If the government allowed corporations to bring their money back from overseas tax free, provided they use that for investments in the US that create jobs, what would be wrong with that?
In a sense they have no productive use for the money since they base their expenses in the US and the profits in tax havens. If they needed more in the US they would just shift the ratio a bit so that expenses were still just a hair below US income. That companies outside the US get to, virtually tax or duty free, sell to US customers for no charge is a scam of epic proportions.
The actual report makes pretty interesting reading. The stats are all over the place. Women report experiencing or seeing more mistreatment, but reported experiencing stereotyping at roughly the same rate as men (23% vs 24% for minority men vs women, 14% vs 12 % for white/asian men vs women). The rate of unwanted sexual attention is drastically higher in the tech industry than other industries (10% vs 6%), but the rate of unwanted sexual attention reported by women is only slightly higher than by men (10% vs 8%). For bullying and harassment, white/asian women reported a lower incident rate than white/asian men (15% vs 16%). But minority women reported a substantially higher rate than minority men (13% vs 9%). You'll also notice minorities reported a lower harassment rate than whites/asians. I highly recommend reading the actual report if you're curious about this stuff. It doesn't really fit into any of the stereotypes (hah) about male/female or white/asian vs minorities.
I've always found that sociologists have fascinating data with wacky conclusions that fit their predetermined outcomes.
I recognize that it's silly, however I didn't create the conditions for this silliness - alimony and child support laws did. Before you get up in arms over 'not supporting your kids' bear in mind that by law support only needs to get paid to the woman. What she does with it is largely, or entirely in you're in CA, not their worry. So in essence kids often don't get the support anyway. I estimate on a good day my kids might see $.25 on the dollar.
And you probably won't. If anyone else does it it's ok. If a European country does it then and only then is it bad and deserving of some form of reparations.
A deal is a deal and the people who traded a few beads for most of the natives land have done pretty good.
That's nice for the guys who profited but lame for the vast majority of the US which pays for this... forever while receiving none of the benefit. This is one of the earliest cases of privatise the gains socialise the losses.
To liberals everything is great if someone else is paying for it. Why don't you house them and feed them and pay for their medical bills and children when they have them.
I've often thought this about sanctuary cities, lets start deporting all the criminals there. Give them what they want. Let Sacramento be over run by the Mexican mafia and the like until they see the light.
Moral hazard is the phrase that sums this up and it applies just as you noted. Mass immigration types haven't figured out that you'll never have great infrastructure, universal healthcare, good public schools, or universal basic income as long as you have mass immigration. However the rich who really pull the strings have convinced them that mass immigration is good because they want lots of low cost labor. They will shaft every poor and middle class citizen for the perk of cheap housecleaning. Sad.
The US will turn blue, give it thirty years. Those 'pesky minorities' have a habit of voting democrat.
The media has done a great job of convincing minorities that only white people vote Republican. Thus many successful Asians vote for the very party that holds them back for the less successful minorities. It's almost funny. However when you let in millions of immigrants from countries with problems you eventually realize that they take these problems with them. Notice how vast portions of California now resemble Mexico in the worst sense of it. Remind me how the M13 criminal gang happened again? Oh yeah, immigrants. Not unlike the mafias of old. Screening people is a common sense idea that should be applied.
Also don't be so smug about one party rule. Ever notice how all one party states have *severe* problems. Kansas seems like a good example on the R side, Illinois seems like a good example on the D side. Though CA would also be a good example of mismanagement is you look at the decline of the state quality of life (ie roads, schools, etc).
At what point does the gravy train end? Every other civilization from that era isn't getting paid. Moreover, they stole it from these other guys that were here before them.
Plus the most important one - never get divorced as that is the most common setback people will face. My advice to my kids is to only marry someone who makes as much or more than you.
unless they were very, very wealthy. Also, google the phrase "infant mortality" sometime while you're at it. Or spare a thought to the 45,000 people who die unnecessarily every year because they don't have access to health care. Health care that we could easily afford if but choose not to because freedom. The freedom to die sounds great when you're not the one doing the dying.
At the end of the day you can have nice healthcare or mass immigration of poor people. You can't have both. Not unlike you can have low taxes or nice infrastructure but you can't have both. Both political parties are living in fantasyland and both can only see the flaws of the other. You can tell a true idiot by someone who spend all their time spouting that one is clearly superior to the other - since neither party really has a solid game plan. And since the moderates in both parties are marginalized don't expect any rational discussion in the near future sadly. I hope the reboot or secession down the road improves things because I don't see a way out of the current stalemate.
