wbjones wrote:
dankspeed wrote:
6. I'm all for closing loop holes that make it possible for some corporations to pay zero taxes.
only one disagreement with any of what you wrote....
regardless of loop holes or no loop holes corporations don't pay taxes.... whether those taxes are high or low... they just incorporate them into the final price of whatever product of service they're selling ... the consumer or the next level manufacturer has to absorb the tax ... if it's a next level manufacturer then it's a: taxed again and b: passed on again ....
corporations don't pay taxes
I get what you're saying but they still pay taxes they just take what ever money they have to pay and build that into the cost of manufacturing their good or providing their service. I get that but they still pay it. In theory if a corporation is paying 15% instead of 30% in taxes then the cost they pass along to the consumer is less. NOTICE i say "in theory" because I'll admit some corporations will fail to pass that savings they'll receive onto the consumer. This is all off topic from the original topic so I'll stop now.
Otto Maddox wrote:
I don't want to live where I have to carry identification in order to...well, live, basically.
Some of us already have to - by law I have to carry my Green Card everywhere and can get into a lot of trouble and expense in a lot of cases (IIRC the fine is something like a grand or so) if I don't, yet I'm under the impression that the police can't ask to see it in a lot of cases, even though they can ask to see my drivers license. USCIS aka La Migra obviously can ask to see my GC.
And a Green Card is much harder and a lot more expensive to replace than a drivers license, so a lot of perfectly legal immigrants loathe to carry it.
That's not a complaint by the way, I knew this beforehand. Having grown up in Germany I'm kinda used to carry an ID card even though I grew up during the leftie terrorist scare of the 70s and 80s that brought out some of the worst "stick a submachine gun into the perps, errr, citizen's face and ask to see the papers" type excesses.
To lighten the mood a little, did you know that the recent Green Cards come with an official tinfoil hat? My understanding is that they're RFID enabled and they come with a metal lined little envelope that's you're supposed to carry it in.
