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pizza.com Sold For $2.6m
f8d noted a beeb bit on the fact that the pizza.com domain name was sold for a ridiculous 2.6m bucks. Can there be a bubble and a recession at the same time, or do the two cancel each other out like Penn & Teller?
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your kidding! their's no such think as a resession!
When American conservatives say they want free markets, what they really mean is that they don't want to pay taxes.
And this explains many of the contradictions in their 'ideology'.
FAQs are evil.
I have found I exaggerated a bit. The bottom 50% of the US population income-wise do pay some Federal taxes - 3% of all Federal income taxes paid, to be exact. And it doesn't take any nerve at all to claim that the poorer half of Americans pay almost no income tax. It merely takes a willingness to tell the facts. The truth is the truth, regardless of what month it happens to be.
I have already filed my income taxes this year. My wife and I file jointly. My income accounts for approximately 85% of our household income. I am a Freight Relocation Specialist (though if you want, you can call me a "truck driver"). We had an Adjusted Gross Income of just under $50,000 and a Taxable Income of just under $30,000. (As an over-the-road driver, I can take a standard deduction for Meals and Incidental Expenses every day I'm on the road. It works out to about a $39/day deduction. I was on the road about 300 days last year.) Our Federal income tax liability was about $3500. I'm well within the top half of US income earners - the median for a household is somewhere just above $42,000 AGI last time I checked. And I'm a lowly truck driver. It makes me wonder how 150 million people manage to not make more than me. I find myself wondering if they're just lazy, or if we have that many drug addicts, or that many people addicted to government assistance. Are there really people content to run a cash register at the local Quick-E-Mart, who are willing to do nothing to better themselves and improve their family's quality of life?
As someone who is paid according to results, as opposed to salary or hourly, the amount I make is directly related to how hard I'm willing to work, limited mainly by the onerous Federal regulations regarding how long I can work, but also limited by the availability of freight that someone is willing to pay to move from point A to point B. Trucking is a "leading indicator" of the economy - we move the rolls of paper that are used to print the packaging for the retail products that will be on the shelves in a few months, the drums of plastic pellets that will be melted down to mold the products that will be on the shelves in a few months, etc. The slowest part of the year for freight is typically the first quarter - but I've gotten more miles in the first quarter of this year than in the first quarter of the last two years. Where's this recession I keep hearing the liberal media trying to create^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hreporting on?
"Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.