What we need to do is jumpstart the economy by not taxing people who can't afford to be taxed.
The rich can afford taxes that the poor and middle class can't.
Get the taxes off the backs of the poor and middle and they can do so much more capitalistic investment the boom in tax revenues from floating to higher social classes will more than mkae up for the tax cuts.
in the short term, less taxes mean less in federal dollars to spend. however, letting the middle class breathe and do business will let the economy boom.
it's the same effect as microloans in poor countries. Get people on their feet with capital investment, make them producers of wealth. Wealth that the government can tax without hurting anyone.
The primary purpose of taxes is to pay for government services. Emphasis on services. So the prime focus should be on who can afford to pay for it, not who deserves to foot the bill.
The memo is that kernel.org chooses to host his repo.
It's open source and people go through him because he's presently the best and most trustworthy developer out there for linux.
Every time someone sends him a pull request they are vouching for his competence as a leader. If someone wanted to take over, all that would take is everyone choosing to send their pulls to someone else.
Not because they are competent, but because they can unilaterally kill your job on a whim.
Bucking the chain of command is rarely a smart idea, and the only way you get away with it is by actually following it because the only one who can say your boss is wrong is HIS boss.
When a city tries to start its own municipal internet and the incumbent telecom sues their asses off, gets an injunction, and then drags out the court case while they build their own internet right under the city's nose, it's not lack of demand, it's blatant anticompetitive rent seeking.
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If by apeshit you mean the corporate sector throwing a tantrum.
hey, I'll take what I can get.
What we need to do is jumpstart the economy by not taxing people who can't afford to be taxed.
The rich can afford taxes that the poor and middle class can't.
Get the taxes off the backs of the poor and middle and they can do so much more capitalistic investment the boom in tax revenues from floating to higher social classes will more than mkae up for the tax cuts.
in the short term, less taxes mean less in federal dollars to spend. however, letting the middle class breathe and do business will let the economy boom.
it's the same effect as microloans in poor countries. Get people on their feet with capital investment, make them producers of wealth. Wealth that the government can tax without hurting anyone.
The primary purpose of taxes is to pay for government services. Emphasis on services. So the prime focus should be on who can afford to pay for it, not who deserves to foot the bill.
Because stubborn political parties try to leverage the country's ills to advance their own positions.
The money system rewards stabbing everyone else in the back so that you can take the market by force.
You dope.
Is God the only supernatural force capable of slinging tornadoes around?
Sometimes I wonder how many people believe in God without believing in the devil.
The memo is that kernel.org chooses to host his repo.
It's open source and people go through him because he's presently the best and most trustworthy developer out there for linux.
Every time someone sends him a pull request they are vouching for his competence as a leader. If someone wanted to take over, all that would take is everyone choosing to send their pulls to someone else.
The boss is always right.
Not because they are competent, but because they can unilaterally kill your job on a whim.
Bucking the chain of command is rarely a smart idea, and the only way you get away with it is by actually following it because the only one who can say your boss is wrong is HIS boss.
Powerful people don't need to be assholes to get the job done.
Far often it's more a case of the boss having sovereign immunity to act as he pleases, and having the power to hang anyone who dares defy him.
Lack of demand my ass
When a city tries to start its own municipal internet and the incumbent telecom sues their asses off, gets an injunction, and then drags out the court case while they build their own internet right under the city's nose, it's not lack of demand, it's blatant anticompetitive rent seeking.
With retroactive immunity, there isn't much practical difference.
It's only illegal if the feds decide to bust them for it.
Just like we can sue the phone companies for spying on us...
Wait...
We have this concept known as an attractive nuisance.
Sure, grand theft auto is still illegal, but lately governments are beginning to crack down on people leaving their cars unattended and running.
Until federal recall happens we can't exactly fire them.
That may be, but until the admiralty can have the ship arrested there may already be people overboard and compartment flooding.
Even if the authority is abused, he still has it until it's taken away.
Bottom line, if the captain wants to sink his ship, YOU sure as hell can't stop him.
Maybe it's a good samaratin vigilante like the EFF?
You don't have to be samsung or microsoft to be sick of the bullshit.
Hell, even us consumers would stand to gain.
And a big part of that empathy is going to be "I'm the boss and I don't want my peon's backtalk when I give them orders"
Why should they?
They don't have to. They're the boss.
The captain sails his ship as he damn pleases, and if that means running it aground or sinking it, so be it.
Are you going to:
A: hitch a lifeboat and bail
B: go down with the ship
C: walk the plank for mutiny
Or realizing that the boss's opinion is the only one that really matters.
Finally someone that doesn't forget the chain of command.
It's the captain's ship and he always gets his way.
And who the hell do we trust with the power to remove the freedom of others?
I would insist on a jury of shrinks from no less than four different mental health agencies.
I think we should treat it the same way we do criminal justice.
A central authority vulnerable to pressure.
Headquartered in a country where having money is just as good as having muscle.
Why the fuck am I not surprised?
It works very well for preserving the wishes of the rich elite that can hire the lawyer's guild to squash peple they don't like.
Sorry, you thought it was designed to achieve justice?
Government has always been twisted to serve the elite.