I highly doubt that without our bases the Germans would feel the need to build up a huge military. What are they afraid the French and the Poles would come after them?
War in Europe is not likely in the near future. We would need to keep at least one as a staging/refueling/medical area if we are to continue our wars in the mideast. Leaving only Ramstein AFB should be fine, and would indeed cut a lot of useless spending.
If we could stop our obsession with bombing poor brown people we could even close that one.
Another big area of savings would be to cancel weapons programs the pentagon does not want. The legislature loves to keep those as they are corporate welfare for defense contractors in their states.
All taxes are wealth redistribution, they take from us all and spend on things we all in theory need. Surely a social safety net is far more important than invading nations half way around the world. If you don't like paying for civilization I would be glad to provide you a one way ticket to Somalia or Liberia. If you decide to come back to the States I would require you give my money back so I can continue my "Educate a Libertarian Program".
Invading multiple nations at a time is not Constitutionally mandated either. If you want cuts to entitlement be prepared to accept cuts to your sacred cow as well.
No, it is regressive because people with less money are forced to spend a larger portion of it if they want to even live much less have a little fun. Income tax is a relatively fair way to split the cost of having society as a higher burden can be placed on those who have more.
This is a regressive tax. Poor people spend all of their money and will end up paying a higher portion of their income as tax. This idea is tantamount to just not taxing the rich. Income tax is not slavery, you are free to leave the USA. Income tax in the USA is already slanted against workers vs investors as capital gains is taxed at a lower rate than the income of a worker.
The simple answer is to cancel all sales tax and just have income tax. That way people can directly see what taxes they pay, none of this hidden tax crap. Or make one sales tax for everything.
They have text and email on phones now. I attended university at the same place that hosts the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, they all had texting phones and smartphones.
Also lead and copper do not contaminate meat in any meaningful way. You just dig out the pieces if any are left in the meat, this is especially common when hunting small game with shot.
No, at close range bullets at high velocity explode when they hit the bag of water that is your average mammal. I know this because I have tested it on deer. I have never shot at deer in Kevlar. These solid copper bullets are hollow pointed and undergo a very controlled expansion.
Too much refining. You only need to make it lighter, not bust it down into gasoline.
Heck you could probably refine it all the way out, then mix the light weight stuff with bunker oil and asphalt to get something you could ship, if you had no other way.
Comparing Chernobyl to any western plant is rather disingenuous. It did not even have a containment dome and had a positive void coefficient. I say this as someone who was in Germany when it happened and had that stuff rain down on them. Powering Europe would probably be better done via Solar thermal in northern Africa. I believe the Moroccans are already starting to do this.
Because OPEC members production is capped at a ratio of their reserves. So the higher they claim their reserves are the more oil they are allowed to sell.
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If you keep neglecting the roof, it will eventually cost you the house. Sometimes risking more debt can be the only option.
So increase the retirement age. Also how about not cutting the taxes for the top 2% of Americans? That might have been a good idea.
I highly doubt that without our bases the Germans would feel the need to build up a huge military. What are they afraid the French and the Poles would come after them?
War in Europe is not likely in the near future. We would need to keep at least one as a staging/refueling/medical area if we are to continue our wars in the mideast. Leaving only Ramstein AFB should be fine, and would indeed cut a lot of useless spending.
If we could stop our obsession with bombing poor brown people we could even close that one.
Another big area of savings would be to cancel weapons programs the pentagon does not want. The legislature loves to keep those as they are corporate welfare for defense contractors in their states.
All taxes are wealth redistribution, they take from us all and spend on things we all in theory need. Surely a social safety net is far more important than invading nations half way around the world. If you don't like paying for civilization I would be glad to provide you a one way ticket to Somalia or Liberia. If you decide to come back to the States I would require you give my money back so I can continue my "Educate a Libertarian Program".
Invading multiple nations at a time is not Constitutionally mandated either. If you want cuts to entitlement be prepared to accept cuts to your sacred cow as well.
It lets me do whatever I want?
Cool, please link to the iOS source so I may build my own kernel for my future iphone.
No, it is regressive because people with less money are forced to spend a larger portion of it if they want to even live much less have a little fun. Income tax is a relatively fair way to split the cost of having society as a higher burden can be placed on those who have more.
I have nothing MS in my house, nor do I intend to just give them money, why would I want to use .NET?
Yeah, if I only use it as much as you use your dumbphone. Doing that would be pretty silly though. Charging it while I sleep is not a huge deal.
Make ssh work?
You mean install a simple terminal emulator?
File management issues? Use a file manager or the terminal.
For those business apps just vpn in and use remote desktop.
Please mention that functionality. I use my smartphone to vpn and do work all the time.
It's their fault they tried, they could have not gone to court.
This is a regressive tax. Poor people spend all of their money and will end up paying a higher portion of their income as tax. This idea is tantamount to just not taxing the rich. Income tax is not slavery, you are free to leave the USA. Income tax in the USA is already slanted against workers vs investors as capital gains is taxed at a lower rate than the income of a worker.
The simple answer is to cancel all sales tax and just have income tax. That way people can directly see what taxes they pay, none of this hidden tax crap. Or make one sales tax for everything.
Not even close to the same thing. At least a Nexus has a reasonable open OS that can do real multitasking.
Some of it already exists. I think some SPARC CPUs were open.
Places you should not be checking your gmail account from, is my bet.
They have text and email on phones now. I attended university at the same place that hosts the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, they all had texting phones and smartphones.
Also lead and copper do not contaminate meat in any meaningful way. You just dig out the pieces if any are left in the meat, this is especially common when hunting small game with shot.
No, at close range bullets at high velocity explode when they hit the bag of water that is your average mammal. I know this because I have tested it on deer. I have never shot at deer in Kevlar. These solid copper bullets are hollow pointed and undergo a very controlled expansion.
Yes, I did actually. Reprocessing it would cut your numbers by giant margins. It would also be cheaper to deal with since there would be less of it.
Too much refining. You only need to make it lighter, not bust it down into gasoline.
Heck you could probably refine it all the way out, then mix the light weight stuff with bunker oil and asphalt to get something you could ship, if you had no other way.
Comparing Chernobyl to any western plant is rather disingenuous. It did not even have a containment dome and had a positive void coefficient. I say this as someone who was in Germany when it happened and had that stuff rain down on them. Powering Europe would probably be better done via Solar thermal in northern Africa. I believe the Moroccans are already starting to do this.
Because OPEC members production is capped at a ratio of their reserves. So the higher they claim their reserves are the more oil they are allowed to sell.
I suggest we trade them the mid-west or the south east. We get to take the good provinces, I mean eastern ones, excepting of course those frenchies.