While Obama may view himself as a totalitarian dictator, the Old Republic has not been swept away to the extent that the President can just dump $2 billion in a government agency on a whim.
With the severely limited number of people with known immunity to HIV, and the pain of removing bone marrow, I'm wondering if more than a mere handful of people can be treated via this method.
Being serious here, I don't understand your logic, I don't understand your argument, and I'm having some difficulty understanding your conclusion. I can't tell which part I might agree with you on, and which part I disagree with you on. Please rewrite your contentions.
While you're on the subject of the constitution, there is nothing in there giving people the right to carry arms nor to go out into the middle of nowhere and blow away some innocent animals. It talks about an armed and controlled militia and nothing else.
I think the primary flaw in your thinking is that you are seeing the results of government intervention (well over 50% of healthcare spending is from/through the government, and it is heavily heavily regulated), and instead of understanding that the chaos and dysfunction is a result of government intervention, your conclusion is that more intervention is needed. This is how the snowball got started, and it's still rolling along, crushing anything in its path.
There is an amendment process, if one dislikes the Constitution in its current state. One may either work through the amendment process to change the Constitution so that it is more to their liking, or they may move to those "other developed countries" that one believes to be superior to the US. People regularly move among the several States for these reasons, one can certainly move to another country for the same. Assuming, of course, the country is willing to admit you.
"...which candidate has the best answers to making sure that Americans are able to stay healthy without America being bankrupted in the process?"
Huh? Since when it it a Constitutionally delegated power of the Executive branch to "make sure" that Americans are "able to stay healthy," while also meddling in their finances?
You're also a whiner, or else you'd have done some research and come up with rebuttals, instead of flaming and showing everyone how mature you are by adding to Nixonian enemies list. And if you're not a liberal, you're possibly confused on what liberalism is.
I believe Carl Menger, 1840-1921, was the first economist to blow it apart, well before anyone had taken any serious note of it as a threat to humanity.
I thought this was probably the case for qualified organizations, but what I was indirectly getting at was I don't think out of pocket expenses for volunteer work, for any any organization, is tax deductible. From the general description of what a qualified organization might be, an OSS project may or may not be for educational and scientific purposes. In any case, it hinges upon whether it has IRS approval or not to be a qualified organization for purposes of tax deductibility of out of pocket expenses incurred in the service of the OSS project.
I'm not against tax write-offs, and avoiding taxes any way possible, but I'm not aware of any component of the tax code that authorizes individual write-offs for voluntary, non-profit activities. Also, the fact that you are using a CPA for tax prep, and suggesting that others do so as well, scares me. CPAs are not for tax preparation. You have a question about the tax code, you ask a tax lawyer, not a CPA. CPAs are accountants.
I agree that natural order is good enough for us, but you do have a problem when corporatist economics is mislabeled as capitalism. I've seen otherwise intelligent people's brains shut-off when it comes to the current situation, and they mindlessly blame "capitalism" for it. If they are thinking of free-market capitalism, not Statist capitalism, they are horrifically confused, and have probably never looked into the actual framework of the current US economy.
K, so Gore isn't a billionaire, but the fact that proponents of Leviathan are quick to use government to pad their own wallets should surprise no one who has studied the true robber barons of the 19th century, the political entrepreneurs, or has been paying attention for the duration of their life-span from the 20th to 21st centuries.
If you're an idealist, as defined by possessing a total lack of logic and common-sense? Marxism was disproved as a theory in the late 19th century, well before the Soviets got their hands bloody. Simply put, communism is unworkable because it cannot perform any economic calculus.
Apparently, someone forgot that the only people attracted to government, with very few exceptions, are already corrupted, as government is nothing more than the naked exercise of coercive power against those outside of government.
For some reason the uber-parent failed to mention this, but the TN State legislator is a Democrat. May or may not mean anything, but odd to not mention it, isn't it?
Why are most of the answers about Linux? Do we know the uber-parent is running Linux? No. Should they have specified? Yes. However, as they didn't, each post that attempts to be useful should, at minimum, cover NT, Linux, and OS X.
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I don't get the joke. Although it was made by AMD, so...
While Obama may view himself as a totalitarian dictator, the Old Republic has not been swept away to the extent that the President can just dump $2 billion in a government agency on a whim.
Better a hundred people at a billion each than zero for free.
