Actually, the IRS has rules about the tax on "in kind" payments, and they are taxable. You are required to pay tax on the "fair market" value of the goods or service received.
I know someone whose entire income is from virtual sales. He makes a good living at it. He creates virtual objects in a virtual world and sells them. He, also, reports his income. I'm not sure about what he does about business expenses.
You do know that every member of the "trust fund" crowd I have ever heard speak on the subject has been in favor of increasing the tax rate on the highest income bracket. Do you know why that is? People who are members of the "trust fund" crowd don't have any "income": none of their money is taxed under income tax.
It's currently patrolled by US troops and they certainly don't take their orders from the Egyptian government. Don't be so quick to accuse someone of lying. Particularly me.;)
Reference please.
I found several references indicating that there are about 2400 U.S troops stationed in Egypt. When I looked for references to U.S. troops on the Gaza border, I found several references to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers troops on the border looking for tunnels used to smuggle goods into Gaza. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers troops are not deployed to patrol, ever. Additionally, All of the references referred back to the same source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Al-Quds Al-Arabi is a Palestinian expatriate owned Arabic language newspaper in London.
Al-Quds Al-Arabi is a suspect source, however, their story is consistent with the situation in the world and the function of the Army Corps of Engineers. Their story does not support your allegation of U.S. troops "patrolling" the Gaza border
My debit card has no connection to Visa/Mastercard. It is not a Visa. It is not a Mastercard. It can only be used for purchases when I present the card and confirm it with my PIN.
We don't need religion for that. But when religion becomes involved as a motivating factor, suddenly the problem becomes a LOT bigger, bloodier and more dangerous. So down with all of it I say... or... let them all kill themselves and leave us out of it.
Right because Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot didn't really kill all that many people compared to say the Spanish Inquisition.
Actually , letting the free market take care of it would have been a good idea except for one thing. The rule about where blacks sat on the bus was a law, not the choice of the bus companies. The bus companies actually opposed the law about segregated seating. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's was primarily about getting rid of laws that enforced segregation rather than about enacting laws that outlawed segregation.
Personally, I think the evidence suggests that if the Civil Rights Movement had stopped with eliminating government enforced segregation, blacks would be better off economically today.
I would actually make that argument. The problem with segregation was not the private businesses that chose to segregate, but the government mandated segregation. I, honestly, believe that if a private business man( or woman) doesn't want to do business with someone for whatever reason (even if that reason is the person's race), they should have the right to not do business with that person. I would not do business with people who discriminate based on race, but they should have the right to do so. I believe in the long run that businesses that discriminate based on race would suffer as a result.
No, actually, I didn't see what happened during/after Katrina. I saw what the media SAID happened during/after Katrina. It turns out that most of it didn't happen.
Let's see if I have this right, in the UK you have a constitution, but no one knows exactly what is in it until the courts say so. Is that right?
That doesn't sound like a constitution, that sounds like the courts telling the rest of the government what they can do.
Having seen that episode, the presenters on Top Gear (a show I love to watch) did everything in their power to antagonize the people in Alabama. Even so, it would not surprise me if the incidents listed were actually done at the request of someone from Top Gear rather than as an angry reaction. The overall behavior more closely fits that of British stereotypes of people from Alabama than that of anyone from Alabama I have ever met.
But it doesn't (consistently)make economic sense to buy CFLs, that's why Congress had to pass a law to get rid of most incandescent light bulbs by 2012. The manufacturers make much higher profit margins on CFLs and LED lightbulbs than on incandescent, at least in part because there are practically no patents still in force on the technology of incandescent bulbs. That means that anyone who wants to can manufacture and sell incandescent bulbs.
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is just another case of the government interfering in my freedom of choice "for my own good." I like the alternative bulbs for many uses, but having to compete with incandescent bulbs would bring the prices down faster.
What is being argued is that the number of miles traveled will actually better represent a better tax base. Not based on damage of roads... but use of roads. As a small car takes up room on the road while a car that is a bit bigger that uses twice the gas takes up just about as much room on the road.
The thing is someone did a study a few years ago that showed that smaller cars reduce congestion a lot. I don't remember all the details, but they did a study of how many cars got through traffic lights if the cars were small vs SUV's. The differences were astounding. The traffic flow with small cars was markedly faster. I imagine similar differences would be found in the overall capacity of a road with small cars versus large cars/SUVs. So, getting people to drive small fuel efficient cars will help the problem with too many cars on the road.
I don't like pumping my own gas, the novelty of the idea wears off real fast in the rain.
