Why do they need to expend any research dollars, when we already have numerous ways to get high that would be ridiculously cheap after legalization. If they spend billions of research dollars, their product would be too expensive - get high on pot for $1, or get high on their synthetic for $10. Doesn't make sense.
I can fix the poverty thing too, BTW. Make me king. I'll abolish the income taxes, and jobs will come flying back to the USA. Its the income taxes that chase jobs overseas, not labor rates. The gov't just wants you to believe that its labor rates in order to get out of having to do anything about it. Study the Fair Tax. It is the silver bullet for our unemployment.
I'm certainly not going to start using it if it becomes legal, are you? I think there are far too many people with good sense that are simply going to just say no, whether it is legal or not. I doubt that there will be a wild rush to commit suicide with meth if it becomes legal. There's too many other ways to get high that are lots less dangerous.
... is to legalize absolutely all the drugs, and put the DEA, et. al., out of business. The insane drug war is just another excuse to violate citizen's rights, plus it provides obscene amounts of money to all the wrong sorts of people. And, reportedly, Mexico has lost 70,000 of its citizens since 2007 to drug war violence. Is the USA keeping drugs illegal really worth 70,000 human lives? I don't think so.
First, only large corporations have the wherewithall to hire the accountants and lawyers required to navigate the tax code in order to lower their taxes in that manner.
Second, small business that gets taxed through the small business owner's personal income tax also gets taxed at the highest rate, and makes starting a business and growing it nearly impossible in the face of competition from already existing, larger businesses that CAN afford the lawyers and accountants to guide their companies into the actions that are taxed the least or offer the biggest loopholes.
Third, even the largest corporations do not pay the suppsoed 12% because they use up a great amount of resources in paying the lawyers and accountants to find the loopholes to exploit. The cost of the lawyers and accountants that do this, plus the resultant tax that they could not avoid, is said to be about 75% of the cost of just paying the tax without trying to avoid it, making the hiring of the lawyers and accountants desireable, and yet keeping actual tax revenue away from the gov't.
So, in short, the income tax experiences a large failure in actually collecting tax from the largest corporations, while making impossible the starting of new companies to be successful in challenging existing large corporations.
The income taxes should be abolished, and industry should not be taxed. All tax $$$ that those industries pay comes from other people anyway - the stockholders get smaller dividends, the employees get smaller wages, and the customers get higher prices. Income taxes are what is preventing this country from absolutely blowing away the rest of the world in manufacturing competitiveness.
Back up a notch, US labor is cheap. German auto workers get about $66/hr on average, the best-paid union workers in the US about $33/hr. And, overall, US labor takes the smallest bite out of manufacturing expenses because US manufacturers automate like nowhere else.
Its not the labor rates that are killing us, it is the income taxes. Income tax in ANY form is absolutely toxic to prosperity, and we are doing so poorly in the prosperity department because US corporate income taxes were the highest on the planet even before this last round of tax hikes. You can't expect to come walking thru the front door with your gov't gun pointed and walk out with 40% - 45% of the profits, and expect prosperity to happen. The only way for American companies to make money under this American taxation system is to flee it, and set up manufacturing plants overseas, which is why we are at a situation with 46 million people in poverty.
Learn CS, and Bill Gates just imports cheap foreign labor to lower the wage scale, so you work your butt off at highly-intellectual education and end up earning $40K / yr, because the foreigners will work for that. The average auto mechanic in 2011 earned $38K, and could go to work out of high school, and get good with OJT and various classes along the way without taking a 4-year bite out of lifetime earnings to attend college or acquire a student loan debt. There's no money in CS except at the really top-level programming jobs, or working for the gov't in jobs that require "classified" work that foreigners can't be hired for.
Look, coding is an intellectual pursuit. You need to be above average IQ to do it well. Of course, that means that MOST people cannot code. If you think that most jobs are going to require programming, then you're saying that most people are going to be unemployable.