With the severely limited number of people with known immunity to HIV, and the pain of removing bone marrow, I'm wondering if more than a mere handful of people can be treated via this method.
Being serious here, I don't understand your logic, I don't understand your argument, and I'm having some difficulty understanding your conclusion. I can't tell which part I might agree with you on, and which part I disagree with you on. Please rewrite your contentions.
Madison et al would disagree.
As no one was arguing otherwise, I'm not sure I'm the one suffering a logic failure...HAL.
I think the primary flaw in your thinking is that you are seeing the results of government intervention (well over 50% of healthcare spending is from/through the government, and it is heavily heavily regulated), and instead of understanding that the chaos and dysfunction is a result of government intervention, your conclusion is that more intervention is needed. This is how the snowball got started, and it's still rolling along, crushing anything in its path.
There is an amendment process, if one dislikes the Constitution in its current state. One may either work through the amendment process to change the Constitution so that it is more to their liking, or they may move to those "other developed countries" that one believes to be superior to the US. People regularly move among the several States for these reasons, one can certainly move to another country for the same. Assuming, of course, the country is willing to admit you.
Huh? Since when it it a Constitutionally delegated power of the Executive branch to "make sure" that Americans are "able to stay healthy," while also meddling in their finances?
You're also a whiner, or else you'd have done some research and come up with rebuttals, instead of flaming and showing everyone how mature you are by adding to Nixonian enemies list. And if you're not a liberal, you're possibly confused on what liberalism is.
Thanks for that. Intolerant illiberal liberals always help out with our nefarious, right-wing PR conspiracy.
I iz are conservatuv. Er-got, I is r stoopid &an brainwooshed.
I believe Carl Menger, 1840-1921, was the first economist to blow it apart, well before anyone had taken any serious note of it as a threat to humanity.
Ask the IRS. Clearly, they do distinguish between paid and volunteer work.
I thought this was probably the case for qualified organizations, but what I was indirectly getting at was I don't think out of pocket expenses for volunteer work, for any any organization, is tax deductible. From the general description of what a qualified organization might be, an OSS project may or may not be for educational and scientific purposes. In any case, it hinges upon whether it has IRS approval or not to be a qualified organization for purposes of tax deductibility of out of pocket expenses incurred in the service of the OSS project.
I'm not against tax write-offs, and avoiding taxes any way possible, but I'm not aware of any component of the tax code that authorizes individual write-offs for voluntary, non-profit activities. Also, the fact that you are using a CPA for tax prep, and suggesting that others do so as well, scares me. CPAs are not for tax preparation. You have a question about the tax code, you ask a tax lawyer, not a CPA. CPAs are accountants.
I agree that natural order is good enough for us, but you do have a problem when corporatist economics is mislabeled as capitalism. I've seen otherwise intelligent people's brains shut-off when it comes to the current situation, and they mindlessly blame "capitalism" for it. If they are thinking of free-market capitalism, not Statist capitalism, they are horrifically confused, and have probably never looked into the actual framework of the current US economy.
O rlly?
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWM0MjZmZTQzMmM5ODFhNTY5MjQxOTQxMzNlOWQ3MzQ=
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/11/gore-admits-financial-reasons-advancing-global-warming-hysteria
K, so Gore isn't a billionaire, but the fact that proponents of Leviathan are quick to use government to pad their own wallets should surprise no one who has studied the true robber barons of the 19th century, the political entrepreneurs, or has been paying attention for the duration of their life-span from the 20th to 21st centuries.
If you're an idealist, as defined by possessing a total lack of logic and common-sense? Marxism was disproved as a theory in the late 19th century, well before the Soviets got their hands bloody. Simply put, communism is unworkable because it cannot perform any economic calculus.
Apparently, someone forgot that the only people attracted to government, with very few exceptions, are already corrupted, as government is nothing more than the naked exercise of coercive power against those outside of government.
It's "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel."
Sorry to insult your intelligence, but not all of us Republicans are backing McCain/Palin.
For some reason the uber-parent failed to mention this, but the TN State legislator is a Democrat. May or may not mean anything, but odd to not mention it, isn't it?
Why are most of the answers about Linux? Do we know the uber-parent is running Linux? No. Should they have specified? Yes. However, as they didn't, each post that attempts to be useful should, at minimum, cover NT, Linux, and OS X.