When everyone evades taxes, no taxes are collected.
Evasion is a crime where you do not pay taxes lawfully owed. What most of these people are doing is 'avoidance' where you take steps within the rules to minimize the taxes owed. Frankly anyone who does not engage in tax avoidance is a fool. If you have money you want to give away pick a good charity many of them will do more good for society per dollar than government will! Letting government collect even one penny more than they are due is irresponsible.
What liberals don't understand (or maybe they do) is that a complex tax code is inherently unfair. The more wealthy you are the greater the influence you can probably get in terms of rule writing, the more resources you can expend on avoidance and the bigger the pay off. Basically the more funny little rules you right to try and use tax policy as a social engineering tool and make it less 'regressive' the more the super wealthy will find ways to game the system. Right down to the form of paying people wages they could not possibly live on without the earned income credit.
Income and wealth taxes are fundamentally a bad idea. After a 100 years of trying its time to admit that. We should institute a national sales that applies to all transactions, include financial instruments, and currency exchanges. Next define a VERY SMALL range of goods an services lower economic classes disproportionately spend on. Make filing entirely optional, set single inflation adjusted gross income hurdle, people below that amount can file a statement saying they earned less than a the hurdle amount and request an sales tax rebate for what they spent on the defined goods.
A system with so few rules will be essential impossible to game. The only people who will have any wiggle room are the folks who don't make much in the first place so the degree to which they can evade will be small.
ICIJ is publishing the information in the public interest.
Forgive me if I don't trust anything other than a public vote to decide what is in the public interest.
Hackers who target this organization and 'liberate' this sort of information are criminals and should be treated as such. If they are going to do it though I really feel that the more 'responsible' disclosure would be dumping ALL the data online so everyone gets to see rather than setting up some news organizations to be gatekeepers and giving them the opportunity to decide what everyone is suppose to thing.
The images of the crash are not pretty, but one could imagine how much worse they would be if a front-engined internal combustion vehicle were involved instead of the Tesla Model S.
And what about comparing it to a mid-engine internal combustion vehicle? That would be more consistent in terms of center of mass with the Tesla Batteries.
Considering the Tesla S is an up market sports car this is probably reasonable to do, as there are mid-engine cars in that space for comparison.
Trump and his votors are essentially a cult of the ego. That's what you are voting for if you choose to vote for him
No I am voting against Hilliary and almost everything she claims to stand for, this year.
The reality is as a practical matter one of those two will most likely be the next president of the United States. I can vote the guy who at least claims to be "on my team". That way other 'somewhat' conservative leaders like Paul Ryan can do things like pass a budget and enact other legislation, maybe roll back some of Obama's worst excesses, without the obstacle of Hillary's veto pen.
about $180/mo to start with around 30gigs. They won't offer more until you prove you use that much. So you will be stuck with a months worth of overages.
After that will offer 60 or (more depending on how far over you went) at more reasonable prices. I am paying about $240 right now for 100gigs.
This post displays a stunning lack of empathy for people who have made a choice to live in a less densely populated area. First of all, not everyone who lives in a rural area is poor. There are plenty of middle-class and upper-middle-class people who have larger land holdings or have fewer neighbors than the ISPs would ideally prefer for instant ROI.
We don't need to subsidize them though! My cellular connection is expensive for the amount of transfer I need to use most months. So expensive I do keep a lid on most personal internet use (other than a little slashdot, I never youtube etc, unless its work related). I am not complaining, this is a real cost of living where I wanted to live, its a choice I made.
I would also say we should stop subsidizing public housing in the cities. Those people should move out to where land is cheap and rents are low, if they don't have the earning power to support life in the city. Which by the way would push wages up, you think wealthy people would want to live in NYC if there was nobody to make their coffee? I doubt it, Starbucks would start paying $15+ if that is what it took for employees to live nearby enough to get to work in the morning. Subsides screw up the economy and produce all kinds of inefficiency in allocations.
I will admit saving large files up the file sever over VPN sometimes is slow. I *usually* can make most of edits, save, and continue working on something else for the 5min or so that can take.
