An interesting philosophical question: if God created the universe out of nothing, is there anything he couldn't create and thus have to buy?   Seconddary question: given the amount of war, desiese, porverty, acts of violence, and natural disasters in recent memory, do we think God deserves the tip?   Yeah, yeah, w...more

Don't dismiss the value of some of those cheaper knock offs.  I've been using the same dozen or so zip-loc plastic tubs for 5 or 6 years now.  I also get good used out of butter tubs, ice cream buckets and other containers others just pitch.   Aside from the wages and jobs things others have brought up, we've been gr...more

Maybe we should take a page from these businese owners and tack on a surcharge to our wages every time our gas prices go up, our food prices go up, our insurance premiums go up, our bank fees go up....   Sorry for the sarcasm, but I'm sick of this class of people that think that they are entitled to a certain after t...more

Ed   Item A above lists only what is labed as "income tax" with SS listed as a seperate item C.  I don't care how you personally view them on your paycheck, but up there they are two halves of pie, not the whole pie then the seperatly identified piece.  Your view would only  mean the percents given aove for income ta...more

I never questioned the premis, just saying be cafeful what you wish for, if for no other logical reason than contries not pushing the federal tax low propably don't worry about keeping the local taxes low either.  For example, you might bawk about your sales tax, but there are still higher ones in Canada, plus they hav...more

Tabasco Ed, while you might make no distinction between social security and normal income tax, for the purposes of the article they are seperated.   And the SS numbers seem low because it's capped.  Every dollar over the cap lowers the overall percentage of income because income continues to grow while the amount pai...more

Uh, you do realize other countries also have local, regional, municipal, prefecturial, provincial, whatever you want to call it area taxes right?  And fees, and penalities, and tarrifs, ect.   Don''t start comparing apples to the whole farm to make your situation look better.

Yeah, except those of us on the left know where this guys' money came from: customers.  This guy, Bill Gates, every rich guy got his money because a lot of poorer people bought their products, and with that money, hiriing took place.  No customers - no hiring.  So as someone that likes to work for a paycheck, shrinking...more

Rationalize it how he likes, it's still someone demanding to get his way at all times or he'll take his proverbial bat and ball and go home.  Why have a vote at all if this is how you're allowed to act if you're on the losing side?    On the plus side, I have a new article to refrence corporate hypocracy when they b...more