So I actually currently live in a country which has this. Income taxes are correspondingly very low and public services are extremely good. So it’s not just that I would be okay with it, I am very satisfied with the arrangement, yes. You seem preoccupied with some kind of religious sanctity of your “savings account” without actually considering what the implications of such a policy are, that’s too bad.
Nope, not only is it not stupid, it is pretty much the best possible taxation system unless your explicit goal is to keep poor people poor and rich people rich.
Sure, that’s what I’ll do. But the cool thing about open software is people can do whatever they want with it.
Yes, but you’ll only pay like a thousand a year on those savings, and your costs will go down to 30,000 thanks to improved infrastructure, healthcare, etc.
Linux is open source, it’s always optional. On the other hand, if it becomes necessary in order to access popular web content, some users will demand it.
None, lol. RHEL maybe.
Snus is still quite addictive so probably. For any given drug, faster routes of administration (smoking/vaping, injection) are more addictive than slower ones (oral, sublingual, intranasal), but ultimately they still are, and users may also seek higher doses to compensate for the slower absorption.
still half the price petrol has been in any normal country for years, lol
While there’s some truth to this, the perspective is all wrong. It’s pointless to hand wring about Russia when the reason they can do this successfully is that you can just buy elections in Western countries, and it’s convenient to distract from our home grown corporate/fascist movements. Sure Russia tries to support them because they are bad for Europe, but they can only do that because we allow such things in the first place. They would still exist without Russia. Maybe they would grow a little more slowly, but that’s it. Our unwillingness to confront the evils in our own society is the problem.
on the one hand, everyone hates him, but on the other hand, billions of people are thrilled about him destabilising America
no, it’s nice food because they might die soon
Which they badly need, they are in an incredibly risky position right now. It’s very disappointing, this deal might save them from collapse for quite a while.
All this war is proving is that Iran was incredibly restrained for the last half a century and that they would have been smarter to actually develop nuclear weapons because then the USA and Israel might be forced to just leave them the fuck alone.