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The $10k SALT limit may not matter to a lot of high-income residents because AMT is greatly eased and the federal tax brackets are a little eased as well. In the past, I have been able to take advantage of exactly 0 in SALT deductions because of AMT; this year I didn't hit AMT and instead paid regular tax, which is computed using more generous brackets.

I ran my income numbers on TurboTax 2018. then I ran my income numbers on TurboTax 2017 (TT 2017 with the data from year 2018) and found that the federal taxes using TurboTax 2018 were lower. i.e.: I saved money under the 2018 tax rules because of more generous tax brackets, the $12k standard deduction, and not hitting the less-severe AMT.

"Spiraling entitlements, unwieldy pension costs, money wasted on high-speed rail, inadequate water storage and delivery, and lax immigration policies" ... yes, these are all devastating long-term problems.

20th century taught us that even a bad system will stay as long as it can until a revolution overthrows it. And that can take a very long time.

Better a comic than a reality show, wouldn't want to get too depressed.

The article says 1/2 the births in California are funded by Medicaid. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF.org) reports that 60% of non-elderly Medicaid recipients in California are Hispanic.

I read this as that the major increase in population within California is poor and Hispanic. Who is going to keep paying the taxes to support not only these poor, but also the public school teachers, and public servants ? Eventually California is going to be a lot more poor than Mississippi yet it will operate generously like a Blue state as far as state pensions, etc.

As recently as two days ago, Bernie was promising to release 10 years of his tax returns.

Guess he changed his mind:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-doesnt-bernie-sanders-release-his-tax-records

Go Bernie, please be the Democratic Frontrunner.

I want a Bernie - Bloomberg Fight.

AD says

Who is going to keep paying the taxes to support not only these poor, but also the public school teachers, and public servants ?

I'm guessing that silicon valley is keeping the whole state afloat. Engineers here that own a shack and make $250k/year are probably paying $40k/year in various taxes to California (in addition to $90k/year to the feds).

We had a similar case back in Soviet Union at a school where I was studying in 1980's. Kid got yelled at by a local Communist functionary, his parents were called (and they probably spanked the kid at home), and it ended right there...seems like a correct punishment for a 12-yr old idiot

Where did the child got his inspiration from ?

Social media ?

Playmates ?

Maybe right at home huh ? Just repeating what is heard at home or at the homes of his parent's friends.

Queens residents have never been known for tolerance of anything that wasn't exactly like them - White Anglo-Saxon Protestants aka WASPs.

As per the rapes the standard response on this forum for the last few years is basically "boys will be boys", and somehow the woman is more at fault than the man and besides most of the rape claims are false anyway so why bother to investigate them.

Kakistocracy says

Maybe right at home huh ?

Saw it in a movie most prob.

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Kakistocracy says

Maybe right at home huh ?


Saw it in a movie most prob.

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Spent any time out in the area now ? 75 to 25% chance or greater it came straight from home. What didn't come from home came from the school and or church.

If you are not a WASP - Queens really is not someplace you want to hang out.

Kakistocracy says

"boys will be boys"

give all boys a CHAIR! especially if they are fucking white males who ALL! are rapists anyway, or rapists-in-training if they have not reached puberty yet

There are plenty of highly paid, useless white collar workers at places like MetLife, Bank of America, etc.

If anything, automation will go for the knowledge workers who pretty much, do the same thing, year after year.

Rin says

There are plenty of highly paid, useless white collar workers at places like MetLife, Bank of America, etc.

If anything, automation will go for the knowledge workers who pretty much, do the same thing, year after year.

That also applies to people whose work can be easily offshored via telecommuting as was covered in another thread.

Kakistocracy says

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Kakistocracy says

Maybe right at home huh ?


Saw it in a movie most prob.

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Spent any time out in the area now ? 75 to 25% chance or greater it came straight from home. What didn't come from home came from the school and or church.

If you are not a WASP - Queens really is not someplace you want to hang out.

What a pile of horseshit.

Kakistocracy says

If you are not a WASP - Queens really is not someplace you want to hang out.

