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Japanese siblings Rintaro and Atsuko are visiting the U.S. for the first time. They are headed for San Francisco when their rental car breaks down in the California desert town of Littlerock. Despite the cultural and language barriers, they soon fall in with a group of aimless young locals, including an awkward outcast named Cory who is clearly taken with Atsuko. She finds a fumbling romance with another boy instead, even though the two cannot communicate with one another. Atsuko is seduced by this foreign place and wants to stay for awhile. Her brother Rintaro is soured by what he detects as its darker side. Despite all of this, Rintaro continues on as his sister is determined to embrace California as the storied refuge from troubles.
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Clicking Brick Syndrome update #2...
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Please let us know if this works for you! Add a comment to that effect, especially if you still can't update using this!
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Confirmed, it works. My brick is alive again,
- Aug 4, 2006, 4:18:00 AM
It wakes my brick back up but when i try to do a hard reset again..it's back to clicking.. AND I still havn't been able to get bluetooth working..
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"but when i try to do a hard reset again..it's back to clicking.."
I think it's supposed do do that! If you hold the reset for 4 sec or more, it will start clicking. Clicking is NXT way of telling you that it's waiting for a firmware installation...
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BMW F800GS / GSA, F700GS & F650GS Twin Skid Plate - A motorcycle as off road capable as the BMW F800GS, F700GS, or F650GS Twin deserves proper protection for the engine. The heavy duty Touratech skid plate offer the best protection for the front and underside of your BMW twin's motor.
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- PhD in Mathematics at University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 2002
- MA in Mathematics at University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 1996
- MA in French at University of California, Berkeley, California, 1994
- BA in French and Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, California, 1991
Why I Teach
As a teacher, I provide an active learning environment for all of my students. During my classes, I ask many questions so students will begin to ask questions themselves that will lead to a greater understanding of the course material.
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VDOT was not able to reach an agreement with the former owner regarding the fair market value of the property. VDOT has now selected another buyer, based on the responses it received to the solicitation for expressions of interest. The buyer has completed its due diligence. Once VDOT has completed contract negotiations with the buyer and the terms are finalized, it will identify the buyer and facilitate an introduction to the City. The City is eager to learn the buyer's plans for the property and explore options to preserve some affordable housing in the future.
VDOT received 11 responses to its solicitation for expressions of interest in the 530-unit Hunting Point (Hunting Towers) property. Based on discussions with eight developers (including the prior owner) during the solicitation period, three of the proposals that were submitted have been shared with the City. Here are the highlights:
The responses are non-binding, and the original owner has indicated its intent to re-acquire the property pursuant to its existing right of first offer, if it can reach an agreement with VDOT on the property's fair market value. The property would continue to be operated "as is" if the original owner is successful, but there is interest in working with the City to preserve some units as committed or market affordable over time.
City Council's May 22, 2012 resolution recognizing the property's importance as a market affordable housing asset, affirming the existing zoning and land use, and stating the City's intent to provide support within available resources to preserve the property as affordable, was conveyed to VDOT on May 25 along with a letter from Mayor Euille. VDOT recently advised the City that it would share the letter and resolution with all respondents as requested by the Mayor. Because VDOT considers the responses proprietary, it will not share information about specific proposals with the City.
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MUMBAI: Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, today invited its young guests for an educational excursion at its flight simulator, as part of its annual program focused on future flyers. JetSpark is a unique initiative by the airline to connect with and build long-term relationships with its young guests between the age group of 12 – 21 years. Through this dedicated forum, Jet Airways plans to engage its young guests through exclusive events, offers and customized promotions to ensure that the airline emerges as the definitive choice for these future flyers.
At a half-day event held in Mumbai, the young JetPrivilege members were taken to the airline's Flight Simulator where they were instructed on how pilots fly aircraft. The youngsters also got an opportunity to 'fly' the state of art Boeing 777 and Airbus 330 'aircraft' under expert supervision and guidance of experienced Jet Airways pilots.
