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Headline: Man pleads guilty to operating secret Chinese police station in NYC

Link: https://abcnews.go.com/US/guilty-plea-expected-secret-chinese-police-station-case/story?id=116907684

A lot of the problem competing with China in heavy industry is they use a lot of coal for electricity generation vs. places like the US that use cleaner but more expensive natural gas China also has a government policy to subsidize industry through energy pricing schemes.

If the west insisted China maintain similar environmental rules, western industry would have been a lot more competitive.

I thought this was common knowledge. Here's one about the US. If you look, you can easily find one about Canada or other countries.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4008817-crack-down-on-illegal-chinese-police-stations-in-the-u-s/

Also, the post office is still issuing money order checks, so it isn't like the government is getting out of the check business altogether. It is still a source of revenue for them.

Do Lemmy moderation tools work across instances? For example, if I were to "moderate" a community on a different instance, are the tools there to make this work? Or would I need to create a new profile on that other instance?

Are there any official or unofficial rules about starting a community? Do you have to get the support of your instance first or can you just start one? I can imagine someone wanting to start two or three different themed communities and the instance the user uses having different opinions about hosting one or the other: Being very happy about one but very opposed to another. And keeping an array of profiles on different instances just to avoid upsetting one instance or another wouldn't be ideal.

Nobody else is commenting on it but we know for a fact that China's government is operating illegal "police stations" inside the United States and Canada, to regulate the behavior of Chinese people inside our countries. Yes, there will be Chinese internment camps and these Chinese agents operating inside out countries will be the start of those camps. They will be real enemies among us. The question is just if our governments will stop at those real enemies or if it'll expand beyond what's just.

More men for the meat grinder when his misguided leadership entices China to war. It is going to be ugly and it is entirely preventable. Our vices have blinded us, dulled our intellects and made Trump possible.

Sounds like a repeat of the "Christian Exodus Movement," a group who planned to move to South Carolina and declare independence, inspired by the Freestate Project whose Libertarian members sought similar aims in New Hampshire.

There's only one scenario where any of this makes sense and that's if the administration has really good evidence that China is going to war against the United States and the United States wants to pre-secure important naval corridors before the war begins. That's the only way any of this makes sense. Tariffs, Greenland, Panama, distancing ourselves from Ukraine, etc. Is all this for a build-up to war or is something else afoot?

The UK might not be able to trust the US but they should be taking advantage of current events to leverage their relatively better trading position, compared to most other nations, to score some solid economic gains. Trump is likely to overlook the UK because the Pound isn't a threat to Dollar supremacy like the Euro.

I don't think the story will end well in Kentucky of Mississippi but Kansas had some existing problems that often get tied-in with Kansas' tax reduction.

1. The people writing the checks for government expenditures were not following the budget submitted by the legislature. There was literally someone cutting checks based on what he felt was good policy. For years and years. He died. We only figured out the problem after he died and it turned out he was giving schools and school transportation a lot more money than he was supposed to. The Legislature would have made different spending decisions had they correct information abut the state of the budget. Massive oversight on the part of several administrations.
2. Kansas has poorer farmland than Iowa & Nebraska. Kansas has less oil than Oklahoma. And Kansas doesn't have tourism like Colorado. Relative to our neighbors, we will continue to get poorer and poorer. The economic engine of Kansas (Kansas City) is split between two states and the "border war" frequently results in business playing both sides off each other until they get a deal so cheap that neither side should make the offer.
3. Kansas City is the economic engine of Kansas. The tax cuts reduced government spending (mostly school spending) in rural parts of the state. The tax savings was pocketed in a city where a lot of the money walked across the border. The overall state couldn't make-up for what was being lost through that siphon but this may be a problem dissimilar to other states.

All that said, I do think good public policy is to have a wide but shallow system of taxation. Meaning that a state uses every type of tax (income, sales, property, estate, capital gains, etc.) but also tries to keep each tax relatively low so that the tax itself does not become the source of economic disruption. I feel like states that take one tax to zero but make it up with another tax are making things worse.

Lots of people paying for that mistake today.

It is even worse if you are at the withdraw stage of life (generally retirement) because liquidated shares cannot participate in any later market increase.

I think it is a map showing states that take more in federal money than they pay in federal taxes vs states that take more money than they pay back in taxes.

I'm a conservative but don't have strong feelings about gun rights. Not every conservative is conservative for the same reason.

If you can influence others to do so, use the better app. My family, we use Briar.

I don't think their goal is stability. It is elimination. And the same would be true if the situation reversed. So either that's what eventually happens or a bigger power steps in and rules them like children.

One state, immediately in the state of civil war where one side has access to the most money and the best weapons? I gave up on this idea after seeing the effects of this current war. Either one side will eliminate the other or a bigger country will rule both of them as if they are children incapable of running their own lives. Is there a reasonable plan for peace other than these?

I'm pretty sure most of those people are dead.