I get that targeting coal miners personally isn't a goal of environmentalists, it's just a happy coincidence that the people impacted are also a group generally disliked by environmentalists. However if environmentalists can get past the schadenfreude and think more in terms of win win then both groups could benefit. If coal miners didn't have such a vested interest with little path out then there would be less objection regarding coal going away. Coal going away is a goal of environmentalists isn't it? Part of the all renewable utopia? To help move that along you would be advised to help the people upended by that.
A fair bit of what's wrong with America today could be described as too little compromise and too much my way or the highway. If it wasn't for my way or the highway agendas at the national level few would care who was on the Supreme Court for example.
Helping displaced miners would be great and would advance the environmental cause but most miners are male. Strike 1. They are white. Strike 2. They are rural. Strike 3. Just in case any of those were actually a ball, they are largely from the South. Strike 4. And they are largely Christian. Strike 5. Good luck on them ever getting any help from environmentalists who hate them for all those reasons. Politically they are like blacks, they have some legitimate grievances, they have some self inflicted issues, and because they so reliably vote for one party both parties get to write them off.
Section 8 is a scam where rich property owners get guaranteed government checks for their rentals, often at above market rates. Here's a citation since someone will ask:
Now you don't even have to trick your victim into saying yes, you can just keep them talking for a minute. If you're unfamiliar with the scam, here's a description:
Let me ask you a question - have you spent any serious time in poor neighborhoods? I know them by experience. You seem to know them by reading about them. People who have not lived in a certain situation really aren't in a very good position to talk about it. It leads to thinking like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In any case I stand by my post that the US has two general scams - the non-working poor and the uber rich. Regardless of which one you critisize they point to the other one and say start there. Much like you're doing. I'm in favor of correcting both and I support any action that helps correct either. Until both are addressed the country will continue to deteriorate, debt will accumulate, and services will continue to get worse.
The only scam involved there is the right-wing demagoguery that has led you to believe that people like being poor and unemployed.
Seriously, the majority of the people blabbering about 'welfare queens' and 'moochers' haven't a fucking clue what it is like to be part of the 'non-working poor' (the time you were in college "living off only ramen noodles" does not count). People actually feel like shit due to lack of societal status. Due to the stress involved with not being able to pay bills they have a scientifically proven harder time making decisions.
See for instance: https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...
Listen, again: please focus on the actual problem. We all know shit flows downstream. If you're middle class, guess whose shit is in your drinking water?
I grew up poor and have seen this first hand. My mom was the working poor during my growing up years so I was side by side with the non-working poor. The non-working poor complain mightily but are easily the laziest people around. Ever notice that poor neighborhoods are full of trash despite everyone having endless time? It's not because of their work ethic. My one childhood friend that I've tried to help will always be "too busy" (his words) for anything productive yet wonders why nothing ever improves for him. To you he must be a victim of society. To me he's simply lazy. The difference is that I know him personally and have seen his "efforts" first hand.
LOL. Health insurance for everyone with lower deductibles was also a good move. Then Trump figured out a way to do neither while make the current system even worse.
If a politician were to actually try and improve US Healthcare then they would align our drug pricing with Canadas. However since they in fact just want to keep the game going as long as possible they instead major in the minors. This applies to both D and R.
Even if he accidentally "fixes" H1Bs you better bank on your overall life getting worse.
I always bank on life getting worse when a politician is involved, but then again I live in California.
Note that forcing people to volunteer negates the meaning of 'volunteer'. It also prevents them from finding an actual job and removes all market elements from the labor involved. See the US prison labor system to see what that leads to.
That's why I advocate volunteering for social good, not working as an unpaid intern
Listen, I get that you want the world to be a fair place. I suggest however you direct your efforts away from the weakest people in society to those who use their affluence to game the entire system to make it as skewed towards them as best they can. While you are devising 'solutions' for 'lazy' welfare recipients, billionaires and lobbyists are laughing all the way to the(ir) bank.
The middle class suffers from 2 scams: the non-working poor and the uber rich. One of the biggest scams around is the notion that if you challenge the upper end of the you should focus on the bottom (ie Republicans) and if you challenge the bottom you should instead attack the top (ie Democrats). Both need to be fixed, I'm all for doing both, but delaying one to instead say focus on the other leads to nothing getting done.
If you're curious for the billionaires I'd suggest wealth tax (especially trusts) and taxing capital the same as income.
Aren't people on disability, well, disabled, which is why they get benefits? Because they can't work?
And in theory, shouldn't unemployed be people spending their time obtaining more optimal jobs vs. makework?
Most people on disability have a form of impairment yet few have a total impairment. As long as there are elderly people who need company there is something useful to be done. Have them do it.
Regarding unemployment, a person can't spend 40 hours a week looking for work for more than a couple of weeks before local options have been exhausted. There is a huge body of evidence that getting people out of the house and staying on a routine are both very important in keeping unemployment short term. This would accomplish both.
