conanbatt

I am not american.

I pay taxes in the US and I am not allowed to vote, so the phrase applies specially to me and 25% of the California population.

There's no need, you can do it today from within any country by living with cash.

Intuit is not the owner of the IRS filing process.

Those are consulting companies, not tech companies.

Go long argentina :)

The one redeeming quality of crypto is that you can only lose your holdings if you give them to someone else.

It's got nothing on Turning Red [1], though. $20M on a $175M budget. Whoof.

Turning Red was surely a hit on Disney+. Hard to see from the consumer side what the impact was, but disney+ is a money machine and the can easily double the price.

Probably so, but while you are thinking of those details, a country that sends people to gulags and internment camps is collecting data at scale of important people, their families and the people that work around them.

I personally struggle understanding adults installing this app at all, and the fact that it targets mostly oblivious youngsters is pervasive.

If anything it increases company profits, why would companies give the rent money back to employees?

I understand Zelle / irreversible payment situations. But the bank knows who this is, its not an untraceable scam.

Why does it survive?

2.5k doesn't pay 1 day of a developer in a top-of-market startup.

Would my salary be higher if I become more productive? No

Absolutely yes!

Government does not build housing at all.

It cuts both ways. What about the homeless person dying in the cold because he can't afford shelter due to sky high building requirements - is that included in the building code enforcement rules?

The runners of the system are the abusers

Sounds great. I have a business proposition for you.

I will pay you 1000 dollars for the right of taking every single asset you have if at any point it is proven you haven't paid all your corresponding taxes.

This is free money for you and your sense of justice. I can send a contract as soon as today.

Are you sure you have always paid all your taxes?

It makes the whole difference. the harder it is to do, the less they do it. If not, why would they care?

That's what the people collecting the taxes want you to believe.

Because it doesn't get reported as income, there's no record of it. Thats why central banks are purposefully hindering it - it takes away their capacity to confiscate and control with it.

The capacity to not pay taxes is a very important tool of civil disobedience, just like protesting in a public street.

That is the best reason to use cash. Isn't it scary that debit money guarantees you pay more taxes, and it is also used as evidence against you, and to violate your privacy?

Cash doesn't have any of those issues, its amazing. That's why governments hate it! (literally!)

inserting a single number into millions of lines of code

So basically a clean npm install.

Laughs in Argentinian peso

How does FDIC behave in a high-inflation environment?

What for, you can use AI to make it look like it on any picture, no scissors required!

The police dont pay fines or repair anything - tax payers do. But cops do enter the houses where they might find someone that answers fire. Only the latter is a dissuasive.

Is IIUC the International Islamic University Chittagong?

If they did not get the money into their treasuries, they would not have incentives to do this at all.

This very same thing happens with the SEC - they just keep the fines. How do people not think this is robbery is beyond me.

Some politicians have staked themselves on this issue publicly. Can't recall the name, but a GOP candidate explicitly said that he would shoot the police if the entered with a no-knock warrant into his home.

One challenge is that citizens side with the police in court.