Yes, losses to theft are tax deductible. They are for all businesses. But what is the tax rate in your country? Unless you are posting from North Korea, I'm betting it is less than 100%, meaning you lose money in the transaction. Of course, if ALL of your equipment walks away, then you don't have any taxes on gains to offset, so you just plain lose everything.
When I look up "MiFi Manager", I find that it is personal hotspot software.
This is really nuts. Major clarification is needed here. They talk about "donations" in the same breath as "services", so pretty much anything could be going on here. Whether the homeless person gets to keep the money, or whether he collects it for the shelter (and then whether he is paid for his trouble or not) is a BIG DEAL.
But they don't wear a big sign saying "I have valuable property on me".
Sort of like when I delivered pizza in high school and they started making us put big lighted signs on top of our cars. Robberies, including armed robberies increased right away. But the pay was good so I put up with it until I left for college. Here, the pay ain't so good.
Well, perhaps you should ask your employer to to pay for your food and housing directly and not pay you a wage, and see how your relationship with them changes.
Anonymous Coward thinks it is "easy" to start a business, and that having an LLC somehow shields a company from losses to theft, rather than being a vehicle for minimizing losses to lawsuits.
Yes, surely he is right. No-one would dare to walk away with the property of an LLC, and even if they did, the LLC fairy would swing on down and make it all better with a wave of it's magic wand.
Of course you are right. Just like your great grand-daddy was a kind hearted soul who provided food, shelter, and some scraps of clothes for some poor people with no-where else to go in exchange for doing a few chores.
Until I see something claiming otherwise, they don't get paid. Assuming they do get paid is a good way to come to a faulty conclusion. Sort of like assuming that slaves get paid for their services, which lessens the "holy shit that is evil what you are doing to that person right there" reaction.
But this isn't a job, as all the money appears to be "donated" to the homeless shelter.
Now that might seem like an ok deal for the "worker"/slave, as they help to ensure that there will be a place to sleep with warm food, until you consider that they can be kicked out at any time with nothing to show for their effort.
Basically, this is micro-Communism. Fuck that, pay them a wage, or let them keep a portion of the money earned for their labors.
Uhh, yeah, societies change. But the people don't. That is the point.
Man never overcame the law of gravity. Similarly, he has never overcome the laws of economics. When you print money, you will get what all the other money printers have ever gotten, economic ruin. PERIOD.
If you can't safely report it without fear of having your rights stripped from you without due process, then the people who MAKE the pornography and sometimes really, REALLY hurt or even kill the victims get off SCOT FREE. Because no-one who saw it would ever report it out of free of being crushed by the state.
Right, because the banks aren't confiscating everyone else's purchasing power via money printing, and they certainly aren't the ones who are subjecting nations around the world to debt slavery, or stealing money out of client's accounts, or any of the other nasty things that they have been caught doing.
I can't speak for the punk kids who claim to be anarchists, but real anarchy is not about exerting force on people on a small scale--that is tribalism, or at least leads directly to tribalism within a short time period.
No, anarchy is about decentralization of power. Society need not fall apart in anarchy, but rather, it is slightly reorganized from a coercive society to a voluntary society. The core of anarchy already exists, the only difference is that the government loses its power to force people to do things. Without the power to force people to pay taxes, they shrink greatly if not disappear, while the necessary social functions they currently monopolize are taken up by private companies. Many of those functions that we consider necessary would fall to insurance agencies. For example, fire services would be taken over by them in a short time, as it is much cheaper to fund a fire department than it is to pay out on a whole city's worth of claims. This would further create an incentive for individuals to build fire-resistant structures, as there is no building code, so the insurance agencies must inspect the premises of any new client to make sure that the building is up to their standards, and to determine their rate.
Sadly, the only anarchic state on Earth is under constant attack from neighboring states and do-gooders from the UN and idiots who want to instal an Islamic state, in addition to the fact that they started with the ruination of a collapsed Communist regime. Despite this, they have the most advanced telecommunications infrastructure in Sub-saharan Africa.
I'd bet you missed the ones about the American citizens being targeted for execution without trial on the word of the executive.
Also, I bet you missed that that is a thing now. Not long now until the Night of the Long Knives comes to the United States. When it gets here, it will be too late, if it isn't already.
