No, I mean encourage. They passed legislation that encouraged lending to minorities; despite their lower credit scores. Along with repealing/rewriting legislation that should have stayed in place.
Bullcrap. The legislation was to stop red-lining, or denying people's loans because they lived in a specific area without even bothering to analyze them on their own credit-worthiness.
Way to go listening to the hannity echo-chamber.
You mean a different crater than the one it's in now? I figure the sales tax system would help encourage evenness - we won't shoot quite as high, but we won't bottom out like this either.
encourage evenness? did you even look at the analysis I linked? Sales taxes are tilted stupidly toward the lower and middle class while the rich, who spend much smaller portions of their income, get off scott free.
When there's only a very few things charged tariffs/import duties. This would change.
And then you have a new department to replace the department of revenue, equally invasive, equally complicated, and this time it prevents the flow of the mail in addition to the contractionist policy which has people refusing to spend money.
The behavior of "cutting the fat" is persistent in any business worth it's salt. It just so happens that this behavior is synchronized, and expanded, in weaker economies.
A person desiring to keep their employment intact, or finding new opportunities, needs to understand three elements of their "business related worth".
Talent - I intuitively know what needs to be done as it relates to my function inside an organization. I rarely need input when it comes to improvising the use of my skillset.
Skill - I have an expansive set of techniques at my disposal. I understand how these techniques can be used in pre-defined situations.
Experience - I have executed multiple plans regarding my function and have the "war stories" to prove it. I am able to accurately predict the pitfalls, possible errant results, and optimal win scenarios for business plans within my function.
Every company on the planet needs people who have different mixes of the above qualities. The big problem is that these three aspects run in a Rock/Paper/Scissors manner. The bigger problem is that the relationships change from company to company. Sometimes experience trumps talent. Other times talent is better than experience.
If you approach these elements of your work history without ego, focus your job search on opportunities that match your mix, and clearly communicate them to prospective employers - you will actually find a better job that makes you happy.
It can be done, don't go into it with a negative attitude.
If you're fresh off the podium with zero experience, nobody will hire you despite putting "college level" or "0-1yr exp" on their job descriptions.
Of course, you can't get experience if nobody will hire you.
I've gotten all the updates for my Wii. They don't delete any homebrew content. I think they disabled a couple things, like programs that allow you to run space shifted Wii games, but they pretty much left all the homebrew completely intact.
Sorry, fair use is fair use. They're remotely disabling stuff on YOUR hardware. In any other circumstance you'd call that vandalism.
Corporations are supposed to be greedy; government is supposed to reign them in a bit. Government policies encouraged that stuff
You mean government lack of policy. The crisis happened because the laws which were put in place to prevent it after the last one were repealed under the reaganite/libertarian montra of "govt intervention = bad"
It involves rebating all US Citizens and legal resident aliens amounts equivalent to the tax on poverty line spending.
The median income isn't at the poverty line. For reference, these are the people who suffer most under the un-fair tax
Ah, and the government gets to determine what "poverty" is. In my state that threshold is defined as 3k/yr. Notice the graph shows only those whose who will never know what a lightbulb is will benefit from the "prebate"
Spend less? You get extra income, spend more? Your effective tax rate goes up as you spend more.
Yay, a federal policy which is fundamentally contractionist! This will certainly keep our economy flying.. straight at the ground and into a colossal crater.
And promptly be taxed at the border?
not going to happen. I've shipped in from overseas thousands of times and been socked with a surcharge only once.
The UK doesnt have massive national debt? Really? Since when?
Now this is intellectually dishonest. Their recent stimulus efforts were making big news on the BBC because it will be the UK's first venture into debt in quite some time.
And yet everyone who lives there has adequate healthcare and the same standard of living without massive national debt.
Code words for everyone has mediocre healthcare and a mediocre standard of living along with massive national debt (and India)!
As opposed to the US where the wealthy get excellent healthcare, the people who don't need health care have access to mediocre healthcare, and the poor and those who actually require healthcare have access to zero healthcare.
I'll take an even mediocre over a skewed "excellent" only for the top 1%
The dental situation has nothing to do with the fact its nationalized and everything to do with the fact they were paid salary and not by the treatment. It's quite possible to pay by the treatment in a nationalized system as well.
The helix towers are also less efficient. And, the higher up you go the more wind there is.
Finally, I like the standard windmills. I think they are a beautiful monument to human ingenuity.
They're also a massive repair bill waiting to happen off the florida coast.
The helix ones don't have to be as efficient, they can be clustered in phalanxes and placed ANYWHERE.. this means they can be included on skyscrapers, placed on the sides of interstates, put in your back yard, on your roof, etc.
(not sure how well they'd do in water, but, if you'll allow me to make an arse out of you and me, i'll assume their resilience in turbulent winds would make them fairly resilient in water with minor modifications)
Hell if planned economies worked, India and the UK would have grown faster than free market places like the US in the 50's and 60's. Actually, despite being poorer, they grew more slowly until they implemented free market reforms.
