You have still not refuted his statements with documented facts. Probably because you can't find a source, but it doesn't give you adequate standing to besmirch the man's character. You not liking what he said does not make it untrue.
Fantastic. So I guess those people who became entrapped in cults weren't brainwashed either?
In any case, the things he is referring to can also be classified as indoctrination. But I am sure you will self-document that as "pretend" also. You set up so many straw man arguments you should be a wikipedia reference.
There is ample documentation of Soviet activity in a manner described by this man. Where is your documentation? Oh, wait, you are just another sympathizer who spent far too much time believing what you were taught by left-wing loonies.
I get it. He's wrong because you *think* he is wrong. Never mind that you have no actual knowledge of events during that era, or that declassified materials on both sides have shown it to be true. Believing it would upset your liberal worldview, which tells us that the Soviets were only interested in espionage for the purposes of self-defense against the capitalist imperialist overlords.
And there's my source, where you decry American propaganda for creating "myths" about Stalin regarding his purges.
Let me guess, you think the Gulag Archipelago was American propaganda, too? And now you are here, sticking up for your fellow collaborators and trying to influence useful idiots. Nice.
Their infiltration of our higher ed system and popular culture can be clearly seen today. It's eerie that if you watch Ronald Reagan's farewell address, you notice that at the end, it's the decline in the core of American sensibilities he is worried about, despite the increase in national pride under his administration.
Nice unsourced statement. You are conveniently attempting to ignore, much like the early leftist fans of Stalin, the reality of the situation. Our institutions of learning and higher learning *were* purposefully infiltrated by the Soviets in order to take us out from within. It's the same modus operandi that the Scientology folk have used on a larger scale, and like Scientology they also targeted Hollywood. Unfortunately for us, they were more successful.
Our popular culture is filled with people who are devoid of independent thought. Some, like Pete Seeger, eventually disowned Stalin, but many didn't, and a lot of damage was done. Seeger still sells the communist line, and look who he works with: School Children. Upstate New York's public radio is headed by a man who could sing you all the old "Labor songs" without reading them off a sheet.
You can show them revenue figures from the 1980's that showed tax revenue almost doubled, and they will still claim that the tax cuts caused the increase in the deficit, and that the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The truth of course is that both groups got richer. If confronted with facts and figures, they will retreat into the rich got disproportionately richer than the poor, so it's "not fair". It's complete class warfare, and it's been pounded into them their whole lives.
Wow. I see you have arrived on our planet full of piss and vinegar and ready to support your political heroes full bore. That's great, I'm happy for your new found success.
Oh wait, this is about Obama's new Anti-trust chief going ape on a search engine that happens to have sponsored links clearly separate from the results, and a successful advertising model that doesn't annoy the user. Not the opinions of a 20-something who not only didn't live through the Hoover era, but who also didn't live through the Reagan era, but knows all sorts of incorrect things about them. In fact, said 20-something received all of his/her opinions in something resembling a benediction from high school teachers and *maybe* university professors.
He now reflects those spoon-fed half-baked ideas back onto the world like the ignoramus he is, having never run a real business, having never had to raise a family, or do any real-life task. Fitting that he should support a politician who thinks no one should be doing any of those things.
I'm surprised STP was off by default. I remember in 1999 or so I had some trouble that resulted in my having to turn STP off on Cisco switches (they shipped with it on (these were 3524s and a 5505). I can't actually remember why. I think it had something to do with a Novell server?
In any case, I remember saying to the Cisco phone support guy, who had been baffled for 4 hours or so before he told me to turn it off (and things started to work) "Who the heck would plug in two ports from one device into the same network?"
Since then, I have seen exactly that situation many times in small office environments. Also, the classic plugging in while also being on the wireless side of the network.
The Law of Unintended Consequences can be seen all throughout our society.
