Jury acquits delivery driver of main charge in shooting of YouTube prankster

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Jury acquits delivery driver of main charge in shooting of YouTube prankster
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A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

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And neither is the youtuber which is exactly the point I was making. That theyre being a cunt to other people over what amounts to be a minimum wage job.

Being a youtuber does not magically make you not subject to the exact same taxes that everyone else is. They are not taking home all of what they made any more than a mcdonalds worker does. In fact, being self employed means you are paying the other half of the medicare/social security tax not just half of it directly with most jobs.

Please look at usernames, I'm not the person you're arguing with. I just corrected the person who said people who make $12.50/hr are making $2k a week because that's absurd. That's all.

  1. I was the person you responded to. Check the username and:

  2. I did not say 2,000 a week. I said 2,000 a month.

A youtuber making 2k a month is not taking home more money than someone making 2k a month at mcdonalds. They pay the same taxes. Actually the employer pays half of the social security/medicare tax while the self employed pay the entirety of it themselves.

I meant month. Who fucking cares, you were wrong. I pointed it out. Be an adult. Accept it and move on.

No I really wasnt. You dont understand how taxes work and are apparently under the impression that a youtuber that makes 2k before taxes is making more after taxes than a mcdonalds worker making 2k before taxes. Which isnt correct. And I have explained why that isn't correct.

And as for the month/week thing, you made it an issue. You dont get to just go "who cares" when youve been shown to be wrong trying to correct me. You were wrong about who you responded to and you were wrong about how much the youtuber actually takes home compared to the mcdonalds worker. Did you let it go or admit you made mistakes? Fuck no! You decided I was the one that made mistakes and got mad. Thats a very childish thing to do and if you are ever going to grow as a person, you need to at least learn when to stop digging. I dont expect you to say "oops I was wrong" I just expect that you learn from what you did and not double down.

PLEASE go back to the original comment I made and which comment I replied to. It said "what McDonald's worker is making $25/hr" which the commentor corrected after someone told them that someone making $12.50 is taking home $2k/month. All they did was 12.5 x 40 x 4.

And alll I said was, no, someone making 12.50 an hour isn't taking home anything close to $2k a month. That's it. No bigger commentary, just pointing out the math was wrong.

No comments about what a YouTuber makes.

People seem to be putting all sorts of shit in my mouth.

Also while I didn't even venture into this part of this discussion... pretending that the way taxes work for a YouTuber is anything like someone working a minimum wage job, then you're the one who needs to learn about taxes.

Or are McDonald's workers out there giving up the standard deduction so they can write off all their "equipment"?

He is the person you replied to. Lmao

No one cares about taxes when making simple examples. Why are you making such a big deal out of it?

Dude, what in the world are you talking about? Lol