The 16th amendment simply provides for basic authorization of tax collection.
The 16th Amendment says that "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes...". The courts have ruled that "lay and collect" includes the authority to audit, and to demand financial records without prior evidence, probable cause, or even a warrant.
These laws, just like any other, must comply with all the other amendments - 4th included.
That may indeed be true in your fantasy alternative libertarian utopia universe.
If you are audited, just demand to see a warrant. The come back and let us know how that worked out for you.
China produces 3.5 times the carbon emissions of the USA. That's the only stat that matters.
No, that stat doesn't matter at all. Political boundaries don't matter to CO2. If China split up so that each province was independent, would you consider carbon emissions "solved" because each is emitting less that the previous union?
In U.S. law, "no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and...
In U.S. law, early amendments to the constitution can be overridden by later amendments. The 16th Amendment authorizes the federal government to collect income tax, and there is no way to do that without sticking its nose into every nook and cranny of everyone's financial affairs.
You may still have your 4th amendment rights in other areas, but not for anything to do with money. 99% of the people are okay with that. If you are not, then you can join the 1% that vote Libertarian. Good luck.
On a per-capita basis, America burns more coal than China.
America gets about 39% of its electricity from coal, while China gets about 75% from coal. But Americans use more than twice as much electricity per-capita.
We want those awesome jobs manufacturing phones for a dollar an hour at 80 hours a week!
Most iPhones are made in Shenzhen where a typical factor wage is about $3/hr. Since prices are lower in China for most things, that is the purchasing power of $6-$8, or not much less than a fast food worker might make in America. Average hours in Foxconn factories is 45 hours per week. When asked about working conditions, Foxconn employees biggest complaint was that they wanted to work longer hours, to build up their savings faster.
They didn't admit it. If you follow the links in TFA, you can see that the pollution figures come from measurements taken at the US Embassy in Beijing.
The problem with selling your organs when you die is that you will now have strong incentives to kill yourself if your family needs the money.
You are assuming that organ prices would be high. But it is more likely that with incentives, the market will be flooded with donors. Once I am dead, I would be happy if my family can get a few thousand for my heart, kidneys, or whatever. That is certainly not enough to be worthing killing myself for.
Another option would be a much smaller payment at the time you donate. So when you get your driver's license, you get a $20 discount on the fee if you tick the donate box.
The fact is in an ER you don't necessarily get the opportunity to have a 2nd opinion about you being pronounced legally dead.
If you are that far gone, you are likely better off dead anyway. It is a common scene in movies for the hero to flat-line, be revived with CPR and/or defib, and then be running, jumping and doing gymnastics a few minutes later. That is BS. Most people given CPR/defib don't survive or only survive for a few miserable hours or days, and even those that last longer usually have a very poor quality of life. They often are confined to bed or a wheelchair and often suffer brain damage.
People that work in ERs, or once worked there, are the most likely to ask for "Do Not Resuscitate" or DNR orders when they are hospitalized.
Currencies, like other commodities, tend to be more stable when they are more widely traded. Bitcoin is exchanged sparsely, so a single big transaction can affect the price. As it is more widely adopted, it will be more stable.
Well I guess %99 of France is smarter then the %97.4 of the U.S in demanding policies that work for them
Sure, except that the policies aren't working. French unemployment is sky high, productivity is stagnant, and their public debt is unsustainable. So instead of dealing with any of those issues, they vote themselves more bread and circuses.
In all my manager roles (25 years by now) I have never expected anyone working for me to be available 24/7.
Good for you. But it sounds like you are managing a development team, where 24/7 availability makes no sense. If you were managing a team admining customer-facing servers, your situation would be different. We have a few people in that situation, and they were told at the time they were hired that they need to sleep with their cellphone on and the company number whitelisted. If they weren't willing to accept that, they could have declined the job offer. We only needed to call someone twice in the past year, so it is idiotic to say we should just hire extra people to cover a few hours annually.
What these policies are accomplishing is to get the entrepreneurs to leave France for other countries.
I live in San Jose, California, and I know four French tech entrepreneurs just in my neighborhood. All of them left France with the goal of starting a company here.
Now, you might argue (as many in France do) that quality of life is more important than money.
Having plenty of leisure time is not as important to quality of life as having a job. Unemployment in France is over 10%, twice the American level, and youth employment is over 25%. They are funding their budget deficits by borrowing from the Germans, and that is not sustainable. They are demanding more and more benefits without being able to pay for those they already have.
Oh, and one other thing: California wine is better too.
Note how this only applies to companies over 50 people.
