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    15 hours ago

    In the United States there is federal corp tax taken from documented workers and paid to the national government (federal tax) by businesses. State tax is also taken the same way and paid to the state.

    This just income tax, but there are many other forms of taxes. Vehicle tax, gas tax, food tax, clothing tax, restaurant tax, etc. These all go to the state and vary in amount depending on the state.
    This is also why our prices don’t include tax. So apple/amazon can show a single price and your state tax gets tacked on at checkout.

    So this “undocumented Immigrants paid X in taxes” is them paying taxes on good but not income. Businesses can pay these people in cash under the table and not paying taxes or benefits for them.




  • First. I hope your family is OK.

    Second its total bullshit the medical insurance companies can just declare something isn’t needed (usually by a doctor on thier payroll). Then use that as a justification to decline coverage.

    This is supposedly a standard tactic for them too. Decline all big claims and see who fights it.

    That’s insanely immoral especially because anyone with a huge medical bill clearly has some shit going on and the last thing they need is the massive stress of a massive medical bill.

    We have movies and TV shows that poke at how bad our medical coverage is and we Americans just accept that the plot is acceptable.

    The ones that come to mind are:
    The Rainmaker kid dies of lung cancer because insurance declined treatment due to it being “experimental”.
    Breaking Bad yeah. Cooking meth to pay for cancer treatment








  • The only useful thing launchers can used to do is adjust things like display settings that require reboot. Basically an INI config GUI.

    This was more common back in the day probably due to the game engines. More less games require restart in recent years but that could be due to me playing more indie games and less AAA titles.

    Edit: wow. Downvote much.