The question people should be asking themselves is if they want someone like Bashar Assad or Mugabe or China or the next Pol Pot regime to have a say in what you can and can't do on the internet. Because as soon as you bring it to the UN you give equal footing to regimes that shouldn't have any say. Just like when Kadaffi's Libya was in charge of the UN commission on Human Rights.
It was a subtle trick to get you to read the article. Now that it's proven effective expect staged contradictory errors in every single Slashdot headline!
Unloading treasuries won't do what you say. The long term (5-10 years) effect though of doing so would decrease the value of the dollar robbing American consumers of their purchasing power and thereby crushing the Chinese economy sending 1 billion people into the streets in protest. China's entire economy and ruling class is encased around the idea of a GDP that is growing at ~8-12%. If they decrease that to even 5% there will be economic and political consequences.
The old saying goes if you owe them a billion they have control if you owe them a trillion you have control. Almost all of China reserves are stored in US dollars either directly or through treasuries. The loss of the US treasury would decimate the world economy in short order.
You'd probably be even madder to know that the reason they were going after the users and not the dealer that they obviously knew about was to seize your car and the lady's paychecks. The DEA and their operations are nothing more than legally enforced property theft. Many departments engage in drug enforcement for no other reason than to seize property and sell it at auction so the cops can get bonuses.
You and others are dancing around trying to poke holes in the 5th amendment. The spirit of the 5th amendment is to prevent the government from compelling you to help them prosecute you. The founders talked extensively about how it was immoral to require someone to help the government put them in jail. Providing encryption keys is helping the government prosecute you. In fact I'd argue the combination or key to a safe does exactly the same thing and the court rulings that allow the government to compel cooperation in opening safes also violates the spirit of the 5th.
This is only an issue because Judges go out of their way to violate the constitution when they think it should. As a result there is a case history in the US that providing the key or combination to a safe doesn't violate the 5th. Those rulings completely violate the spirit of the 5th even though they found weasel logic to get around a fixed interpretation of the words of the 5th. Just because this stupidity exists in case law isn't justification to piss on the 5th some more with a similar ruling on encryption.
Incorrect. Some states have successfully made it illegal for anyone under the MPAA or ESRB rating to see the movie or purchase the game without parental permission. The California law was thrown out for how it was implemented, the legality of enforcing the MPAA and ESRB ratings has already been established by the courts, it simply requires certain steps and procedures the Cali law failed to follow.
Seriously? He's broke every promise I even cared about. Every single one. That's not someone who I will voluntarily vote for unless it's to prevent someone like "I will legislate my Morality" Santorum.
There are a lot of things I disagree with Paul on, his list of departments to be closed is HIGH on that list, but the Department of Education is a HUGE waste of money. The PELL grants and federally subsidized loans can be handled by anyone including treasury or even block grants to the states, BUT the rest of that department, including no child left behind, is a HUGE waste of money, resources and IMO isn't even constitutionally sound let alone actually accomplishes anything. Education is reserved to the states, the feds shouldn't even be messing in it. All they've done since Nixon created the department has been to make effective primary education harder for the states.
You act as if the Greeks have a choice to put themselves in "debt peonage" as you say. The problem is they ALREADY DID THAT. They borrowed 125%+ of their yearly tax revenue. If not adjusted the interest on that debt would consume more than 50% of tax revenue. The key point here is that the debt you speak of WAS already borrowed. The only choice they have is to default (and I point to Argentina for the success of that plan) or to get someone else to pay their debts and suffer the concessions to spending that will be required. In fact if you want to see what happens when a sovereign nation refused to pay it's debt look at what happened in Argentina during the late 90's and 2000's. They STILL can't borrow money on the international market and won't be able to until they make amends for the debt that defaulted (including paying back interest).
What happened in Iceland was COMPLETELY different. The EU and the UK in particular tried to bully Iceland into bailing out EU and British deposits in the Icelandic banks that went under. The revolt you speak of partially stopped the bailout and allowed some of those deposits to be lost. The political impact of that long term has yet to be seen but it had NOTHING to do with sovereign debt. The reason Iceland is doing better is precisely because they had little to no sovereign debt.
