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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Ok, so a few points here. 1. China makes up their statistics, which are totally utter bullshit. They lie about GDP, COVID deaths, and pretty much everything else.

    1. I’m not sure what environmentalist view you’re looking at but China opened 45+ coal power plants in 2025 alone. The US hasn’t opened one since 2013, and even dip shit trump leading the pack the US has 2 planned in the future.

    2. China’s AQI is 999+ in most parts of the country. In comparison New York City averaging 103-110. So no, they’re pumping crazy shit in the air constantly.

    3. 80% of the water in China isn’t drinkable/potable. 60% isn’t for for animals.

    4. China leads the world in rare earth minerals, and this may come as a surprise, but rare earth minerals aren’t actually rare. Other countries don’t extract them because it is so toxic and destroys the land. China has zero issue with this as long as they get paid, which is the Chinese mantra.

    I can keep going if you’re like?




  • VAT (Value Added Tax) is an indirect consumption tax levied on the value added at each stage of a product’s production and distribution chain.  Unlike a traditional sales tax, which is only collected at the final point of sale, VAT is applied at every step, from raw materials to the final consumer.

    Businesses act as intermediaries by collecting output VAT from customers and paying input VAT on their own business expenses.  To determine their tax liability, businesses deduct the input VAT they have paid from the output VAT they have collected, remitting only the difference to the government.  This credit mechanism ensures that the tax burden ultimately falls on the end consumer, who cannot reclaim the VAT paid.

    For example, if a manufacturer buys raw materials for $100 plus $10 VAT (input VAT) and sells the finished product for $150 plus $15 VAT (output VAT), they remit $5 to the government ($15 collected - $10 paid).  This process repeats at each stage, ensuring the government collects 10% of the value added at that specific step.



  • Healthcare isn’t free. It’s funded by your insanely high taxes. Unless you’re broke and jobless you’re paying for it. The US has free education, wifi is a whopping $35, air conditioning, a massive military, cheaper gas, vastly more robust infrastructure…

    So that makes me wonder what are you paying insane taxes in Europe for? Free wifi and healthcare? Your power grid can’t support AC even if people had them, you don’t have a huge road network, I guess you could equate the good train network to US roads. Shit military by comparison.

    It’s not even a pissing match between countries. I know where the bulk of the US taxes go even if I don’t like it all. France has state healthcare that you pay for, free wifi, and a nice subsidized train network.

    I think Trump is a scammy POS and then some, but if you ask me someone is robbing you blind in France and waving “free healthcare” flag over your face going you don’t realize someone is pocketing that tax money.