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  • It is, and unfortunately its also what’s most often abused.

    Corporate tax (and what’s more equivalent, individual income tax) should see the same progressive taxation, where higher profits yield higher tax rates above each of those thresholds.

    Unfortunately, corporations play a lot of games with accounting to effectively reduce those profits and not pay their share (or not at all, even with some extremely large corporations), effectively shifting the tax burden onto individuals instead. Then, of course, those individuals benefitting most from the corporations not paying their fair share are also playing accounting games to reduce their own tax burden, further shifting the burden onto lower income individuals.

    So when you combine that with increased costs for everyday consumer goods, you see an increasingly higher burden on lower and middle income, even higher income individuals until you get to the extremely wealthy outliers. The impact is greater the lower you go in income level though.


  • Sales tax, yes, corporate tax… No.

    Sales tax is functionally a tax on the lower income anyway, since it has a more substantial impact on a lower income vs a higher income. Its regressive.

    Unless we are specifically talking some sort of luxuries tax based on a value that changes with an index (like a luxury housing tax, median values against area median income + percentage overhead before additional tax, etc, or speculation/vacancy taxes, taxes on private jets or yachts, so on).

    Corporate tax is a tax on profit though (talking in generalities here obviously, there are many types of taxes), which doesn’t apply the same way here in terms of a direct consumer cost, so I’m not sure what you are driving at in that aspect.
















  • TONS.

    My local library is about half for under 12, a quarter or the space for teens, and then the last quarter is a split of nonfiction and fiction for adults.

    So if you go as an adult without a plan or a request that came in, you may not find much other than the librarians latest rec or the newest additions rack.

    For kids though, my local library is incredible. Reading nooks, educational play areas for the little ones, etc. Its wonderful.

    My oldest is getting anywhere from 6-8 books a week right now, she’s going into 2nd grade. Libraries are awesome.


  • As someone with friends and family on the spectrum, my best tip:

    Take a moment to breathe when you’ve completed a thought related to what you’re explaining, and look at the other person to see if they have information to share, questions, or just to express what they know.

    This helped a few folks pace themselves, and the break for others they believe helped in not appearing condescending.

    Hope this helps!