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What's So Bad About a Flat Tax? - Room for Debate
Isn't Herman Cain's '9-9-9' plan essentially what fiscal conservatives and good government advocates have always wanted?
A Plan for the Uber-Rich - Room for Debate
Flat taxes are regressive, in that they place a high tax burden on the most vulnerable at the lower income scales.-
A Plan for the Uber-Rich
Linda Beale, tax blogger
She is correct.
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bob
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Alex Steinweiss Dies at 94; Originated Artistic Album Covers
Mr. Steinweiss, an art director and graphic designer, adorned plain covers for 78 r.p.m. discs and designed the packaging for long-playing records.We forget that the world was not always as we saw it.The way we saw it is not the way the children see it.
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The Thing Itself
David Brooks is one of those people who would miss the elephant in the room and wonder about the odor of peanuts. -
CDL
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Green Rice
Arroz verde is a great way to sneak spinach into your child’s diet.Good thing I don't have to sneak things in.She is so glad to eat what she did not cook.
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Edward G Nilges
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Two ways of looking at the First Amendment, as illuminated by the recent Supreme Court ruling.
Stop at nothing, Smirk at hope, Stoop to everthing, Stan's the Pope Of the church of irony And of the academy of simony. The corporation must have rights, he declares with purity That is the meaning of the law The nation must worship any abomination Found by the clerisy in the text of the saw. Men used to hearken to this general type of crap In order to get to eternal bliss Now we must agree to malarkey and pap Merely to remain adjunct to this. Wake up and smell the coffee, ding dong goes the bell Capitalism has made this happy earth, a hell: Corporations are real and you are not Starbuck's gwine to Heaven whilst you remain below, a sot.
Sock puppets.
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Marina Kliger
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KEY All prices on this page reflect the cost of an item, on a per-pound basis, if purchased off the shelves at the Whole Foods in Manhattan's Union Square. All items at the salad bar cost $7.99 per pound.Refrigeration and plastic are wonderful developments.We must still respect the finite life of fresh produce.
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timesink@mac.com
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Two ways of looking at the First Amendment, as illuminated by the recent Supreme Court ruling.
Stop at nothing, Smirk at hope, Stoop to everthing, Stan's the Pope Of the church of irony And of the academy of simony. The corporation must have rights, he declares with purity That is the meaning of the law The nation must worship any abomination Found by the clerisy in the text of the saw. Men used to hearken to this general type of crap In order to get to eternal bliss Now we must agree to malarkey and pap Merely to remain adjunct to this. Wake up and smell the coffee, ding dong goes the bell Capitalism has made this happy earth, a hell: Corporations are real and you are not Starbuck's gwine to Heaven whilst you remain below, a sot.
The Fish May love it as a teacher.As a user of liberty I hate it.A corporation is not sentient. It can have no opinion of its own.As it has no opinion it can have no right to express an opinion.The utterances from a corporation are the speech of its management. There is no special right for the speech of managers.They must own their words and follow the same rules as other individuals.
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TimesCast | Intuitive and Accessible
http://symbalitics.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-can-tell-jobs-is-dead.html
"Lion is terrible, don't downgrade to it unless you have to. Betaware released for pay. Awful.
iPhone has dreaded "you can't do that" cycles. Can't get out of program, such as mail, can't get back to main screen, because there is a modal dialog box, and get Siri rather than the home screen. Siri is unresponsive to getting out.
1. Modal dialog is evil. Modal dialog is always evil. Modal dialog is always evil.
2. Never violate the over-ride. Never violate the over-ride.
3. Never put people in loops where they can't get out.
Someone please, fire the entire UI team that did this. Just fire them now."This man is an Apple enthusiast. -
A Plan for the Uber-Rich - Room for Debate
Flat taxes are regressive, in that they place a high tax burden on the most vulnerable at the lower income scales.-
A Plan for the Uber-Rich
She is correct.
