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what about candice?

What about a job at the car wash?

technically, the answer to this is my TV because I was rear-ended in July 2018 and my car was destroyed, but I was able to use the insurance payout to buy a used model of the exact same car. So in the spirit of the question, Im answering car as its the same model and would have been much older than my TV.

i recently purchased a new computer to replace my 3-4 year old one and upgraded my phone at the end of 2018. I get a new pair of shoes probably every 1-1.5 years.

I generally only pre-order games that Im convinced will be high quality and unlikely to drop much in price, mostly Nintendo games (Smash Bros., 3D Mario games, Mario Kart, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, etc.). Games on other platforms usually drop in price by half if you wait a few months, so I generally wont buy them right away.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Pretty great satire considering Ulti has almost literally said that entire post, just with the sources of the money changed to slipping on peepee at the Mega-Lo-Mart

Ah I see. Im more of a lurker here than anything, so Ive only sparingly come across Ultis posts particularly related to this subject. satire will always be better when youre familiar with the source material

Moonroof posted...

Having a lot of money is not difficult. I inherited well over $100,000 when I was 23 and I didnt even try. Imagine if I did?

Besides my own personal examples, a friend of mine won over $10 million in a state lotto. He doesnt even have an education. That means he has more money than people who have their PhD.

Ah, youre just poorly executed satire. I see.

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Can you imagine if College became like public High School? Which essentially is what would happen down the line if it became free.

If College was anything like my High School, nobody will be learning anything. And I went to one of the better schools in the city.

its completely different because you have to apply to college and get in via merit (although that is not always the case); you dont apply to most public high schools. And there are already plenty of rich kids going to college on their parents money who dont give a shit or take it seriously whatsoever. Just because a system is going to be abused (in this case, used but not taken seriously) by like, 5% of the population; thats not a good argument to claim the other 95% of people who it benefits dont deserve it.

Moonroof posted...

Nothing should be free. I see there are a lot of free loaders here.

All you have to do is make a lot of money and then you dont have to worry about taxes. You all are very ignorant.

sounds great, a 90% progressive income tax on the highest bracket and a 100% estate tax (as previously mentioned). A perfect meritocracy. If you make enough money, you dont even have to worry about those taxes because theyre inconsequential to your quality of life.

lol he deleted his comments

Moonroof posted...

People are given too much. Needs to stop.

very true, rich peoples parents give them way too much money, especially in regards to college. its very unfair to everyone else. something should be done to equalize that.

Stickers or tags (North Carolina / Georgia)

I saw it last night. I was really moved (almost to tears) by some of the themes, which I felt had more depth than Your Name (although the narrative was a bit weaker). I dont want to spoil anything, but I would highly recommend anyone even somewhat interested to see it whenever they can.

sure, Ill sign up for this

ertyu0078 posted...

They lost that game to Oregon anyways doesnt count

They won the year before that though against auburn

https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=340060002

what about FSU football

Resident Evil 2 (PS4, Xbox One, PC)

Dragon Quest Builders 2 (PS4, Xbox One, PC)

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (PlayStation 4)

Pokemon Sword/Shield (Nintendo Switch)

foolm0r0n posted...

That's specifically the whole purpose. Right now the government writes blank checks to healthcare and education, so the execs can decide their own price with absolutely no market pressure. UBI brings market forces back to those industries, so even though the same amount of money is potentially flowing around, they have to actually compete for it.

SNAP is a good example of something that would NOT need to be replaced by UBI, since we don't have a problem where bananas are $99 each because of food stamp abuse (despite what some people think). SNAP is also very market-based and shares a lot of the same effects as a UBI.

I mean fundamentally the dude is trying to bring a hyper libertarian policy into the Democrats' (and more importantly, the centrists') overton window, and it's actually working, which is pretty crazy. This seems like one of the more centrist-appealing things, which is fine. Bernie could easily say "ok we'll do UBI but with a WEALTH TAX!!!" which would be a huge victory for Yang.

Its nothing more than a libertarian/free market fantasy to expect a UBI to result in healthcare costs going down. By giving people more spending money, in all likelihood prices will go up as the capitalists running health insurance, higher education, etc. want more of that UBI slice. In this free market fantasy of course the invisible hand of the free market will guide prices to an affordable equilibrium but in the real world, prices will continue to rise without government intervention.

my entire argument is essentially that Yangs UBI proposal is more or less bad in execution precisely because its a libertarian policy. but a UBI implemented progressively could be a positive. in a vacuum, its fine. it needs to be built around progressive policy though, which I dont personally believe Yang has demonstrated.

Metal_DK posted...

VATs are generally more stable forms of taxation than wealth taxes. Also business to business transactions make up a large part of vats in europe if i recall. Also the best implementation of a vat tax would be what yang wants it for, not something the government would allocate it to but would barely help day to day lives of americans

Sure, but a VAT tax diminishes the returns on the UBI such that it may only marginally (or not at all depending on their current support) impact the lives of the impoverished over current welfare programs, as compared to taking it from wealth / capital gains / progressive income tax rates

I will admit i was unaware of VATs in terms of business to business interactions though and thats something to look into for sure.

foolm0r0n posted...

100% of UBIs require replacing other forms of welfare. In other words, the $3.6 tril that is used to fund UBI could always be used to fund $3.6 tril of other welfare. Eliminating existing programs is just a shortcut to the same thing.

What you're saying is that you would never support UBI at any real point in time, because you don't think it's better than politician-defined welfare.

First of all, M4A, raising the minimum wage, and free college / erasing student loan debt shouldnt be framed as welfare programs in the same vein as SNAP, TANF, etc. Its viable for a UBI to replace those types of programs but UBI isnt going to do anything to address rising costs of healthcare and education.

my issue with yangs UBI proposal is that hes funding it via VAT instead of a wealth or capital gains tax. a truly progressive UBI program should more or less be redistributing wealth to create a safety net. And furthermore, hes quite weak on policy to supplement a UBI program which he seemingly touts as a cure-all.

Grimlyn posted...

Marill's a perfect choice but don't think the other pokemon can be a baby

gotta be a mid-evo or the primary of a 2-stage line so... Let's Go Snubbull!

actually best analogue to Eevee might be Tyrogue because of his modular evos.... but then again the 100% male ratio hurts

Togepi and Marill are definitely the natural choices based on popularity. I think it would be okay for them to have one baby and one non-baby - theyll scale their power levels up regardless since the games are handled differently

yes, but hes wrong to suggest that its a substitution for Medicare for all, increased minimum wage, free college, etc.

it should only be implemented in addition to other progressive policies.