To clarify it even more the actual term is "Taxable Income" over 250,000 a year. Taxable income and Gross income are two entirely different animals and taxable income is always lower than the gross income. If you can get your taxable income below the thresh hold then your taxable income is zero. On top of all of that is the fact that after two years the state legislature can change the voter approved initiatives to suit their fancy. They have done it before and they will do it again.
"The revolution is successful. But survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives mean slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore, I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered, signed Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV."
I don't share your interpretation. In the movie, Kirk, Scott, Sulu, Chekov and McCoy go to find Spock body in order to perform a Vulcan ritual to free Spock's katra which he "uploaded" into McCoy's mind.
Actually would that not be considered a Core Memory Dump? Or in this case a vital synaptic backup?
Battery is defined as an unprivileged offensive touching. Since the passenger is not the one doing the touching he/she could not be charged with battery. Flatulence even if intentional would simply an offensive bodily function at an inopportune moment for the TSA worker. What made that case was that the guy was already under arrest and drunk his flatulence was obviously intentional and not doubt he though it was funny.
No, don't worry, the little girls will be OK in the end. Their lawyer will in turn sue the bicycle manufacturer because there wasn't a sticker on it saying 'WARNING: DO NOT RUN OVER OLD PEOPLE'.
Won't work on that angle because unless the parents got hooked on phonics those 4 year olds likely didn't know how to read so the warning sticker would have been ignored, but not for the reason adults ignore waring signs. You know like: Push, Pull, STOP, Yield, etc. I was five when I started Kindergarden and I certainly didn't know how to read until later on in the school year. And at 4 years old they aren't going to know any better.
That judge if he isn't taken out and shot for being so stupid he should at least be publicly flogged. How can any "Reasonabley Intelligent" person with his "Education" even consider a 4 year old even capable of understanding the ramifications of their actions? If they weren't old enough to be charged with a hit and run felony they aren't old enough to be sued for wrongful death. Their parents on the other hand, that's a horse of a different color. Why weren't they being supervised by a "Responsible Adult?"
As the subject line suggests I think they are banking on ignorance. Of all the millions upon millions of internet users how many of them actually know what a domain is? Beyond that how many of them actually think about what they are doing on the internet? They get an intereting looking email and the click the link and poof they are infected. for all the ease and conveinence that GUI's have been there is a con to the pros. GUI's hav enabled the unthinking to access almost any part of the world an open them selves to a plethora of scams.
Tell that to the government and just try and put that into action. Before long you will disappear and your friends will only talk about you in private and in hushed tones. When ask about you in public they will say, "Who? I'm sorry I've never heard of that person."
If you travel back in time to the exact same spot, just in a different time, then (unless you're REALLY precise on the exact time of day and year), you'll most likely end up floating in space. People who make time travel movies don't seem to realize that the earth moves around its axis and around the sun. The spot I'm standing on right now will be vaccum in just a few minutes.
If Marty had went back to a different time of year without a space suit, Biff would have been the least of his worries.
You are forgetting the relative effect gravity has on time and space. The Delorean and the time vortex or whatever you want to call the passage way from one time to the next are all slaves to gravity. Since time and space are relative to each other the Delorean's computer should take all of that into effect when caluating the passage through space/time. I really don't see why the movie makers need to bore the end user of their porduct with such technobable. Or with other nearly impossible details like, Lybian Terrorist being able to get their hands on weapons grade Plutonium, or Prefessor Nutcase being able to build Nuclear Reactor small enough to fit into a Delorean and not blow up like Chernobyl because he used weapons grade plutonium. I could be wrong but I really don't think it would be that easy to smuggle that much weapons grade plutonium into the States, or build a nuclear reactor without drawing unwanted attention from the government. I would say that time paradoxes would be the least of their worries in reality. But like I said, why bore the end user with such details?
If they get their patent would that not may our "real" currency virtually worthless? Oh wait it already is but then that would also mean they couldn't print any more money could it? Sorry bad pun.
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I'd sue the fire department and the city into chapter 11. What they did was so f'd up on so many levels. in the orignial story one of the guy's kids was arressted a few days later because he tried to kick the fire chief's ass over the incident. can't say that I blame the guy.
I'm not trying to advance any agenda. I'm just trying to get people to ask themselves these questions, because these are key to forming a scientifically based definition of human life, and by extension, one's opinion of stem cell research and abortion, without the murkiness of emotion.
Humans are emotional creatures and until you can break through that emotional barrier that the human species puts up; getting them to think rationally is like trying to pull hens teeth..
