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Reply to comment by Agasthenes in Study reveals that although private automobiles continue to be the dominant travel mode in American cities, the share of car trips has slightly and steadily decreased since its peak in 2001. In contrast, the share of transit, non-motorized, and taxicab trips has steadily increased by giuliomagnifico
A single ride share can move multiple people around during the day so it can definitely still reduce the number of cars on the road, just not by as much as a bus or train.
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Reply to comment by Allmyfinance in WA Legislature’s secrecy push undermines accountability, trust and civic knowledge by Politics_Knower
That's fair, most people when they say "Sales Tax" mean the single type used basically across the board in the US and don't mean things like a VAT tax, luxury tax, etc. If we mean the broader term then yeah it can be progressive.
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Reply to comment by Allmyfinance in WA Legislature’s secrecy push undermines accountability, trust and civic knowledge by Politics_Knower
It's literally just factually correct. You cann't make a sales tax progressive. You can make an income tax progressive. That doesn't mean every income tax is progressive, doesn't mean income tax is inherently a better idea, or anything of the sort. I am simply stating a fact about income taxes that would be one reason people would support one.
And I'd rather we just not file taxes at all, every year, like real countries do.
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Reply to comment by Allmyfinance in WA Legislature’s secrecy push undermines accountability, trust and civic knowledge by Politics_Knower
Sales tax is regressive whereas an income tax can be progressive.
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Reply to comment by furbylicious in Billboards advise on how to get abortion pills in US states where procedure is banned | Abortion by BigClitMcphee
> EDIT: ALSO, Plan B is available OTC, and online on Amazon, and is good for 72 hours after a sexual encounter. It has been wildly effective in lowering both unexpected pregnancies and abortion rates. A pill expires in 1.5 years so don't hoard them, but it's good to keep some on hand for yourself or people you love.
I think it is important to note as well for anybody who has personal reservations about abortion that Plan B IS NOT an abortion. It prevents a pregnancy from ever occurring. It is an emergency contraceptive, NOT an abortion.
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Reply to comment by Hivestrung in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming
Just have them eat it and you'll be good for a day or two.
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Reply to comment by SparrowAgnew in Washington State Department of Revenue launches new tax credit. The Working Families Tax Credit could give qualifying individuals up to $1,200. by crabcakes110
Because new taxes always end up hurting the poor and middle class instead of targeting the the top income brackets.
Raise taxes on millionaires, not workers.
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Reply to comment by Whybecauseoh in The Stratolaunch Roc, the largest aircraft ever flown, has just completed a 6-hour test flight. It aims to be a platform to launch reusable hypersonic craft from an altitude of 10 km by lughnasadh
Technically anti-satellite missiles are also launched from aircraft into orbit.
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Reply to comment by xAtlas5 in Affidavit: Man armed with AR-15-style rifle shoots 2 at Orlando resorts overnight by TupperwareConspiracy
The original post was comparing America to the rest of the developed world where car accidents are also much lower than America because America is a shithole.
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Reply to comment by xAtlas5 in Affidavit: Man armed with AR-15-style rifle shoots 2 at Orlando resorts overnight by TupperwareConspiracy
I think you'll find personal motor vehicles are way less common in the rest of the developed world as well.
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Reply to comment by Mevoa_volver in An archaeologist's rebuttal against Graham Hancock and Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse by MeatballDom
Clovis First started getting challenged in the last decade or so and is now considered totally outdated.
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Reply to comment by Gerald_the_sealion in Reports of alleged voter intimidation and interference in NC ahead of Election Day by Zen1
Kinda seems to me like the workers saying anything about who to vote for should be immensely illegal, regardless of if they say "you have to" or not.
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Reply to comment by EnvironmentalSound25 in Child reportedly stabbed to death by her mother at NW Harris County park, sheriff says by OrigamiKitties
Ah, the top of the chain was talking about controlling reproduction so I assumed that is what you meant.
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Reply to comment by EnvironmentalSound25 in Child reportedly stabbed to death by her mother at NW Harris County park, sheriff says by OrigamiKitties
Any plan to control who has children and who does not inherently requires those.
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Reply to comment by SexyAcanthocephala in Child reportedly stabbed to death by her mother at NW Harris County park, sheriff says by OrigamiKitties
You are never going to prevent all bad things from happening. It's not like there is some crazy epidemic of moms stabbing their kids to death. It's in the news precisely because it is uncommon.
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Reply to comment by EnvironmentalSound25 in Child reportedly stabbed to death by her mother at NW Harris County park, sheriff says by OrigamiKitties
It's a pretty fucking far reach since you'll need to engage in forced abortions, sterilizations, etc.
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Reply to comment by 970 in Study reveals that although private automobiles continue to be the dominant travel mode in American cities, the share of car trips has slightly and steadily decreased since its peak in 2001. In contrast, the share of transit, non-motorized, and taxicab trips has steadily increased by giuliomagnifico
No, but whereas you may have had multiple cars being brought into any one area from people going shopping etc, it's possible a single Uber may shuttle multiple people into one area over time.
Probably matters more for places where you have a lot of traffic from outside the city into the city being replaced by ubers/taxis than driving around within the city, and it's far eclipsed by the efficiency of actual public transportation of course.