If capital gains are taxed at the same rate as other income, you lose the incentive to invest.
The capital gains tax 'loophole' was put in place to encourage investments, isn't it logical to assume that elimination of the 'loophole' would discourage investment?
Unethical? It's 100% legal and the politicians that are responsible for the tax code as written are the first to rail against it... Yet they fail to put forth legislation to change the tax code.
Apparently they prefer having the issue to run on as opposed to fixing the 'problem'.
GM builds a plant in China They build a car in that plant They sell that car to a Chinese customer They turn a profit on the sale of that car... And keeps that profit in China.
Who do they owe taxes to, the Asian country they built and sold the car in, the U.S. Gov't, or both?
Now, different example:
BMW builds a plant in South Catolina BMW builds a car in that plant in South Carolina BMW sells that car to a customer in South Carolina BMW makes a profit on the sale of that car... And keeps the profits in South Carolina.
Who do they owe taxes to? The U.S. Gov't, the German Gov,t, or both?
In the first example, this administration says both... In the second, it's the US only.
Virtual box is a robust offering for basic desktop virtualization needs. It needn't address every possible use case and supply every new feature every other tool offers, it does a solid job providing basic virtualization services.
Why must every product offer/support every feature?
why does Gore get all the Nader votes? I have to believe a large percentage of Nader voters would not have seen anything they liked in either Bush or a Gore and would instead opt to stay home and not compromise by voting for the lesser of two evils...
Kinda like when Sarah Palin said 'I can see Russia from my front porch?'
Only, of course, she never said that - Tina Fey, pretending to be Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live said it... Apparently the Left has a problem discerning comedy from news...
Currently, 6.3 percent of US households don't have access to broadband under the previous 4Mpbs/1Mbps threshold, while another 13.1 percent don't have access to broadband under the new 25Mbps downstream threshold.
6.3 + 13.1 = 19.4%
That means just over 80% of Ameticans DO have access to High-speed broadband internet service.
Reminds me of the 85% of Americans that were pleased with their healthcare coverage, before Democrats convinced us we needed to light our hair on fire and turn the healthcare industry on it's ear to address the 15% without healthcare coverage..
How long before the Democrats start running around telling us how horrible it is that do few Americans have access to broadband internet access, and then they will roll out a solution, based on increasing taxes on the rich to fund a massive infrastructure investment that just so happens to include almost exclusively Democrat contributors.
We saw this with the 2008 race to invest in green energy, remember Solyndra?
Why can't the Constitution be amended, striking out the portions that define the amendment process? Then you can't amend the constitution, you have to replace it.
Well if the Conservatives 'got in'(was there a miscount?), it can only mean the rules didn't work too well.
Wow. So the point of the initial election reforms in Canada was to block out the Conservatives, and having failed in their attempt to silence their opponents, the new Minority party (liberals? I don't follow Canadian politics.) is upset that they now find themselves being suppressed.
There are a couple ways to respond:
"You started it"
"Turnaround is fair play"
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander"
Why is Comcast cast as the villan? This is SOP for any major letter writing campaign I've ever heard of - outside group offers supporters 'sample' letters to send to those making the decision, supporters simply copy-and-paste the 'sample' letter, and everyone pretends it means something.
The anger should directed at the compliant and lazy politicians that never learned how to copy someone else's work and avoid detection.
...the Raspberry Pi board, you know, that $30-35 "PC" that not needs a keyboard, mouse, SD card, TV, case and power up ply to be usable as a desktop...
What makes his project not cost efficient IMHO is going to be the collection and testing of recycled modules.
Check out the HP Stream 7 tablet - $100 for a 7" tablet with full Windows 8.1 and 12 months of Office 365 for the tablet and ANOTHER PC (2 installations). But, oh wait - it comes from a traditional computer manufacturer - will they go under or ride the wave?
Because it "stifles innovation" - you certainly can't expect start-ups to play by the same rules as the companies they are competing with, can you?
Reminds me of one version of the "pro net neutrality" argument - if you allow existing companies (with their massive resources) to pay for improved bandwidth to customers, then how will the under-funded start-up ever compete? You must tie the hands of the entrenched companies to give their competitors a chance...
It's not like they are running a business out of their car... Oh wait.
We have restrictions on running businesses out of the house, there should be similar restrictions for running a business in your auto.
The real issue will be when a "personal use" driver damages his car (and potentially a paying passenger) when involved in a traffic accident AND the driver's private insurance refuses to cover the damage and any ensuing lawsuits.
Good luck with pushing [Windows] 8 to the corporate world... it's about as adoptable as an angry badger with syphilis.
Why would a corporate customer choose to install Windows 8 when Windows 10 is just around the corner? MS will still be pumping out FREE security updates for Windows 7 for 4-5 more years, certainly long enough to wait for Windows 10 SP 1...