Ah, there's your mistake. A liberal is obviously anyone that disagrees with someone that identifies as "conservative". Doesn't matter what they really think or do.
Please remember that there is a statistical error that must be accounted for in the sample size and methods. For small study sizes the probable error can exceed the sample size. Besides this isn't a real scientific experiment. Randi is adept at proving charlatans because he was a former magician and palm reader and with the background he knows how these people operate such that it's essential that any study conducted be a double blind (where the observers are equally unaware) because these people are VERY good at reading peoples expressions and body language.
As such, in the case of the study you quote the real chemical science using international protocols established no link but his modification to those protocols that created a double blind environment resulted in inconclusive results only proves they didn't prove anything, the international standard based tests still hold weight. The reason no further examination of this exact situation was undertaken was precisely because the real journals had already proved it false. His study did trigger some studies to see if water had some sort of chemical memory though and will likely persist being evaluated until its proved one way or another. It's concievable that Randi's modifications revealed some quantum effect that was hidden if someone knew about it during testing just like if light is measured it acts like a particle and if no one watches it acts like a wave (the single photon, double slit test).
The key though is that Randi applies the scientific method to his examinations but more critically he is forced to make everything double blind because of the type of people he's dealing with.
It's impossible to predict an earthquake. It's a random event, and science has discovered no indication that any event proceeds an earthquake of a certain magnitude. The closest we can get on a fault is an average return cycle which is absolutely an average and has no guarantee of being even within 2 standard deviations of the average. In volcanic areas it's a bit different in that earthquakes tend to cluster around magma events, BUT again there is no way to predict any of it. The best that can be done again is probabilities that aren't accurate and are frequently exceeded in both time and magnitude.
What's going on in Italy is a witch hunt. People died and they want someone punished so their trying to legally lynch the scientists who study the events. Seismology isn't a prediction science, it's a raw discovery science. I find it scary that they are dragging in the former head CalTrans seismologist, he's not an expert, and he's not at the forefront of the profession. I'll be curious to see if someone files a complaint with the professional engineers board in California for what he did as I personally believe he violated the code of conduct and the legal obligations as a registered engineer in the state of California.
Approximately 6 Billion for the DEA (doesn't include state expenditures), it's been estimated that incarcerating all the non-violent drug offenders is approximately equal in cost so another $6 billion or so on prisons (not including that it opens up space to keep the real violent offenders in prison rather than furlowing them). So you would save $12 billion just on the administrative and law enforcement costs (again, only federal, doesn't' include state costs).
Worldwide illegal drug trade is estimated at about $400 Billion. The US encompasses about $100 Billion of that trade, those of course are street prices which are about 100x to 1000x the actual production cost. It's conceivable that with pharmaceutical grade production and even 100-200% taxes the US federal government could reap another $12 billion in tax revenue (probably on the low end) from a legalized drug trade. This would also reduce the cost to users by a significant factor, probably on the order of 100X less cost. As many of the illegal drugs can be abused and still have a functional life and career the impacts to society wouldn't be any worse than current and should be significantly reduced. Once legal, consumption will likely finally drop just like it did after alcohol prohibition ended.
So in the end we dramatically reduce drug deaths, we cut drug crime to a single digit percentage of current crime, we reduce federal expenditures $24 billion and increase federal revenues another $12 billion. Why not?
As said already, I think Paul is nuts on some topics (notably gold standard) but I'd vote for him for no other reason than ending the "war on drugs".
Do you have any idea how many children and others were killed by these virulent diseases? To put this in perspective, before vaccinations the list of top ten killers in this country was entirely populated by diseases which today have vaccinations. That same list today is comprised of heart disease and cancer instead of measles and mumps. These diseases kill, and when they don't kill they maim severely, or sterilize, or blind, or like polio make you paraplegic including freezing your lungs so that you have to spend the rest of your life in an Iron lung or you die.
Of course there is a higher mortality, some of the side effects of vaccinations are death. You CAN get real polio from the vaccine. But the odds of a side effect or getting the actual disease are incredibly small, in the range of 1 in a million or billion. But the odds of catastrophic results from not getting the vaccine are FAR higher. With all these vaccination avoiders there is going to be an pandemic some day and all those people who didn't vaccinate their kids are going to be burying them. Almost every one of these childhood vaccinations are diseases that kill adults that get the disease. We've already had several major outbreaks of measles that have killed a significant number of people, I vaguely recall one in a nearby state that killed nearly 700 people. If the CDC and state health officials hadn't quarantined people it probably would have went pandemic. Herd immunity is gone at this point, if you are relying on it to protect your kid you have no idea how many people are refusing vaccines.
