Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 85
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 17:51:51 EDT 
Hypolite Petovan
Again, you're right, and you made a great point that individual tax rates don't affect the labor market dynamics, because it only marginally affects how much money employees are making. On the other hand, it does affect businesses' profitability which also has little effect on the labor market.
So tax cuts have little to no influence on employees while having possibly drastic influence on local public services, increasing the reliance on either volunteering or private companies who will make a profit out of filling public service positions.
And this is what I meant to initially say in my 280 characters original post. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 16:17:29 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
You're right in both cases, but that it is a rationalization by employers doesn't make it less likely to happen, does it?
What I am saying is that if the tax rate is 0%, the company will not pay you $50K gross. It will offer you $25K gross. If the tax rate is 50%, it will offer you $50K gross knowing that you will only get $25K net.
The corollary is that if the tax rate fell from 50% to 0%, the company would try to get their $50K gross employees to accept, say, $30K gross. It would still be an income increase for the employees but an even greater cost decrease for the company. New hires would definitely get $25K offered. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 15:18:49 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
Enter the raises which are arbitrary. That’s where the company can adjust the cost of existing employees year on year. For new hires it’s even simpler to slash the offered gross salary compared to before the tax cut. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 13:24:55 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
Got it but they can transfer more or less money to the payroll processor depending the company’s salary policy. What income tax cuts enable them is to rescale gross amounts so that employees come home with similar net amounts while they get to spend less overall. If not easily for existing employees (outside the lower raise example I gave before), definitely for new hires. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 10:11:09 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
I don't believe they are "just" doing the banking math for the government, because it directly impacts their bottom line. And I fully believe that employees would be salty about the no-raise year, but the political benefit of the tax cut would already have been spent by then, and they still wouldn't have any leverage against their employer. So any tax cut would be a temporary benefit for employees, while being a permanent benefit for employers. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 08:55:58 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
I don't see how the fact that the initial negotiation is on the gross salary or that employees see how much the company paid would change the fact that companies have control over the employment cost year on year? Even during the initial salary negotiation, I expect companies are targeting a certain employment cost, not an absolute gross salary that will never change.
For example when you're offered a 1% raise instead of a 4% raise, you still have more money numbers in your pocket each month, but in reality you have slightly less spending power (because of inflation) but you sure cost less than expected to your employer.
Put it in other term, your work doesn't have an absolute value that companies have to pay you in full before tax deduction. This is the only case where a tax reduction would directly benefit employees, but it isn't the case. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 08:35:42 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
In the US companies receive directly all tax reductions since even federal income tax is withdrawn from your paycheck every month. The adjustment I'm talking about would likely be a lower than usual raise on your gross salary the next year since your net salary would have raised by itself thanks to the tax reduction. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 08:14:21 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
If you are employed, tax reductions don't translate into more money in your pocket. You just are costing less money to employ to your company. Sure, you'll enjoy a small income increase during the tax reduction transition year, but after that companies will adjust their salaries. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 08:05:14 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
Me neither, but I wouldn't try since the credentials are sent to the web.archive.orgdomain first as the form target URL has been altered to be part of the Wayback Machine as well. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Sep-2021 14:56:35 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
What’s the purpose? Is it “let’s see if I can do it” or an Easter Egg triggering on a special condition? -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Sep-2021 14:40:26 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
That’s a new one for me, this very official New York City Schools website unwittingly links to a Wayback Machine version of the intended external page. 😅
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Sep-2021 21:46:49 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
The Privacy Badger extension https://privacybadger.org allows to unblock third-party domains on websites I visit where important widgets are missing. However, there's nothing this extension can do for websites nuking their own widgets with their overly narrow Content Security Policies directives. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Sep-2021 12:57:02 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
Oui mais comme je l’ai expliqué, c’était beaucoup trop facile pour moi, pas assez de challenge. 😜 -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Sep-2021 08:02:45 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
I believe "only" is inaccurate in your comment. You can also count at least the legislative bodies, the justice system, the correction system, the home owner associations, the bounty hunters, etc... -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Sep-2021 00:35:05 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
♲ @ncroal@twitter.com: how it started/how it’s going
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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1437952317203128322 -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 12:35:07 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
♲ @nick_kapur@twitter.com: In Japan's Edo Period (1603-1868), when impoverished peasants finally couldn't take it anymore and decided to revolt, they would sign their list of demands with all their names in a big circle.
The had specific reasons for doing this...
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Sep-2021 12:08:45 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
Joseph Hogan please read this
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Sep-2021 20:10:05 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
♲ @RMac18@twitter.com: Facebook sent reporters covering their glasses launch a list of supposed "third-party" privacy and consumer groups that it consulted for the product. So I did some digging.
FB funds at least 4 of the 5 groups. Future of Privacy Forum is one.
https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1435998632767987714 -
dianea (dianea@diasp.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Sep-2021 04:18:16 EDT 
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Sep-2021 15:33:22 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
Only with Hollywood stars, so "Hollywoosopagnosia"?
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