Sounds like this job framework needs a re-think. We can't have a society where most people are unemployable. We need to bring back good-paying jobs in factories that build the world's products. The only reason we're not doing it now is the income taxes. No, the income taxes take more $$$ out of businesses than the supposed "high wage American worker" does. Get rid of the income taxes, and this country would be #1 in manufacturing, and people who cannot code, but can wire up / plumb up a factory before you can blink twice will be well-paid and society, overall, will be prosperous.
Look at the Fair Tax. It replaces the income taxes with a consumption tax on new retail items for sale. This would make the US a prosperous nation again.
Take the satellite, it'll keep your games activated, and you'll just have to have your friends drive over to your place, set up their computers or X-boxes or whatever and run off your home network to get around the ping times. But... I think you'd rather just whine about the whole situation.
Not that I don't think there's a point to the anti-internet-always-on thing. Screw that - I play PC-based video games in Iraq, where we did NOT have an internet connx for playing games, and would have been totally screwed if we'd needed them.
The cure for all of this is to avoid buying games that you can't resell or that require internet to work as if they were the plague. When these things fail to sell, the purveyors of this filth will get the message and give it up.
Looks like we could implement something like this too, pretty easy - mail carrier just leaves a message that it's in box 181, and the combination is, say, on a scratch-off on the note. Fooling with the mail is still a big-time Fed offense, so it should be pretty safe, as much so as it would have been to leave it in the mailbox had it been small enough.
Well, then, its like I said - there'll be a 2 hour wait to get to the front of the line on Saturdays because of eveyone else doing the same thing. There's lots of people that can't necessarily get to the post office on lunch break to pick up packages, or registered mail, or things that need attention.
Modify that idea somewhat, so that the SENDER pays a higher stamp price for home delivery, and a lower price for "pick it up at the post office" mail. I could get along with that... The PO would need to dramatically expand their PO boxes for people to come and collect their mail without bothering the postal workers, or having the post office be "open."
Now pretend I'm 85 years old, in a wheel chair, no driver's license, very little income, not enough for innernetz access. How do I get my mail now? Or is mail to become something for just the well-to-do?
Mail is supposed to be for EVERYBODY. That means someone in a cabin that is a 10 mile boat-ride - the post office does this sort of stuff. This system is great for the well-monied living in urban or suburban areas, but I don't think it will well-serve everyone.
So, I get this note in the mailbox that I have a package that is too big for the mailbox, I have to pick it up at the PO. But, I leave for work before the PO opens, return after it closes, and it's 50 miles away so I can't sneak down there during lunch. Result: If the PO is closed on Saturday too, I have a real problem, having to take off work for yet another thing, getting a package from the PO. If it is open on Saturday, then there will most assuredly be a 2 hour line, out the door and into the snow, because everyone else is going to be doing the same thing.
Yeah, any missile defense system can be overwhelmed. But, its not for that. Its for pissant little countries with a handful of rockets that think they can influence the world with their pop-gun style weaponry. Any massive attack would have to come from major players, who will not do such a thing because they know that they will personally get fried in a nuclear counter-attack. MAD lives.
"Just pay people more..." Oh, hahahahahahahahahahaha! They take away a benefit, you ain't gonna see jack, the company will give it to the execs and the stockholders.
Yep. Its the bending over for the envirowackos to screw American society that is doing this. Nothing deserves ignoring more than an envirowacko. Build more refineries, bigger refineries, and we won't have this nonsense. How do you tell when an envirowacko is lying? When his lips are moving. Just say no. Etc.
That's why you should read about it, carefully. You will find out why it is true, and why the politicians don't want to implement it (lotsa reasons...) No, none of those reasons are that it would be bad for the USA - its more about how it would be bad for them personally...
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Crotch rot. herpes, navel fuzz, athlete's foot, excessive nose hair, etc. etc. Call me back in 100 years when you really figure it out...
Drugs are dangerous. You want to take Oxycontin without a prescription, you can blow out your hearing like Rush did. Personal responsibility.
