Irish engineer living in the US, by way of France. Former RedBrick, ILUG, ALDIL, GNOME Foundation, Red Hat. Currently Developer Relations at Ampere Computing.
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Last Notes npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary For definitions: I took "my city" to be the village I grew up in - nope. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary I don't think it will happen - I'm expecting a prominent South Carolinian to become a candidate and win handily - I thought maybe Nikki Haley, but she has apparently ruled herself out. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary You're arguing that creating a tax system that increases the costs of running a taxi and makes taxis more expensive will discourage cars and encourage the use of public transport. You might be right - but if public transport does not fill the need (eg. if the quantity/quality/reliability of public transport is poor), all you will do is deprive people who would otherwise do that job of a livelihood and create a shortage of taxis. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary We hit on a key point - fiscal policy is about a few different things: npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary The IRS could behave like health insurance companies and set limits on how much you can deduct for different things - so much for vehicle leasing or purchase, so much per mile for gas, etc. But that becomes an anto-business tax policy very quickly & easily and adds massive filing burdens for SMBs. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary Every country has rules about what you can claim as legitimate business expenses - clearly gas and diesel for delivery vehicles and work vans is a legitimate business expense, but things like nice trucks, computers, etc. are often fully deduced from the gross while the company could fulfill the functional need with something cheaper. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary I think they're legal in the EU. Expensive to fill up, heavily taxed, difficult to park, a bit wide for the roads, but street legal. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary You're not wrong. At the time it felt like the EU dictating domestic policy - the kind of thing Farage and his ilk take as evidence of EU intrusion on national sovereignty. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary That's not how the Irish government would characterize it - the EU found that Ireland's tax code was in breach of EU competition rules, and their treaty commitments. They were ordered to collect taxes that they had not asked for. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary This wasn't the only thing they did. They made college free to ensure a well educated young professional class, and invested in fiber optics for telecommunications backbone. They were also getting a lot of EU Development Funds to build roads, ports, and airports, and renovate inner cities. And Michael D. Higgins, as Minister for Culture and the Gaeltacht gave sweetheart deals to movie studios for movies like Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan to raise Ireland's profile. npub1er670duvd3spx2hy6xuxp0lfrmeucmfeaq8gqrcf8rf4ec0peelqm5n092 Dave Neary Do you still have the hat too?
