So you want me to buy from the local Nissan dealer, which survives pretty much only on good reputation and good customer service, and not directly from the Nissan Motor Company, which could care less about me and was the entity that tried to steal nissan.com from its rightful owner.
I understand the general idea of those workers. If there seem to be a lot of groups with politically-oriented names popping up, it might be a good idea to pay extra attention to make sure some scam isn't going on. The problem is they restricted it to conservative groups. The first real management who discovered this put a stop to it, and broadened the category to both left and right politically-oriented groups.
Workers get stupid, management puts a stop to it and orders an IG investigation. Things are working like they're supposed to. I don't see a real problem here deserving of ongoing investigations. The only real issue is that the lower management didn't tell the upper management what was going on, so upper management didn't tell the truth to Congress.
Back in reality, a public healthcare system would be a government program. A government program operates on the incentive to make the program big and important. To do that, it will build as big and redundant a bureaucracy as possible.
You don't have to ban homosexuality, just enact reasonable measures to ensure only "appropriate" sex acts are committed. It does sound reasonable to people who like health, education and safety over some liberal fascination with gay sex.
Don't understand your second sentence anyway. Value health? As a health issue, guns are WAY down on the list. Education? No relation, except that liberals tend to not be educated on the subject. Safety? You'd avocate taking away the means for people to be safe against criminals?
You're right about bombing. The deadliest mass murder at a school was in Bath, 38 dead from dynamite back in the 20s. There's really nothing stopping someone from filling his pickup with an ANFO bomb and doing another OK City with hundreds dead. Sure, we trace the chemicals now, but that's only to identify the perp -- who's planning to die anyway.
There will always be someone to step in to fill the power vacuum. The point is that after a while self-preservation will ensure that those who do fill it will be extremely averse to initiating violence against another country.
The problem is of course finding and killing these people. Israel has a hard enough time tracking down the Palestinians who make the bombs and order the attacks.
And? My point is that freedom of speech and freedom of the press are not synonymous.
We're not just talking about press, we're talking about all kinds of speech associations can perform.
But a "corporation" isn't just an association of people.
The decision refers to "associations of people[/individuals]" of which a legally chartered corporation is only one manifestation. All associations are covered, or none are covered, no picking and choosing who the First Amendment applies to. Do you really want a government with the power to decide who has First Amendment rights?
Ok... so? i don't see how that relates to what I said
Too many people confuse the issues. It was probable that you were one of them.
So to your blog example, you can still write your blog. You just have to be careful that your blog is, like the press, truthful.
Corporations and people can already be sued for libel.
What this this law said is that if an association of people works together under the mantle of that association, the First Amendment protection of otherwise perfectly legal free political speech no longer applies to them.
Note: Contrary to popular belief, this had nothing to do with directly donating money to politicians or their campaigns.
Mike Jones criticizes government corruption - legal
Mike Jones criticizes government corruption in his blog technically run by Mike Jones' Blog LLC -- the blog gets shut down by that corrupt government and its officers (Mike) thrown in jail.
Even today, if Mike Jones' Blog LLC libels someone else or posts kiddie porn, Mike and the company aren't protected, so we're not talking about using a corporation to flaunt any laws that otherwise wouldn't be considered a violation of the First Amendment.
This law was a violation of the First Amendment. If a person promoted a movie he personally made around election time, it would be protected. But it's very difficult to make a movie like that as a private person, so it was effectively banning a form of political speech.
If by "artists" you mean the megacorporations of the copyright cartel that habitually screw over artists, and by "unions" you mean the megacorporations that use worker money to elect those politicians that funnel more money their way, we agree.
Not surprisingly. Don't make the mistake of seeing the conservatives as being against the people, and the liberals being for the people. It's all over the board.
When does a phone ever completely change in less than a year?
iPhone 4S to iPhone 5 in 11 months. New case design, bigger screen, next-generation SOC (over twice as fast in reviewer benchmarks), 4G, 5 GHz WiFi, etc. Even the next-generation OS was released with it.
But even then I can wait. I'll probably get the iPhone 5S or 6 if there aren't any Androids I like better around that time.
It helps to understand the difference between taxable income and total income. This difference is why low-income people rarely pay federal income tax and never pay long-term capital gains tax.
