unfirable state employees who get paid significantly more than private sector equivalents, retire early and have vast pensions
While the benefits, pensions and unfireable status may be true, I have yet to see a government job posting that paid more than the equivalent private sector job.
You don't understand. Either Amazon is going to collect it from you and give it straight to the government, or not, which is currently the case. Either way, it doesn't make a difference to the bottom line. They aren't making more money by not collecting sales tax, other than indirectly because people buy more online forgetting that they are supposed to pay Use tax on those items.
The sales tax is a whole different matter, it does create an unfair advantage because Amazon just shifts responsibility for the tax to the end customer.
No, it does not, no matter how many times this comes up and no matter how many times slashdot posts an article, there IS NO TAX ADVANTAGE. You are REQUIRED to pay Use Tax on purchase that you did not pay sales tax on it. If you do not, then YOU ARE EVADING TAXES. This is ILLEGAL. What Amazon doing is neither evading nor avoiding taxes. They are not required by law to collect taxes in jurisdictions in which they have no presence and so they don't. YOU are still required to pay the taxes and if you don't, then it is YOU who is doing something illegal.
Corporations don't pay sales tax. You do. They just collect it for you. The states that Amazon does not have a representation have no authority to tell Amazon to collect sales tax for them. That is why you are supposed to pay Use tax.
As a small business owner, I would argue that it is already an unfair hardship that the state makes me do their dirty work of collecting the sales tax when it all goes to the state, except for about $3 a month, which they let me keep for "recordkeeping".
I also think it is unfair that the state and fed make me do their dirty work and withhold taxes, social security and medicare from my employees paychecks, just to turn around and give it to the state. They don't give me ANYTHING for my "recordkeeping" on their behalf.
Wow, you would expect a religious wacko to be more knowledgeable about his religion. It was not an apple that they were tempted with but the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
This is the whole problem. As soon as you implement a security procedure, the terrorists will use some other method, so now there is no point in having that procedure in place. The only way to actually stop a potential terrorist is to use a method that neither they nor the general public is aware of.
I don't even like being interviewed for non-existent jobs, but I have called back after several interviews to find out that the position they were trying to fill had never materialized. In fact, the company I work for now has on several occasions been told to go ahead with collecting resumes and taking interviews, and then when they found their candidate, the powers that be said they could not hire anyone. This is just stupid as it wastes the interviewees time and it's not like the people performing the interviews have nothing better to do with their day either.
Who does hiring when they are about to re-org?
Everyone. For the simple reason that every company is always about to do a re-org. Every company has been told by a consultant that they can save $X in a few years by spending a little more right now, and no company has ever gotten through the few years required to recoup those losses before another expensive consultant convinces them to do it again.
Attention everyone. $1.9 million (especially minus attorney fees) over the course of a lifetime is not a great deal of money.
Good grief, we are starting to sound like Lucky on King of the Hill who thinks he is set for life from his $50k settlement from slipping at the Mega-Lo-Mart.
$2 million is probably insufficient. If he was known enough to be enticed away from a good position from TI by Seagate to move to Minneapolis, he was probably making 6 figures. What they need to do is pay him what they would have paid him including annual salary increases, benefits, bonuses, healthcare and incentives through retirement. I guarantee that this is probably double or more of the $1.9 million.
Over a 40 year career, that comes to 47,500 a year. Can you live in luxury on 47,500 a year? If so, then everyone can, because that is slightly less than the average household income in the U.S. Add to that the fact that 47,500 40 years from now will be the equivalent of about $15,000 today and you will find it hard indeed to live the life of luxury.
Okay, I must be doing something seriously wrong because I can't live on that.
Just for starters, my house payment is higher than that.
It might be possible for someone with no children, young and in good health to live on that if he doesn't mind living in kind of a dumpy house and eating ramen.
you can't rescind a job offer you've given
Sure you can. It has happened to several people I know. In one case a person moved from Singapore to the United States for a promised job that was rescinded due to the nepotism policy.I know of two other husband and wife couples currently working at that company.
