The provisions of the BOR have to be explicitly incorporated under the 14th before they apply to states, but here it's not the BOR at issue, just the general scope of the federal government's power to tax (hence the 16th amendment). I'm not a legal scholar, but I'm fairly sure that income taxes would have been quite legal for the states. Unfortunately, I just can't seem to find out the dates that states first adopted various taxes.
The mortgage interest deduction is an artifact. Prior to the 1986 tax reforms, all paid interest was deductible - one of the many, many reasons that people didn't really pay the insanely high marginal rates of the time unless they won a lottery. When the reforms were pushed through, the real estate industry carved out an exception for itself, on the (correct) grounds that eliminating mortgage interest deductibility would cause a huge decrease in home prices.
The 1986 tax reform simplified the tax system and broadly lowered rates. It was immediately set upon by various interests, and within ten years no longer resembled what had been passed.
One of the greatest things about American democracy is that, however bad, corrupt, venal, stupid, misguided, or just plain evil any given administration is, they hand over the reins of power without a fight when it's over. Your approach is one very good way to make one of them, one day, not do that.
It's a bit like the treatment of Pinochet. Yes, nasty dude. Yes, dictator. But he did hand over power to a democratically elected government. If the only way out for a former dictator is in a pine box, guess what? It's going to be a lot harder to convince any of them to give up the job voluntarily. The world is probably a better place when ex-tyrants who leave the job voluntarily aren't made to pay properly for their crimes, because it gives the current ones some semblance of an incentive to become ex-tyrants. (Likewise, those who face and lose a revolution... well... c'est la guerre.)
Pacemakers don't power the heart. They trigger it. As mentioned upthread, this is equivalent to the spark plugs in your car being powered by the alternator that is driven by the engine. The energy for both is coming out of the gasoline.
You fail to consider the Female Effect: given that they care about things like aesthetics, women will not want to live in a $1M home that has no furniture, art, lighting, etc. And the contents of a house can very, very quickly exceed the home itself in value.
Well, it was GBP 26700, currently equivalent to about $43000. And the answer to your question is: most people are a lot dumber than you think. $40000 and up are only about 40% of tax returns filed. It's just that most college-educated professionals don't mix with the 60% of people below that line.
A signal that arrives late means a portion of a frame isn't properly generated. If that portion is big enough, yes, he'll notice it. Digital does not degrade gracefully.
He emailed every researcher he could find until one agreed to let him in the lab so he could learn; this isn't some idea he dreamed up on his own. If you happen to live near a major medical center, there's almost always one of those, though finding them is not often easy.
L vs D, S vs R. Xopenex is the levorotatory isomer of albuterol only; escitalopram is S-citalopram without the R-citalopram. Otherwise entirely correct. Personally, I'd never prescribe an enantiomerically pure drug unless the unwanted isomer had a really nasty set of effects.
you can't use your card for a week, and you could be out $60
Unpleasant, but not catastrophic for almost anyone who can get a credit card. Walk downtown to the homeless shelter if you're really starving over $60.
They use your existing debit card... Your entire bank account could be wiped out and you could be left with numerous overdraft fees.
That's why I don't have a debit-processed-as-credit card with a Mastercard/VISA logo. I have an ATM card, which works as a debit card with PIN - and nothing else. I strongly recommend you do the same. Banks may look at you funny the first time you ask, but they do still issue the old style cards.
The best clothes I own are made by a tailor, and contain no visible logos at all. If you know much about clothes, you can easily distinguish quality from cheap crap.
And luxury cars really are a lot more comfortable than non-luxury. You can always debadge, if you like.
Don't live in Houston, so I couldn't tell you what the local follow-up was. Our friends who live in the area are pretty far from the water and on relatively high ground, so they weren't part of the evacuation.
Corollary: traffic alerts that include only exit names, not numbers. I don't expect commuter reports to cater to out-of-towners, but I wish that "turn-around-there's-a-herd-of-cattle-in-the-freeway" alerts (especially on overhead signs) did.
When they could have alerted people much sooner without any fear of a false positive.
Wrong. False positives happen a lot with hurricanes, because we don't know where they're going to hit until just before landfall. Remember Rita, later that year? People were told to leave about 72 hours prior to landfall, resulting in an enormous traffic jam as the city came to a standstill. Had Rita stayed on course to hit Houston, the dangers of the evacuation would have been considered worth it - but since she didn't, a lot of people started pointing fingers of blame at the officials for not having a perfectly conceived plan to evacuate over 3 million people.
Even on the morning before Katrina hit, the impact point was uncertain - and, as it turned out, New Orleans was actually spared the full brunt of the hurricane (which primarily hit Mississippi). NO was done in by the levee collapses after the storm started dying down.
Would that they were. Most of the time, regulations are promulgated by executive agencies over whom Congress has essentially abdicated their duty of oversight. The laws are then written in such a way as to treat regulations like democratically-passed laws, except that they're just not.
Deregulation means lawlessness.
Ah, the famous lawlessness of the trucking and airline industries. Seriously, it's quite easy to over-regulate, because regulators don't make better cost-benefit analyses than the regulated companies, they just make their mistakes in the other direction; they are often too risk-averse. Lots of drugs fall into this category; they are ordered off the market due to side effects, but there remains a subset people for whom the (usually small) risk is worth the (usually large) benefit.
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You're not really paying for the education at those places. You're paying for the access.
The provisions of the BOR have to be explicitly incorporated under the 14th before they apply to states, but here it's not the BOR at issue, just the general scope of the federal government's power to tax (hence the 16th amendment). I'm not a legal scholar, but I'm fairly sure that income taxes would have been quite legal for the states. Unfortunately, I just can't seem to find out the dates that states first adopted various taxes.
