luthis

Cheeseburgers are a delivery mechanism for pickles.

Sandwiches are a delivery mechanism for red onion.

And shop icecreams for the waffle cone, those 3 are probably my favs.

Considering, you know, everything, here's some ideas that have been building in my mind. I want some harsh criticism, even to replicate disingenuous criticism that I would receive from bootlickers. If the ideas hold up, I'll try to get a movement going. (The slightly right wing spin is intentional. This is about the general idea not nitpicking percentages.)

Two policies to protect businesses and ensure economic stability during the current crisis and impacts of AI:

1. Business tax now based on revenue per employee. Instead of being taxed purely on profits, businesses will pay tax only on revenue above a defined amount per employee. For examples we will set the threshold at 100k per employee. For a company with 2 employees, revenue above 200k will be taxed at 100%. A self employed plumber who earns 60k per year will not be taxed at all. For a company that employees 500 people, all revenue above 50mil will be taxed at 100%.

This ensures businesses cannot lay off staff or increase prices to increase profits. Rather, to earn more profits they must employ more people. The increased tax naturally only applies to businesses that aren't already struggling, and provides much needed tax relief to most. The extra tax is used to offset policy 2:

2. Raising the minimum income required to pay tax to minimum wage. So any income minimum and below has no income tax. Essentially moving the tax brackets upward to start at minimum.

This ensures that customers have a huge jump in disposable cash to spend and keep the economy from crashing. Businesses can take advantage of this by reducing salaries (since employees will have more in the pocket after tax and be happy to work for a lower on paper salary) and by hiring more people to increase profits and efficiency.

Please criticise and offer improvements. Also any tips on how to spin it in a more right wing flavour. This is obviously quite left, but if it's more 'business profits good' then I'm more likely to capture that crowd.

For context, I live in NZ.

Real world example (numbers may not be exact):

Amazon in 2024 had 1.5mil employees, made $700b, and paid $26b in tax. Under these policies, $550b would be taxed (Just think of the trains!). The hard part is ascertaining how much should be set aside for business operating expenses.

I'm usually totally against huge corporations on principle, but there's definitely one that I can't criticise and maybe even like, Even though I don't buy any of their products.

Not strictly Linux..

But after reading about SystemD I realised that TempleOS would fall under the laws but there's no way in hell that's getting updated. There's gotta be some amazing way to troll the lawmakers with this.

This wasn't a crime before?

May as well participate since we are lucky enough to have a voice in this country

I'm not saying anyone should, just that they would have ample legal funding if they did...

Still haven't seen any prosecution for when they blocked the motorway either.

Somewhat related!

TL;DR

An Australian pharmacy will continue to send lower-cost diabetes equipment across the Tasman, despite a cease and desist from a medical manufacturer.

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“This is $130 that my whānau, and many other whānau, could have in their pocket each month,” she told them.

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manufacturer Medtronic had sent David Jones Pharmacy a letter threatening legal action if the company continued to supply Kiwi customers with the sensors.

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The pharmacy was “not a legally authorised distributor of Medtronic diabetes products in New Zealand”

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“We have chosen to ignore [the letter] as it was built upon unsubstantiated accusations,” Le said.

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“It creates a massive inequity for families who don’t have the financial means to pay a weekly amount, and it’s also a contributing risk to longer term health outcomes.

“It's really expensive to keep them alive. By not funding [sensors] you are risking the lives of kids who don't have that layer of privilege.”

I fucking hate this bullshit. Hong Le is a hero.

Obviously, I am not in this situation. Related article, wondering what is happening to this woman's house/loans/expenses/rent/car payments/etc

So before conviction, when you're being held pending court proceedings, it would be inconvenient to attend your work place during that time. So I'm wondering, what happens?

If you're found not guilty after months of court hearings, are you just fucked over completely because the bank foreclosed on your house?