I like how those are your only two options. Surely no-one could study history and find similarities between disparate cultures on their own by applying a basic understanding of human psychology, namely factors which motivate people to build things, and the factors which discourage them from building things.
I bet you don't even realize that the only African society that resisted invasion and colonization through their entire history was also the culture that was the most free in all of Africa. I bet you don't even know which one I am talking about.
Further, in the Americas, those cultures which recognized individual rights to a greater degree built greater civilizations AND survived. Those that didn't crawled around on the plains and were almost totally wiped out, leaving a few pitiful descendants clinging to their foolish traditions while their leaders force compliance among them by controlling who gets their welfare money and who doesn't. I bet you've never even set foot on an Indian reservation, much less bothered to talk to the people there.
But then, you strike me as one of the modern barbarians, so I doubt you are interested in any sort of individual inquiry, and would rather just allow those who are stronger than you to dictate what you know, in the hopes of one day being the one doing the dictating.
You need to learn more history. Those civilizations that respect the rights of their citizens roll over those that don't like a steamroller. That is exactly what happened during the colonial era. Europeans began respecting the rights of their citizens, those citizens accumulated capital and invested it in research, and learned how to mass produce things for less. They then took that capital and rolled over the Native American civilizations, Africa (even though the Africans had steel and had access to firearms via mercenaries), and Australia. Attempts to roll over other civilizations that recognized and protected freedoms to a greater extent than the aforementioned came out of it much more intact, and are gaining in power even as those western civilizations begin the long, slow slide into barbarism that begins with the abrogation of the freedoms of the people.
Neither. There will come a time before long when NO-ONE will be laughing, as the terror which has been wrought upon us by our government and the banks is revealed for what it really is.
Investigative journalists could pull back the curtain early, before it is too late, but the government is crushing what few are left.
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Yes, losses to theft are tax deductible. They are for all businesses. But what is the tax rate in your country? Unless you are posting from North Korea, I'm betting it is less than 100%, meaning you lose money in the transaction. Of course, if ALL of your equipment walks away, then you don't have any taxes on gains to offset, so you just plain lose everything.
When I look up "MiFi Manager", I find that it is personal hotspot software.
This is really nuts. Major clarification is needed here. They talk about "donations" in the same breath as "services", so pretty much anything could be going on here. Whether the homeless person gets to keep the money, or whether he collects it for the shelter (and then whether he is paid for his trouble or not) is a BIG DEAL.
But they don't wear a big sign saying "I have valuable property on me".
Sort of like when I delivered pizza in high school and they started making us put big lighted signs on top of our cars. Robberies, including armed robberies increased right away. But the pay was good so I put up with it until I left for college. Here, the pay ain't so good.
Well, perhaps you should ask your employer to to pay for your food and housing directly and not pay you a wage, and see how your relationship with them changes.
Anonymous Coward thinks it is "easy" to start a business, and that having an LLC somehow shields a company from losses to theft, rather than being a vehicle for minimizing losses to lawsuits.
Yes, surely he is right. No-one would dare to walk away with the property of an LLC, and even if they did, the LLC fairy would swing on down and make it all better with a wave of it's magic wand.
Of course you are right. Just like your great grand-daddy was a kind hearted soul who provided food, shelter, and some scraps of clothes for some poor people with no-where else to go in exchange for doing a few chores.
Until I see something claiming otherwise, they don't get paid. Assuming they do get paid is a good way to come to a faulty conclusion. Sort of like assuming that slaves get paid for their services, which lessens the "holy shit that is evil what you are doing to that person right there" reaction.
But this isn't a job, as all the money appears to be "donated" to the homeless shelter.
Now that might seem like an ok deal for the "worker"/slave, as they help to ensure that there will be a place to sleep with warm food, until you consider that they can be kicked out at any time with nothing to show for their effort.
Basically, this is micro-Communism. Fuck that, pay them a wage, or let them keep a portion of the money earned for their labors.
You seem to be making the more invalid assumption that they are all honest, which is a good way to lose all of your start-up capital.
Yes, but this implies that they get ALL of it. No pay to the person doing the work and taking the physical risk of being on the street.
Cashiers don't get paid? New one on me.
Why don't the proceeds go to the homeless person carrying around the equipment!?
Uhh, yeah, societies change. But the people don't. That is the point.