Mr. Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways, said, "As the competitive landscape is changing rapidly, there is a growing need to create greater value for our future travellers and enhance efficiencies whilst enabling improved service performance. At Jet Airways, we have always believed in fostering long-term relationships with our guests, through constant customer centric innovations. JetSpark is one such approach that will ensure a variety of choices to create thoroughly entertaining flights for passengers of all ages. This relentless focus on our guests has helped generate tremendous goodwill and loyalty for the Jet Airways brand, in both Indian and foreign skies."
The young guests participated in quiz contests and interacted with Jet Airways Flight Engineers, Pilots and in-flight crew. They also observed videos of assembling of aircraft, besides landings and take offs of planes.
The young guests were selected from a large database of JetPrivilege members.
Jet Airways gift hampers were handed over to young guests along with special gifts from, Orangina, Qua, B'lue and Lindt Chocolates. Refreshments were courtesy Oberoi Flight Services.
About Jet AirwaysJet Airways currently operates a fleet of 99 aircraft, which include 10 Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft, 11 Airbus A330-200 aircraft, 60 next generation Boeing 737-700/800/900 aircraft and 18 modern ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft. With an average fleet age of 6.06 years, the airline has one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world. Flights to 73 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond, including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kathmandu, Kuwait, London (Heathrow), Milan, Muscat, New York (Newark), Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Toronto.
About JetKonnectA consolidation of the erstwhile JetLite and Jet Airways Konnect brands, the new JetKonnect service is a dedicated product designed to meet the needs of the low fare segment. JetKonnect will also offer guests a Premiere service on nearly all domestic routes. With its mixed fleet of Boeings and ATR aircraft with over 500 daily flights connecting 52 destinations across India, JetKonnect provides more flexibility and choice to its guests, making it India's largest low fare brand. JetKonnect's convenient schedules, reliable service and low fares promise to bring greater value and a seamless flying experience to our customers.
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Date: 7 October 2011, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Representation of North Rhine-Westphalia at the European Union, Rue Montoyer 47, 1000 Brussels
Moderation: Dr. Carolin Funk, Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) – the German Energy Agency
In order to achieve the European growth targets for renewable energy, Europe's energy infrastructure has to be modified. The EU project SUSPLAN investigated energy systems in European regions as well as on a trans-national level. It developed appropriate strategies up to 2050 for the large-scale integration of renewable energy sources (RES) beyond current EU targets.
During the 2nd international conference SUSPLAN results for shaping Europe's future energy infrastructure were presented and discussed. A major focus was on strategies for the implementation of renewable energies on a regional and European level. Related issues such as existing barriers and possibilities for increasing acceptance for energy infrastructure projects were also raised.
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Dr. Carolin Funk, Project Manager Energy Systems and Energy Services, Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) – the German Energy Agency
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Catharina Sikow-Magny, Deputy Head of Unit Security of supply and networks, Security of supply, Energy markets and networks, European Commission
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|Advantages of a pan-European energy market and the role of renewable energies - a power ex-change's perspective
Dr. Wolfram Vogel, Head of Public Affairs & Communication, EPEX Spot
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Bjørn Bakken (PhD), Research Manager, SINTEF Energy Research
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|Technology deployment and system solutions for a more efficient RES integration, the SUSPLAN project perspective
Dr. Pablo Frias, Senior Research Scientist, Universidad Pontificia Comillas - Madrid
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Vibeke Hodne, Vice President, Statnett SF
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Piotr Kuś, Director of Brussels Office, Gas Transmission Operator GAZ-SYSTEM S.A.
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Jeroen de Joode, Coordinator Natural Gas, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
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|Implementation strategies for infrastructures development - Major recommendation from the SUSPLAN project
Dr. Marian Klobasa, Senior Research Scientist, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI)
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|Creation of acceptance in the population for energy systems. How to accelerate the development of energy infrastructure
Hannes Seidl, Deputy Head of Division Energy Systems and Energy Services, Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) – the German Energy Agency
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|Electricity network planning until 2050 – the MoDPEHS initiative
Kai Adam, Vice- Convenor of the Working Group 2050 / Electricity Highways, ENTSO-E
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|3.30 pm
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|4.00 pm
Dr. Marian Klobasa, Fraunhofer ISI
Kai Adam, ENTSO-E
Dr. Wolfram Vogel, EPEX Spot
|4.20 pm
|Panel discussion
All keynote speakers
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He'd mostly just be buying back guys he's already cut from the roster. Couple good guys but mostly rejects.
