I'm a fan of BitCoin due to its scarcity, anonymity, and digital transfer
- never mind the rest of your comment, but anonymity is not part of BitCoin operation.
Every client/server knows every single transaction that was ever transacted in BitCoins, that the exact opposite of anonymity. Any paper dollar, any piece of gold, any paper euro has more anonymity than BitCoin, BitCoin has none.
You should vote Ron Paul then, because nobody else will cut militarism and bring all troops home from across the globe and would reform the SS and Medicare to keep taking care of people who are on those programs now, the elderly and the children, while giving people option to opt out (at first just the people under age of 25, but eventually to let anybody opt out as these programs will be shut down.) And SS and Medicare will be shut down, whether Ron Paul is elected or not, it's just with Ron Paul the way to shut them down will be gradual, allowing the current recipients to keep getting their support (but probably means testing in order to cut costs). If it's not Ron Paul, then the way these programs will be shut down is going to be by the dollar crashing and the loss of purchasing power will mean that the nominal numbers on the coming checks will buy nothing.
You can contact him if you want for specific details, he is pretty vocal about it and about the fact that he is unwilling to pay anymore taxes and that's a large part of the reason why he is now moving his business offshore, which will cost US many jobs, as he hires people across US.
Of-course he also will tell you that the US gov't is doing a huge disservice to the US population, by preventing him from doing lots more business with US customers (all thanks to Patriot Act), and you would know this if you tried to open a bank account outside of US, near nobody will want your business as an American bank account holder.
From your past comments I recognize that you don't understand any of basics, so it would be a fool's errand to get into real details before you understood them, I suggest a good primer on basic stuff first.
Price discovery and profit are market principles that send signals to manufacturers to increase or decrease production, and the profit is the engine of progress - goods is what people want and are willing to trade their time (money) for them, thus the more profit one is making by supplying people with goods the more this indicates that the business is sound.
Of-course in a free market (free of government regulations), the absence of government regulations prevents possibility of a monopoly and thus the distribution becomes more and more efficient with prices falling and quality increasing.
Of-course all of this should be eliminated and replaced with a consumption tax. Not only are the income taxes collected in a way that is illegal and unconstitutional, but they are also extremely harmful to the investment, as they reduce that investment while allowing the government to grow regardless of what people decide to spend, while the government is supposed to be a percentage of spending, not percentage of earnings.
All government services must be paid for, and if people don't have money to spend, those services need to be cut, and that's why taxing income, printing money and borrowing is a completely wrong way to subsidize government services. Government services are not investment, so they can't have a return so there is no real interest rate, and any amount of spending is a tax, because it has to be paid for eventually - either with a bigger tax (plus interest) or with weaker currency.
Side note: anybody who thinks that a weak currency is good for the country because of 'exports' is missing the point of trade in the first place. Trade is about trading benefits of labor between people, not trading benefits of labor of some people in exchange for worthless paper printed by others.
By the way, his real tax was 9,9,9,9, the last 9 being the fact that corporations under his tax law wouldn't be able to write off their expenses, such as payroll against their revenues, but payroll taxes are not paid by corporations, it's paid by employees. Corporations really don't pay taxes. The 'corporate' income taxes are paid by shareholders/owners, the payroll tax is paid by employees, the sales taxes are paid by customers and personal income taxes are paid by employees (that's why Warren Buffet is full of shit, his real taxes are his corporate taxes, whatever they are, 30-35% and then 15% dividend tax, he owns 1/3 of the company's stock, so any tax against his corporation is tax against him).
that's great, and it still wouldn't help if the problem is partially hardware related (like overheating of a junction that for example would zero out a register).
You do realize, that unlike your football and basketball stars, you actually have a real hero, don't you? He is in your prison - a political prisoner, because he dared to challenge the government and its illegal activities.
All of those 3 and sometimes 4 letter agencies must be shut down, they exist to destroy your liberties, economy and society, not to help anybody but the very very special interests and politicians.
There is something absolutely wrong with the people, when they allow the government workers any more entitlements and rights than the citizens have. Since when is it OK for a private individual to stalk another private individual in their own house, setting up bugs and cameras and recording devices, etc?
Realize this: if it's not OK for a private individual, then it's not OK for a government either. Government is just a bunch of individuals that have been given enormous amounts of power over other individuals.
If you don't see a problem with some individuals having huge amounts of power over other individuals, then you have no imagination.
About 10 years ago my knees started hurting and they never stopped and I've been to doctors around the globe pretty much and nobody can identify why I have this pain. I tried a few types of medication and realized that I can't live my life on drugs, so I learned to live with the pain, I just learned not to pay attention. I tell you what, if you want to get your ass kicked by somebody who doesn't care about pain anymore, talk to me, I'll arrange it in a hurry.
