You make a good point, but the fact is that most bottled water is just filtered mains water.
Maybe in those crazy foreign countries but not in the land of the free. Where everything is regulated to protect the consumers so this sort of thing wouldn't happen.
Well, you can reasonably assume that if your employer was not paying for health care, you would be receiving that money as income. I used the 90-10 breakdown because I believe it is the most common scenario. I did not use 7.5% for SS, I used 15%. I also used the numbers for a single male with no dependents. Add in a wife and/or kids and taxes go down. I am not presenting this before Congress as an argument. I just took a simple example and ran the numbers, as I stated above.
I don't know if the argument really is that we are getting it on the cheap so much as we are paying as much as everyone else. I think the false pretense held by most in favor of "free health care" is that everything will remain the same yet we will magically have free medical services. I didn't try to fudge any numbers, just ran the calculation and thats what I got. It probably ends up as a wash if you took enough samples. Unfortunately I suspect if we somehow do end up with socialize medicine here it will end up costing us more than it does now not less. I don't really have anything to back that up with other than our government's past history, which more than speaks for itself.
I was using a common example of a health plan where the employee pays 10% and the employer 90%. Of course this example was oversimplified and anyone can fudge the numbers one way or the other. Believe me, I am no fan of the current health care in this country, but I still think that socialize medicine is not the answer. We need tort reform and some kind of control on the exponential increase in health costs not more government control.
Ok, well they make it sound like 48% is the effective tax rate not the marginal rate. First off you would have to be making $78,000 a year in 2007 to fall into the 28% marginal tax bracket but still do not see an effective tax rate that high. If you made $80,000, your effective tax rate is 20% even though your marginal tax rate is 28%. Don't forget that that is taxable income and doesn't include even standard deductions. If you take the standard that is $5,350 + $3,400 for yourself as a dependent. Now your taxable income is $71,250, bringing your tax burden down to $14,200 or 17.75%.
I live in Illinois and my states tax rate is 3% flat and most states are between 2 to 5%. There are only a few that are upwards of 8 or 9%. So using the example of a $8,000 a year income, you are being taxed 18% federally, 15% via SS, 5% state and 3% for Medicare. Now that is 41%. A difference of 7%. 7% of $80,000 is $5,600. Assume a $40 a month or $480 per year for a standard health care plan that you are paying 10% and your employer covers the other 90%. That is $480 annually or giving you a rough savings of over $5,000 a year. As you make more money this number gets even better. Which is why "People making more than $150,000 a year are eight times more likely than average to leave the country,'' said the Business Council on National Issues in a memo to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
Here is an interesting article, it is from CBS which isn't exactly a republican organization, that discusses some of the pitfalls of the Canadian healthcare system. Article. What I find interesting is that average Canadians pay almost 50% income tax. I am not sure how much your healthcare is, but even if my employer didn't cover 90% of my premiums, it would not be worth that increased tax burden.
I had an X700 and it would only allow me to log into X once. If I logged out and tried to log back in, the machine would hard freeze. Bug 239. Acted the same way when switching VT's. Bug 37.
I bought a GeForce 7950GT when I built my latest PC and was so happy with its linux performance I bought a GeForce 6800 to go into my other box. I fought with that ATi card for 2 years and it never really worked right. It could just be certain chipsets/versions but I know I wasn't alone. The Radeon 9000 I got works just peachy with 3D acceleration from the open source drivers OTOH.
I have the standard package from Comcast here in Chicago. My upload speed is ~512kbps and download bandwith has increased twice in the last year up to ~10Mbps steady and upwards of ~20Mbps burst.
I don't know where you've pulled that number out of, but I've had fraudulent charges made three times on my credit cards in the last 10 years on different cards each time. Each company had a policy of $50 that the customer is responsible for and in each case I was refunded ALL of the money. I did not have to pay any charge-back fee or be responsible for the $50. I once had to have the affidavit that I did not make the charges notarized which cost $1.
I know that you can use nspluginwrapper to use 32-bit flash with 64-bit firefox, I use it;) and it works well. But to say that it hasn't been ported because of that workaround is incorrect, supposedly there are issues with Tamarin not being 64-bit ready.
The x86_64 version of java from sun has been on their bugzilla for 4 and a half years and its in the top five requests to be fixed. If it was as simple as changing some compiler options I think it would be done by now. Also Adobe has released a version of flash for SPARC ahead of x86_64, so I somehow don't think its that easy. Not that this is an excuse, but I don't think its as easy as changing the arch for compilation.
I've been through a similar experience. The reason I was given why they can't release that information is because they [the company the purchase was made from] would be liable if you found the thief and assaulted him/her or worse. Makes as much sense as anything else.
I personally think everyone is thinking too deeply about all of these deals. I believe MS sees linux as the future and they are just going about their natural way of making money off of someone else's ideas. Simply put, MS makes deal with Novell, MS then sells useless & unnecessary licenses to companies using linux. Billion dollar backed snake oil salesmen.
The motive behind this is simple. MLB wants you to purchase the ability to watch games away from home from them. $15 a month or $80 a season. Of course they charge you more for post-season baseball as well.
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Well, you can reasonably assume that if your employer was not paying for health care, you would be receiving that money as income. I used the 90-10 breakdown because I believe it is the most common scenario. I did not use 7.5% for SS, I used 15%. I also used the numbers for a single male with no dependents. Add in a wife and/or kids and taxes go down. I am not presenting this before Congress as an argument. I just took a simple example and ran the numbers, as I stated above.
