10 Things You Don't Know About Beltane. It's the ancient pagan holiday behind May Day.
No One Wants to Buy this Lovely Italian Villa. It comes with some expensive baggage. (via Strange Company)
Bend It Like Beckham, Twenty Years Later.
In an Easter miracle, the Ever Forward was finally freed from the muddy banks of Chesapeake Bay Sunday morning. (via Metafilter)
“If You’re Getting a W-2, You’re a Sucker.” Explaining the tax differences between the rich and the rest of us. (via Digg)
Why Cheetos Are Banned in Germany, and How Flamin’ Hots Sneak in Anyway. (via Damn Interesting)
A collection of Blair Braverman's Smiling Sled Dogs. (via Fark)
Twice Accused of Murder, This Writer Later Foresaw the Sinking of the Titanic.
Comic of the Day: The Family Spell Book.
3 comments:
Regarding the proposed tax on unrealized gains. Do people really believe that this would forever apply only to billionaires? The original income tax enacted by constitutional amendment in 1913 [see below] was a 1% tax on income up to $20,000, progressing to a high of 7% on income over $500,000. It was basically a flat tax, no deductions or filing status. Those tax rates changed relatively quickly.
When the politicians realize that the tax on billionaires and their unrealized gains does not bring enough revenue for the new spending that will accompany the tax, the tax will be applied to half-billionaires, then multi-millionaires, then...
Tax the rich? OK. But until we get spending under control, taxing the rich won't be enough. Who will they turn to then? I think you know.
"ARTICLE XVI. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
Summon Lesser Potato is also one of the powers of Congress as enumerated in the constitution.
I think tax the rich is meant in addition to the tax the rest of us already pay. When I read these articles about taxes, how they're calculated, and how they're avoided, I get confused with all the terms and schemes.
I firmly believe that's intentional on the part of politicians and their owners to obfuscate their shenanigans.
For the rich a fortune spent on accountants and lawyers to battle the IRS (on just the money not hidden offshore) pays dividends.
Traditionally women would (and should) attend the Beltane bonfire bare breasted.
TRADITION! (/Chaim Topol)
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