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If I can save one person's job for $1 a year. Should I do it?

Y'all are down voting me for telling the truth that most of the world isn't London. Yeah 70 miles is far, but if the price is right for the flight, its London.

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But if you only talk about income tax, your conclusion is a lie.

Why would you exclude such a massive part of inequality and revenue as capital gains and other revenue.

Especially since "income" is like the shittiest way to get into the 1%.

And good lord, even if it wasn't. The threshold for the bottom 50% of the nation is 42k and sales tax is a thing too. What exactly are you trying to tell us, that we should bring the hammer down just to make sure the plebes suffer more.

He said income tax. This paper includes other taxes in an attempt to make it look more equal. You aren't reading correctly

The chart is pre tax

$1 is a start, especially when it's enough to keep a small handful of people employed when they otherwise wouldn't be. All the other tech CEOs are giving away $0 and let people on the bottom rung of the ladder take all of the fallout.

I’m impressed if it is. I can afford a car better than an uber driving me around, but I know it’s easier to drop a 20 for a ride than 4,000 for a first car or something. I haven’t looked at what junkers cost today, but I know prices have been up on used cars since covid.

Things have changed since I was a kid

Localizing by city can lead to insanely high ratios. This data could be skewed by how rural a country is as well. My local city as average salary 37k with average home price at 1.1 M, putting it high on this list

I think technology has a lot to do with it. Younger generations don't feel the need to get out of the house and socialize as much because they have all the social attention they need on their phone.

I lived in a large city with good public transport and had a student card for it (free during the week, reduced price on the weekend). I had a bike.

Parking for cars is a nightmare and very expensive here. Why would I have gotten my license before I needed it for work?

Bilbaos name is la paloma

Yeah, same, I spent about 3500, exam included

Could be using average household income. That’s $70k which works out to $311k house price which doesn’t feel crazy.

My first serious girlfriend in high school never got her license until well into college. I drove her everywhere for most of high school and then when we split she was in college and really didn’t need to drive.

Walmart does

Hell I did that once with London City

Are some of these nicknames? I don’t recognize half of them

I think anybody who thinks they've booked a flight to London and lands in Oxford is going to be confused and annoyed.

Wait. Are you flat out lying.

https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2020/

This says that total combined taxes (both income and capital gains) reaches 24% for the 1% in 2020.

The lowest 60% supplied about 16%. But like, we expect that. The middle class has always borne the majority of the tax burden.

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That makes sense, I guess.

I got my license in 1992. Other than my license saying "UNDER 21", it wasn't different from anyone else's license. I had bought my car a few months earlier, and was picking up friends to go to the mall within a half hour of getting home from taking the test on my 16th birthday.

But by the time my brother got his license in 95 or 96, there were all sorts of restrictions on when you could drive and how many passengers you could have. I think for the first year, you could only have one person under 18, and only until midnight. Come to think of it, I don't think he bought a car until he needed one to commute to college.