so why aren't countries with hardly any guns overrun with rapists and robbery?
why doesn't the usa have far lower rates of rape and robbery?
if guns are the magic deterrence and protection you believe, the usa should have far lower rape and robbery. that's not remotely true
rapists and robbers are not logicians. they are predators. if they think you have a gun: they get a gun. and in a country where guns are easy to get, they get guns. your magic protection device works just as well in the hands of perps
and they have the element of surprise. go ahead and reach for yours: now you are dead
which is why our homicide is so high. instead of robbbed or raped, now you're dead
that's what guns everywhere really means: more death, not protection. own a gun, and you've increased the chance of death for you and your loved ones, and protected you from nothing, in a land where perps have just as many guns as you do, and the element of surprise
guns are not protection. they are escalation. they change the stakes and terms of criminal activity to death. why do you prefer a body bag over a bloody nose?
it's like a shell game. you move the basic fucking simple facts around, out of context, in pieces to suggest alternate reality conclusions, hand waving and smoke and mirrors, etc. and avoid the fucking obvious:
now bloviate and obfuscate like a climate change denier or a creationist, to preserve your obviously insane, wrong belief against all simple reason and simple facts
why do you believe your gun gives you some sort of protection?
it's simply a source of extra danger in your life. situations can escalate to death that don't have to, or wouldn't, if a gun wasn't around, for you and your loved ones, not some bogeyman perp
besides, easy guns in the usa mean perps have guns. perps have the element of surprise. you don't draw faster than their trigger finger. the protection you believe in is an illusion
meanwhile, the usa is not a utopia of low rape, robbery, or murder due to all of our extra guns. in fact, we have higher rates of those things. why is that if guns are supposed to protect us? why aren't guns providing the magic protection you imagine they do? because they don't
having a gun in a tense situation simply means death may come where death does not need to come. and just not for the perp. in fact, with easy guns, the perp has a gun, and also the element of surprise
guns are just an increase in accidents, miscommunication and confusion, escalation unnecessarily, body bags instead of bloody noses
guns do not make us safer
easy guns are the actual threat to our safety
the numbers are as clear as day. no matter how much smoke and mirrors and subject changing they make: the usa has far higher homicide than our peers because of easy guns. not increase in safety. that's a lie, a mythology
dealing with gun proponents is like dealing with climate change deniers or creationists: they plug their ears and deny the simple evidence
It's a mod where you get little consoles, you craft them
then you can program them with the simple scripting language Lua to automate actions in Minecraft: mine, fight, farm, etc
it's good because they are programming *in* the Minecraft world: you're piggybacking on their love of the Minecraft universe to get them into programming
britain does that for example. they do your taxes and send you a bill or a refund and the details for your review, and you can challenge it if you want. easy
but here in the usa we have "free market" players (ie, entrenched parasites) who bribe congresscritters to retain their existence. H&R Block and their ilk should rightly simply not exist. they provide a service your government should provide for you for free. paying a preparer or doing it yourself is an extra "tax" in terms of time, money and hassle that simply should not exist. it also creates stress, misunderstanding, and errors that sometimes can bite you in the ass. you spend more both ways too, because now the irs has to review everything. you pay for that extra manpower in your taxes and a bloated inefficient irs
it's about your crimes against all countries of the world. someone robs people in any country and you store the stolen goods
you swiss have made a nice living as a "neutral" country for centuries. hiding in your mountain fortress and collecting the monies of warring states. people murder, rob, plunder, and they give it to you for safekeeping. someone loots the corpses of the dead and you store it for them. oh how noble of you
you want to portray this as good innocent people storing their legitimate cash in your vaults and vile bureaucrats coming to take it. you aren't stupid, you know the swiss deal with thieves. so you are being grossly willfully dishonest by ignoring the obvious
think about how many criminal and corrupt schemes have been enabled by swiss secrecy laws. that if switzerland didn't exist, some corrupt schemes would have never gotten off the ground, or the money would have been reclaimed. banking is about responsibility, not just secrecy. a bank is a component of the society it serves that, without transparency, is prone to spectacular malfeasance. you WANT accounts examined for discrepancies. at least by the bank internally, never mind government. but by hiding whatever it is asked to hide and looking the other way with no questions: this is just bank services for thieves. why do you think you can deny that? why do you think absolute secrecy from any asshole who hands you a bag of cash is some sort of virtue?
