Comment Re:The only ones who win are the lawyers. (Score 3, Funny) 132
So it is not always the lawyers who win. Sometimes it is the hit-men.
What is the difference?
So it is not always the lawyers who win. Sometimes it is the hit-men.
What is the difference?
Seriously, fuck Disney! I remember the LucasArts games back in their heyday
The article at Wired.com sums it up best: "The LucasArts that died today is not the one you loved, and it was never going to be again."
You've obviously never tried to trace a fraudulent transaction though multiple jurisdictions
It's simple really, just write a program in VB so you can backtrace it.
Then when they used it to buy more candy bars it was taxed again...
Usually, products that are purchased for resale are exempt from sales tax. Sales taxes are not calculated until it is sold to the end user.
Candy purchased by a mini-mart at Costco -> no sales tax
Me buying the candy bar from that mini-mart -> sales tax calculated
True that. Taxing a corporation results in those taxes (if paid) being classified as expenses. Added to costs. Added to prices. Paid by you and me.
Really? Since when? Under the current US tax law, taxes are paid on net profits (income minus expenses). An expense is the money spent on things that are necessary for the operations of a business. The more expenses you have, the lower the tax burden. More expenses than income? You pay $0 taxes and deffer the remaining expenses to future tax seasons. Fees for government inspections/registration are expenses, not taxes; they can be written off. If we want companies to grow, we need to minimize their expenses and not just by having fewer people on staff.
Dividends on stocks are paid after taxes because the payment of dividends is not essential to the running of a business. If the tax rate on businesses were to go down further, we would see an increase in dividends paid. With taxes on dividends paid at a top rate of 15% (no FICA either), that is a massive amount of taxes being avoided. The companies that are actually creating jobs are not the ones paying out dividends. The ones creating jobs are in their first five years of growth and generally paying fewer taxes. The Bush era tax cuts increased the amount of time that start-up costs for a business had to be amortirized from 5 years (for any amount) to 15 years (for any amount over $5000).
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.