So you like paying more for gas? Most people prefer the savings they get on their fuel bills for pumping their own gas. In my state when they first started allowing people to pump their own gas, some stations tried to remain "full service" gas stations. They promptly went out of business when people got their gas from the station three miles over to save 2 to 5 cents a gallon(I don't remember what the cost per gallon was for the person to pump gas, but not all of the savings was passed on to the customer and people still chose to pump their own gas over paying the extra).
In Pennsylvania, they do the reverse, the put the dye in the taxed diesel. It actually works better. It doesn't matter how much diesel the supplier has, they pay tax on a certain amount and the state monitors how much dye they use. The tricky part is that vendors who sell the untaxed stuff retail are not allowed to have pumps that are capable of dispensing directly into a vehicle (primarily accomplished by making the hose too short to reach).
When T-bills, municipal bonds, and FDIC insured CDs outperform your business, it's time to find a different strategy.
4% growth is not the same as return on investment. If those things you mentioned have a higher return on investment than your stock, you are right, But where would I find the GROWTH rate for CDs? How many FDIC insured CDs were sold last year? How many were sold this year? Where do you get the GROWTH rate for FDIC insured CDs?
Umm, you do realize that when you compare the size of IBM and Microsoft, the question is "how do you define size?":
Number of employees: IBM is overwhelmingly larger
Market Cap: Microsoft is about 1 2/3 the size of IBM
Total Revenue: IBM is between 1 1/3 to 1 1/2 times larger than Microsoft
There are several other measures that one can use that favor Microsoft or IBM. My conclusion is that Microsoft and IBM are currently more or less the same size.
NO, most of the Right has always claimed that the 'right' way to do it is to provide for your own health care and your own retirement, not expect someone else to take care of it.
It does not mean that those states can dedicate comparable amount of resources to develop their educational systems. At least experience shows that they never do.
Please define what you mean by "amount of resources". The Washington, DC school system spends more money per student than just about any other public school system in the U.S., and yet has among the worst results of any public school system in the U.S.. So tell me again how more "resources" are going to make a school better?
Schools will get better when there is greater local accountability
When did the European Union start running the schools in Europe? New York is to the U.S. government like France is to the European Union.
Ok, not exactly, but that is what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
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Actually, the IRS has rules about the tax on "in kind" payments, and they are taxable. You are required to pay tax on the "fair market" value of the goods or service received.
I know someone whose entire income is from virtual sales. He makes a good living at it. He creates virtual objects in a virtual world and sells them. He, also, reports his income. I'm not sure about what he does about business expenses.
You do know that every member of the "trust fund" crowd I have ever heard speak on the subject has been in favor of increasing the tax rate on the highest income bracket. Do you know why that is? People who are members of the "trust fund" crowd don't have any "income": none of their money is taxed under income tax.
It's currently patrolled by US troops and they certainly don't take their orders from the Egyptian government. Don't be so quick to accuse someone of lying. Particularly me. ;)
Reference please.
I found several references indicating that there are about 2400 U.S troops stationed in Egypt. When I looked for references to U.S. troops on the Gaza border, I found several references to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers troops on the border looking for tunnels used to smuggle goods into Gaza. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers troops are not deployed to patrol, ever. Additionally, All of the references referred back to the same source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Al-Quds Al-Arabi is a Palestinian expatriate owned Arabic language newspaper in London.
Al-Quds Al-Arabi is a suspect source, however, their story is consistent with the situation in the world and the function of the Army Corps of Engineers. Their story does not support your allegation of U.S. troops "patrolling" the Gaza border
My debit card has no connection to Visa/Mastercard. It is not a Visa. It is not a Mastercard. It can only be used for purchases when I present the card and confirm it with my PIN.
I certainly hope he is suing for false arrest. This is not a case of "innocent" misunderstanding. This is deliberate harrasment.
These new TVs will be identical to other TVs sold elsewhere in the country, except that have a price tag that is 25% higher.
Here fixed that for you.
We don't need religion for that. But when religion becomes involved as a motivating factor, suddenly the problem becomes a LOT bigger, bloodier and more dangerous. So down with all of it I say... or... let them all kill themselves and leave us out of it.
Right because Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot didn't really kill all that many people compared to say the Spanish Inquisition.
The people who thought that Bush should be shot were overwhelmingly the same people who think that guns are inherently evil.
Actually , letting the free market take care of it would have been a good idea except for one thing. The rule about where blacks sat on the bus was a law, not the choice of the bus companies. The bus companies actually opposed the law about segregated seating. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's was primarily about getting rid of laws that enforced segregation rather than about enacting laws that outlawed segregation.
Personally, I think the evidence suggests that if the Civil Rights Movement had stopped with eliminating government enforced segregation, blacks would be better off economically today.