Chances are most of the fighters the UFC would want from BFC will join the UFC when they have a chance anyway.
What about Schlemenko? He may not be the best fighter but he is very exciting and he is on a 11 win streak. He is 26-2 in his last 28 bouts.
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
Invicta before Bellator.
UFC boss says Bellator fighters 'screwed' when it comes to testing free agencyhttp://www.mmajunkie.com/news/2013/09/ufc-boss-s
"The way that they do their deals, their guys are screwed," White said at a Sunday media event in Brazil. "Those guys can't go out and test the fair market. They can't do anything."
Askren (12-0 MMA, 9-0 BMMA), of course, is a four-time Division I All-American wrestler who transitioned to MMA in 2009. After three first-round stoppages on the regional scene, Askren signed with Bellator and earned the company's welterweight belt just six months after his promotional debut. He's since defended the belt four times but became a free agent after his July win over Andrey Koreshkov.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney has thus far declined to offer a new deal to his welterweight champ but has encouraged Askren to seek an offer from the UFC, at which time Bellator officials could weigh their option to match the deal.
White has expressed some interest in at least exploring the possibility of bringing Askren to the UFC, but he's understandably a bit gun shy after an attempt to bring then-free agent Alvarez proved fruitless when the threat of extensive litigation led the lightweight to decide a return to Bellator was in his best interest.
For his part, Askren has thus far said he's fine with whatever happens next, even going so far as to tell MMAjunkie.com he'd be content if he never fights again.
White won't reveal just how far he plans on pushing for Askren, but that's not stopping him from commenting on his thoughts of Bellator's business methods.
"Anybody who would sign a contract with them is insane," White said.
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RVD just seems out of place to me whenever I see him on Impact. Feuding with somebody like D-Von would give him that edge of interest but right now he is just there. I think they could go anywhere with RVD from this point.
We all judge others even if it isn't our place to judge, but supposedly at the end we are all judged by one!!!
Wrestling, women and money who could ask for more???
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The Okaloosa County School district looks to have not only met class size requirements, but with fewer people and lower financial costs.
All schools were within the state-imposed class size limits, but it will be another couple of weeks until the Florida Department of Education confirms the district's count from last Friday.
When that's done, Superintendent Mary Beth Jackson said the district will have cut costs for meeting class size by more than $4 million and reduced the number of teachers hired by nearly 70, compared with last year.
"We did it with absolute fidelity," Jackson said. "We truly made sure that there was a need."
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"The key was there was a plan in place," Chambers said. "We had checkpoints along the way."
Chambers said his office won't breathe a sigh of relief until the state confirms that all kindergarten through third grade classes have 18 students, all fourth through eighth have 22 students, and all high school core classes have 25.
Walton, Santa Rosa miss the class-size mark
The tentative results of last Friday's class size compliance count weren't surprising for school leaders in Santa Rosa and Walton counties.
Both districts' counts showed they missed the mark set by the state, which allows only 18 students in kindergarten through third grade classrooms, 22 in fourth through eighth grades and 25 in core subject classes at high schools.
Walton County Superintendent Carlene Anderson and Santa Rosa County Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick both said they hired additional staff and shuffled students to try to meet the mandate but ultimately stopped for educational reasons.
"We're talking we have 19 in a classroom that should have 18," Anderson said. "I'm not going to start scrambling children around just to make the numbers fit."
The enrollment count, which is taken each October and February, is used to track student population growth and decline. It is also a criterion for a district to receive high-performing status.
Santa Rosa County has never met the standard since the strict class size limits were imposed four school years ago.
Walton County has met the mandate every other year but, with a 444-student increase over last spring, they just couldn't do it this year.
"It's just a very expensive piece of legislation and the funding, unfortunately, does not match the cost," Anderson said.
Wyrosdick said for his district to meet class size, they would have needed to bring in at least 30 teachers in addition to the seven they hired in early August.
The issue, he said, is the students coming in are in a variety of grade levels, so making space for 18 new students, even at one school, isn't easy.
