There's more to life than just Federal taxes. The State, County, and your local municipality all have their own taxes. These taxes impact the working poor much more than the 1%. Things like payroll and sales taxes (aka flat taxes) are regressive
The EITC? It's like you're intentionally missing the point I was trying to make. From the IRS: "Donâ(TM)t miss out if you made, less than $51,567" I reiterate: More people would pay income taxes if they had income to tax. Making so little money that you don't owe income taxes is not the American dream.
3 & 4 & your concluding remark: If Warren Buffet pays a lower percentage tax rate than his secretary, I don't see how you can honestly claim taxes are progressive.
When you adjust for inflation, the top tax rates are at historical lows. That's before factoring in the tax avoidance strategies utilized by the 1%. Everything you've shown merely highlights the very narrow lens you're using to look at the situation.
You know when the top effective tax rate peaked? During the Clinton years. And we had a budget surplus.
I would LOVE to see the data that backs that claim, because what I see is that the top 1% have consistently paid a MUCH higher income tax rate than their share of income would dictate.
There are several things going wrong with this sentence:
1. Income taxes aren't the only taxes paid. 2. More people would pay income taxes if they had income to tax. 3. The growth in income could not be described as even slightly balanced. 4. Accumulated income turns into wealth, which can generate more income.
I won't even get started on the additional "taxes" that come with poverty. Books have been written on the subject.
How is that considered undertaxed?
Look up "progressive taxation" It's a concept that even those communist liberals "the Founding Fathers" advocated.
By the way, taxing the rich won't cut it -- taxing 100% of the rich's income would gain you an additional $500 billion a year (assuming they continue to work for free, good luck with that and keeping their salaries pointlessly high). This is still hundreds of billions a year short.
The richest have been undertaxed for decades. So you're right, taxing them at 100% won't fix the problem, because it was a problem decades in the making.
These types of budget problems cannot be fixed overnight, they require long term planning and gradual change. Oh, and they require higher taxes.
And no, even if you got some sort of explicit ToS waiver from the original purchaser of the car, that doesn't extend to any used car buyer.
Now they're going to update all the onboard systems to display an "accept ToS" screen on every start up. Thanks msauve. You've made the world a slightly more aggravating place.
It seems far fetched someone would go through all of the trouble to deploy such a solution and yet select a key with insufficient entropy to protect the system from any remotely feasible brute force attack.
15 years ago, there were people saying the exact same thing about [other encryption technology]. Never underestimate the ability of the technically incompetent to kludge something into semi-working order, while simultaneously botching all the important steps.
RTFA. The people suing haven't asked for the records to be preserved. If/when that happens, then the court will revisit the issue.
I'm guessing that the "American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Senator Rand Paul, and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles" aren't collectively so stupid that they overlooked a small detail like asking for the preservation of evidence.
The telecom companies raise prices, pocket the money and let their service rot, and the customers just keep shoveling cash at them.
New codecs were developed for 3G service and *supposedly mobile calling has gotten better.
The GSM codec is AMR-WB and the CDMA codec is called EVRC-NW. Some networks aren't going to switch over until LTE (aka real 4G) is fully deployed and it requires both ends of the call to support the codec.
YMMV
*depending on whether or not it's been enabled in your area/on your provider.
Why send the oil all the way to the gulf, when the refineries there might have to shut down at times due to hurricanes (more likely due to global warming these days) and then ship it back north as refined product.
What makes you think they want to ship it back north as a refined product? The point of getting oil to the gulf is that the refined byproducts can easily be put on a boat to China.
Gas & Oil in the midwest is already cheaper than the national average, because they don't have any pipelines to move it somewhere with a higher profit margin.
We don't need no stinking CA tar sand oil.
Not only do the Chinese want it, they'll pay more for it than we will. This isn't about the domestic priorities of the USA, it's about multinational oil companies trying to figure out where their next few decades of profits will come from.