Yes updating something like Visual Studio or RubyMine (don't eclipse sorry), let alone MS Office does take many hours. Which is why you start those updates when you are done for the day. They are ready and waiting in the morning that way. No problem.
If I *need* to update some other large framework or rsync a huge repo mid day I'll do it around lunch time, so again it can transfer while I am taking a break anyway. Its really not a problem.
Sure if to you "the internet" is http over tcp port 80 then that's not bad.
100ms is fine for voip and even most twitch type games. Back on the subject of doing actual work, SSH at 100ms is fine, I can't tell the difference between a shell on a remote box and a local machine here. Please enlighten me what is it that I could better at 32ms than I can at 100ms, HFT stock trading?
Except that multiple satellite and fixed cellular providers have done exactly that. I typing this from my home network bridged to my Verizaon CANTENNA right now.
I get about 4/4MBps in most conditions, severe storms slow things down. Latency is pretty low most of the time around 90-100ms to most well connected sites like google.com.
Most people have exactly ZERO need for more than that. Sure I might enjoy that 75mbit comcast service I keep reading about for streaming netflix 24-7 but that is about the only thing I can't do with my rural internet service. I work from home in doing "IT work". So I am hardly being cut off from any economic opportunities because better connectivity isn't available.
The USDA absolutely should not be subsidizing broadband! Holy scope creep batman! This is why the federal government costs so damn much. We already have other federal agencies who likely have the talent in house to mange such a program, FCC, and Commerce spring to mind. How many people are duplicated so the department of Agriculture can run a digital broadband program?
The biggest problem with budget sequestration is it did not go nearly far enough. The biggest problem with this program is not how it defines broadband but that it exists!
Most e-mail encryption is done transport level and its opportunistic.
You Say: STARTTLS and see if you get a non-error response code. If you do TLS handshake and the mail is ciphered if not it goes in the clear. Now most of these gateways can be configured to do things like 'require encryption if the destination domain is example.com'
So you can fix it so all mail to your payroll provider gets encrypted or bounced, but if the client miss-addresses it and sends it to some other valid domain + mailbox, opps.
Trump might be more popular than thought because organizations like facebook distort the popularity of liberal ideas and causes by over representing them.
Disclaimer: now that he has emerged as the only guy who could can claim to be a legitimate winner of the primary process I will vote Trump in the general.
Trump however is not a conservative. You really can't pin him down at all. He does not appear to respect private property rights for example, and pushed eminent domain in cases where its used to give land to private owners. He does not seem care about abortion at all, he basically even said he adopted a pro-life position to 'tick a box.' Just like Hillary used to be a Republican he used to be a Democrat (and recently at that). He does not seem to seem to be an advocate for small government, except when the government is doing something that bothers him personally.
Trump is won because conservatives are fed up, most of the allegations of RINOism against the 'establishment' folks is entirely fair. I still believe Boehner could have extracted greater concessions from the 2010 debt ceiling fight, but he rolled, I still believe we could have gotten more the sequestration (which did work wonders all things considered) out of the subsequent government shutdowns, but again McConnell and Boehner and their type rolled. Ted Cruz was the real leader who cared about good governing principles, Boehner was never more than a mouth piece for the chamber of commerce. Trump is popular because people are frustrated, and he speaks the loudest.
Hillary is even worse. In pandering to the far left rabble she will undermine and undo the values that made America exceptional. She will do this even though she knows better to cement her own power. To that end she is more dangerous than Trump ever could be. Trump has not got a plan, Hillary has an evil plan. I am voting Trump, but I still think its a tragedy.
I agree. Sure there are some abuses in the form of mugshot websites and the like. The alternative is very fundamental systemic abused could go uncaught forever!
Would we have an "Innocence Project" if court records were less public and it had not been possible to see systemic bias in justice from data?
I don't know about the prospects for the Internet. Mechanical computers and later electro-mechanical computers are likely as far as anyone would have got. Its really the transistor that gives you computation that is fast enough to run complex packet switch protocols and gives you signaling properties that are conducive to long ranger "high speed" communications.