And yet everyone who lives there has adequate healthcare and the same standard of living without massive national debt.
Go figure!
As for subsidies, the US subsidizes a lot, and the US manufacturing sector has died because of a LACK of subsidies: specifically, the insistence that the government should not be providing healthcare, leaving it to businesses to pick up the slack.
Well, locations where these 'wind farms' are both out of eye sight and ear shot (as they can be quite loud) are rather rare.
But good news, because with the current economic crisis, there are fewer homeowners to do the NIMBY.
I think there was a story last year, where some rich community in Florida managed to get a off-shore wind farm denied because the towers would just be visible on the horizon...
They shouldn't be using huge towers. they should be using the newer helix models. They're more stable in turbulent wind conditions and can be plunked pretty much anywhere.
Kinda makes you wonder if government intervention is really necessary.
We have roughly 4x the population of germany, which means, per capita, we are far behind the rest of the industrialized world in development of renewable energy.
If the disposition described in this article were applied to housing, it would be like declaring the wealth gap had closed because everyone who worked minimum wage pooled their resources and lived 4 families to a single family house.
In other words: our renewable energy production is not up to pace with the rest of the world, which various international organizations say is STILL not enough.
I still haven't wrapped my mind around broadband-connected consoles.
I'll sum it up for you:
"we, the console maker, want to charge you not only for the games, but also monthly, and make your games expire.
We're also not too hot on what happened to the original xbox, so we'll be introducing this online content concept as a trojan horse so we can remotely destroy (as in physically) the memory cells containing any firmware which gets compromised to make sure XBMC never rears its ugly head again.
Please enjoy this token mockery of a multimedia system we've included, and yes you can develop for the platform but good luck actually using the graphics capabilities for which you bought this gaming system. signed in fetal blood by: microsoft, sony, nintendo"
Did you miss the part about eliminating income taxes, making everybody about 25% richer?
Income taxes are currently progressive. this means that under the "fair tax" people will get progressively poorer as you move further and further below the median income.
It also means that I bloody well know how to balance a budget and such.
let me know when balancing your budget involves weighing food vs heat, medication vs gas to get to work. I don't think you quite understand how limited funds are to those below the median income brackets.
As opposed to this one, in which saving was penalized and spending encouraged to the point that most people are more in hock than their income? To the point that we have this economy? Give me the steadyness of people investing in economic infrastructure(stocks, bonds, that stuff).
That has nothing to do with progressive taxes and everything to do with offshoring/h1b-ing and freezing people's wages for upwards of a decade while inflation continued at 3% a year, energy prices sky rocketed, and the price of an average home shot to 12x the median income.
Don't blame the government, blame corporate greed.
esides, look up the fairtax proposals - there's ways to make it progressive.
remove taxes on products below a certain price cap? Mercedes will just sell their cars in small, separate parts, then the "service" of putting it together. Remove taxes on certain classes of products? now you have the government determining what other people can buy AND you are dependent on the government to update these things. Current medicaid income thresholds in my state are 3k/yr
Most states already have a sales tax, how much smuggling is going on? Well, otherwise than illegal drugs? Look at the huge ass cargo containers our shit is hauled in on. They couldn't smuggle that much stuff in. Unlike drugs, consumer goods tend to be bulky.
current sales taxes are not significant enough to outweigh the convenience of immediate receipt of product. Jack it up to "fair tax" levels and you will suddenly see a lot of orders made to online companies offshore and shipped in via normal post.
Are you retarded? Cut taxes and people have more money to spend. Businesses have more money to spend. So, people buy more products which helps business. Businesses have more money from increased sales and lower taxes, so they expand and hire more employees.
someone didn't learn geography.
People who live across the pacific are not americans.
1.45 kg is just slightly too much in my opinion. I love my 701 weighing in at just over 900 grams, I'd prefer a model weighing 1.3 kg or less.
Yeah... cause lugging around the extra weight equivalent of couple of Mars bars is more than anyone should be forced to endure.
at that weight you might as well buy a fully fledged laptop with some real power. Netbooks are experiencing "power-creep" right back into the laptop fold.
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No, I mean encourage. They passed legislation that encouraged lending to minorities; despite their lower credit scores. Along with repealing/rewriting legislation that should have stayed in place.
Bullcrap. The legislation was to stop red-lining, or denying people's loans because they lived in a specific area without even bothering to analyze them on their own credit-worthiness.
Way to go listening to the hannity echo-chamber.
You mean a different crater than the one it's in now? I figure the sales tax system would help encourage evenness - we won't shoot quite as high, but we won't bottom out like this either.
encourage evenness? did you even look at the analysis I linked? Sales taxes are tilted stupidly toward the lower and middle class while the rich, who spend much smaller portions of their income, get off scott free.