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If the government allowed corporations to bring their money back from overseas tax free, provided they use that for investments in the US that create jobs, what would be wrong with that?
In a sense they have no productive use for the money since they base their expenses in the US and the profits in tax havens. If they needed more in the US they would just shift the ratio a bit so that expenses were still just a hair below US income. That companies outside the US get to, virtually tax or duty free, sell to US customers for no charge is a scam of epic proportions.
The actual report makes pretty interesting reading. The stats are all over the place. Women report experiencing or seeing more mistreatment, but reported experiencing stereotyping at roughly the same rate as men (23% vs 24% for minority men vs women, 14% vs 12 % for white/asian men vs women). The rate of unwanted sexual attention is drastically higher in the tech industry than other industries (10% vs 6%), but the rate of unwanted sexual attention reported by women is only slightly higher than by men (10% vs 8%). For bullying and harassment, white/asian women reported a lower incident rate than white/asian men (15% vs 16%). But minority women reported a substantially higher rate than minority men (13% vs 9%). You'll also notice minorities reported a lower harassment rate than whites/asians. I highly recommend reading the actual report if you're curious about this stuff. It doesn't really fit into any of the stereotypes (hah) about male/female or white/asian vs minorities.
I've always found that sociologists have fascinating data with wacky conclusions that fit their predetermined outcomes.
I recognize that it's silly, however I didn't create the conditions for this silliness - alimony and child support laws did. Before you get up in arms over 'not supporting your kids' bear in mind that by law support only needs to get paid to the woman. What she does with it is largely, or entirely in you're in CA, not their worry. So in essence kids often don't get the support anyway. I estimate on a good day my kids might see $.25 on the dollar.
And you probably won't. If anyone else does it it's ok. If a European country does it then and only then is it bad and deserving of some form of reparations.
A deal is a deal and the people who traded a few beads for most of the natives land have done pretty good.
That's nice for the guys who profited but lame for the vast majority of the US which pays for this ... forever while receiving none of the benefit. This is one of the earliest cases of privatise the gains socialise the losses.
To liberals everything is great if someone else is paying for it. Why don't you house them and feed them and pay for their medical bills and children when they have them.
I've often thought this about sanctuary cities, lets start deporting all the criminals there. Give them what they want. Let Sacramento be over run by the Mexican mafia and the like until they see the light.
Moral hazard is the phrase that sums this up and it applies just as you noted. Mass immigration types haven't figured out that you'll never have great infrastructure, universal healthcare, good public schools, or universal basic income as long as you have mass immigration. However the rich who really pull the strings have convinced them that mass immigration is good because they want lots of low cost labor. They will shaft every poor and middle class citizen for the perk of cheap housecleaning. Sad.
The US will turn blue, give it thirty years. Those 'pesky minorities' have a habit of voting democrat.
The media has done a great job of convincing minorities that only white people vote Republican. Thus many successful Asians vote for the very party that holds them back for the less successful minorities. It's almost funny. However when you let in millions of immigrants from countries with problems you eventually realize that they take these problems with them. Notice how vast portions of California now resemble Mexico in the worst sense of it. Remind me how the M13 criminal gang happened again? Oh yeah, immigrants. Not unlike the mafias of old. Screening people is a common sense idea that should be applied.
Also don't be so smug about one party rule. Ever notice how all one party states have *severe* problems. Kansas seems like a good example on the R side, Illinois seems like a good example on the D side. Though CA would also be a good example of mismanagement is you look at the decline of the state quality of life (ie roads, schools, etc).
At what point does the gravy train end? Every other civilization from that era isn't getting paid. Moreover, they stole it from these other guys that were here before them.
Plus the most important one - never get divorced as that is the most common setback people will face. My advice to my kids is to only marry someone who makes as much or more than you.
unless they were very, very wealthy. Also, google the phrase "infant mortality" sometime while you're at it. Or spare a thought to the 45,000 people who die unnecessarily every year because they don't have access to health care. Health care that we could easily afford if but choose not to because freedom. The freedom to die sounds great when you're not the one doing the dying.
At the end of the day you can have nice healthcare or mass immigration of poor people. You can't have both. Not unlike you can have low taxes or nice infrastructure but you can't have both. Both political parties are living in fantasyland and both can only see the flaws of the other. You can tell a true idiot by someone who spend all their time spouting that one is clearly superior to the other - since neither party really has a solid game plan. And since the moderates in both parties are marginalized don't expect any rational discussion in the near future sadly. I hope the reboot or secession down the road improves things because I don't see a way out of the current stalemate.
