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paulca:

--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 21, 2022, 10:49:02 am ---But that might open the other can of worms I mentioned earlier, about lady justice being blind. >:D

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She's got a nose.  She can smell the money and she loves it.
james_s:

--- Quote from: nctnico on August 20, 2022, 08:01:37 pm ---But how about taxes? What kind of income tax percentage are you looking at? Health care insurance ain't cheap over here either... The bottom line may not be better at this side of the big pond.

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I don't even know, I know they're lower here than there, but taxes still take a big chunk out of my income, roughly 30% IIRC, but it doesn't feel the same as money I have to pay because it's money I never see in the first place. The one that really bugs me is property taxes because that goes up and up with rising property values, it's not uncommon for elderly people who have paid off their mortgage to be taxed out of their home they own. That's a completely different topic though.
james_s:

--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 21, 2022, 06:44:46 am ---To add on to the madness, a little bit off topic, the wife just read somewhere that even the fairy tale snowwhite is under the magnifying glass of political correctness and #metoo movement because "the prince did not ask if he may kiss her"  :-DD

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While I haven't heard about Snow White, I'm not the least bit surprised somebody has complained about something about it. I've seen the whole ask for permission thing come up before though and that is further complicated by the fact that a large percentage of people are turned off or otherwise bothered by someone asking permission to do something in the heat of the moment rather than reading body language. All the various human courting rituals were not engineered out of nowhere, they have evolved throughout our history and trying to change them suddenly to fit some random ideology is bound to create problems. I personally do not want some gal to ask permission if she wants to do something, just try it and if I don't like it I'll politely decline.
IanB:

--- Quote from: james_s on August 21, 2022, 05:10:14 pm ---I don't even know, I know they're lower here than there, but taxes still take a big chunk out of my income, roughly 30% IIRC, but it doesn't feel the same as money I have to pay because it's money I never see in the first place. The one that really bugs me is property taxes because that goes up and up with rising property values, it's not uncommon for elderly people who have paid off their mortgage to be taxed out of their home they own. That's a completely different topic though.

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Although taxation is a little lower in general in the USA than in Europe, it is not that much lower, and really not low enough to justify the complete absence of government benefits in return. Based on public services provided, overall taxation in the USA should be much lower than it is.
pcprogrammer:

--- Quote from: james_s on August 21, 2022, 05:16:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 21, 2022, 06:44:46 am ---To add on to the madness, a little bit off topic, the wife just read somewhere that even the fairy tale snowwhite is under the magnifying glass of political correctness and #metoo movement because "the prince did not ask if he may kiss her"  :-DD

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While I haven't heard about Snow White, I'm not the least bit surprised somebody has complained about something about it. I've seen the whole ask for permission thing come up before though and that is further complicated by the fact that a large percentage of people are turned off or otherwise bothered by someone asking permission to do something in the heat of the moment rather than reading body language. All the various human courting rituals were not engineered out of nowhere, they have evolved throughout our history and trying to change them suddenly to fit some random ideology is bound to create problems. I personally do not want some gal to ask permission if she wants to do something, just try it and if I don't like it I'll politely decline.

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I might have been mistaken with Snow White and that it was about sleeping beauty, but that is not of importance. It is showing how things get out of hand, because come on it is a fairy tail, and when it bothers someone to what kind of message it could send to some youngsters, then just explain it after reading or watching it, but don't go on a witch hunt.

In the courting rituals the consent often is indeed visual, but I can also see a problem then when one of the participants changes it's mind and says no, it does not always sit so well with the other participant. And then it possibly gets ugly. In my case the wife would not be that happy if a nice lady came up to me and started kissing me ;)
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