Calm down professor. The US is one of the only countries in the world to tax worldwide income, even if they are a nonresident of the US. That is NOT how it works in every country.

Here’s a pretty good article about it from the WSJ if you want to educate yourself on the subject: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-34630

It’s somewhat accurate to say “every penny they make is taxABLE to Uncle Sam” which is different from saying 100% tax rate. Americans living outside the US still need to file a tax return and report all their income, and pay tax on it to the US, even if it is from a foreign source. That said they could claim the foreign tax credit if they paid tax to a foreign regime on that income already, or the foreign income exclusion under some circumstances which would reduce their taxable income to the US.

Well thank god we don’t have any Death Panels from Obamacare though!

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

They call it “Lincoln’s Tax War” in the South.

I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but antiwork and related pages are full of mis/disinformation that is very misleading and dangerous if large groups are swayed by it. The people there are particularly aggressive and savage about it when their ignorance is pointed out in good faith. Again I get it and their hearts are usually in the right place, but I’d recommend steering clear.

I’m right and that asshole is wrong. Everything would be great if we just beat the crap out of that guy. I just solved all of our problems. Feels great being right doesn’t it? Damn I’m awesome. Better than railing a fat line of blow.

I read once that it’s a social evolution thing. Humans are more likely to survive if we work together, and part of working together means following the rules and a little bit of self sacrifice. We get a little shot of dopamine when we call someone out for breaking the rules because it makes the tribe stronger. The problem is that we figured out that psychological hack and it’s being exploited now to insane levels. We are wired to stop the guy next to us from eating twice his share of the crop or whatever, not for seeing every little assholeish thing some random politician said on the other side of the country, or every person a cop beats up, or every time a Karen is rude to a cashier, and so on. I don’t know how accurate that is but it sure sounds right.

I’m pretty sure the stories themselves are fake but a lot of the situations are plausible that I can kind of see happening some time. The comments sometimes have a lot of useful guidance for navigating complicated social situations. But yeah I do agree with you overall.

Haha no way I got banned for calling RBG a cunt for not retiring when she had the chance!

Those huge default subs are virtually impossible to comment in. Automods delete any posts that don’t conform to twenty different parameters. It’s maddening.

Explains how bots are the only activity in them, because they’ve been programmed to conform to posting rules that no human can possibly comply with.

I’d like to do my part and report there are a ton of assholes on lemmy. It’s REALLY bad here and I’ve been around a while.

Probably for the best isn’t it? Think of all the famous people throughout history. Who among them lived a long happy life and died peacefully? Very few.

What about that “show context” button in our inboxes? It’s super annoying getting replies and not being able to see what the context was, all I get is that ‘bad gateway’ error or whatever.

Reminds me of yahoo back in the day. Tons of shit on the screen with no actual substance.

I was thinking Yahoo

O_o

My office’s IT helpdesk guy had a similar comic in his office. 3 panels of a guy at his work computer miserable, and the last panel he’s at home on his own computer happy as a clam. So true

Which others though? Fark and Digg died years ago and I can’t remember the last time I regularly browsed slashdot.

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