gothick_matt posted a photo:
One of the ways I'd rather not spend an hour of a sunny day, but sometimes you've just got to grit your teeth and do the dull stuff.
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Want to keep jobs in the United States? Lower the corporate tax rates. A quick look at tax rates in different countries shows a major reason why a corporation would want to pack up and move.
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When I type it out like that, it looks kind of Bosnian.
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Brand New Cadillac
With a provincial election fast approaching in May 2009, the ruling British Columbia Liberal Party has been trying to sell itself as a world leader in climate action initiatives. One of its strategies is to implement a carbon tax that will be applied to gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, propane and home heating fuel purchases, effective 1 July 2008.
The government claims it is a necessary measure designed to encourage the public to walk, cycle and ride public transit more and to reduce our consumption of energy in a world on the verge of ecological disaster. The tax is advertised as revenue neutral, i.e., offset by reductions in personal income and corporate tax, though some dispute that claim and the economist who invented eco-footprint analysis takes issue with the government's justification for the tax.
At the same time as the Liberal government claims to be a world leader in environmental policy making, it has decided to transfer ownership rights to more than 500 parts of BC's wild rivers to private corporations that will build hundreds of run-of-river dams to generate power even though the province is not forecast to be in short supply of hydroelectricity. The BC Liberals are also widening Highway 1 and twinning the Port Mann Bridge which environmental group the Wilderness Committee claims "will drastically increase the lower mainland's contribution to greenhouse emissions that cause global warming and pollution levels (sic) in the region." There is a contradiction between the eco-friendly image the government is trying to sell and the actions it intends to carry out. On the one hand the BC Liberals claim they are pro-environment, while on the other they are needless destroyers of it.
A recent poll suggests 82% of BC residents favour taxing industrial polluters at the source rather than consumers at the point of sale. With an election around the corner, the Liberal Party has seen fit to send every man, woman and child in the province a one-time payment of $100 marketed as a "climate action dividend." To answer your question as to how I will spend my pre-election bribe money, I will donate it to the Save Our Rivers Society, which has been fighting the government's push to privatize public power in the province.
Carol James, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, offers criticism and an alternative to the Liberal tax.
If I were Prime Minister, I would start up a crown corporation that would produce hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles for mass public consumption, offer them to consumers on a straight one-for-one trade for their existing fossil fuel powered vehicles, use the scrap from the latter to build fueling stations and tax the hell out of the oil/auto syndicate until it realizes the game is over and that there are healthier ways to make a profit.
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Full promised stimulus check, on time.
Free health care.
Tax free income.
Free Gas
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June 9, 1943
"Pay As You Go"
President Franklin Roosevelt and his legislators passed a bill that allowed American taxpayers to withhold federal income taxes before getting their wages or salaries.
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Day two hundred fifty-four/365. I'm not into board games. But, when I was a kid, I used to play Monopoly with my cousins when we were all on vacation.
Back then, I couldn't appreciate the message conveyed by the layout of a Monopoly board. Now, it jumps right out!
The neighborhoods are divided by affluence. You can put up a house in the slums, or on some pretty exclusive property. As you hop around the board, you may have to pay income tax -- only if you're in one of the poorest neighborhoods. Folks in the more privileged section pay no income tax. There is a luxury tax among the wealthy, but it's nominal compared to the income tax paid by the poor.
On one corner is a police officer. If he catches you, you go to jail -- back in a poor neighborhood! The cop is there to protect a wealthy neighborhood against dogs, shoes, cannons, or other pieces moving through.
Was Monopoly invented by a very cynical person? Or, was it designed to convey a subtle message about economic justice?
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Shoes of a businessman hanging over a ledge of a tall building with cars and people down below
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Brent and MariLynn posted a photo:
The folks at Liberty Tax Service station some dude to stand out at the curb and lazily wave at the passing motorists and hope that will convince you to use their tax service. This guy was in Smyrna. There was a guy in Antioch that took this job seriously and would dance around and crawl on top of his car. I never had my camera when I saw that guy.
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