Bottled water does not compete with pipes. But, yes, I'd like to see a transition of water-supply (and other "natural" monopolies) from governments to competing businesses.
Then, maybe, we'll finally see some 21-st century innovation in those markets too.
The WMF has been pushing those schemes for a while now, people are not happy where it has happened, on the other hand there's Flint where the infrastructure has been neglected for decades and the people are not happy either; somewhere between the two should be the sweet-spot.
So basically, wealthy people pay nothing in tax, ever?
Because I will keep the cash in my shell company account, and take out a secured loan against those funds.
Bam, I have the cash and it's a loan not income, so I pay no taxes. Maybe I can get a deduction for the interest I pay myself, I mean my company.
Wealthy people pay individual income taxes, individual income tax rates are higher than Corporate rates, Corporate income deductions are much more generous than individual income tax deductions. " keep the cash in my shell company account, and take out a secured loan against those funds... the cash and it's a loan not income," 1. The cash would be an asset, not an income, getting the cash is income, having cash isn't. 2. "keep the cash in my shell company account" that would be an investment. 3. you're right "a loan not income", cash is an asset, a loan is a liability, net effect zero. 4. the cash you invested should earn interest, the cash you borrowed may earn some interest, the loan has interest added to the payment which is an expense. 5. You may be able to borrow at a low enough interest rate to reinvest at a profit, but not very often, and those investments always turn into a bubble and burst, timing is critical and you can lose everything playing those games. All we have to do is quite using income taxes as Governments social engineering carrot and stick, of course unemployment would go up dramatical as all of the Lawyers and Corporate Accounts hit the streets.
There is no hose from outside the glass bubble, there is a white guy, a brown guy, two elephants and a warthog inside the bubble too, but only the urine from the white guy is "counted".
The whole issue is stupid, just forget corporate income taxes, put a 17% exit tax on dividends paid to non-taxayers and tax revenues would increase and corporations would put more resources in being productive and less in accounting sleight of hand.
Dude it's a molecule, it has no memory, it's not self-aware, there is no EvilBit(tm) set if it comes from athropogenic source or inside or outside a cycle. There are no magic faeries sorting out the inside cycle CO2 from the outside cycle CO2. A mole of CO2 from burning coal in a power station is exactly the same as a mole of CO2 from a fermenting mud bog. Saying the is a difference just makes you sound like a superstitious simpleton.
As I said, sorry that's just loser thinking that you've been programmed to think to keep you poor, vulnerable and easy to manipulate; if you can buy loto tickets, you can buy stocks.
We had a LNG filling station for cars for quite a while. Eventually one of the cars exploded while being refilled (an aftermarket conversion) and took out the pumps. SEMCO (South Eastern Michigan Gas Compnay) decline to rebuild. Our regonal bus service was one of the largest LNG fleets in the nation for quite a while.
Seriously it doesn't matter, the CO2 has to be consumed without out regard for it's origin; that is if this AGW is real and is not just some kind of Watermelon Anti-humanity population control conspiracy. A gram of CO2 from a volcano is the same as a gram from a person's respiration is the same as from a fossil fueled vehicle is the same as from a "Carbon neutral source"!
"The Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin portion of Texas’ Permian Basin province contains an estimated mean of 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas, and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, according to an assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation
how can the President pass an executive action that could not be reversed by another executive action ?
TFA explains that Obama is using the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Presidents from both parties have used the Act in the past.
Trump can't just take office and reverse it. In fact, it's not clear just how he could, because there is no legal precedent. The Act contains no prevision for reversals, so presumably Trump would have to go to court. And that could take years to play out.
Oh bullshit! the law says,
The President of the United States may, from time to time, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf. section 1341, OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS
"The President of the United States may, from time to time" means at his pleasure. Trump can release the withdraw on day 1. for example; The President of the United States may, from December 20, 2016 to January 21, 2017, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf.
Jones wrote to Mann: "Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" Phill Jones was Director of the Climatic Research Unit.
Establishing the 97% is just an attempt for the Alarmists to avoid having a burden of proof. The entire alarmist line of reasoning is plausable, yet constantly fails any reasonable burden of proof to support the premise of the modest warming we had experienced will continue and accelerate to a catastrophic level.
the only people who might be out of work would be those in the direct employ of the fossil fuel industry who are paid to FUD and obfuscate.
You lost any trace of credibility there, there is no "fossil fuel industry" any more, they have all metamorphosed into Energy Companies and they will be just as happy selling E85 and B100 as they are selling no-lead and diesel.
Real researchers with the math and physics and model expertise to work on climate can work on a wide variety of subjects.
