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@OG_MISTER_POPO @DustinGouker You win $2000 on a horse race. You must claim that as income on your taxes. Previously the $2000 you lost you could deduct 100% of your losses. So you list income $2000 losses $2000. (Meaning you pay no tax on gambling wins) Now you can only deduct 90% of your losses.

@DustinGouker How the fuck is gambling loss a tax write off wtf

New: UFC President Dana White has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to help reverse the 90 percent limit on gambling loss deductions for US taxpayers that became law last year. The issue has been a concern for both bettors and the gambling industry itself.

@uncledoomer $15ak was about what it cost new Givennthat they had to restore and/or care for the car, I dont think it is too expensive

this used to be a dirt cheap shitbox you could buy as a high schooler and wrap around a telephone pole after your first bottle of hooch with your freshman gf in the passenger seat. now baby boomers are bidding them up to $15k on bring a trailer

@VitalVegas You are absolutely correct here. But from other VV posts the friend was supposed to have tipped someone $4M, but apparently not the lender. The lender gets zero, the woman that comes over to hand pay, she gets $4M.

Pay back the $200, assuming no interest was specified. What you did with the borrowed money is none of their business. Related: Never borrow money.

@ALglyix @DrDiGiorgio So if care is rationed by the people in the hospital, an those people are paid by the government, please explain why i am a moron. Why are those people not government bureaucrats?

@hey__garrett @DrDiGiorgio tge government?

This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take. No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare. The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral. Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year. Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes. Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment. The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.” America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be. Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities. Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis. It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.

@VitalVegas Love you VV , but no. The Plaza is 700 feet away.

Imagine going on a pilgrimage for a 2% difference in house edge. If you’re obsessing about math, you’re doing Vegas wrong.

@ALglyix @DrDiGiorgio Who are they paid by?

@hey__garrett @DrDiGiorgio its rationed by people that work for rhe hospital moron

@ALglyix @DrDiGiorgio I contend it is worse when it is rationed by government bureaucrats

@DrDiGiorgio healthcare is necessarily rationed thats how it works, the issue is it shouldnt be rationed and gatekept by cost

@rishabhg21 @Redd_flaggg @grok No, this does not look like Gal Gadot. I love me some Gal Gadot, but she is pasty white and rail thin. It looks like I could snort Gal Gadot.

@Redd_flaggg @grok Grok Result Looks like Gal Gadot

Hey @grok wrap this into reality Make her look realistic !!

@LasVegasLocally @greg16676935420 This a deranged take. Please explain to me how after they give the winner a check for $10M is he supposed to get $100,000 to start passing around?

@greg16676935420 Because it's customary in Vegas. On a $10 million jackpot you should tip at least $100,000 to the dealers, cocktails waitresses, slot attendants, and anyone else who helped you have a good time.

Why in the world would you tip after winning on a slot machine?

@ChampChaz02 This is bullshit. Did an old woman come out and pay out with c-note right there on the casino floor $10M? No. They took them back to an office and cut a check. Who do you tip? The accounting clerk?

Saw the 10+ Million Megabucks hit at Mandalay and that the people did not tip anything from everyone's favorite local Vegas account going Viral. What would you tip on 10+ Mill? I would only give a few hundred. I see myself as quite generous I think, when I hit handpays the slot attendant always gets $100 and whatever the smalls are. But this is not Blackjack where the dealer (usually giving advice) and other players are having an effect on the cards (I won a 15k BJ progressive in Jan and the 2 other players and dealer I gave 1k each) Its a damn slot machine, The attendants are random from who is working the area or closest at the time. Am I supposed to pay off their house because they were the person closest to me at the time when I got lucky? Its a no from me. How much cash do you get there and then for that kind of win? Biggest single slot win I had is 38k and I gave 300. New tax rules on Slot wins for Americans play a part in your decision? So many questions

@VitalVegas Explain this. Did the old woman come over and hand pay the $10M with c-notes right there on the casino floor? Or did they walk the couple back to an office and cut a check? Are they supposed hunt down some hand pay worker and tip them? Love you but you are crazy here.

Follow-up: informed older couple from Iowa tipped zero for a $10 million jackpot, not even the $4 left on the machine after the jackpot. Cashed it out and took it with them. Do better, humans.

@RealCasinoKing Following up that you can kinda get this at Biloxi, but only a little bit.

@RealCasinoKing Choice. Vibe. Gambling is such an inherently lizard brain event that I have seen buttoned down accountant/math/science types get very superstitious at THIS craps table, or THIS casino. Having the choice to go to another is a godsend to them.

Is there a real reason for a gambler to travel to Las Vegas? You get such a better experience at local casinos it’s not even close.

@SpamAcc93775191 @smgstryker @coryfromphilly "The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age." Where does it say a state cannot give the right to vote to 16 year olds?

@hey__garrett @smgstryker @coryfromphilly It certainly makes it insanely difficult for a state to change the age.

The "disconnect" is that the electoral college has mainly benefitted conservatives, and conservatives understandably do not want to give up their edge in gaining political power. There's no other good reason to defend the electoral college as an institution.

@SpamAcc93775191 @smgstryker @coryfromphilly Man, I tell you what, that dang ol' boy right there yammerin' on 'bout "some amendment" like he done read the whole dang Constitution hisself... tell you what, partner, you need to go crack open that there Twenty-Sixth Amendment and read it real slow-like, man.

@hey__garrett @smgstryker @coryfromphilly Kind of an amendment with that whole thing.

@smgstryker @coryfromphilly Show me where it sets the minimum age for voting.

@hey__garrett @coryfromphilly The voting age is in the US Constitution.

@MikeDrewWhat Technically by being in the NPVC the governor is bound by law to accept the vote totals of other states. But, yes.

So governors of states decide presidential elections based on vote reporting by governors (or SecsSate) of other states?

@GeorgeJourneys @SeanTrende The thought process behind the NPVC is that it has the current legislature bind the future legislatures to commit the state's slate of electoral votes. I am not defnding the the idea, merely presenting the idea behind it.

@hey__garrett @SeanTrende It cannot because it works within the existing Constitutional framework. Electors are selected by the state Legislatures which, at the end of the day, can do what they want.

I wonder how states would handle a disputed popular vote under the NPVC. If a national popular vote count is very close, but there are questions about vote counts in, say, Dallas, Miami and LA sufficient to flip the result either way, how does PA decide to allocate its electors?

@GeorgeJourneys @SeanTrende Yes, it does. Or at least it tries to.

@hey__garrett @SeanTrende You’re forgetting that the state legislatures have to send actual electors to the College. NPVC doesn’t change this.