Increase taxation would hurt me, but that is ok. I am totally fine with that outcome so long as our civilization can do what it must. I just voted for a property tax increase that will impact me directly. My towns schools need the money and as they spend about 80% of it on instruction I can't see how they are wasting it. Things I like cost money, and I don't mind paying for them.
It matters not if it impacts his life or not, Mr.Buffet is correct in that he should pay a higher percentage than he does. Instead since most of his income is investment he gets an unfair advantage.
Not at all, but I sure as hell would double check. These folks are famous for exaggeration and outright falsehoods for a reason. They are about half a step up from the rags with stories about batboy.
A far simpler tax system is going to be killed by those who work in that field and those who take advantage of the current one.
My simple answer would be to exclude the first X of income from tax, let X equal the median income. Then tax the rest at some set rate. No deductions of any kind shape or form and all money in is income. The source matters not at all, a gift is income in the same way that found money would be or investments or a paycheck.
1 and 3 are not the same thing at all. 2. is only partially billed directly. Much of public sanitation is clean streets and enforcement of dumping/sewage laws. 4 you cannot live without. You would likely already be dead or maimed without or have family in that situation.
Data center temperatures are not for humans. They are selected for a lot of reasons and that is not generally one of them. A big one is what the vendor is willing to support. Another major concern is how long you can last with a major cooling failure. I don't mean a single chiller fails, I mean someone screws up and hoses a bunch of them at once.
Little to no benefit? So how is it that your posts are getting here again?
You do not drive? You do not have property to protect from fire or theft? You do not benefit from an orderly society? You gain nothing from an educated society?
I think you are a liar, since that is just the far simpler explanation.
I don't struggle with it one bit. That does not change the fact that it pisses me off and is totally unworkable for most of the employed people of this country.
Some people have what is called "Enlightened Self Interest". For that reason I do not lie when I say I am fine with paying taxes. I derive direct benefit from them. Not a month after I paid my property tax the county used that money to fix the roads I travel on to my home. I have no trouble paying for the civilization I enjoy.
You are projecting your short sighted greed onto others.
The only thing we wanted was a competitor that was FOSS compatible. If WebM is not that it has no use at all. Might as well stick with h264 in that case.
It might be parts per trillion, but that stuff is everywhere. Much like all filtered beer contains trace amounts of arsenic. The last 4 of those are as likely to be found in your home garden as commercial produce. Heck, more likely in your home garden.
I am not sure we should be referring to them as some sort of group though. my understanding is that right now I could do anything and claim I was acting as part of anonymous. So they really have policies in that case.
Look at outcomes and costs for other systems and see for yourself.
No charity could ever come close to funding the needs of what you claim are poor people. Try to remember that many poor people are only poor due to a medical issue. The medical industry creates a lot of bankruptcies.
If what you mean instead is that you are ok with people dying in the street to save yourself a couple tax dollars then just say that.
Also when you really need care, you cannot shop around. When due to an electrolyte imbalance I was unable to clearly communicate I was taken by emergency personal to a hospital and since I was unable to give consent and clearly in distress they performed tests to find the cause.
Even if all the prices and options were listed in front of me at that time I could never have competently considered them nor communicated that fact clearly. If I had not had insurance I would have been unable to pay. At the time I was a poor college student and this single event would have cost more than my income for several years at that time in my life.
I did however buy into the concept that a society should be judged based on how it treats the least of its people.
I have no debt outside the of what remains of my mortgage, I bet I am better with money than you. My household income is multiples of the national average. I am winning, and I pay my taxes with a smile. I will not however defend dirtbags, be they poor trailer trash drug dealers or insurance salesmen. That was unfair, drug dealers are generally upfront and honest about their products.
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I fit in none of those.
Increase taxation would hurt me, but that is ok. I am totally fine with that outcome so long as our civilization can do what it must. I just voted for a property tax increase that will impact me directly. My towns schools need the money and as they spend about 80% of it on instruction I can't see how they are wasting it. Things I like cost money, and I don't mind paying for them.
It matters not if it impacts his life or not, Mr.Buffet is correct in that he should pay a higher percentage than he does. Instead since most of his income is investment he gets an unfair advantage.
Not at all, but I sure as hell would double check. These folks are famous for exaggeration and outright falsehoods for a reason. They are about half a step up from the rags with stories about batboy.
I agree.
A far simpler tax system is going to be killed by those who work in that field and those who take advantage of the current one.