I am not sure having computer technology sooner would have accelerated the development of the transistor or digital logic gates. There simply were not enough people running around with a deep enough understanding of physics to work out semiconductors.
That said we saw how instrumental even "slow" electro-mechanical machines were in applications like code braking, as well as sorting and cataloging. Certainly teletext was an important form of communication and operated on the same principles. I am sure machines would have been applied to artilary targeting, more communications, more ciphering and encryption. It would no doubt have been a very different war, but I don't think a pre-WWII Internet could have been possible.
No my hypothisis is this guy was driving recklessly because he is a narcissist. He does not actually give a damn about anyone but himself or to the extent that he does care about others, he only cares that he is liked, not about their actual well being.
He is most likely a member or associates with one or more of the above groups. They are easy ways to drape yourself in the mantel of caring and get a large base of support without actually having to do anything or learn about anything.
I sure wish we could keep these setting enabled not only on the phones when using wifi, but also on the client built into our DVD players and the desktop web browser version!
Some of us have metered Internet you know! Its a huge PITA to try and keep track of of NFLX destination IPs so my router can shape the traffic down to a reasonable value, such that I don't burn half of my monthly cap watching to a couple movies.
Already the corporations have shifted most of their tax burden to the individuals. If the corporations paid the same effective rate as they paid under Ronald Reagan individual tax payers will get an immense tax relief. We can take our personal income tax rates from 36.3% top rate down to 20% top rate or even a flat tax of 15%.
Nonsense corporations don't pay taxes, not really. If you close the loop holes and make them really pay the 35% rate it will only hurt the middle class. Prices of goods and services will rise wherever the costs can be passed on. In certain highly competitive markets that won't happen but in most it will. What is certain to happen in more wage stagnation while inflation marches on.
What we need to do is kill the idea of income and profit taxes! Taxation should occur on the consumptive side.
There should be a law, the amount owed should be definite, failure to pay would be a crime.
There is, and the tax code does. Its just that its a very complex set of rules. You and I can play chess, who wins depends on who leverages the same set of rules better. You and I can play tick-tack-toe and unless one of us isn't paying any attention at all, whoever goes first will always be the winner.
You can argue the tax code should be more like tick-tack-toe, clear and offering predictable outcomes. I agree it should be that. Because the tax code we have to day leaves all kinds of room for 'avoidance', that is using the rules better but following them, as opposed to evasion breaking the rules and not paying what is owed.
The real problem is that we went about social engineering with our tax code. We created this incentive, that deduction, etc to try and get people and companies to do this or that. We created are large number of complex rules and classes of actors and the result is a gameable system. That will always be the result.
My solution: A pure consumptive tax on all goods and services (with a few exceptions) inclusive of financial instruments at time of purchase. No filing requirements. The exceptions would be for goods like medical services, unprepared foods, legal services, public transportation fairs, tuition at accredited schools, clothing that is more than 50% cotton. People could optionally choose to file if they are willing to attest their gross income is below a certain threshold and could apply for additional rebates on things like transportation fuel, utilities at a primary residence, education related items and possibly some others.. Business would pay no taxes except on goods and services they purchase.
Right now the system is terrible large corporation with armies of tax attorneys and the ability to go municipality or even sovereign shopping benefit immensely. You and I probably pay more than what we owe because we don't have the resources to study every possible deduction and resarch every life decision we make to see what incentives are out there, fear the IRS and are afraid to do certain things that might be correct but are 'audit flags' etc.
I honest think all this identity politics, blacklivesmatter, transrights, green, peta, and other nonsense has to do with the fact that nobody ever told them no. They never learned any real empathy or "mindfulness" that would lead them make basic human considerations like not endangering the lives of others. Since they don't actually care or love anyone but themselves the find the most ridiculous causes they can to latch onto so as to convince themselves they complete narcissists.