there is nothing noble in what you claim as a virtue. to present your virtue of secrecy without responsibility, to engage in gross intellectual dishonesty and not admit that all you are doing is enabling thieves and that thieves are your customers, all you are doing is rationalizing bad behavior on your part
you gladly take nazi gold from from the melted teeth of dead jews, or the proceeds of african kelptocrats or central american narcoterrorists or italian mafias. and any selfish thief who wants to stash what they've stolen from good people and not be found out by the authorities in their home countries. those authorities seeking justice come to you and you stonewall them. your country enables vast evil in the world
there is nothing moral to that. there is no virtue. the swiss are bottom feeding parasites and have been so for decades. switzerland is an evil country. considering what your banking practices help facilitate, perhaps the most evil country in the history of the world. i am not remotely joking
you are the bankers to the devil. you're the slimy sycophant to the thugs of the world. you have nothing to be proud of in your country's behavior and you need to take penance at the horrible abuses of human rights your country facilitates. when someone murders someone or enslaves someone, they take their ill-gotten gains. you smile and hold it for them. right hand man to thugs and murders, that is the swiss
think of the millions victimized by mafia, corrupt politicians, simple thieves. your country made that possible
what are you proud of as a swiss? you should feel nothing but deep shame. there is nothing to be proud of as a swiss and much your sick country needs to be punished for. your country is disgusting. the responsible countries in the west, not just the usa (nice kindergarten level dodge: "it's not about me, it's about you"), are finally dragging you kicking and screaming into responsible and moral behavior
show penance and shame for your country's vast crimes. switzerland multiplies and enables criminal looting in countries all over the world
in a just world, the swiss would pay reparations to the many nations they helped rob
it's about your crimes against all countries of the world. someone robs people in any country and you store the stolen goods
you swiss have made a nice living as a "neutral" country for centuries. hiding in your mountain fortress and collecting the monies of warring states. people murder, rob, plunder, and they give it to you for safekeeping. someone loots the corpses of the dead and you store it for them. oh how noble of you
you want to portray this as good innocent people storing their legitimate cash in your vaults and vile bureaucrats coming to take it. you can't be that ignorant of the kind of money sources swiss banks deal with, so you are being willfully intellectually dishonest by ignoring the glaring obvious here
think about how many criminal and corrupt schemes have been enabled by swiss secrecy laws. that if switzerland didn't exist, some corrupt schemes would have never gotten off the ground, or the money would have been reclaimed. banking is about responsibility, not just secrecy. a bank is a component of the society it serves that, without transparency, is prone to spectacular malfeasance. you WANT accounts examined for discrepancies. at least by the bank internally, never mind government. but by hiding whatever it is asked to hide and looking the other way when you know what you are holding stinks of death and suffering: this is just banking services for thieves
there is nothing noble in what you claim as a virtue. to present your virtue of secrecy without responsibility, to engage in gross intellectual dishonesty and not admit that all you are doing is enabling thieves and that thieves are your customers, all you are doing is rationalizing bad behavior on your part
you gladly take nazi gold from from the melted teeth of dead jews, or the proceeds of african kelptocrats or central american narcoterrorists or italian mafias. and any selfish thief who wants to stash what they've stolen from good people and not be found out by the authorities in their home countries. those authorities seeking justice come to you and you stonewall them. you enable evil in the world
there is nothing moral to swiss behavior. there is no virtue. the swiss are bottom feeding parasites and have been so for decades. switzerland is an evil country. considering what your banking practices help facilitate, perhaps the most evil country in the history of the world. i am not remotely joking
you are the bankers to the devil. you're the slimy sycophant to the thugs of the world. you have nothing to be proud of in your country's behavior and you need to take penance at the horrible abuse of human rights your country makes possible. when someone murders someone or enslaves someone, you take their ill-gotten gains. you smile and hold blood money for them. right hand man to thugs and murders, that is the swiss. think of the millions victimized that your country helped facilitate
what are you proud of as a swiss? you should feel nothing but deep shame. there is nothing to be proud of as a swiss and much your sick country needs to be punished for. your country is disgusting. the responsible countries in the west, not just the usa (nice kindergarten level dodge: "it's not about me, it's about you"), are finally dragging you kicking and screaming into responsible and moral behavior
show penance and shame for your country's vast crimes. switzerland multiplies and enables criminal looting in countries all over the world
in a just world, the swiss would pay reparations to the many nations they helped rob
there's people who derive income that have nothing to do with sales. so you're putting all the tax burden on one sector of the economy and letting a bunch of other sectors off tax free
tax code is complicated for a reason: the economy is complicated
i'm not saying the tax code doesn't have parts which are insanely complex for no good reason. i'm saying you will never have a simple tax code. more simplified than our current byzantine monstrosity? yes, that is good, and there are many ways we can simplify, and we should do that
but that only works to an extent. it will never be truly simple
this "only sales tax!" nonsense is bullshit created by and believed by philosopher-morons who don't really understand the topic
if you really want to make taxes "simple"?
