michaelmrose
@michaelmrose@lemmy.world
- Comment on Depart, men of education. 4 days ago:
Its not being diminished you are diminishing doctors who save dying children after 20 years of intensive education with driving a bus
- Comment on Following the nightmare footage of AI-loy, Horizon actor Ashly Burch shares her stance on the whole debacle 1 week ago:
The thing is why would it ultimately need to clone an actual person rather than use a prompt to describe the type of voice followed by iterating until you like a fully synthetic voice at which point there is nobody to pay
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
It will NEVER be so that owning two houses in America doesn’t involve being well into the 1% This is just an absurd take that has become true nowhere on planet earth.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
Step one make schools mostly dependent on property tax by funding them almost entirely through property tax Step two watch the price of housing skyrocket to the point where half of them are owned by old fuckers Step three make old fuckers fully or partially exempt from this tax Step four wonder why your schools have basically been defunded
Lets imagine a scenario bob the old lives at 65 lives in a 2M home which isn’t exactly a castle its just in a really desirable area. Bob is cash poor but house rich. He’s going to be taxes out of his home sooner or later without relief. Suppose we provide him that relief.
Shall we let him sell his house and realize his gains. Tax those gains but leave him enough to live wealthy for the next 20 years and collect 20 years of 1% taxes or about 660k with 5% appreciation. We would also collect around 300k of that 2M in capital gains taxes.
All in all we are giving up almost a million dollars in tax revenue which will be collected by taxing people who aren’t sitting on a 1.7M pot of gold. We will be taxing lots of folks barely getting by MORE to write a million dollar check to grandpa.
Then when he dies all those capital gains that were in fact real evaporate because the new owner who inherits it gets to start fresh at present value.
To justify your position I want you to imagine going around to a bunch of poor people’s apartments and taking stuff out of their house to give to one rich guy. Yes someone who is “house rich” doesn’t SEEM rich but assets are fungible and in a good market remarkably liquid.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
Most places are around 1% of value with many having caps on increases in value or other differences in taxed and actual value. This means his house is worth 1,000,000 to 1,600,000
If he was really living on 24k he wouldn’t be able to pay 12,000 in property tax. He bought when it cost almost nothing and spent most of his life paying neither rent nor mortgage unlike most of us and has a reasonable retirement.
He could at any time sell and live better than you or I even if he didn’t have a dime other than the house. Instead he uses his time to whine about his good fortune.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
If this was so it wouldn’t be half his ss in property taxes. Average ss is 1900 a month
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
It trivially is in any hot market
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Depending on area 40k property tax means a 3-4M house. Poor rich people!
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Outside of fantasy no that is just nonsense
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Nobody needs a summer and winter home tax the living shit out of rich fuckers with 2
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Its almost 2000
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Property tax funds important things like schools, emergenct services, etc.
if he was destitute otherwise would already have sold it. You are arguing in favor of a tax break for some rich prick probably worth north of 3 million not paying the taxes that pay for your kid to get a decent education because basically feels.
Its no more immoral than you giving up your income.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Comparing property taxes now in 2025 dollars to unadjusted original cost in 1950 dollars is nonsensical. The two numbers bear no relation nor should they.
The average social security check is $1,978 a month or $23,736 per annum. Half of that is $11,868. Lets suppose he lives in CA where the annual rate for owner occupied is 0.74%. His house would be worth approx 1.6 million dollars. To to be clear he is whining about paying the appropriate and legal tax on his fully owned 1.6M cash hoard. This is a great problem to have.
If its that burdensome he can cash out and even with rent payments for the rest of his life live great even if he has no other savings of any sort.
Looks like about $5800 a month gradually increasing with inflation for at least 25 years.
If he has another $400,000 which seems super likely since I don’t think he’s actually living in his 1.6M house on $12,000 a year it could be more than 7500 a month.
If we add a little realism and only include another 15 years he could probably actually withdraw about 11,000 a month.
kiplinger.com/…/average-monthly-social-security-c… www.tax-rates.org/…/property-tax-by-state
- Comment on Select a tip 1 month ago:
This is the case in several states amounting in total to 60M people. For states where another 70M live the tip credit exists but is smaller than the federal number. Many also have a higher minimum as well. For 130 million people the prior statement is inapt.
- Comment on Select a tip 1 month ago:
Lol their job is to support their team! That is one of the things they are supposed to do with your money!
- Comment on Select a tip 1 month ago:
Also tipping is for actual table service. If you just hand me some food I’m not tipping you for handing me food.
- Comment on Select a tip 1 month ago:
In WA everyone is paid at least 16 an hour, over 20 in Seattle and in many high COL areas.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 2 months ago:
It doesn’t say that it says most of their costs are fixed and cost of those large fixed costs are more so amortized per head than per kWh which means higher rates for less usage.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
I’m. In the bottom 25%. I live in poverty.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
I did understand. The idea that both are equally problematic is just so laughably stupid.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
We have incompetent cop and psycho murderer cop. Wherein we can’t actually pick a good cop keeping psycho cop out is vital
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
We are healthier and wealthier than if we had 40 years of Republicans. Much of the negative moves you are bitching about are under Reagan, Bush sr, Bush jr, and Trump.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
Voting Dem gave us clinton obama and biden 20 years where we didn’t have amazing progress but did make small movement in the right direction and avoided 20 years of abject stupidity. We are far healthier and more prosperous than if we spent 40 years pissing away our votes on nothing.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
It’s nothing. Absolutely nothing. Worth nothing. Accomplished nothing. It’s like its a wonderful life but if George Bailey walked around the town and found out everything was as good or better without him.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
They have existed for 40 years and never held federal office nor ever won state level office as a green and remained green . The 8 state level folks that have ever served in 40 years consist of hilarious shit like winning as a green and then switching parties and winning as a dem switching to green and losing.
It is literally 40 years of continuous failure with absolutely nothing to show for it.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 2 months ago:
On steam I can click install and run and most games windows and Linux just work without further effort. This makes gog worthless to me. I could just use wine I don’t know why I’d bother.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The question is why anyone would answer “why” have they never worked any of the types of job where people depend on each others effort in real time? Like 99.9% of low end jobs are like that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So the rest of the day can be used for work. If you start at 930 everyone on time fucks off for half an hour
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Because it often fucks over others who are either overworking themselves pulling your load or can’t take their own break or lunch because you are late
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There is not one grain of truth here its like talking with that guy who sits down to pee and wipes the tip of his Peter with tp because mommy taught him and everyone is too embarrassed to straighten him out.