I have a much better idea. A community-wide effort to make a free/open source phone. So it won't have multitouch, it'll have crazytouch. Then you can install whatever you want on it.
How to keep rats from eating your cables? Oh, I don't know, maybe you should consider cleaning your house once a decade or so? All those bent mostly-empty cans of beer, half-empty bags of Cheetos, some stale popcorn here and there on the floor, the sticky residue of the coke that someone spilled a while back, the trash that hasn't been taken out since about March, the turds your dog left in all kinds of places that haven't been cleaned up, and all the other things that need your attention... well, I think they MIGHT have something to do with the rats that are eating your cables.
Or just get wifi and be done with cables altogether.
"Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me--the free man and woman of this country--as 'the masses.'" --Ronald Reagan, in his speech on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater, October 27, 1964.
The free users of free software shouldn't be called "the masses" either.
This is ridiculous and stupid. Typical of government bureaucracy. Next thing you know all cameras will be required to make a buzzing noise for ten seconds before snapping each photo, followed by the announcement, "The moving carousel is about to start. Parents supervise your children. Do not sit, stand, or place fingers on the moving carousel."
I would write a book where hackers are part of a punk group with purple hair, weird piercings, crazy loud music and baggy pants falling halfway down with their boxers hanging out. Where they use AOL to hack into secret government computers by manipulating 3D images and going through a walkthru that looks like a level from Quake III. Then they would do a covert operation in the middle of the night, sneaking through a sewer into a building with laser alarm systems by doing crazy acrobatics, to access a console, which they use a password cracker (a device that looks like a joystick with a numeric readout) to crack the code within one second, and then by dragging an icon labeled "Raven Account, $1B" into a folder with their group's name on it, they jack a billion dollars from some evil warlord or something. Because we all know that hacking into secret computers involves solving 3D puzzles and going through a Quake level to shoot the cyber guards, web crawlers, and gate keepers.
Eight billion United States Dollars? That's a lot of money. Let's demonstrate just how much money it is. If you received $8,000,000,000.00 on the day that Jesus Christ was born, and you spent $10,000.00 every single day until now, you'd still have plenty of money left. Especially if you had all this money in an interest bearing government-guaranteed account. Unfortunately, whichever government guaranteed it when you began no longer exists by now. To sum up, it's a lot of money.
You got that right. In Apple, Preview is a wonderful program, instant startup, with lots of nifty features that you'll use all the time, but unfortunately its search feature is teh suxx0rz. If you want to search for a phrase, it finds all instances of each word of your search individually. AFAIK there is no way to force it to search for whole words only, entire phrase, match case, etc. For this reason, it is necessary to get the Adobe program.
I hope it prevents cell phones from breaking when dropped. Think of the effect that will have on landfills! Currently if you drop your cell phone, chances are some connection comes loose. Then the phone shuts down or malfunctions intermittently. What we need are electronic connections that don't break when a shock is received.
This all sounds fine and dandy but does it mean that those laid off would have to leave the country? Because it's not quite as simple as it sounds. Think about it. You lose your job to layoffs and to add insult to injury you are KICKED OUT of the country. Bureaucrats.
I can see it now. Journalists unfamiliar with this will write articles discussing Firefox, and among the other "facts" they'll get wrong, they'll note that Firefox sends all your browsing information to its maker. There will be an entire campaign of FUD around this. Maybe they should have released the same exact code under a separate name like Volunteerfox. Volunteerfox will send info about your browsing habits but Firefox will not. Then all the FUD in the world about Volunteerfox won't hurt Firefox.
1. Federal agencies are not supposed to track you with long term cookies. 2. YouTube is exempt.
It doesn't make sense. Like you, I would like to know what the hell this means. I know for certain that YouTube is not a federal agency, otherwise it wouldn't be called YouTube. It would be called The Federal Content Service, Audio Visual Department, Internet Bureau, Office of Internet Accessible Audio Visual Content.
Then they'll get sued for not including Browser X in their GUI wrapper, when Browser X is some browser nobody has ever heard of that only five people use, but they swear that it is the ONE TRUE browser.
The local spacetime of the Earth is carried with it as it moves through the universe. Einstein showed and later proved that a clock on Earth and an identical clock on a planet somewhere else will, inside their local time frames, tick at exactly the same speed, but compared to each other, one may appear to be nearly at a standstill while the other might be turning so fast you can't see the hands. The difference in the "rate" of time when compared is due to the different velocities at which these local frames of reference are moving through the other three dimensions.
