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At what point will you stop optimizing for the number of dead children? Why not keep them in a padded room with some electrical impulses to stimulate their muscles as needed, while feeding them a perfect blend of nutrients for exact caloric intake.

Edit: lol this doesn't even break the site rules... it's a legitimate question. Fuck you dang.

I think you and I agree, but it's an interesting question.

Neglect laws in the US are incredibly vague.

Driving a vehicle for some unnecessary reason like to take a child to a water park for fun could be construed as abuse/neglect, as it unnecessarily exposes the child to danger.

Our neglect, and child reporting laws, badly need overhauled because common sense it totally removed. People have been arrested for as little as letting the kid walk or be at the park independently. Things need reworded to make it clear it isn't neglectful unless the child is facing certain and imminent serious injury or death, or something along those lines.

Do you offer them a ride? Everyone is out to criticize parents at all time, usually while doing fuck all to help.

Arrest gives them legal authority to search the person of the accused and find evidence of other crime. Perhaps they will find something that leads to a felony and authorization to hold. For instance, you probably wouldn't want to release someone who was heavily intoxicated in public while in possession of a deadly weapon.

To be clear, I'm not saying I'm thrilled about prosecuting people for many of the crimes for which the contraband would constitute, but the advantages of arresting the perp even if they'll immediately be released is obvious.

It's nice San Francisco has such compassion for violent criminals and mentally ill homeless that their dreams can truly flourish there. Perhaps there is merit to the idea that stabbers need their own utopia too. Not many places you can get high on smack, shit on the public side walk, stab a CEO, and then walk around with impunity to live your dream again the next day.

My attitude changed a lot more once I had a kid. I was never a big tax fan, but once you have a kid and realize

1) You pay the daycare

2) You pay the birth

3) You pay the food

4) You pay the healthcare

....

basically the list goes on, and all along society tells you to get fucked. Society isn't there unless maybe you let your kid walk alone to the park so they can have the slightest shred of confidence and then they arrest you for "neglect." It's not "we're a society we'll work together" -- no its "on your own you dumb fucker, by the way dont abort or you'll be in jail for murder." As soon as you raise the kid, suddenly society says "Look we need to take 30% of the kids stuff, including for retirement of everyone else" no matter that society straight up told you to get fucked for the costs of raising the child up to become someone who can pay the taxes.

It's that way with everything in the US. We pour money straight into Israel and get nothing in return. Blow up brown kids with drones only to have the world hate us.

Taxes are theft. I'd rather live with McScrooge evilCo that requires a toll every time I enter the road than this fucking dystopia where my tax money goes to blowing up innocent people around the world and the world's highest prison rate.

Your thesis is the taxes aren't worse, it's that you think the poors are too dumb to go to freetaxusa or something where basically all they have to do is copy and paste the data from their W2?

99.9% of people won't do anything so long as the tele and McDonalds is available.

People eligible for EITC rarely are handling stacks of 1099 and business transactions.

We're talking about single mom with a couple part time jobs with a W-2 territory.

The idea their taxes should have mistakes more than average seems a bit far-fetched to me.

That said maybe it is cheaper and easier just to eliminate the EITC/taxes/filing for people earning under X. It seems like a waste to even bother with people making under 20 or 30 grand.

Coffee machines usually don't phone home and the good La Marzocco machines are worth as much as a new car. It's quite a liquid market. Furthermore parting them out is highly profitable as the replacement parts from the dealer operates almost like a mob, with some brands requiring replacement parts to be ordered or replaced through certified repairmen.

If the bill was a message, so was the response. "Fuck you, we'd rather not be hindered by such promises."

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RE: below [due to timeout]

>The original bill already passed.

  factcheck:  false.  Original bill passed almost 12 hours later on the same day[0] [1].  The (above) amendment was voted on in the early morning, with the unamended increase passing in the afternoon.

>Congress has more important things to do.

  factcheck:  false.  All 100 senators voted on the floor for a full vote on the amendment.  None found they had something more important to do that would cause them not to cast a vote.

>The executive has stated its position.

  factcheck: True.  Either congress ignored the position, or they followed the privately endorsed position rather than the publicly endorsed one.

  [0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm

  [1] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00296.htm

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