Oh come one information is information, snapchat isn't responsible for how people use it. Even the OEM GPS in my car keeps track of the "Max Speed" since the unit was reset and makes the info available to the user. One person might use that to check up on their kid in a non intrusive post facto way after lending them the car, for some idiot it might look like a "high score".
As soon as you crying about letting people measure things you are heading down a slippery slope.
Trump is a violent, dangerous, disrespectful hooligan who ruins lives like other people ruin paper napkins.
Spot on!
Anyone actually willing to vote for him for President of the United States needs to take a long, hard look at what kind of scum they are.
I am sorry but No! Lets be honest Hillary is scum. She will work tireless to undermine the system of checks and balances and put herself and her friends above the law, like she has her entire career. She does not care who she tramples while she does it either. At least with Trump its sorta personal if he decides to ruin your life.
As much as I hate to have to think about it, "disrespectful hooligan" in the White House is preferable to a malicious actor.
That is the real choice here, if you abstain or if you vote for a third party, you are effectively voting for Hillary. That is the reality of the system we have today. Those are really the only choices.
The real solution requires socialism, creating a framework where more people can come legitimately (so they don't cause problems or get exploited) and helping people in Mexico so they are not motivated to travel.
Sorry no, you're a cheater. You want use the government to hold a gun to my head and appropriate MY PROPERTY and WEALTH to help people I don't owe a thing to. Look if you want to help the people of Mexico that would be a noble thing to do, by all means contribute anything you can to a good charity. It might mean you are good person. Organizing a political mob to steal what is mine so you can redistribute it is not the same thing and it does not count.
Trump takes the simpler approach of blaming immigrants for a number of problems and then saying he will take the obvious and wrong but tough sounding solution. Much like Hitler in fact, who blamed many of Germany's problems on immigrants and Jews, and then enacted the simple and tough sounding solution. Not as bad of course, but similar.
Except Germany had real problems and they were mostly to be blamed on the French and Woodrow Wilson. Hittler lied about the source of those problems.
On the other hand Islamist migrants (not the immigrants we have in the States today) are a real problem. The immigrants are a self selected group of individuals who are probably of highly above average intellect and are mostly wealthy enough to land on their feet. They had the money and talent to get themselves here in the first place. These are also mostly muslims ( culture ) rather than Islamists (followers of Islam). In other words they don't take all that stuff in the Koran about sharia law seriously. The uneducated migrants on the other hand are a huge problem. They want sharia, they do rape and otherwise sexually assault women because their values permit that. They don't put the rules of our secular society above their religious views when outside their homes and communities, they ignore them. When we start bring the common riff raff from the region over here in bulk people are going to be in for a rude surprise, especially the LGBT for Muslims crowd.
Wasn't your country started on the basis of religious freedom? And again, it's a lot like blaming Jewish culture.
No its again nothing like that. See above.
The way he treats female critics differently, often referring to their gender and bodily functions suggests that while "hate" might be too strong a word, he certainly is biased against them.
Again not much real evidence here. I am not sure this is really defense of Trump but he seems to be just an ass. He isn't prepared to debate most of his opponents, so he finds away to change the subject. I don't think he "picks on" women especially in this case. I think its because we have become so sensitive to that as a culture it seems like it. He insulted the appearance of Curz's face, commented on Marcco's size (and made inferences about the size of his genitals). I think if you want to be intellectually honest Trump really isn't a bigot, he is just a prick!
While I think Clinton is probably just as disingenuous, it's probably a little easier to anticipate how she'd act as President, because she has a long political track record.
A long track record of flip flopping on every social and moral issue that faces us; and a history of Polsplain away how she never fails to protect monied interests.
Clinton is worst kind of hypocrite, she is the cancer in American politics that rots out or principles and lowers us all. She is EXACTLY like Trump! The only difference is branding and who she is trying to sell herself out too. Its like a how a Dodge Dart is different from a Chrysler 200 - the target buyer.
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When everyone evades taxes, no taxes are collected.
