So, you're suggesting that whoever manages to land their stormtroopers at the cable entrance sites and is faster to lay new troughs unhindered by zoning, construction permits, rights-of-way will be my next provider? What could possibly go wrong with that?:-)
yes, in which case they lose free access to the EU market, which apparently is important. We'll see just how important it is to Ireland after Apple's "courageous" appeals process is finalized.
Uh, none, because all of the solutions proposed are incredibly energy-intensive and highly polluting. We have huge pollution problems, upcoming due to automation are massive unemployment, antibiotic resistant bacteria, income/wealth/health/freedom disparity. These are real problems, they can all be addressed without massive pollution of the planet on an absurd scale. Instead of worshiping at the altar of scientifism, inform yourself of the real, imminent challenges that we as a species are bringing to ourselves and will violently confront in the near future.
Apple was doing exactly this, pretending to have losses in the taxing jurisdictions, moving money to the other (Ireland) which let them then pay essentially nothing.
But gross income and wealth disparity are admirable? Disgusting? Are you that wealthy or just like to pretend you are by clamoring against your best interest?
The rich should be taxed unequally, as they make money unequally. That is just and fair. Old-school European monarchies (and France) were in fact about taxing the peasants to the benefit of the rich, land-owning (given by god of course) "nobles". Much like we have in the good-ole USA right now. Yes I do think we should close the loopholes and tax not just income but wealth, aggressively.
There are a very small number of hedge fund managers being taxed at a very low rate. Those rates exist to make financial transactions have a decent rate of return. They're written so that the average person can get good returns in their mutual funds, 401ks and pension funds..
I'll deal with this one, though all of your statements are equally troubled in their lack of logic. How exactly does it benefit anyone for hedge fund managers to be taxed at a very low rate? Do you mean to say that if they were taxed at 70% they would refuse to work? They would not try their damndest to make as much money as possible? The rate of earnings of a hedge fund manager is in fact a tax on returns to mutual funds, 401Ks and pension funds; whether the hedge fund manager takes it home to stuff under his pillow or the government takes it to fund education, medical care for all, build highways and assorted infrastructure does not change one whit that the money was removed as a return on investment to the investor.
College education, used to be free, or very near to free in California. But due to government's largesse toward corporations, it has increased many times over, much more so than the rate of inflation. This is one example of how allowing corporations to not pay taxes results in others paying more. There is no specific law that states it must be this way, it is just the way things have to be, someone has to pay in the end. If corporations don't pay, the poor and working class will. What does that do to California? It makes the American dream of betterment through education a cruel and largely unattainable goal (unless you are well-off, in which case, not a problem).
I'm a free agent, but if you want to hire me, I am willing to consider offers. There is no reason why a company should feel compelled to help a government agency do its job. The FBI gets paid to investigate shit, let em. The terrorist hasn't paid me, thus I am not his spokesperson. The problem I have with your troll is that it is an attempt to frame the argument on your terms. That cannot be allowed, this is about freedom (what little we have left) and government overreach. Your attempts at framing by appealing to scare tactics cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. Now you have also gone for the "you're either with us or against us", nice way to trot out that Bush (chimp) classic. That was bullshit then and it is bullshit now. The world isn't black and white, it is shades of gray, only alcoholics and other brain damaged people see the world in such a binary way.
Privacy for terrorists? Is this an attempt at a subtle troll? Does subtle troll/astroturf pay the same as the more blatant ones? Out of curiosity, who is your sponsor?
Yeah, National Instruments also produces its CDs in Ireland even though its headquarters are in Austin, TX, USA. I always wondered why they did that, now I know.
I think the support team voted down that idea as not realistic enough. Support team's job being to monitor wave and bikini activities at all the beaches to ensure the safety and isolation of the crew.
Everyone above (and including) VP should be executed. But HR should be raped with codfish wrapped in barbed wire first. Then beaten and buried. Then executed.
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So, you're suggesting that whoever manages to land their stormtroopers at the cable entrance sites and is faster to lay new troughs unhindered by zoning, construction permits, rights-of-way will be my next provider? What could possibly go wrong with that? :-)
You are confusing your repressed personality with high social skills. Are you by chance British?
Well pal, you sure did a fine job of pointing out the flaws in my argument. You must be so proud of yourself.
