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Hi

you make to much Regi

sorry

though the thought of us jointly filing taxes

I think the entire IRS would activate

I do not make anything on paper

So wait what exactly is the thing?

oh if I might count, vinny totally would

Found your new husband Spooky

?

I am shittalking you and your dollar tree job vinny

but apparently it did not land

so now I have to be a bigger asshole and explain I was doing it

Trump's bill removes taxes on tips (which means all non-tipped jobs paying <$20/hour are FUCKED) and removed taxes on overtime pay (which also doesn't really help people making <$20/hour, but really helps everyone else)

Insert the clip of ethan Ralph screaming that his superchats are tax free

because no one understands how taxes work, no one will realize this however, because people still don't understand withholdings and marginal rates

people still think that if you get more money and it puts you in a new tax bracket you lose money and thus they refuse a pay raise

people know nothing about taxes

I know a lot, since tax season is the time of the year the government sends me 1-2k

I still am mildly lost. How would the bill help you when married to someone with no income, or was that part fully a joke?

I might just be dumb

so, taxes 101

when you are married all the tax brackets are essentially doubled (ignore the exceptions)

(if you file jointly, which you should be)

so while I don't qualify for the no-tax overtime as a single guy, if I was married to an effective rock, I would

and technically, I'd get more than just $25k due to other marriage rates being better, but the new Trump bill would immediately give me $25k/year for essentially nothing

I see

See now pika’s joke makes sense

No my joke made sense regardless, all you needed to know was

• low income person works

I didn’t understand the joke because I didn’t understand the whole thing

Vinny, quit the Dollar Tree

that'll show Pika up

and he'll have to eat his joke

plus, ngl this bill actually kinda fucks you

through 2028

well yeah, poor people should die is usually how these bills go

the funnier part of the bill Pika

is Ted Cruz, the texas guy

snuck a secret paragraph into the bill

which steals the Challenger Space Shuttle from Virginia

before signing it

lmfao

so after it passed, he had a big public "fooled you all" party

So does he actually get it

legally, yes

but so, the thing is

it's impossible to move the space shuttle now

Honestly, more of these bills should just sneak insane things in, since no one reads them

when they moved it to Virginia (which I got to watch as a kid)

they disassembled the orbiter afterwards

so it cannot be moves anymore

and also, it's owned by the Smithsonian, so congress doesn't have the power to give it to Ted Cruz anyway

it's just a really funny, ballsy thing that happened

That’s hysterical

didn't they read the entire thing out loud for 15 hours?

yeah but who the fuck listens to that

so 1) I don't think that counts 2) Cruz wrote it in code

politicians just sign what they are told to sign

Good pickup

Hardcover edition

I read this

because Vinny asked me about it, and I knew nothing about it

This was like 5 years ago or something

HAPPY 7/7 EVERYONE!!!!

WE DID IT BOYS

ANOTHER GLORIOUS 7/7

Gratz Donny

happy 7/7

Pika, I have a really interesting math thing to tell you about later

We were fucking around for a few hours, and one of my engineers stumbled backwards into solving a generalized case for beam steering for ESAs

classic

Fucking around leading to math discussion leading to actual progress is such a typical scenario lol

so is this the max situation?

That CNN clip of the guys wife asking how she failed her marriage stays winning

Spooky AI added a new cat snake to the gif pool