You cannot sue a company in Bankruptcy without the permission of the Judge handling the Bankruptcy case. That's the purpose of Bankruptcy, to stop lawsuits.
So don't post your life story on Facebook you nitwit. Those of us that refuse to use that damn privacy breaching POS know just like you do that in 10 years you ARE going to regret something YOU voluntarily put up there that is going to come back and haunt you. Making it a law that you can demand companies delete all information you not only posted freely, but that you voluntarily signed a contract allowing them to keep the data forever is just plain stupid. If you are dumb enough to post all that personal information to Facebook you shouldn't be surprised when it comes back to haunt you, nor should you have a legal right to request it's removal.
All this bill would do is ensure that Google, Facebook and others completely shutdown all local European presence. That means all those local jobs go away and all legal recourse is gone while at the same time everyone keeps using it. Unless of course you're willing to implement the great firewall of Europe and join China in a world where the powers that be can decide to rewrite history.
They are most certainly afraid of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and they should be. People should really see their BS for what is with these claims, seriously, they own voice control? My Car's navigation system has had voice control for a decade.
They aren't de-aging female models they are making them look like boys! The international fashion industry is dominated by gay males, a group that for whatever reason tries endlessly to make female fashion models look like boys. This is why hips and anything larger than an A cup gets you off the runway. It's why they are kept as thin as possible with body fat ratio's that are only achievable in a healthy way by men and boys. "Heroin chic" is nothing more than making a young woman look like a boy. That people follow and consume based on this is what's silly, it's the reason the average dress size in media has gone from 14 to 4 in the last 30 years and is the primary cause of the huge dieting fad.
Well that 500 million dollar loan they got from the government is part of that, don't be going and making Musk out to be anything other than what he is.
Not minimal, none. He got like 80 hours of community service. No fine and no jail time. The guy should be in jail for fraud and slander/libel at a minimum and for trying to tap a member of congresses phone he should be in jail for espionage. Anyone that thinks that jackass is a hero needs their head examined.
Governments will go to extreme lengths to avoid revealing when they have access to information that the "enemy" thinks is secure. The allies went to very extreme measures to avoid tipping the Germans off that they had access to all the communications that went out on the Enigma machine. This included letting their own troops be ambushed and killed and massive use of resources and manpower to cover up when they did use the information, such as flying a hundred aerial survey missions to cover up knowing the travel path of a sea convoy.
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The solution to this problem is to fix the problem to begin with not add more loopholes and rules to close loopholes. Capital gains and business taxes constitute the largest double taxation and loophole in the US code. Do away with business taxes COMPLETELY, then tax all gains, capital, income, inheritance, etc as INCOME and tax it on the same progressive tax system.
This is what Huntsman suggested and god damn if everyone didn't attack him. Taxing a business, then taxing the gains paid out to people is double taxation and it's EVIIIIIL. Business should be able to operate without taxation as long as NONE of the money is directed into the pockets of a single individual. As soon as there is a transfer of wealth from the business to a person, be that salary or capital gains it should be taxed at the income rate because this artificial rate separation of income and capital gains is nothing more than an attempted plug to the double taxation which then creates the biggest single loophole in the tax system. It's why Romney and the Richest Americans who survive on investment return have tax rates that not even minimum wage earners can touch. The fix isn't bizarre arcane rules that Congress will alter next year to punch a dozen holes through, its to simplify the tax system drastically.
