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Good for a chuckle http://youtube.com/watch?v=efYelIqKHGs

      You can have a very simple tax code with a progressive tax system. You don't need a flat tax to elminate much of the red tape and garble in the tax code. (For those of you that are pro-flat tax, simplifiying the code in this manner would be a good first step to a flat system. Not my cup of...

I don't think they are Photoshoped. Look at the amount of light and basically all white background on this photo of the Air force’s most recent newborn.  The windscreens still have that flat black look save for a tiny little bit.  I think it's just the type of material and the light...

"...I've stepped in it again mom." I admit that I had forgotten about tax free invesment gains that one gets from an RRSP, but I was correct to point out that one of it's benefits is to lower a persons level of taxable income, bringing them into a lower bracket.  And yes,  “the most powerful...

Avoiding capital gains tax year over year is one benefit to RRSP's.  But income tax deferal is also a very significant reason. ::) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_Retirement_Savings_Plan 1.Contributions to RRSPs, up to permitted limits described below, may be deducted from one's income...

You put money in an RRSP to defer income tax. That is the whole point. It only works if you have progressive tax brackets.  Unless you have an age over which you would pay less, or no, income tax. Then you could save your pre-tax dollars and remove them at the lower rate once you hit that age. ...

But if there are no exemptions you can't have them no matter how bad you want them, removing exemptions removes the ability to have exemptions. It's a manouver warfare solution to the problem of tax dodgers  :P RRSP - Please explain to me why I would put money in a tax deferment tool if there...

That's what the Frasier report proposed too.  How is my idea any different.     I believe the logic of the progresive system also based on econmic utility; in giving breathing space to low-income earners, they are able to make investments in themselves and skills to become higher earners, tax...

It puts a lesser burden on low income earners. It's a socially progressive tax system. If you are to get rid of tax exemptions, isn't that where most of the ineffieciency's lie?  I argure that the GST is expensive to collect, that needs to be fixed.  But income tax, I'd imagine that dropping...

          Doesn't the expense of income tax collection deal more with tax loophole's and write off's than a progressive tax structure?  As to the very expensive to collect GST, it should just be taken out of a harmonized PST- GST combo.  Have the province collect both in one shot and the fed's...

        There are lots of threads on advice for ruck marching, I will summarize them here: adjust your pack properly and keep moving your feet.  As to SAS super-marching tabbing thingy.  10k an hour, hour after hour, in full battle gear, cross country...I'm not buying it.  I will add I've never...

        Thucydides, I think you're right about contemporary views shaping debates.  My main point was that over time Americans have emphasized the importance of domestic vs. international criteria for success.  But you are correct, 100 years from now, who knows.       As for attacks; I did...

        I don't know about 'history', but Americans tend to vote and respond, rightly so, to domestic issues.  The G.W. Whitehouse has been a disaster on the domestic side and there is not happy hyper-ideological principle to point to in his domestic governance.  As such, I expect that in the...

This totally normal and a non-issue.  This type of thing happens in many many countries.  For instance, during the CIA's campaign against the Soviets in the 80's, both Democratic and Republican Representatives and Senetors met with afghan warlords, Saudi and Pakistani politicians and top...

YES! For God's sake get those child killing death magnets off our children! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh "Next on Hardcopy: Did you know that greedy helmet manufacturers are trying to kill babies? Did you also know that the government is letting them?"

"This is not a scientific poll " - You don't say.... +1 IN HOC, a stupid question.

            Quartered Safe Out Here is an account of his personal experience in the Burma Campaign.  Absolutely touching and the finest personal war memoir I've come across.  I was partial to his McAuslan books too, but QSOH was my favorite of his by far.  RIP 

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    I must sadly admit that my family has had contact, though not ruinous, with an individual who is now a 'serious offender'. I knew this individual well in my teenage years, they being a little older and while I never had particular dealings with them I was able to witness their progression...

I'm not sure someone I’ve known for 25+ years is simply pimping job security to me.  You could say that kind of thing about anyone in any job.  Regardless, ZC stated that 'everyone' in the system knows that rehab doesn't work.  From my little experience that isn't true.  Despite the fact that I...