Here you get only two whopper menus for 20$
Here you get only two whopper menus for 20$
Probably has something to do with government adding tax at each point the burger increases in value during its "manufacturing process."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
They're looking at putting robot tellers on fast food counters, so I don't really see the downside
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Meatless burgers?Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
You do realise that the point of VAT is that the amount of 'points' in the manufacturing process doesn't alter the tax?Probably has something to do with government adding tax at each point the burger increases in value during its "manufacturing process."
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
I actually like those vegetarian burgers, but I'm kind of weird like that.
Turkey burgers are nasty, though.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Not really. I just laugh every time I'm reminded that in Europe, which allegedly avoided communist occupation, they tax the "value added" during the process of "manufacturing" a fucking sandwich!!!
Sorry 'bout your luck and all, but that's still pretty funny.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Meanwhile, swiss rolls in Illinois are taxed at 1% for apparently being a healthy food, while cookies are taxed at 9% for being junk food.
Hope is the denial of reality
I don't think you understand what 'value added' means in this contextNot really. I just laugh every time I'm reminded that in Europe, which allegedly avoided communist occupation, they tax the "value added" during the process of "manufacturing" a fucking sandwich!!!
Sorry 'bout your luck and all, but that's still pretty funny.But hey, I'm glad it sounds funny to you.
Tip: the value added per step has nothing to do with the tax burden, only the end value has. Just like with your sales tax. The difference is the type of paperwork. In fact, if it is retailed more than once, your system taxes double (even if no value is added), where as ours doesn't, everything is taxed only once. Sorry about your luck there
Of course, our sales tax rates are higher, so we do pay more, but that doesn't have anything to do with the 'value added' bit.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Or like how 6 donuts qualify for GST in Canada, but more than a dozen, and they're exempted for being groceries, or something like that. (Or so it was when I left, at least).Meanwhile, swiss rolls in Illinois are taxed at 1% for apparently being a healthy food, while cookies are taxed at 9% for being junk food.
What a tangled web we weave, when * government *.
I'm also amused by the advertising neighborhoods over here do to let everyone know their children are stupid, FYI.I don't think you understand what 'value added' means in this context
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
How many iPad batteries and meters of copper piping would you really have to invest in to leave government behind? You're just not tugging at those boot straps hard enough!
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Meat is just very expensive here compared to most countries. The VAT on food is just (2.5%) and services are included in that.Probably has something to do with government adding tax at each point the burger increases in value during its "manufacturing process."
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Spoiler:
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
That first gif looks like a girl I went to high school with
Who is the one in the front?
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Oh well, not really someone I should know.
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Always wondered what became of that first picture. It was a defining picture of that early generation of nerds.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Nice pictures...
He cleaned up well, I think. Would've been funny to see the old hardware in the pic though, if he still had it.
I actually think it was mainly the grandma glasses and the pathetic attempt at a mustache (or is that a chocolate milk mustache?
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Daughter hasn't yet mastered the art of sitting
then again, maybe she has.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
If the government just stuck to building roads and paying police/fire officers, people probably wouldn't be so angry about their taxes.
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