Wanna fix the tax system and provide incentive to US business? 1. Eliminate corporate taxes. 2. Make all income, regardless of source (investment, salary, inheritance, etc) taxable at the same rate. 3. Establish a progressive income tax very similar to the existing without any deductions of any kind. (taxes need to stop being used for social change).
a. $0 - $24,0000 (1%)
b. $24,0000 - $35,000 (10%)
c. $35K - $50K (20%)
d. $50K - $100K (30%)
e. $100K - $Infinite (40%) 4. No marriage penalty, no jointly filing. Everyone should be judged as an individual regardless of relationship. All the joint filing BS does is allow people with a spouse that don't work (these days that's the richest among us, with the exception of certain groups of people) to pay fewer taxes by filing jointly. 5. No deductions. Again, it's not right to have the government give you a lower tax rate because you have a kid, or buy a car or put solar panels on your home. 6. User taxes and fee's not only remain, they go up to their ACTUAL cost. This means all the defense money that's used to protect oil deliveries should go into the cost of gasoline in the form of a dramatically increased per gallon tax. These user taxes should completely support the function of government they were created for and they should be indexed against some metric like inflation so they remain constant in real dollars. 7. Extra spending such as War and millitary adventure-ism should be required to be passed on to the American people in the form of an excise tax that lasts the length of the expenditure. This country would be far less willing to engage in foreign wars were the people required to pay for it on cash rather than credit. Yes that means there should be a line item on your tax return for the war in Afghanistan that costs x% of your income. 8. Finally the BS that's been in place on social security and medicare for the last 30 years needs to STOP. That means the tax rate matches expenditures. Social security alone has run a 2 Trillion dollar surplus over the last 30 years that congress has promptly spent (and not counted in the deficit to hide it).
a. I think people should be given the option to opt out of Social security (but not the full tax) and it should be illegal for them to be re-admitted later for any reason (including disability). My guess is less than 1% of Americans would even opt out, even the most vocal critics are likely to not opt out.
b. Two, if there are ANY cuts to social security those cuts should be enacted against anyone from the age of
So what does this tell the enemies of the US airforce? That they can ground cargo operation with directed EMP. The ipad isn't EMP hardened, so a single EMP burst will deprive the pilots of all charting and mission planning. What a great way to shut down US airlift capability! No body would have bothered in the past because US military planes are EMP hardened so you couldn't kill the plane. But now with the advent a consumer electronic device for charts and mission plans you have the ability to shut down all mission information.
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The question people should be asking themselves is if they want someone like Bashar Assad or Mugabe or China or the next Pol Pot regime to have a say in what you can and can't do on the internet. Because as soon as you bring it to the UN you give equal footing to regimes that shouldn't have any say. Just like when Kadaffi's Libya was in charge of the UN commission on Human Rights.
It was a subtle trick to get you to read the article. Now that it's proven effective expect staged contradictory errors in every single Slashdot headline!
Unloading treasuries won't do what you say. The long term (5-10 years) effect though of doing so would decrease the value of the dollar robbing American consumers of their purchasing power and thereby crushing the Chinese economy sending 1 billion people into the streets in protest. China's entire economy and ruling class is encased around the idea of a GDP that is growing at ~8-12%. If they decrease that to even 5% there will be economic and political consequences.
The old saying goes if you owe them a billion they have control if you owe them a trillion you have control. Almost all of China reserves are stored in US dollars either directly or through treasuries. The loss of the US treasury would decimate the world economy in short order.
You'd probably be even madder to know that the reason they were going after the users and not the dealer that they obviously knew about was to seize your car and the lady's paychecks. The DEA and their operations are nothing more than legally enforced property theft. Many departments engage in drug enforcement for no other reason than to seize property and sell it at auction so the cops can get bonuses.
You and others are dancing around trying to poke holes in the 5th amendment. The spirit of the 5th amendment is to prevent the government from compelling you to help them prosecute you. The founders talked extensively about how it was immoral to require someone to help the government put them in jail. Providing encryption keys is helping the government prosecute you. In fact I'd argue the combination or key to a safe does exactly the same thing and the court rulings that allow the government to compel cooperation in opening safes also violates the spirit of the 5th.
This is only an issue because Judges go out of their way to violate the constitution when they think it should. As a result there is a case history in the US that providing the key or combination to a safe doesn't violate the 5th. Those rulings completely violate the spirit of the 5th even though they found weasel logic to get around a fixed interpretation of the words of the 5th. Just because this stupidity exists in case law isn't justification to piss on the 5th some more with a similar ruling on encryption.
