The fact that they can take a vehicle when the owner wasn't even involved in the incident still blows my mind.
There was a case of this years ago when a man used his wife's car, and got caught soliciting a prostitute (undercover cop).
You clearly don't understand the difference between petty and grand larceny. Take the chip off your shoulder. You have zero evidence that the rich lie, cheat and steal at a rate higher than middle or low income people.
Just to clarify, the threshold in most of the U.S. is only $400, and hasn't changed in decades. From Wikipedia...
Grand larceny is typically defined as larceny of a more significant amount of property. In the US, it is often defined as an amount valued at $400 or more. In New York, grand larceny refers to amounts of $1,000 or more. Grand larceny is often classified as a felony with the concomitant possibility of a harsher sentence. In Virginia the threshold is only $5 if taken from a person, or $200 if not taken from the person.[38] The same penalty applies for stealing checks as for cash or other valuables.
Says the AC internet tough guy.
We don't need any amazingly complex and fantastically expensive research here. We have a substance known to work. It would be helpful to isolate the active ingredients, but that's not the crazy expensive part.
Of course these days, aspirin is cheap enough in generic form that it makes sense to just use it, but even otherwise, why would I need to grow my own willow tree? (unless I just want one)
Then there's marinol. They extracted the THC from pot in some mis-guided effort to get the medicinal effects without admitting they screwed up with the war on drugs. And of course, it was to be far more expensive than even the black market herb it replaced. It failed since they lost at least half of the beneficial effects and potentiated the tendency to cause psychosis. Turns out the CBD is as important as the THC.
Recently, it was discovered that nicotine can be very effective against the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and started a mad dash to come up with something based on it that isn't nicotine. Nobody seems to have considered passing out gum and patches.
Garlic is known to have antiseptic properties. Leeks are related to garlic but may have different compounds with antiseptic properties. No idea what the bile does.
He really deserves a lot of credit - look at Jar Jar.
That could EASILY have been how C3P0 went if it were not for Daniels understanding how to play a comedic role properly.
They have the talent to be better then most movie stars, but that's really common in LA.
I don't believe it. I believe they think they are more talented than movie stars, but that thinking is common in LA. It's the actor version of the Dunning–Kruger effect.
One of the few things I learned in college was how to learn things.
I was lucky; I was homeschooled before college, and as a result learned how to learn things with directed self study instead of just doing what teachers said.
It made college way more valuable to me as a result, but it also made life after college better because there was never a point where I thought "Yep, done learning now, time to work for a few decades".
The sooner we can get people into a state where they enjoy and can learn on their own, the better everyone will be.
They would still need to audit individuals to make sure they've paid the sales tax on things that they buy.
You don't audit individuals for that. You audit the businesses to make sure they collected and paid the sales tax to the appropriate agency.
As for the sales tax vs importation duties, well, informal wording. You can apply the sales tax to imported goods, though it would be fairly complicated. Countries with VAT tax systems do it regularly.
Implying that the IRS would become a friend of man because their job would be different is just loony. They'll still be a large, powerful tool available to the ruling party.
1. Never said 'friend'. Mostly just less concerned about the individual.
2. The ruling party argument is indeed one of the reasons why people say it'd never pass.
3. Why are we still arguing about this? I'll repeat: Income to Sales tax was only given as an extreme example of how, in the face of changing tax law, the IRS would end up becoming a vastly different agency even if you didn't change anything else. I wasn't arguing for a sales tax system being implemented at all. Did the fairtax.org people kick your dog or something?
What truth? D'oh. Do they really qualify as "poor enough" to get the sales tax rebate? Does that person who answered "yes" really even exist, or did they die two years ago? Why assets and income? To know if they are poor enough to qualify. You're making $200k a year and own a mansion and a yacht, what makes you think you'll qualify for the rebate?
1. 'Poor enough' doesn't matter, seeing as how in the schemes I've read about Bill Gates is poor enough to get it. So you're arguing against your own little customized scheme. Certainly not 'fairtax', which is the proposal I remember reading.
2. 'Really even exist/Not Dead/Etc...' - Doesn't require digging into a person's financials, just that you have a pulse.
Most of the time current tax rebates and credits are dependent upon income.
As a volunteer tax preparer, I'd say only about half of them are, other than the whole 'have to have enough income to actually have enough tax to refund'.
it will be hard to hide the fact that the 1% is benefiting from the free money intended to help the poor people.
...Interesting viewpoint you have. BTW, you gotta stop arguing against part of a proposal that YOU put in there, especially when you don't explain it first. I was kinda going 'WTF' on the eligibility tests for the rebate, because they're not IN mainline proposals. They're in YOURS, which kind of turns it into a strawman, you know? Arguing that the politicians wouldn't allow a fairtax without putting a income test on the prebate is kind of missing the point, given that the fairtax people are already tilting at windmills(IE their proposal doesn't have a chance period).
The idea behind the prebate is that it becomes sort of a BIG - 'Basic Guaranteed Income' - EVERYBODY gets it, because this cuts down on paperwork. You propose your income check to the fairtax guys, they're going to reject it, because it's a core part of their proposal. It's what makes the sales tax actually be progressive. Then Bill Gates and such go and spend oodles of money, and they pay far more in sales takes than the puny little rebate check, so it all balances out. WITHOUT a lot of the crud of the current income tax system, which is sort of the point. Somebody making(and spending) $20k a year will pay a lower effective rate than somebody making & spending $200k/year.
You don't think an audit checks your income? And I was accused of being naive because I didn't agree that it was an anal probe process.
CURRENT audits check income because it's part of how your tax owed is determined. That's part of the 'anal probe'. An audit to make sure that you're a living citizen/legal resident doesn't require your income to be checked because it doesn't matter to your return. Much like how current audits don't check to see what you had for dinner last night, because it doesn't affect the audit.
I am still having a little trouble with "we don't need our spies to spy". Maybe we do.
I am also having trouble believing that the kind of encryption we use on the Internet actually stops the U.S. Government from finding out whatever it wishes although IETF and sysadmins might be kidding themselves that it can. Government can get to the end systems. They can subborn your staff. Etc.
One pays well, and has the potential to make you a multimillionaire. The other is a GSA employee making middle class income, and assuming you can stomach the work for 30 years a mediocre retirement check. Both jobs require a high degree of psychopathy, both result in a high suicide/mortality rate, both can result in you being disposed of if you are deemed a liability (I'm not referring to being fired, check the stats on "suicides" by things like 5 gunshot wounds to the head), and both receive tremendous public shame (rightfully so).
As the person above stated, if you are going to sell your soul you will try to get the highest price. Wall Street/Lobby agency, or "Consultant".
30 years ago people worked for the NSA because we were stupid enough as a society to believe what the media told us. Today there are too many sources of media for that to be working any longer.
If the NSA wants to really start recruiting talent here is a novel idea. Start providing enough information to the "good" law enforcement (the NSA knows who they are) agencies to prosecute all the crooks holding government offices (appointed or voted in). If they started cleaning house, and given enough time clean.. people would believe they rehabilitated and were once again looking out for the average citizens best interests. The reputation as the Stasi is too well known for them to attract anything but the scum of the US for a very long time.
MS language is potentially worse than the default. And there is room for litigation to surprise us.
"Your brain— and more importantly, your heart — will love you for the rest of your life."
What does that mean?
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