If you REALLY want to see the price of gas lowered, there is a simple way to do this. Do a compromise on keystone, where it is approved, and then 2 limited time subsidies are created for electric cars, and the other for nat. gas commercial vehicles.
Uhh... the simplest way to see the price of gas lowered is to allow KeystoneXL,
with the caveat that the refined petroleum products stay in the USA.
But that's impossible, because the people surrounding Keystone have already publicly said "no" because the entire point is to move Canadian and American oil to the Gulf Coast, where it can be refined and sold to China.
The global market for oil is literally controlled by a cartel. It is not and will never be competitive.
I think you're confusing "reducing competition" and "increasing supply." The ban doesn't reduce competition, it just changes the boundaries of the market. Otherwise you might as well be saying that the USA's export ban on weapons to Syria, Iran, and North Korea "reduces competition."
what? a suit like that and only able to lift 50Kg per hand?
Strength, versatility, low cost. Pick 2.
Requiring the hardware to conform to a human range of motion imposes serious constraints on what the designers can do. If the arms only have to move in the Y-axis, they could be engineered to lift much heavier loads.
This is especially problematic given that there is a finite supply of Bitcoins; no central authority can come in and save your Bitcoin "bank" if it is robbed, whereas if my local Wells Fargo down the street is robbed, the FDIC insures my deposits to the tune of $250,000
The FDIC has a finite supply of dollars with which to cover deposits. The FDIC is a federally chartered independent corporation. Their insurance fund is built up by fees levied on bank deposits. This fee increases if a bank has risk factors that make it more likely to default. All told, the FDIC is only required to hold a bit more than 1% cash to cover all insured deposits.
In 2009 the FDIC was almost insolvent and had to take an emergency fee from insured banks.
(which also comes in handy in case the bank fails entirely, which is an extremely rare occurrence.)
The financial crisis put a lot of banks into FDIC receivership. I guess these crisis are "extremely rare," but when it rains, it pours.
Lithium Ion batteries lose a fixed amount of capacity every year, regardless of usage. The only way to slow this process is refrigeration, which slows the chemical reaction that reduces capacity.
In comparison, a lithium-ion battery typically starts out with a storage capacity of 200 mAh/g but maintains it for the life of the battery, Pyun says."
This is also a complete lie. AFAIK, all batteries have a certain rate of self-discharge. Lithium ion self-discharges at about 2%~3% per year, unless you keep it refrigerated.
'CarPlay makes driving directions more intuitive by working with Maps to anticipate destinations based on recent trips via contacts, emails or texts, and provides routing instructions, traffic conditions and ETA. You can also simply ask Siri and receive spoken turn-by-turn directions, along with Maps, which will appear on your carâ(TM)s built-in display.'
I'm not interested in trading privacy for a gimmick.
Amazon sells Bibles, Korans, the Satanic Bible, books by Whitley Streiber (the alien abduction guy), probably every kooky fad diet book, Various works by Dawkins, and on and on. What does that make them?
How to make a homeopathic Bible:
1. Shred one Bible into pulp, 2. Mix the Bible pulp into pulp for another 100 books (10X or 1C on the homeopathic scale) 3. Sell 100 blank books made from diluted Bible pulp
And the publisher would tell you that the homeopathic Bible was 100 times (10X or 1C) as good to read as the original Bible.
You tell them no but from behind you the informant yells "come right in."
Is that legal? Who knows.. now someone has to take it to court.
The answer to this is obviously "no." A guest in your home has no legal standing to consent to a search of your property. This applies to strangers off the street, your Aunt Betsy, and anyone else who doesn't live there. The legal phrases you want to read up on are "common authority" and "exclusive access"
Even if your buddy Henry is staying in your home for the weekend, you couldn't give the police permission to search his belongings, because you don't have common authority over his belongings.
If there was a religion that sacrificed small children by the light of a half moon, would the fact that it's illegal be a violation of the 1st Amendment?
Well shit, let's start that religion in Arizona and see what happens.