Incorrect. Some states have successfully made it illegal for anyone under the MPAA or ESRB rating to see the movie or purchase the game without parental permission. The California law was thrown out for how it was implemented, the legality of enforcing the MPAA and ESRB ratings has already been established by the courts, it simply requires certain steps and procedures the Cali law failed to follow.
Seriously? He's broke every promise I even cared about. Every single one. That's not someone who I will voluntarily vote for unless it's to prevent someone like "I will legislate my Morality" Santorum.
There are a lot of things I disagree with Paul on, his list of departments to be closed is HIGH on that list, but the Department of Education is a HUGE waste of money. The PELL grants and federally subsidized loans can be handled by anyone including treasury or even block grants to the states, BUT the rest of that department, including no child left behind, is a HUGE waste of money, resources and IMO isn't even constitutionally sound let alone actually accomplishes anything. Education is reserved to the states, the feds shouldn't even be messing in it. All they've done since Nixon created the department has been to make effective primary education harder for the states.
You act as if the Greeks have a choice to put themselves in "debt peonage" as you say. The problem is they ALREADY DID THAT. They borrowed 125%+ of their yearly tax revenue. If not adjusted the interest on that debt would consume more than 50% of tax revenue. The key point here is that the debt you speak of WAS already borrowed. The only choice they have is to default (and I point to Argentina for the success of that plan) or to get someone else to pay their debts and suffer the concessions to spending that will be required. In fact if you want to see what happens when a sovereign nation refused to pay it's debt look at what happened in Argentina during the late 90's and 2000's. They STILL can't borrow money on the international market and won't be able to until they make amends for the debt that defaulted (including paying back interest).
What happened in Iceland was COMPLETELY different. The EU and the UK in particular tried to bully Iceland into bailing out EU and British deposits in the Icelandic banks that went under. The revolt you speak of partially stopped the bailout and allowed some of those deposits to be lost. The political impact of that long term has yet to be seen but it had NOTHING to do with sovereign debt. The reason Iceland is doing better is precisely because they had little to no sovereign debt.
Ah, there's your mistake. A liberal is obviously anyone that disagrees with someone that identifies as "conservative". Doesn't matter what they really think or do.
Please remember that there is a statistical error that must be accounted for in the sample size and methods. For small study sizes the probable error can exceed the sample size. Besides this isn't a real scientific experiment. Randi is adept at proving charlatans because he was a former magician and palm reader and with the background he knows how these people operate such that it's essential that any study conducted be a double blind (where the observers are equally unaware) because these people are VERY good at reading peoples expressions and body language.
As such, in the case of the study you quote the real chemical science using international protocols established no link but his modification to those protocols that created a double blind environment resulted in inconclusive results only proves they didn't prove anything, the international standard based tests still hold weight. The reason no further examination of this exact situation was undertaken was precisely because the real journals had already proved it false. His study did trigger some studies to see if water had some sort of chemical memory though and will likely persist being evaluated until its proved one way or another. It's concievable that Randi's modifications revealed some quantum effect that was hidden if someone knew about it during testing just like if light is measured it acts like a particle and if no one watches it acts like a wave (the single photon, double slit test).
The key though is that Randi applies the scientific method to his examinations but more critically he is forced to make everything double blind because of the type of people he's dealing with.
Of course as SCO is a Delaware corporation you really meant a several dozen square miles of Deleware right?
not all that reliable = not at all reliable.
It's impossible to predict an earthquake. It's a random event, and science has discovered no indication that any event proceeds an earthquake of a certain magnitude. The closest we can get on a fault is an average return cycle which is absolutely an average and has no guarantee of being even within 2 standard deviations of the average. In volcanic areas it's a bit different in that earthquakes tend to cluster around magma events, BUT again there is no way to predict any of it. The best that can be done again is probabilities that aren't accurate and are frequently exceeded in both time and magnitude.
What's going on in Italy is a witch hunt. People died and they want someone punished so their trying to legally lynch the scientists who study the events. Seismology isn't a prediction science, it's a raw discovery science. I find it scary that they are dragging in the former head CalTrans seismologist, he's not an expert, and he's not at the forefront of the profession. I'll be curious to see if someone files a complaint with the professional engineers board in California for what he did as I personally believe he violated the code of conduct and the legal obligations as a registered engineer in the state of California.
