Well, it really depends on the job. In many cases it would not be worth it to me. Ask a person with a $300,000 a year job how much stress they have to deal with on a daily basis. I can think of a lot of things I woudl not do for an extra $50,000 a year.

yeap,
toronto death toll %% wise is bigger than in honk kong...

GOOD SOCIAL MEDECINE!

It's referring to the % of the labor force that's unemployed. I assumed that's counting all adults medically and otherwise capable of working, between the ages of 18 and 65, with the exception of students.
That's how they count it here, anyway.

So you think the people that are working full time but are still living in poverty are lazy? Or that they don't want to work their way out of the situation?

You reffered to americans. In the USA, the labor force only includes people who are working or actively looking for work. it does not count people capable of working.

12clicks i agree with your point here a bit. but the thing isa middle class family is gonna have a very tight budget and if they have to pay more tax you cut consumer spending.

if it wasn't for consumer spending, the US economy would be in a recession.

no government should be talking about half a trillion in tax cuts if they can't balance the budget. if you don't balance the budget, future government's will have to cut programs and raise taxes to pay for poor financial mismanagement.

Odd way of counting, if you ask me. I'll take your word for it though.

I put some of my software in a Landfill in Fresno, CA back in the 1980's. The guy that owned it also owned a Garbage hauling company. Got to remember this was in the early 2 mid 1980's. The system used two (2) printers, so I gave him one (1) box of computer paper ( at this time it cost like 4 or 5 times it does now ). Also this Landfill owner knew nothing about computers, NOT very many people did at that time. He ask me, is this paper worth anything? I told him sure it is and gave him the price I had paid, I forget the cost at that time. Well the IRS has one (1) of there main offices in Fresno, CA. He told me he hauled something like 20 truck loads of it to his dump every year. Now these were BIG Garbage trucks. They just threw it away so they wouldn't loose the money next year, new un-opened box's. I should have ask him what else they threw away NEW stuff.

This is just one VERY small example MarkTiarra posted about.

I could give you some more, but I feel it would be just a big waste of my time and would over TAX my grey matter.:helpme

Oh and yes government contracts, my fucking God I've bidded on 'em and got a few. Most Just 2 fucking funny.

All of them? No.

Its counted that way so that people who are retired or do not need to work are not counted. If you think about it, counting it that way gives a better picture of our economics. When the economy is starting to turn around the employment rates soemtimes go up. Experts attribute this to people being encouraged by the upturned economy and starting to look for work again.

Simple right. I think so. Give me more money and yes I will spend it, or some of it, or a little of it, or put it a savings,(then the banks have it to loan out). I dam sure can't spend it if I don't have it. Never has and never will compute with me... Tax me more so I can spend more, how does this work? If you put the money back into the system it will get spent one way or another, and it will create jobs (it has to). Never will I understand how I will have more money if I am taxed more.

Even if a tax cut goes only to the rich or very rich IT WILL create jobs, and dam sure don't have a degree from MIT and know it will create jobs. And I'm dam sure not rich, at least not any more.:helpme
Only way it wouldn't is the rich or very rich bury it in there back yards. The money WILL find it's way back into the system.

Also the off shore Corp. shit is going to be cut in due time, been reading about it.

When I was 17 I was a sheet rock nailer, 10 hours a day 6 days a week. When I was 18 they were forcing me on to a
Troop Ship at gun Point. And all I cared about was pussy not any dam Taxes.:1orglaugh

I might add not one and I repeat NOT ONE
social programs has solved one problem. They just **don't* work with the Gov. running them

Here's how I saw the thread of our conversation:

You suggested that if people don't like America's tax system, they should move elsewhere.

I suggested that you have to stand and fight for what you believe in sometimes or everytime there is an injustice, you'll leave and what political system will be left behind?


If people don't fight for their freedoms what's left? Well dictatorships. That's why I don't argue against anti-war protests and the like. I may not agree but it's the ability to stand and fight for what you believe in that keeps the system of democracy honest.

So how did you get out of that, that I said respecting deomcratic decisions leads to dictatorships? It's NOT respecting what it takes to continually allow people the right to democratic decisions that lead to a world full of dictators. That's a very important distinction.