"A person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
I have always been of the mind that the difference between a human life and an embryo/fetus can be boiled down into one word, sentience. At what point then does an unborn fetus become sentient?
Everyone please look here for a moment------->(***), you've just been flashy thinged. That was not a UFO you saw. Swamp gas from a weather balloon refracted the light from Venus. Thank you. I now return you to your regularly scheduled/. story already in progress. Have a nice day.
Shit what the fuck do those pussy whipped cunt lickers know about piss, let alone linguistics? I bet some motherfucker became a cocksucker because his ma ma wouldn't let him suckle on her tits as a baby. (insert sarcasm here along with a very bad impression of Geroge Carlin)
According to Wikipedia, he earns a salary of $1,276,627. 9% is $114,896. Every year.
That's before cashing in any stock/options. Or interest income, or dividends.
So, yeah, it's cheaper for him to try to defeat the tax, even if he gives 5-10x more.
You would be correct if the 9% was a flat percentage. But taxes are not flat and not all of a person's income is subject to taxation. But assuming that his income is all taxable he still gets a break because only the amounts over the threshhold are taxable.
Heres the break down: For the amout over 200k but not over 500k for individuals, for the amount over 400k but not over 1 million for joint returns at 5%. That means that the first 200k is ignored for single and the first 400k is ignored for joint returns. So a single person with that kind of income he is taxed on 300k at 5% that's 15k and on joint returns they would be taxed on 600k at 5% and that's 30k.
For a single person the amount over 500k with that level of income is 776,627 for joint return it amounts to 276,627. Those are the amounts taxed at 9% which total 24,896.43 and 69896.43 respectively. now add the totals from the previous threshholds and you get 39,896.43 and 99,896.43 respectively. If taxes were flat then the equvilent rates would be about 3.12% and 7.82%. Either way you slice it it's a drop in the bucket.
The top American marginal income rates from 1944 to 1963 were 92%. Yes, 92% of income made over the top amount, went to taxation. In 1944, if you made over $200,000, 92% went to the government.
Wrong. An individual's income is taxed only on a portion of their income called "taxable income" which is significantly lower than an individual's gross income. And even in 1944 if a person's taxable income was $200,000, 92% did not go to the government. Only a small margin of that $200,000 got taxed at 92%.
Here's how it works: let's assume four brackets at 20, 35, 65, and 92 percent respectively and let's asume the cut offs are 50k, 90k, 130k respectively. The first 50k is taxed at 20%, the next 40k is taxed at 35%, the next 40k at 65% and the remaining 70 at 92% The totals $10,000, $14,000, $26,000, $64,400 for a grand total of $114,400 which goes to government, that's equal to exactly 57.2% of the $200,000 in taxable income.
This is how it truly works and the rich know this and informed poor people like me. The basic stratgy is to reduce the taxable income to zero and therefore make one's tax liability zero. The wealthy are wealthy because they know how to make money and they know how to use the tax laws to their advantage. There is no moral or legal obligation to have one's financial affairs in such a manner as to best pay the treasury. No one is obliged to pay any more than the law demands. (Learned Hand, paraphrased)
The objection to 1098 is that the State can't be trusted and after reading the whole of 1098 I am inclinded to agree for two reasons. A previously voter approved intiative required a super majority in order for the legislature could increase taxes. My wonderful state of washington's legislature got around that by legislating a "temporary measure" so that only a simple majority is required to increase taxes. The governor signed it an then they spent millions of dollars in tax payer money in special session to "balance the budget" which of course called for tax increases. The other reason is that there is no provision in the proposed law to prevent the legislature from lowering the tax ceiling only a simple majority vote.
Further more the witholding requirements for employeers do not specifically prevent witholding for incomes below the tax threshholds. So there is nothing to prevent withholdings from lower wage earners. The filing requirements are vague at best so if a lower wage earner is not required to file but if their employer withheld from their wages the only way to get that money back is to file a tax return from the state. There are holes in 1098 that make it swiss cheese which leaves a lot of wiggle room for the state to stick it to the people. And don't thnk for a moment that they won't do it, simply put the state can't be trusted and that is a fact.
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More importantly what happend to diplomatic immunity?
To clarify it even more the actual term is "Taxable Income" over 250,000 a year. Taxable income and Gross income are two entirely different animals and taxable income is always lower than the gross income. If you can get your taxable income below the thresh hold then your taxable income is zero. On top of all of that is the fact that after two years the state legislature can change the voter approved initiatives to suit their fancy. They have done it before and they will do it again.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
"The revolution is successful. But survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives mean slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore, I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered, signed Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV."