Likewise as you travel through this local time frame, that is, move through the fourth dimension, the mass you're on in the other three dimensions will carry you with it, so that you will not appear to move geographically during your journey through time.
Just as an airplane travels at 300 miles per hour through the air. It's moving horizontally. If you stand in the aisle and jump vertically, you will land in the same spot in the aisle from which you jumped. Because although you are moving along a different dimension, the other two continue to "carry" you with them.
I have a great idea. Make it LAW throughout the EU that ALL computers, regardless of OS, must ship WITHOUT a browser, with an instruction sheet in bold letters that you find as soon as you open the box, like the warranty one that says, "Stop, do not return this to the point of sale if you have a problem," that reads, "Pursuant to EU law, this computer ships with no Internet browser. We recommend downloading the browser of your choice. Doing this when you don't already have a browser with which to do it is clearly obvious and left as an exercise for the reader. At [insert computer builder name here], your satisfaction is important to us."
Someone should write a JavaScript interpreter in Python and then port Bochs to JavaScript so we can emulate a virtual machine's instruction set in an interpreted environment running inside an interpreted environment. Then install Linux with GNOME on a 386, run Windows 3.1 in this environment, and note how much faster it is than you-know-what, when you-know-what is running on the biggest, baddest, the shit, fastest box there is around.
Why don't we figure out how inhabit to Venus and Mars first, and then look for things farther away? At 3000 light years, it's a bit too far to think of starting a settlement there.
I see many minor flaws throughout various parts your argument, but I would like to address one major flaw that pervades the whole thing:
What is wealth? Is it the amount of money in someone's bank account? Is it the total value of all the physical possessions that someone owns? How do you determine how much tax someone pays based on wealth? Do you say, "Hello Mr. Rich Homeowner, your house is worth $350,000 and all the possessions inside it are worth another $75,000, the WealthTax for your wealth bracket is 20%, please pay $85,000." Does it matter that this super rich evil dude has only $417.52 in his bank account, has a credit card bill to pay in two days, a wife and two children to feed, and is basically living from paycheck to paycheck?
Or are you referring to really, super, filthy rich people? Ok, let's change that example. "Hello Mr. Rich Businessman, your mansion is worth $40,000,000, your possessions are worth $30,750,000, your WealthTax bracket is 45%, please pay $31,837,500." Ok that sounds great. Except that Mr. Rich doesn't actually have this money on hand. It has been invested, as you said, all over the place, in order to make him even richer. In stocks, in bonds, as VC funding for a few upstarts. It's being used in a construction project to build a new apartment complex that Mr. Rich plans to rent out to middle class families. Part of it is funding research and development for some new technology that Mr. Rich hopes to make a killing on once it becomes the next killer app. Mr. Rich only keeps $15,000 liquid in his bank account, in order to pay his daily expenses and to have some extra money on hand "just in case."
So what a rich bastard, you might say. How dare he accumulate so much wealth and use it to accumulate even more? What an asshole. What Mr. Rich should do, if we're to follow your logic, is keep all of his money in his bank account, so that when the tax man comes once a year to collect the WealthTax, Mr. Rich will be able to make that $31,837,500 payment that he, according to you, owes for being the rich asshole that he is.
Ok. Let's follow this logic a little bit. Because Mr. Rich, due to the tax laws, must keep this money liquid at all times, it does not get invested in stocks and bonds or as VC funding for some upstarts. So those businesses do not get the benefit of this infusion of cash, and as a result never get off the ground and never hire the employees that they would have hired. The money won't get used in the construction project, so the construction crew is out of a job. The apartment complex that would have become home to some middle class families will never exist. And the research and development will not happen, meaning more jobs that would have existed, don't.
Two points.
Point 1: Wealth is not merely exchanged when a transaction takes place. Instead, wealth is created. If I pay $50 for a pair of shoes, it is because I need the shoes more than I needed the $50. If I worked for my employer to earn those $50, it is because I needed the $50 more than I needed several hours of spare time sitting on my ass watching television. And if my employer paid me the $50 for those hours of work, it is because they needed the results of my work more than they needed the $50. In other words, the exchange takes place because each party gets something worth more to them than what they gave. This is creation of wealth.
