The contributions are tax-deductible up to 10% of their taxable income. So say if a corp make $1 million in taxable income, they can donate $100 thousand as tax deductible. Any more and they still pay taxes on the amount beyond that.
As for you paying for it? If you don't live in DC, you are not paying for any of it directly, but might be paying part of the re-imbursement that the city spent. (~11 million re-imbursement.
If you live in DC, the remaining 6 million that is not getting re-imbursed has probably been made up by the taxes and revinue generated by having a big ass party with people buying food, housing and snacks that day.
As for your personal contribution to the re-imbursement if you live outside of DC? The top 50% wage earners in the country pay 95% of the taxes (aint progressive taxes grand). So if you were in the lower half of the wage earners, your contribution to this came out to under $1. based on 20mill*5%=1mill, more than 1 mill workers in the lower half, so not even gonna bother getting more accurate than that.
Less than 6 million will be on DCs plate after they are re-imbursed. As for deserving? The DC Council is a bunch of idiots that have driven the city into the ground and severly missmanaged their finances. And it also appears you forgot about the Commander and Chiefs ball that is free to all military when you say "parties for the wealthy".
DC cops? Their gettin OT pay for this. The schools suck but that isn't due to lack of funding by the council. I live and work within spitting distance of DC. Thats how I know this.
I can think of a lot of people that have conversations with god "in their heads". Priests, Cardinals, Bishops, the Pope, everyone I see at mass.... So what is your point exactly here?
How do we know how fast warming occured before? We don't even know how fast the cooling occured. We know the average rate that it occured at, but we don't know the detailed rate it occured at. Comparing 100 years of daily data to 100 million years of millenial data is not a good way to compare.
Personally, I am waiting for it to leave the realm of ridiculous since we have only been directly observing for such a short period of time, and are infering the rest.
As for Vogon ships? Let me know if you see any. I have a "Better off Dead" list that I would like to shorten.
I don't think cancer is a toxin. We may have things that agravate cancer, but I have yet to hear of how cancer is actually caused. Only things that give you a greater risk of cancer.
On the other side, the main reason I have heard about cancer is that we are finally living long enough where cancer is actually getting to enough of the population to bother us. 100 years ago not enough people lived long enough to get cancer muh less for anyone to pay attention to it.
Interesting but a couple things that should be noted. Please have deficit spending inflation adjusted. Carter gave us inflation rates of 15%. His money makes up a lot more than shown there. Also please go back to before carter.
Maybe the judge took the case so he can award the defendant legal fees in the counter suit I hope he is taking up. Yeah... or maybe this Jay guy should sue the spammers for defamation, claiming that falsely claiming the he is defaming them is hurting his public image.
It does not appear the lawsuit has gone to court yet. The law (as far as I know) states that the lawsuit must at least go before a judge before it can be dismissed. Once it goes before the judge, then we can see it thrown out on the first day. Until then, it is in process and no judge has seen it yet.
Please explain this "Hydrogen Dollar". Also, "Nobody at OPEC thinks the well will ever run dry." Does this mean that they think they will never run out of oil?
So tell me what he could have done that clinton couldn't have done. I also see nothing on there that says there was a terror attack iminent or that they planned on doing a suicide crashing of a plane into the world trade center.
As for refusing to release records, EVERY administration has refused to release records.
To add to what you two guys are talking about, I was thinking that there would be 3 ships for the most part. Earth to Earth Orbit, Earth Orbit to Lunar orbit, Lunar Oribt to Lunar Surface. No matter how you do the last, you need a VTOL. For the middle, you something with an engine and it can look like a flying pig for all we care. (nice having no atmosphere, and can be built in orbit).
One thing though about an having a rocket landing, as opposed to a plane landing is that you can bring down a heavier load. I am not worrying about fuel requirements in this case, its just that you have a limit to what a run way and tires can take. The space shtutle tire are replaced after every mission and cost 4K each. That is a high expense.
When Xerox first came out with comercial copiers they were sued almost immediately. They succesfully defended that they had substantial non-infringing uses. As for current difficulties in making copies, it isn't that hard if you cut the bindings and use the double sided auto feeder. Also, currently places like kinkos require you to sign a form when you make collor laser copies of images from books saying you are using it for educational pureposes. That was a dam good copy too that I got when I used their equipment. I highly doubt I could tell the difference without a magnifying glass.
So tell me, should we require knife manufacturers to take resonable steps to make sure knives aren't used in the commision of a crime? Same goes for crowbars, car manufacturers and pretty much any other item you could mention. I can use just about anything to commit a crime. So tell me, if you support this, what objects do you think shouldn't need this requirement?
First, make up your mind if it is $19 a month or a week. I'm going to assume you mean a week here.
The extra $19 a week means that they earn 19/0.124=$153.23 a week. 40 hour week, that comes out to $3.83 an hour. Now lets go with the federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. That comes out to $206 a week. %12.4 of that is $25.54 a week or $51.08 for two people working at minimum wage. 52 weeks a year, $2656.16 a year for two people. So YES that is a lot of money they could do more with and save with.