I would actually make that argument. The problem with segregation was not the private businesses that chose to segregate, but the government mandated segregation. I, honestly, believe that if a private business man( or woman) doesn't want to do business with someone for whatever reason (even if that reason is the person's race), they should have the right to not do business with that person. I would not do business with people who discriminate based on race, but they should have the right to do so. I believe in the long run that businesses that discriminate based on race would suffer as a result.
No, actually, I didn't see what happened during/after Katrina. I saw what the media SAID happened during/after Katrina. It turns out that most of it didn't happen.
Let's see if I have this right, in the UK you have a constitution, but no one knows exactly what is in it until the courts say so. Is that right?
That doesn't sound like a constitution, that sounds like the courts telling the rest of the government what they can do.
Having seen that episode, the presenters on Top Gear (a show I love to watch) did everything in their power to antagonize the people in Alabama. Even so, it would not surprise me if the incidents listed were actually done at the request of someone from Top Gear rather than as an angry reaction. The overall behavior more closely fits that of British stereotypes of people from Alabama than that of anyone from Alabama I have ever met.
But it doesn't (consistently)make economic sense to buy CFLs, that's why Congress had to pass a law to get rid of most incandescent light bulbs by 2012. The manufacturers make much higher profit margins on CFLs and LED lightbulbs than on incandescent, at least in part because there are practically no patents still in force on the technology of incandescent bulbs. That means that anyone who wants to can manufacture and sell incandescent bulbs.
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is just another case of the government interfering in my freedom of choice "for my own good." I like the alternative bulbs for many uses, but having to compete with incandescent bulbs would bring the prices down faster.
What is being argued is that the number of miles traveled will actually better represent a better tax base. Not based on damage of roads... but use of roads. As a small car takes up room on the road while a car that is a bit bigger that uses twice the gas takes up just about as much room on the road.
The thing is someone did a study a few years ago that showed that smaller cars reduce congestion a lot. I don't remember all the details, but they did a study of how many cars got through traffic lights if the cars were small vs SUV's. The differences were astounding. The traffic flow with small cars was markedly faster. I imagine similar differences would be found in the overall capacity of a road with small cars versus large cars/SUVs. So, getting people to drive small fuel efficient cars will help the problem with too many cars on the road.
I don't like pumping my own gas, the novelty of the idea wears off real fast in the rain.
So you like paying more for gas? Most people prefer the savings they get on their fuel bills for pumping their own gas. In my state when they first started allowing people to pump their own gas, some stations tried to remain "full service" gas stations. They promptly went out of business when people got their gas from the station three miles over to save 2 to 5 cents a gallon(I don't remember what the cost per gallon was for the person to pump gas, but not all of the savings was passed on to the customer and people still chose to pump their own gas over paying the extra).
With peak oil the revenues will rise as the prices rise again.
Most states tax fuel at a flat rate per gallon, so the amount of tax collected is not changed by the price of the fuel.
In Pennsylvania, they do the reverse, the put the dye in the taxed diesel. It actually works better. It doesn't matter how much diesel the supplier has, they pay tax on a certain amount and the state monitors how much dye they use. The tricky part is that vendors who sell the untaxed stuff retail are not allowed to have pumps that are capable of dispensing directly into a vehicle (primarily accomplished by making the hose too short to reach).
4% isn't good enough.
When T-bills, municipal bonds, and FDIC insured CDs outperform your business, it's time to find a different strategy.
4% growth is not the same as return on investment. If those things you mentioned have a higher return on investment than your stock, you are right, But where would I find the GROWTH rate for CDs? How many FDIC insured CDs were sold last year? How many were sold this year? Where do you get the GROWTH rate for FDIC insured CDs?
Umm, you do realize that when you compare the size of IBM and Microsoft, the question is "how do you define size?": Number of employees: IBM is overwhelmingly larger Market Cap: Microsoft is about 1 2/3 the size of IBM Total Revenue: IBM is between 1 1/3 to 1 1/2 times larger than Microsoft There are several other measures that one can use that favor Microsoft or IBM. My conclusion is that Microsoft and IBM are currently more or less the same size.
NO, most of the Right has always claimed that the 'right' way to do it is to provide for your own health care and your own retirement, not expect someone else to take care of it.
Yeah, sure, that would work great, just like the Smoot-Hawley Act worked so well to fend off the Great Depression.
It does not mean that those states can dedicate comparable amount of resources to develop their educational systems. At least experience shows that they never do.
Please define what you mean by "amount of resources". The Washington, DC school system spends more money per student than just about any other public school system in the U.S., and yet has among the worst results of any public school system in the U.S.. So tell me again how more "resources" are going to make a school better?
Schools will get better when there is greater local accountability
When did the European Union start running the schools in Europe? New York is to the U.S. government like France is to the European Union.
Ok, not exactly, but that is what the Founding Fathers had in mind.