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Comment · 8 days ago
It always is, it's just the definition of "people" that shifts.
Comment · 2 months ago
> the payment processor (who deals with sales taxes rather than income taxes) should worry about the taxability of the transaction rather than the tax status of the recipient

A donation is not a sale of a good or service. This is not a question of sales tax collection.

Comment · 5 months ago
Speak for your Tesla. My i3 weighs slightly less than my partner's Mini Cooper.
Comment · 7 months ago
Marx's labor theory of value very much still assumes a product of that labor to embody its value.
Comment · 7 months ago
Shocking display of economic illiteracy or warmed up Goldwater propaganda?
Comment · 9 months ago
Not sensitive enough to change behaviors, unfortunately.
Comment · 9 months ago
Strong New Coke vibes.
Comment · 10 months ago
Same with making the title of a Barthes essay a cornerstone of the argument.
Comment · 1 year ago
Almost hourly, I am reminded that Jimmy Carter had to put his unprofitable inherited peanut farm in a blind trust.
Comment · 1 year ago
> You can't just build a road without maintaining it.

Sure you can, just look at Indiana.

Comment · 1 year ago
The law reads like it applies to platforms required to do the checks rather than third party service providers.
Comment · 1 year ago
Don't regulate it except to push political goals sure seems like a recipe for success.
Comment · 1 year ago
In your analogy, YouTube is the paperboy and the video producer is the newspaper.
Comment · 1 year ago
Switching to desktop version of the site seems to work in all the major mobile browsers!

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