"You can't solve it by hiring one teacher and two teachers," Wyrosdick said. "You disrupt the educational environment entirely."
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The Graduate School of Education (GSE) and Tokyo International University of America (TIUA) have announced an innovative new program that unites two of Willamette's signature groups while boosting opportunities for rising teachers to get international teaching experience.
The Global Teaching Fellows program will allow Willamette MAT graduates to teach English in Japan at the TIU campus, as well as work with TIUA here in Salem. The two-year contracts will provide immersion experience and meaningful professional development for teachers, especially those who have completed an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) endorsement.
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Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics in Anaerobic Sediments of the Santa Monica Basin. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA. 110:253-273.. 2013.
Representativeness-based Sampling Network Design for the State of Alaska. Landscape Ecology. 28(8). 2013.
Strong latitudinal patterns in the elemental ratios of marine plankton and organic matter. Nature Geoscience. 6(4):279-283. Abstract. 2013.
Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth-generation global fire emissions database (GFED4). JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES. 118(1):317-328. Abstract. 2013.
Recent Changes in the Ventilation of the Southern Oceans. Science. 339(6119):568-570. Abstract. 2013.
Seasonal dynamics and age of stemwood nonstructural carbohydrates in temperate forest trees. NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 197(3):850-861. Abstract. 2013.
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In 2001, ESS/CGECR researchers Ellen Druffel, John Southon and Susan Trumbore were awarded $2 million by the W.M. Keck Foundation for the development of an accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) facility – the Keck-Carbon Cycle AMS facility - for radiocarbon measurements in support of carbon cycle research at University of California, Irvine.
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Ellen Druffel and her team investigate why the 14C age of marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is thousands of years old, despite evidence that most of it is produced in the surface ocean during photosynthesis. The group also studies how ocean circulation changed in the tropical and subtropical Pacific during the past millennium.
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The focus of my research is the cycling of carbon and nitrogen in the terrestrial biosphere. I am particularly interested in understanding how climate change and alterations in land use and management as well as in the frequencies of disturbances (i.e. drought, fire) affect the allocation and residence time of carbon and nitrogen in soils and perennial plants. And, how changes in terrestrial ecosystems feed back to the climate system, e.g. by constraining future levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Springfield School Board cuts budget by $1MBy Kevin OConnor
Staff Writer | January 22,2014SPRINGFIELD This towns School Board voted reluctantly Tuesday to cut nearly two dozen teachers and support staffers next academic year to slice almost $1 million from tax bills.
These obviously arent cuts we or you want, but we also respect the fact this is a unique situation, Superintendent Zachary McLaughlin told the board.
By slicing $960,376 from the 1,450-student, 359-employee school system, which covers pre-school to grade 12, the coming budget will rise less than $10,000 from the current years $28 million but still require a tax increase of 6.2 cents because of changing variables in a complex state formula.
Last week a crowd of 50 residents ranging from students to staffers to senior citizens voiced opposition to the plan for nearly two hours, with many focusing on the potential loss of Russian language study.
In response, school leaders said they empathized with such comments but also had a responsibility to increasingly burdened taxpayers.
Were not excited about it this is going to have an impact and put more strain on existing staff, McLaughlin said. But this is the best we can do with what weve been given.
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The grade K-2 Elm Hill primary school faces about $200,000 in cuts, including two classroom teachers, two paraeducators and a mental health clinician.
The grade 3-5 Union Street elementary school will face some $150,000 in cuts, including four paraeducators and a mental health clinician.
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And the grade 9-12 Springfield High School faces $270,000 in cuts, including one social studies teacher, half-time teachers for English, math and Russian, one instructional assistant and the elimination of the Precision Valley alternative education program for students in danger of dropping out.
One board member spoke in favor of reinstating the half-time high school Russian teacher. But in the end, the board approved the superintendents plan, which, depending on individual decisions about retirement or relocation, could impact up to 23 staffers.
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Brace yourself. In coming weeks you'll hear there's no serious alternative to cutting Social Security and Medicare, raising taxes on the middle class, and decimating what's left of the federal government's discretionary spending on everything from education and job training to highways and basic research.
