Federal taxes plus state taxes plus property taxes (if you own any) plus vehicle taxes (usually in the form of plates and fuel taxes) plus sales taxes (on anything you buy) plus who-knows-what all else.
It adds up to a good chunk of the average working person’s paycheck.
Edit: Forgot to add county and local taxes. For example, Cook county Illinois adds substantial sales taxes and gas taxes on top of state sales and and federal gas taxes.
My first thought as well.
Do you want your own GOP and Trump? Because this is how you get your own GOP and Trump. Come on, Canada, you used to be cool. Shut this shit down.
Staffing issue. Do these people not even hear themselves?
So 7 years ago someone with a Facebook page, that no longer exists, representing some Vegan group, that apparently also no longer exists (if it ever did) trolled the internet by posting bigoted nonsense and got reamed for it by vegans and non-vegans alike? Yeah, good to know, I guess.
Was there an actual point to posting this?
“If we were to just hold the conference in Seattle, it would be significantly under-attended,” Travers said of the annual conference where NASSS members meet and share research about the sociological study of sport.
Good call. They will now only be missing potential attendees from the states who are afraid to leave the country because they might be detained on their return.
You don’t generally need to get up early to see meteor showers but you will tend to do better after midnight local time. That’s because as the Earth moves along its orbit through the trail of debris left by the comet that created the shower, you are on the back of the planet in the afternoon and evening. Most meteors hit the atmosphere on the forward side of the planet. At midnight, you roll around to the front of the planet where most of the meteors will be most likely to appear.
I’m surprised that the article didn’t mention that a review of the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft data in 2024 found DMS on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Finding it on a comet strongly suggests an abiotic source for the chemical.
What the fuck, Ontario. Are you trying to be Texas or what?
It was, quite frankly, so believable that I too nearly missed that it was the Onion. I think we are at peak Poe’s Law.
You know, this may really piss off some folks who got an early notification that there would be an exemption for electronics. You know, his insider trading buddies. It will be interesting to see who gets the angriest about this last minute change.
On April 11, 2025, traders placed large, targeted call option bets on Apple. That evening, the Trump administration quietly exempted smartphones from tariffs, news not publicized until April 12. These trades weren’t speculation - they were placed before the memo was released.
Trump has had the secret service in his pocket since the first term. When the Inspector General of Homeland security asked for the agencies text messages around Jan 5th and 6th, the agency chose instead to delete them. Even Biden knew they were compromised. When he first took office, part of his own service detail was replaced due to questions of allegiance.
The Department of Justice is under the Executive branch and thus, so are the US Marshals. That is why Trump has been able to us the DoJ to go after his enemies and why Musk is invading all these agencies with marshals at his back. In fact, the US Marshal service has deputized members of Musk’s private security even though they have no law enforcement experience.
Hey, it was an honest mistake. They thought DUI Training actually meant training to drive under the influence. Anyone could make that mistake. Well, after a few shots anyway.
No. Justice would not be him in a cell getting 3 square meals a day. Justice would be him broke and alone, trying to survive out on the streets without any of the social services that he and his ilk are ripping away from people right now. Justice would be him getting by on what he can fish out of the dumpsters behind his favorite fast food joints.
I wonder why no one questions the volume of executive orders this guy issues.
I’m right there with you. Particularly in light of this tweet…
“It’s a simple statute,” Raiklin said. “This is treason. Yeah, absolutely, and I would like to see at the end of the due process, lawful capital punishment.”
A constitutional lawyer who doesn’t understand the “simple statute” of treason nor the fact that treason isn’t a statute at all and is actually defined under Article III of the Constitution. Yes, that’s very MAGA.
Nah, he’ll be the next one sent to that prison and never be seen again.
You are more right than you know. He barely knows what the word groceries even means.
The Mysteries of Donald Trump’s Very Large A Brain(Daily Show clip on Youtube)