Except that the money isn't going to Ireland, it is going to the EU to pay some sort of debt.
yes, in which case they lose free access to the EU market, which apparently is important. We'll see just how important it is to Ireland after Apple's "courageous" appeals process is finalized.
Dude! That's totally going to be me in like 5 years!
Uh, none, because all of the solutions proposed are incredibly energy-intensive and highly polluting. We have huge pollution problems, upcoming due to automation are massive unemployment, antibiotic resistant bacteria, income/wealth/health/freedom disparity. These are real problems, they can all be addressed without massive pollution of the planet on an absurd scale. Instead of worshiping at the altar of scientifism, inform yourself of the real, imminent challenges that we as a species are bringing to ourselves and will violently confront in the near future.
Apple was doing exactly this, pretending to have losses in the taxing jurisdictions, moving money to the other (Ireland) which let them then pay essentially nothing.
But gross income and wealth disparity are admirable? Disgusting? Are you that wealthy or just like to pretend you are by clamoring against your best interest?
The rich should be taxed unequally, as they make money unequally. That is just and fair. Old-school European monarchies (and France) were in fact about taxing the peasants to the benefit of the rich, land-owning (given by god of course) "nobles". Much like we have in the good-ole USA right now. Yes I do think we should close the loopholes and tax not just income but wealth, aggressively.
There are a very small number of hedge fund managers being taxed at a very low rate. Those rates exist to make financial transactions have a decent rate of return. They're written so that the average person can get good returns in their mutual funds, 401ks and pension funds..
I'll deal with this one, though all of your statements are equally troubled in their lack of logic. How exactly does it benefit anyone for hedge fund managers to be taxed at a very low rate? Do you mean to say that if they were taxed at 70% they would refuse to work? They would not try their damndest to make as much money as possible? The rate of earnings of a hedge fund manager is in fact a tax on returns to mutual funds, 401Ks and pension funds; whether the hedge fund manager takes it home to stuff under his pillow or the government takes it to fund education, medical care for all, build highways and assorted infrastructure does not change one whit that the money was removed as a return on investment to the investor.
Mob justice is obsolete.
We'll just see about that...
**standing at ready with pitchfork in hand**
What a vacuous comment, care to make a point?
College education, used to be free, or very near to free in California. But due to government's largesse toward corporations, it has increased many times over, much more so than the rate of inflation. This is one example of how allowing corporations to not pay taxes results in others paying more. There is no specific law that states it must be this way, it is just the way things have to be, someone has to pay in the end. If corporations don't pay, the poor and working class will. What does that do to California? It makes the American dream of betterment through education a cruel and largely unattainable goal (unless you are well-off, in which case, not a problem).
Except that they are mostly bringing home the bacon for the elite rich and the corporations they own and control.
And which cable company is it that you work for? You work someplace with office cuties!? Those are banned at my workplace.
I'm a free agent, but if you want to hire me, I am willing to consider offers.
There is no reason why a company should feel compelled to help a government agency do its job. The FBI gets paid to investigate shit, let em.
The terrorist hasn't paid me, thus I am not his spokesperson.
The problem I have with your troll is that it is an attempt to frame the argument on your terms. That cannot be allowed, this is about freedom (what little we have left) and government overreach. Your attempts at framing by appealing to scare tactics cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. Now you have also gone for the "you're either with us or against us", nice way to trot out that Bush (chimp) classic. That was bullshit then and it is bullshit now. The world isn't black and white, it is shades of gray, only alcoholics and other brain damaged people see the world in such a binary way.
Privacy for terrorists? Is this an attempt at a subtle troll? Does subtle troll/astroturf pay the same as the more blatant ones? Out of curiosity, who is your sponsor?
Yeah, National Instruments also produces its CDs in Ireland even though its headquarters are in Austin, TX, USA. I always wondered why they did that, now I know.
Yeah, I marked you off as TL;DR just on form alone and assumed you're an idiot due to your weird paragraph structure.
As a member state of the EU, they are not sovereign in this respect, thus the ruling.
I think the support team voted down that idea as not realistic enough. Support team's job being to monitor wave and bikini activities at all the beaches to ensure the safety and isolation of the crew.
Yeah, unfortunately, most opt for the former rather than the latter choice.
Everyone above (and including) VP should be executed. But HR should be raped with codfish wrapped in barbed wire first.
Then beaten and buried. Then executed.
FTFY
Wrong, his fears were confirmed by the plane crashing thus not ironic, not from his point of view anyhow.