Is this a US thing I'm too French to understand?
I'd say likely yes to this. It's much easier to centrally govern a more geographically dense and homogeneous country.
In the US we have strong localized government (city/county, state) and the more sweeping Federal government.
And they do submit to central government, that's exactly what the discussion in this article is about- will the central court decide to strike down their local laws?
And why it makes great rocket fuel...
...if you ignore all the other side effects
I feel like it'd make gift giving more difficult, but more meaningful- you would have to give people actually customized things, something you made or something you think they need that they haven't noticed. Harder, but shows more thought than giving generic-consumer-item#528
I know this is a meme, just made me think
For middle incomes in the NCR in DC or MD it's usually cheaper to get the same thing in VA, on an income tax basis alone.
A friend would use "theydies and gentlethems"for dramatic effect
For some reason I kept imagining sending this post back in time to Benjamin Franklin and how he would react
Was thinking of this pod while reading the post. So good
Sounds like what the old Kirkbrides (think the stereotypical big Victorian asylum) were originally intended to be before we overcrowded them and made them closer to prisons.
I'd assume it's a Federally levied property tax, the rebate applied to Federal income. Could be on the basis of the county assessed value of your property though.
I've been a meat eater my whole life, and a well made impossible burger is pretty damn close. There's nothing "not meat-y" about it like I've experienced with beyond meat. I even use it to make my biscuits and gravy now because I can't tell the difference at all in that.
We call em worksonas
If they were able to meet the actual up/down metrics for the subsidy, I don't see why they shouldn't get it. But they weren't able to do that, so they don't get the subsidy.