Yup. There are already a lot of French rules that kick in at the "50 employee" threshold, which is why there are so many French companies with 49 employees, and why French companies in general fail to grow. If you look at all the Fortune 500 companies that were founded in the last 30 years, more than half are American. Zero are French.
This isn't about protecting "worker rights". If it were, it would apply to all employers. It is just the typical French desire to punish success. If an American and a Frenchman both see someone drive by in a Mercedes, the American thinks, "Someday, I'll have a car like that". The Frenchman thinks "Someday, I'm going to make that guy get out of his car and walk like everyone else."
In many cases, they won't. If she was slightly older they would have treated her as a criminal rather than a victim.
she was free, but in a mental and emotional sense she was in just as much of a jail as someone behind bars.
It is common to view women, especially young women, as mindless objects incapable of rational thought and certainly incapable of acting in their own best interest. Often the people holding this viewpoint are those most opposed to the legalization and regulation of sex work that is the best hope to improve their lives.
I am not sure if "rescued" is the right word. This girl chose this life because her home life was even worse. She was not being guarded 24/7, and TFA implies that she had a cellphone. She could have "self-rescued" at anytime by just dialing 911. But she didn't. So now she is being forced back into the situation she was trying to escape. All the authorities are congratulating themselves and saying "mission accomplished", while they forget about her and move on to the next damsel in distress.
For my IP address, the site says nothing has been downloaded. I know that is not true because I have two teenagers, and they torrent stuff all the time.
The original crappy study, that TFA debunked, was funded by the National Science Foundation under grant number 1252995. So your tax dollars paid for it.
I am not totally opposed to all research related to gender discrimination, but when researchers publish statistically invalid garbage, they should be banned from future grants.
if farming elephants was practical they'd be doing it already.
There is an elephant farm in Thailand, but those are the wrong kind of elephant. Asian elephants are much easier to tame and handle than African elephants, and also produce much less ivory.
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The 16th amendment simply provides for basic authorization of tax collection.
The 16th Amendment says that "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes ...". The courts have ruled that "lay and collect" includes the authority to audit, and to demand financial records without prior evidence, probable cause, or even a warrant.
These laws, just like any other, must comply with all the other amendments - 4th included.
That may indeed be true in your fantasy alternative libertarian utopia universe.
If you are audited, just demand to see a warrant. The come back and let us know how that worked out for you.
China produces 3.5 times the carbon emissions of the USA. That's the only stat that matters.
No, that stat doesn't matter at all. Political boundaries don't matter to CO2. If China split up so that each province was independent, would you consider carbon emissions "solved" because each is emitting less that the previous union?
In U.S. law, "no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and ...
In U.S. law, early amendments to the constitution can be overridden by later amendments. The 16th Amendment authorizes the federal government to collect income tax, and there is no way to do that without sticking its nose into every nook and cranny of everyone's financial affairs.
You may still have your 4th amendment rights in other areas, but not for anything to do with money. 99% of the people are okay with that. If you are not, then you can join the 1% that vote Libertarian. Good luck.
Coal-fired.
On a per-capita basis, America burns more coal than China.
America gets about 39% of its electricity from coal, while China gets about 75% from coal. But Americans use more than twice as much electricity per-capita.
We want those awesome jobs manufacturing phones for a dollar an hour at 80 hours a week!
Most iPhones are made in Shenzhen where a typical factor wage is about $3/hr. Since prices are lower in China for most things, that is the purchasing power of $6-$8, or not much less than a fast food worker might make in America. Average hours in Foxconn factories is 45 hours per week. When asked about working conditions, Foxconn employees biggest complaint was that they wanted to work longer hours, to build up their savings faster.
They didn't admit it. If you follow the links in TFA, you can see that the pollution figures come from measurements taken at the US Embassy in Beijing.
The problem with selling your organs when you die is that you will now have strong incentives to kill yourself if your family needs the money.
You are assuming that organ prices would be high. But it is more likely that with incentives, the market will be flooded with donors. Once I am dead, I would be happy if my family can get a few thousand for my heart, kidneys, or whatever. That is certainly not enough to be worthing killing myself for.
Another option would be a much smaller payment at the time you donate. So when you get your driver's license, you get a $20 discount on the fee if you tick the donate box.
Disclaimer: I am a donor.
The fact is in an ER you don't necessarily get the opportunity to have a 2nd opinion about you being pronounced legally dead.
If you are that far gone, you are likely better off dead anyway. It is a common scene in movies for the hero to flat-line, be revived with CPR and/or defib, and then be running, jumping and doing gymnastics a few minutes later. That is BS. Most people given CPR/defib don't survive or only survive for a few miserable hours or days, and even those that last longer usually have a very poor quality of life. They often are confined to bed or a wheelchair and often suffer brain damage.
