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2019-11-07, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What would it take to become a History teacher in the U.S.?
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2019-11-07, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What would it take to become a History teacher in the U.S.?
Roads are largely paid for by whoever drives on them, due to fuel excise taxes (Which in the U.S. haven't been raised for decades, which is why so much of the infrastructure is in the shape it is). Firefighters are paid out of the municipal budget, of which sales taxes are a major source of revenue; thus, if you ever buy something you are paying for the firefighters (and cops, street sweeping, etc).
Paying for something indirectly is still paying for it.
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2019-11-07, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What would it take to become a History teacher in the U.S.?
I disagree; I see taxes as a sunk cost, so they don't factor into what I see as all other costs.
ETA: That is to say, if I buy an Arizona tea for a $1.08, I don't see it as a 99 cent tea with a 9 cent tax, I see it as a buck o'eight tea. I'm aware it's that price because of a tax I am paying, but I don't give it a meaningful difference when budgeting. Same for income taxes or all other taxes.Last edited by Peelee; 2019-11-07 at 12:36 PM.
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2019-11-07, 02:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What would it take to become a History teacher in the U.S.?
The thing is that you're paying for a variety of things with that 1.08 some percentage is paying for the cost of labor to make it. Some percentage is profit for the store. If the store offered you a free tea because you were a repeat customer then it would be free to you. In contrast the no cost college assumes that you will, once you're a taxpaying member of society pay back the cost of college into the public coffers otherwise the system would fail. Meaning it's a deferred cost rather than cost, somewhat like student loans in the US at least at a conceptual level.
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2019-11-07, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What would it take to become a History teacher in the U.S.?
I'm not saying I think it's actually free; I'm saying I don't bother to differentiate the cost so I call it free, despite that I fully realize I am paying for it in other ways.
For example, I don't think of the tea as whatever portion goes to the manufacturer, whatever portion goes to net profit, whatever portion goes to advertising costs, etc. etc. I see it as 99 cents as a whole, despite that the cost is really getting split up appropriately. Thus, when tax is added, I see it as a buck nine and just call the roads free, because I'm not going to bother differentiating when it doesn't matter and I'm paying anyway.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-11-07, 06:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-07, 06:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-07, 07:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-07, 07:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-12, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What would it take to become a History teacher in the U.S.?
Words written by someone who obviously doesn't have Amish neighbors. I've seen more then one hospital that has posts to tie horses, & couldn't name a single bank, grocery store (including walmart) that doesn't have horse tie posts. Fairly common at Dr's offices and dentists. My neighbor went to the midwife, for both her pregnancies, in a horse and buggy, after labor had started. Midwife was about 16 miles away. Her youngest was born December before last. At least a mile is on a dirt township road.
We had one girl that occasional would ride her horse to high school.Last edited by Mitth'raw'nuruo; 2019-11-12 at 02:40 PM.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains
And the women come out to cut up what remains
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
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2019-11-12, 03:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What would it take to become a History teacher in the U.S.?