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JHM
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Does IMF Stand for Impressive Macroeconomic Flexibility?
So the IMF is holding a meeting on rethinking macroeconomic policy (I was invited but couldn’t make the timing work.) And the Fund’s chief economist has already made it clear that he’s open to some serious revision of the prevailing paradigm.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/10/europe-update-eight-days-to-save-europe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CalculatedRisk+%28Calculated+Risk%29http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15292666Is the G20 able to fix the eurozone mess?
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Cain's '9-9-9' Tax Plan Is a Serious Proposal - Room for Debate
The current system is broken. In trying to fix it, Herman Cain gets a lot right.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/cain-unable/"But seriously — or as seriously as anything involving Cain can get — Jared Bernstein has a good summary of the reality of nein, nein, nein. The key point is that each of the nines is a tax that would more or less fully fall on middle-income families, who in addition to paying 9 percent of their income in taxes would find their living costs 9 percent higher and their wages 9 percent lower. That’s a 27 percent tax, way above the average federal taxes now paid by middle-income households."http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/say-anything-cain-version/http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/a-bit-more-about-cain/
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Cain's Tax Plan Needs to Be Recalibrated - Room for Debate
Eliminating subsidies is a great idea, but we don't need to increase taxes on the poor, decrease taxes on the rich, or forgo revenue.Cain's flat tax does all three.Don't try to fix this piece of demagogy.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/cain-unable/http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/say-anything-cain-version/http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/a-bit-more-about-cain/ -
Hard Work Is What Immigrants Do - Room for Debate
Americans will always look to a fresh wave of immigrants to do the work that we can’t or won’t do.Mostly we cannot afford to do it.Through most of our history our nation has had a labor shortage. Employers have had to pay above subsistence in competition with each other for bodies to do the work. The cheapest way to get those bodies was to import them. At present there is a surplus of bodies though there are skills in shortage. The actual labor rate is a bit below the legislated minimum. -
Are Americans More Prone to A.D.H.D.? - Room for Debate
The high-energy, risk-taking traits of attention deficit disorder may be part of the nation's pioneer DNA. Or maybe we're just overmedicated.Today you have spent a good deal of attention on anorexia nervosa.That is a reasonable model for ADHD.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-deficit_hyperactivity_disorder_controversieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa -
The Toilet of Tomorrow?
I really doubt it.
Can you imagine the constipation hour on the toilet music station?
What would the D.J. put on at three thirty in the morning?
When the power supply dies in the bowl how do you get the geek squad's attention?I would like one that fails simply. Maybe I can fix it without going out to pee. -
bradnoble
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Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
“A saddening flyover. "Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami" http://nyti.ms/hYQF9W”There is no exaggeration in the pictures.It is that bad.Emergency planning must include the finite nature of human knowledge, memory and experience.There is always a stronger wind, a higher wave, a deeper flood, a more deadly disease, a madder policy.Systems must adapt or foolishness and entropy will triumph.
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Amanda
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Democracy 2.0 Awaits an Upgrade
“Democracy 2.0 Awaits an Upgrade - http://bit.ly/dM38m an interesting article from a dear colleague's son. ”Government has the task of enforcing what my father called "Gentlemanly Behavior". We understood that to mean: "No one gets hurt unintentionally." Intentional injuries can be addressed in court. This means that there will be a good many rules.We have not the distances and resources to do without them.Virtual space must be included because virtual words and images have real effects.
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caseygibbs
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With Same-Sex Marriage, a Court Takes on the People’s Voice
Opponents of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, say it is a major revision of the state’s Constitution, not an amendment. The state Supreme Court will have to decide.It is stuck in the court system.
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aleksey
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KEY All prices on this page reflect the cost of an item, on a per-pound basis, if purchased off the shelves at the Whole Foods in Manhattan's Union Square. All items at the salad bar cost $7.99 per pound.
I do not use the salad bar.Produce costs plenty in the produce asil.Oil and vinegar really have to be applied separately.
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