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| 894bd63 | The widest definition of "wealthy" is in India, where a 1% wealth tax kicks in for anybody whose net worth is more than 3 million rupees, which comes to about $45,000. (In India, that still means a small percentage of the population.)" | T.R. Reid | ||
| f7eb29d | Most of them ran counter to the ethos of BBLR. Virtually all of them made the tax code more complicated--including that bizarre "anti-complexity clause," Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX). Three decades after the passage of the 1986 reforms, the U.S. tax code is a mockery of the BBLR principle." | T.R. Reid | ||
| 844f69e | IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, a voluminous and hugely complex new law, which included the laughable "anti-complexity clause"--that is, Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX)." | T.R. Reid | ||
| adced13 | the number one most serious problem facing American taxpayers. That problem is the complexity of the tax code. | T.R. Reid | ||
| e61840e | 2012 tax-reform act stipulated that members of the national parliament and the prime minister's cabinet would pay 5% higher rates than anybody else in the country. "We did it as a gesture of solidarity," Kazimir said. "The message was, okay, if the parliament is going to raise taxes, we'll see to it that members of parliament pay more than anybody else. "It's the same kind of political bullshit you probably have in your Congress," Kazimir t.. | T.R. Reid | ||
| 7e16db9 | BBLR means that if the tax base--that is, the total amount of income, or sales, or property that can be taxed--is kept as large as possible, then the tax rate--that is, the percentage that people have to give to the government--can be kept low. Virtually all economists and tax experts agree that this is the best way to run a tax regime. | T.R. Reid | ||
| 233985c | If there's no deduction for contributions, charities don't have to produce a certified receipt for each donation, and the contributor doesn't have to track down the nine-digit Tax ID Number of each charity she wants to support. | T.R. Reid | ||
| eef6e19 | ALL THOSE ISSUES SHOULD be enough to demonstrate that the deduction for charitable contributions is costly, unfair, and easy to abuse. But there's actually a more fundamental problem with this particular deduction: It doesn't work. | T.R. Reid | ||
| 7754bbc | The big gorilla of homeowner tax breaks is the deduction for mortgage interest, which reduces income tax revenues by about $100 billion each year. That is, this one tax deduction costs more than the budgets of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, the Interior, and the Treasury combined. | T.R. Reid | ||
| b2c9a51 | anybody buying a qualified plug-in electric car--the list of approved vehicles includes sleek, sporty cars like the $105,000 Tesla Model S P85D and the $138,000 BMW i8--can subtract up to $7,500 from the income tax he or she owes Uncle Sam. | T.R. Reid | ||
| 17d7c09 | In the 1960s, the corporate tax brought in about 33% of U.S. tax revenues. Today, the same tax provides less than 9% of revenues; that means individual taxpayers have to take up the slack and pay more. | T.R. Reid | ||
| 2491880 | By the mid-1980s, the tax code allowed depletion or depreciation allowances that cut taxes for cement companies, Christmas tree farms, apple orchards, gravel pits, railroad cars, rubber importers, cattle growers, and many, many more. There was even a depreciation allowance for human beings; professional sports teams were allowed to write off their players as "depreciable assets" as they slowed down with age." | T.R. Reid | ||
| 3876152 | What had been the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 became the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which it still is today. | T.R. Reid | ||
| 4fcbe2b | By routing its manufacturing through a tiny factory in Puerto Rico, Microsoft saved over $4.5 billion in taxes on goods sold in the United States" over a three-year period." | T.R. Reid | ||
| f90912b | And the design is quite brilliant," Vik said as he demonstrated the movable bottom that pressed all the blood into the lid. "Vampire Push Pops," I said. My sister grinned and elbowed me." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 025accc | How can you make jokes after learning such things?" You learn to laugh, or you paint the walls with your brains. But what I said was, "It's how we cope." -- | Eric R. Asher | ||
