Would you rather have a job as a cashier or a job developing and maitaining the devices, software and infrastructure of these systems ? They call it productivity lady_flav. Companies cannot survive without increasing productivity ie expense to revenue. That shy the unions have sucked once healthy prosperous companies d...more

Neither the buyer nor the seller pay for an appraisal that a bank/finance company employ UNLESS the loan closes. Else the finance company eats the cost of the appraisal. Contrary to what seems to be popular beloief here, the banks ACTALLY want to loan money. That is how they make money. They pay for a lot of administra...more

The US Government controls two dats bases. Tax retrurn data base and the Social Security Death data base. In this day and age of "computers" why can't the IRS run the social security numbers on the tax return against the social security data base to verify the SS #s are for living tax payers ???? WOuldnt this be simple...more

15% of $21M is $3.25M in taxes paid. 15% on $50K is $7.5K in taxes paid. Where is the unfairness ?????   You can spin anyhting with numbers taken out of context ! The media and politicians do it all the time. Start using your own brains people before they rot compeltely away

As usual, most of the comments on this issue come from people who think they know something because they listen to all the politicl rhetoric and spns of the politicians and biased news media. Few actually know the facts and fewer still understand much if any of tax law, I am not going to try and explain tax law. No one...more

Warren Buffet pays 15% in Capital Gains taxes on billions. So his tax bill is in the millions every year. I also pay 15% Capital Gains taxes on hundreds or thousands so my tax bill is hundreds. Why is that not fair ?   The unfairness is not how Warren Buffet is treated, it is how the average employee is treated. Th...more

headhoncho, you are the one confused.   Becauuse you with hold taxes from an employees wages does not mean that they pay that in taxes. It simply means you hold it back for him for the government who pays no interest to hold on to their money. When that employee files a tax return is when that employee determines w...more

You have to be at leasta little literate to operate any of these devices. If your still trying to figure out how to use a toaster, dont bother ordering a Kindle Fire. Or a calculator.

Kragbax is absolutely right. He is citing fact and you guys are citing emotional opinion. Neither you nor MIUSA seem to have a clue about the real processes and issues facing us, but are instead regurgitating what you read in the news or get from your Union leaders. Try gathering a few real facts and think for yourselv...more