Do you Think the Public and Soldiers Deserved the Truth?
Ty--I didn't say he made them, I said he had aspiritions to do so and actively pursued acquiring the technology to do so. That we destroyed his labs seems like sufficient proof they existed. You'll find that stuff in the pages of the times and post f...
Would John MCaine win the White House?
Commercial discovery and development of oil in the Middle East came around the 1930s and didn't get into full swing until after World War I. Iraq oil was discovered in 1927, for example. Yes, trace deposits were identified some years earlier in the re...
Would John MCaine win the White House?
6.5 MILLION American jews would disagree with that conclusion. Achieving and maintaining a stable middle east has been a primary interest of US foreign policy for over 60 years--and that goes way back before oil was even an issue.
You do realize tha...
Would John MCaine win the White House?
"We put both the Shah or Iran and the Ba'ath party in power after all."
On this point we agree.
The problem for the US vis-a-vis the Middle East has been, is now, and will forever be Israel. She exists pretty much because we keep a couple of ca...
Would John MCaine win the White House?
Jimahl -- you are so incredibly predictable--right down the party line. You have this really clever way to spin things I find especially amusing. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion, but please let's make a distinction between what is fact and ...
Do you Think the Public and Soldiers Deserved the Truth?
Ok, the facts are well documented--NYT, the Post etc...
1. Saddam had the ability to make chemical weapons and amassed a huge stockpile of them.
2. Saddam had the ability to make biological weapons and amassed a huge stockpile of them.
3.Saddam ha...
Does anyone believe global warming is not true?
There is, of course, a great deal of evidence of the existance of periodic global warming. There is also evidence of periodic global cooling as well. Typical of cyclical events. The "sky is falling" group tends to beleive that the warming trend will ...
Would John MCaine win the White House?
It is quite amusing that so many people see a McCain presidency as a "continuation" of a Bush administration considering that the two men really don't agree on much of anything. In fact, during the early primaries, the problem McCain faced is that man...
What are the powers of the federal government?
Something that tends to confuse people reading the Constitution is that they miss the connection that the President's powers don't include being the chief executive of the Federal bureaucracy--which the Const. puts in the hand of Congress. This is how...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
I would suggest that the 25% of noncompliant taxpayers are technically not 'wage" earners but, rather, are more in the character self-employed. In doing what they do, they are cheating themselves out of benefits and privileges they would entitiled to ...
Why are cars that are good for the environment so expensive?
The only real mechanism the government has to regulate things is to make them more expensive or unavailable. Price controls have always been a disaster because no one is willing to sell anything for less than their cost. What then happens is that bus...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
I think you underestimate the ability of taxpayers to arrange their affairs to minimalize their tax burden.
Essentially, what you propose is to create a new "loophole" and the effect of the loophole would be to drive profits down, wages up, and t...
Why are cars that are good for the environment so expensive?
Gasoline, even at today's prices, is by far the least expensive way to power a vehicle. The alternatives are quite a bit more expensive and the public isn't supporting paying higher prices for more environmentally friendly cars & fuel. For example, hy...
Is this statement true or false ?
The ability to manage anything is proportional to its size. American government is HUGE and costs over 2.5 trillion Dollars a year to run. ($2,500,000,000,000 I think I have the zeros right) and that's not including SS, State, and local taxes.
A bi...
Will we be able to depend on Social Security?
Absolutely--and most people draw far more out than they ever paid in and that holds true even if they only get 2/3 of what was promised.
SS was never intended to be a means of total support, it was simply a supplement to bridge the gap between ones ...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
Since he is self-employed, the tax is on his profits--that is gross receipts less cost of doing business. He doesn't have wages in the since that you describe it--it's more akin to the tax liability of a corporation. And I'm quite sure he pays taxes b...
What do you think about global warming?
Global temperature is cyclical, right now its warming a bit, 40 years ago it was cooling. It's done that for millions of years. up, down, up, down...
I doubt that a maximium effort/sacrifice would make a measurable change--the ecosystem is too vast...
What do you think of Ron Paul?
Ron Paul will never be more than a tiny footnote in history. He has no real support. I wouldn't look to see him run again.
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
I agree with you with respect to the compliance issue, in fact, I mentioned that one of the
principal reasons for the present system is that it is easier to control.
I suppose anyone can prove anything playing around with numbers. I ran across th...
Barack Obama, will he win?
Actually right now, McCain is out polling both of them on the General Election question, and the gap has been widening.
Clinton probably has a better chance to beat McCain but since she can't beat Obama, it becomes moot.
The long standing ruleove...
Will we be able to depend on Social Security?
Since 1931, Congress has routinely borrowed the SS surplus to fund what are known as "off budget" programs -- the so called "earmarks." When we speak of the national debt, a significant portion of that are these SS borrowings.
