@Alfonzo10432880 @MartinSellner_ Brain draining the neighborhood might be actually good policy. Not very good for the lower middle classes and below but might be still net good.
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@pthread_mutex_t @MartinSellner_ Certainly, benefits are a magnet. But even without them, excellent infrastructure, convenient life, high salaries (relative to origin) will always attract.
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Merz said he wants to deport 700,000 Syrians in 3 years.
Thanks to the new citizenship law of the former government that he did not change, in three years 300,000 of them will become German citizens automatically.
Also the rest don't have to leave if they are "integrated".
In ca 10 years every last illegal Syrian will have magically turned into a German citizen. If you don't like this, then you are persecuted by the German police as a racist and extremist.
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@Alfonzo10432880 @MartinSellner_ I'd argue that migration is attracted by benefits, not by the ease of crossing the Mediterranean.
These NGOs are of course criminal in their nature but, again, prosecuting and punishing them is politically impossible for any political party including the so-called right wing.
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@pthread_mutex_t @MartinSellner_ Well, the first step would be to stop the flow and they cannot even do that. There are still NGO boats hauling migrants to Italy (which allegedly has right-wing gov) and Greece. Spain is transporting migrants from Afr enclaves by tens of thousands and giving out EU residency.
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@Alfonzo10432880 @MartinSellner_ The correct policy is to cut the benefits. It is however unfathomable to Germans and every political party (including the so-called right wing) just can't do it.
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@MartinSellner_ They want to get german passport to guarantee stay and benefits. They have no intention to become Germans.
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Ну т. е. канцлер ошибся на 6%?
Я вообще не имею ничего против людей, которые работают и приносят пользу. Чуваки, которые приезжают сюда за пособием go home
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В Германии трудоустроены 320 тысяч сирийцев. И в основном в сферах, испытывающих нехватку рабочей силы, заявили в Федеральном агентстве по труду. По его данным, 266 из 320 тысяч работающих сирийцев отчисляют с зарплаты взносы в пенсионную систему и на выплаты для безработных. В эту статистику не входят те сирийцы, которые уже получили гражданство ФРГ. Ведомство обнародовало эти данные после того, как канцлер Германии Фридрих Мерц заявил, что 80% из примерно 1 млн сирийских беженцев в ФРГ должны вернуться на родину. Граждане Сирии работают в Германии в основном в секторах здравоохранения, ухода за немощными, розничной торговли и логистики. "Это, безусловно, именно те сектора, которые нуждаются в работниках", - заявили в агентстве по труду. Общий уровень занятости среди сирийских беженцев сейчас составляет 47%. Среди тех, кто приехал в Германию в 2015-2016 годах, - 60%. Для сравнения: средний уровень занятости среди граждан ФРГ - 71%
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Just heard on KUOW about the deal for Seattle City Light to spend $1 Billion dollars on fish to be allowed to continue to operate 3 hydro dams it built 70 years ago.
That works out to about $0.04/kWh, or 25% of your electricity bill*. Fish are important, but it’s a massive stealth tax on energy, likely more than it cost to originally build the dams.
* on the energy from this source
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Поменял зимнюю резину на летнюю за 37 €, при этом зимние колёса на СТО остались на хранение бесплатно.
В Дортмунде за всё вместе отдавал почти сотку.
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@Tihiipiket Ох ты святая наивность! Скажи мне, а Анну Нетребко,которая поддержала кровавую войну Росеи против Украины можно брать или это тоже «ой нинада!»?
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Господи боже, а можно все же никого не брать в заложники — даже во имя благих целей? И даже вербализация такого ради просто «припугнуть», чтобы никто не поехал, — это очень вредная идея. Протестовать против участия и свободного проезда по Европе — это одно. Выступать за аресты политиков и прямых бенефициаров режима, ответственных на институциональном уровне за войну, — тоже норм. Высказывать же идеи о потенциальном аресте и обмене гражданских, пусть и лояльных власти людей - ????? нельзя так
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Несколько лет назад я работал преподавателем на языковых курсах (на А1), и естественно, мои студенты постоянно путали N и Ñ. Проблема решилась сама собой, когда я им рассказал, что "año" - это "год", а "ano" - это анус. И когда вы во фразе "tengo 25 años" (дословно: я имею 25 лет) вы пишете или произносите "N" вместо "Ñ"...
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@wassek96 @GusevaOlyaa Вы кажется забываете что с той стороны не Дартаньян а Путин. Уверяю, во взятие заложников он умеет многократно лучше чем и вы и Шевченко и Евросоюз вместе взятые.
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@GusevaOlyaa А что не так? Я бы задерживал любых россиян, которые публично одобрили войну. Менял бы потом на политзаключенных
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@DA_Stockman The purpose of the General Staff is to prepare such plans, wargame the adversary's reaction or preemption, make even more plans to mitigate that, test these plans, over and over again.