When there's only a very few things charged tariffs/import duties. This would change.
And then you have a new department to replace the department of revenue, equally invasive, equally complicated, and this time it prevents the flow of the mail in addition to the contractionist policy which has people refusing to spend money.
The behavior of "cutting the fat" is persistent in any business worth it's salt. It just so happens that this behavior is synchronized, and expanded, in weaker economies.
A person desiring to keep their employment intact, or finding new opportunities, needs to understand three elements of their "business related worth".
Every company on the planet needs people who have different mixes of the above qualities. The big problem is that these three aspects run in a Rock/Paper/Scissors manner. The bigger problem is that the relationships change from company to company. Sometimes experience trumps talent. Other times talent is better than experience.
If you approach these elements of your work history without ego, focus your job search on opportunities that match your mix, and clearly communicate them to prospective employers - you will actually find a better job that makes you happy.
It can be done, don't go into it with a negative attitude.
If you're fresh off the podium with zero experience, nobody will hire you despite putting "college level" or "0-1yr exp" on their job descriptions.
Of course, you can't get experience if nobody will hire you.
Lower skill is lower skill. I never read anywhere about mcdonalds looking for "best of the best" drive-through workers.
ah, my mistake then.
We've known for *decades* that radical hybridization simply don't work.
the jackass is a crossbreed of a donkey and a horse.
It's been around since we had metal tools.
Cat-girls involve humans who have been genetically altered to have these features, not animals who have been spliced with human genes.
By the way, hybrids have been shown to work between plant and fly and plant and worm, among others.
Maybe they're just doing it wrong.
I've gotten all the updates for my Wii. They don't delete any homebrew content. I think they disabled a couple things, like programs that allow you to run space shifted Wii games, but they pretty much left all the homebrew completely intact.
Sorry, fair use is fair use. They're remotely disabling stuff on YOUR hardware. In any other circumstance you'd call that vandalism.
Corporations are supposed to be greedy; government is supposed to reign them in a bit. Government policies encouraged that stuff
You mean government lack of policy. The crisis happened because the laws which were put in place to prevent it after the last one were repealed under the reaganite/libertarian montra of "govt intervention = bad"
It involves rebating all US Citizens and legal resident aliens amounts equivalent to the tax on poverty line spending.
The median income isn't at the poverty line. For reference, these are the people who suffer most under the un-fair tax
Ah, and the government gets to determine what "poverty" is.
In my state that threshold is defined as 3k/yr. Notice the graph shows only those whose who will never know what a lightbulb is will benefit from the "prebate"
Spend less? You get extra income, spend more? Your effective tax rate goes up as you spend more.
Yay, a federal policy which is fundamentally contractionist! This will certainly keep our economy flying.. straight at the ground and into a colossal crater.
And promptly be taxed at the border?
not going to happen. I've shipped in from overseas thousands of times and been socked with a surcharge only once.
That's funny last I checked Indians had terrible health care and in general are ridiculously poor.
And what about the british? Oh wait you conveniently ignore them.
The UK doesnt have massive national debt? Really? Since when?
Now this is intellectually dishonest. Their recent stimulus efforts were making big news on the BBC because it will be the UK's first venture into debt in quite some time.
And yet everyone who lives there has adequate healthcare and the same standard of living without massive national debt.
Code words for everyone has mediocre healthcare and a mediocre standard of living along with massive national debt (and India)!
As opposed to the US where the wealthy get excellent healthcare, the people who don't need health care have access to mediocre healthcare, and the poor and those who actually require healthcare have access to zero healthcare.
I'll take an even mediocre over a skewed "excellent" only for the top 1%
The dental situation has nothing to do with the fact its nationalized and everything to do with the fact they were paid salary and not by the treatment. It's quite possible to pay by the treatment in a nationalized system as well.
The helix towers are also less efficient. And,
the higher up you go the more wind there is.
Finally, I like the standard windmills. I think they are a beautiful monument to human ingenuity.
They're also a massive repair bill waiting to happen off the florida coast.
The helix ones don't have to be as efficient, they can be clustered in phalanxes and placed ANYWHERE.. this means they can be included on skyscrapers, placed on the sides of interstates, put in your back yard, on your roof, etc.
(not sure how well they'd do in water, but, if you'll allow me to make an arse out of you and me, i'll assume their resilience in turbulent winds would make them fairly resilient in water with minor modifications)
Hell if planned economies worked, India and the UK would have grown faster than free market places like the US in the 50's and 60's. Actually, despite being poorer, they grew more slowly until they implemented free market reforms.
And yet everyone who lives there has adequate healthcare and the same standard of living without massive national debt.
Go figure!
