There is no law requiring the IRS to function properly. The onus is still on the taxpayer to ensure the IRS receives their paperwork on time, no matter what.
None of those things you list are paid for with property tax money, at least not where I live. I don't pay property tax to the FEDERAL government, and I don't pay property taxes to the STATE government. So, roads, military protection, and the other things you list do not come out of that bucket.
My property taxes go solely to line the pockets of local politicians in my township. We do not have a police department to pay for. We do not have a fire department to pay for. We get police protection from the State (paid for with the State income tax) and fire protection from a neighboring township, also paid for with State funds.
I get a bill for my sewer twice/year from my water company. We do not have a library.
So, that leave schools. About $2000 of my annual property tax goes to a school I neither use nor want, and the remainder vanishes down the hole of wasteful governance.
So, when you have some accurate information, I'll be happy to hear it.
Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property. You have neither exclusive right nor exclusive control over your property in the US, and therefore you do not "own" it by the definition of "ownership."
You may not make improvements upon your land without first asking for permission from the government. Your request for permission to build a structure, lay irrigation pipe for a garden, pave a driveway, or remove timber may be denied by the government by way of a mechanism called "zoning." This mechanism is used to strip you of your right of exclusive control over property which you supposedly own.
Similarly, the government requires you allow them to use a portion of your land for public use. This area behind your property line is called an easement. They may also require you relinquish parts of your land for private use, such as a utility right of way.
The problem with expatriation to avoid taxes is that, if you're worth enough, it doesn't work.
They have these tests and if you own a lot of property or stock holdings across the world, the IRS gives you a bill for the income tax on any unrealized gains. Basically, they figure out how much profit you'd make if you sold all your holdings on the day before you expatriated, and you must pay the income tax on it. They may not even let you board your flight out of the country if you have not paid it.
There's also the little fact that, though you may renounce your citizenship, the US Government may elect not to recognize it and continue to collect income tax from you. The US is under no obligation at all to accept your renunciation.
Kinda sucks, but they're going to stick it to you whether you want them to or not.
You don't in America either. In fact, in America, you don't even really own the land. You only own the house and other "improvement" ON the land. You rent your land from the government for which you pay annual rent in the form of Property Tax (this is the feudal relationship between Lord and Sovereign that we fought a revolution to get away from, and we're right back there now).
We have this feudal title system in 48 states. It's possible to own land in allodium only in Texas and Nevada.
You must not be talking about the US, where you cannot attend school, university, or get a job if you have not had your government mandated mind contr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H vaccines.
The problem with unionizing is that the top 20% of performers will resent being paid the same as the remaining 80% who are essentially useless, and will leave. The top 20% will have to give up their larger raises in order to pay the extortion fees to the bottom 80%, and that will go on for a year and then all you'll have left are the 80%.
Firefighters are under no legal obligation to respond to fire calls, and no legal obligation to put a fire out.
Similarly, Police have no duty to protect you, or to respond to your emergency calls. Police work is 100% voluntary. They are not required to actually do their job.
I get lots of friendship requests from people I knew in the past, such as high school classmates. I usually accept these, thinking stupidly that these people actually want to talk to me or god forbid, catch up on old times.
Most of the time, I accept these and send a message asking what they've been up to and so on. These messages almost always go unanswered.
Seriously, what's the point of "friending" (is that a verb now?) someone if you have no intent to communicate?
Of course, we've already beaten to death the constant barrage of inane game and application request posts, which are equally annoying.
... that will last until the patent is challenged on the bases that a) it is obvious to someone skilled in the state of the art and b) it was being done long before they thought of it (www.aprs.org)
If you're a Qwest customer in Omaha like my inlaws, you get a non-routable from the head end... and the last time I was there, they did not support VPN passthrough (although IIRC you could pay extra for a routable dynamic IP if you wanted VPN to work).
We want to eradicate cancer, so what we do is fight it on a case by case basis, where we prolong the lives of those genetically predisposed to cancer and allow them to propagate that weak DNA down generations.
Seems to me the way to eradicate cancer is to allow natural selection to run its course and remove faulty DNA from the gene pool. It's too bad we're all too individually selfish to think of the greater implications of that selfishness.
Right, but what about the effects of non-correlated subatomic cross-field tensors between the strands in the cable? How are those effectively mitigated!?!? They can affect the way the bits travel on the wire, making my IPv4 connection less pure!!! You can even have a zero-oxygen environment and these tensors will actually simulate the effects of having oxygen in the wire by mimicking oxygen's electron field pattern... very few IPv4 cables are equipped with reverse-trunion hydrocoptic marzel vanes. how can they not think of this?!
Once we get FDA Approval for the use of roller coasters to treat asthma, I will look forward to forcing my insurance company to build one for me in my back yard. YAY!
"This is not a scientific experiment to predict what % of our base will pay, but it's a data point that will definitely help."
No, it's not an experiment. It is a very deliberate effort to increase the perceived value of the XMarks assets by attaching an anticipated revenue stream, thereby increasing the amount of money a potential suitor would need to pay.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously, this is one of the most significant mischaracterizations I've ever seen on slashdot.
Google already has a social network. It's just not that great.
There is no law requiring the IRS to function properly. The onus is still on the taxpayer to ensure the IRS receives their paperwork on time, no matter what.
All left turns are reserved for NASCAR.
Are they serious? This is virtually the same thing as someone inventing a car and me winning the patent on "driving cars."
http://threefeloniesaday.com/
It's amazing the crap that's actually illegal...
