Is sociopathy really THAT bad?

I ate a big red candle

</font color=red><i><font color=red>GOD</font color=red> <font color=blue>BLESS </font color=blue><font color=red>AMERICA

I ate your momma back in 1973.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

Obviously I'm not speaking of ordinary people, I'm speaking of powerful people who do "good deeds" for the sole purpose of enhancing their public influence.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

Damn that woman! She told me she'd been bathing in cottage cheese because it made her skin soft! THAT WASN'T COTTAGE CHEESE!!!

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

I burned them off with a solder iron after Wingy started offering to do it with hot choad.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

Well the thing is, we go around degrading people for some perceived problem or praising people for some perceived merrit, isn't the INTENT what we should judge people on? If you find a person has devoted his life to helping people and never sought recognition for it, isn't that person more noble? When you get a flat tire and someone stops to help you, does the job, and leaves without giving you his name, doesn't that speak to the honesty of the person's motivation?

Or to put it more bluntly, if some greedy prick has a company where he pays everyone crap, mistreats them badly, fires them without cause and so forth, then donates millions of dollars to charity in order to put on a public face, shouldn't the harm he's done to everyone else be considered the greater factor towards his value as a person?

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

NIKE...what do they pay laborers...something like 27 cents an hour?

Gort, Klaatu nicto barada...Patricia Neal

Do you think that pay as you go tax would work....but I guess if it was good for main stream Americans, we'll never see it.
No income tax just a fed sales tax...

Gort, Klaatu nicto barada...Patricia Neal

Sales tax as a substitute for income tax is similar to the other competing idea: The Flat Tax.

It's been proposed before, "Hey, let's make the income tax rate a flat rate so everyone pays the same!" The idea is usually promoted to low wage workers as a way of being fair and getting rich people to pay their share. It's really a scam!

OK, imagine for a minute that the current tax rate is something like 8% for a certain sized family making $40k/yr, and 34% for a same sized family making $400k/yr. Instituting a flat tax of 24% wouldn't help the poorer family, it would hurt them. It wouldn't hurt the richer family, it would help them. Yet people try to scam this idea off to poor people.

A sales tax is just the same, it's a flat tax. It hurts the poor most. Take me for example, I'm so poor I qualify for a 100% tax return. That is, I pay no income tax. I'm so poor, I have to let certain bills slide sometimes to pay others. If you were to tax me on the necessities of life or the minimal conveniences, I'd have to let more bills slide, in fact I'd loose a utility. The phone would go first, now how do I contact people about those job offers?

So sales tax creates an undue burden on poor people. People on Fox News would probably like it a lot, since most of the commentators are wealthy business men.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

That's not the way I thought proponents explained it...I under stood that day to day necessities would not be taxed in the same way, say like a Hummer as opposed to food etc. But I half read things sometimes and get things twisted....but still argue...lol go figger...

Gort, Klaatu nicto barada...Patricia Neal

You should know how things work: First idea, tax cars at a higher rate, but then poor people can't afford transportation. Next idea: Tax SUV's at a higher rate, but SUV's and a farmer's pickup are built on the same chassis are are pretty much equal as far as regs, so now the farmer can't afford to replace his pickup. So then you tax only vehicles costing more than $50k, but some guy who makes 40k a year renting out 3 limos gets screwed. So now you only tax vehicles that aren't used for personal use (sounds more and more complicated, no?), and everybody starts claiming they use their vehicles for work at least part of the time, etc etc etc.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

So basically:

You pay the higher rate all year long, then get reimbursed for $18k worth (if the poverty line for your family is $18k) at the end of the year. The problem? You are already being taxed so high that you loose your housing before you get the refund. The good news? With the refund, you can pay for half of next year's housing. Assuming you're responsible with your refund, which most people aren't.

This is starting to look an awefull lot like the flat rate income tax all over again, rich guys looking to reduce their tax rate to that of the middle class.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

Lets assume (for the sake of argument, since I don't know if Nike pays 27cents an hour to workers) that Nike pays 27 cents and hour to workers and this makes everybody upset that these people are not getting paid enough, but they are comming to work everyday, and they could chose some other line of work, its not like they are being forced to work at Nike;
But suppose Nike decides to pay these workers 90cents an hour or over 3 times the going wages for this area, Then would the public accept Nike as doing the right thing by offering jobs at over 3X what anyone else in the area offers, or would they compare the wages with what they make in their economy, and still be outraged and want Nike to pay wages and compensation comparable to $10 per hour, or roughly 30X what others make???

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