Why do they need to expend any research dollars, when we already have numerous ways to get high that would be ridiculously cheap after legalization. If they spend billions of research dollars, their product would be too expensive - get high on pot for $1, or get high on their synthetic for $10. Doesn't make sense.
I can fix the poverty thing too, BTW. Make me king. I'll abolish the income taxes, and jobs will come flying back to the USA. Its the income taxes that chase jobs overseas, not labor rates. The gov't just wants you to believe that its labor rates in order to get out of having to do anything about it. Study the Fair Tax. It is the silver bullet for our unemployment.
I'm certainly not going to start using it if it becomes legal, are you? I think there are far too many people with good sense that are simply going to just say no, whether it is legal or not. I doubt that there will be a wild rush to commit suicide with meth if it becomes legal. There's too many other ways to get high that are lots less dangerous.
... is to legalize absolutely all the drugs, and put the DEA, et. al., out of business. The insane drug war is just another excuse to violate citizen's rights, plus it provides obscene amounts of money to all the wrong sorts of people. And, reportedly, Mexico has lost 70,000 of its citizens since 2007 to drug war violence. Is the USA keeping drugs illegal really worth 70,000 human lives? I don't think so.
I can resurrect my data, but I know that if it lasts more than 4 hours, I'm supposed to call a doctor...
"Effective" tax rates are a red herring.
First, only large corporations have the wherewithall to hire the accountants and lawyers required to navigate the tax code in order to lower their taxes in that manner.
Second, small business that gets taxed through the small business owner's personal income tax also gets taxed at the highest rate, and makes starting a business and growing it nearly impossible in the face of competition from already existing, larger businesses that CAN afford the lawyers and accountants to guide their companies into the actions that are taxed the least or offer the biggest loopholes.
Third, even the largest corporations do not pay the suppsoed 12% because they use up a great amount of resources in paying the lawyers and accountants to find the loopholes to exploit. The cost of the lawyers and accountants that do this, plus the resultant tax that they could not avoid, is said to be about 75% of the cost of just paying the tax without trying to avoid it, making the hiring of the lawyers and accountants desireable, and yet keeping actual tax revenue away from the gov't.
So, in short, the income tax experiences a large failure in actually collecting tax from the largest corporations, while making impossible the starting of new companies to be successful in challenging existing large corporations.
The income taxes should be abolished, and industry should not be taxed. All tax $$$ that those industries pay comes from other people anyway - the stockholders get smaller dividends, the employees get smaller wages, and the customers get higher prices. Income taxes are what is preventing this country from absolutely blowing away the rest of the world in manufacturing competitiveness.
Back up a notch, US labor is cheap. German auto workers get about $66/hr on average, the best-paid union workers in the US about $33/hr. And, overall, US labor takes the smallest bite out of manufacturing expenses because US manufacturers automate like nowhere else.
Its not the labor rates that are killing us, it is the income taxes. Income tax in ANY form is absolutely toxic to prosperity, and we are doing so poorly in the prosperity department because US corporate income taxes were the highest on the planet even before this last round of tax hikes. You can't expect to come walking thru the front door with your gov't gun pointed and walk out with 40% - 45% of the profits, and expect prosperity to happen. The only way for American companies to make money under this American taxation system is to flee it, and set up manufacturing plants overseas, which is why we are at a situation with 46 million people in poverty.
Learn CS, and Bill Gates just imports cheap foreign labor to lower the wage scale, so you work your butt off at highly-intellectual education and end up earning $40K / yr, because the foreigners will work for that. The average auto mechanic in 2011 earned $38K, and could go to work out of high school, and get good with OJT and various classes along the way without taking a 4-year bite out of lifetime earnings to attend college or acquire a student loan debt. There's no money in CS except at the really top-level programming jobs, or working for the gov't in jobs that require "classified" work that foreigners can't be hired for.
Look, coding is an intellectual pursuit. You need to be above average IQ to do it well. Of course, that means that MOST people cannot code. If you think that most jobs are going to require programming, then you're saying that most people are going to be unemployable.