None of those things you list are paid for with property tax money, at least not where I live. I don't pay property tax to the FEDERAL government, and I don't pay property taxes to the STATE government. So, roads, military protection, and the other things you list do not come out of that bucket.
My property taxes go solely to line the pockets of local politicians in my township. We do not have a police department to pay for. We do not have a fire department to pay for. We get police protection from the State (paid for with the State income tax) and fire protection from a neighboring township, also paid for with State funds.
I get a bill for my sewer twice/year from my water company. We do not have a library.
So, that leave schools. About $2000 of my annual property tax goes to a school I neither use nor want, and the remainder vanishes down the hole of wasteful governance.
So, when you have some accurate information, I'll be happy to hear it.
And, we're moving in a couple of weeks.
Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property. You have neither exclusive right nor exclusive control over your property in the US, and therefore you do not "own" it by the definition of "ownership."
You may not make improvements upon your land without first asking for permission from the government. Your request for permission to build a structure, lay irrigation pipe for a garden, pave a driveway, or remove timber may be denied by the government by way of a mechanism called "zoning." This mechanism is used to strip you of your right of exclusive control over property which you supposedly own.
Similarly, the government requires you allow them to use a portion of your land for public use. This area behind your property line is called an easement. They may also require you relinquish parts of your land for private use, such as a utility right of way.
I hope you understand it better now.
The problem with expatriation to avoid taxes is that, if you're worth enough, it doesn't work.
They have these tests and if you own a lot of property or stock holdings across the world, the IRS gives you a bill for the income tax on any unrealized gains. Basically, they figure out how much profit you'd make if you sold all your holdings on the day before you expatriated, and you must pay the income tax on it. They may not even let you board your flight out of the country if you have not paid it.
There's also the little fact that, though you may renounce your citizenship, the US Government may elect not to recognize it and continue to collect income tax from you. The US is under no obligation at all to accept your renunciation.
Kinda sucks, but they're going to stick it to you whether you want them to or not.
You don't in America either. In fact, in America, you don't even really own the land. You only own the house and other "improvement" ON the land. You rent your land from the government for which you pay annual rent in the form of Property Tax (this is the feudal relationship between Lord and Sovereign that we fought a revolution to get away from, and we're right back there now).
We have this feudal title system in 48 states. It's possible to own land in allodium only in Texas and Nevada.
It probably just uses the same COTS radio used in the credit card terminal, which, if unmodified, would be allowed to carry the same FCC ID.
You must not be talking about the US, where you cannot attend school, university, or get a job if you have not had your government mandated mind contr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H vaccines.
The problem with unionizing is that the top 20% of performers will resent being paid the same as the remaining 80% who are essentially useless, and will leave. The top 20% will have to give up their larger raises in order to pay the extortion fees to the bottom 80%, and that will go on for a year and then all you'll have left are the 80%.
Firefighters are under no legal obligation to respond to fire calls, and no legal obligation to put a fire out.
Similarly, Police have no duty to protect you, or to respond to your emergency calls. Police work is 100% voluntary. They are not required to actually do their job.
I get lots of friendship requests from people I knew in the past, such as high school classmates. I usually accept these, thinking stupidly that these people actually want to talk to me or god forbid, catch up on old times.
Most of the time, I accept these and send a message asking what they've been up to and so on. These messages almost always go unanswered.
Seriously, what's the point of "friending" (is that a verb now?) someone if you have no intent to communicate?
Of course, we've already beaten to death the constant barrage of inane game and application request posts, which are equally annoying.
... that will last until the patent is challenged on the bases that a) it is obvious to someone skilled in the state of the art and b) it was being done long before they thought of it (www.aprs.org)
iptables -s YOU -p tcp --dport ! 80 -j DROP
If you're a Qwest customer in Omaha like my inlaws, you get a non-routable from the head end... and the last time I was there, they did not support VPN passthrough (although IIRC you could pay extra for a routable dynamic IP if you wanted VPN to work).
I dunno about the bulk of humanity, but it seems to me that latency on 3G would be too high to support skype without significant buffering delays...
We want to eradicate cancer, so what we do is fight it on a case by case basis, where we prolong the lives of those genetically predisposed to cancer and allow them to propagate that weak DNA down generations.
Seems to me the way to eradicate cancer is to allow natural selection to run its course and remove faulty DNA from the gene pool. It's too bad we're all too individually selfish to think of the greater implications of that selfishness.
Right, but what about the effects of non-correlated subatomic cross-field tensors between the strands in the cable? How are those effectively mitigated!?!? They can affect the way the bits travel on the wire, making my IPv4 connection less pure!!! You can even have a zero-oxygen environment and these tensors will actually simulate the effects of having oxygen in the wire by mimicking oxygen's electron field pattern... very few IPv4 cables are equipped with reverse-trunion hydrocoptic marzel vanes. how can they not think of this?!
Once we get FDA Approval for the use of roller coasters to treat asthma, I will look forward to forcing my insurance company to build one for me in my back yard. YAY!
"This is not a scientific experiment to predict what % of our base will pay, but it's a data point that will definitely help."
No, it's not an experiment. It is a very deliberate effort to increase the perceived value of the XMarks assets by attaching an anticipated revenue stream, thereby increasing the amount of money a potential suitor would need to pay.
Clever. Very clever.
Some turbines spin at 250,000 RPM...
Some turbos spin at upwards of 500,000 RPM...
But, but, is it LOW OXYGEN gold?????