We are constantly told that millions of poor, minority, and women voters are incapable of securing and retaining photo ID to allow them to vote in an election that requires state-issued ID, how in the world will these same voters wrestle up the where-with-all to set up a secure Bitcoin identity, and be able to successfully vote by holding on to said Bitcoin identity?
Will setting up your required Bitcoin identity require voters to prove their identity? That's RACIST!
How can your politics be so screwed up that both houses are run by the opposite party to the president in power.
Because every candidate in the House is up for re-election every two years, accounting for 435 discrete elections, the Senate has 1/3rd of it's members up for re-election every two years, resulting in 33 discrete elections, and the Presidency is up for re-election every four years.
Why would you imagine such a process would result in all three having their majority be the same party?
No, what he said he was (and this is staggering) it takes to long/it's too hard to do the research, WRITE DOWN his choices, then head to the polls and vote!
Apparently, the ability to do his research with his ABSENTEE BALLOT in front of him, marked as he decides is also too hard - maybe his mom refuses to take his mail tithe mailboxes?
Question: Let's say the tabulated election results and a paper trail/audit trail are different, which will be used for the "official results"?
If we always trust the audit trail, then why even tabulate the results?
If we always trust the tabulated results, why have the audit trail?
If 'it depends' then on what does it depend? Which party stands to gain from a particular version of the results!
The only response that makes sense with inconsistent election results is to hold a new election... Are you prepared to hold a second election, considering the time it would take to (for example) print new absentee ballots, mail them out, then wait SEVERAL WEEKs for those absentee ballots to return?
U.S. election laws forbid the creation of a 'receipt' that lists who an individual votes for, because to generate one would allow voters to (provably) 'sell' their vote.
Voting needs to be easier? How is it in any way hard now?
You can register to vote during many ordinary interactions with government (motor voter laws).
People can solicit your registration and deliver it to the government.
The polls in some localities are open for WEEKS because some people's schedules are so onerous they can't find the time in a given 24 hour election to vote.
You can vote by mail via absentee ballot, in most cases the only reason needed is a desire to not go to the polling station.
You can request absentee ballots be sent to you in perpetuity, never requiring you to ask for an absentee ballot again.
Campaigns will drive to your house, pick you up, and deliver you to your polling station if you ask them to.
Campaigns go out and canvass hospitals, mental institutions, and even prisons to 'dig up' voters that can't make it to the polls.
You can register to vote on Election Day in many localities... No waiting period.
And you don't even need to remember to bring ID to the polls, unless you live in one of the two dozen or so states that require state-issued ID to vote.
Where is the onerous burden that Bitcoin-based online voting addresses that is not equally-well addressed by the current absentee ballot programs across the country?
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If capital gains are taxed at the same rate as other income, you lose the incentive to invest.
The capital gains tax 'loophole' was put in place to encourage investments, isn't it logical to assume that elimination of the 'loophole' would discourage investment?
Should Facebook have an office in Argentina for the sole purpose of making sure they pay Argintina taxes on their income?
Unethical? It's 100% legal and the politicians that are responsible for the tax code as written are the first to rail against it... Yet they fail to put forth legislation to change the tax code.
Apparently they prefer having the issue to run on as opposed to fixing the 'problem'.
Let's see if I've got this right:
GM builds a plant in China
They build a car in that plant
They sell that car to a Chinese customer
They turn a profit on the sale of that car... And keeps that profit in China.
Who do they owe taxes to, the Asian country they built and sold the car in, the U.S. Gov't, or both?
Now, different example:
BMW builds a plant in South Catolina
BMW builds a car in that plant in South Carolina
BMW sells that car to a customer in South Carolina
BMW makes a profit on the sale of that car... And keeps the profits in South Carolina.
Who do they owe taxes to? The U.S. Gov't, the German Gov,t, or both?
In the first example, this administration says both... In the second, it's the US only.
Virtual box is a robust offering for basic desktop virtualization needs. It needn't address every possible use case and supply every new feature every other tool offers, it does a solid job providing basic virtualization services.
Why must every product offer/support every feature?
why does Gore get all the Nader votes? I have to believe a large percentage of Nader voters would not have seen anything they liked in either Bush or a Gore and would instead opt to stay home and not compromise by voting for the lesser of two evils...
Kinda like when Sarah Palin said 'I can see Russia from my front porch?'
Only, of course, she never said that - Tina Fey, pretending to be Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live said it... Apparently the Left has a problem discerning comedy from news...
6.3 + 13.1 = 19.4%
That means just over 80% of Ameticans DO have access to High-speed broadband internet service.
Reminds me of the 85% of Americans that were pleased with their healthcare coverage, before Democrats convinced us we needed to light our hair on fire and turn the healthcare industry on it's ear to address the 15% without healthcare coverage..
How long before the Democrats start running around telling us how horrible it is that do few Americans have access to broadband internet access, and then they will roll out a solution, based on increasing taxes on the rich to fund a massive infrastructure investment that just so happens to include almost exclusively Democrat contributors.
