It'd be as a grain of rice to a starving family, but I hope the Democrats pick it up as part of their platform.
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That's been my tinfoil hat theory about all this too. Tipped workers are usually the lower rungs of the economic ladder. If they can "prove" they actually make a good deal more than they've historically claimed, then they can shed those "hungry mouths" from SNAP and other welfare programs.
This whole thing feels like a trap. I can't say with confidence where the trap is, but it just feels like its there, ya know?
The vast majority. I was in a state that allowed paying under minimum wage if you received tips.
Gonna keep the numbers to myself to help preserve anonymity, but some back of the napkin math says it was probably 70-90% (depending on how good of a day it was) of my "wages" came from tips.
Good catch, missed that.
What's getting me is how my overly conservative family is scorning tipped workers as a result of this ("hasn't Big Daddy T made enough concessions to these people"). And its like "but he hasn't. Not really."
I juggled 2-3 part time restaurant jobs back in the 2009 - 2013 timeframe (total time per week was comparable to a full time job). Even as an only moderately successful male waiter, I was able to pull in ~$32,000 my first year and then evened out to ~$35,000 once I found my flow. That was a decade and a half ago in one of the most conservative corners of the US, and I would have still been paying taxes on my tips back then.
AOC:
"The cap on that is $25,000. While you’re jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,00 across the United States...So if you’re at home and you’re living off tips, you do the math. Is that worth it to you?...This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt...To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation? We can not stand for it, and we will not support it."
(its unclear from this quote if that's no tax on $25,000 in gross income for tipped workers; the first $25,000 in tips; or if there are no taxes on those only for those who make under $25,000 per year. None of the possible meaning is a good one, to be clear, but that's what I was hoping to get answered).
Article isn't actually that long and is effectively a short rant AOC gave. Still annoyed with OP for click bait title without substance in post.
FINE, I'll go read your article and tell you want the catch is. *mumbles under breath*
There are also well-known entrepreneurs who have lost their lives due to such extortion.
I'd be interested to read more, but I'm not sure I've heard about "distant sea fishing" before. Can you pass the articles/links to the stories you're referencing?
Does it really matter though?
Seems like the lost revenue would just be made up through borrowing / deficit spending. Worried this is another whiff of a move. Its not like I have a better solution; and I wish the states doing this the best of luck in addressing their finding issues, but I don't expect this to move the needle significantly.
Appreciate the support. I'll probably plink at it some more tonight. If I figure it out, I'll def be back to make sure the next guy doesn't get lost where I did.
Nope. I'm on Windows which has the file marked as "in use by Retroarch".
The part that has me baffled is where the new save file is coming from. That says to me that save state must be written somewhere else (my instinct says the ROM file itself, but someone else was saying that's patently wrong).
Fwiw, I've also tried playing with the save states (made backup copies first). If you hard exit, it saves off a copy of the current game state ("auto" slot), then attempts to open that up when I boot up the game. My current working theory is that the save file is regenerated from the save states when I try to load into a save state.
Any experiences that agree/disagree with what I'm seeing?
I've found some of the more shit post focused communities to actually be useful (or at least I did back when i still used Reddit).
PrisonHooch had more helpful advice and recommendations than HomeBrewing; PoliticalCompassMemes actually allowed space for Leftists to debate the Far-Right; Cremposting was where you went to discuss your tinfoil hat theory's on the works of Brandon Sanderson; etc. (I know there was a dozen or so of these I used to lean into, but those are the three that immediately come to mind).