Have not been there, but Wiki says otherwise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Queens

27.5% of Queens's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
Blacks of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin made up 18.8% of Queens' population
Asian Americans making up 21.18% of the population
Over 1,060,000 whites reside in Queens, of which some 697,000 (31%) are non-Hispanic whites.

Of course, 31% of non-Hispanic whites are intimidating the rest of Queens because half of them are Fucking White Males, who should be put to chair immediately. Most of them are named Adolf, and their homes are full of swastikas

d6rB says

Kakistocracy says

If you are not a WASP - Queens really is not someplace you want to hang out.

Have not been there, but Wiki says otherwise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Queens

27.5% of Queens's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
Blacks of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin made up 18.8% of Queens' population
Asian Americans making up 21.18% of the population
Over 1,060,000 whites reside in Queens, of which some 697,000 (31%) are non-Hispanic whites.

Of course, 31% of non-Hispanic whites are intimidating the rest of Queens because half of them are Fucking White Males, who should be put to chair immediately

Kaki-boy is pulling his "facts" straight out of Putin's ass.

Kakistocracy says

Where did the child got his inspiration from ?

Louis Farrakhan, Black Hebrews, and general Woke Culture, etc. Given the school is less than 10% white and overwhelmingly Black and Hispanic

https://www.greatschools.org/new-york/brooklyn/2465-Ps-139-Alexine-A-Fenty/#Race_ethnicity*Discipline_and_attendance

If I wont buy Asian grocery items from them, why would I buy my regular groceries?

I actually like riding out to Davie to the Asian Market enclave and buying all my Asian cuisine needs.
I can't check out the hot babes at the Checkout line at Paypal.

OccasionalCortex says

If these fuckers are automated, the robocalypse will be publicly visible in full force. Just in time for the 2020 election!

Great news for Trump. The Dems biggest ally is Big Tech, they love Robots (except Sex Robots). 80% of the population will be scared shitless.

Robots, schmobots. What power $ource will they run on?

Tim Aurora says

3. Increase your education - That will get you entry and employment in other countries

No it won't Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, etcetera are chock full of honors architecture, physics, and math grads driving Taxis.

Tim Aurora says

2. Buy a property in Canada ( Many minorities have already done this ) or in Mexico if cannot withstand cold. Go to Europe as it might be safer.

Yeah, okay. You know Canada has almost no military to speak of? Mexico is pretty much how Columbia was 20 years ago? Europe only takes in illiterate Eritreans.

Tim Aurora says

2. Buy a property in Canada ( Many minorities have already done this ) or in Mexico if cannot withstand cold. Go to Europe as it might be safer.

If you are not a Mexican citizen, you cannot buy property in your name that is located within 100 km from the border or 50 km from the coast.

Rin says

There are plenty of highly paid, useless white collar workers at places like MetLife, Bank of America, etc.

If anything, automation will go for the knowledge workers who pretty much, do the same thing, year after year.

This is where Continuous Improvement aka Kaizen 改 善 is a double edged sword for companies and workers.

Once the company embarks on CI and starts mapping a process (most anything can be and is a process) - all of the non value added positions and steps show up immediately in the map (value stream)

Same thing with running a "flow" exercise. All of the non value added steps show up and possibly some non value added positions.

If this non value added tag is attached to a human position - no more position but the elimination of the position results in costs savings to the company.

In a flow exercise no loss of jobs immediately but eliminating steps streamlines the process and with that the possible elimination of positions.

If done properly C.I. tools do not discriminate based on anything - they just show where the waste exists (be it a human job position, unnecessary work, steps etc.) in what is called the "value stream"

Some here may be familiar with Lean Manufacturing - works great around the house as well.

RC2006 says

If you are not a Mexican citizen, you cannot buy property in your name that is located within 100 km from the border or 50 km from the coast.

That's racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, etc. and extreme Nationalist Right-Wing Populism.

I also heard you must pay to translate everything into your language, Mexico does not provide language translation even in criminal court, and there's no such thing as permanent citizenship for the naturalized - they always must keep money in escrow and can be ejected.