It has been projecte...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
Actually, in about ten minutes with a spread sheet you can build a model both ways. When you eliminate all taxes except individual taxes, the person comes out quite a bit better. The math isn't complicated at all. What you'll find is that while he or ...
Create Jobs ?
Most businesses that employ minimum wage workers are 5% profit service sector operations--cutting into profits isn't a possibility. Five percent is the bare minimium to keep the doors open. There are only two possible alternatives. First, raising pr...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
I never said it would collapse. My point is that it is not in the best interest of the individual to shift from direct personal income tax to exclusively corporate. As I stated before--compared with direct taxation, corporate taxation REDUCES the ind...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
Toadaly,
I realize you're argument is ideological, nonetheless, I disagree that working for wages is sufficiently coercive to justify attaching the concept of slavery to it. As I discussed previously, we have choices--working for wages is simply on...
Who killed The Electric Car
The fundamental problem with alternatives to gasoline automobiles is cost. Although most people complain about the relatively high cost at the pump these days, gasoline remains the cheapest way to power a vehicle. Every other alternative is much more ...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
Your position suggests a beleif that tax revenues are essentially created out of thin air with no consequence to the citizenry. Any increase in business taxes in any form will be reflected in increased costs to consumers--hence the pass through effect...
Does anyone still believe that the war in Iraq wasn't about oil?(50.00%)
Its funny that so many people think the war had anything to do with oil at all. There is no support that conclusion at all. We sure aren't getting any of it other than buying it at OPEC prices--not surprising since Iraq is a charter member of OPEC.
...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
Toadaly-- your position is correct only when the corporation is failing and on the path to dissolution. Successful corporations treat all taxes as a cost of doing business and factor them into their pricing models. They have to as a practical matter. ...
How do you think the Florida/Michigan votes should be handled?
A couple of small points here that are important but not mentioned. The States of Florida and Michigan did nothing wrong, they simply held lawful elections in the proper manner and paid the cost of doing it.
The decision to move the primary earli...
What is no child left behind?
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is President Bush's program to improve public education. It hasn't worked very well. Essentially, there were two components of the program. First, the Bush Administration pushed out the largest increase in federal subsidies ...
Would you support an end to taxes on wages?
Taxes fall into two broad categories: direct taxes such as those on wages and indirect, such as those assessed on corporations. Aggregate corporate taxes represent about 30% of the price of all the goods and services you consume so, really you pay th...
capital gains tax rate
To this I would add that you can defer the tax by using the section 1031 method if you are using the proceeds of the sale to buy similar rental property.
What is the real difference between republicans and democrats?
Americans essentially divide themselves into four roughly equal groups: conservative republicans, moderate republicans, conservative democrats (think southern), and liberal democrats. Philosophically, the conservatives are about maintaining the status ...
dgreath's Advice
Ty--I didn't say he made them, I said he had aspiritions to do so and actively pursued acquiring the technology to do so. That we destroyed his labs seems like sufficient proof they existed. You'll find that stuff in the pages of the times and post f...
Commercial discovery and development of oil in the Middle East came around the 1930s and didn't get into full swing until after World War I. Iraq oil was discovered in 1927, for example. Yes, trace deposits were identified some years earlier in the re...
6.5 MILLION American jews would disagree with that conclusion. Achieving and maintaining a stable middle east has been a primary interest of US foreign policy for over 60 years--and that goes way back before oil was even an issue. You do realize tha...
"We put both the Shah or Iran and the Ba'ath party in power after all." On this point we agree. The problem for the US vis-a-vis the Middle East has been, is now, and will forever be Israel. She exists pretty much because we keep a couple of ca...
Jimahl -- you are so incredibly predictable--right down the party line. You have this really clever way to spin things I find especially amusing. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion, but please let's make a distinction between what is fact and ...
Ok, the facts are well documented--NYT, the Post etc... 1. Saddam had the ability to make chemical weapons and amassed a huge stockpile of them. 2. Saddam had the ability to make biological weapons and amassed a huge stockpile of them. 3.Saddam ha...
There is, of course, a great deal of evidence of the existance of periodic global warming. There is also evidence of periodic global cooling as well. Typical of cyclical events. The "sky is falling" group tends to beleive that the warming trend will ...
It is quite amusing that so many people see a McCain presidency as a "continuation" of a Bush administration considering that the two men really don't agree on much of anything. In fact, during the early primaries, the problem McCain faced is that man...
Something that tends to confuse people reading the Constitution is that they miss the connection that the President's powers don't include being the chief executive of the Federal bureaucracy--which the Const. puts in the hand of Congress. This is how...
