Brokkr

As an American, I think finding the dumbest of us would be hard given the amount of competition.

My theory is that his PR people are “leaking” these stories that he can rebuild his image as a recovering addict. This will let them craft a sympathetic story and they will hope that we’ll forget that he’s a racist asshole.

Typo? “or* lose…”

For gifts specifically, the giver is supposed to pay the tax.

Everything else you listed is taxed as income (with different rules depending on the source) just like you said. You could also add inheritance (unless special loopholes are used) and proceeds from the sale of illegal narcotics.

Point taken, but how much do you think a hot dog costs?

The author of this is really twisting the story in his own favor. He leaves out the part where he launched public personal attacks against other faculty and students.

His department did try to work with him so that he could teach his class (which was completely outside his field of expertise, and is therefore against the general policies). They wanted him to co-teach with someone with knowledge in the field, but at that point he had completely ostricisized himself and no one wanted to work with him.

This is absolutely a situation where someone fucked around with a loaded gun, shot themselves in the foot and is now mad at everyone else because they didn’t help him shoot someone else.

That sounds like socialism which is bad because it’s bad. Look what happened in Canada, they didn’t pay animal and worker abusingly low prices and now they don’t have insanely high prices. Without causing these situations they are denying large parts of their population high sustained cortisol levels.

This is why we need to maintain our threats of annexation. We must provide them the stress that their government denies them.

Article 1, sec. 8, clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; . . .

And the tenth amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Such a law as you propose would be unconstitutional and the state government could not protects its citizens from the consequences that would come from withholding their taxes. While we’re talking about taxes here, the tenth amendment is also what protects citizens in deep red states from their oppressive state governments (despite their best efforts).

Your comment made me wonder what taxes the federal government collects from state governments. As far as I can tell, the IRS does not collect from state governments, but does collect from the residents and businesses of a state.

So while I agree that these states should fight back, I don’t think they have any payments that they could withhold. I hope they find a variety of other ways to fix this though.

Yep, you’re right. Had the 2 on the wrong side. Fixing.

It is either a 30 60 or 60 120 Hz flicker, depending on how they built the electronics. It is 30 60 Hz if they didn’t include an inverter and 60 120 Hz if they did.

Without an inverter, it will be off for 50% of the time. With an inverter, it will always be on, but sometimes dim.

With better electronics, it will be steady on, but that’s not common in christmas lights.

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What show? Was it good?

I’ll start by saying do not do this, but even if it was wired wrong and neutral was connected to hot and everything was properly insulated, then the breaker would trigger pretty quickly since it would be a short.

If the breaker is faulty, then there could be a bigger issue, but that’s fairly unlikely.

Yeah, and stop having sex and listening to rock and role.

That’s a solution that just isn’t going to work. We as a society need to plan for using more and more energy. Therefore, we need to create cleaner and cleaner ways to generate that energy. If solar can be implemented until we scale up fission, that’s great. We can then rely on fission for a few hundred years until we get to fusion.

People will complain about the dangers of fission only while they ignore the dangers of fossil fuels and aren’t required to use them. As soon as fossil fuels start running out, then fission isn’t going to sound so bad. Frankly, it shouldn’t sound bad now.

Yeah, I’m sure that trend of entertaining and well done interviews will die off soon. It’s been going for at least a few centuries, its gotta lose popularity eventually right?

Except the one about dishwashers, that one is great a definitely doesn’t lead to a rabbit hole that contains a grown man discussing the color of Christmas lights and figuring out different ways to paint white bulbs to get the right color of blue.

The Hill segment focused only on Stewart’s passing comments about US public transportation. Stewart was not commenting on the differences between US and Russian (Moscow) public transportation. Stewart was talking about how Russia is a brutal and oppressive regime and Tucker is a despicable “journalist” by knowingly lying in an attempt to make his audience believe that they need to sacrifice their freedoms.

The Hill journalists focused entirely on the facade of Stewart’s comments and didn’t acknowledge or engage with his main points about the deceit and hidden oppression that Tucker’s segment tried to elide over.

Sometimes a country’s customs screening is in a foreign country, but US customs does not have a preclearance office in Amsterdam. Countries typically don’t have screenings for people leaving the country.