROI. Bill Gates has $106 billion in mostly MSFT stock and it produced about $376 million of earnings for the shares represented by that valuation. That is less than 4/10ths of 1% ROI. A reasonable rate of return is easily 6% and MSFT isn't generating even 1/2 of 1%. Amazon isn't much better. If is less than 2% ROI in free cash flow from assets.
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  1403. First rule: stop saying the word sorry. There is nothing to be sorry about. The Chicago rules apply. They send one of yours to the hospital, send two of theirs to the morgue.
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  1404. Black folks know and like Bernie. He has 2 million contributors on an email list. He has more money on day one of his campaign than any other candidate. He has 100% name recognition. He has at least 3 other candidates running on his platform with sincerity. He has members of the House who are in their seats because he inspired them to run and in state houses. He also has members of state and the national committee who became members because of him.
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  1405. This^^^^ so much this ^^^. Democracy in the Workplace and laws outlawing wage slavery in all forms are the best solution. Worker ownership is the future which prevents the bad outcomes.
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  1406. Jordan that guy was hired by the FBI in 1976 AFTER the Church Commission said Co-Intel-Pro was over.
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  1407. $5600 USD a month equals, $67,200 a year which is LESS than $112,500 a year which is the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. If you can earn that remote that means you pay $0 in US income tax on that money and if you are living in a country that does not tax a foreign salary you are paying $0 in income tax in that country TOO! You would still have to pay US social security tax, but you just gave yourself a 20% take home pay raise on average.
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  1408. Sue regardless because the courts are a third-party arbiter and all clauses in NY must be construed NARROWLY AGAINST THE INSURER. I say that as a professionally trained attorney.
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  1409. Royalties earned on copyrights and patents that you created are subject to social security as I understand it, but royalties from like an oil well lease, or the estate of an author collecting copyright royalties or trademark royalties are not subject to social security tax as I understand it. Of course if the family of the deceased author is actively engaged in the business of marketing the works, the royalties can become self-employment income. Royalties are a very fluid gray area in regards to self-employment taxes. An inventor who licenses a patent to a third-party company and is not actively engaged in the sales of the product is probably ok reporting that income in schedule E instead of schedule C, and the same may be true for the retired author whose works are published by a third-party when they are not actively selling their books anymore, but the IRS really wants that social security money from royalties for the most part.
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  1410. Hope they enjoy their exit tax and or the worldwide tax regime of the US for its citizens!
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  1411. OpenToonz is far and away the finest 2D animation software available. Full stop, so I hear you.
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  1412. They are expensive and more difficult than they used to be. The lump sum tax is high.
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  1413. Ha! Doing my best Matthews impression!
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  1414. Look at 2008 primary turnout of McCain, Obama, and Clinton in Obama to Trump counties in the rust belt. Look at Clinton, Sanders and Trump turnout in those same counties. Look at Obama general election numbers in those counties in 2008 and 2012 then look at Trump turnout in those counties in the general in 2016. Trump got McCain numbers in the primary and the general. Clinton did better in every county in the primary in 2008 than in 2016, but the 2016 primary turnout was typically HIGHER! In the nation as a whole overall turnout was higher in 2016 than prior elections hence Clinton getting 3 million more votes than Trump. In Obama to Trump counties Trump typically got the same numbers as McCain in the general from 2008, but Clinton got several thousand votes less than Obama in 2008 or 2012. In most of those counties not only did Sanders win the primary, he got more votes than either Clinton or Obama did in those counties in the 2008 primary. More of the Sanders voters from the primary turned out and voted Clinton than Clinton voters from 2008 did for Obama. We know that from exit polling. Who did not turn out in those counties were independents who had voted for Obama who were excited by Sanders or at least whom one could safely assume were excited by Sanders based on his numbers versus Obama's numbers in the primaries in those counties. Oh and the census data shows population in most of those counties was essentially flat. Demographically they were the same. That is why Trump got virtually identical numbers to McCain in both the primary and the general. Sanders independents stayed home in the Obama to Trump swing counties in the rust belt which decided the election. They would vote for Bernie. What is more, state specific polls from 2016 to today show that Bernie Sanders expands the map versus Trump. Utah in multiple polls favors Bernie over Trump. Texas in multiple polls goes to Bernie over Trump. Arizona goes Bernie over Trump. The great plains states are purple in a Bernie vs Trump race.
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  1415.  @chrisd7733  my understanding is that unless you were a native born citizen of one of the Ibero-American countries it does not impact the speed to citizenship in Spain. I don't know that I would pursue Argentine citizenship regardless because if they were to change the laws to take advantage of CRS to implement a citizenship based global tax which some Argentine politicians have discussed, you cannot renounce Argentine citizenship. I think Buenos Aires would be a place that I would want to spend time in with some regularity likely as a tourist, but honestly everything I have seen about the Algarve leads me to believe it is a place I would genuinely want to live and I think I could structure business affairs in a manner that would allow me to keep taxes to a very low amount while obtaining citizenship there and for a few years subsequent with the benefits of the NHR & Simplified Regime. Argentina would be somewhat harder to minimize taxes if one were to be resident there. After obtaining Portuguese citizenship I might want to pursue residency in Uruguay or Paraguay while visiting in Argentina, but it's not a place I would want to reside while maintaining a US passport because there is no totalization agreement and no DTA between the US & Argentina. Yes it takes a little longer to become Portuguese, but of the Tier A passports it's the one that you can get residency with the least money via the D7 and it is the one with the best tax minimisation with the right structuring.
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  1416. That second citizenship in Turkmenistan really limits your travel options. Especially since dual citizens have trouble leaving & needing a transit visa to get to most of the few Caribbean Islands or Ecuador will be rough. Thank God Turkey & Singapore & Addis Ababa are travel hubs, or it would be really tough getting to the few places in the Eastern hemisphere available to visit, but it is nice to know they are one of the countries whose citizens that Namibia will happily welcome for a visit.
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  1417. Have you examined 2008 Obama vs Hillary vs McCain turnout in the primaries in Obama to Trump counties in the rust belt? I have. Have you examined 2016 Sanders vs Clinton vs Trump turnout in the primaries in those Obama to Trump counties? I have. In most counties Sanders did better than Obama and Trump and the races were still equally competitive in terms of Republican and Democratic nomination races. Sanders beat not only Obama in most of those counties with their primary totals, he beat Clinton's numbers in both 2008 and 2016. In most counties he beat Trump by thousands of votes. In many counties Clinton in second place beat Trump, despite the fact that Ted Cruz and John Kasich did poorly, but were still running. Trump typically doubled up their votes. In most counties Trump's primary numbers were on par with McCain. The bigger difference is that in both 2008 and 2012 there were typically thousands more votes for Obama than there were votes for Trump in the general election. Independent voters who it is likely safe to assume were excited by Sanders given his higher turnout than Obama in the primary stayed home. Trump won those counties purely because of lower turnout. Overall turnout in 2016 was higher than 2008 and 2012, but not in Obama to Trump counties. In those counties turnout was lower. Those counties needed a Sanders on the ticket. Oh and census numbers in those counties were mostly fairly flat.
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  1418.  @micahatkins5286  it is above average empirical data that is certainly more reasoned than Carville.
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  1419. Dennis Kucinich.
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  1420. My Uncle Bob retired at age 52. He is 80 now and very healthy.
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  1421. When you make Trump, look a compulsive liar, look like a truth teller by telling bald faced lies like this, CNN loses all credibility.
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  1422. FUN FACT: They dumped the tea in Boston Harbor from the British East India Company's ship BECAUSE they were EXEMPTED from the tax while every other importer had to pay it. The revolution was not about having to pay taxes. The revolution was about crony capitalists having an unfair advantage in the market. The revolution was about insider corruption. The revolution was about a lack of genuine representation in Parliament. The revolution didn't happen until after Parliament expelled the non-voting emissary from multiple colonies who merely informed Parliament of what the colonies wanted. That emissary was a journalist from Philadelphia named Ben Franklin. He is the only man to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris, AND the Constitution of 1787, in other words the only man to sign all three documents that created the current United States of America.
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  1423.  @AB-yw2xc  You aren't paying NY property taxes then, because $6k a year in property taxes is easily 5% of your income.
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  1424. Chicago & New York have nothing on New Orleans. Never have and never will.
