Your statement falls down, using your own example. The gambler makes MONEY that year. Cash, bucks, greenbacks, cabbage. Stock has zero value UNTIL you sell it.

To be fair, in 1913, 47% of households were not recieving government assitance. Also would like to note that "tax the rich" comes no where close to solving any debt problems. If the EFFECTIVE tax rate of millionaires+ was 100%, it would take care of less the half the deficiet, no effect at all on the debt.

Property tax is used to fund you local government needs such as schools, roads, etc. Market value is only one factor. The multiplier is decied at the local level. Even if you home value stays exactly the same, the local gvmt decides how much in taxes you pay which usually goes up.. If the market value of you home goes way up, but your percentage is lowered, you pay the same in property tax... What the GP was pointing out is that if your property value goes up, should you have to pay taxes on that income? Is it income? Property value goes down, can you write off those loses?

This only works if the one loaning you money decides that your collateral is worth the risk. You too can borrow money against the value of your home (which again, you would have to sell and report the income). Wouldn't this also assume that the loaner saying, "Hey, I noticed your rich, here is some free money,don't worry about paying it back, just float me some interest." In general, loan agents aren't paid on how much money they can give out for free. As far as the interest on the loan vs. the capital gains, that really makes no sense. Your still paying back the loan, with interest (which you can write off). The fact that you used company stocks or livestock as collateral is irrelevant.

I've had several health care customers that have spent millions on real time HD video patient diagnosis and treatment systems. Doctors just flat out will not use it. They are too uncertain about the legal liabilities, billing, regulation and so forth. Not sure how this would scale for first responders, 3rd world countries and remote locations (baby uses a lot of juice). Although maybe that will shake out as a result of the research.

"Without Construction interest". Would that include the purchase of land the size of nevada to place panels?

I do not blame the NRC, they are, like many/most agencies buried in legislation and policies. Very little of the resources actually go to enforcing or monitoring those polices. It's easy to collect thousands of datapoints, but if you have no way to analyze the data into something useful, what was the point? Step1: Make it illegal. Step2: Act suprised when someone breaks the law Step3: Make it illegal++ ! GOTO step2. Until there is actual accountability, all you need to do is pay off your PR department and move on.

Of course, Europe is on the verge of collapse because of how much they spend on social programs and will soon not be able to pay anyone for everything. I'm quite certain that I could get damn good care as well, until my Visa maxed out and they (gasp) wanted me to pay it back... But hey, collapse of a country is one of those little details we'll just work out later, like greece.

What are you going to do, make it illegal twice? That'll show em. If they do it again, we'll make it illegal THREE times.

You can buy thermite in bulk, online, perfectly legal. http://alphachemicals.com/

You may have missed the part of the article where he did intend to use his knowledge: A further examination of the stick revealed a letter, addressed to an unknown recipient, in which the author - again anonymous but referring to himself as a 24-year-old man - seeks spiritual guidance and says he has prepared himself physically and financially for jihad.

Yes, but on your USB stick full of credit card numbers, was there a note saying you were ready to use them, just trying to find some direction? "A further examination of the stick revealed a letter, addressed to an unknown recipient, in which the author - again anonymous but referring to himself as a 24-year-old man - seeks spiritual guidance and says he has prepared himself physically and financially for jihad."

One issue though. Doing as you say by inflating the US dollar would not only crush China, it would actually do worse damage to the United States (and about 90 other countries would tank). The normal working class pay doesn't not change due to inflation.

As of July 2011, the Federal Reserve was leveraged at 55/1. Which is also more than Lehman, IIRC Lehman was leveraged 30-1.

Who do you recommend we sell it to? Not many folks can afford to buy that much anymore.