Let's get legislation pushed through so you have a campaign plank you can run on! The State of Washington is just your personal play toy so you can seek higher office, who cares about the people who live there...
Not if you're a US entity (corporation or individual)... You may be able keep offshore profits offshore, and not pay taxes on them, but it's not possible to shift domestic revenue to offshore. You're going to pay tax on that.
Companies that are strictly "cloud" based can move their revenues (datacenters, etc.) overseas without concern, but if you have hard sales and locations and distribution in the US? You're paying here.
You know how companies declare their profit in their investor meetings? That's a public declaration.
Tax based on that. Or whatever they fill in their tax forms - whichever is greater. No having your cake and eating it too - no more Hollywood accounting and still claiming record income.
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That's pretty much what they do. There is gross revenue, minus expenses. That's called EBITDA - Earnings Before Income Tax, Depreciation, Amortization (basically taxes and legal deductions). Then you subtract your taxes, depreciation, amortization - and you end up with net profit. So it's all declared right there. And it's how taxes are paid.
I don't think there's ever been a charge that Amazon is not paying their legally required taxes; you may not agree with the deductions they get, but they are definitely paying their legally owed taxes.
Better to use a turbine (like the AGT1500 that can burn diesel, gas, jet A, etc) to generate electricity then use electric motors. You get all the torque you want from the electric motors, and great efficiency from the turbine.
Right now, they are NOT liable for giving you bad information, bad guidance, or doing incorrect calculations on your behalf. I wonder how many people would trust them to get your return right, when if they make a mistake they can come back and fine you for the error AND the interest on the error.
The problem with this scheme is that while it seems reasonable for low-to-middle income levels, it doesn't scale up reasonably for high incomes.
For somebody who makes $10M / year, they'd pay just shy of $1M / year in taxes. That's nothing, proportionally speaking.
Hmmm... Paying a 10% tax on a net ($30K - 25K) $5000 is $500, or about (500/30000) 1.7%. Paying 10% on a net ($10MM - 25K) $9,975,000 is $997,500, or about (997,500/10,000,000) 9.975%. Seems proportionally speaking, it's about 6.23 times more taxes. Hardly "nothing", proportionally speaking.
You do get the opportunity to do so, every 2 to 6 years. But with re-election rates well over 80%, it seems most people do not want to fire/recall their Congressmen.
So slowing from 580 MPH to 540 MPH will not make a dent in fuel savings? Really? On a transcontinental flight, that will add about 30 minutes to the flight.
LPG has less than half the energy density of gasoline, so you don't really gain any cost benefits. Sure, the fuel is half price, but you need twice as much. Hydrogen can be produced if you have electricity and water - both of which are readily available.
So why do you want to force a complete reworking of the entire electrical grid? Why you fascination with spending trillions and forcing people to spend thousands and thousands for something that is not needed?
It's a problem that doesn't even have to exist. That's the point. Hydrogen fuel cells eliminate this problem altogether, and solve many others (such as range issues, need for chargers all over, etc). Rewiring your home, adding chargers outside for people who do not have garages, etc. all go away with fuel cells. A 5 minute stop at a filling station any time you need/want it is simple. And you don't have to completely rebuild the infrastructure in your nation.
If anything, it should REDUCE the CO2 emissions, because if you have 30 minutes to "kill" on a long leg, you can fly slower - and since losses go as the square of velocity, a small reduction in airspeed really saves quite a bit of fuel. In fact, that's why the A380 is "slow" across the Pacific - it flies slower so it saves more fuel than a B777/787 doing the same trip (15 hours from LAX to CAN versus 13-13.5 for the Boeing planes).
Indulgences, indulgences for sale! Buy your indulgences, get them quick! Yeah, the CO2 you're generating will kill us all, but if you pay someone else because they didn't produce CO2, you're absolved of your sins! Indulgences, indulgences for sale!
Caroline Farrow investigated for misgendering someone in a tweet. It happened. Seriously. That's the UK - apparently calling someone by the wrong gender can get you investigated by the police. And it is not just Mr. Sturzenberger - a sign condemning Islam will get you a 1000 euro fine, in Germany.
There is no freedom of speech in most of the world.
I linked the data; historically it's about 5%, and currently it is 4.2%. Over the last 5 years it's averaged over 4%. And it's exceeded the CPI - so real wage growth.