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  1425. Ty a freshman congresswoman being for the Green New Deal got a Republican controlled Senate to have a vote on the Green New Deal, and a Republican Senator from Tennessee to state they support a “Manhattan Project” to get us clean energy in five years. The Manhattan Project employed 120,000 people and spent the equivalent when adjusted for inflation of $300 billion to build the bomb. That much effort and money could get commercially viable fusion reactors from the theoretical stage to a reality in the next five years. Imagine what a sitting President in favor of the Green New Deal could do if a Freshman congresswoman can move the ball that far?
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  1426. Bernie Sanders is suffering from devastating landslide victories. When will he drop out?
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  1427. David, if they steal it, you might want to pay attention to likely Green Party nominee and Green Party USA co-founder Howie Hawkins. He and Bernie have been friends since the 1970s when Howie worked on Bernie's Liberty Union Campaign for the US Senate in Vermont.
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  1428. @Jack R not from what I saw at the caucus.
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  1429. Anna, slow your roll, PERJURY which Clinton committed, is a felony and he belonged in jail, just like Trump. Clinton lied under oath during a civil deposition. That is a felony and as a licensed attorney he was well aware that he was committing a crime!
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  1430.  @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917  why yes we can with a Yale or was it Harvard study of opinion polling and economic class that shows when an opinion is in the majority, unless it enjoys majority support from the top 1/10th of 1% economically, it has no impact on whether or not that position is adopted.
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  1431. Someone needs to sue in California and all these states with ballot iniative measures to protect the federal constitutional right to a republican form of government. Direct democracy is antithetical to the federal constitution and the several states are guaranteed a republican form of government by article 4 section 4. That right needs someone to sue to enforce it.
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  1432. You just explained why there will be a market contraction in terms of housing available. Owners have zero incentive to sell because most of the owners are still employed or are drawing their social security checks. A handful of small mom & pop landlords will sell out to REITS funding the pensions of the employed and the social security set.
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  1433.  @r.pres.4121  Merida, Mexico is one of the safest places on earth and very walkable. There are parts of Mexico city that are very safe and walkable as well. Just like anywhere there are bad neighborhoods to avoid and there are great very safe places to live. I mean there are parts of Chicago you drive through doing 85 and there are parts that are as safe as Canada.
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  1434.  @rubensnogueira5838  my sources on that would be the annual Corporate Tax Highlights from Deloitte and PWC's tax residence website regarding Portugal.
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  1435.  @zeastburg  with management and control rules in Portugal and CFC rules, it could be tricky, and may mean there is no real tax benefit, in fact it may mean you are in a worse tax position.
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  1436. They have actually voted repeatedly to become a state. PR becoming a state is at the top of Democrats agenda along with DC.
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  1437. Plenty of EU citizenships allow you to leave the country for zero tax places without issue. They also allow you to visit Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as Mexico, Morroco, and Japan visa free. Several countries which require visas for most citizenships.
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  1438. Depending on how you receive income & how much you are making ie remote work, investment income, time to citizenship, a host of criteria really, obtaining a residency permit in various EU jurisdictions may be beneficial or practical. I mean most EU countries, not all, but most, allow dual citizenship. If you have $1 million to invest your options are different than if you are living paycheck to paycheck. Your options are different if you are earning an income from rents and royalties than having a job that allows you to work remotely from anywhere. Of course that job's definition of anywhere may change if your location impacts their tax residency and reporting requirements. There are a lot of variables that must be considered. An EU citizenship gives you a lot of options for places to live in Europe long term, but using your days inside and outside the Schengen zone properly if you are nomadic can allow you to potentially live all over Europe without ever being a resident using only tourist visas. How long this will remain the case may remain to be seen as the tax world and the labor enforcement rules race to catch-up with the new remote work reality.
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  1439. By taxing overpaid asshats like him and by reducing the offense budget by $650 billion annually.
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  1440. lcyw20 gerrymandering so bad that a Republican state court wouldn’t let it stand in several states actually explains the problem.
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  1441. WKZ On Tech you don’t understand why the United States is the world’s reserve currency then. The reason everyone trades in the US dollar is because OPEC and Saudi Arabia in particular prices oil in US Dollars. The crude oil that Saudi Arabia sells in dollars creates the floor level value of the US dollar.
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  1442. Amazon's margin is too low for it to be effected by this tax or G.I.L.T.I. Enough said?(Ha).
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  1443. I mean it seems pretty obvious the cat just wants you, not so much the microphone. I have one who is exactly the same.
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  1444.  @EK-uz7ln  Greece will never allow Turkey to become an EU member state and it is barely a NATO member.
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  1445. Inverse short ETFs are where revolutionaries should be putting their money. It may take a loss, or it may turn a tidy profit and speed the coming collapse.
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  1446. As an attorney my thoughts are that the problem would be better served with age limits. New York imposes age limits on judges because mental fitness can and often does decline with age. If you are 70, you might be fine. If you are 103 you might be fine, but the lack of certainty as to when Justices will need to be replaced is actually a problem. A bigger problem is the fact that an unfit judge who continues to breath can remain on the court. If Scalia has survived and was on life support, but brain dead from a stroke rather than a heart attack, he could have remained in that state and absent impeachment -for which there would be no criminal cause-he would hold a seat, but an even numbered court would need to continue its work in his absence. The advances in life extension that are likely to happen in the next two decades make it more troubling. When viral gene therapies allow aging to be turned off or reset in 2040 the possibility of a Supreme Court Justice who is 200 years old and has nothing in common with their contemporaries is frightening.
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  1447. This video and it's lead speaker ignore the fact that FATCA & CRS were in existence at the time of this reporting and multiple banks in those jurisdictions entered into compliance agreements with the IRS and EU tax authorities to restore their ability to transfer funds internationally. it also ignores the fact that most of these countries had enacted economic substance statutes after pressure from the US and EU regarding sanctions against their financial institutions which hobbled a lot of these small island nations and or small nations overall. Compliance costs with legal tax avoidance and the G.I.L.T.I. tax regime in the US made many of these tax deferral or tax avoidance regimes useless because of CFC rules. Other B.E.P.S. actions in regards to withholding taxes further eroded the usefulness of these tools basically bankrupting a lot of these small countries and destroying their leading financial services industries.
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  1448. The problem with the RussiaGate bullshit is that Americans know that the gaslighting that occurs at the hands of US corporations and the American intelligencia dwarfs anything any foreign actor can do and quite frankly persuasion is fair game in most Americans minds. We don't think the first amendment disappears at the border. We are for freedom of speech everywhere. At least most of us, so we figure if a foreign country wants to persuade us for someone because it doesn't hurt their interests even if it is a cynical effort, we assume our bullshit detectors are good enough that it is meaningless in the grand scheme of things, and guess what, it actually is meaningless
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  1449. Calyx OS is making an interesting dent in terms of walking middle ground for people who need flexibility to use certain tools.
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  1450. He is married to a Republican. Tells me all I need to know. I don't care how hit a woman is, she is too dumb for me if she is a Republican.
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  1451. A program that is no more.
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  1452. I mean Switzerland is a signatory to the Haugue Convention on Trusts and will apply the Cook Islands law to a bank account held by a Cook Islands Trust in regards to the US judgment, ergo, the analysis is potentially a bit lacking. Likewise the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man, along with Liechtenstein all pretty good banking jurisdictions, and 9 Canadian provinces, but of course not Quebec or any of the territories have signed on to the Haugue Convention as well, meaning yet another fairly respectable asset haven to hold some money in a trust account exists in most of Canada. After 2 years the fraudulent conveyance theory goes out the window in the Cook Islands and you have to in fact try the case in the Cook Islands because they don't honor foreign judgments and good luck finding an attorney licensed in the Cook Islands to take your case who won't have to conflict out because they already do so much work with Cook Islands Trust Companies managing the trust. It seems that while Switzerland and Leictenstien do honor foreign judgments as do Canada, and the British Isles, if they also honor trust rules, they won't send the money back to the defendent aka creditor absent a finding by the Cook Islands court in favor of the plaintiff.
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  1453. Who is buying a refrigerator right now? Who is buying new shirts or pants? If you have extra money and your clothes are tattered, you might buy clothes right now to last for a few years, but aside from food, most goods are overproduced today and will be for a long time unless the USA adopts some kind of UBI or a worker retention payment plan like most European countries adopted with the government paying wages while people stay home. Most places will not reopen even when they can because no one has any fucking money and if they do, they are not going anywhere to risk getting sick, especially because they just lost their health insurance.