Evasion is a crime where you do not pay taxes lawfully owed. What most of these people are doing is 'avoidance' where you take steps within the rules to minimize the taxes owed. Frankly anyone who does not engage in tax avoidance is a fool. If you have money you want to give away pick a good charity many of them will do more good for society per dollar than government will! Letting government collect even one penny more than they are due is irresponsible.
What liberals don't understand (or maybe they do) is that a complex tax code is inherently unfair. The more wealthy you are the greater the influence you can probably get in terms of rule writing, the more resources you can expend on avoidance and the bigger the pay off. Basically the more funny little rules you right to try and use tax policy as a social engineering tool and make it less 'regressive' the more the super wealthy will find ways to game the system. Right down to the form of paying people wages they could not possibly live on without the earned income credit.
Income and wealth taxes are fundamentally a bad idea. After a 100 years of trying its time to admit that. We should institute a national sales that applies to all transactions, include financial instruments, and currency exchanges. Next define a VERY SMALL range of goods an services lower economic classes disproportionately spend on. Make filing entirely optional, set single inflation adjusted gross income hurdle, people below that amount can file a statement saying they earned less than a the hurdle amount and request an sales tax rebate for what they spent on the defined goods.
A system with so few rules will be essential impossible to game. The only people who will have any wiggle room are the folks who don't make much in the first place so the degree to which they can evade will be small.
ICIJ is publishing the information in the public interest.
Forgive me if I don't trust anything other than a public vote to decide what is in the public interest.
Hackers who target this organization and 'liberate' this sort of information are criminals and should be treated as such. If they are going to do it though I really feel that the more 'responsible' disclosure would be dumping ALL the data online so everyone gets to see rather than setting up some news organizations to be gatekeepers and giving them the opportunity to decide what everyone is suppose to thing.
The images of the crash are not pretty, but one could imagine how much worse they would be if a front-engined internal combustion vehicle were involved instead of the Tesla Model S.
And what about comparing it to a mid-engine internal combustion vehicle? That would be more consistent in terms of center of mass with the Tesla Batteries.
Considering the Tesla S is an up market sports car this is probably reasonable to do, as there are mid-engine cars in that space for comparison.
Trump and his votors are essentially a cult of the ego. That's what you are voting for if you choose to vote for him
No I am voting against Hilliary and almost everything she claims to stand for, this year.
The reality is as a practical matter one of those two will most likely be the next president of the United States. I can vote the guy who at least claims to be "on my team". That way other 'somewhat' conservative leaders like Paul Ryan can do things like pass a budget and enact other legislation, maybe roll back some of Obama's worst excesses, without the obstacle of Hillary's veto pen.
Yup one step above plastering fake "download" links all over.
about $180/mo to start with around 30gigs. They won't offer more until you prove you use that much. So you will be stuck with a months worth of overages.
After that will offer 60 or (more depending on how far over you went) at more reasonable prices. I am paying about $240 right now for 100gigs.
This post displays a stunning lack of empathy for people who have made a choice to live in a less densely populated area. First of all, not everyone who lives in a rural area is poor. There are plenty of middle-class and upper-middle-class people who have larger land holdings or have fewer neighbors than the ISPs would ideally prefer for instant ROI.
We don't need to subsidize them though! My cellular connection is expensive for the amount of transfer I need to use most months. So expensive I do keep a lid on most personal internet use (other than a little slashdot, I never youtube etc, unless its work related). I am not complaining, this is a real cost of living where I wanted to live, its a choice I made.
I would also say we should stop subsidizing public housing in the cities. Those people should move out to where land is cheap and rents are low, if they don't have the earning power to support life in the city. Which by the way would push wages up, you think wealthy people would want to live in NYC if there was nobody to make their coffee? I doubt it, Starbucks would start paying $15+ if that is what it took for employees to live nearby enough to get to work in the morning. Subsides screw up the economy and produce all kinds of inefficiency in allocations.
I will admit saving large files up the file sever over VPN sometimes is slow. I *usually* can make most of edits, save, and continue working on something else for the 5min or so that can take.