Every dollar you save is worthless, every dollar extra you pay on your debts is getting HUGE interest.
I know exactly how much my debts are accruing interest at and how much my savings is accruing interest at. Currently my debts are accruing interest at a lower rate than my savings. If that ever changes, I will start paying off my debts quicker.
you want to help people save? protest for federal health care, dential care, and mandarted public transportation. If most people do not have to spend most of their money on their medical needs they would be ableto save much more.
I already don't like this. I see you also think that government involvement in healthcare baloons cost. I agree. Not sure what you mean by the mandate public transportation, I don't have much in this area.
You can invest in relative security because there are layers upon layers of laws that govern securities transactions, punish fraud, and enable contracts to be enforced. Like most conservatives you take the benefits of civilization and government as your divine right, but believe that you owe nothing in return
I pay my earned and unearned income taxes. That is how I "pay" for my security. Social Security gives me the "promise" that I will get some money in return in 50 years. The people that benifit most from social security are the people who pay the least (if any) income taxes.
I could get a better return on my money in private investing and have enough left over to give to a charity to help out those who weren't as lucky. However, the government has decided it will give my money in a wealth redistribution scheme to those who haven't worked for it (wellfare, social security). Therefore, Why should I even give to charity since those people are already being taken care of by the government? If the goverment wasn't helping them out, I would. But since they are, I won't.
Social Security is 12.4% of a persons income when you include the employers contribution. Eliminating Social Security would therefore increase everyones (under 90K) paycheck by 12.4%. You can't tell me that having that extra several grand a year wouldn't help people.
Any chance that the cause and effect is the other way around? Is it possible, just possible, that people act irresponsibly because someone else takes responsibility for them?
-Peter
Hi, I'm Paul. I want my money that accidentally wound up in your wallet that I deserve.
explanation of joke here for people who have never heard it before (Quote#1): http://www.losthorizons.com/gqtaxes.htm
You're assuming that you are on the same longitude as the satelite and directly underneath it. For the USA, it takes almost two seconds to send a signal up and back down at a ~45 degree angle to the satelite. Ping times are somwhere beween 3.75 and 4 seconds.
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The contributions are tax-deductible up to 10% of their taxable income. So say if a corp make $1 million in taxable income, they can donate $100 thousand as tax deductible. Any more and they still pay taxes on the amount beyond that.
As for you paying for it? If you don't live in DC, you are not paying for any of it directly, but might be paying part of the re-imbursement that the city spent. (~11 million re-imbursement.
If you live in DC, the remaining 6 million that is not getting re-imbursed has probably been made up by the taxes and revinue generated by having a big ass party with people buying food, housing and snacks that day.
As for your personal contribution to the re-imbursement if you live outside of DC? The top 50% wage earners in the country pay 95% of the taxes (aint progressive taxes grand). So if you were in the lower half of the wage earners, your contribution to this came out to under $1. based on 20mill*5%=1mill, more than 1 mill workers in the lower half, so not even gonna bother getting more accurate than that.
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Less than 6 million will be on DCs plate after they are re-imbursed. As for deserving? The DC Council is a bunch of idiots that have driven the city into the ground and severly missmanaged their finances. And it also appears you forgot about the Commander and Chiefs ball that is free to all military when you say "parties for the wealthy".
DC cops? Their gettin OT pay for this. The schools suck but that isn't due to lack of funding by the council. I live and work within spitting distance of DC. Thats how I know this.
I can think of a lot of people that have conversations with god "in their heads". Priests, Cardinals, Bishops, the Pope, everyone I see at mass.... So what is your point exactly here?
No, Germany and Italy have no right at all. But I'm British.
Now who's the one who agreed to give Hitler the Rhineland, the Sudetenland and waited months after he invaded Poland to declare war?
Kyoto is estimated to prevent the earths warming by 0.04 (no typo) degrees celcius over the next 100 years.
How do we know how fast warming occured before? We don't even know how fast the cooling occured. We know the average rate that it occured at, but we don't know the detailed rate it occured at. Comparing 100 years of daily data to 100 million years of millenial data is not a good way to compare.
Personally, I am waiting for it to leave the realm of ridiculous since we have only been directly observing for such a short period of time, and are infering the rest.
As for Vogon ships? Let me know if you see any. I have a "Better off Dead" list that I would like to shorten.
and it just so happens that no one noticed all those volcanoes erupting
Volcanoes release CO2 all the time. They just release a lot more during an eruption.
As for humans making it worse, I have yet to hear how much the human contribution is vs the natural.
I don't think cancer is a toxin. We may have things that agravate cancer, but I have yet to hear of how cancer is actually caused. Only things that give you a greater risk of cancer.
On the other side, the main reason I have heard about cancer is that we are finally living long enough where cancer is actually getting to enough of the population to bother us. 100 years ago not enough people lived long enough to get cancer muh less for anyone to pay attention to it.
Interesting but a couple things that should be noted. Please have deficit spending inflation adjusted. Carter gave us inflation rates of 15%. His money makes up a lot more than shown there. Also please go back to before carter.
