No donation you declare on your tax return is purely altruistic. In fact, some argue nothing is altruistic because it feels good to help.
Those people are pretty frickin' cynical.
Yes, because they have value. All prizes are taxable income. That's why you hear so often of someone winning a house or car, and having to sell it because otherwise they'd be on the hook for taxes they can't afford. Some organizations now award some cash along with the grand prizes so that they can pay the tax.
I would prefer that there be some sort of deferral for X number of years, or when the prize is sold, for non-cash prizes. But who am I kidding? We really need to get rid of Federal direct taxes on income. There's your problem.
Why should it be faith-breaking to believe that the resurrection is also metaphorical or symbolic?
Because it's written in the gospels and the book of Acts about how he appeared to thousands after the resurrection? This is reported historically, not as a metaphor out of some prophet's mouth.
impregnate a human virgin and reanimate the decaying flesh of that dead offspring
Your disrespectful and misleading word choice betrays your bias.
To be fair to those who have an opinion on the first issue, they believe that a fetus (which has a heartbeat, a working brain, etc.) is a living human and oppose abortion because they think it's murder. Telling them to stop imposing their opinion on others is like telling child services that you have a right to murder your child. You don't have to agree, but you don't have to set up a straw man who just likes to "impose their will and opinion on others". In this case, they have to impose their will, because if you believe that innocents are being murdered, it's not really enough to stand by and proclaim, "well, at least I didn't kill mine!"
Jesus is called good master by a supplicant and rounds on them and says (paraphrased) "Why do you call me good? There is no one that is good but God." admitting on one sentence that he is neither God nor Good.
Perhaps you are misinterpreting those verses. Here's a hint: the rhetorical question is a concept that preexists Jesus's presence on earth.
Jesus wouldn't go around saying things like, "Before Abraham was, I AM" and then contradict himself.
Well, let's not continue the string of ionic straw men. To wit, I perpetuated by stating a generalization about leftists. I imagine SOME of them don't actually want government control of everything.
I also don't want control of everything. That's the point. I said I wanted police departments, roads, schools, and the like. That doesn't preclude some other things not mentioned, and neither does it prevent free enterprise from filling in the gaps. In fact, it relies on it. For me to advocate that government be kept limited so that we are free to live our lives without being allowed to oppress others is authoritarian? Indeed, that's enough irony to choke Alanis Morrissette.
Guess I'm a stupid, stupid, stupid zealot. Perhaps if I were milquetoast, you'd prefer that.
Leftists like to bring up Somalia. There is a government in Somalia: a crappy one, in a string of crappy provisional governments. With warlord governments layered on top of this crappy government. There really isn't a place without a government. That being said, I'm not an anarchist. I'm libertarian, so I see the value in public infrastructure.
But leftists don't even understand what they're advocating. They believe that anyone who doesn't think government should inject itself into every part of their lives (except the bedroom, amirite?) is some straw man who doesn't want to pay taxes for roads or police.
I want roads. I don't want bridges to nowhere, or federal highway funding paid for by direct income taxes that is used to politically pressure states and local governments. I want police and courts. I don't want APVs, select fire M16s, no-knock warrants, and civil forfeiture. I want public access to education. I don't want public schools run by $250K administrators and directed by federal requirements.
Or the ability to point a web browser at Taxact.com, apparently. The federal form is FREE.
Seriously, you don't need to spend $250 on tax preparation to deduct for kids, mortgage interest, and get the EIC handout. Heck, you don't even need tax software for that. You can do it on a 1040A, which is fairly straightforward.
Yours is the first retort trotted out by the statists, yet you never explain how one is to opt out of government.
We can see by what happened at Ruby Ridge that you cannot opt out... that eventually, the government will come to collect their tribute once they're made aware of your insubordination.
Or it's a portmanteau of hubris and hybrid, as in, you bought a Prius so now inside your cloud of smug you consider yourself an expert on green energy.
You are hiding parallel construction (i.e. being given evidence illegally obtained by mass surveillance and then using a dog to conceal the source of that evidence to fool the courts).
This. It would be quite easy for them to B&E, find the contraband via normal means, then return later and prompt the K9 to indicate toward the location of the evidence (which has been proven to happen in multiple studies).
