Chira numbuh wan!

[Trexller]

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the fact neither party will let Vets take MDMA therapy due to being completely captured by big pharma is one of the saddest things ever.

the shit works, you're just not suppose to do it every weekend

man you gotta look into ibogaine treatment for ptsd, addiction, depression

it's a big deal in the SF veteran community, and still illegal in the USA

alot of men who got their mind and soul destroyed in combat and been a mess for years get 1 treatment and then they got their head on straight

[Trexller]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Although I forget where you folk land on veterans these days.

Why don't veterans get an entire month of observation and remembrance?

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It should always be about merit. Except, you know, when you're competing against an H1B visa, a veteran, or the Chinese worker for your job in the global economy.

Although I forget where you folk land on veterans these days.

Aw, he thinks we're people.

[Lune]

Originally Posted by Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

man you gotta look into ibogaine treatment for ptsd, addiction, depression

it's a big deal in the SF veteran community, and still illegal in the USA

alot of men who got their mind and soul destroyed in combat and been a mess for years get 1 treatment and then they got their head on straight

The thing about Ibogaine is there's a good chance for a transformational cure, and a modest chance for death, like old school alchemy. The medical establishment doesn't look very kindly on those odds, even if it wasn't cutting into the income from antidepressants and other shoddy-but-profitable interventions.

The sad reality is this: people see things like microsurgery, heart transplants, ECMO, mRNA vaccines, AIDS cures, and all other sorts of medical miracles and expect that when they go into the doctor complaining of things like depression, addiction, or PTSD, they are getting interventions of equivalent complexity and efficacy. In reality, they are getting leeches and reiki for their blood ghosts. Very few, if any, doctors will have an earnest conversation with their patient about the fact that we actually just don't have very many effective interventions for these problems. What we do have is barely distinguishable from placebo or natural healing over time. It's just, here's some pills, and on to the next one, knowing full well the patient probably already has preconceived expectations about what the doctor will be able to do for them, and will likely riot if those expectations aren't met.

Part of the blame lies with big pharma basically committing fraudulent science in getting these medications approved, part lies with the health insurance and medical ecosystem that treats doctors like assembly line workers and awards mediocrity, and part with the patients themselves being, generally, extremely poor evaluators of the efficacy of their own care. At times, the most effective intervention for these things is actually to not take pills, and instead to get your fat ass outside and do some interval sprints, high intensity exercise being the end-all-be-all gold standard for neuroplasticity and brain derived neurotrophic factor, but too many people would crucify their MD for telling them that and providing nothing else.

Originally Posted by Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why don't veterans get an entire month of observation and remembrance?

I don't know about you but I'd take something substantive like health care or hiring advantages over a month of lip service and 'thoughts and prayers'.

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Botten [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It isn’t humane. And the Orange Supporting voters know this.

This kid is crying because freaks like you fill their heads with dellusional racist propaganda that yt people are nazis and are going to throw kids into prisons in guantanoma bay.

I swear I wish i wish i wish that was true but its not!!! I want to throw you in there so bad.

[Trexller]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't know about you but I'd take something substantive like health care or hiring advantages over a month of lip service and 'thoughts and prayers'.

how do we fix everyone and their mother having their money tied up in the medical industrial complex

that's the biggest hurdle to change i can imagine, it's a big problem but it makes alot of money for alot of people

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't know about you but I'd take something substantive like health care or hiring advantages over a month of lip service and 'thoughts and prayers'.

We could have that, and all kinds of social programs in this country.

If we didn't invite literally everyone in the world to move over here and start getting them.

You get one or the other. Immigration, or social programs.

You don't get both.

Nowhere have you ever gotten both.

In fact usually where you get it there is a major reduction in total population.

[Botten]

Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We could have that, and all kinds of social programs in this country.

If we didn't invite literally everyone in the world to move over here and start getting them.

You get one or the other. Immigration, or social programs.

You don't get both.

Nowhere have you ever gotten both.

In fact usually where you get it there is a major reduction in total population.

Such absolute nonsense.

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This is America the country was built from immigration. This country is a melting pot of different cultures.

We did thrive because of our acceptance. Every country knows of the freedoms and opportunity in America.

America has had immigration and social programs since its conception. We are the richest nation in the world and its people insist on just making the insanely rich that much richer.

The right has it engraved in their heads that if they haven't worked for it then they don't deserve it. That it is socialism if we ever go back to the early 1940s, where the top marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans reached as high as 94%.

This nation's nationalism and military/local institutional family structure is sickening at times. Europe and may other countries quickly learned this is just a formula for those that love extremism.

The distain in America seems to be regulated to Latina American countries.
I just see this as no different from the distain for the Irish or Chinese early in America's history.

To much of a culture shock to those who didn't grow up with acceptance.

It is too bad.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Botten [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The right has it engraved in their heads that if they haven't worked for it then they don't deserve it. That it is socialism if we ever go back to the early 1940s, where the top marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans reached as high as 94%.

The Good Ol’ Days: When Tax Rates Were 90 Percent

Regardless, one should ask how much the rich were actually paying. It should be noteworthy that back in the 1950s, the government wasn’t actually collecting any more in tax revenue as a percentage of GDP. There’s something called Hauser’s Law, which basically states there is a maximum threshold on how much the government can tax out of its population. I think this “law” is no such thing. If the government really wanted to expropriate more, it could do so. But Hauser’s Law based on the fact that in pretty much every year since 1950, the government has collected between 17 to 20 percent of GDP in taxes. Here are the government tax receipts compared to the top marginal tax rate:

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[Botten]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The Good Ol’ Days: When Tax Rates Were 90 Percent

The article presents a one-sided view without addressing potential counterarguments from those who support high marginal tax rates. Including these counterarguments and then refuting them would make the piece more balanced and persuasive.

Change tax deductions on passive investments losses on real estate then [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

But what was probably the biggest lost deduction for wealthy individuals was the elimination of deductions on passive investment losses on real estate. Before 1986, wealthy individuals would often buy real estate with no hopes at all of it cash flowing. That wasn’t the point. The point was that real estate is depreciated every year in the eyes of the IRS. Even though in the long run, properties usually go up in value, the IRS assumes that every twenty-seven-and-a-half years a property’s value will depreciate to zero.

This “loss” can be written off. So, for example, say a man earning $100,000 a year buys a property worth $275,000. He rents out the property and breaks even on it. The tax code allows that person to write off $10,000 as a loss which he can count against his income for that year. So now he only has to pay taxes on $90,000. If he owned ten such properties, his income would be zero, at least according to the IRS.

That deduction is now gone for everyone but “active” real estate investors, or those who invest in real estate as a career.