0 sats \ 11 replies \ @Cje95 11h \ parent \ on: What's wrong in your life today? AskSN
Oh yeah! So I work for a Committee and in the Senate the Republicans and Dems split the budget 50/50 no matter who is in control. In the House it is split 70/30 for the Majority soooo since I’m working for the Majoirty if the Dems flip the House then we have to lay off roughly 2/3 of our staff 😅🙃 life has been a tad rough to say the least
Government “produces” goods and services that are low-priority for individuals. In fact, it can only inhibit or rearrange production. It cannot produce anything without an act of consumption. The government is not a wealth generator.
Various individuals who are employed by the government expect compensation for their work. One of the ways the government can pay them is by taxing true wealth-generators—those individuals generating goods and services demanded by consumers. By doing this, the government forces an exchange of less valuable goods and services (i.e., government-produced goods and services) for more valuable goods and services produced by wealth-producers. Consequently, this weakens the wealth-generating process and undermines economic growth. By taxing wealth-generators, the government forces them to exchange more for less.
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Um well where I work in Congress isn’t with what you are looping me into. I work in basic sciences more or less and I would say that the National Labs and my Committees drive to get the government to offer milestone based contracts shows that. AI came from the National Labs and SpaceX NASA, Semiconductor again National Labs those are the definition of wealth generators.
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The government never creates wealth, only drains it. No matter what part of government.
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To be fair... numbers actually are hard. 😆
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Christ, I haven't used excel in like 15 years. I used to have to make pivot tables constantly.
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I used to teach Xcel, now I just use LibreOffice.
Oh shit, that's wild. I honestly can't imagine having the fate of my career hanging on the results of an election.
I drive a semi, so my big stress is if some dickwad cuts me off. It's definitely not comparable.
Seriously, I hope you get to keep your job.