Does this mean that Intel will be releasing GNU/Linux drivers for their wireless chipsets (among other things)?
Maybe the judge took the case so he can award the defendant legal fees in the counter suit I hope he is taking up. Yeah... or maybe this Jay guy should sue the spammers for defamation, claiming that falsely claiming the he is defaming them is hurting his public image.
It does not appear the lawsuit has gone to court yet. The law (as far as I know) states that the lawsuit must at least go before a judge before it can be dismissed. Once it goes before the judge, then we can see it thrown out on the first day. Until then, it is in process and no judge has seen it yet.
And if we started colonizing other planets/space we could mitigate this problem.
Please explain this "Hydrogen Dollar". Also, "Nobody at OPEC thinks the well will ever run dry." Does this mean that they think they will never run out of oil?
So tell me what he could have done that clinton couldn't have done. I also see nothing on there that says there was a terror attack iminent or that they planned on doing a suicide crashing of a plane into the world trade center.
As for refusing to release records, EVERY administration has refused to release records.
To add to what you two guys are talking about, I was thinking that there would be 3 ships for the most part. Earth to Earth Orbit, Earth Orbit to Lunar orbit, Lunar Oribt to Lunar Surface. No matter how you do the last, you need a VTOL. For the middle, you something with an engine and it can look like a flying pig for all we care. (nice having no atmosphere, and can be built in orbit).
One thing though about an having a rocket landing, as opposed to a plane landing is that you can bring down a heavier load. I am not worrying about fuel requirements in this case, its just that you have a limit to what a run way and tires can take. The space shtutle tire are replaced after every mission and cost 4K each. That is a high expense.
When Xerox first came out with comercial copiers they were sued almost immediately. They succesfully defended that they had substantial non-infringing uses. As for current difficulties in making copies, it isn't that hard if you cut the bindings and use the double sided auto feeder. Also, currently places like kinkos require you to sign a form when you make collor laser copies of images from books saying you are using it for educational pureposes. That was a dam good copy too that I got when I used their equipment. I highly doubt I could tell the difference without a magnifying glass.
So tell me, should we require knife manufacturers to take resonable steps to make sure knives aren't used in the commision of a crime? Same goes for crowbars, car manufacturers and pretty much any other item you could mention. I can use just about anything to commit a crime. So tell me, if you support this, what objects do you think shouldn't need this requirement?
First, make up your mind if it is $19 a month or a week. I'm going to assume you mean a week here. The extra $19 a week means that they earn 19/0.124=$153.23 a week. 40 hour week, that comes out to $3.83 an hour. Now lets go with the federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. That comes out to $206 a week. %12.4 of that is $25.54 a week or $51.08 for two people working at minimum wage. 52 weeks a year, $2656.16 a year for two people. So YES that is a lot of money they could do more with and save with.
Every dollar you save is worthless, every dollar extra you pay on your debts is getting HUGE interest.
I know exactly how much my debts are accruing interest at and how much my savings is accruing interest at. Currently my debts are accruing interest at a lower rate than my savings. If that ever changes, I will start paying off my debts quicker.
you want to help people save? protest for federal health care, dential care, and mandarted public transportation. If most people do not have to spend most of their money on their medical needs they would be ableto save much more.
I already don't like this. I see you also think that government involvement in healthcare baloons cost. I agree. Not sure what you mean by the mandate public transportation, I don't have much in this area.
That 12.5 % is what I payed in social security, the 20% in income tax is what I payed to maintain the system.
You can invest in relative security because there are layers upon layers of laws that govern securities transactions, punish fraud, and enable contracts to be enforced. Like most conservatives you take the benefits of civilization and government as your divine right, but believe that you owe nothing in return
I pay my earned and unearned income taxes. That is how I "pay" for my security. Social Security gives me the "promise" that I will get some money in return in 50 years. The people that benifit most from social security are the people who pay the least (if any) income taxes.
I could get a better return on my money in private investing and have enough left over to give to a charity to help out those who weren't as lucky. However, the government has decided it will give my money in a wealth redistribution scheme to those who haven't worked for it (wellfare, social security). Therefore, Why should I even give to charity since those people are already being taken care of by the government? If the goverment wasn't helping them out, I would. But since they are, I won't.
Social Security is 12.4% of a persons income when you include the employers contribution. Eliminating Social Security would therefore increase everyones (under 90K) paycheck by 12.4%. You can't tell me that having that extra several grand a year wouldn't help people.
Any chance that the cause and effect is the other way around? Is it possible, just possible, that people act irresponsibly because someone else takes responsibility for them? -Peter
Hi, I'm Paul. I want my money that accidentally wound up in your wallet that I deserve.
explanation of joke here for people who have never heard it before (Quote#1): http://www.losthorizons.com/gqtaxes.htm
You're assuming that you are on the same longitude as the satelite and directly underneath it. For the USA, it takes almost two seconds to send a signal up and back down at a ~45 degree angle to the satelite. Ping times are somwhere beween 3.75 and 4 seconds.
She was seen on a date, BY one of her students. There is no typo. This is honestly what I was told.