Man never overcame the law of gravity. Similarly, he has never overcome the laws of economics. When you print money, you will get what all the other money printers have ever gotten, economic ruin. PERIOD.
Innocent men are punished just the same as the guilty, then.
Yes, and they should act like all the other gods ever dreamed up exist, and follow all of their contradictory demands as well.
Clearly you stole your own car in order to get the insurance money for terrorism and kiddie porn.
Book 'em, Danno!
What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
I guess that's out the window these days.
Their laws are worded pretty vaguely. Here is the statute you are talking about:
"Bork bork bork, bork bork bork bork. Bork bork; bork bork bork. Bork bork bork bork bork bork."
If you can't safely report it without fear of having your rights stripped from you without due process, then the people who MAKE the pornography and sometimes really, REALLY hurt or even kill the victims get off SCOT FREE. Because no-one who saw it would ever report it out of free of being crushed by the state.
Right, because the banks aren't confiscating everyone else's purchasing power via money printing, and they certainly aren't the ones who are subjecting nations around the world to debt slavery, or stealing money out of client's accounts, or any of the other nasty things that they have been caught doing.
I can't speak for the punk kids who claim to be anarchists, but real anarchy is not about exerting force on people on a small scale--that is tribalism, or at least leads directly to tribalism within a short time period.
No, anarchy is about decentralization of power. Society need not fall apart in anarchy, but rather, it is slightly reorganized from a coercive society to a voluntary society. The core of anarchy already exists, the only difference is that the government loses its power to force people to do things. Without the power to force people to pay taxes, they shrink greatly if not disappear, while the necessary social functions they currently monopolize are taken up by private companies. Many of those functions that we consider necessary would fall to insurance agencies. For example, fire services would be taken over by them in a short time, as it is much cheaper to fund a fire department than it is to pay out on a whole city's worth of claims. This would further create an incentive for individuals to build fire-resistant structures, as there is no building code, so the insurance agencies must inspect the premises of any new client to make sure that the building is up to their standards, and to determine their rate.
Sadly, the only anarchic state on Earth is under constant attack from neighboring states and do-gooders from the UN and idiots who want to instal an Islamic state, in addition to the fact that they started with the ruination of a collapsed Communist regime. Despite this, they have the most advanced telecommunications infrastructure in Sub-saharan Africa.
I'd bet you missed the ones about the American citizens being targeted for execution without trial on the word of the executive.
Also, I bet you missed that that is a thing now. Not long now until the Night of the Long Knives comes to the United States. When it gets here, it will be too late, if it isn't already.
I like how those are your only two options. Surely no-one could study history and find similarities between disparate cultures on their own by applying a basic understanding of human psychology, namely factors which motivate people to build things, and the factors which discourage them from building things.
I bet you don't even realize that the only African society that resisted invasion and colonization through their entire history was also the culture that was the most free in all of Africa. I bet you don't even know which one I am talking about.
Further, in the Americas, those cultures which recognized individual rights to a greater degree built greater civilizations AND survived. Those that didn't crawled around on the plains and were almost totally wiped out, leaving a few pitiful descendants clinging to their foolish traditions while their leaders force compliance among them by controlling who gets their welfare money and who doesn't. I bet you've never even set foot on an Indian reservation, much less bothered to talk to the people there.
But then, you strike me as one of the modern barbarians, so I doubt you are interested in any sort of individual inquiry, and would rather just allow those who are stronger than you to dictate what you know, in the hopes of one day being the one doing the dictating.
You need to learn more history. Those civilizations that respect the rights of their citizens roll over those that don't like a steamroller. That is exactly what happened during the colonial era. Europeans began respecting the rights of their citizens, those citizens accumulated capital and invested it in research, and learned how to mass produce things for less. They then took that capital and rolled over the Native American civilizations, Africa (even though the Africans had steel and had access to firearms via mercenaries), and Australia. Attempts to roll over other civilizations that recognized and protected freedoms to a greater extent than the aforementioned came out of it much more intact, and are gaining in power even as those western civilizations begin the long, slow slide into barbarism that begins with the abrogation of the freedoms of the people.
Neither. There will come a time before long when NO-ONE will be laughing, as the terror which has been wrought upon us by our government and the banks is revealed for what it really is.
Investigative journalists could pull back the curtain early, before it is too late, but the government is crushing what few are left.