Causes, From Wikipedia's citing of Robert Merton:
1. Ignorance (It is impossible to anticipate everything, thereby leading to incomplete analysis)
2. Error (Incorrect analysis of the problem or following habits that worked in the past but may not apply to the current situation)
3. Immediate interest, which may override long-term interests
4. Basic values may require or prohibit certain actions even if the long-term result might be unfavorable (these long-term consequences may eventually cause changes in basic values)
5. Self-defeating prophecy (Fear of some consequence drives people to find solutions before the problem occurs, thus the non-occurrence of the problem is unanticipated)
Effects, from the same:
1. kudzu has become a major problem in the South Eastern United States since its introduction as a way of preventing erosion in earthworks. Kudzu has displaced native plants, and has effectively taken over significant portions of land.
2. Rent control leads in the long run to housing shortages, and drops in housing availability and quality. It may even lead to the creation of slum areas where owners permit rental property to run down until it becomes uninhabitable.
I used these examples from said article because I am feeling too lazy this morning to have to spend any more precious time fending off the "we're all gonna die!" crowd. They'll all flock to this article, with their degrees in Climate Science, no doubt, and proclaim that all we need to do is have faith in what they call consensus. That way, we can become tomorrow's laughingstock. No thanks - I think I'll sit this one out.
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I agree with your points to an extent, but unfortunately we are in an era of extremely popular class warfare. "I have less money because that guy has more money".
It's an incredibly simplistic economic worldview, and it is closely tied to the worldview that doesn't understand that corporations don't pay taxes. If the corporation can't pass it's expenses onto the consumer or customer, it is no longer in business. Every expense is and should be passed on to the customer in the form of pricing.
But for people who don't run a business, this can be a difficult concept to understand. Just like they don't know how much they are really making when they are working for another entity instead of owning their own business. They usually ignore the payroll taxes that the company pays on their behalf, and only see the portion that appears on their stub.
More is better is a frequent culprit for lots of problems. I have heard some say that one should gauge their dosage of C by diarrhea. Take more until you get it, then back off one notch.
How many chiropractors have you visited? It sounds to me as if you have no experience with a straightforward back-cracker. I jest, as they do more than crack backs. I think you have been spending too much time reading the Wikipedia article, and no time in a Chiropractor's office. Myself, I have only seen a Chiropractor unofficially, once. It was helpful for a particular problem related to the way I was sitting for years (hunched over keyboards and such). I haven't gone back, as I had no need.
Much like the cracking of knuckles, I think that once you start cracking, the tendency is to want to keep cracking. I think that if one *has* to go to a chiropractor to get effective treatment, it should be as little as possible to get the job done, for that reason.
As for medical doctors who "specialize", the good friend of mine with Sciatica went to those "specialists" and got second opinions. When they finally decided what was wrong (lumbar disc problem), his doctor called him in to discuss it. They wanted to open up his back and do some real whacky stuff. Too bad he had already seen a Chiropractor, who after two appointments had relieved the issue through pushing things around.
You know what's really sad? The doctor was mad that the guy went to a chiropractor. Not relieved that he wouldn't have to perform a major surgery on someone.
So instead of trying to take away from the time and effort that Chiropractor spent learning about the human body by saying they "accidentally stumbled" upon something, why don't you let it go and realize that maybe somebody knows something to be fact that doesn't make sense to you.
And keep your trust of the Wikipedia articles to a minimum. Like I said, not all Chiropractors are trying to be Mystics.
You say this after all of the studies you have performed, yes?
Significant research is still being done on Vitamin C and colds, and one must recognize that while there are results which support both sides of the argument, nothing has been settled. One of the problems is that there are so many other variables to the length and severity of a cold. Also, there is now some evidence that Zinc and Vitamin C do not work well when combined (absorption issues), and many supplements do this.
