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And they are CONSTANTLY pulling shit like this in gps-denied environments.

If you are given a stock worth $1 you pay tax on that amount and it is treated is income. Agreed.

If the stock becomes $2 do you owe? No. Unrealized gains. That stock could do anything.

If you trade your $2 stock for a $2 Bill, you owe tax on the $1 gain. We are still tracking.

If you use your stock as collateral for a $1 loan, you already paid taxes for the “income” of $1. I could see arguing that you are “clear”. I would do it like this: when you borrow against stock, I would say that the principle “value” of the loan be taxed as though you had sold the stock which is functioning as principle. So if your $1 stock is now worth $10 and you use $3 to borrow $5 (somehow, let’s just assume it’s not 1:1) I say you owe tax on $3 - $1 = $2. When that loan is done, if you want to do it again, you don’t owe again with that batch of stock. If you take another loan same time, same terms, you also owe tax on $3 more, since you are doing $6 worth of “work”.

This is still a little unsatisfactory to me, but it seems like the most fair. Either the money is usable, and therefore taxable, or it isn’t.

Edit: and of course your brokerage now marks your cost basis for those stocks accordingly because it has been “realized”. If you then sell those stocks for that value you’re all set or if you gain or lose you could have losses or gains respectively for tax purposes. This is still wildly good because you can use the money without selling stocks.

Edit 2: The more I think about this, the more I think you should just be taxed every time on every dollar of stock you leverage. If you want to use it, divest.

If you have a billion dollar business and you leverage $100 million for a loan, whatever you leverage ought to be taxed and considered income if you ask me.

If it isn’t liquid you can’t use it, if you can use it, it is taxable.

My state already has Walmart with gas stations, I’m not sure why Walmart needs brisket at 3am.

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Fuck you, Rhonda.

Nothingburger.

I split my ticket too at the local level. The random Democrat leaving the peace corps is not going to make some huge influential change in the recorders office where the Republican candidate has worked inoffensively for 20 years.

Obviously we don’t vote for clerks who don’t issue marriage certificates, but “blue no matter who” is for lawmakers, not bean counters. Trying to spin it otherwise is dishonest.

The other commenter got you better though I think.

I don’t follow your logic. You absolutely should vote blue, no matter who. And you can’t vote for losers like this lady once they are eliminated.

You mean like, throwing numbers around, instead of 2 “bad” people, we eventually get to everyone at 1% bad?

I guess the devil’s advocate in me says if only 1 “bad” person contributed to the future gene pool not 2, then everyone else is only 0.5% bad.

I don’t see how you take the eugenics path in a way that doesn’t turn into something horrible, but, as an example, for people with really debilitating hereditary diseases I could see providing free voluntary birth control if it were requested. At the same time though, I want that for everyone?

Lawsuits, depositions, and official actions including shutdowns and so on are more my speed. Only the first of which is really available until after mid terms. Democrats acting stern with no follow up is par for the course even when they have control of one or more branches of government.

Edit: alright well fuck me then let’s Susan Collins this thing. Send a letter and hope everyone learns a lesson.

And they sent a strong letter!

You tired of winning yet?

I remember when, to find myself, I needed to look at and then step into a bear trap.

Old White men are stupid and at fault, so is some large proportion of Gen Z, and probably others. If they have regret, fuck all of them. Next time do your homework, this was all knowable in advance. Welcome to the “school of hard knocks” (hurr durr), better known in 2026 as the school of FAFO.

You know, I feel exactly the same way.

Yes, before eat food, if available wash hands. If I had my hands inside a deer or something of course I’d wait until I could clean up. Taking a few shots at a squirrel or something doesn’t seem the same kind of dirty.

No, that would be something you would expect Alanis Morissette to put in her song “Ironic” but in reality she doesn’t know how to define ironic either.

Yes I am here to tell you that those things are correlated. I have been outside where it is peopley.

This is exactly how it happens.

I was today years old.

I am not sure it’s quite so sinister.

I was today years old when I read the box of ammunition to see that it says “hey wash your hands” though I would assume we are talking about something more than soap and water.

How many cleaners that your parents taught you to use have you stopped and read the ACTUAL directions for? Like of course I know how to use Windex! Oh I shouldn’t use it on electronics I guess even though parents always wiped down the TV with it.

I am almost 40, I’ve been around guns since I was maybe 7 and I have never been warned about this before. I also have a PhD and am happy to make you feel stupid if that’s your jam, but it seems like something we should be taught but aren’t?

Of course we clean ourselves and our guns but I would never have said “hey hold on, I need to use an extra product before I eat my turkey sandwich”. I don’t prefer to smell like gunpowder, but I don’t like smelling like a cow either and the cleanup was similar.