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Having rich people pay into a system and then die is just beneficial. Even if their withdrawal rates are based on contributions. They will leave money behind or they with be neutral.

Someone making $36k a year pays $4,464 dollars for SS.

12.4% is a good retirement fund.

So government takes what could be your good retirement fund so you can save another 12.4%?

If someone really could save 24.8% they would have a great retirement. Yet the retirement for someone making $36K a year is looking grim.

A unskilled laborer makes about $18 or $36k a year.

They have to pay 12.4% to social security.

36k×.124=4,464

$4,464

Income Tax

$36k-12,400=23,600

12,400×.1=$1,240

23,600×.12=$2,832

$1,240+$2,832=$4072

$4072

$4,464+$4072=$8,536

These unskilled laborers have to pay nearly a quarter of their pay in SS tax and Income Tax.

$8,536/$1,000,000=.0085

That's less than 1% to them.

Yes the rich do not need safety nets but they should help build them

If you were making a $1m salary. You could give up less than a precent of that and make one unskilled laborer's life 25% better.

It's crazy how much $8,536 more would help someone making $36,000

Yet the system is designed so it takes your $8,536 selling you a safety net

Social Security is capped at $184,500

SS tax is 6.2% for individual and 6.2% for employer.

Employee A makes $184,500. $11,439 paid by individual and $11,439 paid by employer. $22,878 total.

22,878/184500=.124 or 12.4% tax.

Employee B makes $1,000,000. SS is capped at $184,500. $11,439 paid by individual and $11,439 paid by employer. $22,878 total.

22,878/1,000,000=.022 or 2.2% tax.

So someone making a million dollars would only have to give up 1.1% to SS tax and their employer 1.1% SS tax.

They will both pay the exact same amount into SS but the percentage isn't as high because $815,500 of the million is not getting taxed.

You can make a perfect rock way easier than you can make a perfect stick.

So half your house is in one time zone and the other half is in another?

Yes it could be. But having half a city in one time zone and the other half in another causes logistical problems. Does the same thing with states. That's why they are like that.

Best solution would be creating all new states designed around the time zones.

This would be the best way to split up the time zones with current states and counties

North/West vs South/East in each time zone

There are 4 time zones in the US

The more North/West you live in a time zone the more you hate DST. The more South/East you live the more you like DST.

If you live in blue you probably hate DST, yellow probably like DST

All stems from states like Michigan should be in CST not EST. If Michigan was in CST then permanent DST would make it EST and they would be in "standard" time still.

North/West vs South/East in each time zone

There are 4 time zones in the US

The more North/West you live in a time zone the more you hate DST. The more South/East you live the more you like DST.

If you live in blue you probably hate DST, yellow probably like DST

All stems from states like Michigan should be in CST not EST. If Michigan was in CST then permanent DST would make it EST and they would be in "standard" time still.

And that's just as a percentage of registered voters

The 33.4% is out of every 18+ adult in America that has registered or could register to vote.

174 million are registered

57 million are unregistered

231 million total.

77.3/231=33.4%

340.1 million Americans in 2024

77.3/340.1=22.7%

So 22.7% of total Americans voted for trump. But that's counting babies, children, and young adults.

Also trump won the popular vote in 2024 so the electoral system wasn't the cause. Rigged or poor system yes but he would have won without the electoral college.

77.3 million votes for trump. Wikipedia

73.6% of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote 174 million, 65.3% voted. 154 million. Census.gov

About 231 million people could have voted.

77.3/231= 33.4% or 1/3

To put it in perspective if you walked up to an American adult that could have voted in 2024. You are twice as likely to hear that they didn't vote for trump or didn't vote than they voted for trump.

My girlfriend has a lot of tattoos. I always get asked "Do you have any?". No I don't.

I've been thinking of getting a little calf (cow) tattoo on my calf (leg) so I can say "Yeah I have a little calf tattoo"

My grandmother loved cows, my grandfather loved ice cream. My other grandmother is from Finland, my other grandfather is from Mexico. So it would be a calf eating ice cream made from reindeer milk wearing a sombrero. Then it would represent all my grandparents.

Any more ideas to add would be welcomed. My girlfriend's favorite flower is a peony so I was also going to put that in there to help set the scene around it with some grass.