So at least we're finally agreed you were wrong, people are getting paid more, and now we're arguing about how much wage growth is good, rather than if it ever happened
When Manhattan was laid out (in the mid 1800s), I don't think the foresaw millions of people in vehicles, do you? Should they just wipe out 70% of the buildings so they can widen the roads? Likewise the electric grid - when it was installed, 20 kW per home was an outrageous amount of power, given refrigerators were still pretty new, TV was in its infancy, and there weren't microwaves, hair dryers, computers, etc. A solid 2 kW was a massive amount for a home - 10 lightbulbs and a fridge simultaneously was a big power draw - who would ever use up 20 kW?
But no, don't think of that. Blame your public utility for putting in a substandard grid. They should have KNOWN there would be a need to triple the infrastructure. And they should pay for 100% of anything YOU choose to use. Because it's Never Your Fault, right?
Bottom line: you're flat out wrong. It's not "just a socket". And if you would ever actually admit that, you'd realize the push to EVs for everyone right now is a fallacy - it can't physically happen without trillions of dollars of infrastructure - paid by the utility customers. At least with hydrogen you have individual business who live by servicing cars taking the lead in rolling out the infrastructure, which itself is limited to just their store - not the entire nation.
Actually, AirPlay support is up to individual apps themselves. It's a really common requested feature as well - if you offer a streaming audio or video app, and don't offer AIrPlay, people will complain bitterly to your support line about the lack of AirPlay.
Really? I stream from my phone all the time, and I have never once complained about the lack of AirPlay. I just haven't seen the need for it with my Samsung Note 8. I guess AirPlay is just a feature for a small market share player...
Norway has the population of the greater Miami, FL area. It also has massive electricity production thanks to hydro. The US does not. Guess what - solutions for one country don't often translate to another.
As far as charging at night - you and your neighbors are all charging at night. Demand at night just eclipsed that during the day. Oops. And do you REALLY want to have 300A potential draw off of your 200A breaker panel and distribution transformer? On the hope that it won't all be used at the same time? Really?
Pie in the sky mentality. Simplistic, really. No clue what would be needed. And those electric companies are typically utilities paid for by consumers - who would have to fork over the money. But hey, you're rich, you can afford an EV, screw everyone else, right?
You completely blew off anyone with a 100A service. And ignored the cost of final distribution transformer limitations for small groups of homes. And wiring up hundreds or thousands of parking spots. Because you cannot admit you didn't think about the impact of taking something that is expensive and rare and beyond what existing infrastructure was designed to support at a big level - and then calculate what it costs to grow it to that big level.
Go ahead, think about the cost of doubling the power capacity of everyone in your neighborhood. Not just the panels. Not just the socket internally. Not just the local distribution transformers. Upgraded main HV lines to carry at least 2X the current (that cable is not cheap - it's about $4/foot in massive quantities). Bigger substations as well. It's the entire infrastructure that gets doubled or tripled in size. And that comes right back on top of the consumer, most of it immediately (panels, dist transformers, internal wiring).
As far as gas station upgrades, it's typically passed on to some of the consumers. When stations upgrade now, they tend to make it out of non-gasoline sales (since most make little to no profit selling gas). There's a reason those candy bars are $1.29, and a car wash is $13 - to pay for infrastructure upgrades. But gas - being a commodity - is still pretty cheap. Same thing will happen when hydrogen is sold at the station - the initial cost will be borne by the business and parceled out so some of the consumers - but not as a surcharge to the fuel itself.
So which is better? Hitting every consumer up-front with all those costs? Or letting a business bear the brunt of the up-front cost and spreading the payments out over multiple years?
Say anything against the Government in much of the world and you end up in prison (or just - gone). Yes, most of the rest of the world has a lot less freedom of speech. Provably so. In fact, your post to me would qualify as hate speech in much of Europe and could land you in jail because you denigrate me. Seriously.
Thankfully in the US if you need care, you can get it - guaranteed. Broken arm? Go to the emergency room and get it set. Canada? Get sent home for the weekend to come back in on Monday during normal office hours. Or go pay a bunch at the private clinic. Want a hearing aid? In the US, just walk into your local Costco. The UK? Hope you're OK waiting 6+ months, or you can go the private clinic.
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Let's get legislation pushed through so you have a campaign plank you can run on! The State of Washington is just your personal play toy so you can seek higher office, who cares about the people who live there...
Not if you're a US entity (corporation or individual)... You may be able keep offshore profits offshore, and not pay taxes on them, but it's not possible to shift domestic revenue to offshore. You're going to pay tax on that.
