I do tobasco on mine. Shit is fire. Pun intended.

Taxes are not the same as fines. I swear some some democrats have such a hard on for “eat the rich” you will give up your own rights to fuck with some one else.

You can’t target one group of people and expect no repercussions. Here is a relevant quote:

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” —Martin Niemöller

It’s easy to point at another group of people and say they are the problem. Why don’t you look in the mirror and ask yourself what are you doing to fix the problem

You didn’t ask if I thought it works. You asked if it could be implemented. Im also not suggesting complexity is the problem. It is part of the problem.

So instead of the law saying “If you speed, pay x amount of money” you want to make it a 400 page document for every city/county that details exemptions and allows for fine deductions based on specific scenarios? If you believe that will solve the issue you are incredibly naive. We can’t even get rich people to pay their taxes now, what makes you think adding a similar fine system will get them to pay their fines?

Complicating the tax law is a big part of why our tax system is so fucked.

Again in theory it sounds great. However you can not realistically put something like this on paper because a good lawyer would tear it apart.

Inal but I can think of several reason and scenarios why this wouldn’t be fair. There are way too many situations that people deal with that affect their income and saying if you make X amount of money you must pay more for no reason other than you are successful is discrimination.

Many young people don’t understand this but when there are rules in place, they need to apply equally to everyone, even the ultra wealthy. The fact that they aren’t isn’t a problem with the law, it is a problem with our police and public officials. Take it up with them instead of fixing something that isn’t broken. If it isn’t being done correctly now, what makes you think putting higher fines on rich people is gonna fix it?

Fines are not the same as taxes. Taxes already scale with income.

Say what you want about it but that price of paper is the o my reason you aren’t British.

Proportionate to what? Net worth? Income? If you actually think it through you are not targeting the rich by doing this. You are targeting small businesses and middle class families.

That sounds good in theory but that only hurts the middle class disproportionately. Not to mention it violates the constitution.

Bro just say increase pay😂. You’re over here talking about motor home parking spots and shit. Just pay them a livable wage. Very simple.

What city do you live in if you don’t mind me asking? I know a few folks who adore Savannah.

You are completely missing the point. This article is not journalism. There’s plenty of news article based on fact that represent what Israel is actually doing. This is an opinion piece and does nothing but generate views for fascists. You are literally HELPING them. They are profiting off of this article.

Yes 100%. However these guys are not associated with the US so calling then out doesn’t do anything. Just another circle jerk for anti Israel Lemmy users.

Also there’s a million real articles about the genocide. We don’t need this stupid article about 2 nobodies who have a podcast.

I am all for journalists doing their job and reporting on facts. This is not that.

This is basically a puff piece to generate hate against Israel. You are assuming the general public has common sense. Do you think in Nazi Germany didn’t have anti nazi propaganda? All that type of journalism does is gather the dregs of society and let’s them believe there is a place in this world for hate. When we give credence to these people, whether negative or positive, we give them power. As I mentioned all this article does is generate viewership for fascists.

I’m not a fan of anti Israel posts. Just like I’m not a fan of anti Palestine posts. Can we keep this propaganda off Lemmy? I think most Lemmy users are pretty left leaning and we don’t need hate posts every single day about it.

Not to mention all this is doing is adding viewers to these guys. I didn’t know who they were until this post and I can guarantee they gained a few new viewers from this. Better to leave them in obscurity.

My dad is ready to tear them a new asshole tomorrow when they open 😂

I understood it to mean he is a king that happened to be Māori

Water isn’t wet though

That’s exactly what we don’t want. There is no reason to allow Ukraine to escalate the war on our dime and at the same time give away our military secrets

I read a few years back that the temple was giving out names for people to baptize and if a family ever came back to baptize them they would just redo it. When I found that out it felt wrong for some reason.

Knowing all the work I had done to find the names just to find out they had the name the whole time and they potentially gave it to someone else really rubbed me the wrong way.