The federal income tax rate may be progressive, but federal taxes aren't, as the more you have, the easier it is to structure your income to get you in a lower bracket.
You married couple pays 10%. A married couple making $30K will probably pay nothing. The less you have the more the standard deductions and credits matter in reducing your taxable income. Progressive.
I still stand by my statements: Both income tax and capital gains tax are progressive. It's right there in the code. If you earn below certain amounts, you pay a lower percentage. If you earn above, you pay higher. Period, progressive, there can be no argument.
As I said in the beginning, it might not be progressive to the confiscatory, punitive levels that some may want, but it's still progressive.
And if you were paying less than 10% federal, it would be interesting to see how you got $100K+ down to below $9K in taxable income (single, no kids).
The US has a progressive federal income taxation system as I stated, period, absolute fact. Even capital gains tax is progressive. If you are in the lowest two income tax brackets you pay no capital gains taxes on long-term investments. Long-term investments (because they are encouraged to promote investment) then jump to 15% for the higher tax brackets. Capital gains tax on short-term investments scale exactly with the regular income tax brackets.
Deduct all expenses, then tax him at 15%.
If the owner is making $15M off that player, that's straight income to be taxed at the highest bracket, not capital gains.
And even if it were capital gains, you don't deduct expenses like with regular income. There are a certain few things that can be deducted on capital gains, but it deals with losses you took and interest you paid in dealing with the investment.
If you were to ever meet someone who makes minimum wage and ask them what they pay in taxes you will find that their taxation rate is far closer to 35% than it is to 10%.
Wrong. Minimum wage gets a person about $15,000 a year. Considering a single guy with no dependents (the worst tax situation in any country) and taking only standard deductions, he would pay $528 in federal taxes, about 3.5%.I took this from the 2012 federal tax forms. Now that's only theoretical. In real life, his gross income on the W-2 will be less than $15,000, making the amount of federal income tax paid even lower.
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So you want me to buy from the local Nissan dealer, which survives pretty much only on good reputation and good customer service, and not directly from the Nissan Motor Company, which could care less about me and was the entity that tried to steal nissan.com from its rightful owner.
I understand the general idea of those workers. If there seem to be a lot of groups with politically-oriented names popping up, it might be a good idea to pay extra attention to make sure some scam isn't going on. The problem is they restricted it to conservative groups. The first real management who discovered this put a stop to it, and broadened the category to both left and right politically-oriented groups.
Workers get stupid, management puts a stop to it and orders an IG investigation. Things are working like they're supposed to. I don't see a real problem here deserving of ongoing investigations. The only real issue is that the lower management didn't tell the upper management what was going on, so upper management didn't tell the truth to Congress.
Or, marrying a woman who probably told him "you're a dick, fix it." Won't be the first time a guy was whipped into shape by a good woman.
You want to keep, and even strengthen, the safe harbor provision.
Back in reality, a public healthcare system would be a government program. A government program operates on the incentive to make the program big and important. To do that, it will build as big and redundant a bureaucracy as possible.
You'll be called racist because that would eliminate the gerrymandering done according to the law in order to ensure minority-majority districts.
Define "corporation." Unions are corporations. Non-profits tend to be corporations.
You don't have to ban homosexuality, just enact reasonable measures to ensure only "appropriate" sex acts are committed. It does sound reasonable to people who like health, education and safety over some liberal fascination with gay sex.
Don't understand your second sentence anyway. Value health? As a health issue, guns are WAY down on the list. Education? No relation, except that liberals tend to not be educated on the subject. Safety? You'd avocate taking away the means for people to be safe against criminals?
You're right about bombing. The deadliest mass murder at a school was in Bath, 38 dead from dynamite back in the 20s. There's really nothing stopping someone from filling his pickup with an ANFO bomb and doing another OK City with hundreds dead. Sure, we trace the chemicals now, but that's only to identify the perp -- who's planning to die anyway.
Ballblazer, still one of my favorite games ever. Rescue on Fractalis was great for the day too.
There will always be someone to step in to fill the power vacuum. The point is that after a while self-preservation will ensure that those who do fill it will be extremely averse to initiating violence against another country.
