I'm seeing a lot of complicated explanations so I'm gonna go with a simpler one.

Say you build a fence for somebody and they pay you $1000. You have to report that income to the IRS. Let's say the tax rate is 40% so they say "Well you owe us $400." But instead you provide them with receipts saying you bought $500 of supplies in the form of lumber, screws and such. You have "written off" your expenses and shown the IRS you really only made $500 so you only owe $200 in taxes.

One time a chat rep requested remote control access so they could help me solve my issue.

They pulled up the chat and pushed the button indicating the problem has been resolved. 😞

I remember when they had the same conversations about packet sniffers.

Turned out the answer was to use encryption and switches.

United states of decay

I'd argue the most difficult part about losing weight is boredom.

Obviously you don't have a business degree.

NoBoDy Is PaYiNg AtTeNtIoN!!

Is this dude for fucking real?

You don't need to listen to far right nutjobs. They were never going to vote for any Democrat candidate.

You do need to listen to us far left "nutjobs" if you think you need our votes.

EDIT: Goddamn for a group that loves to call us "childish " moderates really don't appreciate being told they can't get what they want on their own and have to gasp cooperate with others.

I appreciate OPs honesty that Palestinians are dead either way.

Because most shareholders are boomers.

I do sock shoe sock shoe at the gym because I don't want my socks on those grimey floors.

But at home it's sock sock shoe shoe

Because Boomers can't take it with them.

Then move to China

If I spoke mandarin fluently and had a solid support network of friends and family i would. 🤷‍♂️

Dictatorship means no accountability, so once it’s set up, they do as they please no matter what you say.

Show me all this accountability here in the United States. A known pedophile is in office and the previous guy in office spent four years giving a huge number of his voters the finger.

The rail union contract expires this year meaning they can strike in 2025.

If Biden is serious about how dangerous Trump is he should promise to back the rail unions and veto any legislation which would block their ability to strike. That's a small price to pay for democracy and would cement his legacy as the most pro-union president in history.

By "trustworthiness" do you mean continuing to try to vote our way into policy which benefits the American people? Because that hasn't worked in 40+ years.

Yeah I'll take a "dictatorship" like China if it means we get socialized Healthcare, 25,000 miles of high speed rail, affordable housing and nationalization of corporations who have received billions if not trillions in subsidies. American "democracy" certainly hasn't delivered on any of that.

We defeated Trump in 2020. Nothing changed and Biden spent his entire term catering to liberals and moderates.

And where are the footholds on this slippery slope? Or do we keep trading away rights for temporary security while claiming to hate fascism?

And you tell the public they're in prison for life.

The minute he gets elected "whoops I forgot I can't do shit without the Senate. Sorry everybody"

Governments have no trouble taxing me for property I own. Stocks are property. 🤷‍♂️ This isn't rocket science.