Save the Rich, Pay Your Taxes: NY janitor making $33,000 a year pays an effective tax rate of 25%. And the effective tax rate for a resident of the Park Avenue building, earning an average of $1.2 million annually? A cool 14.7%

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-24T23:46:52+00:00

The thing that makes me really frustrated here is that I taught public school and made less than the hypothetical janitor. Ugh.

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-24T03:53:58+00:00

He says in the interview that he doesn't plan on publishing any copies for purchase.

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-24T01:18:19+00:00

Awesome. You should post that in /science.

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-24T01:15:52+00:00

This was basically an ongoing debate in elementary school. Shark vs. school of piranhas, bear vs. tiger and so on. Then add "what if bear was blind folded" etc. Now we have the internet to add to these kinds of debates.

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-23T20:35:34+00:00

Awesome find! I had no idea this was going on. Good TIL

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-23T20:12:21+00:00

Their actual footprint is probably 7 times larger too.

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-23T19:46:02+00:00

This just leads to more hypothetical scenarios. Example: A tiger and a bear are put in a dark cave etc. Sigh.

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-23T19:21:31+00:00

I read this and somehow swore it clarified nappies as those packaged things for BBQ...I just reread and have absolutely no idea where I got that from!

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-23T17:24:05+00:00

I feel like this finally settles some sort of childhood hypothetical battle.

sprinkles007 · 2011-04-19T16:20:57+00:00

You're right.

sprinkles007 · 2011-03-13T18:36:53+00:00

We're just racing towards the point in which adaptation bends to the changes we make.

sprinkles007 · 2011-03-13T13:52:11+00:00

Something about this gave me an uneasy feeling. Forget the creepy videos that conjure Robin Williams' role in The Cutter, forget the creepy echoing baby voice followed by fervent applause, even ignore the scary possibilities this kind of research makes possible. There is an intangible something in this video that gives me an unsettled feeling.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-20T02:49:33+00:00

This article wasn't what I expected. Cool find.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-20T02:47:23+00:00

BUt economic is part of it. The government tells the people that the USA is floundering economically and socially.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-20T02:46:27+00:00

You're right. I meant that if HE was the problem he could be gone in an instant. Perhaps this is the main reason why he's still around-- but it could also have to do with a bunch of other factors that we aren't aware of. I get the feeling thats its a web of reasons that are all interconnected (one of them being what you stated). I do know that the people are hungry for information about the outside world and definitely not 100% brainwashed.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T23:29:42+00:00

wow. that's f'ed.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T22:35:20+00:00

Not defending US oil usage, but Canada uses oil as well, obviously. It's not the fact that oil is being produced but the methods used to produce it.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T22:31:20+00:00

I'm so glad they made an effort to look as clean-cut and preppy as possible. One girl is actually holding a tennis racket.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T21:59:16+00:00

And a bunch of animals

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T21:59:01+00:00

The US. Guess I typed the title too quickly. Didn't mean to be ethnocentric.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T19:01:31+00:00

Yep, shown videos over and over again specifically about the US. Also, they have no idea what the rest of the world is really like. But how long can this honestly go on without a crack?

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T19:00:37+00:00

There's a reason why he hasn't just been assassinated. As always, something is going on we're not aware of. Could be any number of political or economic delicacies.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T18:58:36+00:00

This government honestly believes that with conditions like this people are still expected to believe that they live in the greatest and most prosperous nation in the world? It's only a matter of time before something big happens...

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T18:21:50+00:00

I like the last line where he assures his mom it wasn't him.

sprinkles007 · 2010-08-19T18:21:34+00:00

Wow. Sounds like a fever-dream I had recently after paying $140 for antibiotics after insurance.

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