• Waterpumpee@lemmus.org
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    20 hours ago

    Tax exemptions should be treated as cost for the tax payers. News should report on it like “You paid 1.000$ for palantir subsidies this year and 5.000$ for Elon and 20.000$ for iran war”. I think this would wake some people up.

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      19 hours ago

      Those numbers seem too small to motivate people. Use the cost to taxpayers - those number will scream into their heads.

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        19 hours ago

        They’re using European numeral system. They’re saying exactly what you’re suggesting; the financial burden in the form of a tax.

        $1,000
        $5,000
        $20,000
        

        I do wish we used the decimal for our numerals here in the States. I like the Japanese placement of 4 orders rather than the 3-order system of the west. Less clutter.

        • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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          I don’t think Europe has a common standard.

          We write numbers like 5’000’000.00 Switzerland, Germans write 20.000,00 and Italians don’t have any money so they don’t use anything.