Approximately 6 Billion for the DEA (doesn't include state expenditures), it's been estimated that incarcerating all the non-violent drug offenders is approximately equal in cost so another $6 billion or so on prisons (not including that it opens up space to keep the real violent offenders in prison rather than furlowing them). So you would save $12 billion just on the administrative and law enforcement costs (again, only federal, doesn't' include state costs).
Worldwide illegal drug trade is estimated at about $400 Billion. The US encompasses about $100 Billion of that trade, those of course are street prices which are about 100x to 1000x the actual production cost. It's conceivable that with pharmaceutical grade production and even 100-200% taxes the US federal government could reap another $12 billion in tax revenue (probably on the low end) from a legalized drug trade. This would also reduce the cost to users by a significant factor, probably on the order of 100X less cost. As many of the illegal drugs can be abused and still have a functional life and career the impacts to society wouldn't be any worse than current and should be significantly reduced. Once legal, consumption will likely finally drop just like it did after alcohol prohibition ended.
So in the end we dramatically reduce drug deaths, we cut drug crime to a single digit percentage of current crime, we reduce federal expenditures $24 billion and increase federal revenues another $12 billion. Why not?
As said already, I think Paul is nuts on some topics (notably gold standard) but I'd vote for him for no other reason than ending the "war on drugs".
Do you have any idea how many children and others were killed by these virulent diseases? To put this in perspective, before vaccinations the list of top ten killers in this country was entirely populated by diseases which today have vaccinations. That same list today is comprised of heart disease and cancer instead of measles and mumps. These diseases kill, and when they don't kill they maim severely, or sterilize, or blind, or like polio make you paraplegic including freezing your lungs so that you have to spend the rest of your life in an Iron lung or you die.
Of course there is a higher mortality, some of the side effects of vaccinations are death. You CAN get real polio from the vaccine. But the odds of a side effect or getting the actual disease are incredibly small, in the range of 1 in a million or billion. But the odds of catastrophic results from not getting the vaccine are FAR higher. With all these vaccination avoiders there is going to be an pandemic some day and all those people who didn't vaccinate their kids are going to be burying them. Almost every one of these childhood vaccinations are diseases that kill adults that get the disease. We've already had several major outbreaks of measles that have killed a significant number of people, I vaguely recall one in a nearby state that killed nearly 700 people. If the CDC and state health officials hadn't quarantined people it probably would have went pandemic. Herd immunity is gone at this point, if you are relying on it to protect your kid you have no idea how many people are refusing vaccines.
You cannot sue a company in Bankruptcy without the permission of the Judge handling the Bankruptcy case. That's the purpose of Bankruptcy, to stop lawsuits.
So don't post your life story on Facebook you nitwit. Those of us that refuse to use that damn privacy breaching POS know just like you do that in 10 years you ARE going to regret something YOU voluntarily put up there that is going to come back and haunt you. Making it a law that you can demand companies delete all information you not only posted freely, but that you voluntarily signed a contract allowing them to keep the data forever is just plain stupid. If you are dumb enough to post all that personal information to Facebook you shouldn't be surprised when it comes back to haunt you, nor should you have a legal right to request it's removal.
All this bill would do is ensure that Google, Facebook and others completely shutdown all local European presence. That means all those local jobs go away and all legal recourse is gone while at the same time everyone keeps using it. Unless of course you're willing to implement the great firewall of Europe and join China in a world where the powers that be can decide to rewrite history.
Room 101. If anything can make you remember something differently it's room 101.
They are most certainly afraid of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and they should be. People should really see their BS for what is with these claims, seriously, they own voice control? My Car's navigation system has had voice control for a decade.
They aren't de-aging female models they are making them look like boys! The international fashion industry is dominated by gay males, a group that for whatever reason tries endlessly to make female fashion models look like boys. This is why hips and anything larger than an A cup gets you off the runway. It's why they are kept as thin as possible with body fat ratio's that are only achievable in a healthy way by men and boys. "Heroin chic" is nothing more than making a young woman look like a boy. That people follow and consume based on this is what's silly, it's the reason the average dress size in media has gone from 14 to 4 in the last 30 years and is the primary cause of the huge dieting fad.