Point 2: It is in every person's best interest to advance themselves to a better position than the one they're currently in. This means to act in one's self interest. It is not in your self interest to live in the gutter, so you have a respectable job, you earn a living, and you get yourself an apartment, food, electricity, clothing, a car, gasoline to power it, etc. The business that provides you with your job is also acting in its self interest, paying you because having you working there advances its goals. Through each transaction, both parties involved end up better off than before. In this manner, the entire economy
Can somebody please explain to me why this issue is specific to Ubuntu and not Linux in general? Is it Ubuntu's default power settings that differ from other distros, or does Ubuntu use drivers or daemons that other distros don't use?
More seriously, Fair Tax is a fucking moronic idea in general.
I am not sure if this is the beginning of a troll or a legitimate critique of FairTax, so let's give you the benefit of a doubt and go over this one by one:
Almost everyone would end up paying more taxes under it, except for the rich, who would end up paying less. There is simply no way to avoid that very simple fact.
I really wish you'd try to back this up with something instead of just stating it as if it's as well accepted a fact as gravity. One idea of FairTax is that instead of 175 million taxpayers, everyone who purchases any product or service pays into the system. This means children who don't work yet, old people who don't work anymore, undocumented people who work under the table, people with criminal sources of income, tourists and exchange students in the country, every single person who buys anything. The tax base is made significantly wider, and the FairTax is revenue neutral, so each current taxpayer will on average pay less in taxes.
In fact, poor people spend more of their income.
The prebate. Meaning everyone get at the beginning of each month the amount they will pay in taxes throughout that month, up to poverty line spending. Poor people pay nothing in taxes. In fact, this will help their cash flow a bit.
And there are aspects of it that would be horribly bad ideas right now, like the aforementioned encouragement of lack of spending,
This is flawed in many ways. First, it's true that people may, at first, spend less to avoid getting taxed. The money they don't spend immediately will sit in their bank account, accumulating. Their paychecks will be bigger because there won't be withholding. Within a short time, less than a handful of paychecks, that extra money they'll conveniently have will start itching in their pockets and they'll spend it. Further, you may not be aware of this but in addition to what's withheld from your paycheck, your employer must match your social security contributions. They will no longer have to do this, leaving more money available in corporations to (a) reduce their prices or (b) hire more employees and expand. Either way people benefit either from the lower prices (offsetting the FairTax) or from unemployment numbers going down. In short, I wouldn't worry about people suddenly halting their spending. On the contrary, while there may be an initial dip in spending, it will end quickly.
and the fact it would raise house purchase prices by 30%.
Correct. However, as with all products and services, the FairTax will apply only to new home sales. Also FairTax will reduce the cost of building homes because there will be no hidden corporate income taxes in the price of raw materials, and there will be no such hidden tax in the price of the home itself. All of this will offset the 30% somewhat. It may make it more like 25%, it may make it more like 5%, I have no idea. So yes, you are correct, however, it only applies to new homes and it probably won't be as much as 30%.
Oh, and screw up social security.
I believe you missed the memo. Social security is already screwed up. It is in fact so screwed up that within not too many years from now we will see its collapse. The FairTax says there won't be a separate bank account for Social Security, rather it will come out of the general fund. I do not agree with this as a permanent solution and I agree with you that FairTax does not solve Social Security. But I disagree that it makes Social Security any worse off because the damn thing is already screwed up and we've known since former President Clinton announced in the 1990's that it is definitely going to fail, soon.
Sales taxes are incredibly stupid ideas to start with, and have always been stupid ideas.
The tax system needs to be drastically simplified or mostly done away with.
Perhaps you weren't paying attention to the original poster? He said, go to www.fairtax.org and start reading. I would say that replacing some five-digit number of pages of tax rules and regulations with a 150 page bill fulfills your call for "drastically simplified.":)
You are correct. A tax is an expense. All expenses, whether the cost of having employees, the cost of rent, the cost of taxes, the cost of new computers for the office, all of these, get factored into the price of each unit of product the business sells. When you buy a loaf of bread, you are not paying sales tax because that is an exempted item, but you ARE paying the income tax of the company that produced that loaf of bread. Whenever someone says something silly like, "Corporations have tons of money, just tax more out of the corporations," what they're really saying is, "Please increase the price of bread, milk, soda, booze, and everything else by making the corporations collect more from me in taxes!"