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  1454.  @olgierdanotv1893  there are remote places that are extremely far down of likely targets unlikely to get significant fallout.
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  1455.  @squiggy18  I mean the US President, the US House and US Senate have all said the US is gonna default on the debt. I believe people when they tell you they are gonna bankrupt the country.
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  1456.  @tubawilhelm11  not true, he appeared in that one episode of Roadies.
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  1457.  charmander  old people hate gays.
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  1458.  charmander  I live right next door to an Obama to Trump county in the rust belt. It swung 9 points. In 2016 during the primary Sanders got 2k more votes than Trump and 2k more votes than Clinton. Obama got 3k more votes in 2012 and 5k more votes in 2008 than Trump got in 2016. In 2008 Obama got 4k LESS votes than Clinton in that same county during the primary and 3k less votes than McCain during the primary.. By the way that county LITERALLY is the reason Obamacare is the law. It's vote totals during the 2009 special election that installed the member of the House who was the deciding vote - the day after his election the ACA passed the House by his vote- was more than half of the first Democrat to win that district since 1854's margin of victory. In other words that county is a damn good bellwether and it matches Ohio, PA, MI, and WI Obama to Trump counties demographically. The landslide would not just be the 3 million more votes that Clinton got with Bernie, but the several million voters who cast ballots for Obama that stayed home. Oh and by the way, that county I described had only about a 500 person difference in population during that 8 year period and is flat in the last four years population wise. And Clinton primary voters in 2008 were 1/2 as likely to have voted for Obama as Sanders voters were to have voted for Clinton. In other words, independent Obama voters who voted in the 2008 and 2012 general election stayed home in 2016, but the enthusiasm difference in the primary results between 2008 and 2016 is pretty obvious why they stayed home. Those independents who could not vote in the state's closed primary -the most closed primary in the nation by the way, wanted Sanders! Oh and the Republicans have a slight registration advantage in that county, but it is fairly evenly matched.
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  1459.  @kimberlyscaliatine1120  Trump had the highest turnout of any sitting President ever, more than Obama in 2012 and Reagan in 1984. He doubled their turnout or better in the NH Primary. In 1984 Reagan won 49 states. Only Minnesota, Mondale's home state voted for the former VP.
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  1460. I think Trelby with a super simple interface and easy to use macros is the best screenwriting software I have ever used.
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  1461. It was Occupy that got it going.
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  1462. DarkSideSixOfficial they are both weak sauce compared to the original Green New Deal that Howie Hawkins proposed and which they have co-opted and watered down.
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  1463. robin tyner the actual Green New Deal as proposed by Howie Hawkins goes much further than either the OFF Act of the watered down Green New Deal proposed by Democrats. Imagine that, a leader of an environmentalist party going further than Democrats on the environment.
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  1464. robin tyner that is less likely to happen and matter than Howie winning the Presidency next year. The republicans are wholly owned subsidiaries of the oil and gas industry and the Democrats are rented by them.
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  1465. Certainly doesn’t require unobtainium.
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  1466. chexh catialo Kevlar or Zylon tethers attached to an orbital ring structure floating in a stationary position over the earth on a magnetic field generated by a wire traveling at orbital velocity inside the structure at between 80 and 300 miles above the earth are possible with current materials. The tensile strength of those tether materials have break lengths that mean they could be used for this purpose. Like I said, no unobtainium necessary! There is an engineering and construction difficulty issue to be resolved in terms of slowing the anchor points from orbital velocity to stationary speed using propulsion and magnetism to freeze the anchor points to allow the tethering. There is also a challenge of slowly lowering tether so that it doesn’t burn up at free fall speed upon atmospheric re-entry, but it is not a materials problem.
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  1467. Ford just built an all electric F-150 prototype that hauled a million pound train like it was nothing. I imagine that those communities will love the new and improved F-150 electrics that are even tougher!
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  1468. My ancestors were too many generations back for the Swedes, too many generations back for the Canadians, too many generations back for the Irish, and too many generations back for the British. And so many generations back for the Dutch & French that I have no idea which of my ancestors exactly were Dutch or French. The Mohawks can't help me with a different passport, so... Ancestry is of no use to me.
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  1469. Barbados has visa free access to Equatorial Guinea. If you have a college degree & a CBI from any of the Caricom countries with a CBI you can live & work in Barbados & obtain citizenship there. It also has visa free access to Canada, China, Ireland, the UK, Mexico, the UAE, Japan most of South America - God damn it Paraguay, & the Schengen zone. It isn't so great in Southeast Asia because Thailand & Vietnam love their visa fees, but that's a pretty good replacement for the US passport that does have Equatorial Guinea & the regressive corporate tax rate for Barbados & their favorable double tax treaty with the USA is not exactly shabby.
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  1470. The REASON behind Brexit at the high levels of the British aristocracy, the REASON the various British Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories by and large have remained zero tax, hell even the reason that certain former British Territories became independent countries that provide Citizenship By Investment by and large is to continue to make the City of London one of the most important financial centers in the world. Even in a world of Ultimate Beneficial Owners being named on the registries of companies so long you can pool your investments with five buddies and put a trustworthy lawyer who will maintain your confidences in charge of your company, ie keep each ownership below a 25% stake at say 20%, you can keep your name off of any registry. You can do the same with an offshore trust owning that piece of company and that is how despite the new banking rules exposing ownership and other rules exposing ownership, the people who value privacy, and the people who want to avoid taxes legally in certain high tax jurisdictions, as well as a few who want to evade those taxes, and the element involved in activities where money needs to be cleaned will continue to rely on the UK and the US to protect their money. I mean a US LLC owned by a BVI company is a pretty good privacy shield and it lets you park your Yuan which have been paid to another party in China who has a lot of Mexican Cartel dollars for sale in the US purchase a bunch of nice properties in California to keep your wealth outside of China despite transfer controls.
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  1471. That leads me to believe in the non-doctored polls Sanders is winning everywhere.
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  1472. Most of his wealth is the result of earned income that would already be taxed as royalty payments and the exit tax would be zero percent.
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  1473. I think Ecuador is a very interesting place because it has the potential to work very well for both low income earners & high income earners. It has a lot of interesting routes to residency & can provide a relatively quick path to citizenship for someone who wants to live there & it provides a Tier C passport with visa-free access to countries that are complimentary to most Tier A passports & many Tier B passports. It also gives Mercursor access to most of South America in the event you decided to move later & visa free access to Mexico which many Tier B passports not have. With the right EU residency permit it should make Shenzhen area travel fairly easy too, potentially. Beyond the passport, it is a fairly off the radar country too. Add to that access to the mountains, the beach, some fairly metropolitan cities, & a short flight time to the US or Canada for American & Canadian expats who want to visit family or need to return for business & it has a lot to offer. The relatively inexpensive healthcare system is also useful for the lower income expat, especially those with chronic health issues that would be financially unsustainable in the US. I think when you apply the go where YOU are treated best philosophy as you often say, individual facts & circumstances matter, & Ecuador while not completely overlooked, is definitely a country that can suit a lot of people's needs. It definitely can be useful for anyone using the Trifecta approach with multiple homes as a base of operations, & while it will tax individual income worldwide for tax residents & while it has some specific exit requirements to end tax residency, it currently has no CFC rules which would be beneficial for the business owner with a foreign corporation who lives frugally & keeps most of their income within their growing company.
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  1474. If Roger Ver with a federal felony conviction for explosives who renounced his US citizenship can get a B1/B2 visa to the USA, unless you are completely destitute -which doesn't seem to be the audience for this content, or have for some bizarre reason been living in one of the war zones on the US extra special attention is paid to anyone who ever visited those countries when they want a visa list, I have no clue what you would have had to have done to be denied a US visitor visa. Now I know people who have been denied entry to Canada for a DUI, so that is an entirely different story, but...
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  1475.  @usaisanempire4365  the issue is one of equating Medicare as it operates today with how it operates under the changes in the bill, where not only is everyone covered, but the 20% co-payment goes away and prescription drugs and medical devices are covered with a maximum co-payment per year of $200 for any prescription drugs or medical devices. It also covers dental and vision care.
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  1476. Jimmy, as a lawyer, even with a good lawyer most of our laws are written in such a way that there is nothing we can do to help you once you have been charged. The trials are just for show 99% of the time. The vast majority of judges are chosen by the chamber of commerce so there damn sure isn’t anything that they are going to do to help you if you hurt a business.