People that work in ERs, or once worked there, are the most likely to ask for "Do Not Resuscitate" or DNR orders when they are hospitalized.
Moore's Law isn't about performance, it's about economy.
Actually, it is about density.
Currencies, like other commodities, tend to be more stable when they are more widely traded. Bitcoin is exchanged sparsely, so a single big transaction can affect the price. As it is more widely adopted, it will be more stable.
We just elected Trump, a populist egomaniac with no experience and ambiguous, often contradicting policy agendas.
... and Marine Le Pen is leading the the French presidential polls.
Well I guess %99 of France is smarter then the %97.4 of the U.S in demanding policies that work for them
Sure, except that the policies aren't working. French unemployment is sky high, productivity is stagnant, and their public debt is unsustainable. So instead of dealing with any of those issues, they vote themselves more bread and circuses.
In all my manager roles (25 years by now) I have never expected anyone working for me to be available 24/7.
Good for you. But it sounds like you are managing a development team, where 24/7 availability makes no sense. If you were managing a team admining customer-facing servers, your situation would be different. We have a few people in that situation, and they were told at the time they were hired that they need to sleep with their cellphone on and the company number whitelisted. If they weren't willing to accept that, they could have declined the job offer. We only needed to call someone twice in the past year, so it is idiotic to say we should just hire extra people to cover a few hours annually.
What these policies are accomplishing is to get the entrepreneurs to leave France for other countries.
I live in San Jose, California, and I know four French tech entrepreneurs just in my neighborhood. All of them left France with the goal of starting a company here.
Now, you might argue (as many in France do) that quality of life is more important than money.
Having plenty of leisure time is not as important to quality of life as having a job. Unemployment in France is over 10%, twice the American level, and youth employment is over 25%. They are funding their budget deficits by borrowing from the Germans, and that is not sustainable. They are demanding more and more benefits without being able to pay for those they already have.
Oh, and one other thing: California wine is better too.
Note how this only applies to companies over 50 people.
Yup. There are already a lot of French rules that kick in at the "50 employee" threshold, which is why there are so many French companies with 49 employees, and why French companies in general fail to grow. If you look at all the Fortune 500 companies that were founded in the last 30 years, more than half are American. Zero are French.
This isn't about protecting "worker rights". If it were, it would apply to all employers. It is just the typical French desire to punish success. If an American and a Frenchman both see someone drive by in a Mercedes, the American thinks, "Someday, I'll have a car like that". The Frenchman thinks "Someday, I'm going to make that guy get out of his car and walk like everyone else."
You teach her that the cops wont help
In many cases, they won't. If she was slightly older they would have treated her as a criminal rather than a victim.
she was free, but in a mental and emotional sense she was in just as much of a jail as someone behind bars.
It is common to view women, especially young women, as mindless objects incapable of rational thought and certainly incapable of acting in their own best interest. Often the people holding this viewpoint are those most opposed to the legalization and regulation of sex work that is the best hope to improve their lives.
I'm glad the girl got rescued
I am not sure if "rescued" is the right word. This girl chose this life because her home life was even worse. She was not being guarded 24/7, and TFA implies that she had a cellphone. She could have "self-rescued" at anytime by just dialing 911. But she didn't. So now she is being forced back into the situation she was trying to escape. All the authorities are congratulating themselves and saying "mission accomplished", while they forget about her and move on to the next damsel in distress.
what part of the study is statistically invalid garbage?
The conclusions.
Maybe they use private trackers or a vpn?
They are not that smart.
For my IP address, the site says nothing has been downloaded. I know that is not true because I have two teenagers, and they torrent stuff all the time.
Why are these studies even being funded?
The original crappy study, that TFA debunked, was funded by the National Science Foundation under grant number 1252995. So your tax dollars paid for it.
I am not totally opposed to all research related to gender discrimination, but when researchers publish statistically invalid garbage, they should be banned from future grants.
Too many people have this idea that it will lead to widespread organ theft
That doesn't make sense. A legal market for organs would depress prices and reduce the incentives for organ theft.
When it turns out the horn is cut off, they shoot it so they don't waste the time of stalking it again.
If you cut off the horns of all the rhinos, then they won't stalk them in the first place.
So this wasn't news when they hacked into CIA and the White House. But it's news when they broke into DNC?
That's because the DNC had a lot more secrets exposed.
if farming elephants was practical they'd be doing it already.
There is an elephant farm in Thailand, but those are the wrong kind of elephant. Asian elephants are much easier to tame and handle than African elephants, and also produce much less ivory.