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I have a much better idea. A community-wide effort to make a free/open source phone. So it won't have multitouch, it'll have crazytouch. Then you can install whatever you want on it.
How to keep rats from eating your cables? Oh, I don't know, maybe you should consider cleaning your house once a decade or so? All those bent mostly-empty cans of beer, half-empty bags of Cheetos, some stale popcorn here and there on the floor, the sticky residue of the coke that someone spilled a while back, the trash that hasn't been taken out since about March, the turds your dog left in all kinds of places that haven't been cleaned up, and all the other things that need your attention... well, I think they MIGHT have something to do with the rats that are eating your cables.
Or just get wifi and be done with cables altogether.
Linux customization for the masses?
"Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me--the free man and woman of this country--as 'the masses.'"
--Ronald Reagan, in his speech on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater, October 27, 1964.
The free users of free software shouldn't be called "the masses" either.
This is ridiculous and stupid. Typical of government bureaucracy. Next thing you know all cameras will be required to make a buzzing noise for ten seconds before snapping each photo, followed by the announcement, "The moving carousel is about to start. Parents supervise your children. Do not sit, stand, or place fingers on the moving carousel."
I would write a book where hackers are part of a punk group with purple hair, weird piercings, crazy loud music and baggy pants falling halfway down with their boxers hanging out. Where they use AOL to hack into secret government computers by manipulating 3D images and going through a walkthru that looks like a level from Quake III. Then they would do a covert operation in the middle of the night, sneaking through a sewer into a building with laser alarm systems by doing crazy acrobatics, to access a console, which they use a password cracker (a device that looks like a joystick with a numeric readout) to crack the code within one second, and then by dragging an icon labeled "Raven Account, $1B" into a folder with their group's name on it, they jack a billion dollars from some evil warlord or something. Because we all know that hacking into secret computers involves solving 3D puzzles and going through a Quake level to shoot the cyber guards, web crawlers, and gate keepers.
Eight billion United States Dollars? That's a lot of money. Let's demonstrate just how much money it is. If you received $8,000,000,000.00 on the day that Jesus Christ was born, and you spent $10,000.00 every single day until now, you'd still have plenty of money left. Especially if you had all this money in an interest bearing government-guaranteed account. Unfortunately, whichever government guaranteed it when you began no longer exists by now. To sum up, it's a lot of money.
Apple doesn't quite come close to it yet.
You got that right. In Apple, Preview is a wonderful program, instant startup, with lots of nifty features that you'll use all the time, but unfortunately its search feature is teh suxx0rz. If you want to search for a phrase, it finds all instances of each word of your search individually. AFAIK there is no way to force it to search for whole words only, entire phrase, match case, etc. For this reason, it is necessary to get the Adobe program.
I hope it prevents cell phones from breaking when dropped. Think of the effect that will have on landfills! Currently if you drop your cell phone, chances are some connection comes loose. Then the phone shuts down or malfunctions intermittently. What we need are electronic connections that don't break when a shock is received.
This all sounds fine and dandy but does it mean that those laid off would have to leave the country? Because it's not quite as simple as it sounds. Think about it. You lose your job to layoffs and to add insult to injury you are KICKED OUT of the country. Bureaucrats.
I can see it now. Journalists unfamiliar with this will write articles discussing Firefox, and among the other "facts" they'll get wrong, they'll note that Firefox sends all your browsing information to its maker. There will be an entire campaign of FUD around this. Maybe they should have released the same exact code under a separate name like Volunteerfox. Volunteerfox will send info about your browsing habits but Firefox will not. Then all the FUD in the world about Volunteerfox won't hurt Firefox.
This story is written very confusingly.
1. Federal agencies are not supposed to track you with long term cookies.
2. YouTube is exempt.
It doesn't make sense. Like you, I would like to know what the hell this means. I know for certain that YouTube is not a federal agency, otherwise it wouldn't be called YouTube. It would be called The Federal Content Service, Audio Visual Department, Internet Bureau, Office of Internet Accessible Audio Visual Content.
Then they'll get sued for not including Browser X in their GUI wrapper, when Browser X is some browser nobody has ever heard of that only five people use, but they swear that it is the ONE TRUE browser.
Ujuuggghhhh, I'm suffocating!
