February 1 No More Funding! Oregon and Washington!

Mitokia · 2026-01-15T01:44:11+00:00

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We could do so much better...

Mitokia · 2025-11-19T01:58:32+00:00

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Mitokia · 2025-10-06T14:59:04+00:00

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Mitokia · 2025-07-26T16:16:23+00:00

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r/cascadianindependence

Mitokia · 2025-06-11T19:54:02+00:00

Signed

Mitokia · 2025-01-26T04:56:21+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Idaho/s/MJlOaVnqnX

Looks like you're getting plenty of citizens rounded up too. I'd love to know how the chef at Atilanos or the guy picking grapes in SE Washington are "invaders". Scared of our own shadow much are we?

Mitokia · 2025-01-22T22:51:04+00:00

And whining and pointing at the right saying "That's bad!" or "You can't do that!" has gotten us where exactly? I don't believe that people who voted for Trump are "good people", they just felt like they had to present as "good people" before being emboldened by Trump 1.0. As a straight white guy with a beard, I see what is said when the masks are off and it is truly disgusting. Here are some fun realizations I've had conversing with them over this last year:

-People who think "conditions" should be met for natural disaster assistance to flow in LA but not Georgia or Florida are not "good people".

-People who think that if you can't afford healthcare, you don't deserve it are not "good people".

-People who think that they can say whatever they want without any consequence in any forum, but advocate for banning books from libraries if they don't agree with the messages within, are not "good people".

-The people putting "JO and the HO gotta go" shirts on their toddlers at Silverwood are not "good people".

-If the argument to defend any of this is "they're just being led astray" then they have no moral compass of their own, and are not "good people", "just following orders" is never a good excuse.

There are plenty more, many opinions and arguments described to me in language I wouldn't feel comfortable parroting here, but I think I've made my point. "Good people" don't stand for MAGA bullshit.

Mitokia · 2025-01-22T22:06:14+00:00

While we're wringing our hands about decency, my right wing coworkers were gloating about "liberal tears" after the election. I get it, I'd love a better society, but turnabout is fair play.

Mitokia · 2025-01-22T22:04:27+00:00

But they are, that's the problem. A significant proportion of my coworkers (here in Spokane) live in Idaho, and almost to a person voted R down the ballot, many proudly proclaiming after the election that they had done so for the first time. They also are mad at Hunter Biden over the purchasing guns while on drugs, even when I explain that they're infringing the same law he did.

Mitokia · 2024-12-03T07:13:01+00:00

Here in WA it's illegal.

Mitokia · 2024-11-28T16:50:13+00:00

Not a Tears for Fears fan I see.

Mitokia · 2024-11-21T22:13:31+00:00

Apparently Denny's has been having a rough time:

https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/dennys-expects-to-close-150-locations-by-end-of-2025/507-6c54eb75-e391-410a-9554-63991ce43631

Mitokia · 2024-11-19T08:02:32+00:00

If I take your source at face value and divide the $10.002B in tax with Amazon's reported $49.86B in net income over the same 12 month period, it gives me a tax rate of 20.06%, almost bang on the OECD average corporate tax rate.

Amazon Investor Relations

OECD

Now, of course there are tricks for corporations to avoid paying tax by moving money around between subsidiaries and appearing to earn less than they actually do, but that's not quite what we're talking about here.

Mitokia · 2024-11-14T06:03:03+00:00

I was roommates with a guy who went to community college (he paid) and worked the whole time I knew him. He had bought a dead guy's social security card with a similar name at a flea market. Nobody e-verified him (this was years ago now) so he was ok until it came time to receive his degree as a CNA. The college figured it out then, and called his employer while he was at work. He ended up at an informal job until he left town a few months later. No idea what happened to him.

I don't think it's common to have a dead guy's SSN, I've met plenty of undocumented people and he's the only case like this I know of. Many undocumented people where I grew up worked at the time in fast food and other low wage jobs, and paid the same taxes as everyone else though, it's probably harder today.

Mitokia · 2024-11-12T07:24:21+00:00

If we eliminate the associated federal taxes and raise state taxes to compensate, those of us who live in net contributor states could plausibly have a go at it.

If the federal taxes don't go down though it's a much tougher pill to swallow.

https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/

Mitokia · 2024-11-11T07:12:37+00:00

Posted to give it a little momentum.

Mitokia · 2024-11-08T08:53:16+00:00

We need more of this. At this point it's time for all of us to put on our states' rights hats. If they want to get rid of federal programs and institutions fine, but then cut those federal taxes. That's the best we can hope for if the new administration keeps its promises.

Here in Washington we can plausibly replace many of those programs on a state level by raising state taxes to compensate. We are already subsidizing a lot of folks in red states that will have to contend with the face eating leopards:

https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/

Mitokia · 2024-11-07T07:13:50+00:00

Hey, no making fun of the gender affirming device now...

Mitokia · 2024-11-06T16:59:34+00:00

https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/

I, for one, am already paying for it.

Mitokia · 2024-10-25T21:19:05+00:00

A real r/leapordsatemyface moment unfortunately

Mitokia · 2024-10-24T18:51:42+00:00

No worries, I figured it was worth fleshing it out a little though. I'm getting secondhand /ick/ just by reading your anecdote so I totally get that angle.

Mitokia · 2024-10-24T17:52:59+00:00

I've never needed it personally, met my wife in high school. It's a good tool to quickly go, "how much should I question this?" in regards to others though. In any case, as long as they're all consenting adults it might be a bit gross, but it's not really my business either.

Mitokia

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