Major Ursa How-To Yesterday's posting of the big dipper made with the updated Bryce 4.1 sparked a question-- how'd I do dat? Here's my rambling answer
Frankly Speaking Brent Simmons's fable tells The Truth about Nets and Dogs. Go read it!!!
Snail Mailman How hard could a mail job be? Very. One person's experience being a temp mailman.
I looked right, left. I even looked up. This was one of the times that I have been stricken with a feeling of true horror. How could a mail truck disappear?
Local News More L.A. Times coverage on the citizenry protesting the child molester outta town - The police helped to get him a one-way plane ticket outta state. (if you're just tuning in, this is a very local story. There are two previous articles in the L.A. Times: First Report, Follow up analysis)
To Die For Clinton vetoes the legislation to repeal estate tax. This is very disturbing.
`This bill is wrong. It is wrong on grounds of fairness. It is wrong on grounds offiscal responsibility,'' Clinton said ....
Oh, I think that this government is so utterly the role model of fiscal responsibility! Please, please, toss away the law, and please tax us and show us how fiscal responsibility is really done, all you people in Washington! I wanna believe! You're the role models! You know best! Tell me, I wanna know! I need to know!
It is estimated that the two tax cuts together would cost the federal treasury more than $350 billion over 10 years.
There's a little problem here about the presumption of possession. Who owns what? Who has the right to take things away? That sentence above makes it sound as though it was the treasury's money to begin with. Hello? I guess my property is not really mine. I cannot dispose of it as I will. I guess it all belongs to the government, and I'm thankful that they let me keep as much as they let me actually keep. Hmmmm... in other contexts, if someone takes something of mine without my permission, it's called theft.
This Bill is wrong all right.
Man, with such things like this taking place, I really wish that there were more interesting alternatives than Gush and Bore come November.
Now I'm reading an article in The Economist about this.
Indeed, the estate tax’s high rate suggests that it could have big disincentive effects. The top rate of 55%, combined with a top income tax of 39.6%, means that high income-tax payers, who intend to bequeath any new dollar they earn to their descendants, are taxed on it at the rate of almost 73%.
Sorry to hear about the death of your loved one. Guess what? You get to inherit 27 cents on the dollar of your loved one's estate.
Bought It Up Well....they say this tax is only for the top 2% of people in the country. I know of one person who'll be subject to it when that time comes. And this little animation tells how he's been earning his estate. (Flash required)


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