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  1477. This legal question has already been answered by the court in the negative. No, ballot initiatives are not the actions of the state legislature. Only the state legislature can call for a convention.
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  1478. I saw it in 2016. I thought she was a corporatist plant to siphon support from Sanders in this cycle even then. The only people who could run against Bernie for the Democratic nomination who I would believe are legit progressives are Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel. The only people other than Bernie I know are real progressives are all Greens. Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Ralph Nader, Ajamu Baraka, Howie Hawkins, Jill Stein, David Cobb, and Howie Hawkins, the likely Green Party nominee is who I will be voting for even if Bernie is the nominee. NY is a safe state. I mean Clinton beat Trump by more votes in NY than Trump won by in about 10 states.
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  1479. And that is only because the workers needed to get food to stores like the slaughterhouse and meat packers are getting sick and the plants need to shutter to keep the workers and food supply healthy or the pickers are unavailable to work because the border is closed. People will always need food it is a true necessity. Because of that any disruption causes price increases. Add to it the fact that plenty of people have become preppers. I mean we have stocked up on flour, yeast, pasta, beans, rice, canned meats, canned veggies, and frozen meats, breads, cheeses, butter, and dough. We have two freezers full of perishables and a few huge pantries filled with durable foods. We are also growing a garden with beans, potatoes, carrots, the typical garden perishables like cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, but also onions. Why? Because food is likely to get scarce in the next few years. We also have ammo stocked up for home defense, but mostly to be able to hunt small and large game. One deer for the freezer this winter will make a lot of meals. The fishing poles are ready if needed too. It is a good time to be a country boy.
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  1480. Doas for the Linux user who wants to foil the hidden bash trojans lurking to take over their system.
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  1481. You just did that which I thought was impossible. You made me agree with John Delaney. I believe you made me decide that Delaney is right. I no longer support Medicare for All. Congratulations Kyle. I was in favor of M4A since 2002 so you did a bang up job you sniveling little shit!
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  1482. You missed a small piece of the leveraged buyout equation. The vulture capitalists spin out a small profitable portion of the company, leverage the unprofitable portion of the company and saddle it with a majority of the debt, leaving the profitable part nearly debt free, then file bankruptcy on the unprofitable part -which may have been profitable before the leveraged buyout, and then destroy the lives and jobs of those workers by selling off the burdened part of the company that wasn't spun out and they keep the crown jewels of the company without ever having risked a dime of their own money.
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  1483. Okay so let's raise taxes and premiums and cost six times as much instead of the 3x as much as the rest of the world our healthcare costs right now. Medicare for All, not Buttigieg's corporate giveaway plan is the least expensive, most effective plan. PERIOD.
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  1484.  @raymiller764  if you want to be free, you don't want to pass down an obligation that enslaves your progeny.
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  1485.  @carldrogo9492  barely competent self-taught sysadmin maybe.
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  1486. The only poll that will matter regarding Biden is Iowa's Caucus and Biden has NEVER SURVIVED IT, and that is not about to change. After he finishes a distant fourth with no delegates in both Iowa and New Hampshire Bernie's advantage with African Americans will kill Buttigeig in South Carolina and make no mistake about it, this election is going to come down to Bernie and Buttigeig, then Nevada and California will give it all to Bernie after winning the first 5 states. Warren will hang with it through Super Tuesday, but Sanders will knock her out on that day.
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  1487. If I were the police officer the bicyclist would have been charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment, cuffed and stuffed into the car and arraigned. They second he detained that guy it was kidnapping and false imprisonment.
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  1488.  @LeCroissantBoi  In the US the option for "voting the government out" is a choice of Baskin or Robbins. It's the same company in charge with two different names. The only thing Trump did differently than any other Republican or Democrat was tell the truth about being corrupt & abhorrent to human rights. The rest share his values. That is one of the reasons well-off Americans buy citizenship in Malta or St. Kitts or any other country that offers it, so they can leave, renounce & be done with paying taxes to the Empire. At least people with passports in most countries are free to leave & establish residence & domicile somewhere else & no longer pay taxes to the country they know is corrupt. I mean most countries are corrupt, so the key is to become well off enough to buy your freedom away from all of them & put yourself in a position where no one country rules you any longer.
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  1489.  Shadow Company 1984  I have never voted for a winner because I routinely vote for a minority position. I have been saying this for more than a decade. George Carlin said it loud. The people suck. which is why the best bet is to put yourself into a position where no one government or country has power over your travels, your place of residence, you control the jurisdiction & timing & amount of your taxation as much as possible, and you have your money kept in reasonably safe banking institutions in multiple jurisdictions. Why? Because only then are you free. If you are living in a country where you are a citizen, you are probably doing it wrong. If you are banking beyond an amount needed for routine expenses in a country where you live or maintain a home, you are probably doing it wrong. If you have a company registered to do business in a country where you live you are probably doing it wrong. if your company is managed from the country where it is registered & incorporated you are probably doing it wrong. If you are tax resident in a country with a worldwide personal income tax, you are definitely doing it wrong. If you are not practicing flag theory in this day & age & have not freed yourself from any nation, currently the USA & Eritrea, which practice citizenship based taxation, you are doing it wrong. Less than 1/1000th of the people on earth have truly freed themselves from the servitude most are held in by "citizenship," "residence," banking laws, tax laws & other conditions of servitude & fealty & until more people free themselves we are all going to remain enslaved for a very long time.
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  1490. @Dean Clark It doesn't just give you the ability to live in Cyprus. It gives you the ability to operate a business in any EU country & it gives you the ability to travel to almost any nation on earth visa free, save the USA, including hard to get into Australia, Canada, & New Zealand. If you built a hugely successful business in Jordan or Cambodia, or Kenya or any country with a passport that is a terrible travel document & you were able to upgrade your travel freedom & increase the number of places you could live & work by all of the EU, while making it easier to vacation in Mexico, South Africa, or the Caribbean, or maybe even start to structure your business internationally so that you had a tax favorable lifestyle, wouldn't you? I mean if you became a deca-millionaire in Cambodia, wouldn't you want to be able to live in Barcelona? That Cypriot passport gives you that freedom.
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  1491.  @Troyian74  This is an exceptionally important point.
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  1492. In 2014, Teachout with no money and 1/10th the name recognition of Nixon carried many upstate counties and was super close to carrying most other upstate counties. Hawkins of the Greens in November of that year got 5% of the vote and there are only 26,000 of us Greens here in NY yet he got almost 200,000 votes. In 2016 Sanders won every upstate county except Onondaga -Syracuse, Monroe -Rochester, Erie-Buffalo, and Albany. In 2014, Teachout won Albany County. With Ocasio-Cortez victory, Teachout’s massive support for AG because of The NY Times and Daily News endorsements, the fact that Nixon, Ocasio-Cortez, and Teachout have been campaigning together, and the subway problems being a highlight of downstate complaints against Cuomo, if there is a barnstorm of Upstate and the City and Long Island during the next two weeks, I fully expect an upset that will make Ocasio-Cortez seem tiny by comparison. Cuomo is going to lose upstate. The Bernie network on upstate will make sure of that, and I think Ocasio-Cortez is going to help deliver the upset with the City. Not the usual voters are going to show up, just like in Florida.
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  1493.  @rockstarofredondo  farmers in my community started a cooperative packing plant a decade ago to supply beef locally. There is no law against taking care of yourself. They did the same thing with dairy a hundred years ago. It is why the farms where I live have taken a very small hit. Produce local, and sell local. That is our motto.
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  1494.  @rockstarofredondo  That same cooperative when the shut down started immediately hired and trained 75 replacement workers as temporary staff in case anyone for sick. They have back up personnel on the books ready to take over if the need arises. It is called proactive management.
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  1495. If my math is correct in about 2 weeks Mickey goes public domain.
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  1496. Louis, Everytime you talk, you suggest a rational reasonable reform that would fix a lot of problems with corruption in America. I mean how difficult would it be to create a third-party insurance arbitration adjuster bureau that is paid by both parties as part of an insurance contract to interpret claims payouts. They essentially already do that for worker's compensation claims. We could definitely create a third-party arbiter for all insurance claims easily enough.
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  1497. I don't know I have a 10 year old core i7 and the stock cooler worked better than a high end cooler. It's still running great with the stock cooler.
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  1498. When you have to deal with Spanish taxes and then fill out US tax forms every year, you might change your mind about remaining American if you get other options.
