Everything below $1 million is taxed at 10%, everything above $1 million is taxed at 90%. You make $1,000,001. You pay 10% on the first million, and 90% on that one dollar. Total tax liability: $10,000.90 - NOT $900,000.
I believe there are some limits on suits, which is why one sues for as many different charges as as possible. It is hard to tell from reading the statutes whether the limits apply to officials who abuse their positions for personal gain, and who blatantly lie about the evidence. We already suspect them of several Brady violations.
New Orleans is very poor, and anyone with out of town plates or who looks like a non-resident (tourist) is a target for the NOPD arrest quotas. They know out-of-towners will pay the misdemeanor court fee so they can be on their way. A court date, if you ask for one to contest the arrest, is set 8 or 9 weeks later. Me, I was totally cool with coming back, but my friends knew a judge, which is the other SOP in New Orleans jurisprudence.
In fairness, people come there during Mardi Gras to tear the city up. If the cops didn't act aggressively, things would get out of control. Also, NOPD cops are very low-paid and massively corrupt. So there's that.
I lived there so I know, this was a JP deputy fucking sheriff who was brought in to handle crowd control so I doubt a NOPD would have acted the same way. One thing they were good at was events and crowd control, I was driving home from work when I managed the upstairs bar at the French Market.
Well, if the father "grew up with the wiseguys", maybe what's changed isn't the level of violent crime, but that the perpetrators aren't his childhood friends anymore.
Pretty much any repetitious job that can be done by the poorly educated with minimal to no training will be automated, no matter how little you pay that barista a robot will be able to do it cheaper and more consistently. There are a lot of people who aren't bright enough to do anything more complex and challenging than flip burgers or walk a security patrol. Universal Basic Income is going to be a thing soon, because the alternative is millions unable to find a job starving to death. Not that the PTB really care about the fate of the "useless eaters" (as Barbara Bush referred to the poor), but they're aware of what happens when millions of people are watching their children starve to death outside the gates of their estates.
Amen. Praise be to the Great Birb.
Keep in mind, it's only the TOP rate that's 90%.
Rough example:
Everything below $1 million is taxed at 10%, everything above $1 million is taxed at 90%. You make $1,000,001. You pay 10% on the first million, and 90% on that one dollar. Total tax liability: $10,000.90 - NOT $900,000.
Also voting AGAINST disaster relief bills.....
You still need someone to check and say "Hey, this person's being held too long...."
Fucking DOC and pigs, subhuman scum!
Sure Spanky, whatever you say!
It looks like the architects had planned an ordinary building but accidentally sited it in the river, and had to scramble to float it on something.
I believe there are some limits on suits, which is why one sues for as many different charges as as possible. It is hard to tell from reading the statutes whether the limits apply to officials who abuse their positions for personal gain, and who blatantly lie about the evidence. We already suspect them of several Brady violations.
New Orleans is very poor, and anyone with out of town plates or who looks like a non-resident (tourist) is a target for the NOPD arrest quotas. They know out-of-towners will pay the misdemeanor court fee so they can be on their way. A court date, if you ask for one to contest the arrest, is set 8 or 9 weeks later. Me, I was totally cool with coming back, but my friends knew a judge, which is the other SOP in New Orleans jurisprudence.
In fairness, people come there during Mardi Gras to tear the city up. If the cops didn't act aggressively, things would get out of control. Also, NOPD cops are very low-paid and massively corrupt. So there's that.
I lived there so I know, this was a JP deputy fucking sheriff who was brought in to handle crowd control so I doubt a NOPD would have acted the same way. One thing they were good at was events and crowd control, I was driving home from work when I managed the upstairs bar at the French Market.
Well, if the father "grew up with the wiseguys", maybe what's changed isn't the level of violent crime, but that the perpetrators aren't his childhood friends anymore.
The new desaparecidos aren't in Argentina anymore.
Pretty much any repetitious job that can be done by the poorly educated with minimal to no training will be automated, no matter how little you pay that barista a robot will be able to do it cheaper and more consistently. There are a lot of people who aren't bright enough to do anything more complex and challenging than flip burgers or walk a security patrol. Universal Basic Income is going to be a thing soon, because the alternative is millions unable to find a job starving to death. Not that the PTB really care about the fate of the "useless eaters" (as Barbara Bush referred to the poor), but they're aware of what happens when millions of people are watching their children starve to death outside the gates of their estates.
The economically imprisoned.
NYC - great town, bad cops, terrible mayors.
And probably a lawyer to remind everyone that being held too long is in fact illegal.