Maybe you don't deal drugs, distribute child porn, or steal identities. But do you want police freely rooting through your stuff, hoping to find something incriminating?
Grumpy cat is probably in the top 10 memes, and has been around about 4 years. You don't have to be someone who needs to "get a life" for having heard of it.
I still need an optical drive because my latest obsession is buying used CDs for $0.25-2.00 and ripping them. I'm able to get all the albums I couldn't afford when I was a starving single person, and all the ones I missed during the '00s when my tastes were different.
I mostly still use WMP for this, because it has the one neat feature that allows it to start ripping as soon as a CD is inserted without even pressing a button. This allows you to save a minute or two if you have to rip a stack. I'm about to ditch it for Freerip, however, because WMP does occasionally fail to rip a track (which can be missed because the track listing disappears when the disc is ejected) and usually hangs on startup for no apparent reason until the system is rebooted. WMP is discontinued, so these issues will never be fixed.
Should probably start paying attention to Congress now, because in 2019 things will start entering the public domain again. I'm sure that starting next year, someone's going to try to push another Mickey Mouse Protection Act through.
They sell for $500K because the government creates an artificial scarcity. They limited the supply in the name of some kind of social agenda (as if reducing the amount of transportation will somehow reduce the NEED for it) and demand creates the price.
Taxis don't exist to drive around and clog the streets. They exist to take people to the places they want to go. If there are too many taxis, they won't run. It's a tyrannical government's fanciful idea that they'd rather have people walking 10 blocks or fighting over a stinky cab.
We don't even need a clever analogy. It's crony capitalism, and it's wrong.
The government is propping up the taxi companies, who paid inflated sums for their medallions due to the artificial scarcity created by the very government that issues them. For example, in Philadelphia, medallions that sold for half a million dollars a few years ago now appear to be selling for $50,000. This looks like a market crash, because it is. Allow the people to speak with their wallets, and it will resolve itself. I feel sorry for the folks who bought medallions at inflated prices, but that's the risk of doing business.
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No donation you declare on your tax return is purely altruistic. In fact, some argue nothing is altruistic because it feels good to help. Those people are pretty frickin' cynical.
Yes, because they have value. All prizes are taxable income. That's why you hear so often of someone winning a house or car, and having to sell it because otherwise they'd be on the hook for taxes they can't afford. Some organizations now award some cash along with the grand prizes so that they can pay the tax.
I would prefer that there be some sort of deferral for X number of years, or when the prize is sold, for non-cash prizes. But who am I kidding? We really need to get rid of Federal direct taxes on income. There's your problem.
Because it's written in the gospels and the book of Acts about how he appeared to thousands after the resurrection? This is reported historically, not as a metaphor out of some prophet's mouth.
Your disrespectful and misleading word choice betrays your bias.
If a myth is corroborated by scientific fact, such as archaeological evidence, is it still a myth? Or is it history?
To be fair to those who have an opinion on the first issue, they believe that a fetus (which has a heartbeat, a working brain, etc.) is a living human and oppose abortion because they think it's murder. Telling them to stop imposing their opinion on others is like telling child services that you have a right to murder your child. You don't have to agree, but you don't have to set up a straw man who just likes to "impose their will and opinion on others". In this case, they have to impose their will, because if you believe that innocents are being murdered, it's not really enough to stand by and proclaim, "well, at least I didn't kill mine!"
Perhaps you are misinterpreting those verses. Here's a hint: the rhetorical question is a concept that preexists Jesus's presence on earth.
Jesus wouldn't go around saying things like, "Before Abraham was, I AM" and then contradict himself.
Exception in politics for Hispanic Republicans. They're also white.
Tim could just undergo the sex change procedure himself and take care of the trans and female time-shares on his own.
Well, let's not continue the string of ionic straw men. To wit, I perpetuated by stating a generalization about leftists. I imagine SOME of them don't actually want government control of everything.
I also don't want control of everything. That's the point. I said I wanted police departments, roads, schools, and the like. That doesn't preclude some other things not mentioned, and neither does it prevent free enterprise from filling in the gaps. In fact, it relies on it. For me to advocate that government be kept limited so that we are free to live our lives without being allowed to oppress others is authoritarian? Indeed, that's enough irony to choke Alanis Morrissette.