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  1499.  @squ34ky  Coughing in FreeBSD kernel at that one.
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  1500. Instant Run-off Voting must be part of the process and it should be 50% plus 1 and winner take all!
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  1501. I mean if you have a lot of liquid wealth, ie you have major investment accounts, a holding company with an employment pass as a director in Malaysia via a Labuan holding company makes a lot of sense. Having enough cash in an account in Thailand to have a long term investor visa there likewise makes sense because there are no CFC rules and the new tax rules don't apply to people with the LTR investor visa as I understand it, so between a Labuan holding structure you can probably have a zero or extremely low withholding tax on your investments and virtually no personal tax in Thailand if you live there and similar treatment in Malaysia when you "work" there as a director of your holding company. You can even have non-Labuan company registered to do business in Labuan that you manage and have tax resident there which might have a better asset protection value ie a Nevis LLC, but bad tax treatment if it is considered tax resident on Nevis. You could also have that holding company owned by a Cook Islands Asset protection trust, so you can make a lot of money and pay no tax. I mean if you have enough wealth and you make an investment in the Republic of Georgia, you could divide your time between Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, enjoy a very favorable cost of living, and have a very favorable tax residence in Georgia as a High Networth Individual and have to spend almost no time in Georgia.
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  1502. ​ @gj8510  LLCs are disregarded entities and if you are not doing the work of the company in the US the tax rate is 0% for most of the companies as far as the US is concerned if the owners are nonresident aliens.
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  1503.  @alexanderchenf1  no, but I do have an LLM in IP law and about 18 credits of tax law earned during my JD.
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  1504. He is "lazy" because he worked his ass off so hard to become an NFL quarterback and destroyed his body for 20 years to make enough money in his 12 paid years to never need to work again. Yeah, the trust fund baby he married should just admit she is a gold digger and he doesn't have enough gold for her.
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  1505. Red Blaze Mitch McConnell is worth $26 million that is his will too.
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  1506. We called my buddy in law school The Lord, but that was because his last name was Lord. He always wanted to be a judge so he could write an opinion and end it with "so sayeth the Lord."
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  1507.  @Timithos  Well the head of H&M lives in Stockholm & is worth $19 billion. Melkor Schorling the head of the Swedish investment firm that bears his name lives in Stockholm & is worth $13 billion. Carl Bennet the CEO of medical technology company Getinge lives in Gothamberg & is worth $11 billion. Just to name a few. It's long list & they are easy to look up. A fair number live in Sweden. You become a billionaire with untaxed asset growth & that happens in most developed democracies. They all tend not to tax unrealized capital gains.
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  1508.  @Timithos  The Swedish corporate tax is imposed on income worldwide. The realized capital gains rate in Sweden is 30%.
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  1509.  @aquilomanganelli175 with the exception of forward thinking leaders in the developing world who understand the only way to opt out of the two competing hegemons' systems of control is to opt out of their banking systems, the entire world is planning to make crypto illegal. It is very bad for the Rothschilds, Warburgs, Rockefellers, and Morgans.
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  1510. Why not point out that it is $17 Trillion cheaper over the next decade to have Medicare for All versus the current system for US businesses and citizens. GM said in the 1990s Medicare for All would save them $1,400 per car produced in healthcare costs for their workforce. The study of the GI Bill that tracked the beneficiaries increased earnings showed that $28 of GDP increase and $7 of increased tax revenue was returned to the treasury for every $1 invested in free college tuition. These programs literally pay for themselves by growing the economy.
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  1511. ​ @morezombies9685  but would you also like to have better pay at your job? Would you also like your environment not to be polluted. Would you like the food you eat to not include ingredients that helps make you chronically ill? If a competitor to those current funds existed that easily allowed workers to vote their shares existed which routinely offered their own slate of directors who insisted on making money and making life better for the average worker in the country wouldn't that be a better alternative?
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  1512. Sounds Slavic to me. More likely than not Russian. There are tons of Russians living in Thailand.
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  1513. That guy is completely clueless about US history.
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  1514. You have a functioning business and they can only get so much from you in taxes, so if they can collect another $30k for a minor administrative infraction that agent just brought in a fair portion of their salary for the year.
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  1515.  @ashleyhayes7568  the USA will be bankrupt by next Wednesday.
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  1516. I sense a copyright strike headed your channel's way.
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  1517. This was clearly the work of the dancing demon from Buffy the Musical!
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  1518. The reason that Yelp bowed down to you is that you had the evidence to prove that they conspired with certain users to a) extort people, b) defame people -possibly enough to even get around the COPPA protections for an ISP, and c) that would mean that you could have sustained a libel suit against the corporation. If there are more cases like this, I sense a class action lawsuit for libel against Yelp and key users coming on.
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  1519. Most of that, won't work in this day and age because of economic substance requirements, FATCA & CRS. There are a few non-CRS countries, but fewer every year and it is hard to move money to or from those countries banks without significant KYC requirements having been met. A lot of laws changed after the Panama papers to make money-laundering and tax evasion through offshore entities and accounts much more difficult. The US and the EU in particular threatened banks and countries to open up their foreign accounts ledgers and most countries complied.
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  1520.  @PauloGaetathe_original  that is what they call the list for those who had to pay an exit tax when they renounced.
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  1521. I mean if you have $2.4 million dollars to invest Permanent Residence is easy. If you have the skills needed for the right company a work permit is not hard, but permanent residency is difficult and without PR citizenship is difficult.
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  1522.  @davidlafleche1142  anarcho-syndicalism. It works very well in Spain.
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  1523. With potential insurrections being thwarted in Michigan today & similar nonsense brewing nationally, refugee status for Americans fleeing to Canada may be available in the near future.
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  1524. The correct answer is who should be Bernie’s VP choice. The guy you know is legit because they re-districted him out of Congress -Dennis Kucinich.
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  1525. The UK allows certain lawful residents to vote. Every country in the European Union allows certain lawful residents to vote. Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, certain Canadian Provinces, Chile, Colombia, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Israel, Jamaica, the territory of Jersey, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, New Zealand, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, South Korea, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay and a few additional countries allow certain legal residents who are not citizens to vote. Only citizens of the US are so parochial as to believe taxation without representation is ok for people legally living and working in the country.
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  1526. BY THE WAY NOTHING IN THE US CONSTITUTION PRECLUDES RESIDENTS OF THE SEVERAL STATES WHO ARE NOT CITIZENS FROM VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS AND UNDER THEIR FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT POWERS CONGRESS COULD EXTEND VOTING RIGHTS TO LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENTS TOMORROW IF THEY WANTED TO DO SO. The provision of the NY State Constitution interpreted by the AD 2d in this instance ignores that "members" of the state cannot be deprived of sufferage in Article 1, Section 1, and relies in a narrow reading of Article 2, Section 1 which the NY State Court of Appeals is likely to not ignore and oveturn.
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  1527.  @scray00  what if you are a citizen of a country that doesn't allow dual citizenship and you need to return to your home country with some regularity to take care of family business? I mean there are people in that scenario who have lived here for two decades.
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  1528.  @3rdFloorblog  what part of this law allows lawful permanent residents the right to vote and oh by the way you can do that in Argentina.
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  1529.  @Sigurther  it's the state constitution and the court in question ignored article 1 section 1 of the state constitution which contradicts their ruling.
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  1530.  @JLiznuts  and the bill in question only applies to lawful permanent residents. What is more to reach this conclusion, the court ignored Article 1 Section 1 of the state constitution.
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  1531. Especially as Greece WILL FOREVER block Turkey from entering the EU.
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  1532.  @stephenlight647  depends how poor you are. There is a level of poor where you do not have to file. Less than $500 in self-employment income.
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  1533.  @stephenlight647  and even renouncing won't eliminate taxes on pension income from the US. I don't even think renouncing while living in a tax treaty country will necessarily end a US tax obligation as a non-resident alien on that US sourced income from a pension. There are about forty of them and I haven't read them all, but most I have read reserve the right of the country that is the source of the pension to tax it.
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  1534. Sorry Kyle, but you are an FDR Democrat. You are not a Disciple of Kropotkin the author of “The Conquest of Bread.” You are not an anarcho-communist, so you aren’t a BreadTuber!
