Just what society needs.. more fat controllers bossing everyone around for some arbitrary 'good'. Maybe some people prefer liver disease to sobriety. Maybe they should be allowed to drink themselves to death if they want? It is their choice. Let people take care of themselves and their loved ones, and let them suffer the consequences of their own actions, or be supported through hard times by their loved ones.
I would like a law that lets some people out of both welfare and laws that prevent a person from damaging themselves.
Please don't automatically assume the market is falling short here. Many governments including our own play a huge part in manipulating the price of fuels.
If you are valuable enough your employer probably doesn't want you to take any vacation. Your only real bargaining chit is being able to get a job elsewhere which means that if your skills are specialised enough and your employer is the only game in town where you would be that valuable then you actually have little to no bargaining power.
Also when you have a large number of staff who all doing essentially the same job they will usually get roughly the same vacation time or that would be regarded as unfair.
Just because somebody works as say a programmer but doesn't happen to be numero uno rockstar-ninja coder doesn't mean they don't deserve some time off every year.
Someone who thinks stopping SOPA is impossible, but on his Google+ page has the tagline: "No matter how intimidating the odds, always remain undaunted."
Way to stick to your guns, Jason.
I do agree in part with him though. Google, Facebook, et al. have been too quiet. Anti-SOPA propaganda should be somewhere highly visable on their websites. They need to at least spread the word about it.
"Specifically, the President has called for increasing limits on “miniofferings,” allowing “crowdfunding,” and phasing in some requirements for small firms as they go public."
Or maybe some people can move to farms, supplying more farm labor, sending farm worker wages down, and lowering the price of food to close to nothing? Ohh wait... minimum wage laws stop that from happening.
Every tax creates distortions. If the tax break was high enough it would encourage people and corporations with extremely high incomes to hire people for 366 days and then fire them and hire another domestic replacement.
So if a company is efficient and has to terminate people they will have to pay more taxes?
Smart businessmen (with smaller businesses) would just start a new company every year and move the profit from 1 to another. It isn't a very big accounting challenge to change which one of the companies you control shows a profit.
Yes if a company makes higher profits by eliminating workers then they should lose the savings from their taxes.
If they moved the profit and terminated the workers, that year they would still have to pay full taxes. The new company would not have people for a year so no credits - they also wouldn't have profits to pay taxes on either. There is no way to game the system, you cannot shuffle workers because you lose credits.
Why is this so complicated to appreciate? A large corporation's worth to society is not to ship jobs overseas but to create domestic jobs. How else do you encourage them to not ship jobs overseas and get slave labor for pennies?
Why should we encourage a corporation not to ship jobs overseas? Why do you intrinsically want to favor Priscilla over Poonam? Is a brown girl who speaks Marathi somehow less worthy of a job than a white girl who speaks English?
Personally I don't think so. But perhaps that's because to me, Poonam is a real girl, very short, who makes frowny faces in google chat and real life when I tease her. Maybe I'd think differently if Poonam was a faceless foreign devil.
(Note: The girl is real, the name is not.)
Also, you are simply wrong that a corporation's value is creating jobs. It isn't. A corporation's worth is the consumer surplus their products create. If my company helps a woman find a dress she values at $100 and she pays $80 for it, she gains a consumer surplus of $20. How much of that $20 we are responsible for is dependent on what her NBA would have been.
What if that woman is unable to get a job because all the jobs are shipped overseas and cannot buy a new dress at all?
Then she will lower the cost of her labor until her prices become competitive, and people will then choose to hire her.
What is that corporation's worth to society that it is not generating any domestic income and only extracting dollars from a society?
Corporate value to society = consumer surplus generated - cost of printing green pieces of paper
(This assumes the corporation takes delivery of green pieces of paper rather than electrons, in which case it's value is even higher.)
Also, you still dodged the question of why your white girl deserves this job more than my brown girl. Is my girl simply less of a human being than your girl?
hey.. I haven't done extensive research, but I have read several articles claiming that saying that mining the materials that go into batteries is a very very dirty process and pollutes the entire area around the mining operation, and the energy cost of producing a battery is very high.
I have a feeling that once the technology has been around for awhile it will get cleaner, but who knows...
I would love to know more if anyone else has done more research.
On the other hand, a small number of fixed pollution sources can be better overall for the environment than a large number of mobile sites spread all over, even if the former emit more total pollution.
I would like a law that lets some people out of both welfare and laws that prevent a person from damaging themselves.