High earned income wage earners pay the most income tax, yes.
But most of the 1% have figured out how to pay less taxes through passive income, paper losses, getting paid in debt, capital gains, and pushing as much of the tax burden to death as possible.
No lol. 23-24% is my marginal. I know. I just paid my quarterly tax bill smh.
I understand our progressive tax rate system.
My marginal tax rate would be a lot higher. But I have a lot of itemized deductions.
Preacher pointed out something in a sermon last Sunday night. I had noticed it before.
But he pointed out how relentless this crowd is.
When the angels came to Sodom to destroy it, Lot brought them to his home.
The men of Sodom surrounded the house demanding Lot send them out that they could...
Actually just asked ChatGPT this:
I don’t have paid access to Solidworks, AutoCAD, and Civil.
I need to use those programs to hone my skills for the job market.
Is there any way to access those programs for free or at a reduced price?
And it responded with:
Here are some ways you can...
Using ChatGPT would probably be helpful for you in this situation.
You could ask it something like:
I’m using program X and I need to know how to do Y function like I would in AutoCAD.
How do I do that on program X?
It’s not going to become sentient. Folks are watching too many science fiction movies.
Its just another “assembly line” type of automation.
Is it going to put people out of work?
You better believe it.
And so did the internet. So did foreign call centers, for that matter.
The bottom...
If your position can be replaced by automation, AI, or foreign labor, you need to learn a new skill.
We can complain about it, but you're not putting this genie back in the bottle.
We just launched our Voice AI for insurance agents. Thing will make 100s of calls per minute. More if needed.
We pitch to agents as it's like having 60 American Call Center reps working for you. They're "on call" whenever you need them. Only pay when you use them.
Many moons ago, I did roofing sales after hail storms.
So I dealt with a lot of insurance adjusters.
Back then, 15+ years ago, State Farm was one of the best for getting hail damage roof claims approved.
Allstate was the worst.
Each insurance company had a rule on how many hits happened...
Seems like a day late and a dollar short for the RNC to sue Michigan for hiring 2300 democrats and only 300 republicans for poll work.
But buried in the article is the fact that the RNC had a goal of getting 100,000 poll watchers for election integrity in swing states.
They have 150,000...