In 2023-2024 I had a job where I quickly became aware that I was working much harder than they were paying me and I started to track every dollar against my efforts, becoming increasingly aware & bitter that 37% of my time there I was breaking my body as an unpaid volunteer because that's how much the govt was deducting from my paychecks. And the net pay I was left with was not enough to survive. So glad I escaped & found a slightly better situation.
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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Ahaha...tempting me to quit, when I need to stay employed the most. I'm this picture, and I don't like it!
I'd give 100% of my paycheck to a child that eats pedophiles
Buddy you have got to rephrase this.
It's not my phrasing, take it up with the OP.
You're interpreting a child being the subject of the statement. For this to be true, the original text would need to say 'a child'. Only then would the sentence mean there's a child going about eating paedophiles
No I'm not, I'm interpreting it as the object of the preposition by. The lack of hyphenation means that child is either a noun which is eating pedophiles or an adjective describing pedophiles who are eating. Presumably neither is what the author intended.
It says “stolen by child eating pedophiles”. The preposition “by” takes a noun phrase as its object.That noun phrase is “child eating pedophiles”. The head noun is clearly pedophiles. “child eating” is a modifier (a compound/participle phrase) describing those pedophiles
Hyphenation would make it clearer, but its absence doesn’t suddenly create a new valid reading where “child” becomes a separate noun or the main object
Gamer and yeah
having “a” before “child” is the only way I can interpret the sentence wrong in that way, even without the hyphen
"Child eating" is not a compound modifier, that's what the hyphen does. Without a hyphen, the modifiers "child" and "eating" both independently describe "pedophiles", the hyphen makes "child-eating" into the compound adjective the author was obviously intending to convey. Wikipedia uses the example "heavy-metal detector". Without the hyphen, you have a metal detector that's heavy. If you need a device to detect heavy-metals, your SOL.
Absolutely no clue what "gamer and yeah" means 🤷♂️
Hyphens clarify compounds, they don’t create them. Grammatically, ‘child eating’ modifies ‘pedophiles’, the head noun. Reading ‘child’ as its own noun would require ‘a child’ or a different construction, which isn’t what’s written.
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But why would you eat them if you want to fu... never mind
It's done afterwards
Real praying mantis behavior right here. Do you think... No. No, that's crazy.
Wait you pay that much in taxes in the US? I thought the silver lining of living in the US means lower taxes compared to countries with social security systems and universal healthcare.
The biggest part of that is social insurance. It's called a tax (FICA) in America to make people hate it.
And here's the fun part: there's an annual cap which is about the same as a construction worker's salary. Once the cap app is reached they stop deducting it. So high earners only pay it for the first few pay periods of the year.
I remember the first time I earned more than the cap. I thought somebody had made a mistake when my take-home pay went up mysteriously in the middle of the year. So imagine: Bezos and friends are all done paying FICA in the first ten or fifteen minutes of the year.
No see when people produce things they need to get taxed a lot so we can pay for the things they need like prisons, cops, anti homeless architecture, and the military.
But when people collect stock dividends or realize gains they only need to get taxed a little to cover the contracts they get to provide squalid food to public schools, fill textbooks with revisionist history, and prevent humanities education.
And of course the true patriots who get loans against the majority stake shares that they manipulate to steal the retirements of prolls and bribe politicians are welcomed to write those incurred debts off.
No - they just pretend taxes are lower to justify not using the tax money responsibly to provide social services.
Between federal income tax, social security, and medicaid my taxes come out to about 40% off the top. Then I have to pay state sales tax, local taxes, and in many states people also have to pay state sales tax.
What the hell? That is an effective tax that is higher than what I pay in one of the richest countries in Europe. Our highest tax bracket is around 50%, but only on that portion. Our effective tax is probably under 40%.
And we have actual social security and healthcare is covered.
How else are we supposed to pay oil companies and Monsanto massive subsidies to encourage them to keep participating in their wildly profitable businesses?
That's the line they feed us, for sure. But if you ever actually added up federal income tax, state income tax, state and local sales tax, Social Security tax, property tax and assorted taxes for any instance in which you might come into additional money (capital gains, interest, prize winnings, inheritance, etc. etc. etc.) most Americans would probably be shocked to learn what real percentage of our income we actually pay to the government.
This is a very good reminder to me. The rich pay comparatively little on things like gas taxes, retail tax, etc.
yep, some taxes are regressive
Multiple layers of tax:
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federal income tax
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FICA
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state income tax
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sales tax
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property tax
According to Tax Foundation, looks like it's actually about 30% on average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day
Yep. and thank god we don't get any services or infrastructure repair from that ~30% /s
That's the best part: We don't know! There are so many taxes and fees and BS spread over so many things that it is very difficult to calculate the total percentage accurately. 40% seems high, but it's probably not far off when you add everything up.
Lower taxes (1-5%) is if you make more than 750,000 per hour or daily or weekly.
I worked union construction for 15 years and 90% of those guys are die hard MAGA
most people in trades are conservative, and mostly white people, with a side of hispanic groups. people wonder why more arnt going into the trades, likely they arnt hiring people outside of that political demographic.
It’s because when women and black people meet all the criteria and are begrudgingly allowed in that’s when the haze out circus begins. I’ve seen some horrible things and there’s no accountability. In my union in a dark blue state Union officers were putting nooses and writing kkk on a group of black men’s things to the point they had to file a police report. And the state didn’t do a damn thing. https://www.courthousenews.com/mitsubishi-accused-of-ignoring-years-of-workplace-racism/
The daily reminder that there are more Trump voters in CA than states that voted overwhelmingly for Trump
I've been a scientific monitor for construction projects and they will tolerate you, but you will mostly be excluded. I of course as bearded man from the South had an easier time than some of the younger women that were my coworkers. Of course they generally don't like the monitors much, but they have clear preferences.
Honestly the drama on a construction site is peak. These grown men are so petty and cliquey
Female 15 year elevator mechanic here and I agree it’s like none of them matured past middle school. I have so many crazy, funny and sad stories. It’s like lord of the flies but dumber. I’m in school for an MA in industrial design so I can pivot out of the KKKlan in the field
Yeah, I'm a straight married bearded husky white guy who has taken up carpentry as a hobby, and I have no interest in being part of that industry. I have a relative who is a trumper plumber and the culture fits him perfectly, lol.
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Trump paid for showing me (located with an european IP address and an european account) a facebook video ad boasting about how now overtime is tax exempt. It was awesome: it was an ai-generated pixar style ai slop about some men coming back after some work in oil field or coal mine and hugging their kids, opening the letter with a huge "pussy hair" signature saying that now overtime pay is not taxed.
Absolute slander. The pedophiles drink the children. They dont eat them. Apologize to the pedophiles right now!
SOLYENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!
"How is this child sized?"
"It's roughly the equivalent of a small child that's been liquified."
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What's this about eating what now?
Try searching for Jerky in the PDF files.
But they NEED that 40% to buy more bombs to send to Israel or use themselves on the middle east.
Not just bombs. They need to send Israel cash so Israel can fund AIPAC so AIPAC can bribe politicians into sending even more money to Israel so Israel can fund AIPAC even more so AIPAC can bribe politicians into sending even more money to Israel so...
You completely forget the cost of pedo yachts and pedo islands. For shame.
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Yea, Im not going to object when the guillotines get rolled out for these Operation "Epstein Fury" masterminds.
He needs to be better receptive to capitalist propaganda. /s
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