GasBandit
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So how do you fill out your 1040?
If Romney wins the GOP, I forsee bad things for....
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You seem bound and determined not to see the problems with your proposal (or a way to fix the proposal), so I'm going to let you just keep going with it. Have fun!
GasBandit
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Do you, or do you not, keep records of accounts receivable? Do you, or do you not, file a federal income tax return? Are you, or are you not bailing with a cop out because it's what you always do?
Well, you get an 18 hour reprieve now anyway. Going home now.
GasBandit
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It only applies to services, not to transactions for material goods.
Guys, it's a hypothetical, so obviously we assume everything goes right for the bill and they actually put in effort to close loopholes etc...you know, like it would never happen IRL.
But even so i'm pretty sure it would create a situation where there's no such thing as a normal starting wage for your profession and all sorts of other weird situations around salary...
But even so i'm pretty sure it would create a situation where there's no such thing as a normal starting wage for your profession and all sorts of other weird situations around salary...
But see that's my issue. The "loopholes" are in fact how many people already make a living. Companies providing business services to other business is a HUGE aspect of Enterprise businesses. It beneficial to both parties involved.
Honestly I'm not quite convinced Gas isn't just trolling.
Wouldn't this one require them to be shell companies to actually be a loophole to his original idea, and not just 2 different companies...
GasBandit
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That seems more like fraud. And you think such things would not be caught and prosecuted?
It would involve a paradigm shift back toward in-house employment to be sure rather than hiring outside contractors - provided those outside contractors underpay their staff.
He knows they're not because he's using how things work now as the example...
See, that's the problem with discussing this stuff, if you assume corruption nothing ever works... so really, the 1st step would be to minimise corruption... then you start doing stuff like your idea...
GasBandit
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If you assume corruption, then the only system that works is direct, violence-driven despotism.
Nah, that implies killing off teh corrupt... so no more corruption then either...
Necronic
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I don't follow.
The increase in income by percentage over the last 80 years by income class when compared to the rate of inflation.
Krisekn's trying to say that the wages of the working class haven't risen steadily with inflation, thus giving the workers less purchasing power despite having more money. This is as opposed to the higher class, whose wages have exponentially outstripped inflation, thus giving them wealth not since seen since the Gilded Age.
More like spoilers.
GasBandit
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It says a lot about the republican party that their most fervently backed would-be nominee is the guy who lost to McCain last time. McCain lost. Bad. And if anything McCain's campaign clearly showed that making a Democrat-friendly maverick your nominee doesn't win independents, it just loses the base.
But really, I'm of the opinion that the only thing in the republican primary this go-around that was anything approaching credible was Herman Cain. Can you believe Rick "Suck it up and raise the rape-baby god blessed you with" Santorum is still in the race?
Yeah, feel a little dirty for posting a video with a thinkprogress logo on it, but you get it where it comes from.
But really, I'm of the opinion that the only thing in the republican primary this go-around that was anything approaching credible was Herman Cain. Can you believe Rick "Suck it up and raise the rape-baby god blessed you with" Santorum is still in the race?
Yeah, feel a little dirty for posting a video with a thinkprogress logo on it, but you get it where it comes from.
He goes from "horribly created by rape" to "gift of human life"...
You know what, I've had a rough day and I just don't feel like dealing with the Republican Party right now.
Basically this. He sold-out to the party and abandoned his principles for the nomination, then picked an incredibly awful person for his VP in a shallow attempt to steal the female vote. Everything about his campaign was about selling out his values to the Republican establishment, when his record AGAINST the establishment was the only interesting thing about him.
That's what many people said to me. I honestly think Palin was the real death knell for his campaign.
ElJuski
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Still have my theory that the GOP willingly threw away the nomination in 2008 to saddle the Democrat black dude with all this bullshit and come back in after 2012...until the Tea Party went out of their control and started pushing the whole damn party running and screaming over the cliff.
GasBandit
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Welp, Newt Gingrich has officially promised the moon.
On Florida’s Space Coast today, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made perhaps the most grandiose promise of any candidate since JFK: A permanent American moon base by the end of his second term.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich told a rapt audience, which responded with a standing ovation.
“We clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to us,” Gingrich said, adding that he also plans to push for the development of propulsion technology capable of getting a man to Mars.
The initiatives would be a joint public-private endeavor, he noted.
Gingrich immediately followed up his grandiose promises by saying that he believes Americans “are instinctively grandiose.” This, too, got a standing ovation.
On Florida’s Space Coast today, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made perhaps the most grandiose promise of any candidate since JFK: A permanent American moon base by the end of his second term.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich told a rapt audience, which responded with a standing ovation.
“We clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to us,” Gingrich said, adding that he also plans to push for the development of propulsion technology capable of getting a man to Mars.
The initiatives would be a joint public-private endeavor, he noted.
Gingrich immediately followed up his grandiose promises by saying that he believes Americans “are instinctively grandiose.” This, too, got a standing ovation.
GasBandit
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One of these days, Shego. Bang! Zoom! To the moon!
Newt thinks it's 1982.Welp, Newt Gingrich has officially promised the moon.
On Florida’s Space Coast today, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made perhaps the most grandiose promise of any candidate since JFK: A permanent American moon base by the end of his second term.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich told a rapt audience, which responded with a standing ovation.
“We clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to us,” Gingrich said, adding that he also plans to push for the development of propulsion technology capable of getting a man to Mars.
I can easily see this race going much the way of the '04 race, where the entire democratic campaign appeared to be "we're not Bush," with little or no substantive topics discussed by them.
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