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While some Chiropractors are trying to sell people on "Blue Light Therapy" and other stuff, others do help patients who are in great pain. Ask anyone who has been helped with Sciatica that occurred after a lumbar disc problem whether they would prefer to go back and have surgery, rather than the solution they got from the chiropractor. Or maybe the person who had a pinched nerve in their neck causing total numbness to shoot down their arm and pain in their shoulder. When the Chiropractor fixes this issue, do we disregard the results because we believe Chiropractic to be quackery?
Meanwhile, we'll have all the kooks out here proclaiming that Vitamin C or Zinc don't help with colds, and whatever you do, don't drink cranberry juice to help you with a UTI.
I've seen plenty of quackery. Many people in the Alternative medicine field are insane. But that doesn't mean that every treatment that is not released by a pharmaceutical or approved by a certified M.D. is useless.
You've been trolling this topic with the same inflammatory rhetoric that the above poster describes. The fact is that those items are a very small portion of our budget. Most communities in NY have volunteer fire departments, for one. They raise money for equipment in a variety of ways, and they are pretty darn effective.
We have a reduced need for jails, and local communities pay for a large portion of police forces.
Likewise, those people who do not have their own septic tanks, and rely on municipal services, pay for their sewer on the local level. Not State.
Ditto for non-state Highways, which are maintained on a local level. The Thruway is maintained too well, using the massive amount of revenue gained from confiscatory tolls, which were supposed to be eliminated a long time ago.
Take your Socialist party hat and move to Europe, where you will be welcome. NY has one of the largest education budgets on a per student level in the nation (over 20,000 per student in my area), and the education our children get has not justified the cost.
Even though we have had huge increases every year, we still have idiots clamoring for more, and meanwhile New York has been losing population for years, and businesses are not exactly chomping at the bit to move in.
I am not going to participate in your little endurance trial of throwing out crazy numbers and trying to mold the real world to fit your political view.
However, I will point out to any who still might be reading (which is probably just you) that someone making 250,000 already pays 68,250.75, which means they are working more than 1 day out of every 4 to support your socialist agenda. You feel it needs to be increased, because it's not your money. Someone else has money *you* would like to spend. How generous of you. They are paying more in taxes than you make in gross income every year.
Okay. You absolutely know nothing about S corps, and nothing about small business. First, your assertion that a business making 250K / year is not a "small business". This is ridiculous. If you have 10 or more employees, there is a good chance that your business is making $250,000, and had better be to avoid possible problems during slow times. Small businesses can have up to 100 employees in the U.S. before being considered a medium-sized business, and there are many, many small businesses that have 10-20 employees. Think every landscaper that has more than a basic book of business, Well service, fuel delivery companies, financial advisor firms, insurance companies, law firms, local doctors offices, heating and cooling companies, overhead door companies, farms, liquor stores, food distribution, restaurants, etc. ad infinitum.
2. Unbecoming a S corp is simple? You do realize that S corps can have up to 75 shareholders? You don't actually have an S corp, do you? In fact, you really haven't ever had to run a business with employees. Never had to cut a payroll tax check, right?
3. "They shrug off profits and lower prices for no reason".
When your margin increases, you can increase compensation, which increases spending and saving amongst employees, and you can keep prices lower, which increases custom and keeps you in business.
4. Tax money is very inefficiently spent, and very little of it gets to intended recipients. Welfare funds, for example, mostly go to the bureaucracy that supports the program, and not to the people who are actually poor.
5. Someone should stop running an S corp? S corps allow someone to avoid one form of double taxation. S corps are designed for small businesses that employ people. They are not designed to support all your little pet projects and bloated government programs.
Why don't you take a ride on the clue bus and actually read up on S corps. And since I am noticing based on a recent post of yours that you are actually a "Progressive" (no wonder you are upset by "red-baiting"), I suggest you start a business. It's the only way you will ever learn about real-world economics, and drop your Utopian fantasy about a rich benefactor who will pay for everything you need.
I get it. Small business owners should pay more taxes. That will never get passed on to their customers, right?
