I think being the only socialist in these places puts a ton of pressure on them that would otherwise be distributed to all the members of a socialist caucus. Also, I think, having some sort of ideology and actually trying to live up to it is way more stressful than being a stuffed shirt.
For Australia the equivalent to the number of stars is the number of points on the stars. Still 7 in that pic.
HSAs + HDHPs can make sense in some circumstances, especially if your employer contributes to it and you are a high earner.
So in all health insurance plans, you're working with pre-tax money. In all cases, your monthly premium is paid for in pre-tax money. With HSAs, additionally, any contributions you make are also pre-tax, and can be invested.
Whenever you're dealing with pre-tax money, the more money you make, the more of an advantage this is. If you make very little money, you generally pay very little tax on it, so the discount from using pre-tax money is small. The reverse is true if you earn a lot of money.
The advantage of using the HSA is that you own the money and can keep it forever. You can always use it to pay for medical expenses without incurring taxes, and you can also start to draw from it after 65 as though it were a regular retirement account and pay the income taxes then. Because they roll over forever, you can amortize medical costs over a longer period of time. And because the money is invested, in theory it can increase without you doing anything.
The disadvantage of using an HSA is that it is invested. It's entirely possible that the value of what you buy with your HSA money goes down, and then you have less money for medical expenses. Or if the arcane math of medical costs work out so that you'd have ended up paying less with a lower-deductible PPO or HMO.
tl;dr: If you make a lot of money, your company contributes to it, and you don't get sick, an HSA is basically a free extra retirement account that can both always be used to purchase medical services and can lower your current year tax burden.
I'll note that I'm super risk averse and so I have a traditional PPO, but one of my friends is a big money guy and he does an HSA (despite having lots of medical bills, he still swears by it).
Average Bay Area residents.
So weird. When I post any other moral demand of individual actions everyone just agrees with it! Veganism is absolutely unique in this respect, yessir!
Bimetalism but you ran out of metal.
uwu were just a smol bean militawy wifout two nickuws to wub togevuw
General Ben Hodges: If you think about it, Russia-- has been for decades, and still is, an existential threat for Europe and the United States. I mean, just listen to what their leaders say. Look at the thousand nuclear weapons. They clearly will keep going if they're not stopped.
bruh
you can see it working at the bustling farmers market on John McCain Street in central Kyiv
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Tatiana Abramova: Especially in the condition of war, we have to work. We have to pay taxes, we have to pay wage-- salary to our employees. We have to work, don't stop.
Holly Williams: Why does that help Ukraine win the war?
Tatiana Abramova: Because economy is the foundation of everything.
bruh
be like I told you dawg
here's a novel option for you and all other people: go back to not caring at all about kids' sports because it straight up does not matter
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I'd say that it's still a very common trope, and that's part of the reason it's not discussed much. The other reason is that, as the cultural "default" cishet men don't really create spaces centering their shared cishet experience, since basically all communities are awash in that already. Lesbians obviously carve out spaces for themselves where they can discuss their own culture, which is not often on display in the wider culture.
Like if you went to a forum for cishet dudes, it would be a bunch of guys who think there aren't enough places already to talk about being a cishet dude and that's a big red flag.