I would suggest that the 25% of noncompliant taxpayers are technically not 'wage" earners but, rather, are more in the character self-employed. In doing what they do, they are cheating themselves out of benefits and privileges they would entitiled to ...
The only real mechanism the government has to regulate things is to make them more expensive or unavailable. Price controls have always been a disaster because no one is willing to sell anything for less than their cost. What then happens is that bus...
I think you underestimate the ability of taxpayers to arrange their affairs to minimalize their tax burden. Essentially, what you propose is to create a new "loophole" and the effect of the loophole would be to drive profits down, wages up, and t...
Gasoline, even at today's prices, is by far the least expensive way to power a vehicle. The alternatives are quite a bit more expensive and the public isn't supporting paying higher prices for more environmentally friendly cars & fuel. For example, hy...
The ability to manage anything is proportional to its size. American government is HUGE and costs over 2.5 trillion Dollars a year to run. ($2,500,000,000,000 I think I have the zeros right) and that's not including SS, State, and local taxes. A bi...
Absolutely--and most people draw far more out than they ever paid in and that holds true even if they only get 2/3 of what was promised. SS was never intended to be a means of total support, it was simply a supplement to bridge the gap between ones ...
Since he is self-employed, the tax is on his profits--that is gross receipts less cost of doing business. He doesn't have wages in the since that you describe it--it's more akin to the tax liability of a corporation. And I'm quite sure he pays taxes b...
Global temperature is cyclical, right now its warming a bit, 40 years ago it was cooling. It's done that for millions of years. up, down, up, down... I doubt that a maximium effort/sacrifice would make a measurable change--the ecosystem is too vast...
McCain gets reelected to a second term. hehehehe :)
Ron Paul will never be more than a tiny footnote in history. He has no real support. I wouldn't look to see him run again.
I agree with you with respect to the compliance issue, in fact, I mentioned that one of the principal reasons for the present system is that it is easier to control. I suppose anyone can prove anything playing around with numbers. I ran across th...
Actually right now, McCain is out polling both of them on the General Election question, and the gap has been widening. Clinton probably has a better chance to beat McCain but since she can't beat Obama, it becomes moot. The long standing ruleove...
Since 1931, Congress has routinely borrowed the SS surplus to fund what are known as "off budget" programs -- the so called "earmarks." When we speak of the national debt, a significant portion of that are these SS borrowings. It has been projecte...
Actually, in about ten minutes with a spread sheet you can build a model both ways. When you eliminate all taxes except individual taxes, the person comes out quite a bit better. The math isn't complicated at all. What you'll find is that while he or ...
Most businesses that employ minimum wage workers are 5% profit service sector operations--cutting into profits isn't a possibility. Five percent is the bare minimium to keep the doors open. There are only two possible alternatives. First, raising pr...
I never said it would collapse. My point is that it is not in the best interest of the individual to shift from direct personal income tax to exclusively corporate. As I stated before--compared with direct taxation, corporate taxation REDUCES the ind...
Toadaly, I realize you're argument is ideological, nonetheless, I disagree that working for wages is sufficiently coercive to justify attaching the concept of slavery to it. As I discussed previously, we have choices--working for wages is simply on...
The fundamental problem with alternatives to gasoline automobiles is cost. Although most people complain about the relatively high cost at the pump these days, gasoline remains the cheapest way to power a vehicle. Every other alternative is much more ...
Your position suggests a beleif that tax revenues are essentially created out of thin air with no consequence to the citizenry. Any increase in business taxes in any form will be reflected in increased costs to consumers--hence the pass through effect...
Its funny that so many people think the war had anything to do with oil at all. There is no support that conclusion at all. We sure aren't getting any of it other than buying it at OPEC prices--not surprising since Iraq is a charter member of OPEC. ...
Toadaly-- your position is correct only when the corporation is failing and on the path to dissolution. Successful corporations treat all taxes as a cost of doing business and factor them into their pricing models. They have to as a practical matter. ...
A couple of small points here that are important but not mentioned. The States of Florida and Michigan did nothing wrong, they simply held lawful elections in the proper manner and paid the cost of doing it. The decision to move the primary earli...
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is President Bush's program to improve public education. It hasn't worked very well. Essentially, there were two components of the program. First, the Bush Administration pushed out the largest increase in federal subsidies ...
Taxes fall into two broad categories: direct taxes such as those on wages and indirect, such as those assessed on corporations. Aggregate corporate taxes represent about 30% of the price of all the goods and services you consume so, really you pay th...
To this I would add that you can defer the tax by using the section 1031 method if you are using the proceeds of the sale to buy similar rental property.
Americans essentially divide themselves into four roughly equal groups: conservative republicans, moderate republicans, conservative democrats (think southern), and liberal democrats. Philosophically, the conservatives are about maintaining the status ...