the irs should be required to prepare your taxes
britain does that for example. they do your taxes and send you a bill or a refund and the details for your review, and you can challenge it if you want. easy
but here in the usa we have "free market" players (ie, entrenched parasites) who bribe congresscritters to retain their existence. H&R Block and their ilk should rightly simply not exist. they provide a service your government should provide for you for free. paying a preparer or doing it yourself is an extra "tax" in terms of time, money and hassle that simply should not exist. it also creates stress, misunderstanding, and errors that sometimes can bite you in the ass. you spend more both ways too, because now the irs has to review everything. you pay for that extra manpower in your taxes and a bloated inefficient irs
it's like the argument about the "free market" in healthcare: no such free market exists. there is an oligopoly that extracts a parasitical profit for no real added benefit. other countries have single payer universal care and spend far, far, far less in healthcare, and have better quality healthcare. this is where the morons speak of american high quality healthcare... as if actually being able to pay for it, ie, healthcare access, doesn't figure into the term "quality"
sure, if you're rich american healthcare is great. but what blows my mind is how the middle class american moron hears "socialism" and continues to support politicians who openly support a system where you die early and waste tens of thousands of dollars of your money to flow to a monopoly/ oligopoly. because only government, not companies, can be evil according to the morons
all countries lose when loopholes mean companies don't pay taxes at all
even if there is one "winner" (getting a tiny amount of taxes because a lot of companies file there), the financial pressure the losers can bring to bear on the "winner" isn't worth preserving any status quo
especially since getting actual real taxes from a handful of companies is a lot better than getting pennies from a thousands because of a sleazy loophole
and i have absolutely no problem with anything you said
and if another country provides a better rate, let that corporation file there. which provides certain additional benefits and liabilities, depending upon where the company primarily does business, and where they file, which all has to be evaluated
but what is absolutely unacceptable is this creative shell game where no or little tax is paid, simply because some shitbag accountant noticed a loophole
of course, there will always be loopholes. close one and ten more become available
so the proper thing to do is to step back, have countries band together, and see who is paying what
and simply punish those who play obviously sleazy games
a million loopholes suddenly disappear
but it requires countries banding together (at least the responsible ones companies actually want to represent their tax payments in). considering how much money all these countries are losing, it should be a no brainer
there will always be moldova, antigua, vanuatu, etc.
but the major countries, the ones that provide certain legal frameworks corporations need and desire, need to get together and agree upon a common set of policies, and commit to sharing info with each other about company's returns, and stamp this shit out
the motivation is simple: to not be screwed financially. the motivation should be sound and compelling. didn't a lot of countries recently (last 15 years) band together and force switzerland to stop being the secret banking haven for narcothugs, selfish tax dodgers, corrupt politicians, etc around the world? if we can bring sleazy amoral switzerland to heel, we can do this
if a company wants to file in a country that is cheap, then let them get extorted by corrupt government officials, have their shipment of good confiscated/ help up at borders, etc. all the problems that come with countries with shit legal enforcement and bad laws
and those financially responsible countries that agree on sharing tax profiles can exclude such companies and such countries from certain streamlined benefits, if not outright ban them if their activities are too financially scumbag
of course, one country or another will be more attractive for financial reasons than another country
which is absolutely ok. i envision a future where ireland or singapore or wherever is the country of choice for corporations to pay taxes, like delaware in the usa for incorporation, or liberia for ship registration, etc.
