It's not a tax in any way on income. When a company sets the cost of having an employee, the payroll taxes are added to the cost of having that employee. Those taxes don't go to the operation of government (even if the collected Payroll taxes are borrowed against).

Of course those taxes go to the operation of Government, all taxes do.

Now, imagine a small business with a payroll budget of 100K.

They need to hire a third person, but they can't. They've hired 2 people at a cost of $40K / year.

Now drop this companies taxes, and the cost of the employee drops to $30K / year, and suddenly, they can hire a third person AND give raises to existing employees.

So... maybe... just maybe... the company is right, and their taxes are like the rent - just too damn high.

Just because they didn't pay corporate income taxes does not mean they didn't pay anything in Payroll taxes.

So they did, in fact, pay taxes, and the entire premise of the article and your journal entry is flawed.

P.S. Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Something else for the little bitch damn_registrars to piss and moan about.

Consider the silver lining, Squeak: Since your poorly written story (complete with a weak troll attempt) didn't get posted, you couldn't comment on it. And since you couldn't comment on it, you couldn't be an asshole in your comments. And since you couldn't be an asshole in your comments, you couldn't be modded down. And since you couldn't be modded down, you couldn't write yet another long ass whiny bitchfest about getting modded down. And since you couldn't write yet another long ass whiny bitchfest about getting modded down, you write a whiny bitchfest about your submission being rejected. And since you write a whiny bitchfest about your submission being rejected, I was able to point this out to you and hopefully educate you. And since I was able to point this out to you and hopefully educate you, you'll be able to respond with your trademark brand of utter stupidity. And since you'll be able to respond with your trademark brand of utter stupidity, I'll be able to point that out as well.

Should I give a mouse a cookie?

Wow, damn_registrars.... The real RG hasn't posted in over a year. Your mother must be so proud that you can hold on to an obsession that long.

Your gay attraction to him must be strong indeed.

C'mon, slashdot, we need a volunteer. Someone must be willing to plow damn_registrars and relieve his obvious gay sexual tension. C'mon, someone throw him a bone. He'll catch it (IYKWIMAITYD).

I mean, I don't want to live in a world where a precious, obsessive compulsive, special needs snowflake like damn_registrars is unable to live out his sexual fantasy of getting bent over and plowed. Someone help him out.

EPIX, EPIX2, and EPIXDR are awesome. They're showing first rate, blockbuster movies - before they even hit Netflix streaming - plus, EpixDR is showing all the awesome campy B movies..

No Intellivision, either.

There is no reason to believe that statement.

Of course there is. I've (eventually) claimed all my sock puppet accounts, and this one is no different.

Want me to try and remember the password for darn_registrars and use that again?

But... playing your little semantic games gives you away. Why would you make such an obvious error?

Answer: Because you have to in order to keep up the charade that you aren't behind the AC trolls that follow *every single one* of the posts I make. Let's face it dude, we've already established that you're the only one with the required OCD to pull that off.

Therefore, logically, it benefits you in this silly game to play stupid - except in order to successfully play stupid, you can't actually be stupid, and you are.

I'm not denying anything. I have no sock puppet accounts, period.

So you follow a statement that you're not denying anything with a *gasp* denial that you use sock puppet accounts.

Jeez, man, you're making this too easy.

So let me reiterate: YOU, damn_registrars, are clearly behind the AC postings that reply to nearly every single post of mine. YOU, damn_registrars, are using the AC postings to laughably make a claim that this account belongs to you, even though this account is one of mine (Red).

The reason you do this is quite simple: You are embarrassed at being caught playing dumb little sock puppet and AC trolling games. You are quite likely afraid of your real identity being found out and someone you're repeatedly and obsessively harassed and stalked on this site pointing that fact out and giving you real world consequences of your actions.

And perhaps worst of all, you are upset that despite your delusional self image of yourself as the "smartest person in the room" - as witnessed by your posting history, you're been repeatedly out-smarted, out-witted, and completely outclassed by an account(s) you try to simply dismiss as a troll.

That being all said....

HOW'S MY ASS TASTE?

Love and Kisses,

Red

Belt-Sander Boy

*ahem*.

BAAAAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Epic win, AC. Epic win.

Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

Please show me where I said it was anything other than "interesting", damn_registrars. Thanks for proving once again that logic is a topic that completely escapes you.

Interesting that these posts are *exactly* 30 minutes apart.

Slashcode's time limit, no?

ooks like you can't live without, whatever are you going to do when I stop posting here? Your life... it will lose any meaning (assuming it has any right now, which, outside of following me on /., is very unlikely).

Your obsessed AC troll is just one of the many sockpuppet account that damn_registrars uses.

d_r has a history of obsessively harassing posters, and you're just the latest in a long line.

from an email address that traces back to my actual identity you could know my name.

I already know your name; it's Squeak Scolari.

Cause you're a little bitch.

Quite likely you are hoping I would email you

No, I was hoping you'd post logged in for once, and make it extremely obvious the AC posts were yours as well.

Do you ever get the feeling that I'm always a few steps ahead of you? If not... you probably should. Now go fetch the ball, bitch.

What's amusing, my dear damn_registrars, is you think that *anyone* is buying this crap you're trying to sell.

Everyone knows you're not Red, and that (faking my own death aside) I am.

What we also know, is that for whatever reason, you both want me sexually and at the same time want to be me. Which is weird, but hey - you're weird.

Tell ya what. I've grown really tired of this. $10 and I'll give you the passwords to both this account and red4man. They're all yours. Just email me at foreverredforeman at gmail, and we'll discuss how you can get the ten bucks to me.

Hell, you might even be able to talk me down to 5 bucks.

Thank you for posting AC, damn_registrars, just like I knew you would.

Because of that prediction I made with a friend before I posted here, I just won a $5 bet with someone.

I'll use to proceeds to pay for part of a sandwich. When I eat lunch today - very similar to the way I consistently eat your breakfast - I'll think of you. For about half a second, anyway.

That is a decent impersonation of the fake conservative who used to hang out on slashdot under the moniker of railgunner.

Which means it's highly likely that you posted it, since you're a known AC troll and sock-puppeteer.