Ugh, sometimes it sucks hard when that happens, at least for a moment.

To support around a 1% shortfall in fica, fica is about .5% of all income (feel free to fact check, I guessed a bit), 1950 fits the bill for their actual paid percentage of 41% vs their statutory 89%.

Edit: it'd be interesting to know how much of a fica shortfall 4% taxes on the 1% would cover. Somewhere in the range of 50-150% is my guess. Seems more than the projected shortfalls. Now, if they got taxed at 91% for real, noone else would have to pay [much] income tax, and they could raise fica on the rest of us without objection.

Just remember that we could all have our social security if the top 1% paid a fractionof the taxes they used to.

cap pistol cap rolls.

edit: I held and used them, they were common u til the early 80's at least as far as I know.

simple solution, tax rate goes up by margins based on the standard deviation from the last year's income mean. for income more than one standard deviation above the mean, your tax rate for that margin is the percentile rank of your income compared to the last year's incomes. something like that would be fair. then mandate certain percentages be spent on education, welfare, etc. anything left over in the budget from the last year gets split evenly among all taxpayers.

businesses with over 50 full time employees are required under obamacare to offer minimum health insurance. it doesn't have to be affordable. most full time workers can't afford their company's family insurance, and don't qualify for any subsidies because their employer offers insurance.

some places it is cheaper to hire only part timers. other places they just get the option with the lowest employer cost share.

health insurance in the US is a byzantine maze of combinations that change radically from state to state, town to town, and business to business.

edit: so, aflac offers a supplemental insurance, so your employer can buy a high deductible plan, and aflac steps in to pay enough of the remainder to make it a low deductible plan. you have two insurance cards, and a third party insurance management firm who takes a cut just to manage it all.

dude there is some guy driving around town with a fake gold license plate and trump stickers. lucky if they lose five seats. conservatives worship heirarchy and if they didn't figure out trickle down doesn't work after the last fifty years, well, there you have it. their anger will be redirected at the "liberals".

minor panic, oh, "2028".

dead man right there

e.g., cellulose, added to kraft parmesan as an "anti-caking agent."

stupid. half the college grads I know, a good number of vets, and none who have ever been in trouble, ever, have tattoos. you are just sick in the head. I don't have tattos, don't like them, but I don't choose my friends by it, or use it as a moral compass.

https://www.sportsmansguide.com/customerservice/productsafetyrecalls

two handguns on that list in the past two years, one in 2023 which can discharge if dropped. the other if decocked. the world is full of poorly designed machines.