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  1535. What it commands is that you can’t pay someone less than what slave masters paid their slaves. Say what you want, but slave owners made sure their slaves had a roof over their head, food to eat, and clothes on their back for the most part. Why? Because they would lose their investment if the slave died of exposure or starvation. When you are paying less than subsistence wages you are more evil than a slave owner because you believe it is morally alright for your to steal not only the value of another person’s labor, but also the minimum amount of resources that worker needs to survive which is all that allows the worker to produce goods or services in the first place. If you do not pay a living wage, you are more morally bankrupt than the vast majority of slave owners and those were people who thought that it was okay to own other human beings.
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  1536. Despite the late winter here in Northern NY we have spent the last two months getting our garden ready to grow. It snowed here yesterday and it snowed here Friday and Saturday and Sunday too. There was thick frost on the ground this morning. Mom Nature ain't cooperating, but we have a lot of beans, a lot of rice, and a lot of pasta and canned goods stored in the pantry along with two chest freezers full of meat and cheese and butter. We have ammo for the rifles and shotguns too and fishing poles ready too. I would say we and by we, I mean me and my neighbor have both been getting ready for lean times.
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  1537.  @tinglestingles  It wasn't on the list, but it was mentioned at the top for it's benefits.
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  1538. I wouldn't vote for Obama a second time. I won't vote for Obama 2.0. It's Bernie Sanders or it's Howie Hawkins, no one else.
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  1539. Sir, unless he cancelled the US-Canada Double Tax Treaty it will not effect you. Which I would encourage you to read because you are likely entitled to a foreign tax credit on your Canadian taxes for foreign taxes paid. The US-Canada Double Tax Treaty makes it clear that US income taxes which his bill effects are covered subject matter of the treaty maximum withholding rates.
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  1540. I suspect the fact that afrer Friday, January 17, 2025 the United States can no longer even remotely pretend it has ever been or tried to be a free country and it exposed that truth to more than half of the population means that a lot more Americans will be leaving and renouncing than ever before.
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  1541. Okay Boomer, you are outnumbered by the Millennials alone. You throw us Gen Xers in - both groups of which are capable of independent thought- the Silent Generation members remaining who understand he is just another FDR and Henry Wallace Democrat like all of them, and the 25% of Boomers who remember that all of Bernie's policies were middle of the road Democrat policies until Ronald Reagan and Bernie wins, so sit down and shut up!
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  1542. As a lawyer Cenk it speaks volumes about how ill informed you are when you say that “the press” is the only profession mentioned in the constitution. Counsel, aka attorneys are guaranteed for all criminal defendants in the 6th amendment. Counsel is a profession and it is so important that it’s independence is also guaranteed by that amendment.
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  1543. Aria Casteal lawyers are not part of the government, excluding when they are employed by the government, but the government employs journalists too. The US government has numerous media outlets of its own.
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  1544. I think decentralized cryptocurrencies created within the open source community if social organizers with a humanist bent take the lead in a next gen coin could actually lead the way out of the looming depression through an intelligent deployment of worker and consumer Cooperatives and mutual aid organizations fundamentally organized around block chain currencies and timesharing in the hour for hour work exchange ie non-monetary barter system.
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  1545. There are countries that will not allow renunciation.
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  1546. Bitcoin and gold rallying make sense. The US dollar is set to collapse and lose its status as the world's reserve currency. All of the indicators are there. The only shoe that needs to drop is Saudis pricing oil in gold, Bitcoin, or Euros. My gut tells me the Saudis will price in a decentralized currency with no inflationary pressure like Bitcoin.
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  1547. I'm with you if the giant capitalist businesses are so thinly capitalized that they can't weather a few bad months they deserve to face bankruptcy. If a small service based business that has small margins almost no owned physical assets and which has been built from profits over time doesn't have liquid capital assets to keep the entire staff or even any of the staff on during a massive downturn, that is far more forgivable. The problem is the thinly capitalized giants getting bailed out while the small to medium sized businesses get fucked. The small to medium sized businesses employ most of the people and fuel most of the economy. The ever growing consolidation of profits and wealth into a smaller and smaller cadre of economic elites atrophies the entire economy and hollows it out so that it does not remain robust.
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  1548. Why buy Bitcoin or altcoins when you can sell people products and services from your own website via Bitcoin or altcoins with no need for you to pay PayPal, Stripe, Visa, or MasterCard a cut. Your purchaser will pay miners their fee and you may pay Coinbase or another exchange fees if you cash out for dollars, but 70% of the top 100 e-commerce sites take Bitcoin, so do you really need to cash out? Also in a lot of countries a Bitcoin backed pre-paid Visa or MasterCard is available for traditional purchases, too. Not in the USA yet, but it is coming.
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  1549. elsa Grace I was literally the attorney for the Department of Social Services in my home county for 2 years. Here is a link to a video about an upstate NY farm making $350k a year from 1.5 acres. So you are right. That is chump change for intensive Ag farms! https://youtu.be/u5IE6lYKXRw
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  1550. JG135 $2k per month in expenses would make it a wash even if you paid $0 in income or social security taxes. If you were paying typical income and social security taxes it would be a wash at about $1500 a month. To cover $3 trillion in new spending would require a VAT that would consume roughly 50% of every dollar of wages and salaries earned in the USA. There quite simply are not enough luxury goods purchased to pay for it.
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  1551. JG135 to pay the expenses of a UBI for 250 million Americans over 18 which is where we are according to the census bureau you would spend $3 trillion paying the UBI. To pay that much on top of the almost $4 trillion annual budget running a $1 trillion deficits no matter what Yang claims about a 10% VAT it would actually need to be 50% to pay for the expense. According to the Social Security Administration you have between $7 trillion and $8 trillion in wages and salaries paid annually. My numbers come from KNOWING these things off the top of my head and being able to do basic math about big numbers quickly by knowing some of these important statistics. My numbers don’t come from reading a candidate’s bullshit propaganda; but being able to think and reason for myself!
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  1552. Dalton Bedore because we have the historical math. We invested in free tuition essentially for all after World War II and the GAO watched the numbers for decades. The GI Bill participants who took the benefit returned $7 per dollar spent more to the treasury than was spent in added earnings above and beyond the people who didn’t take the benefit. That is tax dollars which means they grew GDP by about $28 for every dollar invested versus the counterparts who did not partake in GI Bill benefits like my grandfathers. We also have the numbers for universal healthcare. It would save the US on average $6k per year per person versus what we spend today for worse care. That is based on the Woolhandler study.
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  1553. Or D) a lot of people realize Apple is a shitty company and stops buying their products. I don't use there stuff anymore and haven't bought anything from Apple since 2015.
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  1554. The problem I have found with women is they come in 2 varieties. This stupid game playing type, or the type that wants you to marry them literally the day after a first date. I swear to god that I went on first dates with two young women who were attractive, and had no major red flags, but who both within a week of our first date went on first dates with another guy and married them the next day. One of these women worked in the same office where I worked. She invited me out casually to have drinks one night and literally 3 days later she came in and said she married a guy she met the day after our date. It wasn't just a story or some wierd game, she legit assumed that every dude she ever thought was attractive should want to marry her instantly. The really fucked up part, at least to me is that the dude she married already had two kids. She left that job like two months later and I moved on myself about a year after that because it wasn't the best place to work. The crazier part is I bumped into her at the mall in this past year with that guy and her kids and we worked together almost 20 years ago. She is still with that guy. No idea if she just knew he was the one or if they are both just crazy, but I do know that the other girl I went out with who married a guy she met the day after our date like the day after that has been divorced 3 times since.
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  1555. In your entire lifetime there was only ever one tax increase in the United States and it was a small one under George H. W. Bush which was cut by Clinton and Gingrich less than 5 years after it was enacted. Taxes in the US peaked in the 1960s and have been cut by more than 50% since then and are down even more since Obama. Clinton, Bush II, Obama, and Trump ALL CUT TAXES. Corporate taxes were reduced by almost 50% in the last 6 years. Deductions & depreciation has also been accelerated and expanded. A married couple living exclusively on qualified dividends in the US can earn $80k a year without owing 1¢ in taxes. All of this is to say if you think taxes are going in the wrong direction in the USA, you must be arguing for a tax increase because they have only gone down in your lifetime.
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  1556. Honestly if you own a car and can spend a few hundred dollars even on a credit card to get a pressure washer or a lawn mower, or both, in this economy there is an above average chance you could make more with less hours as a mobile car detailer or mowing lawns just putting ads on Craigslist or Facebook. That's a no skill business. There are at least a hundred easy or low skill businesses people can start now for less than $1k and replace a minimum wage income with an upside.