I don't know if the argument really is that we are getting it on the cheap so much as we are paying as much as everyone else. I think the false pretense held by most in favor of "free health care" is that everything will remain the same yet we will magically have free medical services. I didn't try to fudge any numbers, just ran the calculation and thats what I got. It probably ends up as a wash if you took enough samples. Unfortunately I suspect if we somehow do end up with socialize medicine here it will end up costing us more than it does now not less. I don't really have anything to back that up with other than our government's past history, which more than speaks for itself.
I was using a common example of a health plan where the employee pays 10% and the employer 90%. Of course this example was oversimplified and anyone can fudge the numbers one way or the other. Believe me, I am no fan of the current health care in this country, but I still think that socialize medicine is not the answer. We need tort reform and some kind of control on the exponential increase in health costs not more government control.
Ok, well they make it sound like 48% is the effective tax rate not the marginal rate. First off you would have to be making $78,000 a year in 2007 to fall into the 28% marginal tax bracket but still do not see an effective tax rate that high. If you made $80,000, your effective tax rate is 20% even though your marginal tax rate is 28%. Don't forget that that is taxable income and doesn't include even standard deductions. If you take the standard that is $5,350 + $3,400 for yourself as a dependent. Now your taxable income is $71,250, bringing your tax burden down to $14,200 or 17.75%.
I live in Illinois and my states tax rate is 3% flat and most states are between 2 to 5%. There are only a few that are upwards of 8 or 9%. So using the example of a $8,000 a year income, you are being taxed 18% federally, 15% via SS, 5% state and 3% for Medicare. Now that is 41%. A difference of 7%. 7% of $80,000 is $5,600. Assume a $40 a month or $480 per year for a standard health care plan that you are paying 10% and your employer covers the other 90%. That is $480 annually or giving you a rough savings of over $5,000 a year. As you make more money this number gets even better. Which is why "People making more than $150,000 a year are eight times more likely than average to leave the country,'' said the Business Council on National Issues in a memo to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
Here is an interesting article, it is from CBS which isn't exactly a republican organization, that discusses some of the pitfalls of the Canadian healthcare system. Article. What I find interesting is that average Canadians pay almost 50% income tax. I am not sure how much your healthcare is, but even if my employer didn't cover 90% of my premiums, it would not be worth that increased tax burden.
Except that windows does not respect the host file when doing DNS queries for its own servers.
I had an X700 and it would only allow me to log into X once. If I logged out and tried to log back in, the machine would hard freeze. Bug 239. Acted the same way when switching VT's. Bug 37.
I bought a GeForce 7950GT when I built my latest PC and was so happy with its linux performance I bought a GeForce 6800 to go into my other box. I fought with that ATi card for 2 years and it never really worked right. It could just be certain chipsets/versions but I know I wasn't alone. The Radeon 9000 I got works just peachy with 3D acceleration from the open source drivers OTOH.
ATi is not going to open up the GPU drivers, so I wouldn't wait on that account.
I was thinking the same thing, you can pretty much fly anywhere in the continental 48 for less than $200 with an advanced purchase of a month or more.
I have the standard package from Comcast here in Chicago. My upload speed is ~512kbps and download bandwith has increased twice in the last year up to ~10Mbps steady and upwards of ~20Mbps burst.
You are an angry little man, aren't you?
I don't know where you've pulled that number out of, but I've had fraudulent charges made three times on my credit cards in the last 10 years on different cards each time. Each company had a policy of $50 that the customer is responsible for and in each case I was refunded ALL of the money. I did not have to pay any charge-back fee or be responsible for the $50. I once had to have the affidavit that I did not make the charges notarized which cost $1.
I know that you can use nspluginwrapper to use 32-bit flash with 64-bit firefox, I use it ;) and it works well. But to say that it hasn't been ported because of that workaround is incorrect, supposedly there are issues with Tamarin not being 64-bit ready.
The x86_64 version of java from sun has been on their bugzilla for 4 and a half years and its in the top five requests to be fixed. If it was as simple as changing some compiler options I think it would be done by now. Also Adobe has released a version of flash for SPARC ahead of x86_64, so I somehow don't think its that easy. Not that this is an excuse, but I don't think its as easy as changing the arch for compilation.
AutoCAD. It is the only reason I have Windows.
I think your sarcasm detector is broken. Please purchase another one. Thank You.
Actually my MythTV box flags commercials and skips over them without me having to pick up the remote.
I've been through a similar experience. The reason I was given why they can't release that information is because they [the company the purchase was made from] would be liable if you found the thief and assaulted him/her or worse. Makes as much sense as anything else.
I personally think everyone is thinking too deeply about all of these deals. I believe MS sees linux as the future and they are just going about their natural way of making money off of someone else's ideas. Simply put, MS makes deal with Novell, MS then sells useless & unnecessary licenses to companies using linux. Billion dollar backed snake oil salesmen.
The motive behind this is simple. MLB wants you to purchase the ability to watch games away from home from them. $15 a month or $80 a season. Of course they charge you more for post-season baseball as well.
I have to agree with you.
Comcast has increased my downloads and upload speeds twice in the last year and didn't even send me a notice.