Yes updating something like Visual Studio or RubyMine (don't eclipse sorry), let alone MS Office does take many hours. Which is why you start those updates when you are done for the day. They are ready and waiting in the morning that way. No problem.
If I *need* to update some other large framework or rsync a huge repo mid day I'll do it around lunch time, so again it can transfer while I am taking a break anyway. Its really not a problem.
Sure if to you "the internet" is http over tcp port 80 then that's not bad.
100ms is fine for voip and even most twitch type games. Back on the subject of doing actual work, SSH at 100ms is fine, I can't tell the difference between a shell on a remote box and a local machine here. Please enlighten me what is it that I could better at 32ms than I can at 100ms, HFT stock trading?
Talk to verizon wireless, their CANTENNA services are great! If they have the capacity in your area to give you one its excellent!
Except that multiple satellite and fixed cellular providers have done exactly that. I typing this from my home network bridged to my Verizaon CANTENNA right now.
I get about 4/4MBps in most conditions, severe storms slow things down. Latency is pretty low most of the time around 90-100ms to most well connected sites like google.com.
Most people have exactly ZERO need for more than that. Sure I might enjoy that 75mbit comcast service I keep reading about for streaming netflix 24-7 but that is about the only thing I can't do with my rural internet service. I work from home in doing "IT work". So I am hardly being cut off from any economic opportunities because better connectivity isn't available.
The USDA absolutely should not be subsidizing broadband! Holy scope creep batman! This is why the federal government costs so damn much. We already have other federal agencies who likely have the talent in house to mange such a program, FCC, and Commerce spring to mind. How many people are duplicated so the department of Agriculture can run a digital broadband program?
The biggest problem with budget sequestration is it did not go nearly far enough. The biggest problem with this program is not how it defines broadband but that it exists!
You get permission to test BEFORE you do the testing!
Most e-mail encryption is done transport level and its opportunistic.
You Say: STARTTLS
and see if you get a non-error response code. If you do TLS handshake and the mail is ciphered if not it goes in the clear. Now most of these gateways can be configured to do things like 'require encryption if the destination domain is example.com'
So you can fix it so all mail to your payroll provider gets encrypted or bounced, but if the client miss-addresses it and sends it to some other valid domain + mailbox, opps.
Trump might be more popular than thought because organizations like facebook distort the popularity of liberal ideas and causes by over representing them.
Disclaimer: now that he has emerged as the only guy who could can claim to be a legitimate winner of the primary process I will vote Trump in the general.
Trump however is not a conservative. You really can't pin him down at all. He does not appear to respect private property rights for example, and pushed eminent domain in cases where its used to give land to private owners. He does not seem care about abortion at all, he basically even said he adopted a pro-life position to 'tick a box.' Just like Hillary used to be a Republican he used to be a Democrat (and recently at that). He does not seem to seem to be an advocate for small government, except when the government is doing something that bothers him personally.
Trump is won because conservatives are fed up, most of the allegations of RINOism against the 'establishment' folks is entirely fair. I still believe Boehner could have extracted greater concessions from the 2010 debt ceiling fight, but he rolled, I still believe we could have gotten more the sequestration (which did work wonders all things considered) out of the subsequent government shutdowns, but again McConnell and Boehner and their type rolled. Ted Cruz was the real leader who cared about good governing principles, Boehner was never more than a mouth piece for the chamber of commerce. Trump is popular because people are frustrated, and he speaks the loudest.
Hillary is even worse. In pandering to the far left rabble she will undermine and undo the values that made America exceptional. She will do this even though she knows better to cement her own power. To that end she is more dangerous than Trump ever could be. Trump has not got a plan, Hillary has an evil plan. I am voting Trump, but I still think its a tragedy.
I agree. Sure there are some abuses in the form of mugshot websites and the like. The alternative is very fundamental systemic abused could go uncaught forever!
Would we have an "Innocence Project" if court records were less public and it had not been possible to see systemic bias in justice from data?