but for anyone defending this tax avoidance as "fair": corporations are not made from the loins of a single "captain of industry" standing all alone. please understand the difference between low iq fantasy and reality. corporations exist because of the benefits of a stable secure society that allows them to be created and to grow. those benefits need to be paid for. corporations need to be contribute their share. especially if we want to make believe they are "people" as some philosopher-morons insist
they oppose government when they should be opposing corruption
the idiots are actually helping the corruptors. the corruptors would rather not have anyone to corrupt as an extra expense, and the idiots oblige by insisting on the same: remove the corrupted position, rather than fix it. because they apparently like shoddy, expensive, manipulated, inefficient markets
it's like someone robs the bank because they paid off the bank guard
the intelligent response is to fire, prosecute, and replace the guard, and go after the criminals who paid him off
the idiots want to fire the guard and leave the bank unguarded, and leave it at that: not pursue the criminals who paid off the guard and robbed their bank, their money
it's stunning how stupid and propagandized people can be
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so why aren't countries with hardly any guns overrun with rapists and robbery?
why doesn't the usa have far lower rates of rape and robbery?
if guns are the magic deterrence and protection you believe, the usa should have far lower rape and robbery. that's not remotely true
rapists and robbers are not logicians. they are predators. if they think you have a gun: they get a gun. and in a country where guns are easy to get, they get guns. your magic protection device works just as well in the hands of perps
and they have the element of surprise. go ahead and reach for yours: now you are dead
which is why our homicide is so high. instead of robbbed or raped, now you're dead
that's what guns everywhere really means: more death, not protection. own a gun, and you've increased the chance of death for you and your loved ones, and protected you from nothing, in a land where perps have just as many guns as you do, and the element of surprise
guns are not protection. they are escalation. they change the stakes and terms of criminal activity to death. why do you prefer a body bag over a bloody nose?
it's like a shell game. you move the basic fucking simple facts around, out of context, in pieces to suggest alternate reality conclusions, hand waving and smoke and mirrors, etc. and avoid the fucking obvious:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/...
do you perhaps see a fucking problem there?
i do
the rest of our social and economic peers do
that's what we fucking get with easy guns
that's what we get
now bloviate and obfuscate like a climate change denier or a creationist, to preserve your obviously insane, wrong belief against all simple reason and simple facts
why do you believe your gun gives you some sort of protection?
it's simply a source of extra danger in your life. situations can escalate to death that don't have to, or wouldn't, if a gun wasn't around, for you and your loved ones, not some bogeyman perp
besides, easy guns in the usa mean perps have guns. perps have the element of surprise. you don't draw faster than their trigger finger. the protection you believe in is an illusion
meanwhile, the usa is not a utopia of low rape, robbery, or murder due to all of our extra guns. in fact, we have higher rates of those things. why is that if guns are supposed to protect us? why aren't guns providing the magic protection you imagine they do? because they don't
this is all we get from extra easy guns:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/...
that's all easy guns in the usa means: extra pointless death
own a gun, increase your chance of early death. that's all it means
now we hear the delusional talking points, similar to creationism or climate denial, and the made up "facts"
why do we have so many guns but still have rape, robbery murder, etc as high as if not higher than countries with common sense gun control?
isn't the gun supposed to protect you?
isn't the mythology that owning a gun makes you safer?
so where's the increase in safety?
there is none
what there is is an increase in death:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/...
having a gun in a tense situation simply means death may come where death does not need to come. and just not for the perp. in fact, with easy guns, the perp has a gun, and also the element of surprise
guns are just an increase in accidents, miscommunication and confusion, escalation unnecessarily, body bags instead of bloody noses
guns do not make us safer
easy guns are the actual threat to our safety
the numbers are as clear as day. no matter how much smoke and mirrors and subject changing they make: the usa has far higher homicide than our peers because of easy guns. not increase in safety. that's a lie, a mythology
dealing with gun proponents is like dealing with climate change deniers or creationists: they plug their ears and deny the simple evidence
try uttering such common sense in the usa
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
It's a mod where you get little consoles, you craft them
then you can program them with the simple scripting language Lua to automate actions in Minecraft: mine, fight, farm, etc
it's good because they are programming *in* the Minecraft world: you're piggybacking on their love of the Minecraft universe to get them into programming
http://www.computercraft.info/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's not that fathers don't deserve time with their kids
exactly
thank you for supporting fatherhood
yes
this is disgusting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
good info, thank you
fathers should indeed contribute to childcare as much as mothers. for many reasons, not just this topic
the nordic countries have this great policy where they reward fathers time off for newborns in the same quantity as mothers
this levels the playing field in terms of what children do to careers. in places like the usa, women's careers are interrupted by kids, men's aren't
but if a woman takes 2 months off for kids, and then a man takes 2 months off, having children is equally damaging to male and female careers
that's the best way to get equality: reward men with time off with their kids too. make child rearing an equal endeavour
and maybe if both mothers and fathers get equal time off, they can stagger it weekly rather than monthly, meaning careers are less impacted
the usa needs a law where time off for kids is
1. paid
2. the same for men as it is for women
you don't haggle on the price of bananas or even the price of a dvd player
but if you don't haggle on the price of a car, a house, or your job, you're just an idiot leaving cash on the table
if you really want to make taxes "simple"?