It is not its job to decide whether to attack or not though.
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Except, except.....this map is all War Party propaganda and military contractor PR. The Soviet Union never had a plan to invade western Europe---other than a defensive response to a NATO provocation or offensive. After all, the Soviet files are all open---show me the Red Blitzkrieg plan that NATO forestalled................ I thought so. There never was one!
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@DA_Stockman This is what NATO was for...
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@varadmehta Not one word from Republicans that this one is the second income tax.
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Not one word in this article that income taxes are forbidden by Washington's constitution.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Washington State on Monday enacted a tax on income over $1 million, the latest Democratic state to levy a tax aimed squarely at the wealthy. on.wsj.com/41yrvWC
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@Hawk_SB_48_49 @schuttsm @beer_nurd Not so easy. The very next day, before you had a chance to return COBRA papers, you go do a procedure... And they already ran the insurance and you are not covered. And they don't mind doing the procedure, and you don't mind paying for cobra, but today you pay the list price.
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@schuttsm @beer_nurd Any laid off person can stay on their health insurance for a year. They just have to pay the premiums. And they have 60 days to decide. It's called COBRA. There has to be more to this posting about "laid off and cancer". dol.gov/general/topic/…
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Epic laid off an engineer who was dying of cancer and he lost his insurance. They're now trying to cover their ass
Meanwhile, epic replaced said engineer with someone on a work visa: x.com/JobsNowPR/stat…
Not even surprising anymore...
Tim Sweeney@TimSweeneyEpic
@BackersGamesF Epic is in contact with the family and will solve the insurance for them. There is high confidentiality around medical information and it was not a factor in this layoff decision. Sorry to everyone for not recognizing this terribly painful situation and handling it in advance.
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@InvisibleGoril1 @dvassallo The way you expressed your awareness sounds painfully close to "I know that 2+2=4, here is what you need to know to get educated why 2+2 can be as little as 3 and as much as 6"
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@pthread_mutex_t @dvassallo why are you going on about this?
wasn't my awareness of this communicated in my first and second posts?
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I hope this gets overturned.
Flat taxes are already progressive. 10% of $1M is a much bigger number than 10% of $100K.
WA's constitution says all taxes shall be uniform. The legislature thinks it found a loophole by calling this an "excise tax on receiving income." A legal challenge is already filed.
The funny thing is WA already knows how to tax the rich. Permitting fees, real estate transfer fees, licensing fees, estate taxes. King County charged me over $100K for a building permit on my single family home.
This tax is just bad marketing. It only impacts ~0.5% of filers, but many people believe (correctly) that they will be hit by the second-order effects. They could have raised the same money without the backlash.
Governor Bob Ferguson@GovBobFerguson
I just signed the Millionaires' Tax into law. We're rebalancing our unfair system while providing free school meals, the largest small business tax break in state history, no sales tax on baby diapers, and checks to nearly 500,000 working families to make life more affordable.
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@InvisibleGoril1 @dvassallo A standard deduction sets up a ladder which works exactly as you describe it. The first rate is zero, and the second is more than zero.
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@pthread_mutex_t @dvassallo you could argue that.
but only minimally so. the term is usually connected o several marginal rates that get (and here's the important part) progressively higher as you move up in income levels (or, if not income, whatever is being taxed).
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@InvisibleGoril1 @dvassallo Standard deduction makes a tax progressive.
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@dvassallo "Flat taxes are already progressive." no. that's silly.
has anyone ever used "flat tax" to mean some fixed amount of money? no. it's always been a rate. a percentage. and "flat" has always meant that that % doesn't change (perhaps excluding a standard deduction).
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@dvassallo Where have you been when just as unconstitutional payroll tax was established ?
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Pint in the sun, name a better way to spend a Sunday in Moscow (impossible)
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@Vag_ner1337 А теперь давайте среди женщин иранского происхождения в США.
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Понятно а где отхуярят дубинками за отсутствие хиджаба и жизнь не по шариату
вано шаламов 8.0(მესხი)@VSalamov51528
Просто цифры статистики.😌
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@Rational_Answer 5% смертности в год, говорите... 1.27% в квартал. А тут 7.5?
Нет, не собрался.
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@pthread_mutex_t Вы что, на “yes” собрались ставить, что ли? 🤔
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Найдена новая высокодоходная облигация на Полимаркете! Пари на то, что Трамп покинет пост президента США до 30 июня, сейчас оценивается в 7%. Это 7,5% за 3 месяца, что эквивалентно 33% годовых (в долларах). Кстати, fun fact: для белого американского мужчины возрастом 80 лет вероятность не дожить до следующего дня рождения составляет примерно 5%.
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