| bbb7f89 | The guests and I spent a glorious thirty minutes on some of the most uncomfortable folding chairs my ass has ever borne witness to, listening to a pastor who could make a sloth look like a gerbil on crack. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 0c20dc7 | It was a little odd being single and watching an old girlfriend get married. It was also pretty funny knowing at least three people in the room, besides the groom, had slept with the bride. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 341e942 | Look on the bright side," Foster said. "If it's not the right thing, you'll be too dead to worry about it." Carter grimaced. "Thanks, I feel much better now." "There is no better way to die, than to die with your enemies' entrails in your fist." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 2823c16 | What?" "There is no better-" "Stop, never mind. I heard you the first time." "What's up with the wolf?" Foster said as he looked at me. "Gee, I have no clue." "Was it the entrails?" | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 120c746 | He glanced down at the paper, then looked at Sam. His jaw opened slowly and he turned back to the picture of Elizabeth's mom. "Fuck me, is that a pigeon head in her hair? Please tell me you did that." "Yes, he did," Sam said." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 3fd720e | She's a firecracker, that one." "She's usually the most reasonable of the bunch," I said. The Old Man shook his head and stroked his beard. "You've obviously not seen her angry." "Ah, but I've seen her naked." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 4545efa | Every attack should bring death. Every death should be legendary. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 0743d95 | Um, what did you say?" He was screaming again. "I said you almost hit the highway impact attenuation devices!" "The what?" "The barrels! The big fucking yellow barrels!" | Eric R. Asher | ||
| efa0f2f | Everyone let out a sigh of relief as Carter came into view. "Look what I found!" he said as he held up the decapitated head of the other Alpha. I grimaced and said, "Carter, you don't know where that's been." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| eae9546 | Some of us were not born to fight." "When the options are fight or die, everyone was born to fight." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 5b8e366 | I worked hard not to stare when she leaned forward, showing me more cleavage as she laughed. I'd consider my effort not to stare a moderate success. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 425901e | I stared at my sister as she started walking back to us. Blood ran down her chin and was splattered across her face. "He's dead," she said. "Thank you, Captain Obvious," I said." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| bb96ac0 | Let's just go inside." "Amen," Dominic said as he dropped out of the shadows behind Dell, who proceeded to jump and squeal. It was a manly squeal." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| c68aa4d | Have you ever eaten meat on a Friday?" Mike asked as the stairs echoed beneath our footsteps. "What?" I said. "Does cow count?" "Ah, then you were already going to hell," Mike said." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 8606850 | Almost on cue, both vampires snapped out their fangs and slammed them into the top of the cups. "Vampire sippy cups," I muttered. Both of them stifled laughter in an effort not to spray the room in blood." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 8b16cf3 | I'm impressed you survived your childhood, Damian," Alan said. "We all have our talents," I said." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| af74115 | He knew exactly what he was doing with every atrocity he committed. There is no hope for someone who loses themselves to righteousness. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| d0e6bea | The world will try to beat you down. It will steal your will. The best thing you can do is kick it in the balls. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 8444c20 | Good for naps," Alan said, stretching his legs out with a lazy smile. I gave Alan a slow nod. "You've learned my most secret of secrets. You can never leave here alive." "Just ignore him," Alan said. "He has a terrible sense of humor." | Eric R. Asher | ||
| ab40cc0 | Your soul will rot in flames until the end of days." "Oh," I said. "At least it's not something bad." -- | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 03eb078 | I watched the road as the sun fell lower in the sky, and the vampire god beside me nobly scarfed down a slider. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 6bd961d | There are days so great, you wish them to never end, There are days gone so bad, you wish them never to have been, And there are days when hell kicks in your front door. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 5595657 | Hopefully this girl gets a happy ending. The last two sure as hell didn't. I | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 53c535e | What humanity fears, it exterminates, | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 8ad3791 | drag fertile human women into fairy mounds to provide milk for the fairy children. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 549c14f | Ale burns like a bitch when you shoot it through your nose. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| c13d1a2 | Tired of hunting down sources of milk for the kids? Call in the next half hour and we'll give you two, that's two cu siths for the price of one. Don't want to drag those screaming women home all by yourself? Call now! | Eric R. Asher | ||
| a92f0a1 | Unless you consider pissing yourself and running away screaming a gift, which some do. | Eric R. Asher |