US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) keeps track of sea levels over time at various harbors. New York's Battery station data goes back to 1857. While I understand that raw sea level change has more inputs than the CO2 cycle, it is interesting to note that the rise is quite linear at the rate of 0.91 feet per hundred years (0.277 meters per hundred years). There are no unusual changes to the rate during or after periods of rapid CO2 increase (WWII or the post-war boom).
Since you are too lazy to do a web search (Google: tax rate revenues), the seventh hit has an article on exactly this topic:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/08/the-historical-lessons-of-lower-tax-rates
Careful before you jump to polemics about it. President Kennedy is quoted: "the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now."
Bottom line: Every time tax RATES were lowered in the 20th century, tax REVENUE increased.
You were already known by SS. From the SS website:
Documents You May Need to Provide
We may need to see certain documents in order to pay benefits. A list of documents we need to see will appear at the end of the application, along with instructions on where to submit them. The documents we may ask for are:
your original birth certificate or other proof of birth [more info] (You may also submit a copy of your birth certificate certified by the issuing agency).;
your original citizenship or naturalization papers [more info];
a copy of your U.S. military service paper(s) (e.g., DD-214 - Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) if you had military service before 1968; [more info]; and
a copy of your W-2 form(s) [more info] and/or self-employment tax return [more info] for last year.
Note: If our records show that documents proving age or citizenship/naturalization have already been submitted for an earlier Medicare or Social Security claim (such as Disability, Supplemental Security Income, etc.), you do not need to submit the documents again. http://www.socialsecurity.gov/info/isba/retirement/firstpartyrib.htm
Ah, I see. Someone is a "privileged asshole" if they can afford $20 to get a driver's license or State ID card. That's quite a leap of logic on your part, AC.
Wow, +4, Insightful. Easy to see how the Mods are coming down on this topic. Fact checks:
Everyone of your example's senior citizens is collecting Social Security, which has very strict requirements for identification. You can bet that either the senior citizen or one of their children has identification available.
I don't see the alleged relationship between requiring having a driver's license (or equivalent State ID for non-drivers) and disenfranchising anyone. State licenses are less than $20 and are valid for multiple years.
Agreed. My average intelligence granddaughter, age 14, cannot tell time at all with an analog clock or watch. This whole thread assumes the elderly are somehow deficient for not intuitively understanding an unknown interface. Pot, meet kettle. (If you don't get that comment, my case is made.)
Redundant since it's mentioned sporadically, but all you Unity haters should really try XUBUNTU with XFCE. It's a straight forward interface and lacks the CPU hogging of KDE. Install the xubuntu desktop and meta-packages and you can then choose it at the login menu.
I can't say who may have previously worked for the Democrat Party, but MSNBC did a story on political contributions from journalists to political parties/campaigns. Summary was that of the total 143 journalists:
125 (87.4%) gave to Democrats, 16 (11.2%) gave to Republicans and 2 ((1.4%) gave to both parties.
I'm not new here, but if a Moderator would help me out to understand how a factual, non-polemic comment could be moderated at the same time both (1) Troll and (2) a plus "2".
I'm not a commercial brew master, but have over 100 batches of all grain home brew under my belt (literally). The ability to make a consistent light lager (Bud/Miller/Coors, etc.) with geographically different water, hops that vary annually due to weather and other variables, and at different breweries with different people is extremely complex and frankly amazing.
That said, just because the mega-breweries do a skillful job, I don't like the style. Give me a highly hopped, high gravity ale with some real flavor and mouth feel any day. And Murphy's Irish Stout is superior to Guinness, IMNSHO.
How did this get modded +3? Criminal hiding of income by US citizens from the IRS has NOTHING to do with supply side economics or trickle down theories. If you don't understand the concepts, don't mod out your rear end.
1. Supply DOES have a lot to do with price (supply/demand curve from basic economics). Read further for a clear example.
2. Speculators do NOT drive price, they facilitate the market (for every buyer/seller, there has to be a corresponding seller/buyer at the agreed on price, or the transaction won't occur).
3. "A bunch of shares" has nothing to do with commodity trading (shares are ownership of a corporation's stock; commodity contracts are a promise to buy or sell something "the Commodity" at a future date).
4. "speculators will buy up and the price will sky rocket" contradicts "no one group can decide to raise the prices independently" .
Search "1973 oil embargo" for a counter example of one group which was certainly able to raise oil prices independently. Hint: the successful group was NOT speculators, but rather the ones providing the supply. Additional credit for those recognizing that the market worked as the price eventually came down as both the cartel broke down and other non-cartel producers increased the supply of oil.
