First, the money was not taxed at the corporate level, since it was paid in compensation to Bozos and Ballmer, and deducted as a business expense.
Second, since it escaped taxation at the corporate level, why not tax it at the personal level?
Third, your "the people we call poor have a car and a PS3" is bogus. Many of them are living in their cars, and a PS3 is hardly a sign of wealth. 1 in 4 children is currently dependent on SNAP (the new name for food stamps) - almost 50 million Americans, and this is the first time that there are more recipients in the suburbs than in the inner cities.
Fourth, the "great recession" is far from over. The government wants to say that it takes 2 quarters of decline in gnp to call a recession, but only one where gnp doesn't decline to say it's over? That's playing with statistics. The recession is over when the people who lost their jobs get them back and we return to normal levels of employment, and that's not going to happen for at least a couple of years, and possibly not this decade.
Complaining about having to pay to support the poor? Then help them stop being poor! Henry Ford knew it - when he was asked why he paid his workers more than the competition, he said "I want them to be able to buy my cars."
Looks like Gates Sr. also gets it - growing the tax base takes money, and you can't get that money by taxing people who don't have it.
The middle and lower classes are no further ahead after 3 decades, after inflation, while the top income earners have seen real increases in their finances.
Designed to be paired with a webcam or other sensor system, the concept is that the computer is able to detect where a user is in proximity to the display along with an idea of roughly what he or she might be doing
FEATURE REQUEST: Retreating keyboard and mouse
PROBLEM: Users who pick their nose and then try to use your keyboard or mouse
LEVEL: Urgent
REPEATABILITY: Way too often, especially around flu season!
PROPOSED SOLUTION(S): When the OS detects a luser digging for "nose gold", both the keyboard and mouse should immediately retract. Failing that, the computer should copy their personal info (not yours) to the system clipboard and then do a redirect to a Final Measure site so as to play "Hey everybody, I'm looking at gay porno" loudly until the luser withdraws from the scene.
ASSIGNED TO: Anyone who doesn't have/want a keyboard stained with "crunchies."
NOTES: I don't care that there are studies claiming that engaging in automucophagy is healthy - it's disgusting. etc, etc, what was this woman thinking?.
One of these days, someone's going to end up in the ER with their finger jammed through their brain at 200 mph when their air-bag goes off. Do you really want to explain why you look like this guy?
All their previous blog entries were garbage. One was "look at this new coding technique to make the smallest ELF file possible" - which turned out to be old back in 1999. The code almost looked like a cut-n-paste - except that the original code had a follow-up that was MUCH better than the ksplice krap kode.
The worst part was that if they had searched for 1 minute, they would have found the original.
The original poster said 1 in 4 kids was on food stamps. Some lazy retard asked for proof. I provided it. However, let's take up what you now claim/
What is this "we are coming out of recession" crap?
The "indicators" that they use are garbage. "Interest rates are down". So what - that means there's no demand to borrow. People are either too broke or too insecure to borrow any more.
Credit card debt down? It's because (and the credit card companies admit this) it's been written off. These people no longer are part of that sector of the economy. Job losses continue. People who do find jobs are taking home less money - often a LOT less. Long-term unemployment is UP, not down.
House repossessions are going to more than double - the average wait time between stopping payments and getting foreclosed on is a year and a half.
Look at this joke of a "the recession is almost over" from april
"I think people are coming to the conclusion the worst is pretty close to over in the housing market," said Zandi.
Since then, the housing market tanked.
Or:
And auto sales are also improving, with almost all automakers posting double-digit percentage gains in March.
Now look what happened last month:
DETROIT -- Americans nervous about the drumbeat of bad economic news stayed away from auto showrooms. Automakers nervous about their bottom lines didn't offer deals to lure them in.
As a result, it was the worst August for U.S. auto sales since 1983, when the country was at the end of a double-dip recession. General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Ford all reported declines from the month before and from a year earlier.
The recession is a recession in name only. It's a depression, and we're nowhere near the bottom.
iWeb caught it running on ONE shared-hosting server. Are you running a publicly-facing shared-host serveer? No? Then don't worry about it, and when your distro comes out with a new kernel, just update.
Because the article is alarmist bs? You are probably NOT being rooted even as you read this. Every ksplice story slashdot has carried has turned out to be no big deal. I'm going to ignore it, based on their previous performance.
According to international treaty, uninhabitable islands have to be connected by a continental shelf to habitable land to be considered part of a nation. If those bare islands are not on the same continental shelf (they are not - "the same continental plate" does not count), once the last person leaves, it's over. Fini. bye-bye. Salut, p'tit cul!
The statistics on food stamp use by children are accurate. As of last year, 1 in 4 children were on food stamps. As of June of this year, 41,275,411 people are on food stamps - and all but 4 states had double-digit increases year-over-year. That's almost 7 million people added in one year. At the current rate, it will take a decade (not 5 years) to completely eliminate the middle class.