Guess I'm a stupid, stupid, stupid zealot. Perhaps if I were milquetoast, you'd prefer that.
There really is no way to do that.
Leftists like to bring up Somalia. There is a government in Somalia: a crappy one, in a string of crappy provisional governments. With warlord governments layered on top of this crappy government. There really isn't a place without a government. That being said, I'm not an anarchist. I'm libertarian, so I see the value in public infrastructure.
But leftists don't even understand what they're advocating. They believe that anyone who doesn't think government should inject itself into every part of their lives (except the bedroom, amirite?) is some straw man who doesn't want to pay taxes for roads or police.
I want roads. I don't want bridges to nowhere, or federal highway funding paid for by direct income taxes that is used to politically pressure states and local governments.
I want police and courts. I don't want APVs, select fire M16s, no-knock warrants, and civil forfeiture.
I want public access to education. I don't want public schools run by $250K administrators and directed by federal requirements.
Or the ability to point a web browser at Taxact.com, apparently. The federal form is FREE.
Seriously, you don't need to spend $250 on tax preparation to deduct for kids, mortgage interest, and get the EIC handout. Heck, you don't even need tax software for that. You can do it on a 1040A, which is fairly straightforward.
Yours is the first retort trotted out by the statists, yet you never explain how one is to opt out of government.
We can see by what happened at Ruby Ridge that you cannot opt out... that eventually, the government will come to collect their tribute once they're made aware of your insubordination.
Or it's a portmanteau of hubris and hybrid, as in, you bought a Prius so now inside your cloud of smug you consider yourself an expert on green energy.
0xc88 thinks nothing he ever does could possibly arouse suspicion. Or that he could never have an obsessed enemy in a position of authority.
Or he's just a compulsive troll. Either one.
This. It would be quite easy for them to B&E, find the contraband via normal means, then return later and prompt the K9 to indicate toward the location of the evidence (which has been proven to happen in multiple studies).
Maybe you don't deal drugs, distribute child porn, or steal identities. But do you want police freely rooting through your stuff, hoping to find something incriminating?
So not the cops and their peashooters, then?
Grumpy cat is probably in the top 10 memes, and has been around about 4 years. You don't have to be someone who needs to "get a life" for having heard of it.
I still need an optical drive because my latest obsession is buying used CDs for $0.25-2.00 and ripping them. I'm able to get all the albums I couldn't afford when I was a starving single person, and all the ones I missed during the '00s when my tastes were different.
I mostly still use WMP for this, because it has the one neat feature that allows it to start ripping as soon as a CD is inserted without even pressing a button. This allows you to save a minute or two if you have to rip a stack. I'm about to ditch it for Freerip, however, because WMP does occasionally fail to rip a track (which can be missed because the track listing disappears when the disc is ejected) and usually hangs on startup for no apparent reason until the system is rebooted. WMP is discontinued, so these issues will never be fixed.
I use the tag.
A defective USB memory device driver should still not crash a system, let alone one that's merely unsigned.
Should probably start paying attention to Congress now, because in 2019 things will start entering the public domain again. I'm sure that starting next year, someone's going to try to push another Mickey Mouse Protection Act through.
The internet was created so that we could have OT posts like, "Internet Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Have a Religion".
They sell for $500K because the government creates an artificial scarcity. They limited the supply in the name of some kind of social agenda (as if reducing the amount of transportation will somehow reduce the NEED for it) and demand creates the price.
Taxis don't exist to drive around and clog the streets. They exist to take people to the places they want to go. If there are too many taxis, they won't run. It's a tyrannical government's fanciful idea that they'd rather have people walking 10 blocks or fighting over a stinky cab.
We don't even need a clever analogy. It's crony capitalism, and it's wrong.
The government is propping up the taxi companies, who paid inflated sums for their medallions due to the artificial scarcity created by the very government that issues them. For example, in Philadelphia, medallions that sold for half a million dollars a few years ago now appear to be selling for $50,000. This looks like a market crash, because it is. Allow the people to speak with their wallets, and it will resolve itself. I feel sorry for the folks who bought medallions at inflated prices, but that's the risk of doing business.