Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 36889
Berkeley CSUA MOTD
 
WIKI | FAQ | Tech FAQ
http://csua.com/feed/
2024/11/23 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
11/23   

2005/3/25-29 [Reference/Tax] UID:36889 Activity:kinda low
3/25    Why the hell doesn't Wal-Mart pay to have its street widened?
        Spending $37 million of taxpayer dollars seems stupid when
        Wal-Mart can easily afford it.
        \_ Is this a troll? They don't do it because it's not profitable.
        \_ Why pay for it if the government will.  sounds like sound
           business fundamentals.
           \_ No shit. Why is the government subsidizing Wal-Mart?
              \_ Because of the income that Wal-Mart promises. Big box
                 stores pay a nice bit of property taxes and sales tax.
                 Plus an anchor store like WalMart attracts other businesses.
                 There are minuses too. It's all POV.
                         \_ it also decimates nearby businesses and pays
                            its humans such a low wage that they need to go on\
                            on public assistance.
                            its humans such a low wage that they need to go
                            on public assistance.
        \_ Funny, wasn't the the whole merchant/road thing one of the main
           examples in The Wealth of Nations?  -John
        \_ url?
        \_ It's well known that Wal-Mart is especially adept at sucking
           every freebie from the government it possibly can, in addition to
           paying their employees so little they have to rely on government
           services.
2024/11/23 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
11/23   

You may also be interested in these entries...
2013/9/2-11/7 [Reference/Tax] UID:54736 Activity:nil
9/2     I'm young, and stupid. Does the IRS want reporting on 401K, IRA,
        Roth 401k/IRA? I am decades from retiring, and no plan to withdraw
        anything. But, I just realized that I haven't reported any of my
        retirement plans to IRS for several years, now wondering if I'm
        in big shit...
        \_ The account custodian (bank/brokerage/mutual fund) reports it to
	...
2012/11/5-12/4 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Reference/Tax] UID:54521 Activity:nil
11/5    "Tax Policy Center in Spotlight for Its Romney Study":
        http://www.csua.org/u/y7m (finance.yahoo.com)
        'A small nonpartisan research center operated by professed "geeks" ...
        found, in short, that Mr. Romney could not keep all of the promises he
        had made on individual tax reform ....  It concluded that Mr. Romney's
        plan, on its face, would cut taxes for rich families and raise them
	...
2012/3/5-26 [Reference/Tax] UID:54327 Activity:nil
3/5     My dad is retired and has no income. My income tax bracket is
        pretty high. If I open up a joint high interest CD account with
        him and the INT-1099 comes, is it possible to file it under him
        100% to take advantage of the lower tax?
        \_ IRS says the interest is allocated according to who allocated
           the assets. Do you think it will generate enough interest to
	...
2012/3/7-26 [Reference/Tax] UID:54331 Activity:nil
3/7     "Michigan woman still collecting food stamps after winning $1 million
        lottery"
        http://www.csua.org/u/vp3 (news.yahoo.com)
        `"I feel that it's OK because I mean, I have no income and I have
        bills to pay," she said. "I have two houses."'
        \_ My first reaction was pretty hostile to her, but then, I
	...
2011/4/17-7/30 [Politics/Domestic/California, Reference/Tax] UID:54087 Activity:nil
4/17    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_no_taxes
        "The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades
        ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all."
        And people are still complaining about taxes being too high.
        \_ yeah but only 3 out of the 5 people who aren't rich but complain
           are actually counted.
	...