"We" must make these sacrifices, it will be said, in order to deal with our mushrooming budget deficit and cumulative debt.
These regressive sentiments are packaged in a mythology that Americans have been living beyond our means: We've been unwilling to pay for what we want government to do for us, and we are now reaching the day of reckoning.
The truth is most Americans have not been living beyond their means. The problem is their means haven't been keeping up with the growth of the economy — which is why most of us need better education, infrastructure, and healthcare, and stronger safety nets.
The real median wage is only slightly higher now than it was 30 years ago, even though the economy is twice as large.
The only people whose means have soared are at the very top, because they've received almost all the gains from growth. Over the last three decades, the top 1 percent's share of the nation's income has doubled; the top one-tenth of 1 percent's share, tripled. The richest one-tenth of 1 percent is now earning as much as the bottom 120 million Americans put together.
Wealth has become even more concentrated than income (income is a stream of money, wealth is the pool into which it flows).
The richest 1 percent now own more than 35 percent of all of the nation's household wealth, and 38 percent of the nation's financial assets – including stocks and pension funds.
Think about this: The richest 400 Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together. The 6 Walmart heirs have more wealth than bottom 33 million American families combined.
So why are we even contemplating cutting programs the middle class and poor depend on, and raising their taxes?
We should tax the vast accumulations of wealth now in the hands of a relative few.
To the extent they have any wealth at all, most Americans have it in their homes – whose prices have stopped falling in most of the country but are still down almost 30 percent from their 2006 peak.
Yet homes are subject to the only major tax on wealth — property taxes.
Yale Professor Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott have proposed a 2 percent surtax on the wealth of the richest one-half of 1 percent of Americans owning more than $7.2 million of assets.
They figure it would generate $70 billion a year, or $750 billion over the decade. That's more than the fiscal cliff deal raises from high-income Americans.
Together, the two sets of taxes on the wealthy — tax increases contained in the fiscal cliff agreement, and a wealth tax such as Ackerman and Alstott have proposed — would just about equal the spending cuts the White House has already agreed to,totaling $1.5 trillion (or $1.7 trillion including interest savings).
That seems about right.
Fri, 2013-01-25 15:20
So why are we even contemplating cutting programs the middle class and poor depend on, and raising their taxes?
Well, for a couple of reasons. First, entitlements represent a basic social contract that were sold to the people, with specific conditions. You pay into the system, and in return, you are guaranteed a minimum level of security when you are old or disabled. Seems fair enough. The fact that the model sold to the people no longer works, represents a failure of government, and a failure of the contract. To abandon the contract, and penalize those who had nothing to do with its failure by confiscating their wealth, in order to achieve ends that the contract was never meant to achieve in the first place, would erode the legitimacy of the government, and erode the legitimacy of the programs.
Second, think about the precedent that would set and the economic system it would create. Imagine that economic equality is the government's guiding principle, and wealth confiscation is it's chief means of achieving it. So the government confiscates some wealth from some, and gives to others in order to reduce inequality just a little bit. The wealthy will put their remaining capital back to work, create more wealth, and inequality will rise again, until it is again redistributed. How long before the many realize that they can tap into the pools of wealth as much as they want, take as much as they want, all in the name of ever elusive "equality"? How sustainable is that system?
Third - and I know this argument is sooo out of style - it's unconstitutional. So there's that.
Look I know it's tempting to look at a big pile of cash that you have no moral or legal claim to and think "Well, I have a gun. Why don't I just take it? After all, it's only fair. He has so much more than me." But can we please, for once, pretend like we live in a civilized society?
Wed, 2013-01-30 12:18
First, Social Security Insurance does work. And who has been the main obstacle to its success? The rich. Not happy with looting the working classes pensions and 401(k)s, nor paying their fair share of the social security tax (a percentage tax that is capped for the rich), they wage war to deny the sick and old dignity at the end of work and life.
Second, what government doesn't confiscate wealth? Why not take it from those who benefit from government the most? The ones that can afford lobbyists and to hobnob with our obsequious political and legal class? When the US government had what you would call confiscatory levels of taxation (progressive taxation no less) America flourished and began to tackle problems of race and equality that have dogged the nation from the beginning . A government that only serves one class (and a fraction of the population at that), is not sustainable either.