Likewise as you travel through this local time frame, that is, move through the fourth dimension, the mass you're on in the other three dimensions will carry you with it, so that you will not appear to move geographically during your journey through time.
Just as an airplane travels at 300 miles per hour through the air. It's moving horizontally. If you stand in the aisle and jump vertically, you will land in the same spot in the aisle from which you jumped. Because although you are moving along a different dimension, the other two continue to "carry" you with them.
I have a great idea. Make it LAW throughout the EU that ALL computers, regardless of OS, must ship WITHOUT a browser, with an instruction sheet in bold letters that you find as soon as you open the box, like the warranty one that says, "Stop, do not return this to the point of sale if you have a problem," that reads, "Pursuant to EU law, this computer ships with no Internet browser. We recommend downloading the browser of your choice. Doing this when you don't already have a browser with which to do it is clearly obvious and left as an exercise for the reader. At [insert computer builder name here], your satisfaction is important to us."
Someone should write a JavaScript interpreter in Python and then port Bochs to JavaScript so we can emulate a virtual machine's instruction set in an interpreted environment running inside an interpreted environment. Then install Linux with GNOME on a 386, run Windows 3.1 in this environment, and note how much faster it is than you-know-what, when you-know-what is running on the biggest, baddest, the shit, fastest box there is around.
It's like that movie where the thing came out of his stomach and killed all the people on the fuckin' spaceship, God rest their souls.
Why don't we figure out how inhabit to Venus and Mars first, and then look for things farther away? At 3000 light years, it's a bit too far to think of starting a settlement there.
Why the hell is my left arm hurting?
Agreed.
I see many minor flaws throughout various parts your argument, but I would like to address one major flaw that pervades the whole thing:
What is wealth? Is it the amount of money in someone's bank account? Is it the total value of all the physical possessions that someone owns? How do you determine how much tax someone pays based on wealth? Do you say, "Hello Mr. Rich Homeowner, your house is worth $350,000 and all the possessions inside it are worth another $75,000, the WealthTax for your wealth bracket is 20%, please pay $85,000." Does it matter that this super rich evil dude has only $417.52 in his bank account, has a credit card bill to pay in two days, a wife and two children to feed, and is basically living from paycheck to paycheck?
Or are you referring to really, super, filthy rich people? Ok, let's change that example. "Hello Mr. Rich Businessman, your mansion is worth $40,000,000, your possessions are worth $30,750,000, your WealthTax bracket is 45%, please pay $31,837,500." Ok that sounds great. Except that Mr. Rich doesn't actually have this money on hand. It has been invested, as you said, all over the place, in order to make him even richer. In stocks, in bonds, as VC funding for a few upstarts. It's being used in a construction project to build a new apartment complex that Mr. Rich plans to rent out to middle class families. Part of it is funding research and development for some new technology that Mr. Rich hopes to make a killing on once it becomes the next killer app. Mr. Rich only keeps $15,000 liquid in his bank account, in order to pay his daily expenses and to have some extra money on hand "just in case."
So what a rich bastard, you might say. How dare he accumulate so much wealth and use it to accumulate even more? What an asshole. What Mr. Rich should do, if we're to follow your logic, is keep all of his money in his bank account, so that when the tax man comes once a year to collect the WealthTax, Mr. Rich will be able to make that $31,837,500 payment that he, according to you, owes for being the rich asshole that he is.
Ok. Let's follow this logic a little bit. Because Mr. Rich, due to the tax laws, must keep this money liquid at all times, it does not get invested in stocks and bonds or as VC funding for some upstarts. So those businesses do not get the benefit of this infusion of cash, and as a result never get off the ground and never hire the employees that they would have hired. The money won't get used in the construction project, so the construction crew is out of a job. The apartment complex that would have become home to some middle class families will never exist. And the research and development will not happen, meaning more jobs that would have existed, don't.
Two points.
Point 1: Wealth is not merely exchanged when a transaction takes place. Instead, wealth is created. If I pay $50 for a pair of shoes, it is because I need the shoes more than I needed the $50. If I worked for my employer to earn those $50, it is because I needed the $50 more than I needed several hours of spare time sitting on my ass watching television. And if my employer paid me the $50 for those hours of work, it is because they needed the results of my work more than they needed the $50. In other words, the exchange takes place because each party gets something worth more to them than what they gave. This is creation of wealth.