We saw this with the 2008 race to invest in green energy, remember Solyndra?
the exploding ATM will draw a lot more attention than your choice of headwear...
What?
Why can't the Constitution be amended, striking out the portions that define the amendment process? Then you can't amend the constitution, you have to replace it.
Bush declared war on Iraq in 2003.
Wow. So the point of the initial election reforms in Canada was to block out the Conservatives, and having failed in their attempt to silence their opponents, the new Minority party (liberals? I don't follow Canadian politics.) is upset that they now find themselves being suppressed.
There are a couple ways to respond:
"You started it"
"Turnaround is fair play"
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander"
"Serves you right"
Why is Comcast cast as the villan? This is SOP for any major letter writing campaign I've ever heard of - outside group offers supporters 'sample' letters to send to those making the decision, supporters simply copy-and-paste the 'sample' letter, and everyone pretends it means something.
The anger should directed at the compliant and lazy politicians that never learned how to copy someone else's work and avoid detection.
...the Raspberry Pi board, you know, that $30-35 "PC" that not needs a keyboard, mouse, SD card, TV, case and power up ply to be usable as a desktop...
What makes his project not cost efficient IMHO is going to be the collection and testing of recycled modules.
Maybe not your cellphone...
Check out the HP Stream 7 tablet - $100 for a 7" tablet with full Windows 8.1 and 12 months of Office 365 for the tablet and ANOTHER PC (2 installations). But, oh wait - it comes from a traditional computer manufacturer - will they go under or ride the wave?
Because it "stifles innovation" - you certainly can't expect start-ups to play by the same rules as the companies they are competing with, can you?
Reminds me of one version of the "pro net neutrality" argument - if you allow existing companies (with their massive resources) to pay for improved bandwidth to customers, then how will the under-funded start-up ever compete? You must tie the hands of the entrenched companies to give their competitors a chance...
It's not like they are running a business out of their car... Oh wait.
We have restrictions on running businesses out of the house, there should be similar restrictions for running a business in your auto.
The real issue will be when a "personal use" driver damages his car (and potentially a paying passenger) when involved in a traffic accident AND the driver's private insurance refuses to cover the damage and any ensuing lawsuits.
Why would a corporate customer choose to install Windows 8 when Windows 10 is just around the corner? MS will still be pumping out FREE security updates for Windows 7 for 4-5 more years, certainly long enough to wait for Windows 10 SP 1...
We are constantly told that millions of poor, minority, and women voters are incapable of securing and retaining photo ID to allow them to vote in an election that requires state-issued ID, how in the world will these same voters wrestle up the where-with-all to set up a secure Bitcoin identity, and be able to successfully vote by holding on to said Bitcoin identity?
Will setting up your required Bitcoin identity require voters to prove their identity? That's RACIST!
Because every candidate in the House is up for re-election every two years, accounting for 435 discrete elections, the Senate has 1/3rd of it's members up for re-election every two years, resulting in 33 discrete elections, and the Presidency is up for re-election every four years.
Why would you imagine such a process would result in all three having their majority be the same party?
No, what he said he was (and this is staggering) it takes to long/it's too hard to do the research, WRITE DOWN his choices, then head to the polls and vote!
Apparently, the ability to do his research with his ABSENTEE BALLOT in front of him, marked as he decides is also too hard - maybe his mom refuses to take his mail tithe mailboxes?
Question: Let's say the tabulated election results and a paper trail/audit trail are different, which will be used for the "official results"?
If we always trust the audit trail, then why even tabulate the results?
If we always trust the tabulated results, why have the audit trail?
If 'it depends' then on what does it depend? Which party stands to gain from a particular version of the results!
The only response that makes sense with inconsistent election results is to hold a new election... Are you prepared to hold a second election, considering the time it would take to (for example) print new absentee ballots, mail them out, then wait SEVERAL WEEKs for those absentee ballots to return?
U.S. election laws forbid the creation of a 'receipt' that lists who an individual votes for, because to generate one would allow voters to (provably) 'sell' their vote.
Voting needs to be easier? How is it in any way hard now?
You can register to vote during many ordinary interactions with government (motor voter laws).
People can solicit your registration and deliver it to the government.
The polls in some localities are open for WEEKS because some people's schedules are so onerous they can't find the time in a given 24 hour election to vote.
You can vote by mail via absentee ballot, in most cases the only reason needed is a desire to not go to the polling station.
You can request absentee ballots be sent to you in perpetuity, never requiring you to ask for an absentee ballot again.
Campaigns will drive to your house, pick you up, and deliver you to your polling station if you ask them to.
Campaigns go out and canvass hospitals, mental institutions, and even prisons to 'dig up' voters that can't make it to the polls.
You can register to vote on Election Day in many localities... No waiting period.
And you don't even need to remember to bring ID to the polls, unless you live in one of the two dozen or so states that require state-issued ID to vote.
Where is the onerous burden that Bitcoin-based online voting addresses that is not equally-well addressed by the current absentee ballot programs across the country?