Sounds like this job framework needs a re-think. We can't have a society where most people are unemployable. We need to bring back good-paying jobs in factories that build the world's products. The only reason we're not doing it now is the income taxes. No, the income taxes take more $$$ out of businesses than the supposed "high wage American worker" does. Get rid of the income taxes, and this country would be #1 in manufacturing, and people who cannot code, but can wire up / plumb up a factory before you can blink twice will be well-paid and society, overall, will be prosperous.
Look at the Fair Tax. It replaces the income taxes with a consumption tax on new retail items for sale. This would make the US a prosperous nation again.
Yeah, that's great, but you can't actually build them.
Take the satellite, it'll keep your games activated, and you'll just have to have your friends drive over to your place, set up their computers or X-boxes or whatever and run off your home network to get around the ping times. But... I think you'd rather just whine about the whole situation.
Not that I don't think there's a point to the anti-internet-always-on thing. Screw that - I play PC-based video games in Iraq, where we did NOT have an internet connx for playing games, and would have been totally screwed if we'd needed them.
The cure for all of this is to avoid buying games that you can't resell or that require internet to work as if they were the plague. When these things fail to sell, the purveyors of this filth will get the message and give it up.
Looks like we could implement something like this too, pretty easy - mail carrier just leaves a message that it's in box 181, and the combination is, say, on a scratch-off on the note. Fooling with the mail is still a big-time Fed offense, so it should be pretty safe, as much so as it would have been to leave it in the mailbox had it been small enough.
Well, then, its like I said - there'll be a 2 hour wait to get to the front of the line on Saturdays because of eveyone else doing the same thing. There's lots of people that can't necessarily get to the post office on lunch break to pick up packages, or registered mail, or things that need attention.
Modify that idea somewhat, so that the SENDER pays a higher stamp price for home delivery, and a lower price for "pick it up at the post office" mail. I could get along with that... The PO would need to dramatically expand their PO boxes for people to come and collect their mail without bothering the postal workers, or having the post office be "open."
Now pretend I'm 85 years old, in a wheel chair, no driver's license, very little income, not enough for innernetz access. How do I get my mail now? Or is mail to become something for just the well-to-do?
Mail is supposed to be for EVERYBODY. That means someone in a cabin that is a 10 mile boat-ride - the post office does this sort of stuff. This system is great for the well-monied living in urban or suburban areas, but I don't think it will well-serve everyone.
So, I get this note in the mailbox that I have a package that is too big for the mailbox, I have to pick it up at the PO. But, I leave for work before the PO opens, return after it closes, and it's 50 miles away so I can't sneak down there during lunch. Result: If the PO is closed on Saturday too, I have a real problem, having to take off work for yet another thing, getting a package from the PO. If it is open on Saturday, then there will most assuredly be a 2 hour line, out the door and into the snow, because everyone else is going to be doing the same thing.
Yeah, any missile defense system can be overwhelmed. But, its not for that. Its for pissant little countries with a handful of rockets that think they can influence the world with their pop-gun style weaponry. Any massive attack would have to come from major players, who will not do such a thing because they know that they will personally get fried in a nuclear counter-attack. MAD lives.
Are they heavy? Yes? Well then they're expensive. Put 'em back.
"Just pay people more..." Oh, hahahahahahahahahahaha! They take away a benefit, you ain't gonna see jack, the company will give it to the execs and the stockholders.
Pricey.
" He was charged because he wanted to steal academic documents."
FTFY
Yep. Its the bending over for the envirowackos to screw American society that is doing this. Nothing deserves ignoring more than an envirowacko. Build more refineries, bigger refineries, and we won't have this nonsense. How do you tell when an envirowacko is lying? When his lips are moving. Just say no. Etc.
That's why you should read about it, carefully. You will find out why it is true, and why the politicians don't want to implement it (lotsa reasons...) No, none of those reasons are that it would be bad for the USA - its more about how it would be bad for them personally...