The mortgage interest deduction is an artifact. Prior to the 1986 tax reforms, all paid interest was deductible - one of the many, many reasons that people didn't really pay the insanely high marginal rates of the time unless they won a lottery. When the reforms were pushed through, the real estate industry carved out an exception for itself, on the (correct) grounds that eliminating mortgage interest deductibility would cause a huge decrease in home prices.
CPS (entirely) and roads (mostly) are the province of state and local governments, not federal.
The 1986 tax reform simplified the tax system and broadly lowered rates. It was immediately set upon by various interests, and within ten years no longer resembled what had been passed.
"change as few things as possible for most bottom lines, and always in a favorable way"
Even if that were possible, there is the small problem that we're already spending much more than we're collecting in taxes.
One of the greatest things about American democracy is that, however bad, corrupt, venal, stupid, misguided, or just plain evil any given administration is, they hand over the reins of power without a fight when it's over. Your approach is one very good way to make one of them, one day, not do that.
It's a bit like the treatment of Pinochet. Yes, nasty dude. Yes, dictator. But he did hand over power to a democratically elected government. If the only way out for a former dictator is in a pine box, guess what? It's going to be a lot harder to convince any of them to give up the job voluntarily. The world is probably a better place when ex-tyrants who leave the job voluntarily aren't made to pay properly for their crimes, because it gives the current ones some semblance of an incentive to become ex-tyrants. (Likewise, those who face and lose a revolution... well... c'est la guerre.)
Pacemakers don't power the heart. They trigger it. As mentioned upthread, this is equivalent to the spark plugs in your car being powered by the alternator that is driven by the engine. The energy for both is coming out of the gasoline.
A pacemaker that never needed to have its battery replaced would be quite an accomplishment.
Yep, you're right. Totally missed that bit.
You fail to consider the Female Effect: given that they care about things like aesthetics, women will not want to live in a $1M home that has no furniture, art, lighting, etc. And the contents of a house can very, very quickly exceed the home itself in value.
Well, it was GBP 26700, currently equivalent to about $43000. And the answer to your question is: most people are a lot dumber than you think. $40000 and up are only about 40% of tax returns filed. It's just that most college-educated professionals don't mix with the 60% of people below that line.
Only if you wanted two gigE links, instead of one.
A signal that arrives late means a portion of a frame isn't properly generated. If that portion is big enough, yes, he'll notice it. Digital does not degrade gracefully.
To fix your kludge would only require fixing the two ends of one cable.
Too subtle, they're not going to get it. Well, they weren't until I posted this. Now they did.
He emailed every researcher he could find until one agreed to let him in the lab so he could learn; this isn't some idea he dreamed up on his own. If you happen to live near a major medical center, there's almost always one of those, though finding them is not often easy.
He's got tenacity, though.
L vs D, S vs R. Xopenex is the levorotatory isomer of albuterol only; escitalopram is S-citalopram without the R-citalopram. Otherwise entirely correct. Personally, I'd never prescribe an enantiomerically pure drug unless the unwanted isomer had a really nasty set of effects.
Do show us the youtubez of that. I'm Ford administration vintage and I never saw this until Rossy started doing it.
you can't use your card for a week, and you could be out $60
Unpleasant, but not catastrophic for almost anyone who can get a credit card. Walk downtown to the homeless shelter if you're really starving over $60.
They use your existing debit card... Your entire bank account could be wiped out and you could be left with numerous overdraft fees.
That's why I don't have a debit-processed-as-credit card with a Mastercard/VISA logo. I have an ATM card, which works as a debit card with PIN - and nothing else. I strongly recommend you do the same. Banks may look at you funny the first time you ask, but they do still issue the old style cards.
The best clothes I own are made by a tailor, and contain no visible logos at all. If you know much about clothes, you can easily distinguish quality from cheap crap.
And luxury cars really are a lot more comfortable than non-luxury. You can always debadge, if you like.
Don't live in Houston, so I couldn't tell you what the local follow-up was. Our friends who live in the area are pretty far from the water and on relatively high ground, so they weren't part of the evacuation.
Corollary: traffic alerts that include only exit names, not numbers. I don't expect commuter reports to cater to out-of-towners, but I wish that "turn-around-there's-a-herd-of-cattle-in-the-freeway" alerts (especially on overhead signs) did.
When they could have alerted people much sooner without any fear of a false positive.
Wrong. False positives happen a lot with hurricanes, because we don't know where they're going to hit until just before landfall. Remember Rita, later that year? People were told to leave about 72 hours prior to landfall, resulting in an enormous traffic jam as the city came to a standstill. Had Rita stayed on course to hit Houston, the dangers of the evacuation would have been considered worth it - but since she didn't, a lot of people started pointing fingers of blame at the officials for not having a perfectly conceived plan to evacuate over 3 million people.
Even on the morning before Katrina hit, the impact point was uncertain - and, as it turned out, New Orleans was actually spared the full brunt of the hurricane (which primarily hit Mississippi). NO was done in by the levee collapses after the storm started dying down.
Regulations are the embodied in law.
Would that they were. Most of the time, regulations are promulgated by executive agencies over whom Congress has essentially abdicated their duty of oversight. The laws are then written in such a way as to treat regulations like democratically-passed laws, except that they're just not.
Deregulation means lawlessness.
Ah, the famous lawlessness of the trucking and airline industries. Seriously, it's quite easy to over-regulate, because regulators don't make better cost-benefit analyses than the regulated companies, they just make their mistakes in the other direction; they are often too risk-averse. Lots of drugs fall into this category; they are ordered off the market due to side effects, but there remains a subset people for whom the (usually small) risk is worth the (usually large) benefit.