How bad are people tracking you? Everytime you see a facebook, twitter, or other social media button, a like button, or whatever, that image is tracking you. I'm showing 16 different companies tracking slashdot from google analytics to facebook and twitter to places like taboola and others - some running scripts, some setting cookies. Don't know if any are using web bugs as I haven't checked to see what methods they all use, but this is what keeps slashdot running.
The problem is that every site is doing this. People are no longer customers, but you are now a PRODUCT. People are selling YOU. This isn't what the Internet was designed to be, its not the outpost of freedom we wanted. I am trully disappointed.
If the rich weren't evading taxes, forcing down your salaries with anti-competitive practices and using the power of their lobbists, they wouldn't have that rolls-royce. There is a reason why companies spend millions if not billions of dollars on a candidate. They are buying the laws and policies that keep them richer than the rest of us. A democracy seeks to be a democracy when our representatives can be BOUGHT. Its not 1 person = 1 vote, its 1 dollar = 1 vote. Look at what the actual costs of living and actual adjusted wages are in this country and how they have changed over time. A single wage-earner family can no longer survive without government help, and we blame socialist government practices for giving out that help. If the capitalist machine hadn't run over them in the first place, they wouldn't need any help. We've given up our powers and our voices by believing the hype of the marketing machine and the politicians that blatanty lie to us while corporations fill their pockets. The disparity of income in this country keeps growing and the average incomes compared to the cost of living are going DOWN. Don't think this is just luck or circumstance. Study economics and you'll find this is planned. In fact, our founding fathers warned us of things like federal debt and a national bank (the federal reserve is not federal and there is no reserve, it is a banking cartel designed to make money for wall street while the tax payers bail them out... and we keep on doing it in spite of the fact that we had to modify the constitution to make it happen). No one ever mentions the papers written by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and others that make our whole economic system totally against their vision.
Don't be a SHEEP. READ. EDUCATE. Then stand up and say NO.
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one of them!
I think that all taxes based on income level should be wiped out, but have higher taxation on resource usage and a new tax on income disparity. Under this scheme, there would be no exemptions or credits. It would also be absolutely necessary to repeal NAFTA and prevent the upcoming TPP. The TPP will be especially damaging to economies all over the globe, especially our own. We also need to stop subsidizing gasoline and corn and stupid stuff like that. This falsly encourages a reliance on oil and provides cheap corn meal and corn syrup for the major companies to shove down our throat while making enormous profits... why should we pay our taxes to make their products cheaper to make?
Sales taxes should be completely removed as well. Sales taxes and other flat taxes have been shown to disproportionately tax the lower incomes more than anyone else. Instead, we need resource taxes which goes to whichever state owns the resource you are using (or polluting!). This makes online trade pretty sane because you don't need to worry about sales taxes, and the manufacturer (or rather supplier) is now responsible for paying the tax, and they can't move their place of business to change taxes, its set by where the resource is coming from (although obviously you can change where you get the resource to a different state - each state would set their own).
Since income disparity is not normally in the discussion, here is how it works. You take your income and divide it by the income of the lowest paid employee. This is used (likely with a logorithm function) to determine the amount of taxation. For example, something like this: log ( yourIncome / lowestIncome) * 35 = percentage you pay.
If you are the the lowest paid worker at your company, you pay nothing. If you make 80K/yr and some guy makes 20K/yr, then you pay 21%. If you make 800K/yr and some guy makes 20K, then you owe 56%. Of course, this is still 350K/yr, and that percentage is actually close to what many people making much less are paying. If you make 5M/yr and some guy is making 20K/yr you might want to raise his salary so that you can make more money (but isn't 800K/yr enough?), or consider having that job fulfilled by another company. An equal partnership or sole proprietorship pays no taxes - you earned that with your own sweat, you keep it all. As soon as you have employees that make less than you, you are standing on the fruits of their labor and need to support the community with what you gain. They are making money for you.
This also encourages companies to raise salaries to reduce their taxes and to employ things like cleaning services which can use their power of numbers to negotiate better treatment for employees than what the major corporations are doing. Right now, you either take a crap job or they'll find someone more desperate. Obviously, tariffs must be used to prevent companies from moving off-shore to evade taxes and pull money out of our economy.
No exceptions, no loopholes, no end-of-year returns, no writeoffs, no discounts.
This may seem harsh. But writeoffs encourages behaviors. Do we really want to discount having more children? Isn't that opposite of what we should encourage? How about writing off the interest on your mortage? Not only does that encourage debt, but who does it benefit? The poor don't own a house, the middle class votes for it because they are already over-taxed, but the real benefit is the rich who have 12 houses - its a giant tax evasion and just serves to employ your accountants and tax preparers.
