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  1. the obvious setups like running the tow cable through the shelter and under captain slow's car while not monitoring the towing went like a lead balloon.  the humming birds were hilarious as was the joke about clarkson's face looking like the mummy

  2. 34 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

     

    No it wasn't. Here's some more recent news.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/26/tea-party-groups-targeted-irs-get-35-million-settl/

    The article you cite is literally just cherry picking. 

    https://www.npr.org/2016/06/17/482500386/court-documents-show-the-irs-focused-scrutiny-on-conservative-groups

    And that's ignoring all the other stuff  they did, which includes simply not acting on the applications, and asking extremely offensive questions, impossible to comply with demands, names of every donor, and other wildly unconstitutional bullshit like "tell us the all about your prayers". I haven't seen one liberal group complain about those kinds of problems.
     

     

    the

    Justice Department and IRS now say [Lois Lerner] failed to stop her employees and hid the bad behavior from her bosses for two years.

    404 obama not found.

     

    11 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    Someone should send her a book on the 1935 hurricane that hit the Florida Keys.  Explain to her what happens when trains on tracks across a large body of water meets a hurricane.

    yep, there it is, right at the bottom of page 8 on line 24, written in clear print "(iii) high-speed rail" and then immediately following in invisible ink "(across the ocean lol)"

    (although, i note that people who think bigger have tossed various undersea/subsurface tunnels around - if we're doing underground hyperloops we're 2/3 of the way there anyway)

  3. On 2/4/2019 at 12:00 PM, TwiceHorn said:

    No argument there at all.  As exemplified by the warrant affidavit and the countless movies and TV shows, drugs are probably more easily and quickly disposable/flushable than any other type of contraband or evidence.

    if only there were some way to turn off the water to an individual house.  maybe located near the front, under a plastic cover. 

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  4. a roku can play files from a NAS, assuming it supports DLNA, and assuming the files are in specific containers (either mkv or mp4) and use specific compressions (h.264/5 for video and aac or ac3/dolby digital for audio.

    https://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?t=108522

    plex (which the roku can run as a client) is more flexible but requires some actual horsepower in the server if it needs to transcode the files.

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  5. 28 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    He's a disingenuous liar more than an idiot.

    in his world:

    1. democrats get elected
    2. government buys medicine and medical care for people
    3. ???
    4. an authoritarian lootocracy has taken over the country and he's fled

  6. 2 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    i used reddit last year for free streams, and i'm never going back to anything mlb related (extra innings, mlb.tv, etc).

    probably should have said this is for a friend who probably won't do anything like that.  i get mlb.tv from tmobile for gratis every year and set my VPN to los angeles.

  7. So you’re saying as an employer, if I didn’t pay the company half of the payroll tax I would just pay the employee more? Do you also believe the corporate tax savings passed through to the employee?
    And if one of your competitors doesn't pocket it the employee will jump ship
  8. 20 minutes ago, Brew said:

    The calculation that was made in his post was for the tax reduction percentage to the employee which would only include their half. We can keep going around this circle, but you’re being disingenuous to the original calculation to include both sides.

    uh, no, i included the full fica tax when calculating the tax reduction % both times.  is it overstating it by putting the entire fica tax solely on the employee?  probably.  but congress somehow found the one market anywhere where the economic burden matched the accounting burden is even more fantastical.  to find the exact burdens we'd need to know the relative elasticities of demand for labor and supply of labor.  most economists think that the supply of labor is much less elastic than demand.  and that's probably particularly so for people who are price takers for labor.  therefore, the tax mostly falls on labor.  even the heritage foundation admits that before hedging around a bit and then deciding it's still mostly on labor.

     

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  9. 14 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    I don’t understand this response.

    let's say you want to help out people with kids and their child care expenses.  you could say, pass a law to give them $1,000 earmarked for child care expenses every year.  or, you could give people a $1,000 credit on taxes.  problem with the first is that it's an appropriation, and so it has to be passed each and every year.  taxes don't have that same issue, since the tax law doesn't have to be re-issued every year.

    on the other side of that is tax fairness and neutrality.  basically, neutrality means warping people's behaviors as little as possible.  fairness has a horizontal component and a vertical component.  horizontal means that, if people should pay the same amount of taxes if they have the same amount of the thing being taxed.  vertical means that if you have more of what's being taxed, you should be paying more.  (iirc there's a 3rd component but i don't remember what it is off the top of my head and i don't have a tax text book laying around). 

     

  10. Just now, Brew said:

    The economic burden to the individual matters which doesn’t include the company half of the payroll taxes. If you want to deal with the impact on the family, then it’s only half.

    what you're saying is the company isn't passing along the tax. 

     

    ok.

  11. 2 minutes ago, Brew said:

    Last time I checked the individual only paid half the payroll tax.

    accounting burden.  not economic burden, which is the one that actually matters. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    70k, single no kids results in a 17% reduction in taxes.

    70k, single, 2 kids results in a 56% reduction in taxes.

    70k, married, no kids results in a 19% reduction in taxes.

    70k, married, 2 kids results in a 63% reduction in taxes.

     

    "Feels like a tax increase".

     

    1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    God damnit, just because you heterosexuals breed, you get a way bigger reduction in taxes?

    You fuckfaces should be paying more.  Way more.  Infinitely more. 

    That's my 2020 platform.

    $70k with 2 kids goes from $4611 to $1994.   that's a 57% reduction in income tax.  of course, that's not a 57% reduction in taxes, unless you're a moron.  there's still $10,710 in fica for someone with $70k in paychecks.  so $15,321 --> $12,704, which is 17%.  then we add back in the extra cost of goods from tariffs.  then, since most of us live in sales tax states, add in the extra sales tax because cost of goods went up. and we're completely ignoring increased interest rates for long term goods because of bigger deficits driving up interest rates.

    yeah, big tax cut there.

    oh, and someone single with no kids is paying $8705 in federal income taxes this year.  yay tax fairness.

     

  13. 2 minutes ago, slorch said:

    48 is old as hell, yo.

    I am certainly not anti- change.  Nobody can show me where the win is in this one though.

     

    Show me some trends, statbois

    *posts link*

    *doesn't bother understanding it*

    *doesn't bother reading the post summarizing understanding it*

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