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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In what way does VAT hurt the poor more than the rich? Considering it’s on each item you buy it clearly impacts the rich more than the poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in the Uk we have tax for services (council tax), tax for health care (national insurance), tax for all your income (income tax) and almost everything you buy includes a small tax called VAT (value added tax) which is about 20%. There’s also a few taxes on cigs, alcohol and petrol.

  VAT not on food, books but it on basically everything else. The more things you buy, the more tax you’ve paid. You more yoy spend on items the more you pay.

  I don’t know why people are calling it a tax on the poor. It’s obviously a tax on the biggest consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Each jump brings us closer to God!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t there an Old Testament story where someone is walking down the road and gets back-kicked by an ox or something into then sky and is never seen again, presumed gone to heaven?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work in Amesbury very near this site and I can tell you this completely unnecessary.

  Sure fix the potholes but 2bn for 2 miles of duel carriage way that ultimately won’t speed up journeys between London and the shitholes on the A303 (eg. Salisbury) just aren’t worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been on Reddit for 16 years and I’d say yes it’s very similar. Like Reddit back then it was very tech focused and quite liberal.

  I do think people are a bit more vicious online these days than they used to be and a bit more polarised.

  From a content perspective there used to be more blog content than tech news content, but it’s fairly similar. What I like about Lemmy is it’s far less commercial and the conversation is more genuine.

  However I don’t think Lemmy will become Reddit in 15 years, I think it may languish in eternal obscurity and I’m actually okay with that.

  Reddit exploded when Digg crumbled and the same could happen with Reddit crumbling but idk, there seems to be some stickiness to Internet websites these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can go to Google and log in to free email. I can create word documents and spreadsheet in google docs. I can learn AI with Google projects. I can create unlimited private repos on GitHub, play lots of games on steam for free. I can download Winamp from oldversions.com for free. I can get a Linux distro for nothing off servers. I can use a freevpn, watch YouTube for free.

  Literally handing over game servers to an authorised community to run or supporting games forever actually is possible in the modern day.