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It's a bold face lie, just propaganda. Here's the table from the tax authority for 2022:

https://info.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt/pt/informacao_fiscal/c...

The top marginal rate is 48% at 78834 €, so if you earn 80k€, that 48% is applied to 2k. Regular marginal tax rate stuff.

Social Security is separate, just checked my own salary sheet and it's 11% for a regular employee. The employer pays the rest, if you are both employee and the employer you must pay both parts.

If you are a contractor with a Portuguese entity, you can use a special regime called Recibos Verdes, that means the social security payments are smaller and independent of your salary, I think 100€ per month is the minimum. This was a loophole by many companies used to avoid having "real" employees, and there have been crackdowns on this, it's mostly for temporary contractors. If you have 3 years of concurrent "temporary" contracts with the same entity, you must ve registered as an employee.

This would be ideal, but as so many people own their own homes, this would be politically unfeasible.

I would increase property tax exponentially after the 5th property or so, to hit the big landlords and investment funds, while keeping the homeowners and small landlords appeased. Then take that money and build or buy public housing to rent for cheap prices, to bring the prices down for everyone.

This is no longer true, the older rents were unfrozen by Assunção Cristas, about a decade ago. As a consequence, many older people were thrown out of their homes to make way for AirBnB, particularly in the touristy areas.

The rent comtrols have been there for the better part of a century, but they were only a problem when tourism boomed, rent control cannot be a cause of shortages if it was in place before without problems.

MOOLTIPASS!

What's the "consumer" of HFT trading firms? Those would be the ones affected by it.

Note the lack of any dates in this "announcement", this makes it even worse. If you want to scrap it, announce it on a Friday evening, to avoid even more speculation now that the existing people are grandfathered in. The same finance ministry did just that when they scrapped the T-bills with high interest rates that were depleting the banks' profits.

As is, this was probably an off-the-cuff remarks on the town hall-style PR stunt imported from the USA. I believe it when I see it.

Haha, missing the /s tag, nearly fell for it.

Do you want to taste a McChicken made from pure chicken cancer?

200 years, 20 years, 2 years. What's the difference, really?

Isn't everyone with the root password a US Citizen? Last time I checked SpaceX's job opening, a US clearance was required.

I have a contract that requires my employer to pay up.

Not the same think as avoiding shopping somewhere.

Checking everytime you use the alias, instead on when you init the shell. How often do you need to install a packages?

What's the bus factor of coreutils?

Modern versions wake up out of the box, you need to tinker with them to stop that.

I use Firefox, DuckDuckGo, NewPipe/invidious, CookieAutoDelete to logout of Google as soon as the tab is closed.

I'm sure they track me nonetheless, but it's a bit less.

Oh my god, how will I live my life knowing the parts of the web pages I tune out give pennies to certain companies instead of others. It's FOMO for ads!

Oh wait, I use uBlock Origin, so this doesn't affect me at all! I'm stealing all that data from servers that give it to me when doing an unathenticated GET.

> The alternative is https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs which is ridiculously hard to set up.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/49...

This is the issue to watch, supporting SQLite. This makes it feasible to run a simple sync server for a single user or a small group. But this is not moving forward.

Sure, use unsupported OS. You can always install Windows XP for maximum stability.

What's the Go community? Google employees? There's no Go community, it's a corporate language.

Why hasn't the Visual Basic for Office community produced more libraries?

The government "responses" (already feeble in the first place) were watered down even more, into a complete nothingburger. With a supermajority on Parliament, they can't even pass their own bills.

That old content is not on Netflix, or if it is is quickly disappears for "rights" reasons. Even more so now with every company coming out with its special streaming service.

The US only left the Gold Standard in the Nixon administration.

The kind of water essential for life is not that abundant...

In Portugal there are basically no non-profits, it's code for Catholic Church-adjacent institutions.

I don't want to sound like an unhinged Tea Party loon, but what about Benghazi? The instability from which the migrants are running away from was fanned by European policies.

It's pure racism. At least in my sourthern european corner, I keep hearing screeds about low birth rates, how rural lands are empty, turning into deserts, but then thousands and thousands of people are willing to pay thousands of euros to move to Europe and there are no legal options. At the same time, Russian oligarchs can claim to be descendant of 16th century Jews expelled by the king and they get a passport, or just buy overpriced real estate and you are automatically a national.

Just undercut the criminals! They charge 5k for the trip? Sell a work permit and a plane ticket for the same amount of money.

But not in actual money. "Profit" in utility, not in cash.

pip-tools can create lockfiles, similar to other language package managers.

The destruction is not healed when they are gone.

He seems the least dangerous party in the Italian government now.

Your keys, your worthless private keys.