Hey, that's obviously what you want. Unfortunately, most others don't. The people that fall for Obama's class-warfare plan fail to realize that corporations DON'T PAY TAXES. People do. They will. Those increases are going to be passed on to them in the form of higher prices and greater expenses.
Meanwhile, we will still have the cheerleaders around, clamoring for more of the "stick it to the rich" taxes.
As for "if you don't like blah blah blah", your position assumes that people should choose one type of corporation with one set of circumstances, and then shut their mouths when someone wants to change the rules in a way that negatively affects them.
That is an amazingly ignorant statement. Please list for me the companies with 10,000 employees whose CEO has a compensation of less than $250K / year.
Also, you know nothing about small businesses. Many of them are S corps, and despite some people's assumptions, it's not all deductible when it comes to expenses.
But glad to see that class warfare is alive and well.
Not only do you like to re-interpret our constitution, despite all of the backup documentation on the reasoning of our Founding Fathers (conveniently available in the Federalist Papers), you also like to re-interpret the post you are replying to. He said this:
"I think that anyone over 18 years of age should be able to walk into a store and buy everything from a.38 to a minigun, and all the ammo they can carry, no background check (beyond a driver's license or similar to prove age) required."
You reply with this:
"like you said, it should be difficult to buy a gun, not as easy as buying a set of tires"
That's the polar opposite of what he said. You, and others like you, want reality to mold itself to your theories. It doesn't work that way.
NY had a real easy process this time, remarkably like last time and the time before, etcetera, etcetera. Thanks to much effort on the part of Voting System vendors, we now have these Big Honkin' (tm) Sequoia Machines (thankfully not in use in my county). They were sitting in the corner, while the Good Old (tm) Mechanical, no-power-required just kept chugging along, processing votes without a hitch. As usual.
Well, as long as we can take *your* word for it. Can you tell me how many of the Communist Party USA's agenda points you feel don't match his outlook? And I guess center-left democrats always propose selecting smart students to go to college and telling others they are to perform more menial tasks in life?
Communist Party Immediate Program for the Crisis
It is shameful and unacceptable that any child should live in poverty, and that anyone should go hungry, homeless, without medicine, or without a living wage in our nation of such great wealth.
Meet the Needs of Working, Unemployed and Farm Families - Raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. -Unemployment insurance for all workers. - Moratorium on farm foreclosures - Labor law reform to remove barriers to workers who want to join a union. - No privatization of Social Security. Increase benefits. - Universal prescription drug coverage administered by Medicare. Universal health care system. - Restore social safety net. Welfare reform that includes job training, supports and living wages. - Full funding for equal, quality, bi-lingual public education. No vouchers.
Make Corporate Giants Pay - Repeal tax cuts to the rich and corporations. - Close corporate tax loopholes. - Restitution to workers' pensions. - Strong regulation of financial industry. - Regulation and public ownership of utilities - Prosecute corporate polluters. Public works program to clean our air, water and land - Aid to cities and states. Federally funded infrastructure repair and social service programs
Foreign Policy for Peace and Justice - No to war with Iraq - End military interventions - Repeal Fast Track and NAFTA, stop Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA). No secrecy. - Save Salt II Agreements, reject Star Wars and Nuclear Posture Review -Abolish nuclear weapons - End military interventions. - Cut military budget and fund human needs.
Defend Democracy and Civil Rights - End racial profiling. - Repeal the death penalty. - Enforce civil rights laws and affirmative action. - Repeal USA Patriot Act. - Legalization and protection of immigrant>rights. - Public financing of elections. Overall election law reform including Instant Runoff Voting. - Youth and student bill of rights. Guarantee youth's right to earn,learn and live.
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You have still not refuted his statements with documented facts. Probably because you can't find a source, but it doesn't give you adequate standing to besmirch the man's character. You not liking what he said does not make it untrue.
Fantastic. So I guess those people who became entrapped in cults weren't brainwashed either?
