Its not like the rich are hiding their money away in huge money bins so they can swim in it (like Scrooge McDuck). Their money would just loose value via inflation.
If our taxation was truly progressive it would not be treating wage income differently than investment income. For example the tax rate on dividends depends on your regular income tax rate, but at a rate much lower than the normal income tax rate. This would bring in serious amounts of money, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were serious reprocussions in the economy.
Now while there are some decent economic arguments to be made for and against taxing investment income differently, the majority of wealth is not concentrated on high wage earners who pay a disproporataly high rate on their own earnings. If people want to stick it to the "wealthy" or in turn their own pension funds/retirement savings, then you would want to increase capital gains and dividend tax rates to mirror wage rates.
Citation please for police resources being used more often in wealthier neighborhoods than poor ones. I would be curious to see a police report break down in terms of volume and type of crimes. Are more police resources used in rich neighborhoods, or is it because the rich are sequestered away from the poor (and supported by their own private security forces?) which leads to less crime?
The majority of wear on roads is by trucks, not sports cars of the rich. See http://www2.ku.edu/~iri/publications/HighwayDamageCosts.pdf One of the reaons we see more road wear in the US is because we build our roads cheaply and thinner than other countries.
The SEC is a FEE FUNDED agency funded by transaction charges made on trades similar to how the Patent Office is a fee funded agency funded by application charges, they are not a fully tax funded agency. In fact congress does not even return the entirety of fees back to them in their budget. The excess goes into the general fund! see: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aCGM.3vStcjU
The wealthy already pay a disproportonate share of taxes simply because they have more money. Its hard to collect a lot of taxes from people that have no money.
her persona may not be fabricated, and people may disagree on the quality of her work. That being said her music is way overplayed. Is it overplayed because people want to hear it so much, or because the record companies promote it so much, or because the way top 40 works?
I personally have no desire to purchase an album if the song is guaranteed to be heard on the radio in the next 5-10 minutes.
I'm surprised the government has never gotten involved in this. If some of these movies are truly profitiable in the $100 million plus range, thats a lot of of corporate income tax to be taken by the government.
It doesn't matter if they claim the same thing or not. They gain priority benefits by having identical specifications. You can have more than one invention within the specification.
If what is claimed does not have support this time around, the examiner should give a new matter or enablement rejection.
A 2000 study surveyed 1,090 former N.F.L. players and found more than 60 percent had suffered at least one concussion in their careers and 26 percent had had three or more. Those who had had concussions reported more problems with memory, concentration, speech impediments, headaches and other neurological problems than those who had not, the survey found.
When 300+lbs guys are charging at one another, pads are appropriate.
The poor in the western world really do have it well considered what the poor have in china. Plus the gap between rich and poor is vastly greater than in the west as well.
This coupled with an additude that its their own fault for being poor doesn't help either.
I'd say FERS is fairly generous compared to a private employer. I'm a GS-14 and if I was to retire with 40 years of service I would get 44% of my 3 year average high salary, which would be roughly 61k a year in pension on top of TSP. You can also continue FEHB as well, assuming you have at least 5 years of service, though I am unsure if you are required to pay the entire portion or not.
There is a top gear video a few years back where Jermey Clarkson ran laguna seca in gran turismo then drove the same car on laguna seca. His gran turismo time was something like 15 seconds faster per lap which he equated to the fact that you do not get the same sensations as you do in a car, and that you don't have to worry about any self preservation in a game itself so you take risks that you would NEVER do in a car.
The GP is correct that by and large as a percentage of GDP, most of the larger western european nations are in fact worse than the US, but no where near as bad as Japan (170% of GDP).
Italy 104% Belgium 84.6% Germany 64.9% of GDP France 63.9%
I take it that you don't live in NJ? The rates there are 2-3 times higher than what I pay in virginia.
For example, my hometown's rate is $3.70 per $100 dollars assessed. I have a 400k starter home in northern virginia which is taxed at about 1.04 per $100. In NJ each month I would pay $1,737 in Principal And Interest and $1,208 in taxes.
This is an ongoing problem. Tax rates are even higher in states without income or sales taxes, but in NJ's case it has relatively high sales taxes and income tax rate. They're wondering why "the rich" are leaving, when even lower income people have to pay too much in state taxes.
DirectTV bought replaytv which arguably has a better product than Tivo ever did (web accessible, networking features, transmission over the internet and... COMMERCIAL SKIPPING!)
"Uh, if you pay for your own insurance and file a claim, where do you think your insurance company acquires the money to pay for your claim? "
They mostly get it from investments (the insurance industry world wide has a portfolio in excess of 3.5 trillion dollars). Basically what happens is that the insurance companies take everyone's premiums and invest them in various markets and ideally make money off these investments with which to pay the costs of insurance claims. There are some tax advantages to this as well. Part of the reason why premiums have gone up in the past few years is that the insurance companies investments have not done so well, not that they are paying out more claims.
How are the drug/gang problems in those civilized countries compared to the US? How are the support services compared to the US?
America is a pretty violent place with more visible poverty in comparison to Europe and the UK. Blame the underlying conditions not the tools being used.