Companies that are strictly "cloud" based can move their revenues (datacenters, etc.) overseas without concern, but if you have hard sales and locations and distribution in the US? You're paying here.
You know how companies declare their profit in their investor meetings? That's a public declaration.
Tax based on that. Or whatever they fill in their tax forms - whichever is greater. No having your cake and eating it too - no more Hollywood accounting and still claiming record income.
Ryan Fenton
That's pretty much what they do. There is gross revenue, minus expenses. That's called EBITDA - Earnings Before Income Tax, Depreciation, Amortization (basically taxes and legal deductions). Then you subtract your taxes, depreciation, amortization - and you end up with net profit. So it's all declared right there. And it's how taxes are paid.
I don't think there's ever been a charge that Amazon is not paying their legally required taxes; you may not agree with the deductions they get, but they are definitely paying their legally owed taxes.
Gearing solves the RPM range issue...
Better to use a turbine (like the AGT1500 that can burn diesel, gas, jet A, etc) to generate electricity then use electric motors. You get all the torque you want from the electric motors, and great efficiency from the turbine.
Right now, they are NOT liable for giving you bad information, bad guidance, or doing incorrect calculations on your behalf. I wonder how many people would trust them to get your return right, when if they make a mistake they can come back and fine you for the error AND the interest on the error.
The problem with this scheme is that while it seems reasonable for low-to-middle income levels, it doesn't scale up reasonably for high incomes.
For somebody who makes $10M / year, they'd pay just shy of $1M / year in taxes. That's nothing, proportionally speaking.
Hmmm... Paying a 10% tax on a net ($30K - 25K) $5000 is $500, or about (500/30000) 1.7%. Paying 10% on a net ($10MM - 25K) $9,975,000 is $997,500, or about (997,500/10,000,000) 9.975%. Seems proportionally speaking, it's about 6.23 times more taxes. Hardly "nothing", proportionally speaking.
You do get the opportunity to do so, every 2 to 6 years. But with re-election rates well over 80%, it seems most people do not want to fire/recall their Congressmen.
So slowing from 580 MPH to 540 MPH will not make a dent in fuel savings? Really? On a transcontinental flight, that will add about 30 minutes to the flight.
Maybe that was all you were worth?
LPG has less than half the energy density of gasoline, so you don't really gain any cost benefits. Sure, the fuel is half price, but you need twice as much. Hydrogen can be produced if you have electricity and water - both of which are readily available.
So why do you want to force a complete reworking of the entire electrical grid? Why you fascination with spending trillions and forcing people to spend thousands and thousands for something that is not needed?
It's a solvable problem, that's the point.
It's a problem that doesn't even have to exist. That's the point. Hydrogen fuel cells eliminate this problem altogether, and solve many others (such as range issues, need for chargers all over, etc). Rewiring your home, adding chargers outside for people who do not have garages, etc. all go away with fuel cells. A 5 minute stop at a filling station any time you need/want it is simple. And you don't have to completely rebuild the infrastructure in your nation.
If anything, it should REDUCE the CO2 emissions, because if you have 30 minutes to "kill" on a long leg, you can fly slower - and since losses go as the square of velocity, a small reduction in airspeed really saves quite a bit of fuel. In fact, that's why the A380 is "slow" across the Pacific - it flies slower so it saves more fuel than a B777/787 doing the same trip (15 hours from LAX to CAN versus 13-13.5 for the Boeing planes).
Citation needed.
Indulgences, indulgences for sale! Buy your indulgences, get them quick! Yeah, the CO2 you're generating will kill us all, but if you pay someone else because they didn't produce CO2, you're absolved of your sins! Indulgences, indulgences for sale!
Caroline Farrow investigated for misgendering someone in a tweet. It happened. Seriously. That's the UK - apparently calling someone by the wrong gender can get you investigated by the police. And it is not just Mr. Sturzenberger - a sign condemning Islam will get you a 1000 euro fine, in Germany.
There is no freedom of speech in most of the world.
I linked the data; historically it's about 5%, and currently it is 4.2%. Over the last 5 years it's averaged over 4%. And it's exceeded the CPI - so real wage growth.