In any case, the things he is referring to can also be classified as indoctrination. But I am sure you will self-document that as "pretend" also. You set up so many straw man arguments you should be a wikipedia reference.
There is ample documentation of Soviet activity in a manner described by this man. Where is your documentation? Oh, wait, you are just another sympathizer who spent far too much time believing what you were taught by left-wing loonies.
I get it. He's wrong because you *think* he is wrong. Never mind that you have no actual knowledge of events during that era, or that declassified materials on both sides have shown it to be true. Believing it would upset your liberal worldview, which tells us that the Soviets were only interested in espionage for the purposes of self-defense against the capitalist imperialist overlords.
Welcome, Stalin Apologist...
After reading some more of your posts, I see that this is a hobby of yours.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1227031&cid=27945215
And there's my source, where you decry American propaganda for creating "myths" about Stalin regarding his purges.
Let me guess, you think the Gulag Archipelago was American propaganda, too? And now you are here, sticking up for your fellow collaborators and trying to influence useful idiots. Nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgYPDvQFU8&feature=related
No, they have actually formed our recent history. See this post below:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1234821&cid=27975543
Their infiltration of our higher ed system and popular culture can be clearly seen today. It's eerie that if you watch Ronald Reagan's farewell address, you notice that at the end, it's the decline in the core of American sensibilities he is worried about, despite the increase in national pride under his administration.
http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3418
Nice unsourced statement. You are conveniently attempting to ignore, much like the early leftist fans of Stalin, the reality of the situation. Our institutions of learning and higher learning *were* purposefully infiltrated by the Soviets in order to take us out from within. It's the same modus operandi that the Scientology folk have used on a larger scale, and like Scientology they also targeted Hollywood. Unfortunately for us, they were more successful.
Our popular culture is filled with people who are devoid of independent thought. Some, like Pete Seeger, eventually disowned Stalin, but many didn't, and a lot of damage was done. Seeger still sells the communist line, and look who he works with: School Children. Upstate New York's public radio is headed by a man who could sing you all the old "Labor songs" without reading them off a sheet.
You can show them revenue figures from the 1980's that showed tax revenue almost doubled, and they will still claim that the tax cuts caused the increase in the deficit, and that the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The truth of course is that both groups got richer. If confronted with facts and figures, they will retreat into the rich got disproportionately richer than the poor, so it's "not fair". It's complete class warfare, and it's been pounded into them their whole lives.
Wow. I see you have arrived on our planet full of piss and vinegar and ready to support your political heroes full bore. That's great, I'm happy for your new found success.
Oh wait, this is about Obama's new Anti-trust chief going ape on a search engine that happens to have sponsored links clearly separate from the results, and a successful advertising model that doesn't annoy the user. Not the opinions of a 20-something who not only didn't live through the Hoover era, but who also didn't live through the Reagan era, but knows all sorts of incorrect things about them. In fact, said 20-something received all of his/her opinions in something resembling a benediction from high school teachers and *maybe* university professors.
He now reflects those spoon-fed half-baked ideas back onto the world like the ignoramus he is, having never run a real business, having never had to raise a family, or do any real-life task. Fitting that he should support a politician who thinks no one should be doing any of those things.
I'm surprised STP was off by default. I remember in 1999 or so I had some trouble that resulted in my having to turn STP off on Cisco switches (they shipped with it on (these were 3524s and a 5505). I can't actually remember why. I think it had something to do with a Novell server?
In any case, I remember saying to the Cisco phone support guy, who had been baffled for 4 hours or so before he told me to turn it off (and things started to work) "Who the heck would plug in two ports from one device into the same network?"
Since then, I have seen exactly that situation many times in small office environments. Also, the classic plugging in while also being on the wireless side of the network.
Now there's a show that needs to be made available. Not a single bad episode.
I remember seeing an analysis of what this is on TV. No anchor links, but just do a find on "Subhuman".
http://www.thetick.ws/tvvillains.html
The Law of Unintended Consequences can be seen all throughout our society.