I don't share your interpretation. In the movie, Kirk, Scott, Sulu, Chekov and McCoy go to find Spock body in order to perform a Vulcan ritual to free Spock's katra which he "uploaded" into McCoy's mind .
Actually would that not be considered a Core Memory Dump? Or in this case a vital synaptic backup?
And then you'll be charged with battery.
Battery is defined as an unprivileged offensive touching. Since the passenger is not the one doing the touching he/she could not be charged with battery. Flatulence even if intentional would simply an offensive bodily function at an inopportune moment for the TSA worker. What made that case was that the guy was already under arrest and drunk his flatulence was obviously intentional and not doubt he though it was funny.
No, don't worry, the little girls will be OK in the end. Their lawyer will in turn sue the bicycle manufacturer because there wasn't a sticker on it saying 'WARNING: DO NOT RUN OVER OLD PEOPLE'.
Won't work on that angle because unless the parents got hooked on phonics those 4 year olds likely didn't know how to read so the warning sticker would have been ignored, but not for the reason adults ignore waring signs. You know like: Push, Pull, STOP, Yield, etc. I was five when I started Kindergarden and I certainly didn't know how to read until later on in the school year. And at 4 years old they aren't going to know any better.
That judge if he isn't taken out and shot for being so stupid he should at least be publicly flogged. How can any "Reasonabley Intelligent" person with his "Education" even consider a 4 year old even capable of understanding the ramifications of their actions? If they weren't old enough to be charged with a hit and run felony they aren't old enough to be sued for wrongful death. Their parents on the other hand, that's a horse of a different color. Why weren't they being supervised by a "Responsible Adult?"
But the cone of silence is out dated they should have used "hover cover."
As the subject line suggests I think they are banking on ignorance. Of all the millions upon millions of internet users how many of them actually know what a domain is? Beyond that how many of them actually think about what they are doing on the internet? They get an intereting looking email and the click the link and poof they are infected. for all the ease and conveinence that GUI's have been there is a con to the pros. GUI's hav enabled the unthinking to access almost any part of the world an open them selves to a plethora of scams.
Tell that to the government and just try and put that into action. Before long you will disappear and your friends will only talk about you in private and in hushed tones. When ask about you in public they will say, "Who? I'm sorry I've never heard of that person."
Well now ask your self who stands to gain the most from all this chaos?
If you travel back in time to the exact same spot, just in a different time, then (unless you're REALLY precise on the exact time of day and year), you'll most likely end up floating in space. People who make time travel movies don't seem to realize that the earth moves around its axis and around the sun. The spot I'm standing on right now will be vaccum in just a few minutes.
If Marty had went back to a different time of year without a space suit, Biff would have been the least of his worries.
You are forgetting the relative effect gravity has on time and space. The Delorean and the time vortex or whatever you want to call the passage way from one time to the next are all slaves to gravity. Since time and space are relative to each other the Delorean's computer should take all of that into effect when caluating the passage through space/time. I really don't see why the movie makers need to bore the end user of their porduct with such technobable. Or with other nearly impossible details like, Lybian Terrorist being able to get their hands on weapons grade Plutonium, or Prefessor Nutcase being able to build Nuclear Reactor small enough to fit into a Delorean and not blow up like Chernobyl because he used weapons grade plutonium. I could be wrong but I really don't think it would be that easy to smuggle that much weapons grade plutonium into the States, or build a nuclear reactor without drawing unwanted attention from the government. I would say that time paradoxes would be the least of their worries in reality. But like I said, why bore the end user with such details?
If they get their patent would that not may our "real" currency virtually worthless? Oh wait it already is but then that would also mean they couldn't print any more money could it? Sorry bad pun.
No Joshua I want to play Global Thermonuclear War. Wait, is this real or just a game?
Step Five: Ignore all moronic claims of ownership. Step Six: Optain emails of said morons ans sign up for every pornographic and garbage sites you can find and fill their inbox with useless junk and phishing eamil scams. Stepr Seven: Net Loss
Dude it was Abraham not Moses dude. You totally got your biblical name wrong man.
I'd sue the fire department and the city into chapter 11. What they did was so f'd up on so many levels. in the orignial story one of the guy's kids was arressted a few days later because he tried to kick the fire chief's ass over the incident. can't say that I blame the guy.
So sue me.
I'm not trying to advance any agenda. I'm just trying to get people to ask themselves these questions, because these are key to forming a scientifically based definition of human life, and by extension, one's opinion of stem cell research and abortion, without the murkiness of emotion.