As for subsidies, the US subsidizes a lot, and the US manufacturing sector has died because of a LACK of subsidies: specifically, the insistence that the government should not be providing healthcare, leaving it to businesses to pick up the slack.
But.. But.. We ARE the leaders in per capita waste production and incarceration!
USA USA USA!
Well, locations where these 'wind farms' are both out of eye sight and ear shot (as they can be quite loud) are rather rare.
But good news, because with the current economic crisis, there are fewer homeowners to do the NIMBY.
I think there was a story last year, where some rich community in Florida managed to get a off-shore wind farm denied because the towers would just be visible on the horizon...
They shouldn't be using huge towers. they should be using the newer helix models. They're more stable in turbulent wind conditions and can be plunked pretty much anywhere.
Kinda makes you wonder if government intervention is really necessary.
We have roughly 4x the population of germany, which means, per capita, we are far behind the rest of the industrialized world in development of renewable energy.
If the disposition described in this article were applied to housing, it would be like declaring the wealth gap had closed because everyone who worked minimum wage pooled their resources and lived 4 families to a single family house.
In other words: our renewable energy production is not up to pace with the rest of the world, which various international organizations say is STILL not enough.
I still haven't wrapped my mind around broadband-connected consoles.
I'll sum it up for you:
"we, the console maker, want to charge you not only for the games, but also monthly, and make your games expire.
We're also not too hot on what happened to the original xbox, so we'll be introducing this online content concept as a trojan horse so we can remotely destroy (as in physically) the memory cells containing any firmware which gets compromised to make sure XBMC never rears its ugly head again.
Please enjoy this token mockery of a multimedia system we've included, and yes you can develop for the platform but good luck actually using the graphics capabilities for which you bought this gaming system.
signed in fetal blood by:
microsoft, sony, nintendo"
except when the tax is tied to income people with less money to spend get taxed less. That's why income tax is actually the fair tax.
Except people work to earn the money which isn't fair.
Falcon
Except the people who work to earn the money actually HAVE that job which those who don't lost out on or were laid off of, which is even MORE unfair.
Did you miss the part about eliminating income taxes, making everybody about 25% richer?
Income taxes are currently progressive. this means that under the "fair tax" people will get progressively poorer as you move further and further below the median income.
It also means that I bloody well know how to balance a budget and such.
let me know when balancing your budget involves weighing food vs heat, medication vs gas to get to work. I don't think you quite understand how limited funds are to those below the median income brackets.
As opposed to this one, in which saving was penalized and spending encouraged to the point that most people are more in hock than their income? To the point that we have this economy? Give me the steadyness of people investing in economic infrastructure(stocks, bonds, that stuff).
That has nothing to do with progressive taxes and everything to do with offshoring/h1b-ing and freezing people's wages for upwards of a decade while inflation continued at 3% a year, energy prices sky rocketed, and the price of an average home shot to 12x the median income.
Don't blame the government, blame corporate greed.
esides, look up the fairtax proposals - there's ways to make it progressive.
remove taxes on products below a certain price cap? Mercedes will just sell their cars in small, separate parts, then the "service" of putting it together.
Remove taxes on certain classes of products? now you have the government determining what other people can buy AND you are dependent on the government to update these things. Current medicaid income thresholds in my state are 3k/yr
Most states already have a sales tax, how much smuggling is going on? Well, otherwise than illegal drugs? Look at the huge ass cargo containers our shit is hauled in on. They couldn't smuggle that much stuff in. Unlike drugs, consumer goods tend to be bulky.
current sales taxes are not significant enough to outweigh the convenience of immediate receipt of product. Jack it up to "fair tax" levels and you will suddenly see a lot of orders made to online companies offshore and shipped in via normal post.
luxury providers have smaller clientele and end up having to eat the tax instead of passing it on.
The same can be said of any tax. The more tax a person has to pay the less they can spend.
Falcon
except when the tax is tied to income people with less money to spend get taxed less. That's why income tax is actually the fair tax.
Are you retarded? Cut taxes and people have more money to spend. Businesses have more money to spend. So, people buy more products which helps business. Businesses have more money from increased sales and lower taxes, so they expand and hire more employees.
someone didn't learn geography.
People who live across the pacific are not americans.
When last I heard, all intel's chips were risc with an x86 hardware interpreter tacked on.
Remove the interpreter?
1.45 kg is just slightly too much in my opinion. I love my 701 weighing in at just over 900 grams, I'd prefer a model weighing 1.3 kg or less.
Yeah... cause lugging around the extra weight equivalent of couple of Mars bars is more than anyone should be forced to endure.
at that weight you might as well buy a fully fledged laptop with some real power. Netbooks are experiencing "power-creep" right back into the laptop fold.
You could make consumption taxes progressive, see my post here. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1111355&cid=26684787
This doesn't solve the problem of people being taxed when they have no income.
Nothing kicks the unemployed or laid off in the balls like everything costing 25% more.