"We took your $8.5 billion and instead of building 8.5 billion dollars worth of extra capacity, we built the capacity we were in the process of building anyway and used 8.5 billion dollars of our money to buy back stock"

I've had controversial opinions about judges, cops, prosecutors, and etc, who are involved in particular egregious violations of their duties, do not deserve due process. They've clearly demonstrated they don't believe the system has value.

Well hello there

As long as the demand exists in the market, the niche will be filled. There's simply too much money to be made.

As a related example:

Mexico has a cartel problem not because their government is weak, but because the scale of the American drug market means every cartel has an annual income that dwarfs any conceivable taxation revenue. Which means they're better armed, better staffed, better equipped, and overall a more formidable threat than can be dealt with.

Even fully legalizing drugs in the US might not undercut the cartels at this point because their operations have extended so far into legitimate forms of income at this point. Cartels are an agricultural powerhouse, and are responsibility for the vast majority of avocado production for example.

Some asshole had the idea to water a seed and now I have to pay taxes. Fuck that guy.

Everybody laughs until the seasons are no longer reliable enough to grow wheat, corn, or rice, and then suddenly 7.5 billion people starve to death over a two year period.

I'm convinced every "bigfoot" sighting is actually "bear with mange walking on its hind legs"

Real life chance card!

Make sure you save all those letters, lest you resolve the error and get a letter several years later saying you owe $x + interest due to an error that you've already resolved. Because they don't have those records digitally, apparently, and if you don't have paper copies of every document involved you might just get to pay that penalty whether it was ever due in the first place, or even if you've already paid the penalty. Or get a lawyer.

Which is what happened to me the year before last.

A friendly reminder that the US celebrates labor Day in September because celebrating it in May with the rest of the world would encourage solidarity with the global working class, and that's "SoCiAlIsM"

Firefox will let you use both

It's my preferred mobile browser because you can install ublock origin and other privacy extensions which is pretty unique