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Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

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pokechecker said:
it proves what we knew all along, you lefties aren't as smart as a 5th grader!
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It proves you don't understand how marginal rates work. But then, neither do any other Republicans, such as Scott walker.


Or else you and they do understand, and choose to lie about it. Neither one an attractive option.
 
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rufus said:
It proves you don't understand how marginal rates work. But then, neither do any other Republicans, such as Scott walker.


Or else you and they do understand, and choose to lie about it. Neither one an attractive option.
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They know. They also know that if they pretend they know what it means it will be harder to steal more money and add to the 23 trillion.
 
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Kepler said:
They misspelled "90."
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One of my favorite posts on here ever was your, “Don’t misrepresent my positions. I want a 90% top marginal rate.” Or something to that effect when someone was trying to be sarcastic about your positions. It was hilarious.

Found it:
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I'm not Kepler, I don't advocate for a 90 percent estate tax.


Don't misrepresent me. I advocate a 99% estate tax.
 
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rufus said:
It proves you don't understand how marginal rates work. But then, neither do any other Republicans, such as Scott walker.


Or else you and they do understand, and choose to lie about it. Neither one an attractive option.
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You have to have a decent income to run into any bracket of note.
 
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Warren comes with with a “new” mookie wealth tax.... it’s a start :)
 
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If I am reading correctly he set up a situation where his earnings would have eventually more than offset his losses but his losses came first (in fact, immediately) and the platform then forced him to cash out his earnings, at way below what they would ultimately have been, to pay for his losses. That implies that if he had had a stable reservoir of funds to draw from to cover his losses then his large earnings would have been left to come in as expected, eventually, and he'd have finished ahead.

Did I get that right?
 
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Kepler said:
If I am reading correctly he set up a situation where his earnings would have eventually more than offset his losses but his losses came first (in fact, immediately) and the platform then forced him to cash out his earnings, at way below what they would ultimately have been, to pay for his losses. That implies that if he had had a stable reservoir of funds to draw from to cover his losses then his large earnings would have been left to come in as expected, eventually, and he'd have finished ahead.

Did I get that right?
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For a box spread, everything has to go wrong in the right order. It creates OMG risk when that happens, but it's not a common thing. Just because it's not common doesn't mean you're guaranteed money. That investor clearly didn't understand that, and lost his shirt on the trade - assuming he didn't declare bankruptcy.
 
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St. Clown said:
For a box spread, everything has to go wrong in the right order. It creates OMG risk when that happens, but it's not a common thing. Just because it's not common doesn't mean you're guaranteed money. That investor clearly didn't understand that, and lost his shirt on the trade - assuming he didn't declare bankruptcy.
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As I understand it it wasn't even his shirt, it was the investment platform's shirt, hence why they pulled the plug.

And he may have managed to withdraw $10K before the whole thing blew up.

This is going to make the lawyers need lawyers.
 
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Usually when you have losses like that, the platform holds you accountable. You sign agreements stating as much.

It’s also why you don’t make naked options unless you know what you’re doing.
 
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I was thinking pitch forks, as Nick Haneuer likes to say
 
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Remember the 13k jobs Foxconn promised the State of Wisconsin and USA in return for the $4.1 Billion in exemptions and subsidies?

Remember how they announced a few weeks ago that they didn't meet their first tax break goal by hiring 80 less people than initially reported? But they were still on goal for 5k by 2020?

Yeeeeaaaahhhh... about that...

pecial assistant to Foxconn’s chief executive saying that the company is considering shelving plans for a factory altogether.
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“In Wisconsin we’re not building a factory. You can’t use a factory to view our Wisconsin investment,” Louis Woo, a special assistant to Foxconn chairman Terry Gou and a key negotiator in the Wisconsin deal, told Reuters.

Bloomberg reports that Woo said there were no plans to scrap the facility altogether but that the company was reconsidering what operations might be best for the site.
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As well as the number of jobs diminishing, the type of work is changing, too. Instead of focusing on factory work, Foxconn claims it will create higher-skilled, R&D occupations. Woo told Reuters that about three-quarters of the jobs Foxconn will create in the state will be so-called “knowledge” positions.
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aparch said:
Remember the 13k jobs Foxconn promised the State of Wisconsin and USA in return for the $4.1 Billion in exemptions and subsidies?

Remember how they announced a few weeks ago that they didn't meet their first tax break goal by hiring 80 less people than initially reported? But they were still on goal for 5k by 2020?

Yeeeeaaaahhhh... about that...
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rotflmao
 
aparch said:
Remember the 13k jobs Foxconn promised the State of Wisconsin and USA in return for the $4.1 Billion in exemptions and subsidies?

Remember how they announced a few weeks ago that they didn't meet their first tax break goal by hiring 80 less people than initially reported? But they were still on goal for 5k by 2020?

Yeeeeaaaahhhh... about that...
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Congrats Wisconsin, looks like you got...



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Conn'ed.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
 
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