Causes, From Wikipedia's citing of Robert Merton:
1. Ignorance (It is impossible to anticipate everything, thereby leading to incomplete analysis)
2. Error (Incorrect analysis of the problem or following habits that worked in the past but may not apply to the current situation)
3. Immediate interest, which may override long-term interests
4. Basic values may require or prohibit certain actions even if the long-term result might be unfavorable (these long-term consequences may eventually cause changes in basic values)
5. Self-defeating prophecy (Fear of some consequence drives people to find solutions before the problem occurs, thus the non-occurrence of the problem is unanticipated)
Effects, from the same:
1. kudzu has become a major problem in the South Eastern United States since its introduction as a way of preventing erosion in earthworks. Kudzu has displaced native plants, and has effectively taken over significant portions of land.
2. Rent control leads in the long run to housing shortages, and drops in housing availability and quality. It may even lead to the creation of slum areas where owners permit rental property to run down until it becomes uninhabitable.
I used these examples from said article because I am feeling too lazy this morning to have to spend any more precious time fending off the "we're all gonna die!" crowd. They'll all flock to this article, with their degrees in Climate Science, no doubt, and proclaim that all we need to do is have faith in what they call consensus. That way, we can become tomorrow's laughingstock. No thanks - I think I'll sit this one out.
I agree with your points to an extent, but unfortunately we are in an era of extremely popular class warfare. "I have less money because that guy has more money".
It's an incredibly simplistic economic worldview, and it is closely tied to the worldview that doesn't understand that corporations don't pay taxes. If the corporation can't pass it's expenses onto the consumer or customer, it is no longer in business. Every expense is and should be passed on to the customer in the form of pricing.
But for people who don't run a business, this can be a difficult concept to understand. Just like they don't know how much they are really making when they are working for another entity instead of owning their own business. They usually ignore the payroll taxes that the company pays on their behalf, and only see the portion that appears on their stub.
More is better is a frequent culprit for lots of problems. I have heard some say that one should gauge their dosage of C by diarrhea. Take more until you get it, then back off one notch.
Probably a bad idea.
How many chiropractors have you visited? It sounds to me as if you have no experience with a straightforward back-cracker. I jest, as they do more than crack backs. I think you have been spending too much time reading the Wikipedia article, and no time in a Chiropractor's office. Myself, I have only seen a Chiropractor unofficially, once. It was helpful for a particular problem related to the way I was sitting for years (hunched over keyboards and such). I haven't gone back, as I had no need.
Much like the cracking of knuckles, I think that once you start cracking, the tendency is to want to keep cracking. I think that if one *has* to go to a chiropractor to get effective treatment, it should be as little as possible to get the job done, for that reason.
As for medical doctors who "specialize", the good friend of mine with Sciatica went to those "specialists" and got second opinions. When they finally decided what was wrong (lumbar disc problem), his doctor called him in to discuss it. They wanted to open up his back and do some real whacky stuff. Too bad he had already seen a Chiropractor, who after two appointments had relieved the issue through pushing things around.
You know what's really sad? The doctor was mad that the guy went to a chiropractor. Not relieved that he wouldn't have to perform a major surgery on someone.
So instead of trying to take away from the time and effort that Chiropractor spent learning about the human body by saying they "accidentally stumbled" upon something, why don't you let it go and realize that maybe somebody knows something to be fact that doesn't make sense to you.
And keep your trust of the Wikipedia articles to a minimum. Like I said, not all Chiropractors are trying to be Mystics.
You say this after all of the studies you have performed, yes?
Significant research is still being done on Vitamin C and colds, and one must recognize that while there are results which support both sides of the argument, nothing has been settled. One of the problems is that there are so many other variables to the length and severity of a cold. Also, there is now some evidence that Zinc and Vitamin C do not work well when combined (absorption issues), and many supplements do this.