However, there's no reason to believe it will take that long, since not only are the numbers of people falling into poverty increasing, but the speed with which it is happening is also accelerating. Enough people leave the middle class to join the ranks of the poor, and all the small businesses that cater to the middle class also close shop, accelerating the trend. This is what we're seeing now. It may actually only take 5 years. Nobody can say, because we are now into uncharted territory.
It won't take much of an interest rate hike to kill all economic activity. We saw this in the early '80s, when rates went from 10% to 19.5%. With the much higher debt levels today, an increase of only a few percentage points will have a much more permanent crippling effect.
MARTINSVILLE, Ohio -- With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.
Nearly half (49.2%) of American children will, at some point between the ages of 1 and 20, reside in a house that receives food stamps, according to a report in the Nov. 2 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
More than a quarter of American children (26.1%) will receive food stamps by the age of 5, the study found.
39 Million and rising on Food Stamps -
Household SNAP participants increased from 12,728,981 in Fiscal Year 2008 to 15,232,105 in fiscal year 2009, a 16.4% increase. For comparison purposes, watch the growth in household participation.
and up higher again - 41,275,411 as of June. - Double digit increases in all but 4 states - average increase 18% year over year.
More from the NYTArticle:
This is the first recession in which a majority of the poor in metropolitan areas live in the suburbs, giving food stamps new prominence there. Use has grown by half or more in dozens of suburban counties from Boston to Seattle, including such bulwarks of modern conservatism as California's Orange County, where the rolls are up more than 50 percent.
Use among children is especially high. A third of the children in Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee receive food aid. In the Bronx, the rate is 46 percent. In East Carroll Parish, La., three-quarters of the children receive food stamps.
... they have an island somewhere there, with a 200 mile radius of sovereignty. There's a big deal going on in the high arctic over who owns what based on sea-beds - is that island connected to the land mass via the continental shelf or not? It makes a difference - if it's on the same continental shelf, the claim is better than a disconnected island.
Except that one thing computers are good at is repetitive calculations - you can just let your "screen saver speed lock decrypter/decripplizer" try every possibility out there while you're not using it for anything else.
No - the ISP isn't charging for each email - they're just collecting the 1 cent and crediting it to your account. And only for people you haven't whitelisted.
US Citizens: Up to 30 years in jail: It is a federal crime, prosecutable in the United States, for a U.S. citizen or permanent resident alien, to engage in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign country with a person under the age of 18, whether or not the U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident alien intended to engage in such illicit sexual conduct prior to going abroad. For purposes of the PROTECT Act, illicit sexual conduct includes any commercial sex act in a foreign country with a person under the age of 18. The law defines a commercial sex act as any sex act, on account of which anything of value is given to or received by a person under the age of 18.
Canadian Citizens: Up to 14 years in jail: Canada has included in its Criminal Code provisions that allow for the arrest and prosecution of Canadians in Canada for offences committed in foreign countries related to child sex tourism, such as child prostitution, as well as for child sexual exploitation offences, such as indecent acts, child pornography and incest.
Citizens in the UK: Up to life in jail: The Sexual Offences Act 2003 enables British citizens and residents who commit sexual offences against children overseas to be prosecuted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Similar provisions are in force in Scotland
Citizens in Australia: Up to 20 years, in jail, $500,000 fine: Australia was one of the first countries to introduce laws that provide for jail terms for its citizens and residents who engage in sexual activity with children in foreign countries. The law also makes it an offence to encourage, benefit or profit from any activity that promotes sexual activity with children.
The child sex tourist trade isn't about "consent."
310. No person shall be deemed to publish a defamatory libel by reason only that he publishes fair comments
(a) on the public conduct of a person who takes part in public affair
This is a public affair. Actually, let me rephrase that - it's now a VERY public affair. Hello, Streisand!
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Second, since it escaped taxation at the corporate level, why not tax it at the personal level?
Third, your "the people we call poor have a car and a PS3" is bogus. Many of them are living in their cars, and a PS3 is hardly a sign of wealth. 1 in 4 children is currently dependent on SNAP (the new name for food stamps) - almost 50 million Americans, and this is the first time that there are more recipients in the suburbs than in the inner cities.
Fourth, the "great recession" is far from over. The government wants to say that it takes 2 quarters of decline in gnp to call a recession, but only one where gnp doesn't decline to say it's over? That's playing with statistics. The recession is over when the people who lost their jobs get them back and we return to normal levels of employment, and that's not going to happen for at least a couple of years, and possibly not this decade.
I'll give you a hint. "Does this dress make me look fat?"
The only safe prediction is that you WILL give a wrong answer. Which wrong answer, I can't predict.
Using context-aware UI, Soviet Ubuntu computer speaks for YOU!
Complaining about having to pay to support the poor? Then help them stop being poor! Henry Ford knew it - when he was asked why he paid his workers more than the competition, he said "I want them to be able to buy my cars."
Looks like Gates Sr. also gets it - growing the tax base takes money, and you can't get that money by taxing people who don't have it.
The middle and lower classes are no further ahead after 3 decades, after inflation, while the top income earners have seen real increases in their finances.
FEATURE REQUEST: Retreating keyboard and mouse
PROBLEM: Users who pick their nose and then try to use your keyboard or mouse
LEVEL: Urgent
REPEATABILITY: Way too often, especially around flu season!
