When I worked at Best buy over 10 years ago they had the exact same propaganda. You know instead of union dues you could buy an Xbox! (From us no less!)
...okay I added that last bit but it was implied
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In Australia, Union fees are tax deductible.
They don't cost you anything in the end.
That just means you’re not paying taxes on the income. It’s not like you get the entire $700 back in taxes, because your tax rate probably isn’t 100%. If you pay 30% in taxes, (no clue what you actually pay), writing off the $700 would simply mean you pay $210 less on your taxes.
Union dues aren't an income.
The tax deduction is deducted from your taxable income, is what he said. His math checks out.
Explained differently: A union membership costing 700 only costs you 490, assuming your tax is 30% and that it is deductible where you live.
Meanwhile, the game console still costs 700.
You are allowed to deduct the money you spent on union dues from your income, thereby lowering your taxable income. So on that portion of income that you deducted, you don't pay taxes. That's how all deductions work.
I don’t know if tax deductible means the same thing in Australia, but they’re also deductible in Canada. That means that you don’t pay tax on the money you paid in dues, but you don’t get it back.
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AI Agents don't form unions and THATS why the dems are toothless. AI is the solution to the biggest thorn in their greedy sides
I know that this is what a lot of Americans think socialism is but it's worth pointing out that socialism is not communism.
Communists want to take over with force and violence and overwhelming thought policing. Inevitably this pisses people off and ultimately doesn't work. See literally every communist regime ever.
Socialists simply want to implement progressive policies and are generally happy to do that within the confines of current law (assuming the current law isn't oppressive).
The US becoming socialist would simply be via a series of increasingly progressive policies over a period of several electoral cycles. It wouldn't be violence in the streets.
Okay I'm not sure where you got this from, but you're wrong on both counts. Socialists absolutely want to do more than just implement progressive policies (you're thinking of social democrats); the definition of a socialist is someone who believes the working class should seize the means of production. Some socialists believe that can be done through capitalist democratic systems (we call those democratic socialists), but still the goal is a lot more broad than just implementing progressive policies; on the other hand you have more militant or even revolutionary socialists, who usually advocate direct action (sometimes but not always including violence). Meanwhile communists are a subcategory of socialists who believe in the creation of a moneyless, classless, stateless utopian society as described by Karl Marx.
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I like how the URL listed beneath the Delta logo (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/10/18564745/delta-anti-union-video-game-poster) just goes to a site with fake statistics and SEO slop now.
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we need labor vouchers
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