Humans are emotional creatures and until you can break through that emotional barrier that the human species puts up; getting them to think rationally is like trying to pull hens teeth..
"A person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
I have always been of the mind that the difference between a human life and an embryo/fetus can be boiled down into one word, sentience. At what point then does an unborn fetus become sentient?
It's times like these I wonder what R. Lee Ermy would say about this?
Absolutely correct!
Wait a minute! Wait aminute, I thought you guys said that crossing the streams was a bad idea?
Everyone please look here for a moment------->(***), you've just been flashy thinged. That was not a UFO you saw. Swamp gas from a weather balloon refracted the light from Venus. Thank you. I now return you to your regularly scheduled /. story already in progress. Have a nice day.
Shit what the fuck do those pussy whipped cunt lickers know about piss, let alone linguistics? I bet some motherfucker became a cocksucker because his ma ma wouldn't let him suckle on her tits as a baby. (insert sarcasm here along with a very bad impression of Geroge Carlin)
According to Wikipedia, he earns a salary of $1,276,627. 9% is $114,896. Every year.
That's before cashing in any stock/options. Or interest income, or dividends.
So, yeah, it's cheaper for him to try to defeat the tax, even if he gives 5-10x more.
You would be correct if the 9% was a flat percentage. But taxes are not flat and not all of a person's income is subject to taxation. But assuming that his income is all taxable he still gets a break because only the amounts over the threshhold are taxable.
Heres the break down: For the amout over 200k but not over 500k for individuals, for the amount over 400k but not over 1 million for joint returns at 5%. That means that the first 200k is ignored for single and the first 400k is ignored for joint returns. So a single person with that kind of income he is taxed on 300k at 5% that's 15k and on joint returns they would be taxed on 600k at 5% and that's 30k.
For a single person the amount over 500k with that level of income is 776,627 for joint return it amounts to 276,627. Those are the amounts taxed at 9% which total 24,896.43 and 69896.43 respectively. now add the totals from the previous threshholds and you get 39,896.43 and 99,896.43 respectively. If taxes were flat then the equvilent rates would be about 3.12% and 7.82%. Either way you slice it it's a drop in the bucket.
The top American marginal income rates from 1944 to 1963 were 92%. Yes, 92% of income made over the top amount, went to taxation. In 1944, if you made over $200,000, 92% went to the government.
Wrong. An individual's income is taxed only on a portion of their income called "taxable income" which is significantly lower than an individual's gross income. And even in 1944 if a person's taxable income was $200,000, 92% did not go to the government. Only a small margin of that $200,000 got taxed at 92%.
Here's how it works: let's assume four brackets at 20, 35, 65, and 92 percent respectively and let's asume the cut offs are 50k, 90k, 130k respectively. The first 50k is taxed at 20%, the next 40k is taxed at 35%, the next 40k at 65% and the remaining 70 at 92% The totals $10,000, $14,000, $26,000, $64,400 for a grand total of $114,400 which goes to government, that's equal to exactly 57.2% of the $200,000 in taxable income.
This is how it truly works and the rich know this and informed poor people like me. The basic stratgy is to reduce the taxable income to zero and therefore make one's tax liability zero. The wealthy are wealthy because they know how to make money and they know how to use the tax laws to their advantage. There is no moral or legal obligation to have one's financial affairs in such a manner as to best pay the treasury. No one is obliged to pay any more than the law demands. (Learned Hand, paraphrased)
The objection to 1098 is that the State can't be trusted and after reading the whole of 1098 I am inclinded to agree for two reasons. A previously voter approved intiative required a super majority in order for the legislature could increase taxes. My wonderful state of washington's legislature got around that by legislating a "temporary measure" so that only a simple majority is required to increase taxes. The governor signed it an then they spent millions of dollars in tax payer money in special session to "balance the budget" which of course called for tax increases. The other reason is that there is no provision in the proposed law to prevent the legislature from lowering the tax ceiling only a simple majority vote.
Further more the witholding requirements for employeers do not specifically prevent witholding for incomes below the tax threshholds. So there is nothing to prevent withholdings from lower wage earners. The filing requirements are vague at best so if a lower wage earner is not required to file but if their employer withheld from their wages the only way to get that money back is to file a tax return from the state. There are holes in 1098 that make it swiss cheese which leaves a lot of wiggle room for the state to stick it to the people. And don't thnk for a moment that they won't do it, simply put the state can't be trusted and that is a fact.