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  1557. At this point, I think KDE with fully functioning Wayland, Pipewire, & Flathub with the Ubuntu style APT package manager with Mint's anti-snapd stance would probably be the go to distro.
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  1558. He is in fact saying he wants a trade war with 3 of 3 top trading partners of the US and when the EU likewise as a block has stated like Mexico that it will respond in kind with tariffs on US goods, it is a losing proposition.
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  1559. That was him being a politician. He is a standard issue politician to the left of most standard issue politicians. He isn’t the best candidate. No one running as a Democrat is the best candidate. The Greens are better on these issues.
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  1560. @Dan Wruck remember Nuremberg. If we can demonstrate you know and you support it, the Hague has punishments waiting for you!
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  1561. Go sell crazy someplace else.
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  1562. I have had the Pi 400 for a while now. it comes in handy for simple tasks. I use it with my TV monitor in my bedroom to do my morning journal writing and also for some web surfing. I haven't used it for anything too complicated, but I suspect I could use it for quite a bit more than what I have used it for so far.
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  1563. Mir the 15 year time frame is probably accurate. By 2030 Moore’s law predicts chips for the average $1500 computer will be fast enough to match the human brain in terms of intelligence. By 2040 those chips at the $1500 price point will be hundreds of times more capable than a human being and algorithms are already taking advantage of the new processing power and self-learning.
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  1564. Buttigieg is a small town Mayor. He is irrelevant.
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  1565. What this has demonstrated yet again is that in the US the game is rigged. A bank whose primary account holders are Ultra-High-Networth-Individuals, Venture Capital Funds, and start-ups funded by those financiers all of whom could have exercised reasonable caution to protect their working capital accounts by diversifying their deposits amongst multiple banks using what was formerly known as CDARS and is now IntraFI which let's one bank account act as the management account for multiple accounts at multiple banks providing FDIC insurance on deposits in excess of $250k by diversifying the banks the money is held in while providing the convenience of working as if it were a unified account. These same individuals could've also diversified cash equivalents into a brokerage account holding the cash in a money market account invested in short term treasuries - I mean the looming default risk from the not so bright members of Congress refusal to raise the debt limit aside, if US treasuries fail everyone will have bigger problems than a bank failure. What is more if their deposits exceeded the amount the FDIC could insure via the IntraFi Network, they could've purchased private deposit insurance as well, some companies with massive deposits did take these appropriately prudent steps to protect their cash holdings for Trust accounts. Now, as happened when small retail investors got a leg up on dumb insiders with the GameStop short squeeze, the system is moving to insulate dumb wealth from it's failure to protect itself at all times with rational actions to privately insure their cash holdings this time, while in the GameStop scenario the brokers simply forced their customers to sell to their preferred insider clients with no protection from the SEC for the small retail investor who had bested the Wall Street financiers at their own game. Depositors who are nothing more than ordinary creditors who would typically be wiped out in bankruptcy are being made whole on the backs of ordinary citizens who never get a bail out and always get handed the bill for the short comings of America's oligarchs. If that isn't a game more rigged than any casino, I don't know what a rigged game is then.
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  1566. Ralph Nader made that argument for years. The media paid no attention to him. There is an alternative media that could report it now that is the first step in the right direction. Howie Hawkins’ campaign deserves more attention.
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  1567. See this just proved Alex's point. The UAE literally TODAY imposed a corporate tax. The day after I wrote this. Forever the UAE was a tax haven with a 0% tax rate, but no more, and you cannot get effective banking in the majority of jurisdictions with a 0% headline tax rate.
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  1568. It honestly sounds like a good idea for off grid homes as a backup system in addition to a smaller lithium ion storage pack to supplement solar overnight. A standardized battery pack that you could have delivered via Amazon on a truck and swap out as needed. Depending on how long a small pack could last it might be a good replaceable battery for phones or other portable electronic devices in lieu of alkaline or rechargeable batteries.
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  1569.  @922claymont922  except decentralized peer-to-peer socialist platforms that do the job better without the sacrifices to privacy are being built as we speak. A first mover advantage doesn't last forever and YouTube has never turned a profit. It is not long for the world.
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  1570. Also if not for socialism ie Linux this website would not exist. The entire server infrastructure is powered by socialist software projects.
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  1571. 50% of the restaurants in my hometown have reported that they are closed permanently. This includes Denny's and Bob Evans. Red Lobster has shown no attempt to re-open. Before this all started the TGIFriday's had went out of business literally in February. Two of the local non-chain diners are gone for good. The Lonestar Steakhouse is not even attempting to re-open. Olive Garden is running. Texas Roadhouse stayed open for takeout throughout the whole thing and has re-opened with an outdoor tent and at 50% capacity inside. The mall is where most retailers are located and NY will be back into lockdown along with the rest of the country again before that opens up, so the economy will be gone by the time this is all said and done. I mean one of the anchor stores went bankrupt already during this, 3 of the other anchor stores were already bankrupt and gone from the mall. That leaves Burlington Coat Factory and Dick's Sporting Goods as the only anchor stores. You may consider Best Buy a 1/2 anchor store in my humble opinion, so there's is going to be nothing left, aside from the theater and the odds of that business coming back without a vaccine is slim and none. We are in deep shit.
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  1572. Honestly today I think Manjaro or Endeavour with Cinnamon or KDE may be a better choice for Windows users because the AUR gives them easier GUI access through Pamac to obscure software.
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  1573. Sue Anderson Maine has shown us a better way!
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  1574. Flatpak does away with redundancies as much as it can, which is to a degree better than AppImages, but they both have their merits and drawbacks.
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  1575. Spending less money for healthcare overall as Medicare for All does is very fiscally conservative.
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  1576. Been doing two meals a day only because I was eating when hungry after going on a beans & rice vegan diet with mashed potatoes that only had a little pepper added. The first week I might have oatmeal with cinnamon at some point. After the first week I just needed to eat less often. At some point when feeling better hunger went away even though I was consuming only about 1500 calories a day which is 300 calories lower than the projected basal metabolic rate for my ideal weight which is 195 lbs from where I am now. Mind you I've lost 23 lbs in the last 3 weeks. About two weeks in I did a 40 hour fast. I will probably do another 36 hour fast today/ tomorrow. I'm 14 hours in now. Day 2 of the fast was super easy with no hunger last Friday. If I were not finally getting the first dose of the Covid vaccine tomorrow I would probably go for a 3 day fast into Saturday afternoon. Two meals a day is doing fine for me. Omad looks possible for me now too.
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  1577. In 2016, I don't recall any early national polls where Bernie had the lead. He is gonna win.
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  1578. Only one other decision in the history of the Supreme Court was by its dicta said to have no precedential value and that decision was Bush v Gore.
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  1579. Kyle, you are forgetting one important factor. Iowa Caucuses and the 15% viability threshold. If Bernie is at 70% which he is realistically, then Tulsi and/or a Warren and/or a Yang come in at 15% each and the corporatists are blocked in most precincts of the caucus. Let's say Bernie is at 60% and a Tulsi or a Warren is at 20% and a Harris is at 5% while a Yang is at 11% and a Warren is at 4%, who do the Warren people go to? That's right, Yang, and Harris is blocked out. The corporatist's supporters go home or they join a Warren or a Yang or a Gabbard. Probably the corporatist who ends up viable is Warren, which is far too much to the left, but she is their poison pill. Gabbard is Bernie's blocking back because of her attacks on the Military Industrial Congressional Complex. Yang being on the debate stage with Social Security for All and being able to say it was an idea that Reagan's Chief economist Milton Friedman supported as a way to shrink the size of government and replace the safety nets with a much simpler to administer negative income tax is going to shake things up and make Bernie look like a centrist too. Basically things are shaping up for a perfect storm of a realignment of the party just like 1980 was a realignment of the Republicans. Trump is Jimmy Carter to Bernie's Reagan. The person who came up with that analogy is spot on. Beto raised $5K in the first 24 hours versus Bernie's $6 million in the first 24 hours. The corporatists are laughable. Nobody is buying the fauxgressives. People sure as hell ain't buying the corporatists this time around.
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  1580. I think you meant ascribe.