In 1982 a small-scale experimental model of a solar chimney power plant was built under the direction of German engineer Jörg Schlaich in Manzanares, Ciudad Real, 150 km south of Madrid, Spain; the project was funded by the German government.[10][11]
The chimney had a height of 195 metres and a diameter of 10 metres with a collection area (greenhouse) of 46,000 m (about 11 acres, or 244 m diameter) obtaining a maximum power output of about 50 kW. However, this was an experimental setup that was not intended for power generation. Instead, different materials were used for testing such as single or double glazing or plastic (which turned out not to be durable enough), and one section was used as an actual greenhouse, growing plants under the glass. During its operation, optimization data was collected on a second-by-second basis with 180 sensors measuring inside and outside temperature, humidity and wind speed.[12]
For the choice of materials, it was taken into consideration that such an inefficient but cheap plant would be ideal for third world countries with lots of space - the method is inefficient for land use but very efficient economically because of the low operating cost. So cheap materials were used on purpose to see how they would perform, such as a chimney built with iron plating only 1.25 mm thin and held up with guy ropes. For a commercial plant, a reinforced concrete tower would be a better choice.
This pilot power plant operated for approximately eight years but the chimney guy rods were not protected against corrosion and not expected to last longer than the intended test period of three years. So, not surprisingly, after eight years they had rusted through and broke in a storm, causing the tower to fall over. The plant was decommissioned in 1989.[13]
Based on the test results, it was estimated that a 100 MW plant would require a 1000 m tower and a greenhouse of 20 km2. Because the costs lie mainly in construction and not in operation (free 'fuel', little maintenance and only 7 personnel), the cost per energy is largely determined by interest rates and years of operation, varying from 5 eurocent per kWh for 4% and 20 years to 15 eurocent per kWh for 12% and 40 years.[14]
have a look at it yourself. You can quite clearly make out portions of a persons anatomy yet you could conceal contraband inside the body or even folds of skin.
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Its not like the rich are hiding their money away in huge money bins so they can swim in it (like Scrooge McDuck). Their money would just loose value via inflation.
what investor is going to give me money to ramp up production or promote a product if anyone else can freely copy it? How will this create jobs?
if you disable most of the smart search functionality, it speeds up considerably, but is still not as fast as the 3.0 OS.
If our taxation was truly progressive it would not be treating wage income differently than investment income. For example the tax rate on dividends depends on your regular income tax rate, but at a rate much lower than the normal income tax rate. This would bring in serious amounts of money, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were serious reprocussions in the economy.
Now while there are some decent economic arguments to be made for and against taxing investment income differently, the majority of wealth is not concentrated on high wage earners who pay a disproporataly high rate on their own earnings. If people want to stick it to the "wealthy" or in turn their own pension funds/retirement savings, then you would want to increase capital gains and dividend tax rates to mirror wage rates.
Citation please for police resources being used more often in wealthier neighborhoods than poor ones. I would be curious to see a police report break down in terms of volume and type of crimes. Are more police resources used in rich neighborhoods, or is it because the rich are sequestered away from the poor (and supported by their own private security forces?) which leads to less crime?
The majority of wear on roads is by trucks, not sports cars of the rich.
See http://www2.ku.edu/~iri/publications/HighwayDamageCosts.pdf One of the reaons we see more road wear in the US is because we build our roads cheaply and thinner than other countries.
The SEC is a FEE FUNDED agency funded by transaction charges made on trades similar to how the Patent Office is a fee funded agency funded by application charges, they are not a fully tax funded agency. In fact congress does not even return the entirety of fees back to them in their budget. The excess goes into the general fund!
see: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aCGM.3vStcjU
The wealthy already pay a disproportonate share of taxes simply because they have more money. Its hard to collect a lot of taxes from people that have no money.
her persona may not be fabricated, and people may disagree on the quality of her work. That being said her music is way overplayed. Is it overplayed because people want to hear it so much, or because the record companies promote it so much, or because the way top 40 works?
I personally have no desire to purchase an album if the song is guaranteed to be heard on the radio in the next 5-10 minutes.
as an educator where do you see all of the tax money going?
I'm surprised the government has never gotten involved in this. If some of these movies are truly profitiable in the $100 million plus range, thats a lot of of corporate income tax to be taken by the government.
how well does multitasking work on the jailbroken 2/3g models?
It doesn't matter if they claim the same thing or not. They gain priority benefits by having identical specifications. You can have more than one invention within the specification.
If what is claimed does not have support this time around, the examiner should give a new matter or enablement rejection.
might be because of brain damage?
http://www.nytimes.com/info/concussions-in-football/
A 2000 study surveyed 1,090 former N.F.L. players and found more than 60 percent had suffered at least one concussion in their careers and 26 percent had had three or more. Those who had had concussions reported more problems with memory, concentration, speech impediments, headaches and other neurological problems than those who had not, the survey found.
When 300+lbs guys are charging at one another, pads are appropriate.
The poor in the western world really do have it well considered what the poor have in china. Plus the gap between rich and poor is vastly greater than in the west as well.
This coupled with an additude that its their own fault for being poor doesn't help either.
