There is a reason I keep refusing to take the "Lead" position. I know what I'm good at.
The Christian god is just a spurned lover who wrote in their diary about how stupid and mean their ex is and they should never have dumped him.
Satan is the dumper and has moved on long ago.
Easy. You write it into the sales agreement. Sales agreements are contracts where both parties agree to do certain things in exchange for other things.
While most agreements are pretty simple, you give up money in exchange for goods, or services, it's also easy to write "You will pay the purchase price ($....) to Tesla and also sit through our fucking FSD demo, in exchange, Tesla will deliver 1 ugly-ass car shaped like a fat roller skate," or similar.
It's a trial program, to work out the major kinks, issues, and problems before rolling it out further to other states.
It's also federal-only, meaning you still have to do your state returns. Most of the states in the trial have no state income tax, which makes it an ideal solution for taxpayers in those states.
Expect it to expand to all 50 states in the coming years, presuming Republicans don't somehow manage to legislate it into oblivion like usual.
I wasn't prepared to be personally attacked like this.
Having worked in corporate America for some time now, I would guess it was 95% internal politics. Whoever ran the inbox team didn't play the game right.
Time to go download a copy of the media. Arrrr!
Old people don't fart. Instead of a distinct fart event, it's more of a constant, low pressure leak.
Right.
Corporations didn't have to say, ship manufacturing to China, where environmental regulations are .. lax, and use giant polluting container ships to move good back and forth. But that was cheaper and more profitable than domestic production.
The pattern repeats across a thousand different examples. It always comes down to businesses being able to externalize environmental impact and a complicit government allowing it.
The core problem is one you've narrowed in on: There's a positive feedback loop between schools and lenders to increase costs forever.
Student loan debt is (almost) impossible to discharge in bankruptcy. That shit will follow the student for the rest of their life, until it's paid off or the student dies. This is accomplished by allowing private lenders to make "federally-backed" loans, in which there is a quasi-private lender who is, by statute, able to collect interest on the loan, but has almost no risk because, should the student fail to pay, the federal government steps in, pays off the lender, and assumes the debt, at which point, the student still has to pay, but the lender got their money back, plus whatever interest the student had paid until that point.
I mean, if you were in the student loan business, why wouldn't you lend as much as possible? It's literally free, guaranteed revenue for decades. You'd be stupid not to enter this almost zero-risk business.
Meanwhile, while lenders want to lend as much as possible, they can't hand out insane loans for education if education costs little. Schools notice that students have no problem paying large sums of money, so.. they increase tuition, books, add fees, and suddenly, schools are bumping up against what students' would be able to borrow, so those lenders are more than happy to accept more risk-free revenue in the future in exchange for a pittance now, and suddenly, we have a feedback loop that spirals ever-upwards.
The absolutely quickest way to solve the problem is unwind the various bankrupcy laws that makde student loans essentially bankruptcy-proof. Lenders should have to do things like credit-worthiness checks on students.
The best way is to simply provide a free college education for every student that wants one, just like we do a high school education. The entire idea that you should have to assume a crapton of debt just to learn something is insane. The "student loan industry" shouldn't exist.
As an aside, I think it's pretty awesome that Google Translate preserves the spelling error.
He doesn't.
This is just his hall pass vote to make him appear less of an ideologue for later, when he proceeds to fuck the country over for Trump.