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  1581. Literally half of the restaurants in my town are permanently shuttered, the owners went bankrupt. 3/4 of the retailers are permanently shuttered. The hospitalization numbers are at 100% capacity or near 100% capacity in many states that opened prematurely. The same thing I said about permanently shuttered shops in my hometown is equally true in numerous cities and towns all over the world. I watch on the ground reporting from Expats living all over the planet on YouTube. This economy is completely buggered worldwide. There is nowhere to work. The stores they all closed. The restaurants closed. The factories in my hometown have either shuttered or laid off 1 to 2 shifts and none of them were running 4 shifts before this all started which is what is needed to stay open 24/7/365. I have been to a few of the restaurants that remained open and even with only 50% seating they can't fill the seating they have, and in February when I went to these restaurants you had to wait in your car because there wasn't enough capacity in their lobby to wait for a seat. Even the parking lot traffic at Walmart is 1/3 what it was in February every time I go by it or go to it and that is pretty much the only store still open. Absent demand for goods and services, there are not going to be any jobs for people to go to and there is no demand.
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  1582.  rocky road  he is supporting his friend Howie Hawkins who is as good on this stuff as Ralph and who is a co-founder of the Green Party USA.
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  1583. I assure you the internal polling says this helps stop Bernie from 1991.
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  1584. I fully suspect they are using VAN data against the progressives when making “random” call lists for polls by scrubbing known supporters of Tulsi or Williamson. They are ok with Yang because he is advancing the 1%’s answer to reducing the welfare state.
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  1585. The risk of invasion by the tyrant in the US has made one of the best countries in Latin America, ie Panama a safety risk
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  1586.  @glo8778  if you are threatening to invade neighboring countries and countries with which your nation has been aligned for a century or more, if you are ignoring the orders of courts in your home country, if you are ruling by edict and ignoring the legislature, if you are threatening to jail or kill opponents, you are by definition a tyrant.
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  1587. Austin Elsen how about you realize they are pointing out the fact that the fake will get beat by Trump!
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  1588. Salty Pepper there is no Democrat who will beat Trump and that is just how the powers that be want it. Sanders would have beat him, that is why the failed impeachment is happening.
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  1589. Salty Pepper that is not just my opinion it is the opinion of the Professor who has predicted the outcome of every Presidential election since 1992 accurately more than a year in advance.
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  1590. Passing the information on was not illegal. Failing to file a copyright action in response to the counter notice and claim may subject the claimant to damages in court though. Why do I say disclosing that information is not illegal? Because they would have to expose that information when they file the public record of the complaint for damages in federal court that a DMCA claimant MUST file in response to a counter-notice and claim. Failing to file the copyright lawsuit may actually subject them to a damages claim from the party they filed the DMCA Notice against.
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  1591. Mike Pardus failing to realize that there is a better way to address the issue than a UBI, a series of changes which I actually support, a regulatory framework that allows only for libertarian socialism and worker/consumer owned democratic workplaces while outlawing wage slavery and the fact that I support Howie Hawkins Green New Deal for a reason, not the least of which is that a fundamental reorganizing of society in such a way that products and services from nations that do not end wage slavery and protect workers rights along with providing rigorous environmental protections, and that I understand high top marginal tax rates and other mechanisms which encourage widespread participation in the upside and the fact that understanding why those 1950s solutions worked and that there are other methods of regulating an economy oligarchs like Yang want you to believe cannot be configured to prevent monopolies or the consolidation of power by monopolies which is what the Sherman Antitrust Act was actually designed to prevent is the problem. You presume that a piece of the puzzle is my answer, when in fact it is just a piece.
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  1592. The Everyday Progressive Show I think Social Security needs a massive overhaul too. As does the entire system. We don’t need to do a version 3.0 of our systems. We need an entire scrap and rebuild with a fresh set of plans like Mac OSX in the late 1990s completely gutted the original OS and took NEXT’s OS as a basis. Or how Final Cut X was a line one re-write of Final Cut. Would such a rebuild be 100% smooth? No, but we have a lot of better ideas that can’t be tried without a full reboot.
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  1593. Honey Badger I could make up false numbers too. I did the back of the envelope math. It would take $3 trillion to pay for UBI as Yang proposes if it is a UBI for adults. That means his VAT would need to confiscate about 50% of all wages and salaries in the US just to pay for it. That is on top of the 50% of salaries and wages already taken in taxes. Based on the numbers from Social Security, wages and salaries in the US are somewhere between $7-$8 trillion annually. So no thanks, the math does not work!
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  1594. If this guy's story doesn't make it clear why you should only have kids via surrogacy on your own as a single father and women in your life should not be bioligically related to your kids and if a woman lives with you it should only be pursuant to an ironclad license agreement allowing them to stay at your place with no tenency rights and the ability for you to tell them to get out on 30 minutes notice because they have been paid a small fee under the license agreement by you to waive any tenency rights, I don't know what does. Oh and license/co-habitation agreement should make it clear they have no rights to any assets, palimony or alimony and it is not a marriage at common law.
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  1595. I think anyone who has a home who still has a job has already taken their house off the market. Anyone who has no job and has a house is probably trying to figure out how to keep it by renting out rooms or the whole house for part of the month on AirBNB or by just becoming a landlord and maybe becoming a van lifer. If I were on unemployment right now, I would be trading in my old car for an older van if I owned a house and I would move into the van and rent the house to keep the assets because this is not going to be a quick recovery. I would economize my life. I think this type of stuff is happening because there are plenty of rational economic actors. There are also plenty of people who are selling out of their houses already at whatever the market price is today to economize, but I would bet given the 2008 crisis that most of the people who own a house today are not amongst the unemployed. Most of today's home owner class are in essential jobs and/or government employees, or in positions that easily transitioned to work from home. There are not a lot of fast food workers who became unemployed, and there are not many of them who are homeowners. Those who are are the last to go as key managers. Same for groceries and Walmarts. Do you think the people working at Hot Topic own a house? Hell no, hell to the no. What percentage of wait staff at the Texas Roadhouse own a home, I would bet less than 10%. How about the ticket taker at your local theater? I would again bet less than 10%, maybe key managers in a chain, or someone whose spouse is the primary breadwinner who is still employed at an essential factory or as a trash man. The people who will be selling homes are the mom and pop landlords who bought too high, and the Wall Street investor class will gobble up those bargains they have been positioned to do so for a long time. I predict a housing contraction is more likely in this environment. Just my two cents, fiat. Rents will fall, but housing is going to be in short supply for buyers.
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  1596.  @bonniejohnson1518  the circumstances in 2008 were different, the Hedge Funds and REITS were overleveraged. They are not today. In 2008 everyone and their brother including bad credit risks owned a home. They don't today. Consolidation of ownership means the rental market has more robust owners, it also means that the homeowners are better credit risks. This is going to make for a market in stasis.
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  1597. It would be more concerning if it didn’t involve a whistle blower from the intelligence community. Which has repeatedly lied to Congress and the American people. I’m no Trump fan and there are hundreds of charges to impeach him on, but the intelligence community is not a reliable source or in any way trustworthy. A bunch of toys allegedly destroying 50% of Saudi Arabia’s oil production days after Bolton was fired makes it more suspect. The war mongers are not trustworthy and it seems clear Trump is opposed to them in some degree.
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  1598. Older wiser people, this shows you know nothing about history. It was a recent invention designed for political theater and chicanery. It is s systemic threat to the stability of the world economy.
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  1599. Florida Governor seeks election as Mayor of Amity Island!
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  1600. Le entiendo mucho más que la gente de España porque le habla más despacio.
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  1601.  @Shaw-x2e  There are plenty of places where earning $3000 USD a month or less will allow you to live better than most Kings in history have lived.
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  1602. To quote Michael Douglas speaking Aaron Sorkin’s words as Andrew Shepard in The American President, “Why swing at a pitch in the dirt?” I’m with you on this one.
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  1603. There is already case law regarding the "wealth tax," unless there is an amendment, it is unconstitutional. The precedent is in the "recognition" requirements of the income tax for imposition of a capital gains tax. Those requirements are court imposed. The Republican party controls almost a supermajority of state legislatures so any such amendment would be dead on arrival.
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  1604.  @brianbevilacqua4984  you really need to read a ballot access rule or two. The Green Party has been working to get its candidate on the ballot since last summer. More importantly if you run in a Presidential primary for a party in half the states you CANNOT run third-party.
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  1605. The Old Testament is not Christianity. If he wants to practice Judaism he should convert.
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  1606. Sorry it's all within the MOE and completely meaningless because it is too small of a polling sample. Any of the top 3 could actually be leading, in second, or third in both polls.
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