You seem to have great difficulty with the word "temporary".
So: Please pick one. Taxes are:
A. Going down
B. Going up
C. Staying the same
You seem to have great difficulty with the word "temporary".
So: Please pick one. Taxes are:
A. Going down
B. Going up
C. Staying the same
D. Doing exactly what they are supposed to do.
Are you (a) entirely white, or (b) entirely black?Can you state that mathematically and show how it isn't A, B, or C?
So: Please pick one. Taxes are:
A. Going down
B. Going up
C. Staying the same
What do you mean by "Northern Europe"?
Nope. Just overspent. Solution: off-budget fully funded pensions and health plans. The average of taxation in the USA over the last 100 years or so is 18.5% with all ranges of tax "rates".
Governments spend the funds set aside for pensions and health plans. Stupid. I think Pomona College alone has a $4B endowment fund. Tiny private college. They invest in infrastructure and safety net programs. With cash. From the interest.
So, you didn't answer my question from earlier. Do stores raise prices after Black Friday, or do they just return them to their pre-sale prices.
Using your choices, I would have to say that prices are going up. But, that's kind of disingenuous, don't you think? Dare I say, it's an intentionally disingenuous attempt to convince people that their taxes are being raised, when in reality, they are simply losing their discount.
But, I would expect nothing less.
You want it mathematically?
Thursday: TV cost = $500
Friday: TV cost = $250
Saturday: TV cost = $450
Did the price of the TV get raised? What if it cost $500 on Saturday?
Denmark, Norway, Sweden...
They will have massive problems if, say, Italy defaults knocking France to default and causing a liquidity crunch in Europe.
Yes. The price of the TV was raised to $450 from its previous price of $250. Its price on Thursday is not relevant.
Perhaps replace it with a small consumption tax on the ultimate buyer.
I think that is called Sales Tax. Consumers already pay taxes once on income earned and a second time for sales tax when buying something. There isn't any room in your average Joe's budget for a third tax.
The high corporate income tax puts American companies at a disadvantage.
So Europe's most successful economies - and also countries with very high tax rates.
Except US companies rarely pay that rate. The system is gamed so that those who are already successful will continue to be successrful.
It depends how they get paid - they might well not pay very much tax on it if its paid out as a dividend.
Yes. The price of the TV was raised to $450 from its previous price of $250. Its price on Thursday is not relevant.
I may be overly optimistic that confronting such a statement with facts will do any good, but I will try anyway.At our current spending rate that will last us about a 1/2 day.
We don't have a revenue problem.
^^Oblivious of mathematics^^
I'M JUST SAYING..... there's a very popular misconception that corporations pay income taxes. THEY DO NOT! Their CUSTOMERS pay the taxes for them. So when people start belly-aching that XYZZY Company and similar companies in the "widget" (substitute "automotive", "oil", "pharmaceutical", whatnot) business aren't paying "their fair share" (gag me!), if you raise their taxes, the cost will simply be passed on to their customers. If you were running a business and YOUR corporate income taxes went up, you would do the same thing.So I suppose we should patronise only those companies which pay no tax, make a loss or get rebates, then. Makes sense.
Shows how much you know about business. Dividends are paid to shareholders and all qualified shareholders get equal per share dividends whether they work for the company, and happen to hold shares, or they are a teacher with that company's shares held in her 401K. Dividends are not a form of employee compensation.
Now the company could grant and employee shares in the company as compensation, but tax would still have to be paid on the value of the shares at the time of transfer. And then once the share are sold, the employee also has to pay capital gains tax if there is a gain
Their CUSTOMERS pay the taxes for them.
It depends how they get paid - they might well not pay very much tax on it if its paid out as a dividend.
but Apple can be used as a prime example how lowering corprate taxes is not going to lower prices for the rest of us. All it will do is increase their profit margins and only the higher ups benefit from that. The line workers not so much.
It case and point they will push profit margins as high as they can get away with it so all lowering taxes will do is increase the profit margins and not lower prices.
Yes. The price of the TV was raised to $450 from its previous price of $250. Its price on Thursday is not relevant.
^^Oblivious of reality^^
^^Oblivious of mathematics^^
Nope, this isn't a simple math issue. It's a relational issue which you can't seem to grasp.
Due to two very important factors: its sheer size, and the fact that they've had an undervalued currency for years. But to the point, taxes are 40 % of GDP in comparison to the US' 27.Actually, Germany's economy is what is propping up the EU right now.
Does North Dakota have an around 43 % tax-to-GDP ratio?Norway has 4% unemployment, but they are thinly populated and have lots of oil. Guess what. North Dakota has lots of oil and natural gas, and they have a 3% unemployment rate.
Sweden's unemployment rate is about the same as ours. They have high personal income taxes, but a lower corporate income tax rate (26.3%) that they plan to lower even further (22%). http://www.thelocal.se/43202/20120913/
Yes. The price of the TV was raised to $450 from its previous price of $250. Its price on Thursday is not relevant.
I'm sure they can legally structure the company in such a way as to only pay those "dividends" to their senior management.
Capital gains tax is paid at a lower rate than income though...
Due to two very important factors: its sheer size, and the fact that they've had an undervalued currency for years. But to the point, taxes are 40 % of GDP in comparison to the US' 27.
Does North Dakota have an around 43 % tax-to-GDP ratio?
Wanna trade the higher corporate taxes against the total tax pressure of about 50 % of GDP?