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How bad are people tracking you? Everytime you see a facebook, twitter, or other social media button, a like button, or whatever, that image is tracking you. I'm showing 16 different companies tracking slashdot from google analytics to facebook and twitter to places like taboola and others - some running scripts, some setting cookies. Don't know if any are using web bugs as I haven't checked to see what methods they all use, but this is what keeps slashdot running.
The problem is that every site is doing this. People are no longer customers, but you are now a PRODUCT. People are selling YOU. This isn't what the Internet was designed to be, its not the outpost of freedom we wanted. I am trully disappointed.
This is absolutely wrong.
If the rich weren't evading taxes, forcing down your salaries with anti-competitive practices and using the power of their lobbists, they wouldn't have that rolls-royce. There is a reason why companies spend millions if not billions of dollars on a candidate. They are buying the laws and policies that keep them richer than the rest of us. A democracy seeks to be a democracy when our representatives can be BOUGHT. Its not 1 person = 1 vote, its 1 dollar = 1 vote. Look at what the actual costs of living and actual adjusted wages are in this country and how they have changed over time. A single wage-earner family can no longer survive without government help, and we blame socialist government practices for giving out that help. If the capitalist machine hadn't run over them in the first place, they wouldn't need any help. We've given up our powers and our voices by believing the hype of the marketing machine and the politicians that blatanty lie to us while corporations fill their pockets. The disparity of income in this country keeps growing and the average incomes compared to the cost of living are going DOWN. Don't think this is just luck or circumstance. Study economics and you'll find this is planned. In fact, our founding fathers warned us of things like federal debt and a national bank (the federal reserve is not federal and there is no reserve, it is a banking cartel designed to make money for wall street while the tax payers bail them out ... and we keep on doing it in spite of the fact that we had to modify the constitution to make it happen). No one ever mentions the papers written by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and others that make our whole economic system totally against their vision.
Don't be a SHEEP. READ. EDUCATE. Then stand up and say NO.
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one of them!
I think that all taxes based on income level should be wiped out, but have higher taxation on resource usage and a new tax on income disparity. Under this scheme, there would be no exemptions or credits. It would also be absolutely necessary to repeal NAFTA and prevent the upcoming TPP. The TPP will be especially damaging to economies all over the globe, especially our own. We also need to stop subsidizing gasoline and corn and stupid stuff like that. This falsly encourages a reliance on oil and provides cheap corn meal and corn syrup for the major companies to shove down our throat while making enormous profits ... why should we pay our taxes to make their products cheaper to make?
Sales taxes should be completely removed as well. Sales taxes and other flat taxes have been shown to disproportionately tax the lower incomes more than anyone else. Instead, we need resource taxes which goes to whichever state owns the resource you are using (or polluting!). This makes online trade pretty sane because you don't need to worry about sales taxes, and the manufacturer (or rather supplier) is now responsible for paying the tax, and they can't move their place of business to change taxes, its set by where the resource is coming from (although obviously you can change where you get the resource to a different state - each state would set their own).
Since income disparity is not normally in the discussion, here is how it works. You take your income and divide it by the income of the lowest paid employee. This is used (likely with a logorithm function) to determine the amount of taxation. For example, something like this: log ( yourIncome / lowestIncome) * 35 = percentage you pay.
If you are the the lowest paid worker at your company, you pay nothing. If you make 80K/yr and some guy makes 20K/yr, then you pay 21%. If you make 800K/yr and some guy makes 20K, then you owe 56%. Of course, this is still 350K/yr, and that percentage is actually close to what many people making much less are paying. If you make 5M/yr and some guy is making 20K/yr you might want to raise his salary so that you can make more money (but isn't 800K/yr enough?), or consider having that job fulfilled by another company. An equal partnership or sole proprietorship pays no taxes - you earned that with your own sweat, you keep it all. As soon as you have employees that make less than you, you are standing on the fruits of their labor and need to support the community with what you gain. They are making money for you.
This also encourages companies to raise salaries to reduce their taxes and to employ things like cleaning services which can use their power of numbers to negotiate better treatment for employees than what the major corporations are doing. Right now, you either take a crap job or they'll find someone more desperate. Obviously, tariffs must be used to prevent companies from moving off-shore to evade taxes and pull money out of our economy.
No exceptions, no loopholes, no end-of-year returns, no writeoffs, no discounts.
This may seem harsh. But writeoffs encourages behaviors. Do we really want to discount having more children? Isn't that opposite of what we should encourage? How about writing off the interest on your mortage? Not only does that encourage debt, but who does it benefit? The poor don't own a house, the middle class votes for it because they are already over-taxed, but the real benefit is the rich who have 12 houses - its a giant tax evasion and just serves to employ your accountants and tax preparers.
Comments welcome.