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[–] bitflag 2 points 3 days ago

8 months in France means they likely won't go to jail but will have something else instead (eg ankle bracelet or community work). All sentences of less than a year of jail are automatically converted to alternatives.

[–] bitflag 3 points 2 weeks ago

And now Apple is resuming advertising on X...

[–] bitflag 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno dude, I am just explaining while this move isn't a contradiction with libertarian ideas.

[–] bitflag -5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

No it isn't. Children are not considered mature enough to make legal decisions on their own, so the whole libertarian issue doesn't apply to them.

[–] bitflag 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but 5 Guys fries are so clearly superior

[–] bitflag 3 points 4 weeks ago

Agreed, some murders and rapists get less than 5% of this sentence. The issue is consecutive jail terms where one "big crime" is cut into many crimes so that each adds to the total.

[–] bitflag 7 points 1 month ago

Supprimer l'abattement de 10% pour frais professionnels pour les retraités est une excellente idée. Cette niche fiscale est injustifiée et vouloir s'y attaquer n'a absolument rien de saugrenue.

Idem pour la CSG des retraités qui devraient être remontée au même niveau que les actifs.

[–] bitflag 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What about the planned economy that learns from the previous one's mistakes? Or the one after that?

Based on all the past experiments, they all fail.

Every person and company has complex needs and desires and ultimately, it's impossible for a central authority to fully anticipate and manage that over the size of a nation, because the quantity of parameters and unknown is almost infinite. Heck I don't even know what I'll want to eat for dinner!

Without even diving into the issue of concentrating so much power into a single hand. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[–] bitflag 6 points 2 months ago

Americans marry early. And often.

[–] bitflag 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Le budget régional qui met la gauche en émois : Pays-de-la-Loire : plus de 500 artistes et professionnels de la culture se mobilisent contre les sévères coupes budgétaires

C'est un budget de 2 milliards et une économie... de 82 millions. Le pays n'est pas prêt...

[–] bitflag 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

La question est plutôt : est-ce qu’il est normal que le taux d’imposition global (IR, TVA, CSG, etc…) s’effondre complètement pour les personnes qui font parties des 1% ?

Ben non justement, il s'effondre pas pour le top 1% (voir page 6). Pour voir un début de régressivité fiscale faut débuter aux 0,1% voire 0,01%. Et encore, uniquement si on regarde le "revenu économique" qui mélange entreprise et revenus personnels, et qu'on considère que cotiser pour sa retraite est un "impôt" et pas une forme d'épargne forcée (puisque ça sera récupéré plus tard sous forme de rente)

Ce que l'auteur dit c'est que la "cible" du top 1% est mauvaise, c'est essentiellement le même groupe socio-économique que le top 10%. Comme il le dit, y'a plus d'écart entre Arnault et Bolloré qu'entre le top 1% et le top 10%.

[–] bitflag 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let me give you an overly simplified example. You are in a property market where rental yield is 3% (happens in some cities)

You could put a million dollar into buying a house and save $30k in rent every year

or

You could rent a million dollar house for $30k, and invest your million dollar in the market at 7%, returning $70k per year

Obviously this gets more complicated with mortgages, taxes, maintenance, interest rates, etc. but the gist of it is that owning your home always comes with an opportunity cost, every dollar of house equity is a dollar that isn't invested somewhere else. Depending on circumstances, renting might be the most economical choice.

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