Could a state order all businesses operating in that state to stop paying taxes?

That would mean that the corporations basically paid people’s taxes for them, right? Wouldn’t that just get factored into salaries?

I guess it would, at most, only work with people who get paid from the same state.

This is the answer I was looking for. Thanks! A simple “no” wasn’t very informative.

I don’t mean legally. I mean “just doing it” regardless of the law.

Too many people think that everyone in the US deserves to suffer just because 23% of us voted for the Orange Shitstain, and that’s if you believe nobody “found” him some extra votes.

That’s the sad truth.

I think we need laws against platforms censoring discussion of their rivals, particularly with shadow bans and shadow delistings.

We need legislation against the unending encroachment upon our daily lives by advertisers.

Having racial diversity at all levels of performance doesn’t mean that you’ve made it fair, just that the unlucky late-start white racers got absolutely screwed and the lucky early-start black racers got an even bigger advantage. The whole event should just be declared unfair and breaking the analogy, economically struggling people of any race should receive equal support, while wealthy people of any race don’t need to be further propped up based on the color of their skin.

Race is a poor proxy metric. Economic status would be a more accurate metric as well as helping people who weren’t necessarily systemically disadvantaged, just really unlucky. It’d be sort of like declaring the whole race unfair and giving everyone who did poorly some bonus time.

So you disagree with my more accurate analogy because it leads to a conclusion that doesn’t fit your agenda? Rich black people and poor white people exist. Not sure why you’re trying to say they don’t. I don’t know why people are so obsessed with dividing things up by race. The us vs them split is not about race or any other demographic except wealth and ownership. It’s the ruling class vs the rest of us and only propping up some poor people depending on the color of their skin is racist and vile.

Or instead of focusing on skin color, you could just try to balance out the times so that the next leg of the race is more even for everyone who had a disadvantage.

The analogy would be more accurate if everyone started at a random time, but darker-skinned runners started later on average. Then, the event organizers decide to deduct an hour from every dark-skinned runner’s time regardless of when they actually started.

Choosing the price per-customer like that should be illegal.