You do understand that the facts do not support your assertion, right? From Congressional Budget Office summaries for 2007 (latest common year I found from a quick search) Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security were $1.215 trillion. Total military retiree costs (active, reserve, disability retirements and survivor benefits) were $44.44 billion. Total military retiree costs were 3.66% of the major Federal entitlement programs, hardly a "large portion".
Other points of interest:
Active duty military pay into Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security just like any other wage earner.
Retiree health care is not a freebie (pay an annual premium, have co-payments, or both, depending on the specific plan).
Non-disability retirement income is taxable income.
Most military "retirees" go into the civilian workforce, paying additional income taxes, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security on those wages.
"They said since I quit, i was no longer an employee and not entitled to the several thousand dollars in unused vacation that they owed me."
You might get a second opinion, depending on how your vacation time is defined in your (former) employment contract. Earned compensation is an entitlement that can't be hand waved off, even by a slick lawyer.
Fact Check: Tell the US citizens who happened to be of Japanese descent during WWII that there was "less intrusion on individual rights". Their internment camps were quite supported by FDR, Congress, the Courts, and the "majority" of Americans during WWII. My wife's aunt married a Japanese-American farmer in the 1930's who was forced by the US government to permanently deed all of his land to his wife during WWII. Also a more minor point, I am not bi-lingual in German because WWI stopped German-Americans from speaking German in the home, as the previous three generations of my family in Illinois had done.
"I've always seen the toilet seat example and wondered what the whole story was. "
It was a naming problem (nomenclature in mil-speak). Rather than being a simple seat like in your house, it was the entire toilet shroud. As I recall, when someone went back to refigure the price, it came out higher. This from a personal friend who worked on the project at the former ASO (Aviation Support Office). I'm still active duty or I'd give you my opinion on Congressmen who distort situations for political gain.
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Whoosh... and Mods, really a 4, Informative???
US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) keeps track of sea levels over time at various harbors. New York's Battery station data goes back to 1857. While I understand that raw sea level change has more inputs than the CO2 cycle, it is interesting to note that the rise is quite linear at the rate of 0.91 feet per hundred years (0.277 meters per hundred years). There are no unusual changes to the rate during or after periods of rapid CO2 increase (WWII or the post-war boom).
http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8518750%20The%20Battery,%20NY
Since you are too lazy to do a web search (Google: tax rate revenues), the seventh hit has an article on exactly this topic: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/08/the-historical-lessons-of-lower-tax-rates Careful before you jump to polemics about it. President Kennedy is quoted: "the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now." Bottom line: Every time tax RATES were lowered in the 20th century, tax REVENUE increased.
Note I wrote nothing about SS needing PHOTO identification.
As for your snarky comment about Bachmann, ad hominem attacks are just a last resort used by the side that lacks logic.
You were already known by SS. From the SS website:
Documents You May Need to Provide
We may need to see certain documents in order to pay benefits. A list of documents we need to see will appear at the end of the application, along with instructions on where to submit them. The documents we may ask for are:
your original birth certificate or other proof of birth [more info] (You may also submit a copy of your birth certificate certified by the issuing agency).;
your original citizenship or naturalization papers [more info];
a copy of your U.S. military service paper(s) (e.g., DD-214 - Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) if you had military service before 1968; [more info]; and
a copy of your W-2 form(s) [more info] and/or self-employment tax return [more info] for last year.
Note: If our records show that documents proving age or citizenship/naturalization have already been submitted for an earlier Medicare or Social Security claim (such as Disability, Supplemental Security Income, etc.), you do not need to submit the documents again.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/info/isba/retirement/firstpartyrib.htm
Ah, I see. Someone is a "privileged asshole" if they can afford $20 to get a driver's license or State ID card. That's quite a leap of logic on your part, AC.
Except that Tina Fey on Sat Night Live actually said it, not Palin.
Palin actually said that Russia can been seen from one of the islands off Alaska, which is true.
Slate even said so: http://www.slate.com/id/2200155/
Wow, +4, Insightful. Easy to see how the Mods are coming down on this topic. Fact checks:
Everyone of your example's senior citizens is collecting Social Security, which has very strict requirements for identification. You can bet that either the senior citizen or one of their children has identification available.
Although clichéd it's still true that dead people do vote in Chicago. So Photo ID voter laws are not only meant to keep poor people from voting.
(And if you look through YouTube enough, you'll find just about anything you want.)
I don't see the alleged relationship between requiring having a driver's license (or equivalent State ID for non-drivers) and disenfranchising anyone. State licenses are less than $20 and are valid for multiple years.
Agreed. My average intelligence granddaughter, age 14, cannot tell time at all with an analog clock or watch. This whole thread assumes the elderly are somehow deficient for not intuitively understanding an unknown interface. Pot, meet kettle. (If you don't get that comment, my case is made.)
