Not just new construction, but remodeling fees. I'm redoing my kitchen right now, and moving an interior shear wall as well. Fees, permits, inspections, etc. are coming to about 12% of the entire cost. That's in addition to engineering costs for the rework itself. And with materials making up about 60% of the budget, and sales tax in CA, I'll pay close to 20% to the State for the privilege of remodeling my kitchen and opening it up to the dining room...
I had a truck for years, that got terrible mileage, but it was a great truck. My daily driver, however, was an assortment of motorcycles over 15 years,most getting 50+ MPG, an absolute blast to ride, and could park just about anywhere. Plus never got stuck in traffic in California thanks to the CHP's sensible attitude towards lane splitting (like the rest of the World - outside of Canada).
TFS talked about losses from hurricanes as a sign of the harm we're facing. When, in fact, there is no climate-change related harm from hurricanes. If they get that wrong - how much more do they get wrong?
Besides accumulated cyclone energy worldwide trending down for the last 25 years, there is no discernible climate-change signal in the US economic damage from hurricanes. As far as damage/bigger storms go, it seems what is predicted to happen from climate change isn't happening - the facts don't back it up.
Comes to the opposite conclusion about storm damage, stating that there is no discernible climate-change trend to hurricane damage in the US. Who's right? Perhaps it's too early to make a judgment given the data is so conflicting...
No it doesn't. If you're going to talk about it, learn some basic civics. Bill Clinton was impeached. Impeachment is merely the House bringing charges against a Federal officer. It is then tried in the Senate, and if 2/3rds of the Senate agrees - the officer is removed. Impeachment is the filing of charges; the case is tried in the Senate. Impeachmant has fuck-all to do with the Senate.
So what you're saying is that FB doesn't report its overseas revenues in the US, where its stock is listed, and thus is committing securities fraud? How much revenue does FB make worldwide? Do you have any links to revenues not reported to the SEC?
Because bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous, and once I tie your identity to your wallet (like, having you pay your tax bill via BTC) I can now look at all transactions with that wallet and see what you did. Bitcoin - blockchains in general - rely upon 100% transparency AND traceability of all transactions, so connecting you to a wallet once has now connected you to every transaction of that wallet.
Sure, that transaction is anonymous - until it's associated with a real-life ID. And then EVERY transaction you've ever made is now 100% traceable. Oh, we see you sent a few thousand dollars to some account in Kazakhstan in 2014, what was that for? Oh, and you cashed out a few coins in December 2017, but no mention of income was made. And why were you sending Satoshis at a regular clip in 2015 until now, to a recently-convicted oxy dealer?
No, it's not. You can buy a BMW, and you can buy a Toyota engine from lots of people, and you can fit the two together if you like. Apple wants it so that you can only buy engines from them - no one else. And then make it impossible for you to install any engine without their express permission.
WeChat Pay and Alipay both charge once you get above a relatively low limit (1000 RMB). Both also sit on your funds for 7 to 14 days, longer than Visa or Mastercard, or even UnionPay or Peony.
No, it's about the tracking. China's fledgling IRS (and I call it fledgling, because just 10 years ago they had really no ability to track income for just about anyone or any entity) loves this.
They're using the WeChat mobile pay data to find out that Xiang's corner grocery claimed it only sold 430,000 RMB of product last year, but had 2,430,000 in WeChat payments. Xiaoyan claimed she only received payments from her 20 RMB/hour office wage, but now they see she received another 600,000 RMB from her boss.
It's not about the cost of transactions; it's about being able to track those transactions and enforce whatever taxation and penalties they believe are appropriate.
Data is data. I posted the summaries of their revenues, profits, and taxation. If you have data to the contrary, I'd love to see it. But from their published data (data, which if you falsify, gets you sent to prison), they are paying quite a bit of taxes.
Facebook's income taxes. In 2017 they paid about $5 billion in income taxes, and $4.6 billion of those were in the US. Their revenue and net profit for 2017 was $40 billion and $16 billion, respectively. So they paid about a 24% income tax rate ($5 billion of $21 billion, giving a net $16 billion). That's higher than the average of the EU at ~19%, and hs quite a way from "virtually no tax".
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Yep, understood. So I moved to where it was. A man has to have his priorities straight! :)
Not just new construction, but remodeling fees. I'm redoing my kitchen right now, and moving an interior shear wall as well. Fees, permits, inspections, etc. are coming to about 12% of the entire cost. That's in addition to engineering costs for the rework itself. And with materials making up about 60% of the budget, and sales tax in CA, I'll pay close to 20% to the State for the privilege of remodeling my kitchen and opening it up to the dining room...