PROPOSED SOLUTION(S): When the OS detects a luser digging for "nose gold", both the keyboard and mouse should immediately retract. Failing that, the computer should copy their personal info (not yours) to the system clipboard and then do a redirect to a Final Measure site so as to play "Hey everybody, I'm looking at gay porno" loudly until the luser withdraws from the scene.
ASSIGNED TO: Anyone who doesn't have/want a keyboard stained with "crunchies."
NOTES: I don't care that there are studies claiming that engaging in automucophagy is healthy - it's disgusting. etc, etc, what was this woman thinking?.
One of these days, someone's going to end up in the ER with their finger jammed through their brain at 200 mph when their air-bag goes off. Do you really want to explain why you look like this guy?
Two dogs humping in the park have souls, but a slave doesn't. I think you need to work on that definition a bit.
Skunks with fricking lasers!
The worst part was that if they had searched for 1 minute, they would have found the original.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
They haven\t patched it. Please RTFA.
What is this "we are coming out of recession" crap?
The "indicators" that they use are garbage. "Interest rates are down". So what - that means there's no demand to borrow. People are either too broke or too insecure to borrow any more.
Credit card debt down? It's because (and the credit card companies admit this) it's been written off. These people no longer are part of that sector of the economy. Job losses continue. People who do find jobs are taking home less money - often a LOT less. Long-term unemployment is UP, not down.
House repossessions are going to more than double - the average wait time between stopping payments and getting foreclosed on is a year and a half.
Look at this joke of a "the recession is almost over" from april
Since then, the housing market tanked.
Or:
Now look what happened last month:
The recession is a recession in name only. It's a depression, and we're nowhere near the bottom.
I bite. Should we rename you "Stumpy?"
Ksplice are attention whores.
Because the article is alarmist bs? You are probably NOT being rooted even as you read this. Every ksplice story slashdot has carried has turned out to be no big deal. I'm going to ignore it, based on their previous performance.
According to international treaty, uninhabitable islands have to be connected by a continental shelf to habitable land to be considered part of a nation. If those bare islands are not on the same continental shelf (they are not - "the same continental plate" does not count), once the last person leaves, it's over. Fini. bye-bye. Salut, p'tit cul!
However, there's no reason to believe it will take that long, since not only are the numbers of people falling into poverty increasing, but the speed with which it is happening is also accelerating. Enough people leave the middle class to join the ranks of the poor, and all the small businesses that cater to the middle class also close shop, accelerating the trend. This is what we're seeing now. It may actually only take 5 years. Nobody can say, because we are now into uncharted territory.
It won't take much of an interest rate hike to kill all economic activity. We saw this in the early '80s, when rates went from 10% to 19.5%. With the much higher debt levels today, an increase of only a few percentage points will have a much more permanent crippling effect.
New York Times, November 28th 2009 - 1 in 4 children currently on food stamps
Half of American Children Receive Food Stamps
39 Million and rising on Food Stamps - Household SNAP participants increased from 12,728,981 in Fiscal Year 2008 to 15,232,105 in fiscal year 2009, a 16.4% increase. For comparison purposes, watch the growth in household participation.
and up higher again - 41,275,411 as of June. - Double digit increases in all but 4 states - average increase 18% year over year.
More from the NYTArticle:
Do you have any credible proof?
You're still naive. Who says it wasn't both?
... they have an island somewhere there, with a 200 mile radius of sovereignty. There's a big deal going on in the high arctic over who owns what based on sea-beds - is that island connected to the land mass via the continental shelf or not? It makes a difference - if it's on the same continental shelf, the claim is better than a disconnected island.
Except that one thing computers are good at is repetitive calculations - you can just let your "screen saver speed lock decrypter/decripplizer" try every possibility out there while you're not using it for anything else.
No - the ISP isn't charging for each email - they're just collecting the 1 cent and crediting it to your account. And only for people you haven't whitelisted.
You can't maintain sovereignty over an island that no longer exists.
Canadian Citizens: Up to 14 years in jail: Canada has included in its Criminal Code provisions that allow for the arrest and prosecution of Canadians in Canada for offences committed in foreign countries related to child sex tourism, such as child prostitution, as well as for child sexual exploitation offences, such as indecent acts, child pornography and incest.
Citizens in the UK: Up to life in jail: The Sexual Offences Act 2003 enables British citizens and residents who commit sexual offences against children overseas to be prosecuted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Similar provisions are in force in Scotland
Citizens in Australia: Up to 20 years, in jail, $500,000 fine: Australia was one of the first countries to introduce laws that provide for jail terms for its citizens and residents who engage in sexual activity with children in foreign countries. The law also makes it an offence to encourage, benefit or profit from any activity that promotes sexual activity with children.
The child sex tourist trade isn't about "consent."
It doesn't since once the country is underwater and everyone leaves, the country, and the no-fishing zone, cease to exist.
This is a public affair. Actually, let me rephrase that - it's now a VERY public affair. Hello, Streisand!