the irs should be required to prepare your taxes
britain does that for example. they do your taxes and send you a bill or a refund and the details for your review, and you can challenge it if you want. easy
but here in the usa we have "free market" players (ie, entrenched parasites) who bribe congresscritters to retain their existence. H&R Block and their ilk should rightly simply not exist. they provide a service your government should provide for you for free. paying a preparer or doing it yourself is an extra "tax" in terms of time, money and hassle that simply should not exist. it also creates stress, misunderstanding, and errors that sometimes can bite you in the ass. you spend more both ways too, because now the irs has to review everything. you pay for that extra manpower in your taxes and a bloated inefficient irs
it's not about the usa
it's about your crimes against all countries of the world. someone robs people in any country and you store the stolen goods
you swiss have made a nice living as a "neutral" country for centuries. hiding in your mountain fortress and collecting the monies of warring states. people murder, rob, plunder, and they give it to you for safekeeping. someone loots the corpses of the dead and you store it for them. oh how noble of you
you want to portray this as good innocent people storing their legitimate cash in your vaults and vile bureaucrats coming to take it. you aren't stupid, you know the swiss deal with thieves. so you are being grossly willfully dishonest by ignoring the obvious
think about how many criminal and corrupt schemes have been enabled by swiss secrecy laws. that if switzerland didn't exist, some corrupt schemes would have never gotten off the ground, or the money would have been reclaimed. banking is about responsibility, not just secrecy. a bank is a component of the society it serves that, without transparency, is prone to spectacular malfeasance. you WANT accounts examined for discrepancies. at least by the bank internally, never mind government. but by hiding whatever it is asked to hide and looking the other way with no questions: this is just bank services for thieves. why do you think you can deny that? why do you think absolute secrecy from any asshole who hands you a bag of cash is some sort of virtue?
there is nothing noble in what you claim as a virtue. to present your virtue of secrecy without responsibility, to engage in gross intellectual dishonesty and not admit that all you are doing is enabling thieves and that thieves are your customers, all you are doing is rationalizing bad behavior on your part
you gladly take nazi gold from from the melted teeth of dead jews, or the proceeds of african kelptocrats or central american narcoterrorists or italian mafias. and any selfish thief who wants to stash what they've stolen from good people and not be found out by the authorities in their home countries. those authorities seeking justice come to you and you stonewall them. your country enables vast evil in the world
there is nothing moral to that. there is no virtue. the swiss are bottom feeding parasites and have been so for decades. switzerland is an evil country. considering what your banking practices help facilitate, perhaps the most evil country in the history of the world. i am not remotely joking
you are the bankers to the devil. you're the slimy sycophant to the thugs of the world. you have nothing to be proud of in your country's behavior and you need to take penance at the horrible abuses of human rights your country facilitates. when someone murders someone or enslaves someone, they take their ill-gotten gains. you smile and hold it for them. right hand man to thugs and murders, that is the swiss
think of the millions victimized by mafia, corrupt politicians, simple thieves. your country made that possible
what are you proud of as a swiss? you should feel nothing but deep shame. there is nothing to be proud of as a swiss and much your sick country needs to be punished for. your country is disgusting. the responsible countries in the west, not just the usa (nice kindergarten level dodge: "it's not about me, it's about you"), are finally dragging you kicking and screaming into responsible and moral behavior
show penance and shame for your country's vast crimes. switzerland multiplies and enables criminal looting in countries all over the world
in a just world, the swiss would pay reparations to the many nations they helped rob
it's not about the usa