The problem is of course finding and killing these people. Israel has a hard enough time tracking down the Palestinians who make the bombs and order the attacks.
We're not just talking about press, we're talking about all kinds of speech associations can perform.
The decision refers to "associations of people[/individuals]" of which a legally chartered corporation is only one manifestation. All associations are covered, or none are covered, no picking and choosing who the First Amendment applies to. Do you really want a government with the power to decide who has First Amendment rights?
Too many people confuse the issues. It was probable that you were one of them.
Corporations and people can already be sued for libel.
What this this law said is that if an association of people works together under the mantle of that association, the First Amendment protection of otherwise perfectly legal free political speech no longer applies to them.
Note: Contrary to popular belief, this had nothing to do with directly donating money to politicians or their campaigns.
Mike Jones criticizes government corruption - legal
Mike Jones criticizes government corruption in his blog technically run by Mike Jones' Blog LLC -- the blog gets shut down by that corrupt government and its officers (Mike) thrown in jail.
Even today, if Mike Jones' Blog LLC libels someone else or posts kiddie porn, Mike and the company aren't protected, so we're not talking about using a corporation to flaunt any laws that otherwise wouldn't be considered a violation of the First Amendment.
This law was a violation of the First Amendment. If a person promoted a movie he personally made around election time, it would be protected. But it's very difficult to make a movie like that as a private person, so it was effectively banning a form of political speech.
The idea that corporations have not free speech will be very interesting to the newspaper industry.
Hell, you're a blogger, you get ad revenue, to strealine accounting you form a corporation, and ta-da, you can no longer run your blog.
Given this decision, I'd be surprised if they didn't appeal.
If by "artists" you mean the megacorporations of the copyright cartel that habitually screw over artists, and by "unions" you mean the megacorporations that use worker money to elect those politicians that funnel more money their way, we agree.
Not surprisingly. Don't make the mistake of seeing the conservatives as being against the people, and the liberals being for the people. It's all over the board.
Ginsburg wrote the dissent -- they sided with her, Scalia in part.
You cherry picked. The bottom 50% pays almost no federal income tax, and that includes up to $32,000 a year. That's not a cherry-pick.
iPhone 4S to iPhone 5 in 11 months. New case design, bigger screen, next-generation SOC (over twice as fast in reviewer benchmarks), 4G, 5 GHz WiFi, etc. Even the next-generation OS was released with it.
But even then I can wait. I'll probably get the iPhone 5S or 6 if there aren't any Androids I like better around that time.
It helps to understand the difference between taxable income and total income. This difference is why low-income people rarely pay federal income tax and never pay long-term capital gains tax.
You married couple pays 10%. A married couple making $30K will probably pay nothing. The less you have the more the standard deductions and credits matter in reducing your taxable income. Progressive.
I still stand by my statements: Both income tax and capital gains tax are progressive. It's right there in the code. If you earn below certain amounts, you pay a lower percentage. If you earn above, you pay higher. Period, progressive, there can be no argument.
As I said in the beginning, it might not be progressive to the confiscatory, punitive levels that some may want, but it's still progressive.
And if you were paying less than 10% federal, it would be interesting to see how you got $100K+ down to below $9K in taxable income (single, no kids).
The US has a progressive federal income taxation system as I stated, period, absolute fact. Even capital gains tax is progressive. If you are in the lowest two income tax brackets you pay no capital gains taxes on long-term investments. Long-term investments (because they are encouraged to promote investment) then jump to 15% for the higher tax brackets. Capital gains tax on short-term investments scale exactly with the regular income tax brackets.
If the owner is making $15M off that player, that's straight income to be taxed at the highest bracket, not capital gains.
And even if it were capital gains, you don't deduct expenses like with regular income. There are a certain few things that can be deducted on capital gains, but it deals with losses you took and interest you paid in dealing with the investment.
Wrong. Minimum wage gets a person about $15,000 a year. Considering a single guy with no dependents (the worst tax situation in any country) and taking only standard deductions, he would pay $528 in federal taxes, about 3.5%.I took this from the 2012 federal tax forms. Now that's only theoretical. In real life, his gross income on the W-2 will be less than $15,000, making the amount of federal income tax paid even lower.