While some Chiropractors are trying to sell people on "Blue Light Therapy" and other stuff, others do help patients who are in great pain. Ask anyone who has been helped with Sciatica that occurred after a lumbar disc problem whether they would prefer to go back and have surgery, rather than the solution they got from the chiropractor. Or maybe the person who had a pinched nerve in their neck causing total numbness to shoot down their arm and pain in their shoulder. When the Chiropractor fixes this issue, do we disregard the results because we believe Chiropractic to be quackery?
Meanwhile, we'll have all the kooks out here proclaiming that Vitamin C or Zinc don't help with colds, and whatever you do, don't drink cranberry juice to help you with a UTI.
I've seen plenty of quackery. Many people in the Alternative medicine field are insane. But that doesn't mean that every treatment that is not released by a pharmaceutical or approved by a certified M.D. is useless.
You've been trolling this topic with the same inflammatory rhetoric that the above poster describes. The fact is that those items are a very small portion of our budget. Most communities in NY have volunteer fire departments, for one. They raise money for equipment in a variety of ways, and they are pretty darn effective.
We have a reduced need for jails, and local communities pay for a large portion of police forces.
Likewise, those people who do not have their own septic tanks, and rely on municipal services, pay for their sewer on the local level. Not State.
Ditto for non-state Highways, which are maintained on a local level. The Thruway is maintained too well, using the massive amount of revenue gained from confiscatory tolls, which were supposed to be eliminated a long time ago.
Take your Socialist party hat and move to Europe, where you will be welcome. NY has one of the largest education budgets on a per student level in the nation (over 20,000 per student in my area), and the education our children get has not justified the cost.
Even though we have had huge increases every year, we still have idiots clamoring for more, and meanwhile New York has been losing population for years, and businesses are not exactly chomping at the bit to move in.
I am not going to participate in your little endurance trial of throwing out crazy numbers and trying to mold the real world to fit your political view.
However, I will point out to any who still might be reading (which is probably just you) that someone making 250,000 already pays 68,250.75, which means they are working more than 1 day out of every 4 to support your socialist agenda. You feel it needs to be increased, because it's not your money. Someone else has money *you* would like to spend. How generous of you. They are paying more in taxes than you make in gross income every year.
Okay. You absolutely know nothing about S corps, and nothing about small business. First, your assertion that a business making 250K / year is not a "small business". This is ridiculous. If you have 10 or more employees, there is a good chance that your business is making $250,000, and had better be to avoid possible problems during slow times. Small businesses can have up to 100 employees in the U.S. before being considered a medium-sized business, and there are many, many small businesses that have 10-20 employees. Think every landscaper that has more than a basic book of business, Well service, fuel delivery companies, financial advisor firms, insurance companies, law firms, local doctors offices, heating and cooling companies, overhead door companies, farms, liquor stores, food distribution, restaurants, etc. ad infinitum.
2. Unbecoming a S corp is simple? You do realize that S corps can have up to 75 shareholders? You don't actually have an S corp, do you? In fact, you really haven't ever had to run a business with employees. Never had to cut a payroll tax check, right?
3. "They shrug off profits and lower prices for no reason".
When your margin increases, you can increase compensation, which increases spending and saving amongst employees, and you can keep prices lower, which increases custom and keeps you in business.
4. Tax money is very inefficiently spent, and very little of it gets to intended recipients. Welfare funds, for example, mostly go to the bureaucracy that supports the program, and not to the people who are actually poor.
5. Someone should stop running an S corp? S corps allow someone to avoid one form of double taxation. S corps are designed for small businesses that employ people. They are not designed to support all your little pet projects and bloated government programs.
Why don't you take a ride on the clue bus and actually read up on S corps. And since I am noticing based on a recent post of yours that you are actually a "Progressive" (no wonder you are upset by "red-baiting"), I suggest you start a business. It's the only way you will ever learn about real-world economics, and drop your Utopian fantasy about a rich benefactor who will pay for everything you need.
