The CEO runs a connected, Internet-based company and moves his company - his entire workforce - to an office with an unreliable and iffy Internet connection? Is the guy totally out of his mind?
Of course, you have to define what "fair" means in the first place. Regardless, the "Fair Tax" and all other forms of consumption tax are pretty regressive and don't address the true problems with tax burden.
How is the Fair Tax regressive? Or you just prefer not to mention a key component, the prebate. The other point where your argument falls to pieces is that the sales tax replaces the embedded income tax. The "poor" already pay that tax. What used to cost $100 before implementation of Fair Tax would continue to cost about the same since the cost of the product would fall to $77 with about $23 in the new sales tax.
If you really want to tax the wealthy
Ah, now we get an idea of where you want to go...
a better system than the fair tax would be to have zero income tax, then tax all property (including deposit accounts) valued at more than some threshold (say, $1M, indexed to inflation of course) at some fixed rate.
Of course, your plan would work just fine and dandy too. Just depends on your goal. Fair tax will grow the total wealth in the nation. Your plan sets out to make the rich, well, less rich.
This is also much simpler to implement than the Fair Tax, which has complex bookkeeping and exemption mechanisms.
No IRS, no filing any tax forms. Yep a mountain of bookkeeping here.
This is precisely why we need Fair Tax. Just think what it would do to the economy if all the money languishing outside the US is brought in to work and create jobs and investments right here at home.
From the perspective of someone who switched to a Mac very recently, but has been a software dev for a long time:
The brilliance of Time Machine isn't really the backup component. I am sure other backup systems could be/are better or smarter. More on this later.
The real genius is in the restore. You can visualize the backup timeline, search it, and see your files in their native application like Finder or iPhoto. Nothing else out there compares with this. Imagine being able to open up Windows Explorer and tell it to show what the contents of that folder looked like on a specific date -- all the while never leaving your folder window.
Another important point people miss about the backups is that the backups are in plain file system format. If my computer is hosed, I can connect my backup drive to another mac or even a Linux box, and very easily retrieve the files I need simply by copying them over. No restore software needed.
There are several comments about the cost of developing and supporting a Linux version of a company's software for a (relatively) small user base.
If that is indeed the case then why don't these companies use the innate strength of the Open Source community and have them contribute in creating this software? All they would need is to create an API that can be used by the OS community to create the appropriate front-ends.
Incidentally I am sure it would be a trivial task to port the same API to Mac OS X thereby reducing the cost of supporting that platform as an added benefit.
The overall issue remains however. They _do_ require you to activate Windows. Not so with Linux or OS X or Solaris. Nobody can "turn off" my computer remotely with any of these other OSes.
So...
Shutdown Windows
Start up Linux or OS X or whatever.
"Choose an OS that doesn't blackmail"
This MS policy made me do what Apple with all their marketing might couldn't -- it made me switch to OS X! So long MS arm twisting. So long having to prove my copy of Windows was genuine although it came pre-installed.
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The CEO runs a connected, Internet-based company and moves his company - his entire workforce - to an office with an unreliable and iffy Internet connection? Is the guy totally out of his mind?
If humanity is to survive, we must pledge to eliminate all carbon dioxide from our atmosphere by 2030
Why do you hate plants so much, elrous0?
The Police are just realizing that the sword has two edges, to use a figure of speech.
For some perspective -- the Voyager is just 16.1 light hours away... the nearest star is 4.2 light years away. Happy tracks, little fella...
The "Fair Tax"... isn't.
Of course, you have to define what "fair" means in the first place. Regardless, the "Fair Tax" and all other forms of consumption tax are pretty regressive and don't address the true problems with tax burden.
How is the Fair Tax regressive? Or you just prefer not to mention a key component, the prebate. The other point where your argument falls to pieces is that the sales tax replaces the embedded income tax. The "poor" already pay that tax. What used to cost $100 before implementation of Fair Tax would continue to cost about the same since the cost of the product would fall to $77 with about $23 in the new sales tax.
If you really want to tax the wealthy
Ah, now we get an idea of where you want to go...
a better system than the fair tax would be to have zero income tax, then tax all property (including deposit accounts) valued at more than some threshold (say, $1M, indexed to inflation of course) at some fixed rate.
Of course, your plan would work just fine and dandy too. Just depends on your goal. Fair tax will grow the total wealth in the nation. Your plan sets out to make the rich, well, less rich.
This is also much simpler to implement than the Fair Tax, which has complex bookkeeping and exemption mechanisms.
No IRS, no filing any tax forms. Yep a mountain of bookkeeping here.
Methinks you're going to vote Dem.
And there are apparently quite a few people who don't grasp the concept of embedded taxes either.
This is precisely why we need Fair Tax. Just think what it would do to the economy if all the money languishing outside the US is brought in to work and create jobs and investments right here at home.
There goes any remaining chance of anyone actually using this search engine...
"Godson"... The new Jesus chip?
From the perspective of someone who switched to a Mac very recently, but has been a software dev for a long time:
The brilliance of Time Machine isn't really the backup component. I am sure other backup systems could be/are better or smarter. More on this later.
The real genius is in the restore. You can visualize the backup timeline, search it, and see your files in their native application like Finder or iPhoto. Nothing else out there compares with this. Imagine being able to open up Windows Explorer and tell it to show what the contents of that folder looked like on a specific date -- all the while never leaving your folder window.
Another important point people miss about the backups is that the backups are in plain file system format. If my computer is hosed, I can connect my backup drive to another mac or even a Linux box, and very easily retrieve the files I need simply by copying them over. No restore software needed.
"As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins." But still no girlfriend. Sorry... couldn't resist! :)
If that is indeed the case then why don't these companies use the innate strength of the Open Source community and have them contribute in creating this software? All they would need is to create an API that can be used by the OS community to create the appropriate front-ends.
Incidentally I am sure it would be a trivial task to port the same API to Mac OS X thereby reducing the cost of supporting that platform as an added benefit.
The overall issue remains however. They _do_ require you to activate Windows. Not so with Linux or OS X or Solaris. Nobody can "turn off" my computer remotely with any of these other OSes. So... Shutdown Windows Start up Linux or OS X or whatever. "Choose an OS that doesn't blackmail"
This MS policy made me do what Apple with all their marketing might couldn't -- it made me switch to OS X! So long MS arm twisting. So long having to prove my copy of Windows was genuine although it came pre-installed.