In another case at another company, the person actually worked under contract for about a month, and then was told that they couldn't work there because of the nepotism policy and they did not pay her for the contracted work. The nepotism policy does not apply to contractors. Her husband worked at the company as an employee. The son of the person who told her she couldn't work there because of the nepotism policy works there, and is the best argument for a nepotism policy that I have ever seen. Five people there currently or in the past have had their offspring working there, and at least one has had a spouse working there.
Back in the early '90s, we posted a position in the newspaper for a Fortran and C programmer. The newspaper did not spell Fortran correctly, they spelled it as Fortan or something like that. However, one of our applicants did indeed have Fortan on their resume. We didn't call them in.
As for the engine being expensive, what would be it be, steam, generated by the heat of fission?
Most modern cruise liners are basically diesel powered generators with electric motors turning the props. Any more, the props are not even fixed, but pod based, so they can be used to aid in steering and in port. Looking at the underside of a ship these days just looks all wrong according to what we are used to seeing.
Thus, my educated guess is that if we went nuclear, it would be a nuclear generator with electric motorized props.
At which point, it would make much more sense for you to just keep whatever premium they are charging you, because that premium minus their profit is equal to what you need to pay the doctor.
"You can't be turned down" is irrelevant because they can charge you whatever they want.
And even better, you can't turn them down, because under Obamacare, you have to have insurance even if they set the premium so high that you can't afford it.
This will be the best thing to happen to the insurance companies since, well, everything else that has happened to the insurance companies. Thank you Obama, for bailing out the already rich insurance companies.
We had a 4.3 here in central Oklahoma back on 10/13, and it was noticeable only as a peculiar heavy vibration. One jokester was sending around a photo of "earthquake damage". It was a back yard table and chairs set with one of the plastic chairs knocked over.
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Not just some states, but most. I am not certain, but I think the only ones that DON'T have a use tax are ones that also don't have a sales tax.
unfirable state employees who get paid significantly more than private sector equivalents, retire early and have vast pensions
While the benefits, pensions and unfireable status may be true, I have yet to see a government job posting that paid more than the equivalent private sector job.
You don't understand. Either Amazon is going to collect it from you and give it straight to the government, or not, which is currently the case. Either way, it doesn't make a difference to the bottom line. They aren't making more money by not collecting sales tax, other than indirectly because people buy more online forgetting that they are supposed to pay Use tax on those items.
The sales tax is a whole different matter, it does create an unfair advantage because Amazon just shifts responsibility for the tax to the end customer.
No, it does not, no matter how many times this comes up and no matter how many times slashdot posts an article, there IS NO TAX ADVANTAGE. You are REQUIRED to pay Use Tax on purchase that you did not pay sales tax on it. If you do not, then YOU ARE EVADING TAXES. This is ILLEGAL. What Amazon doing is neither evading nor avoiding taxes. They are not required by law to collect taxes in jurisdictions in which they have no presence and so they don't. YOU are still required to pay the taxes and if you don't, then it is YOU who is doing something illegal.
Corporations don't pay sales tax. You do. They just collect it for you. The states that Amazon does not have a representation have no authority to tell Amazon to collect sales tax for them. That is why you are supposed to pay Use tax.
As a small business owner, I would argue that it is already an unfair hardship that the state makes me do their dirty work of collecting the sales tax when it all goes to the state, except for about $3 a month, which they let me keep for "recordkeeping".
I also think it is unfair that the state and fed make me do their dirty work and withhold taxes, social security and medicare from my employees paychecks, just to turn around and give it to the state. They don't give me ANYTHING for my "recordkeeping" on their behalf.
.. he replied "I dinna come forward because in this country, it makes you look like a pervert -- but _every_ single Scottish person does it!"
Wow, you would expect a religious wacko to be more knowledgeable about his religion. It was not an apple that they were tempted with but the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
One wonders at what point it ceases to be Apple 1 Serial Number 1 and becomes a newly built Apple 1 based on the original design.
This is the whole problem. As soon as you implement a security procedure, the terrorists will use some other method, so now there is no point in having that procedure in place. The only way to actually stop a potential terrorist is to use a method that neither they nor the general public is aware of.