Point 2: It is in every person's best interest to advance themselves to a better position than the one they're currently in. This means to act in one's self interest. It is not in your self interest to live in the gutter, so you have a respectable job, you earn a living, and you get yourself an apartment, food, electricity, clothing, a car, gasoline to power it, etc. The business that provides you with your job is also acting in its self interest, paying you because having you working there advances its goals. Through each transaction, both parties involved end up better off than before. In this manner, the entire economy
Can somebody please explain to me why this issue is specific to Ubuntu and not Linux in general? Is it Ubuntu's default power settings that differ from other distros, or does Ubuntu use drivers or daemons that other distros don't use?
More seriously, Fair Tax is a fucking moronic idea in general.
I am not sure if this is the beginning of a troll or a legitimate critique of FairTax, so let's give you the benefit of a doubt and go over this one by one:
Almost everyone would end up paying more taxes under it, except for the rich, who would end up paying less. There is simply no way to avoid that very simple fact.
I really wish you'd try to back this up with something instead of just stating it as if it's as well accepted a fact as gravity. One idea of FairTax is that instead of 175 million taxpayers, everyone who purchases any product or service pays into the system. This means children who don't work yet, old people who don't work anymore, undocumented people who work under the table, people with criminal sources of income, tourists and exchange students in the country, every single person who buys anything. The tax base is made significantly wider, and the FairTax is revenue neutral, so each current taxpayer will on average pay less in taxes.
In fact, poor people spend more of their income.
The prebate. Meaning everyone get at the beginning of each month the amount they will pay in taxes throughout that month, up to poverty line spending. Poor people pay nothing in taxes. In fact, this will help their cash flow a bit.
And there are aspects of it that would be horribly bad ideas right now, like the aforementioned encouragement of lack of spending,
This is flawed in many ways. First, it's true that people may, at first, spend less to avoid getting taxed. The money they don't spend immediately will sit in their bank account, accumulating. Their paychecks will be bigger because there won't be withholding. Within a short time, less than a handful of paychecks, that extra money they'll conveniently have will start itching in their pockets and they'll spend it. Further, you may not be aware of this but in addition to what's withheld from your paycheck, your employer must match your social security contributions. They will no longer have to do this, leaving more money available in corporations to (a) reduce their prices or (b) hire more employees and expand. Either way people benefit either from the lower prices (offsetting the FairTax) or from unemployment numbers going down. In short, I wouldn't worry about people suddenly halting their spending. On the contrary, while there may be an initial dip in spending, it will end quickly.
and the fact it would raise house purchase prices by 30%.
Correct. However, as with all products and services, the FairTax will apply only to new home sales. Also FairTax will reduce the cost of building homes because there will be no hidden corporate income taxes in the price of raw materials, and there will be no such hidden tax in the price of the home itself. All of this will offset the 30% somewhat. It may make it more like 25%, it may make it more like 5%, I have no idea. So yes, you are correct, however, it only applies to new homes and it probably won't be as much as 30%.
Oh, and screw up social security.
I believe you missed the memo. Social security is already screwed up. It is in fact so screwed up that within not too many years from now we will see its collapse. The FairTax says there won't be a separate bank account for Social Security, rather it will come out of the general fund. I do not agree with this as a permanent solution and I agree with you that FairTax does not solve Social Security. But I disagree that it makes Social Security any worse off because the damn thing is already screwed up and we've known since former President Clinton announced in the 1990's that it is definitely going to fail, soon.
Sales taxes are incredibly stupid ideas to start with, and have always been stupid ideas.
Fine.
The tax system needs to be drastically simplified or mostly done away with.
Perhaps you weren't paying attention to the original poster? He said, go to www.fairtax.org and start reading. I would say that replacing some five-digit number of pages of tax rules and regulations with a 150 page bill fulfills your call for "drastically simplified." :)
You are correct. A tax is an expense. All expenses, whether the cost of having employees, the cost of rent, the cost of taxes, the cost of new computers for the office, all of these, get factored into the price of each unit of product the business sells. When you buy a loaf of bread, you are not paying sales tax because that is an exempted item, but you ARE paying the income tax of the company that produced that loaf of bread. Whenever someone says something silly like, "Corporations have tons of money, just tax more out of the corporations," what they're really saying is, "Please increase the price of bread, milk, soda, booze, and everything else by making the corporations collect more from me in taxes!"