Sorry but being a Climate Researcher tends to be a one way ticket.
Do you actually believe that more than 90% of climatologists have somehow been bribed to lie?
Why not over half of Americans thought The Wicked Witch of Benghazi would be a good president and almost as many thought Trump would be.
As Dr. Raymond Stantz said in "Ghostbusters", "Have you worked in the private sector? It's horrible, they expect results!" And from the "weather is not climate department", it snowed in the Sahara!
They wouldn't even need a nuke, 350Kg of scrap iron in a reentry vehicle coming down from 20,000 mile up is going to hit the ground like one. It would be more than enough to pound N Korea's nuclear program into oblivion.
Cheaper, they have less parts and don't have all of the headaches associated with handling cryogenic fluids. Only their 4th stage uses liquid propellant, hydrazine a monopropellant. Having a 3 stage solid propellent stack is actually quite an achievement.
Bingo, that's why you never take a stem course from the only Prof with a PhD, you want the one who had to struggle, and knows how to get through the parts everyone else struggles with.
3 types, you forgot the people insightful enough to buy stock in the companies that purchase the robots to make the "obscene profits" that they will share in through dividends. Wait for it, "But you have to be rich to buy stock, only the Rich get richer", sorry that's just loser thinking that you've been programmed to think to keep you poor, vulnerable and easy to manipulate. Sure some stocks are quite pricey making buy-in all but impossible for most of us worker-driods, but there are always Mutual funds and 401Ks. If even those are out of your budget you can form a stock club, just follow these instructions and where it says lottery, just substitute stock.
Who knows, maybe if the Democrats don't ass-rape you too bad with capital-gains taxes, there might even be some left over for your kids when you die!
You effectively have two options that I see to support this ever increasing population: subsistence living (barter, hunt, scavenge), or wealth transfer.
Well if Trump actually decreases criminality in the cities, there will not be as much bartering, hunting and scavenging.
Obama had a Democratic super-majority in both the House and Senate, until they passed the "Affordable Heathcare act", and the People massacred them in the mid-term elections.
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Bottled water does not compete with pipes. But, yes, I'd like to see a transition of water-supply (and other "natural" monopolies) from governments to competing businesses.
Then, maybe, we'll finally see some 21-st century innovation in those markets too.
The WMF has been pushing those schemes for a while now, people are not happy where it has happened, on the other hand there's Flint where the infrastructure has been neglected for decades and the people are not happy either; somewhere between the two should be the sweet-spot.
So basically, wealthy people pay nothing in tax, ever?
Because I will keep the cash in my shell company account, and take out a secured loan against those funds.
Bam, I have the cash and it's a loan not income, so I pay no taxes. Maybe I can get a deduction for the interest I pay myself, I mean my company.
Wealthy people pay individual income taxes, individual income tax rates are higher than Corporate rates, Corporate income deductions are much more generous than individual income tax deductions. ... the cash and it's a loan not income,"
" keep the cash in my shell company account, and take out a secured loan against those funds
1. The cash would be an asset, not an income, getting the cash is income, having cash isn't.
2. "keep the cash in my shell company account" that would be an investment.
3. you're right "a loan not income", cash is an asset, a loan is a liability, net effect zero.
4. the cash you invested should earn interest, the cash you borrowed may earn some interest, the loan has interest added to the payment which is an expense.
5. You may be able to borrow at a low enough interest rate to reinvest at a profit, but not very often, and those investments always turn into a bubble and burst, timing is critical and you can lose everything playing those games.
All we have to do is quite using income taxes as Governments social engineering carrot and stick, of course unemployment would go up dramatical as all of the Lawyers and Corporate Accounts hit the streets.
There is no hose from outside the glass bubble, there is a white guy, a brown guy, two elephants and a warthog inside the bubble too, but only the urine from the white guy is "counted".
The whole issue is stupid, just forget corporate income taxes, put a 17% exit tax on dividends paid to non-taxayers and tax revenues would increase and corporations would put more resources in being productive and less in accounting sleight of hand.
Dude it's a molecule, it has no memory, it's not self-aware, there is no EvilBit(tm) set if it comes from athropogenic source or inside or outside a cycle. There are no magic faeries sorting out the inside cycle CO2 from the outside cycle CO2. A mole of CO2 from burning coal in a power station is exactly the same as a mole of CO2 from a fermenting mud bog. Saying the is a difference just makes you sound like a superstitious simpleton.
As I said, sorry that's just loser thinking that you've been programmed to think to keep you poor, vulnerable and easy to manipulate; if you can buy loto tickets, you can buy stocks.