Of course, the sun's core is another story. 15 times denser than lead and 16 million kelvin. I'll like to see the comet that survives that.
- you probably wouldn't like to see the comet that does that with our Sun and survives, because for a comet to do that, it would be a neutron star or a black hole and not a comet and it's not clear that our Sun wouldn't then have an explosion within it, that would cause massive problems for our little rock here at the very least with the enormous amount of radiation, even in gamma spectrum and a possible orbit change causing some real problems later on.
I don't see a single comment on top that says what needs to be done.
Vote Ron Paul 2012, he'll veto all of this nonsense and he'll work to reduce the federal agency and shut down federal departments and reduce federal spending, which means transferring the power from the elites back to the people.
When is it finally going to become blatantly obvious to the rest of the people, what has been obvious to the people who understand actual real economics (Austrian school), that government is not there for any purpose other than helping the politicians and those, who have access to politicians, and that's why government must be limited severely to what they are ever allowed to do (US federal Constitution, article 1, section 8: there are 20 things there to follow, and what's not in it is expressly not allowed to the federal government)?
There are maybe 20 things in Article 1 section 8 that the US federal government is authorized to do. I am sure you can learn them all, and BTW, none of them allow any type of censorship to be established by the federal law.
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I'm a fan of BitCoin due to its scarcity, anonymity, and digital transfer
- never mind the rest of your comment, but anonymity is not part of BitCoin operation.
Every client/server knows every single transaction that was ever transacted in BitCoins, that the exact opposite of anonymity. Any paper dollar, any piece of gold, any paper euro has more anonymity than BitCoin, BitCoin has none.
I loved taking some of the demands apart, piece by piece.
Yes, the system is broken, the only correct income, payroll and corporate tax is 0, you are correct.
0 is the only acceptable rate. Anything above 0 of income, payroll, corporate earnings is completely unacceptable.
You should vote Ron Paul then, because nobody else will cut militarism and bring all troops home from across the globe and would reform the SS and Medicare to keep taking care of people who are on those programs now, the elderly and the children, while giving people option to opt out (at first just the people under age of 25, but eventually to let anybody opt out as these programs will be shut down.) And SS and Medicare will be shut down, whether Ron Paul is elected or not, it's just with Ron Paul the way to shut them down will be gradual, allowing the current recipients to keep getting their support (but probably means testing in order to cut costs). If it's not Ron Paul, then the way these programs will be shut down is going to be by the dollar crashing and the loss of purchasing power will mean that the nominal numbers on the coming checks will buy nothing.
Here is a millionaire that pays himself a salary instead of rolling the money over and over, so he pays 35% federal and 7% state income taxes, plus the 3% Medicare and 12% SS, but that 12% is only on the first 100K or so, and so it doesn't matter, because 99% of his income is taxed at marginal rates. He argued this in a Congressional hearing on Obama's "jobs" act, and this remains his point that near 50% of his money already is paid to gov't in taxes before any sales taxes, property taxes, etc.
You can contact him if you want for specific details, he is pretty vocal about it and about the fact that he is unwilling to pay anymore taxes and that's a large part of the reason why he is now moving his business offshore, which will cost US many jobs, as he hires people across US.
Of-course he also will tell you that the US gov't is doing a huge disservice to the US population, by preventing him from doing lots more business with US customers (all thanks to Patriot Act), and you would know this if you tried to open a bank account outside of US, near nobody will want your business as an American bank account holder.
It's perfect, since Gingrich never was a conservative, he is quite liberal or progressive or corrupt, take your pick.
From your past comments I recognize that you don't understand any of basics, so it would be a fool's errand to get into real details before you understood them, I suggest a good primer on basic stuff first.
The list will go on unless the path is abruptly interrupted.
Ron Paul 2012
Gary Johnson 2016
What can I say, market is a price discovery mechanism and this truth still holds, even though so many in those previous stories disagreed because they completely miss the understanding of most basic economic principles.
Price discovery and profit are market principles that send signals to manufacturers to increase or decrease production, and the profit is the engine of progress - goods is what people want and are willing to trade their time (money) for them, thus the more profit one is making by supplying people with goods the more this indicates that the business is sound.
Of-course in a free market (free of government regulations), the absence of government regulations prevents possibility of a monopoly and thus the distribution becomes more and more efficient with prices falling and quality increasing.
It's been tried a good number of times, the judges always refuse to hear the arguments.