Either it's declared illegal and this law is gone... Or it's declared legal and in a few generations there won't be anyone left in Arizona to discriminate against gay people.
Should a Black Photographer be forced to take pictures at a wedding of two outspoken White Supremacists? At a Klan rally?
Should a Jewish deli owner be forced to cater an openly anti-Semitic Muslim...or an avowed Nazi?
Should a Muslim waiter be forced to server pork ribs? Or, Jewish for that matter. How about a vegan?
Should a *Christian plumber be forced to fix toilets in the homes of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Wiccans, or Athiests? Fuck, what if it's a Catholic household?
Or maybe the answer to your and my hypothetical questions is "Yes, if it's safe. That's what it means to own a business or be employed by one."
*Obviously in the USA "Christian" means "Protestants"
You can get a religious ceremony performed if you want, but that is neither sufficient nor necessary to be considered married (my grandmother "married" her third "husband" in a religious but non-legal ceremony to assuage her guilt at "living in sin" without overly complicating her inheritance; the ceremony was lovely but had no secular recognition).
Well.. about that. Depending on which State your grandmother lived in, she might have actually gotten herself officially married under common law.
Currently, the only States that allow common law marriage are: Alabama, Colorado, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Iowa, Montana, Utah and Texas (and the District of Columbia)
Some States used to recognize common law marriages, but have since passed laws banning the practice. That said, all States will recognize a common law marriage if it met [legal criteria] in the state it was performed in at the time.
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There's more to life than just Federal taxes.
The State, County, and your local municipality all have their own taxes.
These taxes impact the working poor much more than the 1%.
Things like payroll and sales taxes (aka flat taxes) are regressive
The EITC? It's like you're intentionally missing the point I was trying to make.
From the IRS: "Donâ(TM)t miss out if you made, less than $51,567"
I reiterate: More people would pay income taxes if they had income to tax.
Making so little money that you don't owe income taxes is not the American dream.
3 & 4 & your concluding remark: If Warren Buffet pays a lower percentage tax rate than his secretary,
I don't see how you can honestly claim taxes are progressive.
When you adjust for inflation, the top tax rates are at historical lows.
That's before factoring in the tax avoidance strategies utilized by the 1%.
Everything you've shown merely highlights the very narrow lens you're using to look at the situation.
You know when the top effective tax rate peaked?
During the Clinton years. And we had a budget surplus.
I would LOVE to see the data that backs that claim, because what I see is that the top 1% have consistently paid a MUCH higher income tax rate than their share of income would dictate.
There are several things going wrong with this sentence:
1. Income taxes aren't the only taxes paid.
2. More people would pay income taxes if they had income to tax.
3. The growth in income could not be described as even slightly balanced.
4. Accumulated income turns into wealth, which can generate more income.
I won't even get started on the additional "taxes" that come with poverty.
Books have been written on the subject.
How is that considered undertaxed?
Look up "progressive taxation"
It's a concept that even those communist liberals "the Founding Fathers" advocated.
Sell drugs.
Everyone knows the real money is in Girl Scout Cookies.
Those things are like crack, except your grandmother would buy 'em for you.
By the way, taxing the rich won't cut it -- taxing 100% of the rich's income would gain you an additional $500 billion a year (assuming they continue to work for free, good luck with that and keeping their salaries pointlessly high). This is still hundreds of billions a year short.
The richest have been undertaxed for decades.
So you're right, taxing them at 100% won't fix the problem, because it was a problem decades in the making.
These types of budget problems cannot be fixed overnight, they require long term planning and gradual change.
Oh, and they require higher taxes.
And no, even if you got some sort of explicit ToS waiver from the original purchaser of the car, that doesn't extend to any used car buyer.
Now they're going to update all the onboard systems to display an "accept ToS" screen on every start up.
Thanks msauve. You've made the world a slightly more aggravating place.
Is OpenDNS still doing re-directions and other weird stuff?
I haven't thought about them since the mess with google redirects in 2007 or 2008.
