They just paid $287MM in taxes for Q1 2018, and over the last two years paid a little more than $2B in income taxes alone. They also paid about $250MM in State taxes (Washington does not have a business or individual income tax). Or do you mean they should pay a tax on their value, not their income?
Guam. You want to buy Guam. That sucker floats and you have to worry about it tipping over if you put too many people on it in one place. But it should also be pretty resistant to sea level rise because of the floating nature of Guam...
He doesn't actually have that money. His stock is WORTH that much, if you valued it at today's price. If he started to sell any appreciable amount of his stock, the price would plummet. It's an "on paper" value only.
I have lived without power for a year - did that when I was living in a tiny village outside of Chaiyaphum, Thailand. It was a problem, but not as bad as many would think. And how many home is PR did NOT have reliable power before the hurricane? Are those households "excluded" from the stats bandied about here?
What metric, then, do you choose to use that will change the data? PPP tries to equalize for things like cost of goods, regulatory, etc. via a basket-of-goods comparison basis.
Purchasing Power Parity for all of the Caribbean and Latin America nations (thus not including Puerto Rico). Trinidad and Tobago are tops with around $32,200 PPP. For Puerto Rico we find a PPP around $35,000. Indeed, Puerto Rico is the richest place in the Caribbean, even by purchasing power parity.
T&T has a GDP around $44 billion; PR has a GDP around $105 billion.
Just writing TRUMP on the sidewalk is a microaggression and wearing a Trump shirt can get you booted from class. So we're not too far off of when you need to rise and shine!
Given there are approximately 1.26 million households and 43,000 businessesin Puerto Rico, this is actually pretty much a non-issue. We're talking about 0.07% of the homes and businesses in PR that are left without power. My guess is you get close to that in any given US city just from daily work/repairs and accidents (drunks hitting power poles, etc).
OR. You seem to know know what that word means.. When someone says "OK, here in this case we're talking "owned", how does that work?" and you ignore the OR... Time for remedial reading!
PG&E should not be exempted from prosecution, and the executives of the utility should be brought to Court. Of course, when PG&E is basically a Government entity (due to massive regulations and funding - it's essentially a 'fascist corporation" for the State of California), it's going to get preferential treatment...
While you're at it, you should learn about Switzerland's political system. It's not direct democratic; it's semi-direct, it's a Federal system like the US is supposed to have. Direct at the local level, indirect at higher levels. And it helps when you have just 8 million people (about the size of the Bay area, or 1/3rd of the Los Angeles area) in your entire Country; you can manage "democratic" operation a bit higher up.
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned OR REGULATED by the community as a whole
YOUR definition of Socialism. Means of production, distribution, and exchange owned... by the community as a whole. YOU used that as what socialism is, and that means everyone owns the store. But in typical fascist (for that is what socialism leads to) manner, only a select few get to determine what happens with that grocery store.
What is interesting is that the winner of the last election spent less in normalized 2016 dollars than any winner since 1960. And less than 75% of the losers, too.
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They just paid $287MM in taxes for Q1 2018, and over the last two years paid a little more than $2B in income taxes alone. They also paid about $250MM in State taxes (Washington does not have a business or individual income tax). Or do you mean they should pay a tax on their value, not their income?
How about investing that money in a great, solid, growing business that dominates its market? Something like, say, Amazon?
Guam. You want to buy Guam. That sucker floats and you have to worry about it tipping over if you put too many people on it in one place. But it should also be pretty resistant to sea level rise because of the floating nature of Guam...
He doesn't actually have that money. His stock is WORTH that much, if you valued it at today's price. If he started to sell any appreciable amount of his stock, the price would plummet. It's an "on paper" value only.
If you plug the hole in the bottom are they still considered virgins?
Most direct burial fiber optic cable is rated for IP68, which means direct water immersion (unlimited time) of at least 1 meter.
Citation needed.
Clearly you're not a Canadian, eh. It's aboot time you admit it, eh? You forgot the "Eh" at the end of Alberta Government, eh..
Just a little ribbing for our brothers in Canuckistan from a displaced Tropical Hippy from Seattle...:)
I have lived without power for a year - did that when I was living in a tiny village outside of Chaiyaphum, Thailand. It was a problem, but not as bad as many would think. And how many home is PR did NOT have reliable power before the hurricane? Are those households "excluded" from the stats bandied about here?
What metric, then, do you choose to use that will change the data? PPP tries to equalize for things like cost of goods, regulatory, etc. via a basket-of-goods comparison basis.
Purchasing Power Parity for all of the Caribbean and Latin America nations (thus not including Puerto Rico). Trinidad and Tobago are tops with around $32,200 PPP. For Puerto Rico we find a PPP around $35,000. Indeed, Puerto Rico is the richest place in the Caribbean, even by purchasing power parity.
T&T has a GDP around $44 billion; PR has a GDP around $105 billion.
Cap gains, which are taxed at 0% to 20%? That's how you get to 60%? Again - you're full of BS.
Just writing TRUMP on the sidewalk is a microaggression and wearing a Trump shirt can get you booted from class. So we're not too far off of when you need to rise and shine!
Given there are approximately 1.26 million households and 43,000 businessesin Puerto Rico, this is actually pretty much a non-issue. We're talking about 0.07% of the homes and businesses in PR that are left without power. My guess is you get close to that in any given US city just from daily work/repairs and accidents (drunks hitting power poles, etc).
OR. You seem to know know what that word means.. When someone says "OK, here in this case we're talking "owned", how does that work?" and you ignore the OR... Time for remedial reading!
So you make over $380K a year?
PG&E should not be exempted from prosecution, and the executives of the utility should be brought to Court. Of course, when PG&E is basically a Government entity (due to massive regulations and funding - it's essentially a 'fascist corporation" for the State of California), it's going to get preferential treatment...
While you're at it, you should learn about Switzerland's political system. It's not direct democratic; it's semi-direct, it's a Federal system like the US is supposed to have. Direct at the local level, indirect at higher levels. And it helps when you have just 8 million people (about the size of the Bay area, or 1/3rd of the Los Angeles area) in your entire Country; you can manage "democratic" operation a bit higher up.
Do those work for ocean going vessels? In fact, how many electric ocean freighters are there?
About 70% of all Federal spending goes to those at or below median income.
BS. You're retired, you pay nowhere near 60% of income in taxes. I'd be surprised if you pay over 30%. But feel free to pay another 30%...
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned OR REGULATED by the community as a whole
YOUR definition of Socialism. Means of production, distribution, and exchange owned ... by the community as a whole. YOU used that as what socialism is, and that means everyone owns the store. But in typical fascist (for that is what socialism leads to) manner, only a select few get to determine what happens with that grocery store.
Dumbshit.
Because Russia is a fascist oligarchy, and they keep the profits to the elite only. Much like China.
It's "the Alberta Government, Eh" - amirite?
What is interesting is that the winner of the last election spent less in normalized 2016 dollars than any winner since 1960. And less than 75% of the losers, too.