Of-course all of this should be eliminated and replaced with a consumption tax. Not only are the income taxes collected in a way that is illegal and unconstitutional, but they are also extremely harmful to the investment, as they reduce that investment while allowing the government to grow regardless of what people decide to spend, while the government is supposed to be a percentage of spending, not percentage of earnings.
All government services must be paid for, and if people don't have money to spend, those services need to be cut, and that's why taxing income, printing money and borrowing is a completely wrong way to subsidize government services. Government services are not investment, so they can't have a return so there is no real interest rate, and any amount of spending is a tax, because it has to be paid for eventually - either with a bigger tax (plus interest) or with weaker currency.
Side note: anybody who thinks that a weak currency is good for the country because of 'exports' is missing the point of trade in the first place. Trade is about trading benefits of labor between people, not trading benefits of labor of some people in exchange for worthless paper printed by others.
By the way, his real tax was 9,9,9,9, the last 9 being the fact that corporations under his tax law wouldn't be able to write off their expenses, such as payroll against their revenues, but payroll taxes are not paid by corporations, it's paid by employees. Corporations really don't pay taxes. The 'corporate' income taxes are paid by shareholders/owners, the payroll tax is paid by employees, the sales taxes are paid by customers and personal income taxes are paid by employees (that's why Warren Buffet is full of shit, his real taxes are his corporate taxes, whatever they are, 30-35% and then 15% dividend tax, he owns 1/3 of the company's stock, so any tax against his corporation is tax against him).
Corruption is not permitted in the US. It is encouraged.
It's about government, corruption there is not just 'encouraged'. It is mandatory.
I like the picture of the dear leader looking at the sausages, with the 2 females behind him. All are smiling.
Of-course here is another picture with more chicks and food and smiles. Maybe it's just that when there was the dear leader, chicks and food around, everybody felt like smiling. Aaaah.
that's great, and it still wouldn't help if the problem is partially hardware related (like overheating of a junction that for example would zero out a register).
you can use leetkey if you don't want to deal with keys, etc., but you and the other party have to agree on a password (one time password, hopefully).
You do realize, that unlike your football and basketball stars, you actually have a real hero, don't you? He is in your prison - a political prisoner, because he dared to challenge the government and its illegal activities.
All of those 3 and sometimes 4 letter agencies must be shut down, they exist to destroy your liberties, economy and society, not to help anybody but the very very special interests and politicians.
More government abuse.
There is something absolutely wrong with the people, when they allow the government workers any more entitlements and rights than the citizens have. Since when is it OK for a private individual to stalk another private individual in their own house, setting up bugs and cameras and recording devices, etc?
Realize this: if it's not OK for a private individual, then it's not OK for a government either. Government is just a bunch of individuals that have been given enormous amounts of power over other individuals.
If you don't see a problem with some individuals having huge amounts of power over other individuals, then you have no imagination.
Surround yourself with smart people (who are also hopefully not assholes and are not completely lazy), that's the only real way to have things done.
About 10 years ago my knees started hurting and they never stopped and I've been to doctors around the globe pretty much and nobody can identify why I have this pain. I tried a few types of medication and realized that I can't live my life on drugs, so I learned to live with the pain, I just learned not to pay attention. I tell you what, if you want to get your ass kicked by somebody who doesn't care about pain anymore, talk to me, I'll arrange it in a hurry.
Of course, the sun's core is another story. 15 times denser than lead and 16 million kelvin. I'll like to see the comet that survives that.
- you probably wouldn't like to see the comet that does that with our Sun and survives, because for a comet to do that, it would be a neutron star or a black hole and not a comet and it's not clear that our Sun wouldn't then have an explosion within it, that would cause massive problems for our little rock here at the very least with the enormous amount of radiation, even in gamma spectrum and a possible orbit change causing some real problems later on.
I don't see a single comment on top that says what needs to be done.
Vote Ron Paul 2012, he'll veto all of this nonsense and he'll work to reduce the federal agency and shut down federal departments and reduce federal spending, which means transferring the power from the elites back to the people.
When is it finally going to become blatantly obvious to the rest of the people, what has been obvious to the people who understand actual real economics (Austrian school), that government is not there for any purpose other than helping the politicians and those, who have access to politicians, and that's why government must be limited severely to what they are ever allowed to do (US federal Constitution, article 1, section 8: there are 20 things there to follow, and what's not in it is expressly not allowed to the federal government)?
There are maybe 20 things in Article 1 section 8 that the US federal government is authorized to do. I am sure you can learn them all, and BTW, none of them allow any type of censorship to be established by the federal law.