Comment BMG, Round Hill need only hear one thing. (Score 1) 187
Take your extortion game and suck it.
Take your extortion game and suck it.
Either way, it means fancy golfcarts for most of us, while the policymaking environmentalist nomenklatura drive whatever they want.
Yes, there's a problem with that.
(Not sure if parent poster is serious, but oh well)
It might be good to encourage the growth and accessibility to Dayton's remaining/growing industries instead of discouraging it. Unless you've been oblivious to the events of the last 10-15 years in the Miami Valley, you would notice that Dayton is missing some high-profile employers. Sinclair's program would do well to give greater access to the aerospace industry for people not fortunate enough to immediately get accepted to the University of Dayton or Wright State.
Besides, you'd have to call the University of Dayton's aerospace partnership with GE (the Episcenter) "liberal" as well.
If you're happy in Houston doing work with the oil industry (or even aerospace), I have nothing against you. I only speak of this for seeing what Dayton has been (an area led by manufacturing/electronics companies like NCR and GM) and what it will become (an area led by employers in technologically-intensive industries).
Well, we treat them like crap. On top of that they come here and find that they have very few opportunities to advance any more. Why would they want to come here? They'd be better off going to a civilized first-world country rather than the third-world construct we are trying so hard to make the US into.
It might not be a cultural fit for you, but it is a good fit for over 300m citizens (less amnestied illegals).
Unlike other countries, US property is respected enough to not need legions of gated communities. Other countries have them in quantities large enough to suggest that property is not respected(SE Asia) or to show mass contempt for their citizenry(e.g. Russia).
In addition, citizens enjoy more personal freedoms (despite what some thinktanks would claim) than nearly any other country in the world. For example, self-defense with a firearm is encouraged in many parts of the country(not just Texas), when many parts of the world wish to restrict it. In addition, speaking up against politicians is not followed by a disappearance, house arrest, or defamation charge.
As for the complaints about non-citizens not being treated properly, that comes with any civilized country. Guest workers and illegals are just the next tiers below temporary/contingent/casual employment.
The talent is already here, just that it resides with citizens (full and naturalized) of the United States of America. Where it does not exactly exist, citizens are more likely to start from a competent, trainable background - unlike the majority of guest workers. The only problem is that employers see freedom as a cost when someone else has it as opposed to a benefit when held by an employer.
More good would be done by repealing the 1965 Immigration Act and removing the regulations it enabled. Then if someone is really worth it, they will pursue citizenship. If we're lucky, pass a federal version of Arizona's SB1070 to put some fear into illegals and those who aid/abet/hire/contract them.
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The rules prohibited ISPs from interfering with internet traffic, except as a last resort, and urged them to instead combat network congestion with “economic measures” such as new investment or usage limits.
The problem is that the usage limits do not enhance innovation, but serve to squelch it. Remove that avenue and things would be ifne.
If the world stands still, the U.S. may conceivably regain the lead in supercomputing speed from China with these new systems
It's kind of hard to regain something you didn't truly lose to China.
First option:
Turn up the heat on the countries that aid and abet such evasion, such that they end up quitting the practice voluntarily. Offer to exchange information on theirs to gain wider cooperation.
Second option:
If cooperation cannot be attained, then take governmental action within the IRS to penalize such activity (as far as they can go). That doesn't mean taking a page out of Nixon or Obama, but to use any legal and Constitutionally approved means to stop the evasion.
Third option:
Start playing hardball through other legal means in other governmental entities. Their tax structure and obstinacy is enough justification. Offer large tax cuts that have a condition of taking a visible penalty or reward for tax structures.
Final (if nothing else at all works and something must be done) option:
The DoD does something outside of the US and K Street won't know the full implications until the public has a need to know.
Creative accounting and structuring implies an actively hostile posture towards the IRS as opposed to getting the last dollar out of your 1040.
You're doing it for the extra dollar, with negligible free-rider problems
Apple's doing it with the intent of having its cake and eating it, which creates a large free-rider problem.
They're paying what they should be paying.
Only with such structured evasion.
Yes, evasion in a manner that the IRS would do well to re-evaluate. No, it's not on the same level as what one might do with a regular tax return.
You may notice that the US is trying to tax businesses for doing business in the US, and also tax US businesses for doing business outside the US. US businesses are simply moving their non-US business outside the US, which is where it is anyway.
The problem occurs when US operations are made to look like non-US operations, creating a very harmful free-rider situation. They are getting US protections and services without the requisite revenue paid to the US.
In addition, it is the only effective way to pursue structured revenue, especially when the US has a few world-leading departments under the DoD to help.
This needs to stop, and while it's impossible to prevent all forms of harassment from occurring online, we can start by creating a culture that shames individuals who cross the bounds of decency.
Does this include shaming individuals that fake their own threats, such as Anita Sarkeesian and silence any attempts to call them out?
Similarly, it is never acceptable to dox, harass, post nude pictures, or in any other way violate someone's privacy due to disagreement with their opinions.
Does that include the kinds of harassment performed by Chelsea "Zoe Quinn" van Valkenberg, Sarkeesian, and the like? Or is it OK if they do it, but not if anyone else calls them on it?
I guess you didn't read the Snowden allegations
FTFY.
If you think the USA is somehow on a moral high ground here, I really wonder why.
See my title - China has been proven to do it while Snowden hasn't even gone to a US court. The only people that think that the US has lost any moral ground are those that oppose the US, and/or additionally support Snowden's allegations.
Miami has more entrepreneurial activity per capita than silicon valley
Only if you count trackable, legal activity.
Probably why the company is in Florida, the state that sacrifices everyone else to you if you run a business.
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