Third, unconstitutional? How? Congress has the power to tax. Nothing on how to do it. (16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.)
Moral and legal claim? Is it moral for the Walton familty to have that much wealth and yet pay and treat their employees so poorly and to let government (that is the rest of us) pick up the tab for medical, food, and even housing? Is it moral for vulture capitalists to loot pension funds and drown healthy companies in debt so as to line their own pockets with the sweat of others. This kind of theft isn't even honest as the thug who would stick a gun in our ribs. Legal, maybe. Moral, absolutely not. I know my attitude is civilized and moral, while obviously you think legal is just as good as civilized and moral.
Fri, 2013-02-01 15:04
First, if Social Security works, then why is Mr. Reich talking about levying a wealth tax to fix it? I suspect it's because his true aim is not "fixing" Social Security, but rather redistributing wealth. And spare me the claptrap about the evil rich looting the working class. If anything, it's the other way around.
Second, there are like 6 countries that currently levy a wealth tax. So to answer your question, there are about 200 that don't confiscate wealth. And I love that the left's obsession with taxation has become so ingrained, such dogma, that it is the cause of all good. Can you explain to me what exactly higher taxes has to do with race?
Third, yes the wealth tax is unconstitutional. Even its proponents admit it would require a constitutional amendment to levy one. Think about it, if Congress had the power to tax however they wanted, why did we need a 16th amendment in the first place? The 16th amendment wasn't ratified until 1913. Did Congress not tax before that? The answer is that Congress does not have the power to levy "direct" taxes except, thanks to the amendment, on incomes.
Finally, of course it's moral for Walton family to "have that much wealth". They didn't steal it from anybody. They built a store that offers low priced goods, that millions of people frequent, and that millions of poor people depend on. They're not enslaving anyone. Every single person who is working at Walmart does so voluntarily. They want to sell their labor, Walmart wants to buy their labor, and they have settled on a price. If they don't think that price is fair, then they have every right to sell it to someone else.
Oh and did you ever stop to think who those "vulture capitalist's" main clients are? Yep, pension funds.
Sun, 2013-02-03 18:22
First, its not claptrap but a fact. What do you think Obamacare is about? Making healthcare cheaper and more available? No, its about enriching the medical and insurance industries. What is the privatization of schools about? Better and cheaper education? No, its about hoovering up $6 billion in revenue for corporations. The rich own the federal and state governments. Who represents the poor or even the middle class? Representative democracy? Bull.
Second, so what. All taxation is a confiscation of wealth. Doesn't really matter what they call it. And when the rich got taxed progressively as after WW2 to pay off the bonds, they didn't have the cash to oppose civil rights or integration as they used to.
Third, read Prof. Reich's latest column. Also, the 16th Amendment gave they that power (to tax income). Duh!
The Walton Family did nothing to earn that wealth, they just happened to be related to the guy that did all the work. The Sherman Anti-trust Act should have shut his business model down long ago as should have unionization, but again, he owned politicians and got his way and has destroyed more jobs and small businesses than he ever created. Your labor argument is not valid since Walmart is not unionized and thus does not have an equal voice on what labor is worth (or don't you believe with Lincoln that labor is the superior to capital).
Pension funds do use vulture capitalists, but are controlled by corporations and not the employees.
Sat, 2013-01-26 10:22
Once again Mr Reich misrepresents what is happening. The tax increases are real increases and take effect now, and there are no spending reductions, only decreases in the rate of growth, and they do not take effect until...when? This discussion is all about power and bitterness. Mr Reich is unhappy that their expertise is not held in appropriate regards and they are not deferred by all us uninformed crafstmen.
Ben Leet
Mon, 2013-01-28 20:28
Average household wealth is $498,000 for all 118 million households. The median is $77,300, in 2010, and the average for the lower-saving 50% is $11,000. See Survey of Consumer Finances, page 17, http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2012/pdf/scf12.pdf --
$58.7 trillion is the 2010 total household net worth. 1.2 million households own 38%, that's $18.6 million average among the top 1%. That is 240 times the median. Is the "free market" a truly fair market? It makes one think twice.
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