The Robot hype. We really have to laugh when you put it in context.
When the Automobile industry went Robotic Assembly line. The fear back then was Robots were going to replace all of the workers.
But it certainly didn't put every welder and fabricator out of a job.

It very well may be with this new push. All we end up with is Robotic Hamburger Flippers at major Hamburger Stands, and Rumba Pallet Jacks in warehouses of the bigbox retailers.
But Jacks Diner will still have Louis the surly burger flipper behind the grill and Freddy's AC Supplies will still have Manny the warehouse guy at the loading dock when you pull up.

AD says

I read this as that the major increase in population within California is poor and Hispanic. Who is going to keep paying the taxes to support not only these poor, but also the public school teachers, and public servants ? Eventually California is going to be a lot more poor than Mississippi yet it will operate generously like a Blue state as far as state pensions, etc.

The Left wants to break the social contract and replace it with a Globalist Open Border Entitlement Mentality.

Tim Aurora says

It seems that many in the media are now bracing a new threat, Civil War. We have raised a Frankenstein in Trump and it seems any effort to impeach Trump or even his defeat in 2020 may result in a Civil Unrest. There is also going to be looting It is also imperative that all parties should make arrangements for protection,water, heat and food, I would add guns to the list.

Sounds like the Liberals are truly fucked, since they don't own any guns. I would suggest that you Liberals don't piss off any Conservatives.

I would also point out the automated Checkout line at the grocery stores are not as common as they were when they started out.
Many stores didn't pull them all out, some Idiots like them. But the stores that had only Self Checkout lanes or 5 of them, have scaled back to one or two. I know a few stores that took them out all together. Home Depot, they are all used like a regular cashier now. You bring your cart up and a person scans the items, and finishes payment through her cash register. That horrible automated computer that fucked more often than not, is Gone.

Kakistocracy says

Maybe right at home huh ? Just repeating what is heard at home or at the homes of his parent's friends.

Exactly. They heard from their parents, who are also suffering from TDS and they continue with #OrangeManBad and Trump is Hitler.

Isn't it nice NY has DiBlasio and Cuomo as role models in the state?

How's the neighborhood there? Many friends?

That horrible automated computer that fucked more often than not, is Gone.

That horrible automated computer that fucked more often than not is gone for one simple reason - reduce as much theft as possible.

Same reason Costco took theirs out - when the loss from non payment of goods exceeds the tolerable limit - the automated lines go away.

There is a cost based on what the anticipated loss will be and it is passed on to everyone - thank your fellow citizens for being fucking thieves.

WHY DO YOU HATE THE 1st AMMEMDMENT?

Kakistocracy says

Where did the child got his inspiration from ?

Social media ?

Playmates ?

Maybe right at home huh ? Just repeating what is heard at home or at the homes of his parent's friends.

Queens residents have never been known for tolerance of anything that wasn't exactly like them - White Anglo-Saxon Protestants aka WASPs.

As per the rapes the standard response on this forum for the last few years is basically "boys will be boys", and somehow the woman is more at fault than the man and besides most of the rape claims are false anyway so why bother to investigate them.

Canada could be conquered in a couple of days by USA or any of it's civil war splinters. The consciousness of taming the whims of the beast on their southern border has been an ongoing historical Canadian concern, and they are tied inextricably to our trade.

Civil War implies two predominant factions, each of which would have a prevailing and unifying political/religious philosophy, who would need to purge their territory of dissident voices through oppression or slaughter. It's far more likely at this point of balkanization that the USA would be destroyed or conquered and parted out from the outside, or sold out from the inside by the various corporate and globalist entities.

Tim Aurora says

It seems that many in the media are now bracing a new threat, Civil War.

Nope, it doesn't seem that. Stop inventing shit.

Tim Aurora says

There is also going to be looting

Have you ever even met a Trump supporter? These are not the people who loot. They’re the people who shoot the dirty looters who probably vote Democrat.

OccasionalCortex says

Amazon is planning to launch a new grocery brand with a lower price point than Whole Foods

Isn't that every grocery store, except Whole Foods???