With the prebate program in effect, those earning less than $15,000 per year would see their share of the federal tax burden drop from -0.7 percent to -6.3 percent. Of course, if the poorest Americans are paying less under the FairTax plan, then someone else pays more. As it turns out, according to the Treasury Department, “someone else” is everybody earning between $15,000 and $200,000 per year.
Which seems to contradict your statement about saving money until you look at this graph, which includes payroll taxes. So, yes, someone like you making more than $74,000 would save money. As would someone making less than $24,000. However, the $24,000 - $74,000 group (let's call them the lower-middle class) are the ones paying for it. That doesn't sit well with me.
Moreover, I'm not convinced that abolishing corporate taxes would bring all those American manufacturing jobs streaming back. For something like software development, where you'd be paying a high wage to your employees no matter where you were located, sure. But manufacturing? Even with 0% corporate taxes, American labor still costs a hell of a lot more than Chinese or Thai labor.
About six weeks ago, Mr. Sibal called legal representatives from the top Internet service providers and Facebook into his New Delhi office, said one of the executives who was briefed on the meeting.
At the meeting, Mr. Sibal showed attendees a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi. “This is unacceptable,” he told attendees, the executive said, and he asked them to find a way to monitor what is posted on their sites.
From the NYT blog.
Please don't reply that Android is open source, unless you can show me the sources for CIQ!!!
Please don't reply that Linux is open source, unless you can show me the sources for Flash or Opera.
It attempts to solve an unsolvable security engineering problem (the secure device in an insecure environment) and the security only needs to be broken once for the whole system to fall apart. For some reason, copyright-based industries have failed to grasp this fundamental truth, and their lobbyists have convinced governments to prop up their bad security systems with undemocratic laws and censorship.
On the contrary, the fact that they've turned to legislation shows that do in fact recognize the truth of DRM's infeasibility. When their technical solutions failed, they bought legal ones.
Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it: "thieves stole her bicycle".
Copyright infringement doesn't deprive the owner of the song of their property. They still own the song. Copyright infringement is illegal, but calling it theft is an attempt to make it something it is not. If we want to have a reasonable discussion of the issue, we should start by being clear about what copyright infringement is and what it isn't.
In addition to deaths, radiation also causes lot's of non-terminal cancer, although the same may be said about coal.
What about non-terminal respiratory illness? Convenient how so many Nuclear critics ignore all the problems with the only currently viable Nuclear alternative (if we can get renewable to the point where it can satisfy base-line generation requirements, great. but we're not there yet) and continue to harp on a single nuclear disaster. And you're just as guilty of cherry picking. 1 Million deaths isn't an "example", it's the highest number you could find. Even Greenpeace only puts the number at 200,000+, on par with Banqiao.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