it's about your crimes against all countries of the world. someone robs people in any country and you store the stolen goods
you swiss have made a nice living as a "neutral" country for centuries. hiding in your mountain fortress and collecting the monies of warring states. people murder, rob, plunder, and they give it to you for safekeeping. someone loots the corpses of the dead and you store it for them. oh how noble of you
you want to portray this as good innocent people storing their legitimate cash in your vaults and vile bureaucrats coming to take it. you can't be that ignorant of the kind of money sources swiss banks deal with, so you are being willfully intellectually dishonest by ignoring the glaring obvious here
think about how many criminal and corrupt schemes have been enabled by swiss secrecy laws. that if switzerland didn't exist, some corrupt schemes would have never gotten off the ground, or the money would have been reclaimed. banking is about responsibility, not just secrecy. a bank is a component of the society it serves that, without transparency, is prone to spectacular malfeasance. you WANT accounts examined for discrepancies. at least by the bank internally, never mind government. but by hiding whatever it is asked to hide and looking the other way when you know what you are holding stinks of death and suffering: this is just banking services for thieves
there is nothing noble in what you claim as a virtue. to present your virtue of secrecy without responsibility, to engage in gross intellectual dishonesty and not admit that all you are doing is enabling thieves and that thieves are your customers, all you are doing is rationalizing bad behavior on your part
you gladly take nazi gold from from the melted teeth of dead jews, or the proceeds of african kelptocrats or central american narcoterrorists or italian mafias. and any selfish thief who wants to stash what they've stolen from good people and not be found out by the authorities in their home countries. those authorities seeking justice come to you and you stonewall them. you enable evil in the world
there is nothing moral to swiss behavior. there is no virtue. the swiss are bottom feeding parasites and have been so for decades. switzerland is an evil country. considering what your banking practices help facilitate, perhaps the most evil country in the history of the world. i am not remotely joking
you are the bankers to the devil. you're the slimy sycophant to the thugs of the world. you have nothing to be proud of in your country's behavior and you need to take penance at the horrible abuse of human rights your country makes possible. when someone murders someone or enslaves someone, you take their ill-gotten gains. you smile and hold blood money for them. right hand man to thugs and murders, that is the swiss. think of the millions victimized that your country helped facilitate
what are you proud of as a swiss? you should feel nothing but deep shame. there is nothing to be proud of as a swiss and much your sick country needs to be punished for. your country is disgusting. the responsible countries in the west, not just the usa (nice kindergarten level dodge: "it's not about me, it's about you"), are finally dragging you kicking and screaming into responsible and moral behavior
show penance and shame for your country's vast crimes. switzerland multiplies and enables criminal looting in countries all over the world
in a just world, the swiss would pay reparations to the many nations they helped rob
do you not understand that the loopholes mean some companies are paying no taxes?
or a minuscule residual to the "winner"? one company paying fair taxes are equal to tens of thousands of such companies
the "winner" is winning pennies or there is no winner. that's the status quo
only having sales tax is unfair taxation
there's people who derive income that have nothing to do with sales. so you're putting all the tax burden on one sector of the economy and letting a bunch of other sectors off tax free
tax code is complicated for a reason: the economy is complicated
i'm not saying the tax code doesn't have parts which are insanely complex for no good reason. i'm saying you will never have a simple tax code. more simplified than our current byzantine monstrosity? yes, that is good, and there are many ways we can simplify, and we should do that
but that only works to an extent. it will never be truly simple
this "only sales tax!" nonsense is bullshit created by and believed by philosopher-morons who don't really understand the topic
if you really want to make taxes "simple"?
