When you itemize federal taxes, you can deduct up to $10,000 in state taxes (either income or sales, but not both). Since it is difficult to get up to $10,000 in sales taxes but not that difficult to reach $10,000 in income taxes, then most people who itemize will end up paying higher in federal taxes.
That only depends on how much you have to pay in state taxes and how much you pay in sales tax. If your state taxes plus other deductions are higher than the standard deductible, then yes you would be lowering your federal deductible. If you weren’t making enough money to itemize, then this won’t change anything.
The real question is whether people who pay more state income tax than the maximum federal deductible also pay more sales tax. I sure don’t, even in a high sales tax state; so this would lower my federal deduction. For higher income people who buy more expensive stuff, this might not change their federal deduction. I think the number is $10,000, so you would have to pay more than $10,000 in sales tax in a single year to NOT lower your federal deduction. I guess a very rich person might buy a new $100,000 car every other year plus tax on a lot of luxury goods to get to that amount.
GPS is a broadcast-only system. It is not the source of your privacy concerns. What your cellphone/car/whatever does with that broadcast data is not GPS’s fault.
You have to really like murdering people to take a case like this all the way to the Supreme Court. This guy isn’t a serial killer or mass murderer or terrorist. He’s not a serial rapist or torturing psychopath. If they believed he was likely to repeat his crimes, fine, keep him behind bars for life. They tried to follow their harsh laws, got slapped down, and then kept trying again and again. Why? What are they accomplishing by killing him vs keeping him locked up?
Even regardless of the debate of whether capital punishment is moral and good for a healthy society, just because you are legally ALLOWED to kill someone doesn’t mean you HAVE to.
It would be tough for me to think up a more fitting name for who I would imagine did this.
It’s honestly impressive how they keep making this WC so much worse with every passing day.
Yes, I use them all the time. They are fucking amazing.
You don’t even have to use them in a country like the UK that has had them for a long time where people are used to them. Carmel, IN put roundabouts all over their part of Indianapolis (yes, I consider Carmel part of Indy and not its own city), and it took hardly any time for people to get used to them. The people that live their love them for the most part. Plainfield, IN also put roundabouts in more country road areas, and they are also great.
What’s weird is when cities don’t fully commit and put stoplights in the middle of a huge roundabout like in Inverness, Scottland.
This was a dev who wanted to sync data between their home and work computers so they could do check-ins from home. This is a combination of a lazy person who values their own ease of use over basic security practices, plus a government contractor who values making as much money as possible by paying shitty devs without any real oversight over those shitty devs, plus an oversight government entity that had its funding slashed by people who only understand cutting money as opposed to national security.
I’m not sure, but that sounds likely. We have Silicon Valley, which contains billionaires who think they are more important than other people and have no problem saying stupid stuff like, “taxing digital products will cost jobs and move companies out of CA.”
You just described what regressive means. Sales tax is absolutely a regressive tax, since it impacts poor people more than rich people.
That’s only partly correct. Steam only charges a state sales tax for states that require sales tax on its purchases. CA does not impose state sales tax on digital products, so Steam does not charge CA residents a sales tax on purchases. This is aiming to level the playing field for brick and mortar stores as well as make more money (from normal people instead of taxing billionaires).
Your first paragraph has way too many questions marks. I’m not asking you to buy a teenager.
Your post is reaching Trump-level stupidity. Do you know what the F in FOSS stands for?
These people have discovered “therapists.”
It’s not discrimination against white people, you obtuse asshole. It’s having 4 majority white districts vs 2 majority non-white districts (67%-33%) in a state with a 55%-45% ratio.
Oh No! I’m used to have 99% power over politics and will now only have 98% power! Whatever will I do??
Funny, I know just as many anti-AI people in real life as very pro-AI people. It’s almost like there are all kinds of people in the world, and not everyone knows all of them.
You do realize, don’t you, that there is more to hurting the environment than just energy use, right?
Water use is through the roof, and water is kind of useful for making food and keeping humans alive: https://theconversation.com/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much-262901
Construction uses concrete and steel and other natural resources, as well as using gas to run the heavy equipment to build.
Large centers take away natural land that could be used as carbon sinks but instead are concrete heat traps.
There are more hits to the environment, but I’m not going to lay them out. Just looking at one source of possible energy use, which they aren’t actually using since many are in the US and not in France, is stupid.
Also, to your pseudo-intellectual “gotcha” points about thinking AI was a waste so how can billionaires profit: just because it doesn’t make money in the long run doesn’t mean billionaires aren’t making a TON of money in the short run. Long term losses will be born by the public and not private money-holders. And even if AI is mostly useless, billionaires will still lay off employees only to learn that AI was in fact worthless, but the people who lost their jobs will fall further into debt and will be slaves to that debt.
I was once the intern who did relatively stupid things with one very big consequence.
My biggest fuckup was unplugging a 10base2 (edit: I originally wrote 10-base-T) coax wire from the loop so I could plug in a newly built computer. Everyone at the time (including me) knew that an unterminated 10-base-T network would crash Win 3.11, so the accepted process was to tell the entire network you were about to disconnect a cable so they could save their work and be ready to drop to DOS. I spaced that step in my haste to test a newly built computer and ruined a day’s worth of work by the sales guy.
Ultimately, I was the one who fucked up and did know better. That’s AI. However, it only had consequences because Win 3.11 networking code was fucking awful and because the sales guy didn’t save his work frequently. If the same person in this story had asked Claude whether it was a good idea to have the backup and production databases on the same volume, the AI would have said No. If the person had asked Claude whether it was a good idea to delete a database without any confirmation dialogue, the AI would have said No. AI did it anyway. That’s what makes this an AI story.
Was their database environment stupid? Yes. Did the sysadmin fuck up by not treating AI like an intern? Yes. Did the AI do something it knew it shouldn’t do? Also yes. This is both an AI story and stupid sysadmin story.
Yep, which happens in other no-income tax states without high tourist or property taxes. It has gotten to the point in some of those states that they are trying to put wealth tax in for to make up for losses.