I had a truck for years, that got terrible mileage, but it was a great truck. My daily driver, however, was an assortment of motorcycles over 15 years,most getting 50+ MPG, an absolute blast to ride, and could park just about anywhere. Plus never got stuck in traffic in California thanks to the CHP's sensible attitude towards lane splitting (like the rest of the World - outside of Canada).
You must be in California. We get to pay extra special taxes and costs that the rest of the USA doesn't pay...
TFS talked about losses from hurricanes as a sign of the harm we're facing. When, in fact, there is no climate-change related harm from hurricanes. If they get that wrong - how much more do they get wrong?
On the other hand, all that other censorship by Google is completely acceptable and welcomed, right?
Besides accumulated cyclone energy worldwide trending down for the last 25 years, there is no discernible climate-change signal in the US economic damage from hurricanes. As far as damage/bigger storms go, it seems what is predicted to happen from climate change isn't happening - the facts don't back it up.
Comes to the opposite conclusion about storm damage, stating that there is no discernible climate-change trend to hurricane damage in the US. Who's right? Perhaps it's too early to make a judgment given the data is so conflicting...
Nature magazine says otherwise for a new peer-reviewed paper.
New paper in Nature that says there is no climate trend to hurricane damage. Which is opposite of what the Obama-started report states.
No it doesn't. If you're going to talk about it, learn some basic civics. Bill Clinton was impeached. Impeachment is merely the House bringing charges against a Federal officer. It is then tried in the Senate, and if 2/3rds of the Senate agrees - the officer is removed. Impeachment is the filing of charges; the case is tried in the Senate. Impeachmant has fuck-all to do with the Senate.
And if he's impeached - then what? He still completes his term...
So what you're saying is that FB doesn't report its overseas revenues in the US, where its stock is listed, and thus is committing securities fraud? How much revenue does FB make worldwide? Do you have any links to revenues not reported to the SEC?
Because bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous, and once I tie your identity to your wallet (like, having you pay your tax bill via BTC) I can now look at all transactions with that wallet and see what you did. Bitcoin - blockchains in general - rely upon 100% transparency AND traceability of all transactions, so connecting you to a wallet once has now connected you to every transaction of that wallet.
We have a winner!
Sure, that transaction is anonymous - until it's associated with a real-life ID. And then EVERY transaction you've ever made is now 100% traceable. Oh, we see you sent a few thousand dollars to some account in Kazakhstan in 2014, what was that for? Oh, and you cashed out a few coins in December 2017, but no mention of income was made. And why were you sending Satoshis at a regular clip in 2015 until now, to a recently-convicted oxy dealer?
I suspect we'll see what the Court considers a market...
No, it's not. You can buy a BMW, and you can buy a Toyota engine from lots of people, and you can fit the two together if you like. Apple wants it so that you can only buy engines from them - no one else. And then make it impossible for you to install any engine without their express permission.
WeChat Pay and Alipay both charge once you get above a relatively low limit (1000 RMB). Both also sit on your funds for 7 to 14 days, longer than Visa or Mastercard, or even UnionPay or Peony.
No, it's about the tracking. China's fledgling IRS (and I call it fledgling, because just 10 years ago they had really no ability to track income for just about anyone or any entity) loves this.
They're using the WeChat mobile pay data to find out that Xiang's corner grocery claimed it only sold 430,000 RMB of product last year, but had 2,430,000 in WeChat payments. Xiaoyan claimed she only received payments from her 20 RMB/hour office wage, but now they see she received another 600,000 RMB from her boss.
It's not about the cost of transactions; it's about being able to track those transactions and enforce whatever taxation and penalties they believe are appropriate.
And every 4 hours, Toyota US (not worldwide, just the US) sells more cars than Tesla makes in those 2 weeks.
Paypal, Zelle, Alipay, and many others - backed and/or associated with those banks - are essentially instant, and usually free.
See! It's inflation-proof!
Data is data. I posted the summaries of their revenues, profits, and taxation. If you have data to the contrary, I'd love to see it. But from their published data (data, which if you falsify, gets you sent to prison), they are paying quite a bit of taxes.
Facebook's income taxes. In 2017 they paid about $5 billion in income taxes, and $4.6 billion of those were in the US. Their revenue and net profit for 2017 was $40 billion and $16 billion, respectively. So they paid about a 24% income tax rate ($5 billion of $21 billion, giving a net $16 billion). That's higher than the average of the EU at ~19%, and hs quite a way from "virtually no tax".
Dogecoin is worth more this year than it was last year!