I don't know about the prospects for the Internet. Mechanical computers and later electro-mechanical computers are likely as far as anyone would have got. Its really the transistor that gives you computation that is fast enough to run complex packet switch protocols and gives you signaling properties that are conducive to long ranger "high speed" communications.
I am not sure having computer technology sooner would have accelerated the development of the transistor or digital logic gates. There simply were not enough people running around with a deep enough understanding of physics to work out semiconductors.
That said we saw how instrumental even "slow" electro-mechanical machines were in applications like code braking, as well as sorting and cataloging. Certainly teletext was an important form of communication and operated on the same principles. I am sure machines would have been applied to artilary targeting, more communications, more ciphering and encryption. It would no doubt have been a very different war, but I don't think a pre-WWII Internet could have been possible.
No my hypothisis is this guy was driving recklessly because he is a narcissist. He does not actually give a damn about anyone but himself or to the extent that he does care about others, he only cares that he is liked, not about their actual well being.
He is most likely a member or associates with one or more of the above groups. They are easy ways to drape yourself in the mantel of caring and get a large base of support without actually having to do anything or learn about anything.
I sure wish we could keep these setting enabled not only on the phones when using wifi, but also on the client built into our DVD players and the desktop web browser version!
Some of us have metered Internet you know! Its a huge PITA to try and keep track of of NFLX destination IPs so my router can shape the traffic down to a reasonable value, such that I don't burn half of my monthly cap watching to a couple movies.
Already the corporations have shifted most of their tax burden to the individuals. If the corporations paid the same effective rate as they paid under Ronald Reagan individual tax payers will get an immense tax relief. We can take our personal income tax rates from 36.3% top rate down to 20% top rate or even a flat tax of 15%.
Nonsense corporations don't pay taxes, not really. If you close the loop holes and make them really pay the 35% rate it will only hurt the middle class. Prices of goods and services will rise wherever the costs can be passed on. In certain highly competitive markets that won't happen but in most it will. What is certain to happen in more wage stagnation while inflation marches on.
What we need to do is kill the idea of income and profit taxes! Taxation should occur on the consumptive side.
There should be a law, the amount owed should be definite, failure to pay would be a crime.
There is, and the tax code does. Its just that its a very complex set of rules. You and I can play chess, who wins depends on who leverages the same set of rules better. You and I can play tick-tack-toe and unless one of us isn't paying any attention at all, whoever goes first will always be the winner.
You can argue the tax code should be more like tick-tack-toe, clear and offering predictable outcomes. I agree it should be that. Because the tax code we have to day leaves all kinds of room for 'avoidance', that is using the rules better but following them, as opposed to evasion breaking the rules and not paying what is owed.
The real problem is that we went about social engineering with our tax code. We created this incentive, that deduction, etc to try and get people and companies to do this or that. We created are large number of complex rules and classes of actors and the result is a gameable system. That will always be the result.
My solution: A pure consumptive tax on all goods and services (with a few exceptions) inclusive of financial instruments at time of purchase. No filing requirements. The exceptions would be for goods like medical services, unprepared foods, legal services, public transportation fairs, tuition at accredited schools, clothing that is more than 50% cotton. People could optionally choose to file if they are willing to attest their gross income is below a certain threshold and could apply for additional rebates on things like transportation fuel, utilities at a primary residence, education related items and possibly some others.. Business would pay no taxes except on goods and services they purchase.
Right now the system is terrible large corporation with armies of tax attorneys and the ability to go municipality or even sovereign shopping benefit immensely. You and I probably pay more than what we owe because we don't have the resources to study every possible deduction and resarch every life decision we make to see what incentives are out there, fear the IRS and are afraid to do certain things that might be correct but are 'audit flags' etc.
Don't underestimate the self absorbed nature of the millenials
http://www.npr.org/sections/al...
I honest think all this identity politics, blacklivesmatter, transrights, green, peta, and other nonsense has to do with the fact that nobody ever told them no. They never learned any real empathy or "mindfulness" that would lead them make basic human considerations like not endangering the lives of others. Since they don't actually care or love anyone but themselves the find the most ridiculous causes they can to latch onto so as to convince themselves they complete narcissists.
