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@LaurenceBSiegel @tonyannett So you don’t think Bezos pays property tax out the wazoo? Huge sales taxes? What do you suppose the sales tax was on his yacht? On the high end sports car? Agree employer remits the FICA we all essentially “pay” the full load through lower wages.
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Larry Siegel
Larry Siegel@LaurenceBSiegel·
@mtm14 @tonyannett [1/2] You get to 15.2% with just FICA. Then there's property tax, sales tax, and the taxes buried within the prices of every product you buy. Don't try to tell me that the employer pays half of the FICA tax. They write a check for it, but it comes out of the budget
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Tony Annett
Tony Annett@tonyannett·
From Gabriel Zucman: Jeff Bezos’s effective tax rate is 15%, which is about half what the average American pays.
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@SenatorLuma The Fed and all central bankers are terrified of nominal price deflation. They won’t allow it
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@TonyLaneNV And until there is punishment that the kids care about for these actions they will continue to do it.
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Tony Lane 🇺🇸
Tony Lane 🇺🇸@TonyLaneNV·
The rise of these “teen takeovers” across America honestly feels like a warning sign about where society is heading. Hundreds of teenagers shutting down streets, malls, beaches and restaurants… while entire crowds stand around recording it for social media. Some cities are now preparing for these events almost like planned emergencies.
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Anish Koka, MD
Anish Koka, MD@anish_koka·
Why in heavens would you permanently gene edit something that there are cheap , safe, effective reversible options for? Especially bc the PCSK9i story is that despite very low LDLs you still have a 13% residual risk of a coronary event? This is a salvage operation for a therapy that is almost no value except for hyper rich influencers who while not salivating over unneeded gene therapies are getting stem cell infusions from Himalayan mountain goats.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil

Eli Lilly has done it. They've gone and made what seems to be a powerful, permanent gene therapy for LDL cholesterol. That means they'll be able to effectively prevent most heart disease with a single infusion!

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Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷
There's an UNBELIEVABLE use case for regional trips in the US that will decimate air travel and buses. Fully autonomous Tesla Robovans outfitted as long-haul first-class "buses". These would run routes similar to Amtrak or Greyhounds, but with First-Class-like comfort, amenities, and space. The price per seat of these can be the same as a bus, but FAR more comfortable and FAR more luxurious. Can obviously optimize the interior for the best configuration but MAN. This would absolutely KILL.
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Dutch Rojas@DutchRojas·
A Mom in Tulsa called 3 health systems last week asking the price of her son's tonsillectomy. Health system A: "We cannot quote you a price." Health system B: "Pricing depends on your insurance." Health system C: "Our financial counselor will reach out after the procedure." No other industry in America gets to operate this way. Imagine ordering at a restaurant and getting the bill six weeks after dinner.
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Hey Marc…I am against such a proposal. Where did you get your numbers? I think it would yes, be very, and prohibitively expensive. We can look to the layered tax rates in EU states to compare. Very high taxes is how they support their welfare state - many countries their 40% income tax bracket starts around equivalent of $80k. And they have a 22% VAT. Very high taxes. But your numbers seem off the chart.
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MTM 14@mtm14·
It’s all M2. The Fed printed a ton of money. That depreciated the currency. Housing and other hard assets like gold/silver repriced their static values to a depreciated dollar. That and Janet Yellen experimented with long term ZIRP which pulled demand forward. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
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Younger people tend to use discount brokerages. Large portfolios of more mature individuals don’t want to talk to a 20-something in a call center when they need answers. I would bet that is you asked the same question of JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, UBS you get a very different figure.
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Darrell Aden
Darrell Aden@darrelltalksfi·
Fidelity tracks more than 53 million retirement accounts every quarter. The average balances: IRA: $137,095 401(k): $146,400 403(b): $133,500 How does the average person plan to retire?
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@ajlamesa I cannot imagine the instability of a parliamentary system. Italy has literally been a basket case for a very long time.
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@AbdulElSayed Medicare does not work that way now. It has premiums and copays and a deductible. Are you ignorant of that fact?
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed@AbdulElSayed·
Medicare for All means no premium, no co-pay, no deductible. Doesn't matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26, turn 65, get married, get divorce — it is there for you.
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Jonathan Halvorson
Jonathan Halvorson@son_of_halvor·
@realdocspeaks The ACA was passed in 2010. How do you explain the consistently lower cost trend from 2010-2022 (minus covid) vs 1991-2010? If the ACA was an expensive failure, shouldn't we expect the reverse relationship?
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Real Doc Speaks
Real Doc Speaks@realdocspeaks·
We were told Obamacare was going to save healthcare and that has been an expensive failure. But now you want to double down on another government solution, that is a terrible idea.
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie

32.3% of Americans had a major unexpected medical expense 23.9% skipped dental care 22.3% have medical debt 20.9% skipped the doctor because of cost Our for-profit healthcare system is exploiting sick Americans for profit. Demand universal healthcare with Medicare for All.

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MTM 14@mtm14·
There are chiefly three sectors of the economy where inflation is higher than the general CPI by long term measures. Healthcare, Housing and Higher Ed/College. In all three sectors government is a primary payor in some regard. Literally hurts the people they are trying to help by driving prices higher, and then driving the subsidy costs even higher…rinse, repeat…
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Dutch Rojas
Dutch Rojas@DutchRojas·
Bezos: “If Amazon ran like the NYC school system, packages would take six weeks, cost more, and arrive wrong.” Correct. Now do healthcare. Now do Medicare. Now do Medicaid. Now do certificate of need laws. Now do every government-protected monopoly you helped cheerlead until the bill showed up at your own front door.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales

Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."

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