the irs should be required to prepare your taxes
britain does that for example. they do your taxes and send you a bill or a refund and the details for your review, and you can challenge it if you want. easy
but here in the usa we have "free market" players (ie, entrenched parasites) who bribe congresscritters to retain their existence. H&R Block and their ilk should rightly simply not exist. they provide a service your government should provide for you for free. paying a preparer or doing it yourself is an extra "tax" in terms of time, money and hassle that simply should not exist. it also creates stress, misunderstanding, and errors that sometimes can bite you in the ass. you spend more both ways too, because now the irs has to review everything. you pay for that extra manpower in your taxes and a bloated inefficient irs
it's like the argument about the "free market" in healthcare: no such free market exists. there is an oligopoly that extracts a parasitical profit for no real added benefit. other countries have single payer universal care and spend far, far, far less in healthcare, and have better quality healthcare. this is where the morons speak of american high quality healthcare... as if actually being able to pay for it, ie, healthcare access, doesn't figure into the term "quality"
sure, if you're rich american healthcare is great. but what blows my mind is how the middle class american moron hears "socialism" and continues to support politicians who openly support a system where you die early and waste tens of thousands of dollars of your money to flow to a monopoly/ oligopoly. because only government, not companies, can be evil according to the morons
there isn't winners and losers
all countries lose when loopholes mean companies don't pay taxes at all
even if there is one "winner" (getting a tiny amount of taxes because a lot of companies file there), the financial pressure the losers can bring to bear on the "winner" isn't worth preserving any status quo
especially since getting actual real taxes from a handful of companies is a lot better than getting pennies from a thousands because of a sleazy loophole
the point is not to have a simple tax code genius
the point is for companies to pay taxes, somewhere, anywhere, period
changing the subject doesn't mean you have a point
and i have absolutely no problem with anything you said
and if another country provides a better rate, let that corporation file there. which provides certain additional benefits and liabilities, depending upon where the company primarily does business, and where they file, which all has to be evaluated
but what is absolutely unacceptable is this creative shell game where no or little tax is paid, simply because some shitbag accountant noticed a loophole
of course, there will always be loopholes. close one and ten more become available
so the proper thing to do is to step back, have countries band together, and see who is paying what
and simply punish those who play obviously sleazy games
a million loopholes suddenly disappear
but it requires countries banding together (at least the responsible ones companies actually want to represent their tax payments in). considering how much money all these countries are losing, it should be a no brainer
there will always be moldova, antigua, vanuatu, etc.
but the major countries, the ones that provide certain legal frameworks corporations need and desire, need to get together and agree upon a common set of policies, and commit to sharing info with each other about company's returns, and stamp this shit out
the motivation is simple: to not be screwed financially. the motivation should be sound and compelling. didn't a lot of countries recently (last 15 years) band together and force switzerland to stop being the secret banking haven for narcothugs, selfish tax dodgers, corrupt politicians, etc around the world? if we can bring sleazy amoral switzerland to heel, we can do this
if a company wants to file in a country that is cheap, then let them get extorted by corrupt government officials, have their shipment of good confiscated/ help up at borders, etc. all the problems that come with countries with shit legal enforcement and bad laws
and those financially responsible countries that agree on sharing tax profiles can exclude such companies and such countries from certain streamlined benefits, if not outright ban them if their activities are too financially scumbag
of course, one country or another will be more attractive for financial reasons than another country
which is absolutely ok. i envision a future where ireland or singapore or wherever is the country of choice for corporations to pay taxes, like delaware in the usa for incorporation, or liberia for ship registration, etc.
but for anyone defending this tax avoidance as "fair": corporations are not made from the loins of a single "captain of industry" standing all alone. please understand the difference between low iq fantasy and reality. corporations exist because of the benefits of a stable secure society that allows them to be created and to grow. those benefits need to be paid for. corporations need to be contribute their share. especially if we want to make believe they are "people" as some philosopher-morons insist
lol
interesting
right
not "terrorism in the sense we have become accustomed to"
but still terrorism
what tim mcveigh did was terrorism, for example
maybe unfortunately terrorism has come to mean "done by muslims"
although, maybe we should remove attacks on military installations as terrorism
surprise coordinated violent attacks on civilians for ideological reasons is about as good a definition of terrorism as we can get i think
we call too many things terrorism that are not, and too many things not terrorism that are
exactly
they oppose government when they should be opposing corruption
the idiots are actually helping the corruptors. the corruptors would rather not have anyone to corrupt as an extra expense, and the idiots oblige by insisting on the same: remove the corrupted position, rather than fix it. because they apparently like shoddy, expensive, manipulated, inefficient markets
it's like someone robs the bank because they paid off the bank guard
the intelligent response is to fire, prosecute, and replace the guard, and go after the criminals who paid him off
the idiots want to fire the guard and leave the bank unguarded, and leave it at that: not pursue the criminals who paid off the guard and robbed their bank, their money
it's stunning how stupid and propagandized people can be
no that's hay-zeus
jee-zuz is the proper pronunciation of the anglosaxon founder of christianity
us civilized folk need to teach his compassion to dirty brown people like mexicans and middle easterners