Oh come one information is information, snapchat isn't responsible for how people use it. Even the OEM GPS in my car keeps track of the "Max Speed" since the unit was reset and makes the info available to the user. One person might use that to check up on their kid in a non intrusive post facto way after lending them the car, for some idiot it might look like a "high score".
As soon as you crying about letting people measure things you are heading down a slippery slope.
Trump is a violent, dangerous, disrespectful hooligan who ruins lives like other people ruin paper napkins.
Spot on!
Anyone actually willing to vote for him for President of the United States needs to take a long, hard look at what kind of scum they are.
I am sorry but No! Lets be honest Hillary is scum. She will work tireless to undermine the system of checks and balances and put herself and her friends above the law, like she has her entire career. She does not care who she tramples while she does it either. At least with Trump its sorta personal if he decides to ruin your life.
As much as I hate to have to think about it, "disrespectful hooligan" in the White House is preferable to a malicious actor.
That is the real choice here, if you abstain or if you vote for a third party, you are effectively voting for Hillary. That is the reality of the system we have today. Those are really the only choices.
The real solution requires socialism, creating a framework where more people can come legitimately (so they don't cause problems or get exploited) and helping people in Mexico so they are not motivated to travel.
Sorry no, you're a cheater. You want use the government to hold a gun to my head and appropriate MY PROPERTY and WEALTH to help people I don't owe a thing to. Look if you want to help the people of Mexico that would be a noble thing to do, by all means contribute anything you can to a good charity. It might mean you are good person. Organizing a political mob to steal what is mine so you can redistribute it is not the same thing and it does not count.
Trump takes the simpler approach of blaming immigrants for a number of problems and then saying he will take the obvious and wrong but tough sounding solution. Much like Hitler in fact, who blamed many of Germany's problems on immigrants and Jews, and then enacted the simple and tough sounding solution. Not as bad of course, but similar.
Except Germany had real problems and they were mostly to be blamed on the French and Woodrow Wilson. Hittler lied about the source of those problems.
On the other hand Islamist migrants (not the immigrants we have in the States today) are a real problem. The immigrants are a self selected group of individuals who are probably of highly above average intellect and are mostly wealthy enough to land on their feet. They had the money and talent to get themselves here in the first place. These are also mostly muslims ( culture ) rather than Islamists (followers of Islam). In other words they don't take all that stuff in the Koran about sharia law seriously. The uneducated migrants on the other hand are a huge problem. They want sharia, they do rape and otherwise sexually assault women because their values permit that. They don't put the rules of our secular society above their religious views when outside their homes and communities, they ignore them. When we start bring the common riff raff from the region over here in bulk people are going to be in for a rude surprise, especially the LGBT for Muslims crowd.
Wasn't your country started on the basis of religious freedom? And again, it's a lot like blaming Jewish culture.
No its again nothing like that. See above.
The way he treats female critics differently, often referring to their gender and bodily functions suggests that while "hate" might be too strong a word, he certainly is biased against them.
Again not much real evidence here. I am not sure this is really defense of Trump but he seems to be just an ass. He isn't prepared to debate most of his opponents, so he finds away to change the subject. I don't think he "picks on" women especially in this case. I think its because we have become so sensitive to that as a culture it seems like it. He insulted the appearance of Curz's face, commented on Marcco's size (and made inferences about the size of his genitals). I think if you want to be intellectually honest Trump really isn't a bigot, he is just a prick!
While I think Clinton is probably just as disingenuous, it's probably a little easier to anticipate how she'd act as President, because she has a long political track record.
A long track record of flip flopping on every social and moral issue that faces us; and a history of Polsplain away how she never fails to protect monied interests.
Clinton is worst kind of hypocrite, she is the cancer in American politics that rots out or principles and lowers us all. She is EXACTLY like Trump! The only difference is branding and who she is trying to sell herself out too. Its like a how a Dodge Dart is different from a Chrysler 200 - the target buyer.