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In the article I read about the Spearhead hut the problem seemed to be that it was not going to be viable without trails being built for summer use at a cost of a million dollars, and somehow WhistlerBlackcomb, who owns the heli skiing operation, was not going to provide the money for that unless their tenure was approved. Am I understanding this correctly?

The guy just bought an island in Hawaii, I think he isn't too bent out of shape over his taxes. And most of his wealth is in Oracle stock which he sells as long term capital gains at 15%.

But did they? How many people making 400K a year make that all in salary, now taxable at 39.6 %? I'd bet you it is more likely they make $150K salary and 250K elsewhere, so that 4.6% increase applies to about a third of this salary, and is an increase of a whopping 1.5+%. Actually there is no increase because dividend income under $500k is still taxed at 15%. It's a good question though, I have both a lawyer and a dentist you pay themselves through an S Corp at the moment to lower their taxes. But most lawyers and dentists don't make over $500k. But you have highlighted one of my points; Most people don't understand one of the biggest problems with the Bush tax cut. People wonder why Romney didn't release his taxes? It's because he didn't pay any because he offset his dividend income of 15% somehow. Also, why should a company like Microsoft pay 18% corporate tax when a little startup trying to make a competing product pays much more? The reality is that the Republican plans is anti-small business no matter how much sunshine they blow up people's asses. I have often wondered why there are so many rich small and medium business owners up in BC, and it's due to the fact their corporate taxes for under $500k are incredibly low, along with a tiered dividend tax.

Does anyone (JayB) have a diagram showing which part of the Bush tax cuts actually contributed to the deficit. The problem is what most people know about the Bush tax cuts and the deficit come from the media, ignoring the issue of what parts have been so detrimental to most of us. Here is my take. Estate tax is totally overblown. I don't know much about the estate tax, I know there is someone here who does, but my understanding is this is largely a non-issue because most people can shelter the money in trusts. The big problem is the dividend tax. The dividend tax was set at 15% because Bush argued it was double taxation under the guise that corporate taxes are 38%, which they are not. Most large corporations like Microsoft pay 18%. The lower dividend tax was advertised as helping people invest in companies, but there is a difference in providing actual capital to a small business and buying stock on market. When you buy 100 shares of CocaCola you aren't helping them be successful, they are doing just fine. Yet you only pay 15% on that "investment" income. I think for most people paying 15% if fine but the problem is the upper tier earners are the one taking advantage of this to the fullest. With the introduction of the lower dividend tax people converted businesses to S Corps, take a small reasonable salary, and pay themselves in dividends. I think for most small and medium sized business, that is pretty fair. You worked hard to get there, the tax code doesn't take into consideration time and sacrifice, so that is fair, but there has to be a limit. Should you really only be paying 15% taxes on a $10 million a year income? Obama at least got them to raise it for income over 500k to 20%, but I think that is too little. In my mind the dividend tax needs to be completely reworked, make publicly traded and privately held different, put limits on privately held dividend income to make it fair for small and medium sized business owner but so it can't be abused by private equity firms. So you can say that things haven't changed, but I guarantee you 1-3% of people who just had their tax rate raised 5% will disagree with this conclusion.

Kirk and KK, how about you share your vision on how to prevent this from happening again? Because it will happen another three times in the next year at this rate. Or do we just accept this as part of the American dream?

It's funny that when it comes to gun rights this is a question, but if you substituted any other situation the answer is clear. Let's try it out. - The bank left the vault unlocked when the robbery took place and they stole all the cash in it. - The soldiers left the nuclear payload unsecured when the insurgents attacked the base. - You left your car unlocked and the thief stole the belongings. This women had some clear choices being faced with an unstable son. Secure the weapons in such a way he would never be able to get them OR just get rid of them. She choose not to.

The murderer's mother was held responsible in the end - she paid the ultimate penalty That's bullshit and you know it. The only penalty is to rot in jail and having to face the families of these innocent children that were slayed due to her negligence. She got it pretty easy compared to what all these people affected by this have to deal with the rest of their lives.

Gun control needs to come in the form of penalties. Instead of people non-chalantly storing their guns, make the penalties so stiff for possession of a firearm not in the registered owners hands, especially in the cases where it involves a minor, not a single person would risk letting them out of their safe. That is the only way this is going to work, there are just too many weapons out there for anything other then this to be effective. We are too frequently now not able to hold anyone accountable, so the only way to stop this to make those who would be accountable so scared shitless of the consequences they wouldn't in their right mind allow it to happen. A good case in point is this guy who had his gun in his car, wasn't it even a police officers, and his 3 year old grabbed it and blew his head off. Twenty years in jail, easy trial, it was your gun, your kid had it and killed himself, end of story have fun don't drop the soap. If people want to fire assault weapons to shoot shit and blow shit up.... join the military. Also, I think it's time we engaged our service members in this debate. We glorify war in games and movies, people go to the range thinking they are commando. They might have the most powerful voice in telling how terrible it is to kill someone.

Classy, utilize a horrible tragedy as a political tool; despite the fact that you know nothing about the manner in which this individual obtained his firearms. How did I know I would find this filth on this website? You too Rob. Classless. Excuse me if I'm unapologetic for my statement. It is inarguable that the Republican apparatus has done everything in it's power to derail any sort of gun control in our country. Shall we list the mass shootings in our country recently? This Oregeon Batman guy Of course this is the gem.

I hope you love your guns this much Republicans.

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No poutine for you, Rob! Anyone else notice Metalica is now on spotify? Who woulda thunk.

This thread is hairier then Chewbacca's nutz.

Kevbone you know The Facebooks was funded by the CIA don't you?

Great to hear! I did make some changes, cleaned up and validated some code. I was still getting some crashing in one of my dev environments so we will keep chasing this as time allows until there are no more complaints.

I've seen some of these emails and they have nothing to do with cc.com. It sounds like there was a problem with the Live.com/Hotmail servers. Has anyone had a problem with their browser crashing under a web browser other then IE9? We really want to resolve these problems but are having a hard time pinpointing it.

Which spice are we talking about? Old Spice? Cause there is aluminum in that.

Can you be more specific?

Send a PM to MVS, he lives in Munich and could hook you up with great info.

I was just able to reproduce the crash so I am starting to get somewhere with this.

Kimmo's new autosig. ---------------------------- Kimmo, PhD (Phact Hating Degree)

I spent time working indirectly in the vaccine field. I have my own concerns and have certainly gone through some inner conflict on this topic. But I think that armchair scientists have made vaccines an unnecessary target for their ires. Yesterday a study came out looking at Autism rates in relation to pollutant levels where the mother was located during embryonic development. They found those living closer to a freeway were more likely to be diagnosed with autism. Duh. People by nature need to place blame, and it's a whole lot easier to blame a company then themselves. Every minute we as inhabiters of this planet dump millions of tons of harmful chemical and gases into the ecosystem and go along our merrily way, kicking the can down the road, ignoring what harm we are doing to not only ourselves but to every other innocent creature on this planet. I left science for many reasons, but a large one was I didn't see the point in a cabinet full of chemicals that once released into the wild would kill more people then I was trying to help.

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