Yes, and if that's the only issue that matters to you, and you ignore the impact on all those other people, I guess that's fair to say they are the same. But does all that extra suffering serve a purpose? Are you volunteering yourself to bear any of it, or only others?
It would be so much more interesting to see the % of dollars claimed.
With no taxes on tips (if it actually happens), expect a HUGE increase in tip expectations.
"Puritanism — The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." — H L Mencken
There's a whole book about this: # Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.
At first I was annoyed, until I realized "drop" is an antagonym.
Beating them at their own dishonest game has worked much better than trying to fact check them, and getting completely outpaced, ever did.
Wow, no.
When people forget to vote or are disenfranchised or are too distracted or were tricked into really inane rationales, this is what "the system" thinks about you:
Zero is freezing
10 is not
20 is pleasing
30 is hot
40 frying
50 dying
I did not attend the funeral, but I approved of it.
Dismissing entire groups based on stupid labels is ugly.
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The "light truck" exemption is a huge problem, and needs to be repealed.
Big cars also reduce everyone else's visibility.