I get it. Small business owners should pay more taxes. That will never get passed on to their customers, right?
Hey, that's obviously what you want. Unfortunately, most others don't. The people that fall for Obama's class-warfare plan fail to realize that corporations DON'T PAY TAXES. People do. They will. Those increases are going to be passed on to them in the form of higher prices and greater expenses.
Meanwhile, we will still have the cheerleaders around, clamoring for more of the "stick it to the rich" taxes.
As for "if you don't like blah blah blah", your position assumes that people should choose one type of corporation with one set of circumstances, and then shut their mouths when someone wants to change the rules in a way that negatively affects them.
logically speaking, red-baiting would only attract responses from reds, yes?
That is an amazingly ignorant statement. Please list for me the companies with 10,000 employees whose CEO has a compensation of less than $250K / year.
Also, you know nothing about small businesses. Many of them are S corps, and despite some people's assumptions, it's not all deductible when it comes to expenses.
But glad to see that class warfare is alive and well.
Not only do you like to re-interpret our constitution, despite all of the backup documentation on the reasoning of our Founding Fathers (conveniently available in the Federalist Papers), you also like to re-interpret the post you are replying to. He said this:
"I think that anyone over 18 years of age should be able to walk into a store and buy everything from a .38 to a minigun, and all the ammo they can carry, no background check (beyond a driver's license or similar to prove age) required."
You reply with this:
"like you said, it should be difficult to buy a gun, not as easy as buying a set of tires"
That's the polar opposite of what he said. You, and others like you, want reality to mold itself to your theories. It doesn't work that way.
NY had a real easy process this time, remarkably like last time and the time before, etcetera, etcetera. Thanks to much effort on the part of Voting System vendors, we now have these Big Honkin' (tm) Sequoia Machines (thankfully not in use in my county). They were sitting in the corner, while the Good Old (tm) Mechanical, no-power-required just kept chugging along, processing votes without a hitch. As usual.
Well, as long as we can take *your* word for it. Can you tell me how many of the Communist Party USA's agenda points you feel don't match his outlook? And I guess center-left democrats always propose selecting smart students to go to college and telling others they are to perform more menial tasks in life?
Communist Party Immediate Program for the Crisis
It is shameful and unacceptable that any child should live in poverty, and that anyone should go hungry, homeless, without medicine, or without a living wage in our nation of such great wealth.
Meet the Needs of Working, Unemployed and Farm Families
- Raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour.
-Unemployment insurance for all workers.
- Moratorium on farm foreclosures
- Labor law reform to remove barriers to workers who want to join a union.
- No privatization of Social Security. Increase benefits.
- Universal prescription drug coverage administered by Medicare. Universal health care system.
- Restore social safety net. Welfare reform that includes job training, supports and living wages.
- Full funding for equal, quality, bi-lingual public education. No vouchers.
Make Corporate Giants Pay
- Repeal tax cuts to the rich and corporations.
- Close corporate tax loopholes.
- Restitution to workers' pensions.
- Strong regulation of financial industry.
- Regulation and public ownership of utilities
- Prosecute corporate polluters. Public works program to clean our air, water and land
- Aid to cities and states. Federally funded infrastructure repair and social service programs
Foreign Policy for Peace and Justice
- No to war with Iraq - End military interventions
- Repeal Fast Track and NAFTA, stop Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA). No secrecy.
- Save Salt II Agreements, reject Star Wars and Nuclear Posture Review
-Abolish nuclear weapons
- End military interventions.
- Cut military budget and fund human needs.
Defend Democracy and Civil Rights
- End racial profiling.
- Repeal the death penalty.
- Enforce civil rights laws and affirmative action.
- Repeal USA Patriot Act.
- Legalization and protection of immigrant>rights.
- Public financing of elections. Overall election law reform including Instant Runoff Voting.
- Youth and student bill of rights. Guarantee youth's right to earn,learn and live.