I'd say FERS is fairly generous compared to a private employer. I'm a GS-14 and if I was to retire with 40 years of service I would get 44% of my 3 year average high salary, which would be roughly 61k a year in pension on top of TSP. You can also continue FEHB as well, assuming you have at least 5 years of service, though I am unsure if you are required to pay the entire portion or not.
There is a top gear video a few years back where Jermey Clarkson ran laguna seca in gran turismo then drove the same car on laguna seca. His gran turismo time was something like 15 seconds faster per lap which he equated to the fact that you do not get the same sensations as you do in a car, and that you don't have to worry about any self preservation in a game itself so you take risks that you would NEVER do in a car.
As a track junkie i pretty much agree with this.
I've had this conversation with other chinese.
I ask them, don't you need a visa to go there and other questions of similar ilk.
While germany's external debt is ~2.5 less than the US, it is #3 in the world a worse per capita debt.
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?t=100&v=94
The GP is correct that by and large as a percentage of GDP, most of the larger western european nations are in fact worse than the US, but no where near as bad as Japan (170% of GDP).
Italy 104%
Belgium 84.6%
Germany 64.9% of GDP
France 63.9%
US 60.8%
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_pub_deb-economy-public-debt
I take it that you don't live in NJ? The rates there are 2-3 times higher than what I pay in virginia.
For example, my hometown's rate is $3.70 per $100 dollars assessed. I have a 400k starter home in northern virginia which is taxed at about 1.04 per $100. In NJ each month I would pay $1,737 in Principal And Interest and $1,208 in taxes.
This is an ongoing problem. Tax rates are even higher in states without income or sales taxes, but in NJ's case it has relatively high sales taxes and income tax rate. They're wondering why "the rich" are leaving, when even lower income people have to pay too much in state taxes.
DirectTV bought replaytv which arguably has a better product than Tivo ever did (web accessible, networking features, transmission over the internet and... COMMERCIAL SKIPPING!)
Yep Replay had everything you actually wanted in a DVR, skipping commericals, networking, transmission over the internet, component out etc.
I have an RTV5000 AND RTV5500 still kicking. Hooray for lifetime subscriptions.
"Uh, if you pay for your own insurance and file a claim, where do you think your insurance company acquires the money to pay for your claim? "
They mostly get it from investments (the insurance industry world wide has a portfolio in excess of 3.5 trillion dollars). Basically what happens is that the insurance companies take everyone's premiums and invest them in various markets and ideally make money off these investments with which to pay the costs of insurance claims. There are some tax advantages to this as well. Part of the reason why premiums have gone up in the past few years is that the insurance companies investments have not done so well, not that they are paying out more claims.
This concept is called float.
http://www.fool.com/personal-finance/insurance/2006/12/05/insurance-industry-basics-float.aspx
How are the drug/gang problems in those civilized countries compared to the US?
How are the support services compared to the US?
America is a pretty violent place with more visible poverty in comparison to Europe and the UK. Blame the underlying conditions not the tools being used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#Prototype_in_Spain
Prototype in Spain
In 1982 a small-scale experimental model of a solar chimney power plant was built under the direction of German engineer Jörg Schlaich in Manzanares, Ciudad Real, 150 km south of Madrid, Spain; the project was funded by the German government.[10][11]
The chimney had a height of 195 metres and a diameter of 10 metres with a collection area (greenhouse) of 46,000 m (about 11 acres, or 244 m diameter) obtaining a maximum power output of about 50 kW. However, this was an experimental setup that was not intended for power generation. Instead, different materials were used for testing such as single or double glazing or plastic (which turned out not to be durable enough), and one section was used as an actual greenhouse, growing plants under the glass. During its operation, optimization data was collected on a second-by-second basis with 180 sensors measuring inside and outside temperature, humidity and wind speed.[12]
For the choice of materials, it was taken into consideration that such an inefficient but cheap plant would be ideal for third world countries with lots of space - the method is inefficient for land use but very efficient economically because of the low operating cost. So cheap materials were used on purpose to see how they would perform, such as a chimney built with iron plating only 1.25 mm thin and held up with guy ropes. For a commercial plant, a reinforced concrete tower would be a better choice.
This pilot power plant operated for approximately eight years but the chimney guy rods were not protected against corrosion and not expected to last longer than the intended test period of three years. So, not surprisingly, after eight years they had rusted through and broke in a storm, causing the tower to fall over. The plant was decommissioned in 1989.[13]
Based on the test results, it was estimated that a 100 MW plant would require a 1000 m tower and a greenhouse of 20 km2. Because the costs lie mainly in construction and not in operation (free 'fuel', little maintenance and only 7 personnel), the cost per energy is largely determined by interest rates and years of operation, varying from 5 eurocent per kWh for 4% and 20 years to 15 eurocent per kWh for 12% and 40 years.[14]
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=972_1262283908
have a look at it yourself. You can quite clearly make out portions of a persons anatomy yet you could conceal contraband inside the body or even folds of skin.
they tend to accept sweatshop conditions when they're grad students though.
Didn't the EEtimes come to a similar conclusion last year?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/03/1943247
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=207001533
I recall it had more to do with planning skills than anything else.