{"id":107325,"date":"2020-11-17T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107325"},"modified":"2020-11-17T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T18:12:05","slug":"gaming-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107325","title":{"rendered":"Gaming the System?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The German government under Merkel is so brilliant it\u2019s nearly flat broke. Now Deutsche Bank is suggesting taxing people who work from home, because they are obviously making more money somehow than those who commute to work. Now, how in the world the brilliant people at DB came to this conclusion is beyond me, but it did, and it implies that they either live where they work (luxury tax on them!) or they have no contact, close or otherwise, with the real world that we live in. Yes, it is a very, very stupid idea, but they think it’s clever… or something.\u00a0 They must think that, like the icon above, all these people who were told “stay home, work from home”, etc., are somehow gaming the system, when these find individuals who proposed this “privilege tax” are doing the same things themselves.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/11\/13\/deutsche-bank-wants-privilege-tax-imposed-on-people-who-work-from-home\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The proposal is a pdf. The link to it (in English) is here. It is merely 68 pages long: https:\/\/www.dbresearch.com\/PROD\/RPS_EN-PROD\/PROD0000000000513730\/Konzept_%23_19%3A_What_we_must_do_to_rebuild.PDF?&undefined&realload=iLm3jK6E4NqIn8aLyWmVA8M65Th1sZ2WTXL9DHQAE3AnIxAgS1WRt\/5pu\/eq~soug8Kga~ns2l9ZoPpOEK26hg==<\/a><\/p>\n

This is perfect reading for a long, slow day when the snow is falling thick and heavy outside and you have a fire going in the fireplace\u2026. or maybe just need something to send you into an afternoon nap.<\/p>\n

George Harrison said it best in \u201cTaxman\u201d when Harold Wilson made the Beatles pay more than 90% of their earnings to the Crown:<\/p>\n

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
\nIf you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
\nIf you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat
\nIf you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet<\/p>\n

‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman \u2013 The Taxman by George Harrison.<\/p>\n

Now, since CV19 has made it near-impossible for many people to continue working at their place of employment, but it\u2019s okay to work from home (which might become a social trend), this “privilege tax” could be considered an idiotic idea at the very least.\u00a0 Most of the people who are currently working from home have no choice in the matter, so how is it a “privilege”? How?\u00a0 Well, frankly, it is not, and the current second go-round, or return, of CV-19 is creating more patients than the first episode. It seems to prefer colder weather, which may just be the bug itself or may be partly the sniffles and runny noses we all have with a cold.<\/p>\n

Deutsche Bank\u2019s notions include someone going to the trouble of rehabbing urban centers into artists\u2019 lofts and galleries – stuff like that – which somehow implies that there will be anyone around to look at or purchase that stuff. I don\u2019t know what DB\u2019s writers were smoking, but it must be pretty good stuff. Really, they should go visit Baltimore\u2019s \u201curban blight\u201d spots that used to be nice neighborhoods, and the tackier parts of Camden, NJ, which used to be a lovely area and is now a slum. But in reading that article from Breitbart and trying to wade through the daydreams of Deutsche Bank\u2019s proposal, I realized that the people at Deutsche Bank don\u2019t live on the same planet as you and I.<\/p>\n

Keep an eye on our own politicians: they might try to do the same thing to people who work from home and aren\u2019t commuting to work (no transit taxes or tolls or train\/bus pass fees, boohoo!) because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

In addition to your rail pass,\u00a0 you might have to pay a tax just to enter and exit the city\u2019s borders some day down the road, if these clowns had their way.<\/p>\n

Somehow, those proposed walled cities don\u2019t seem quite so much like an SF fantasy idea any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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