I probably entered the workforce well after you did. I am only 33, I have never received AFDC, you may be thinking of the EITC. I think it would be a stretch to say anyone "depends" on a relatively small tax credit they get once a year (as opposed to a monthly prebate).
I have worked since I was 16 and had children since I was 22 (married early, still married). I have always had to work hard to make my finances work and paid heavily to the banking industry for my own shortsightedness. I am not a big believer in class warfare, but have been coming around lately...
The Fairtax appeals to people who obsess about the IRS taking their money, often self-employed and usually on the low end of wealthy. I can understand that they don't feel it is fair that they are taxed the same as someone who is truly wealthy, but it tends to fall on deaf ears when people see their large houses and other creature comforts. They feel they are "self-made men", but fail to see the help they receive from society and the very real fact that their wealth and position are only possible due to the rule of law and the boundaries of society. They should be the most willing to pay to maintain this status quo, but they get lost in fantasies.
Prosperity is a not a zero sum game, but wealth largely is, especially in local economies. Compare two towns of 10 families. In one each family has $1 Million. In the second, One family has $5million, 2 families have $2.45 million and the final $50k is split between the remaining 7 families? How do you think these communities would function. Who do you think would do the brunt of the labor? If we all have money, it has no value. If it is controlled by afew and desired by the rest, it has great value.
In final point, the IRS has never bothered me. I file my taxes. I take the most obvious deductions and I have never been audited. I know afew people who have been, but I don't see the IRS as jackbooted thugs like the people I describe above seem to.
I disagree, you are talking about creating a federal price floor. Look at what happened with the DTV converter box coupons. The established a price floor. The price now seems to be coming down below the old coupon price.
As someone who as lived in the bottom spectrum that would probably receive prebates. I have never recieved AFDC, TANF, food stamps, or SS. You must have always led a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle and have little idea of how people in lower income groups live.
A large sales tax like this would be devastating and probably drive most lower income people to a black or grey market. That would necessitate a new agency to crack down on black market and grey market goods. It would probably end up worse then the war on drugs (for curtailing our freedom). The Feds would demand more and more power to investigate tax frauds and the rich who could afford the sales tax would have one more tool to keep a boot on the neck of the poor. Sounds like that's the point...
Check out Michigan. When I lived there there was a set rate that the state would pay day care providers for people who qualified. I'm not sure what was necessary to qualify. Guess what the lowest prices were?
Sure, upscale places would charge more, but why leave money on the table?
Much of American wealth has to do with the land, lumber, and minerals that were "free" for the taking. This gave us a tremendous advantage over Europe, Asia, and Africa where people had been utilizing these resources heavily for a thousand years.
I assume you are joking, but I have reused website passwords in the past. I refuse to do this for facebook. I don't trust them. I certainly won't give them my cell number. This is also useless for people who browse facebook primarily on their phone. It either won't be supported by their facebook app, or someone who steals (or borrows) their phone could still get access.
Same here with AT&T, downloading a 100 MB file is slower then when I had comcast, but downloading a 1GB file or torrent is much faster, the speed is fairly consistant.
Wish I had faster upstream. Can anyone comment on whether the Uverse experience is more DSL like or more cable like? Relating to the above differences.
I switched because of a teaser $20 a month rate. Uploads are slower and downloads are often slower, but I have found that bit-torrent is much faster on DSL, and while 100MB downloads are slower, GB downloads are faster. The cable connections seems to penalize you after that first couple minutes of speed burst.
FYI
even without plugins, keepass will run from USB on any machine back to win95 and you can open the pw database and have it auto-type passwords. It does have a tendency to auto-close if you don't change the settings.
In addition to keeping it on your USB stick, there are also versions for just about every mobile device out there.
This is true, I see all kinds of expensive recommendations on here, some reasonable ones and some crazy ones. You can can the same performance at a quarter of the price if you hire a competent Network Admin. And spending 4 times as much doesn't guarantee you a good network experience if you don't have a competent Network Admin.
At the very least you should consider hiring someone to look over your shoulders, there are all sorts of pitfalls and mistakes you can easily blow $10k on if you are new to the game. Of course you have to hire someone who isn't looking to butter their bread on both sides, sometimes difficult in the world of IT consultants.
we can both agree that both versions of logging user location suck, I wouldn't wipe my ass with an Iphone, but that was before this came out. Now I am confident I am correct in avoiding them.
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I probably entered the workforce well after you did. I am only 33, I have never received AFDC, you may be thinking of the EITC. I think it would be a stretch to say anyone "depends" on a relatively small tax credit they get once a year (as opposed to a monthly prebate).
I have worked since I was 16 and had children since I was 22 (married early, still married). I have always had to work hard to make my finances work and paid heavily to the banking industry for my own shortsightedness. I am not a big believer in class warfare, but have been coming around lately...