It seems far fetched someone would go through all of the trouble to deploy such a solution and yet select a key with insufficient entropy to protect the system from any remotely feasible brute force attack.
15 years ago, there were people saying the exact same thing about [other encryption technology].
Never underestimate the ability of the technically incompetent to kludge something into semi-working order, while simultaneously botching all the important steps.
they want to destroy the evidence.
RTFA.
The people suing haven't asked for the records to be preserved.
If/when that happens, then the court will revisit the issue.
I'm guessing that the "American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Senator Rand Paul, and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles" aren't collectively so stupid that they overlooked a small detail like asking for the preservation of evidence.
Nuclear decay is how things were done before wind turbines and solar panels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
Personally, I'd love to see Stirling radioisotope generators put into real world use.
The telecom companies raise prices, pocket the money and let their service rot, and the customers just keep shoveling cash at them.
New codecs were developed for 3G service and *supposedly mobile calling has gotten better.
The GSM codec is AMR-WB and the CDMA codec is called EVRC-NW.
Some networks aren't going to switch over until LTE (aka real 4G) is fully deployed and it requires both ends of the call to support the codec.
YMMV
*depending on whether or not it's been enabled in your area/on your provider.
Why send the oil all the way to the gulf, when the refineries there might have to shut down at times due to hurricanes (more likely due to global warming these days) and then ship it back north as refined product.
What makes you think they want to ship it back north as a refined product?
The point of getting oil to the gulf is that the refined byproducts can easily be put on a boat to China.
Gas & Oil in the midwest is already cheaper than the national average, because they don't have any pipelines to move it somewhere with a higher profit margin.
We don't need no stinking CA tar sand oil.
Not only do the Chinese want it, they'll pay more for it than we will.
This isn't about the domestic priorities of the USA, it's about multinational oil companies trying to figure out where their next few decades of profits will come from.
If you REALLY want to see the price of gas lowered, there is a simple way to do this.
Do a compromise on keystone, where it is approved, and then 2 limited time subsidies are created for electric cars, and the other for nat. gas commercial vehicles.
Uhh... the simplest way to see the price of gas lowered is to allow KeystoneXL,
with the caveat that the refined petroleum products stay in the USA.
But that's impossible, because the people surrounding Keystone have already publicly said "no"
because the entire point is to move Canadian and American oil to the Gulf Coast,
where it can be refined and sold to China.
it stays because it reduces competition.
The global market for oil is literally controlled by a cartel.
It is not and will never be competitive.
I think you're confusing "reducing competition" and "increasing supply."
The ban doesn't reduce competition, it just changes the boundaries of the market.
Otherwise you might as well be saying that the USA's export ban on weapons to Syria, Iran, and North Korea "reduces competition."
what? a suit like that and only able to lift 50Kg per hand?
Strength, versatility, low cost.
Pick 2.
Requiring the hardware to conform to a human range of motion imposes serious constraints on what the designers can do.
If the arms only have to move in the Y-axis, they could be engineered to lift much heavier loads.
This is especially problematic given that there is a finite supply of Bitcoins; no central authority can come in and save your Bitcoin "bank" if it is robbed, whereas if my local Wells Fargo down the street is robbed, the FDIC insures my deposits to the tune of $250,000
The FDIC has a finite supply of dollars with which to cover deposits.
The FDIC is a federally chartered independent corporation.
Their insurance fund is built up by fees levied on bank deposits.
This fee increases if a bank has risk factors that make it more likely to default.
All told, the FDIC is only required to hold a bit more than 1% cash to cover all insured deposits.
In 2009 the FDIC was almost insolvent and had to take an emergency fee from insured banks.
(which also comes in handy in case the bank fails entirely, which is an extremely rare occurrence.)
The financial crisis put a lot of banks into FDIC receivership.
I guess these crisis are "extremely rare," but when it rains, it pours.
Is this conducted via some common firmware exploit, or dumb users leaving default admin password in place?
