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Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter
1sockchuck writes "Apple is planning a major East Coast data center to boost the capacity of its online operations, and may invest more than $1 billion in building and operating the huge server farm. That's nearly twice what Google and Microsoft typically invest in their massive cloud computing centers. The scope of the project raises interesting questions about Apple's plans, and has politicians in North Carolina jumping through hoops to pass incentives to win the project. The proposed NC incentives build on a package for Google that later proved controversial."
LOL even a joke about trolling got modded funny but a joke about psystar was just tooo far!
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I am a fan of the flat tax.
Great, why don't you move to Estonia or one of the other wonderful paradises that have a flat tax. Of course no place has one for long since they are not sustainable.
Why should those who work hard for their millions get taxed more? Not fair I say...
You know what else isn't fair, pretty much everything. The fact that some people inherit millions and others are born in abject poverty isn't fair. The fact that some people built wealth for a hundred years using slave labor and the former person's decedents have been able to leverage that wealth to exploit the descendants of their former slaves isn't fair. The fact that some people are born owning dozens of homes while dozens of people spend their whole lives paying rent to the first person, because they were born poor isn't fair.
You know what is fair? 100% inheritance tax. When you die all your money goes to the state and every single person is given the same amount of money to start life out. Of course it's also totally impractical and inefficient, but it's fair.
Progressive taxation is a compromise. It's not as fair as 100% inheritance tax, but not as wasteful either. The problem with a flat tax is wealth condensation. It means the more money you have, the more earning power you have, an economic factor that makes our economy nowhere near a meritocracy. With a flat tax, wealth consolidates constantly until all the wealth is owned by a tiny percentage of the population. When the disparity reaches critical levels, the economy destabilizes. Sometimes this mens an economic depression like the great depression and right now. Usually what happens is the poor take their knives, go kill the wealthy and redistribute the wealth while forming a new government. Occasionally, there are huge economic reforms instead which redistribute wealth, like the New Deal.
BTW, I'm a poor military person who's also a poor student...I see unfairness in the tax system...
Sure it is, but it's unfair in a way that tries to balance out other unfairness in such a way that our economy is stable. If you want to seriously advocate a flat tax, I recommend reading some basic economic texts and looking at what happens both according to all major economic models and historically. One of our biggest problems is our taxation has become increasingly less progressive and the wealthy have taken too much at an alarming rate. If Obama pushes through all the tax reforms he has been trying we'll be lucky to stabilize our economy in a decade.
But not Mexico? The rich pay very little there if they know the right people.
Or hell what about Somalia with their ultra rock bottom tax rates?
Oh, they just want *other* people to pay the taxes that fund their state and country. Once they become rich then fuck paying back into the state that enabled them to gather that wealth ay? Someone else can do it.
Good long term plan for any society that's for sure.