The Fairtax appeals to people who obsess about the IRS taking their money, often self-employed and usually on the low end of wealthy. I can understand that they don't feel it is fair that they are taxed the same as someone who is truly wealthy, but it tends to fall on deaf ears when people see their large houses and other creature comforts. They feel they are "self-made men", but fail to see the help they receive from society and the very real fact that their wealth and position are only possible due to the rule of law and the boundaries of society. They should be the most willing to pay to maintain this status quo, but they get lost in fantasies.
Prosperity is a not a zero sum game, but wealth largely is, especially in local economies. Compare two towns of 10 families. In one each family has $1 Million. In the second, One family has $5million, 2 families have $2.45 million and the final $50k is split between the remaining 7 families? How do you think these communities would function. Who do you think would do the brunt of the labor? If we all have money, it has no value. If it is controlled by afew and desired by the rest, it has great value.
In final point, the IRS has never bothered me. I file my taxes. I take the most obvious deductions and I have never been audited. I know afew people who have been, but I don't see the IRS as jackbooted thugs like the people I describe above seem to.
There is one, http://www.sage.org/ethics/
I disagree, you are talking about creating a federal price floor. Look at what happened with the DTV converter box coupons. The established a price floor. The price now seems to be coming down below the old coupon price.
As someone who as lived in the bottom spectrum that would probably receive prebates. I have never recieved AFDC, TANF, food stamps, or SS. You must have always led a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle and have little idea of how people in lower income groups live.
A large sales tax like this would be devastating and probably drive most lower income people to a black or grey market. That would necessitate a new agency to crack down on black market and grey market goods. It would probably end up worse then the war on drugs (for curtailing our freedom). The Feds would demand more and more power to investigate tax frauds and the rich who could afford the sales tax would have one more tool to keep a boot on the neck of the poor.
Sounds like that's the point...
Check out Michigan. When I lived there there was a set rate that the state would pay day care providers for people who qualified. I'm not sure what was necessary to qualify.
Guess what the lowest prices were?
Sure, upscale places would charge more, but why leave money on the table?
Much of American wealth has to do with the land, lumber, and minerals that were "free" for the taking. This gave us a tremendous advantage over Europe, Asia, and Africa where people had been utilizing these resources heavily for a thousand years.
How does teaching people to rely on a prebate shift power away from the authority giving out the prebate?
I assume you are joking, but I have reused website passwords in the past. I refuse to do this for facebook. I don't trust them. I certainly won't give them my cell number. This is also useless for people who browse facebook primarily on their phone. It either won't be supported by their facebook app, or someone who steals (or borrows) their phone could still get access.
Same here with AT&T, downloading a 100 MB file is slower then when I had comcast, but downloading a 1GB file or torrent is much faster, the speed is fairly consistant.
Wish I had faster upstream. Can anyone comment on whether the Uverse experience is more DSL like or more cable like? Relating to the above differences.
I second this, it is a good book, very simplistic in parts, but entertaining.
must have got it from a toilet seat...
If it costs $150k, your employer will probably "ignore" you pirating it, or force you to use something else.
That one doesn't let you report age, the age one is buried in the FAQ section. Very difficult to find.
http://www.facebook.com/help/?search=report
Ask me how I know you are under 25, or dating someone under 25...
my congresscritter has been representing this district since I was 4 years old, I will be 33 this month...
The world changes, but dinosaurs are still trying to make policy.
moving, definitely!
I switched because of a teaser $20 a month rate. Uploads are slower and downloads are often slower, but I have found that bit-torrent is much faster on DSL, and while 100MB downloads are slower, GB downloads are faster. The cable connections seems to penalize you after that first couple minutes of speed burst.
FYI
even without plugins, keepass will run from USB on any machine back to win95 and you can open the pw database and have it auto-type passwords. It does have a tendency to auto-close if you don't change the settings.
In addition to keeping it on your USB stick, there are also versions for just about every mobile device out there.
yeah, It seems like most of the Cisco comments are anonyomous, the HP ones are logged on accounts.
do you work here...?
pfsense, 'nuf said...
This is true, I see all kinds of expensive recommendations on here, some reasonable ones and some crazy ones. You can can the same performance at a quarter of the price if you hire a competent Network Admin. And spending 4 times as much doesn't guarantee you a good network experience if you don't have a competent Network Admin.
At the very least you should consider hiring someone to look over your shoulders, there are all sorts of pitfalls and mistakes you can easily blow $10k on if you are new to the game. Of course you have to hire someone who isn't looking to butter their bread on both sides, sometimes difficult in the world of IT consultants.
oops, I posted that anonymously...
only the last part of your argument was correct, "let see what the judge says".
The racially ambiguous (not quite white, if you prefer) do not argue with cops...
we can both agree that both versions of logging user location suck, I wouldn't wipe my ass with an Iphone, but that was before this came out. Now I am confident I am correct in avoiding them.