FTFS: The attack highlights the flaws in router firmware
I'll admit, I'm a weirdo.
I read more than the headline before I comment.
I misspoke by using the words "self discharge."
Lithium Ion batteries lose a fixed amount of capacity every year, regardless of usage.
The only way to slow this process is refrigeration, which slows the chemical reaction that reduces capacity.
Even howstuffworks mentions it.
In comparison, a lithium-ion battery typically starts out with a storage capacity of 200 mAh/g but maintains it for the life of the battery, Pyun says."
This is also a complete lie.
AFAIK, all batteries have a certain rate of self-discharge.
Lithium ion self-discharges at about 2%~3% per year, unless you keep it refrigerated.
I wouldn't buy this at all
'CarPlay makes driving directions more intuitive by working with Maps to anticipate destinations based on recent trips via contacts, emails or texts, and provides routing instructions, traffic conditions and ETA. You can also simply ask Siri and receive spoken turn-by-turn directions, along with Maps, which will appear on your carâ(TM)s built-in display.'
I'm not interested in trading privacy for a gimmick.
Amazon sells Bibles, Korans, the Satanic Bible, books by Whitley Streiber (the alien abduction guy), probably every kooky fad diet book, Various works by Dawkins, and on and on. What does that make them?
How to make a homeopathic Bible:
1. Shred one Bible into pulp,
2. Mix the Bible pulp into pulp for another 100 books (10X or 1C on the homeopathic scale)
3. Sell 100 blank books made from diluted Bible pulp
And the publisher would tell you that the homeopathic Bible was 100 times (10X or 1C) as good to read as the original Bible.
And as soon as someone dares to sell oil for anything but USDs, it will become obvious.
Iran has its own oil market that sells for everything *except* USD.
It's been open since 2008.
You tell them no but from behind you the informant yells "come right in."
Is that legal? Who knows.. now someone has to take it to court.
The answer to this is obviously "no."
A guest in your home has no legal standing to consent to a search of your property.
This applies to strangers off the street, your Aunt Betsy, and anyone else who doesn't live there.
The legal phrases you want to read up on are "common authority" and "exclusive access"
Even if your buddy Henry is staying in your home for the weekend,
you couldn't give the police permission to search his belongings,
because you don't have common authority over his belongings.
If there was a religion that sacrificed small children by the light of a half moon, would the fact that it's illegal be a violation of the 1st Amendment?
Well shit, let's start that religion in Arizona and see what happens.
Either it's declared illegal and this law is gone...
Or it's declared legal and in a few generations there won't be anyone left in Arizona to discriminate against gay people.
Should a Black Photographer be forced to take pictures at a wedding of two outspoken White Supremacists? At a Klan rally?
Should a Jewish deli owner be forced to cater an openly anti-Semitic Muslim...or an avowed Nazi?
Should a Muslim waiter be forced to server pork ribs? Or, Jewish for that matter. How about a vegan?
Should a *Christian plumber be forced to fix toilets in the homes of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Wiccans, or Athiests?
Fuck, what if it's a Catholic household?
Or maybe the answer to your and my hypothetical questions is "Yes, if it's safe. That's what it means to own a business or be employed by one."
*Obviously in the USA "Christian" means "Protestants"
You can get a religious ceremony performed if you want, but that is neither sufficient nor necessary to be considered married (my grandmother "married" her third "husband" in a religious but non-legal ceremony to assuage her guilt at "living in sin" without overly complicating her inheritance; the ceremony was lovely but had no secular recognition).
Well.. about that.
Depending on which State your grandmother lived in, she might have actually gotten herself officially married under common law.
Currently, the only States that allow common law marriage are:
Alabama, Colorado, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Iowa, Montana, Utah and Texas (and the District of Columbia)
Some States used to recognize common law marriages, but have since passed laws banning the practice.
That said, all States will recognize a common law marriage if it met [legal criteria] in the state it was performed in at the time.