So at least we're finally agreed you were wrong, people are getting paid more, and now we're arguing about how much wage growth is good, rather than if it ever happened
When Manhattan was laid out (in the mid 1800s), I don't think the foresaw millions of people in vehicles, do you? Should they just wipe out 70% of the buildings so they can widen the roads? Likewise the electric grid - when it was installed, 20 kW per home was an outrageous amount of power, given refrigerators were still pretty new, TV was in its infancy, and there weren't microwaves, hair dryers, computers, etc. A solid 2 kW was a massive amount for a home - 10 lightbulbs and a fridge simultaneously was a big power draw - who would ever use up 20 kW?
But no, don't think of that. Blame your public utility for putting in a substandard grid. They should have KNOWN there would be a need to triple the infrastructure. And they should pay for 100% of anything YOU choose to use. Because it's Never Your Fault, right?
Bottom line: you're flat out wrong. It's not "just a socket". And if you would ever actually admit that, you'd realize the push to EVs for everyone right now is a fallacy - it can't physically happen without trillions of dollars of infrastructure - paid by the utility customers. At least with hydrogen you have individual business who live by servicing cars taking the lead in rolling out the infrastructure, which itself is limited to just their store - not the entire nation.
Is that pronounced "jif" or "ghif"?
Actually, AirPlay support is up to individual apps themselves. It's a really common requested feature as well - if you offer a streaming audio or video app, and don't offer AIrPlay, people will complain bitterly to your support line about the lack of AirPlay.
Really? I stream from my phone all the time, and I have never once complained about the lack of AirPlay. I just haven't seen the need for it with my Samsung Note 8. I guess AirPlay is just a feature for a small market share player...
They didn't keep all the benefits - overall wages have steadily risen, averaging about 5%, annually. You were wrong.
Norway has the population of the greater Miami, FL area. It also has massive electricity production thanks to hydro. The US does not. Guess what - solutions for one country don't often translate to another.
As far as charging at night - you and your neighbors are all charging at night. Demand at night just eclipsed that during the day. Oops. And do you REALLY want to have 300A potential draw off of your 200A breaker panel and distribution transformer? On the hope that it won't all be used at the same time? Really?
Pie in the sky mentality. Simplistic, really. No clue what would be needed. And those electric companies are typically utilities paid for by consumers - who would have to fork over the money. But hey, you're rich, you can afford an EV, screw everyone else, right?
You completely blew off anyone with a 100A service. And ignored the cost of final distribution transformer limitations for small groups of homes. And wiring up hundreds or thousands of parking spots. Because you cannot admit you didn't think about the impact of taking something that is expensive and rare and beyond what existing infrastructure was designed to support at a big level - and then calculate what it costs to grow it to that big level.
Go ahead, think about the cost of doubling the power capacity of everyone in your neighborhood. Not just the panels. Not just the socket internally. Not just the local distribution transformers. Upgraded main HV lines to carry at least 2X the current (that cable is not cheap - it's about $4/foot in massive quantities). Bigger substations as well. It's the entire infrastructure that gets doubled or tripled in size. And that comes right back on top of the consumer, most of it immediately (panels, dist transformers, internal wiring).
As far as gas station upgrades, it's typically passed on to some of the consumers. When stations upgrade now, they tend to make it out of non-gasoline sales (since most make little to no profit selling gas). There's a reason those candy bars are $1.29, and a car wash is $13 - to pay for infrastructure upgrades. But gas - being a commodity - is still pretty cheap. Same thing will happen when hydrogen is sold at the station - the initial cost will be borne by the business and parceled out so some of the consumers - but not as a surcharge to the fuel itself.
So which is better? Hitting every consumer up-front with all those costs? Or letting a business bear the brunt of the up-front cost and spreading the payments out over multiple years?
In the UK, you get investigated and harassed by the police for using the wrong gender pronoun for transgender people. Seriously, that's so much better?
Claim that Islam is evil in most of the EU and you get charged and then sent to jail for 6+ months. It's not just Germany, but wonderful Sweden as well. And of course the UK.
Say anything against the Government in much of the world and you end up in prison (or just - gone). Yes, most of the rest of the world has a lot less freedom of speech. Provably so. In fact, your post to me would qualify as hate speech in much of Europe and could land you in jail because you denigrate me. Seriously.
Thankfully in the US if you need care, you can get it - guaranteed. Broken arm? Go to the emergency room and get it set. Canada? Get sent home for the weekend to come back in on Monday during normal office hours. Or go pay a bunch at the private clinic. Want a hearing aid? In the US, just walk into your local Costco. The UK? Hope you're OK waiting 6+ months, or you can go the private clinic.