And you can say that you would simply not charge sales tax on the things that poor people are spending their money on -- food, shelter and utilities -- but doing so would drastically reduce tax receipts.
As does using a graduated tax with high percentage brackets on high earners. When the top brackets were reduced in the 1980s, receipts rose. Besides, the poor already get their utilities, food, and clothing subsidized.
I still don't see a compelling argument for punishing those who are successful earners.
Some form of inheritance tax is required because not having just encourages hoarding of capital, which is bad for the national economy in the long term.
By that logic, we should not have sales or luxury taxes as they discourage spending.
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Much like Christian apologists, they note the good ("Bill Gates gives billions to charity") whilst ignoring the bad (e.g. "he made those billions via anticompetitive, illegal means" / "his Foundation is a huge tax break and PR boost for himself, and has been used as a tool to push Windows on developing nations who can't afford it").
Err.. you don't know many Christian apologists. Any apologist like your straw man would lose many a debate.
He also had no remorse torturing and harming the X-Men as was. Kind of like today's America.
Yes, truly sad. I hear the President is kicking Wolverine in the 'nads and Dick Cheney's gay lesbian daughter (did you hear? She's gay) is molesting Jean Grey as we speak!
With a 1541 and no fastload, yes. Terrible flaw in the design. The 1540 designed for the VIC-20 (and even the tape drive, with a little assembly hack) could actually outperform the 1541 on the C=64.
The loophole is that robots will be allowed to push and shove people down stairs to protect them from the terrible secret of space. Or because they're old.
How often do you hear of someone springing backward or falling forward? But there are many instances where someone falls back (retreats) or springs forward.
Springing backward seems to have a high risk for injury...
HP refused to release the OpenVMS patches until late last year, and even then they put in a bomb to abort the installation if the system date wasn't in 2007. Supposedly, this was to keep people from installing the patch before the 2006 DST-STD time switch. But that doesn't make any sense because two out of the three versions of VMS that were patched use the standard tables, which include historical data so that even if you wanted to party like it's 1999 the date would switch properly.
And that's for working about nine months out of the year. Sure, they put in 50 hour weeks when you figure in grading papers and prep, but so do the rest of us.
BTW, on a theological note, I know that there are those in the Church who seem to claim that Jesus and God are one and the same,
That would be ALL of them.
but if you read the Bible it is clear that Jesus carefully avoided claiming he was God, AND he PRAYED to God, and since he wasn't praying to himself, it is probably a mistake (on the order of breaking the first of the 10 Commadments) to worship Jesus (although I do believe he is the savior, and he was sent from Heaven).
"Before Abraham was, I am."
Pilate asked, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You have said it." (this colloquialism equates to "you said it" or "you are correct" in modern English)
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but through me." (makes no sense unless he is God, because it is also written that "there is no one righteous; no, not one.")
"I lay down my life of my own free will, and as it is in my power to lay it down, so it is in my power to take it up again." What man can choose his own death, and raise himself? Not even Elijah could save himself from dying (God carried him up), and Moses remains buried to this day.
Buddhism is not polytheistic. Frankly, it's atheistic, which should make it a philosophy (but people consider the Confucian philosophy a sort of religion as well).
You're right, it WOULD. But that does not explain why he would leave the remaining 8% in the cold.
I don't think that's the point of this study. Just because 92% have belief doesn't mean it was hardwired.
Huxley conveniently ignores the fact that most of the knowledge of the world was preserved in monasteries and other religious institutions through the Dark Ages while the fake "Christians" and the Muslims were fighting over the Holy Land.
Haven't they heard of drainage fields and "Rid-X" in your area? The drainage field allows the liquid wastes to be broken down by natural bacteria in the soil. A properly maintained system should not need to be emptied unless the fields or the tank are damaged or break down.
It's true that government operates outside of morality. Morality is the duty of the individual appointed representatives in their assigned functions. As George Washington said, government is "a dangerous servant and a fearful master." In the USA, services such as water, sewer, and public safety are provided not through moral responsibility by the "public welfare" clause of the Constitution of the USA and the constitutions of the respective States.
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I still don't see a compelling argument for punishing those who are successful earners.
What non-violent option was there to kick the Taliban out of Afghanistan or Saddam and his sons and cronies out of Iraq?
With a 1541 and no fastload, yes. Terrible flaw in the design. The 1540 designed for the VIC-20 (and even the tape drive, with a little assembly hack) could actually outperform the 1541 on the C=64.
The loophole is that robots will be allowed to push and shove people down stairs to protect them from the terrible secret of space. Or because they're old.
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Springing backward seems to have a high risk for injury...
HP refused to release the OpenVMS patches until late last year, and even then they put in a bomb to abort the installation if the system date wasn't in 2007. Supposedly, this was to keep people from installing the patch before the 2006 DST-STD time switch. But that doesn't make any sense because two out of the three versions of VMS that were patched use the standard tables, which include historical data so that even if you wanted to party like it's 1999 the date would switch properly.
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And that's for working about nine months out of the year. Sure, they put in 50 hour weeks when you figure in grading papers and prep, but so do the rest of us.
Calling faith stupid doesn't make it true. You add nothing useful to this discussion.
Pilate asked, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You have said it." (this colloquialism equates to "you said it" or "you are correct" in modern English)
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but through me." (makes no sense unless he is God, because it is also written that "there is no one righteous; no, not one.")
"I lay down my life of my own free will, and as it is in my power to lay it down, so it is in my power to take it up again." What man can choose his own death, and raise himself? Not even Elijah could save himself from dying (God carried him up), and Moses remains buried to this day.
Huxley conveniently ignores the fact that most of the knowledge of the world was preserved in monasteries and other religious institutions through the Dark Ages while the fake "Christians" and the Muslims were fighting over the Holy Land.
Haven't they heard of drainage fields and "Rid-X" in your area? The drainage field allows the liquid wastes to be broken down by natural bacteria in the soil. A properly maintained system should not need to be emptied unless the fields or the tank are damaged or break down.
It's true that government operates outside of morality. Morality is the duty of the individual appointed representatives in their assigned functions. As George Washington said, government is "a dangerous servant and a fearful master." In the USA, services such as water, sewer, and public safety are provided not through moral responsibility by the "public welfare" clause of the Constitution of the USA and the constitutions of the respective States.
It's clearly the fault of either the galactic barrier or a bored, trigger-happy Klingon captain.
Coolest portable since the Tandy 100.
Basically every company I've worked for since 1997 uses it somewhere.
Considering that Microsoft says a 1 GHz PC with 512 MB RAM will run Vista, he probably expected a working system.
I think Vista uses more RAM to display a window than my OS/2 Warp system used to run half a dozen apps (I had 8 MB of RAM on an AMD 486/40).
True-- you have many more sheep and they're much more nervous.