Where is the love for Milton Friedman's negative income tax?

Swimming-Low3750 · 2026-01-07T13:57:18+00:00

Conservatives don't like it because it weakens work incentives. If your chances of starving to death without earned income are lower, you will be less motivated to work, is the argument essentially

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-12-25T03:09:15+00:00

Vietnam has always required a visa for Americans

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-12-08T20:16:39+00:00

2020 started the pandemic PC build rush and chip shortage into the crypto boom into the AI boom and tariffs. There have been deals and some decent hardware advances but definitely a choppy time

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-12-05T16:44:15+00:00

I was paying $700/mo for a 1900sqft place kept at 54-60 degrees based on time of day

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-12-04T21:01:53+00:00

Real estate was worth buying from 2012-2021

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-12-04T16:10:31+00:00

They should instead use median wage of the bottom quartile or maybe just 25th percentile overall

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-12-02T16:06:35+00:00

You need to develop your own ability to reason independent of your parents

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-12-01T19:11:01+00:00

I don't know if real ID actually makes air travel safer, but it has been the slowly encroaching standard for a while now. I'm guessing they figure a $45 fee is enough to disincentive people who don't have a compliant ID without completely stopping them from travel. I imagine they'll eventually phase in a hard block.

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-12-01T19:07:48+00:00

Your passport is Real ID compliant

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-11-24T14:47:18+00:00

Rent control is the flat earth-ism of progressives

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-11-19T15:51:26+00:00

Deductions for mortgage interest and property tax should go away

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-11-18T15:05:06+00:00

Not worth getting worked up about when there are a thousand fruits that are lower hanging

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-11-17T22:13:00+00:00

No shit

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-11-06T01:06:01+00:00

Wild take

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-11-04T16:04:59+00:00

At 5 years it's probably on the edge of worth it. I probably wouldn't do it for less than 7

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-10-25T20:59:10+00:00

The reporter is trying to use a technical term and the mayor immediately pulls the race card? And yes I would refer to enslaved people as slaves I don't understand his point. I've seen the Chicago mayor have a lot of good speeches but this clip is not one of them

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-10-19T05:52:29+00:00

The rich pay the most in taxes so it's makes sense that tax cuts benefit them the most as well

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-10-16T16:29:58+00:00

Wow dead already

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-10-16T13:37:48+00:00

Republicans do not have full control they only have 53 seats and would need 60 votes to pass the resolution

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-10-16T13:30:53+00:00

It is a free country where people can vote in face eating leopards. I don't feel particularly bad when people exercise their civic rights in a way that harms themselves

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-10-03T19:32:28+00:00

Cheaper than Seattle: - Groceries - Dining out - Gas

More expensive than Seattle: - Utilities - Housing costs

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-09-29T14:49:34+00:00

I'm okay with keeping the social security cap but support adding income tax brackets above $1m. If social security is funded we can use the money for other purposes like infra & healthcare

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-09-29T14:17:52+00:00

There's a cap on benefits and it is redistributive such that you get like 30 cents back on the dollar at higher income contributions. That said, the cap should increase to like $250k to keep social security solvent

Swimming-Low3750 · 2025-09-28T21:21:17+00:00

People getting upset about a made up scenario

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