[gikigill]

Health Insurance is a choice in America, Australia gets it irrespective of income levels.

Including direct taxes, which are consumption taxes doesn't count since they vary depending on your spending. Non essential spending can't be included in taxes that the government charges since they are generated by your spending.

For example, if you choose a 100k car instead of a 60k car, you will pay more number wise even though percentages might be the same. In Australia, luxury car tax is applied on new cars above 58k, the government doesn't force you to buy a 58k car.

Putting that aside, an average person on a 100k salary in California pays 36% net including all fuel, healthy sf etc etc. Figures crunched from the IRS 2016 schedule.

Edit: it's a public holiday in Australia and I'm bored☺

 

[swannie007]

Please don't get me started on taxes! Trust me when I tell you that for man-hours worked, you have a better standard of living in California and I say this as someone who lived and worked in both countries for a number of years. This is not some conjecture from a study done by some academic, it is based on my own personal experience which, for me anyway, trumps any "study". Others may disagree but this is my own experience and theirs may differ, you know, YMMV. Apologies for getting off topic, will stop posting about this topic now. Cheers.  

 

[FrivolsListener]

Everyone complains about taxes, but no one is willing to do without the niceties of public infrastructure and civilization that they buy.
 
Peope do, however, willingly pay $10k/yr in personal money to avoid paying $1k/yr in taxes.
 
(And, yes, I'm in the highest marginal tax bracket.)

 

[jimmers]

...
Edit: it's a public holiday in Australia and I'm bored☺

Hey, we didn't secede ! 
(QLD, NSW, WA & NT don't have public holidays today)

 

[jacal01]

I'm on the east coast, and have been trying (fruitlessly) for years to control people's thinking. Guess I need to get out there to Cali.

 
I used to say in my youth that the difference between the east and the west coasts is that the freaks on the west coast were benign.  I no longer think that's particularly true.  Hell, the freaks on the third coast can now even carry concealed weapons in classrooms.
 
Oh happy today. 

 

[FrivolsListener]

So, guys... how about that [REDACTED]?

 

[mtoc]

We need the news about the Schiit Manhattan! No more that's-how-we-think-about-this-business chapters!

 

[reddog]

We need the news about the Schiit Manhattan! No more that's-how-we-think-about-this-business chapters!

Lol patience grasshopper, good things comes to those who wait. Plus one cannot rush the creative talents of Mike and his Manhattan project. All will be revealed, when the audio wizard deems it so.

 

[Jason Stoddard]

Push Mike at your own risk...
 
Seriously, he is deep into uncharted territory here. Nothing like this product has ever existed, anywhere, from anyone. There are gonna be setbacks and gotchas. This isn't like implementing yet another "datasheet DAC." 
 
Fun fact: we've already run into one setback, and (I believe) figured a way around it. If we'd planned on the Manhattan Project costing like an end-game DAC, the setback wouldn't even be a setback. However, we want to make this device affordable, so we needed a different approach to replace a very expensive set of components. I'm sure Mike will give you the full details once the Gadget is released.

 

[Tuco1965]

Just a tease again.

 

[mikoss]

...

 
Haha seriously though, thanks for the update. Amazing that people are willing to explore what is possible and create new products!

 

[jacal01]

  Fun fact:...

 
Does beg the question.

 

[Armaegis]

But will the Manhattan smurf my dingleberries? These are the important questions here...

 

[cskippy]

So is it safe to buy a Mjolnir 2 with Manhattan and {redacted} coming down the line?  Will they compete with other Schiit products or are they complimentary?

 

[valiant66]

So is it safe to buy a Mjolnir 2 with Manhattan and {redacted} coming down the line?  Will they compete with other Schiit products or are they complimentary?

Oh, I'm sure they'll say very nice things about other Schiit gear.