Well that 500 million dollar loan they got from the government is part of that, don't be going and making Musk out to be anything other than what he is.
Not minimal, none. He got like 80 hours of community service. No fine and no jail time. The guy should be in jail for fraud and slander/libel at a minimum and for trying to tap a member of congresses phone he should be in jail for espionage. Anyone that thinks that jackass is a hero needs their head examined.
Governments will go to extreme lengths to avoid revealing when they have access to information that the "enemy" thinks is secure. The allies went to very extreme measures to avoid tipping the Germans off that they had access to all the communications that went out on the Enigma machine. This included letting their own troops be ambushed and killed and massive use of resources and manpower to cover up when they did use the information, such as flying a hundred aerial survey missions to cover up knowing the travel path of a sea convoy.
The solution to this problem is to fix the problem to begin with not add more loopholes and rules to close loopholes. Capital gains and business taxes constitute the largest double taxation and loophole in the US code. Do away with business taxes COMPLETELY, then tax all gains, capital, income, inheritance, etc as INCOME and tax it on the same progressive tax system.
This is what Huntsman suggested and god damn if everyone didn't attack him. Taxing a business, then taxing the gains paid out to people is double taxation and it's EVIIIIIL. Business should be able to operate without taxation as long as NONE of the money is directed into the pockets of a single individual. As soon as there is a transfer of wealth from the business to a person, be that salary or capital gains it should be taxed at the income rate because this artificial rate separation of income and capital gains is nothing more than an attempted plug to the double taxation which then creates the biggest single loophole in the tax system. It's why Romney and the Richest Americans who survive on investment return have tax rates that not even minimum wage earners can touch. The fix isn't bizarre arcane rules that Congress will alter next year to punch a dozen holes through, its to simplify the tax system drastically.
Wanna fix the tax system and provide incentive to US business?
1. Eliminate corporate taxes.
2. Make all income, regardless of source (investment, salary, inheritance, etc) taxable at the same rate.
3. Establish a progressive income tax very similar to the existing without any deductions of any kind. (taxes need to stop being used for social change).
a. $0 - $24,0000 (1%)
b. $24,0000 - $35,000 (10%)
c. $35K - $50K (20%)
d. $50K - $100K (30%)
e. $100K - $Infinite (40%)
4. No marriage penalty, no jointly filing. Everyone should be judged as an individual regardless of relationship. All the joint filing BS does is allow people with a spouse that don't work (these days that's the richest among us, with the exception of certain groups of people) to pay fewer taxes by filing jointly.
5. No deductions. Again, it's not right to have the government give you a lower tax rate because you have a kid, or buy a car or put solar panels on your home.
6. User taxes and fee's not only remain, they go up to their ACTUAL cost. This means all the defense money that's used to protect oil deliveries should go into the cost of gasoline in the form of a dramatically increased per gallon tax. These user taxes should completely support the function of government they were created for and they should be indexed against some metric like inflation so they remain constant in real dollars.
7. Extra spending such as War and millitary adventure-ism should be required to be passed on to the American people in the form of an excise tax that lasts the length of the expenditure. This country would be far less willing to engage in foreign wars were the people required to pay for it on cash rather than credit. Yes that means there should be a line item on your tax return for the war in Afghanistan that costs x% of your income.
8. Finally the BS that's been in place on social security and medicare for the last 30 years needs to STOP. That means the tax rate matches expenditures. Social security alone has run a 2 Trillion dollar surplus over the last 30 years that congress has promptly spent (and not counted in the deficit to hide it).
a. I think people should be given the option to opt out of Social security (but not the full tax) and it should be illegal for them to be re-admitted later for any reason (including disability). My guess is less than 1% of Americans would even opt out, even the most vocal critics are likely to not opt out.
b. Two, if there are ANY cuts to social security those cuts should be enacted against anyone from the age of
So what does this tell the enemies of the US airforce? That they can ground cargo operation with directed EMP. The ipad isn't EMP hardened, so a single EMP burst will deprive the pilots of all charting and mission planning. What a great way to shut down US airlift capability! No body would have bothered in the past because US military planes are EMP hardened so you couldn't kill the plane. But now with the advent a consumer electronic device for charts and mission plans you have the ability to shut down all mission information.