Agreed. I wonder how the GP will look back on his remark when he turns 50.
Redundant since it's mentioned sporadically, but all you Unity haters should really try XUBUNTU with XFCE. It's a straight forward interface and lacks the CPU hogging of KDE. Install the xubuntu desktop and meta-packages and you can then choose it at the login menu.
Indo-European language centric, perhaps?
I can't say who may have previously worked for the Democrat Party, but MSNBC did a story on political contributions from journalists to political parties/campaigns. Summary was that of the total 143 journalists:
125 (87.4%) gave to Democrats,
16 (11.2%) gave to Republicans and
2 ((1.4%) gave to both parties.
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455/ns/politics/
That's a ratio of 8 to 1 voting with hard earned cash in the Democrat's favor.
I'm not new here, but if a Moderator would help me out to understand how a factual, non-polemic comment could be moderated at the same time both (1) Troll and (2) a plus "2".
Thanks in advance...
Mod up. Goober Too's remarks are spot on.
I'm not a commercial brew master, but have over 100 batches of all grain home brew under my belt (literally). The ability to make a consistent light lager (Bud/Miller/Coors, etc.) with geographically different water, hops that vary annually due to weather and other variables, and at different breweries with different people is extremely complex and frankly amazing.
That said, just because the mega-breweries do a skillful job, I don't like the style. Give me a highly hopped, high gravity ale with some real flavor and mouth feel any day. And Murphy's Irish Stout is superior to Guinness, IMNSHO.
How did this get modded +3? Criminal hiding of income by US citizens from the IRS has NOTHING to do with supply side economics or trickle down theories. If you don't understand the concepts, don't mod out your rear end.
I'm amazed, well not actually since this is /.
1. Supply DOES have a lot to do with price (supply/demand curve from basic economics). Read further for a clear example.
2. Speculators do NOT drive price, they facilitate the market (for every buyer/seller, there has to be a corresponding seller/buyer at the agreed on price, or the transaction won't occur).
3. "A bunch of shares" has nothing to do with commodity trading (shares are ownership of a corporation's stock; commodity contracts are a promise to buy or sell something "the Commodity" at a future date).
4. "speculators will buy up and the price will sky rocket" contradicts "no one group can decide to raise the prices independently" .
Search "1973 oil embargo" for a counter example of one group which was certainly able to raise oil prices independently. Hint: the successful group was NOT speculators, but rather the ones providing the supply. Additional credit for those recognizing that the market worked as the price eventually came down as both the cartel broke down and other non-cartel producers increased the supply of oil.
You do understand that the facts do not support your assertion, right? From Congressional Budget Office summaries for 2007 (latest common year I found from a quick search) Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security were $1.215 trillion. Total military retiree costs (active, reserve, disability retirements and survivor benefits) were $44.44 billion. Total military retiree costs were 3.66% of the major Federal entitlement programs, hardly a "large portion".
Other points of interest:
Active duty military pay into Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security just like any other wage earner.
Retiree health care is not a freebie (pay an annual premium, have co-payments, or both, depending on the specific plan).
Non-disability retirement income is taxable income.
Most military "retirees" go into the civilian workforce, paying additional income taxes, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security on those wages.
"They said since I quit, i was no longer an employee and not entitled to the several thousand dollars in unused vacation that they owed me."
You might get a second opinion, depending on how your vacation time is defined in your (former) employment contract. Earned compensation is an entitlement that can't be hand waved off, even by a slick lawyer.
Since 1/3 is for all employees, I'm venturing the % is over 90% for IT employees behind the cypher locks. And anyone reading this from work sure is.
Umm, Roosevelt (FDR), Kennedy & Johnson (LBJ) come to mind.
Fact Check: Tell the US citizens who happened to be of Japanese descent during WWII that there was "less intrusion on individual rights". Their internment camps were quite supported by FDR, Congress, the Courts, and the "majority" of Americans during WWII. My wife's aunt married a Japanese-American farmer in the 1930's who was forced by the US government to permanently deed all of his land to his wife during WWII. Also a more minor point, I am not bi-lingual in German because WWI stopped German-Americans from speaking German in the home, as the previous three generations of my family in Illinois had done.
Ummm, lion is 4 years old...care to list something current?
"I've always seen the toilet seat example and wondered what the whole story was. "
It was a naming problem (nomenclature in mil-speak). Rather than being a simple seat like in your house, it was the entire toilet shroud. As I recall, when someone went back to refigure the price, it came out higher. This from a personal friend who worked on the project at the former ASO (Aviation Support Office). I'm still active duty or I'd give you my opinion on Congressmen who distort situations for political gain.