My simple answer would be to exclude the first X of income from tax, let X equal the median income. Then tax the rest at some set rate. No deductions of any kind shape or form and all money in is income. The source matters not at all, a gift is income in the same way that found money would be or investments or a paycheck.
and ?
Look at who won in the past, not that impressive.
This is decided by a fucking trade magazine. Not exactly impartial.
I would not trust the Daily Mail to tell me what color the sky was.
You are more likely to find facts in Pravda than the Daily Mail.
Get some temperature probes and have nagios monitor them. They are pretty cheap and would have alerted you before damage was done.
1 and 3 are not the same thing at all.
2. is only partially billed directly. Much of public sanitation is clean streets and enforcement of dumping/sewage laws.
4 you cannot live without. You would likely already be dead or maimed without or have family in that situation.
In short, grow up kiddo.
Ah, that makes some sense.
Do companies also pay this tax? Or is this just a tax that the middle class end up paying?
Data center temperatures are not for humans. They are selected for a lot of reasons and that is not generally one of them. A big one is what the vendor is willing to support. Another major concern is how long you can last with a major cooling failure. I don't mean a single chiller fails, I mean someone screws up and hoses a bunch of them at once.
If you can actually say no to all these questions then please feel free to move to a country that provides none of those.
Don't worry about making more than $90k/year and the IRS coming for their share since you don't need to come back they can't force you to pay.
I would be fine with that change as well.
Property tax on a car sounds very regressive, since those with lower incomes will often need to have two cars just to have one functional.
Because then we would have freeloaders, like you.
Little to no benefit? So how is it that your posts are getting here again?
You do not drive? You do not have property to protect from fire or theft? You do not benefit from an orderly society? You gain nothing from an educated society?
I think you are a liar, since that is just the far simpler explanation.
I don't struggle with it one bit. That does not change the fact that it pisses me off and is totally unworkable for most of the employed people of this country.
I am not only looking out for myself.
Some people have what is called "Enlightened Self Interest". For that reason I do not lie when I say I am fine with paying taxes. I derive direct benefit from them. Not a month after I paid my property tax the county used that money to fix the roads I travel on to my home. I have no trouble paying for the civilization I enjoy.
You are projecting your short sighted greed onto others.
The only thing we wanted was a competitor that was FOSS compatible. If WebM is not that it has no use at all. Might as well stick with h264 in that case.
That is a very unusual way to spell idiots.
No such food exists.
It might be parts per trillion, but that stuff is everywhere. Much like all filtered beer contains trace amounts of arsenic.
The last 4 of those are as likely to be found in your home garden as commercial produce. Heck, more likely in your home garden.
It does appear that way.
I am not sure we should be referring to them as some sort of group though. my understanding is that right now I could do anything and claim I was acting as part of anonymous. So they really have policies in that case.
No, these are folks who were helping the police.
Clearly the plan if we can even call it that is to punish those who assist the police.
What an idiot.
The point was simply that it is in the insurance companies best interest to cover regular DRs visits. It reduces their costs, not increases them.
Please tell me what this chemical free food is?
Make sure there is none of that dihydrogen monoxide in it, that stuff is lethal.
And yet reality disagrees with you.
Look at outcomes and costs for other systems and see for yourself.
No charity could ever come close to funding the needs of what you claim are poor people. Try to remember that many poor people are only poor due to a medical issue. The medical industry creates a lot of bankruptcies.
If what you mean instead is that you are ok with people dying in the street to save yourself a couple tax dollars then just say that.
Also when you really need care, you cannot shop around. When due to an electrolyte imbalance I was unable to clearly communicate I was taken by emergency personal to a hospital and since I was unable to give consent and clearly in distress they performed tests to find the cause.
Even if all the prices and options were listed in front of me at that time I could never have competently considered them nor communicated that fact clearly. If I had not had insurance I would have been unable to pay. At the time I was a poor college student and this single event would have cost more than my income for several years at that time in my life.
The point is they are doing it to other people.
My employer has a call center, those folks are getting $9/hr and could never pay rent, food and the high deductible amount if they ever get sick.
I on the other hand demanded and got a raise when insurance prices went up.
I never did, but you sure love strawmen.
I did however buy into the concept that a society should be judged based on how it treats the least of its people.
I have no debt outside the of what remains of my mortgage, I bet I am better with money than you. My household income is multiples of the national average. I am winning, and I pay my taxes with a smile. I will not however defend dirtbags, be they poor trailer trash drug dealers or insurance salesmen. That was unfair, drug dealers are generally upfront and honest about their products.