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jimbad05 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yep, this is where I'm at. Why work hard? You think they're gonna promote a straight white male in current year?

Just go along to get along. "Meet expectations" by doing things like not blowing all your sick days in a month and not spending 6 hours/day chatting.

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jimbad05 1 point ago +1 / -0

Or just say you got it. They can't make you prove it without violating HIPAA. Companies have a hard enough time getting people's driver's licenses and social security cards and whatnot scanned. They're not gonna hunt for a vax card.

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jimbad05 4 points ago +4 / -0

You kinda need to have them if you life in a condo with shared parking, etc or a gated community.

But an HOA for single family homes? That's just idiotic.

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jimbad05 1 point ago +1 / -0

Done. They could fire me tomorrow and I'd be fine to live off savings for at least 6 months.

After that my backup plan is trucking.

But until then, I'm just there being mediocre and draining their cash. Labor is the biggest expense any business has.

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jimbad05 2 points ago +2 / -0

most campaigns can’t figure out how to get payments processed on their website.

This is especially true in state and local races. A state house candidate typically has a rinky dink website and the only way you can donate to them is with a check in the mail.

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jimbad05 29 points ago +29 / -0

Smaller companies are the way to go. Giant corps are fully embracing BLM, LGBT groups, "diversity" and every other anti-white, anti-straight initiative under the sun.

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jimbad05 2 points ago +2 / -0

Of course, all the RINO GOP Senators were praising him for his leadership just days before.

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jimbad05 1 point ago +1 / -0

Companies go left because most of their corporate staff is left, and they're also fed bad information. For decades businesses were advised not to get into politics. Now, they're fed surveys that show "millennials expect brands to take a stand on the issues they care about" so of course they hop on all these SJW bandwagons.

A lot of it is just groupthink too. Business "leaders" are anything but. Most of them just follow the crowd. Twitter banned Trump, then look at how many other companies immediately felt emboldened to ban him.

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jimbad05 1 point ago +1 / -0

He was decent until Trump. Trump drove him insane.

He used to be a good fiscal conservative, got the tax cut bill through, then retired.

John Kasich was the same. He rode the tea party wave back in the Obama era. He told Obama to get fcked with his high speed rail nonsense. Now he's CNN's favorite Republican and pretty much indistinguishable from a Dem.

The tax cut bill is a good long-term win though.

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jimbad05 3 points ago +3 / -0

Just like with how they removed the 60 vote threshold to get Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. Now that you only need a simple majority we have 3 new red justices.

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jimbad05 1 point ago +1 / -0

Be like Shkreli before Congress. "I exercise my fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, and respectfully decline to answer your question" to anything they ask

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jimbad05 2 points ago +2 / -0

Barter is taxable but difficult to enforce. Nobody cares if someone babysits your kids and you pay them back with a pizza. But if you sell land to a company in exchange for a bunch of their stock, that's definitely reportable.

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jimbad05 2 points ago +2 / -0

I left Chase for a small town credit union. Their tech is very basic and about 10 years out of date, so I have very little concern about them being savvy enough to track me.

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jimbad05 1 point ago +1 / -0

You simply can't make many purchases with crypto because the value is so unstable.

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jimbad05 8 points ago +8 / -0

You don't claim a number of dependents anymore. You claim a dependent amount, but the effect is the same.

But you can just claim "exempt" from withholding on the W-4. Say you don't expect to owe any tax and your employer will stop taking it out.

You'll have to pay it all when you file.

IRS might start pestering you to pay quarterly estimated taxes, or going after you for non-filing if you didn't even file a return.

Honestly the safest thing to do would be to claim a high dependent amount, then on line 4c of the W-4, declare an "additional withholding" amount of $1. So every check, you have $1 withheld and it doesn't look like you're avoiding withholding. Then just keep your money til tax time. You'll have to pay your entire tax bill at filing time, which isn't til April 15th, so you get to hold onto your money for an extra 4-16 months.

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jimbad05 2 points ago +2 / -0

The government is not your friend. The only answer you should ever give to any government official is "I exercise my fifth amendment right against self-incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question." Be like Shkreli.

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jimbad05 4 points ago +4 / -0

Between Portman, DeWine, and Kasich, we really have some awful Republicans in this state. Jim Jordan and a couple people at the state house are the only decent ones.

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jimbad05 2 points ago +2 / -0

Portman is beyond useless. I remember after he was re-elected in 2016, alongside Trump, he gave a speech about how the Senate had a duty to "hold the President accountable." He's a RINO swamp creature who has delivered nothing of value.

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jimbad05 3 points ago +3 / -0

Ehh, I live in a blue area so I'd rather not. Most local businesses have BLM signs up or have made statements in support of left wing causes.

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jimbad05 2 points ago +2 / -0

Democrat focus groups think that's true based on current demographics, but it's really not. We've always been split down the middle since the beginning. George Washington is the only President who was ever elected unanimously. All these predictions about "the end of the X party" are nonsense. As a society, we don't want to be in one big happy uniparty.

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jimbad05 3 points ago +4 / -1

I think there is something to this. Look at the vast majority of advertising - it's really not aimed at men.

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jimbad05 4 points ago +4 / -0

That man got me through so many essays in business school

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jimbad05 3 points ago +3 / -0

Exactly. It's the one thing on the ballot I don't even bother voting for. I don't think our local Republican party even endorsed a school board candidate.

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