A fair bit of what's wrong with America today could be described as too little compromise and too much my way or the highway. If it wasn't for my way or the highway agendas at the national level few would care who was on the Supreme Court for example.
Sometimes it's a sign of having a realistic outlook on things and not sugar coating them, too.
Said every asshole ever
Helping coal MINERS makes sense
Helping displaced miners would be great and would advance the environmental cause but most miners are male. Strike 1. They are white. Strike 2. They are rural. Strike 3. Just in case any of those were actually a ball, they are largely from the South. Strike 4. And they are largely Christian. Strike 5. Good luck on them ever getting any help from environmentalists who hate them for all those reasons. Politically they are like blacks, they have some legitimate grievances, they have some self inflicted issues, and because they so reliably vote for one party both parties get to write them off.
http://www.mercurynews.com/201...
Because those stickers helped anyone ever how exactly?
Hooray for our favorite molecule, carbon dioxide.
I would have gone with the caffeine molecule but to each their own.
http://fortune.com/2017/03/28/...
Try imaging the animated Aladdin without the manic improvisation of Robin Williams.
Wouldn't that be the far less inspired version featured in the rest of the films and TV series? We don't need to imagine it we've seen it.
"When does a black man become a n1gg er?
I'm pretty sure the answer today is when another black person enters the room as it's their common greeting
In any case I stand by my post that the US has two general scams - the non-working poor and the uber rich. Regardless of which one you critisize they point to the other one and say start there. Much like you're doing. I'm in favor of correcting both and I support any action that helps correct either. Until both are addressed the country will continue to deteriorate, debt will accumulate, and services will continue to get worse.
The only scam involved there is the right-wing demagoguery that has led you to believe that people like being poor and unemployed.
Seriously, the majority of the people blabbering about 'welfare queens' and 'moochers' haven't a fucking clue what it is like to be part of the 'non-working poor' (the time you were in college "living off only ramen noodles" does not count). People actually feel like shit due to lack of societal status. Due to the stress involved with not being able to pay bills they have a scientifically proven harder time making decisions. See for instance: https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...
Listen, again: please focus on the actual problem. We all know shit flows downstream. If you're middle class, guess whose shit is in your drinking water?
I grew up poor and have seen this first hand. My mom was the working poor during my growing up years so I was side by side with the non-working poor. The non-working poor complain mightily but are easily the laziest people around. Ever notice that poor neighborhoods are full of trash despite everyone having endless time? It's not because of their work ethic. My one childhood friend that I've tried to help will always be "too busy" (his words) for anything productive yet wonders why nothing ever improves for him. To you he must be a victim of society. To me he's simply lazy. The difference is that I know him personally and have seen his "efforts" first hand.
LOL. Health insurance for everyone with lower deductibles was also a good move. Then Trump figured out a way to do neither while make the current system even worse.
If a politician were to actually try and improve US Healthcare then they would align our drug pricing with Canadas. However since they in fact just want to keep the game going as long as possible they instead major in the minors. This applies to both D and R.
Even if he accidentally "fixes" H1Bs you better bank on your overall life getting worse.
I always bank on life getting worse when a politician is involved, but then again I live in California.
You're suggesting a mild form of slavery.
Note that forcing people to volunteer negates the meaning of 'volunteer'. It also prevents them from finding an actual job and removes all market elements from the labor involved. See the US prison labor system to see what that leads to.
That's why I advocate volunteering for social good, not working as an unpaid intern
Listen, I get that you want the world to be a fair place. I suggest however you direct your efforts away from the weakest people in society to those who use their affluence to game the entire system to make it as skewed towards them as best they can. While you are devising 'solutions' for 'lazy' welfare recipients, billionaires and lobbyists are laughing all the way to the(ir) bank.
The middle class suffers from 2 scams: the non-working poor and the uber rich. One of the biggest scams around is the notion that if you challenge the upper end of the you should focus on the bottom (ie Republicans) and if you challenge the bottom you should instead attack the top (ie Democrats). Both need to be fixed, I'm all for doing both, but delaying one to instead say focus on the other leads to nothing getting done.
If you're curious for the billionaires I'd suggest wealth tax (especially trusts) and taxing capital the same as income.
Aren't people on disability, well, disabled, which is why they get benefits? Because they can't work?
And in theory, shouldn't unemployed be people spending their time obtaining more optimal jobs vs. makework?
Most people on disability have a form of impairment yet few have a total impairment. As long as there are elderly people who need company there is something useful to be done. Have them do it.
Regarding unemployment, a person can't spend 40 hours a week looking for work for more than a couple of weeks before local options have been exhausted. There is a huge body of evidence that getting people out of the house and staying on a routine are both very important in keeping unemployment short term. This would accomplish both.