So someone like Bill Gates buys a bunch of land and builds a house and plants a huge garden. He's taxed on the purchase of the seed. He hires people to work the fields. He takes a bit of the food for him, the rest he sells. To say 1000 people. So those 1000 pay taxes to buy the food. He saves some of the seed and buys less the next year, and pays less taxes, but now 1200 people buy food.
Wait, though. If a company pays taxes on its profits, how does this work? I buy an item July 1. taxes are paid August 1, on profits, made from July 2, to July 30. Surely the company can't predict it will have 100million in profit and know it will need to raise the price of my item to cover it.
A flat tax on consumables sounds great ( aren't we counting cars and boats?) but I think the only thing that would come from that is a HUGE black market for such items.
Myth #1 - Taxes are really high. Reality: not really. You don't pay 50% until you make over $100,000. And you don't call that high???? The US has 401k's that are tax free until withdrawal. We also have no inhertence tax unless you have over a million dollars or so to give away.
Depends on where you come from. You just said that taxes are at least 35% and could be 50%
Other things to note: health care is essentially free. It's only free if you don't value your hard earned money. Taxes are an expense. And if your last name is Martin and you are an important government official, it appears you can pay for private services. So much for an uncorrupt system
In most parts of Canada, you can find true wilderness an hour or less from where you live.
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This is okay if the fee exists before I sign up, but if it comes into effect after I sign up, how do they predict that?
You pay $5 per after 5 checks a month? Whoa.
So someone like Bill Gates buys a bunch of land and builds a house and plants a huge garden. He's taxed on the purchase of the seed. He hires people to work the fields. He takes a bit of the food for him, the rest he sells. To say 1000 people. So those 1000 pay taxes to buy the food. He saves some of the seed and buys less the next year, and pays less taxes, but now 1200 people buy food.
Isn't that like saying "We had to destroy teh vollage to save it?"
Wait, though. If a company pays taxes on its profits, how does this work? I buy an item July 1. taxes are paid August 1, on profits, made from July 2, to July 30. Surely the company can't predict it will have 100million in profit and know it will need to raise the price of my item to cover it.
A flat tax on consumables sounds great ( aren't we counting cars and boats?) but I think the only thing that would come from that is a HUGE black market for such items.
The horse is already out of the barn. Closing the door now, just looks silly.
Do you have different snowplows in MN? We have these reflective studs in a lot of roads in PA, and I don't see them being ripped up.
You do know that the majority of speed limits are set to MAKE money. Plus, hey it's the LAW, you should follow it, others do, why are you special?
I see the A4 and the 8.5x11 tick marks. They are very close to each other. How does that small area makeit easier to read a A4 paper?
This explains why my calls to customer support are answered by idiots.
Why does the potential passing of some law, keeping you from a camera phone?
Google is going to IPO, soon. So yeah teh Google you love is leaving, to be replaced with investors who want money.
You must not be all that dedicated.
Myth #1 - Taxes are really high.
Reality: not really. You don't pay 50% until you make over $100,000.
And you don't call that high???? The US has 401k's that are tax free until withdrawal. We also have no inhertence tax unless you have over a million dollars or so to give away.
Depends on where you come from. You just said that taxes are at least 35% and could be 50%
Other things to note: health care is essentially free.
It's only free if you don't value your hard earned money. Taxes are an expense. And if your last name is Martin and you are an important government official, it appears you can pay for private services. So much for an uncorrupt system
In most parts of Canada, you can find true wilderness an hour or less from where you live.
The same can be said in the US.
And which somewhat rural areas are you talking about?
All liberals preach the same mantra:
Do as I say, not as I do.
Forward thinking? Jesus, CSS has been around for what 7-8 years now?
If i had a petabyte of storage, I sure as hell wouldn't be COMPRESSING my music into OGG or MP3.
Said by someone posting on a blog.
Time. My guess is by 2010.
My guess is that the bulk of the pirated copies are the Activation-less corporate copies.
How else will they get the whole Windows world cleaned up, if the pirated versions are still open to attacks?
The poster speaks Farsi.
Could you send some of those photos to The BCGS
But I'm pretty sure that 99% of stoeln laptops are just erased then sold.