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Seems false. In LA, if everyone accepted just "having less stuff", had a partner who didn't work, per MIT each and every person would need to make at least $36.47 for simple "subsistence", or no money for "savings, leisure expenditures, emergency expenses, or other". livingwage.mit.edu/metros/31080
January 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Seems false. In LA, if everyone accepted just "having less stuff", had a partner who didn't work, per MIT each and every person would need to make at least $36.47 for simple "subsistence", or no money for "savings, leisure expenditures, emergency expenses, or other". livingwage.mit.edu/metros/31080
"We don’t pay as many formal taxes as they (Europe) do, but when you bring in payments we are compelled to pay and that are deducted straight out of our paychecks just like taxes are, it really does not look that much different, at least as far as labor taxes are concerned."
January 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"We don’t pay as many formal taxes as they (Europe) do, but when you bring in payments we are compelled to pay and that are deducted straight out of our paychecks just like taxes are, it really does not look that much different, at least as far as labor taxes are concerned."
Politics/policy still can and do "combine" in certain areas though such as minimum wage... see also Sheinbaum's *overwhelming* victory in Mexico after AMLO tripled the minimum wage...
December 11, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Politics/policy still can and do "combine" in certain areas though such as minimum wage... see also Sheinbaum's *overwhelming* victory in Mexico after AMLO tripled the minimum wage...