I don't even like being interviewed for non-existent jobs, but I have called back after several interviews to find out that the position they were trying to fill had never materialized. In fact, the company I work for now has on several occasions been told to go ahead with collecting resumes and taking interviews, and then when they found their candidate, the powers that be said they could not hire anyone. This is just stupid as it wastes the interviewees time and it's not like the people performing the interviews have nothing better to do with their day either.
Who does hiring when they are about to re-org?
Everyone. For the simple reason that every company is always about to do a re-org. Every company has been told by a consultant that they can save $X in a few years by spending a little more right now, and no company has ever gotten through the few years required to recoup those losses before another expensive consultant convinces them to do it again.
Attention everyone. $1.9 million (especially minus attorney fees) over the course of a lifetime is not a great deal of money.
Good grief, we are starting to sound like Lucky on King of the Hill who thinks he is set for life from his $50k settlement from slipping at the Mega-Lo-Mart.
$2 million is probably insufficient. If he was known enough to be enticed away from a good position from TI by Seagate to move to Minneapolis, he was probably making 6 figures. What they need to do is pay him what they would have paid him including annual salary increases, benefits, bonuses, healthcare and incentives through retirement. I guarantee that this is probably double or more of the $1.9 million.
Over a 40 year career, that comes to 47,500 a year. Can you live in luxury on 47,500 a year? If so, then everyone can, because that is slightly less than the average household income in the U.S. Add to that the fact that 47,500 40 years from now will be the equivalent of about $15,000 today and you will find it hard indeed to live the life of luxury.
Okay, I must be doing something seriously wrong because I can't live on that.
Just for starters, my house payment is higher than that.
It might be possible for someone with no children, young and in good health to live on that if he doesn't mind living in kind of a dumpy house and eating ramen.
you can't rescind a job offer you've given
Sure you can. It has happened to several people I know. In one case a person moved from Singapore to the United States for a promised job that was rescinded due to the nepotism policy.I know of two other husband and wife couples currently working at that company.
In another case at another company, the person actually worked under contract for about a month, and then was told that they couldn't work there because of the nepotism policy and they did not pay her for the contracted work. The nepotism policy does not apply to contractors. Her husband worked at the company as an employee. The son of the person who told her she couldn't work there because of the nepotism policy works there, and is the best argument for a nepotism policy that I have ever seen. Five people there currently or in the past have had their offspring working there, and at least one has had a spouse working there.
Back in the early '90s, we posted a position in the newspaper for a Fortran and C programmer. The newspaper did not spell Fortran correctly, they spelled it as Fortan or something like that. However, one of our applicants did indeed have Fortan on their resume. We didn't call them in.
Age discrimination is illegal.
Is it really illegal? If it is, then most every company in America ought to have been sued out of existence already.
As for the engine being expensive, what would be it be, steam, generated by the heat of fission?
Most modern cruise liners are basically diesel powered generators with electric motors turning the props. Any more, the props are not even fixed, but pod based, so they can be used to aid in steering and in port. Looking at the underside of a ship these days just looks all wrong according to what we are used to seeing.
Thus, my educated guess is that if we went nuclear, it would be a nuclear generator with electric motorized props.
At which point, it would make much more sense for you to just keep whatever premium they are charging you, because that premium minus their profit is equal to what you need to pay the doctor.
"You can't be turned down" is irrelevant because they can charge you whatever they want.
And even better, you can't turn them down, because under Obamacare, you have to have insurance even if they set the premium so high that you can't afford it. This will be the best thing to happen to the insurance companies since, well, everything else that has happened to the insurance companies. Thank you Obama, for bailing out the already rich insurance companies.
...until it was successfully launched.
We had a 4.3 here in central Oklahoma back on 10/13, and it was noticeable only as a peculiar heavy vibration. One jokester was sending around a photo of "earthquake damage". It was a back yard table and chairs set with one of the plastic chairs knocked over.
As another midwesterner, I would point out that some of "we" say "New Muh-drid".
It's like a whole different kind of cheating.