We had a LNG filling station for cars for quite a while. Eventually one of the cars exploded while being refilled (an aftermarket conversion) and took out the pumps. SEMCO (South Eastern Michigan Gas Compnay) decline to rebuild. Our regonal bus service was one of the largest LNG fleets in the nation for quite a while.
Seriously it doesn't matter, the CO2 has to be consumed without out regard for it's origin; that is if this AGW is real and is not just some kind of Watermelon Anti-humanity population control conspiracy. A gram of CO2 from a volcano is the same as a gram from a person's respiration is the same as from a fossil fueled vehicle is the same as from a "Carbon neutral source"!
Everybody knows that anthropogenic CO2 is especially hard to the biosphere to sequester, it's got the Evil(tm) bit set!
They just found a 20 billion barrels.
The watermelons are going to have seizures!
how can the President pass an executive action that could not be reversed by another executive action ?
TFA explains that Obama is using the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Presidents from both parties have used the Act in the past.
Trump can't just take office and reverse it. In fact, it's not clear just how he could, because there is no legal precedent. The Act contains no prevision for reversals, so presumably Trump would have to go to court. And that could take years to play out.
Oh bullshit!
the law says,
"The President of the United States may, from time to time" means at his pleasure. Trump can release the withdraw on day 1.
for example;
The President of the United States may, from December 20, 2016 to January 21, 2017, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf.
What more can you say?
Establishing the 97% is just an attempt for the Alarmists to avoid having a burden of proof. The entire alarmist line of reasoning is plausable, yet constantly fails any reasonable burden of proof to support the premise of the modest warming we had experienced will continue and accelerate to a catastrophic level.
I know the Alarmists characterise it differently, but the 97% paper, has been retracted.
the only people who might be out of work would be those in the direct employ of the fossil fuel industry who are paid to FUD and obfuscate.
You lost any trace of credibility there, there is no "fossil fuel industry" any more, they have all metamorphosed into Energy Companies and they will be just as happy selling E85 and B100 as they are selling no-lead and diesel.
Real researchers with the math and physics and model expertise to work on climate can work on a wide variety of subjects.
Sorry but being a Climate Researcher tends to be a one way ticket.
Do you actually believe that more than 90% of climatologists have somehow been bribed to lie?
Why not over half of Americans thought The Wicked Witch of Benghazi would be a good president and almost as many thought Trump would be.
As Dr. Raymond Stantz said in "Ghostbusters", "Have you worked in the private sector? It's horrible, they expect results!" And from the "weather is not climate department", it snowed in the Sahara!
your right, my back of napkin says about 5 ton of TNT. I assumed that because a 1/4 inch of rain on NYC releases a 1/4Kt that it would be higher.
They wouldn't even need a nuke, 350Kg of scrap iron in a reentry vehicle coming down from 20,000 mile up is going to hit the ground like one. It would be more than enough to pound N Korea's nuclear program into oblivion.
Cheaper, they have less parts and don't have all of the headaches associated with handling cryogenic fluids. Only their 4th stage uses liquid propellant, hydrazine a monopropellant. Having a 3 stage solid propellent stack is actually quite an achievement.
Blue Oyster Cult had two songs worth listening to and "Godzilla" wasn't one of them.
Bingo, that's why you never take a stem course from the only Prof with a PhD, you want the one who had to struggle, and knows how to get through the parts everyone else struggles with.
3 types, you forgot the people insightful enough to buy stock in the companies that purchase the robots to make the "obscene profits" that they will share in through dividends. Wait for it, "But you have to be rich to buy stock, only the Rich get richer", sorry that's just loser thinking that you've been programmed to think to keep you poor, vulnerable and easy to manipulate. Sure some stocks are quite pricey making buy-in all but impossible for most of us worker-driods, but there are always Mutual funds and 401Ks. If even those are out of your budget you can form a stock club, just follow these instructions and where it says lottery, just substitute stock.
Who knows, maybe if the Democrats don't ass-rape you too bad with capital-gains taxes, there might even be some left over for your kids when you die!
You effectively have two options that I see to support this ever increasing population: subsistence living (barter, hunt, scavenge), or wealth transfer.
Well if Trump actually decreases criminality in the cities, there will not be as much bartering, hunting and scavenging.
Obama had a Democratic super-majority in both the House and Senate, until they passed the "Affordable Heathcare act", and the People massacred them in the mid-term elections.
That's fine for the intelligent among us, but what will those in the bottom half of the bell curve do?
The future is bright for those willing to clean up oil dribbles beneath the robots.