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  • #16
    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    Check out Cliffside Park. My Mom was paying $8K for her house while a smaller house in CP was paying close to $20K. For my Mom's income 8K was ok. $20K would have been too much.

    I guess if I am Donald Trump, my idea of high/low is different than if I am retiree Joe.
    Alright those are high. $8k is about right for a $500k house in the city here...and that's definitely on the upper end of housing prices.
    Go Gophers!

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    • #17
      Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      I've heard Northrop is actually a pretty good place to work, too. Maybe there's still some residual respect for good work. The rest of the industry has IMHO been overrun by Harvard MBA "parts is parts" bean counterism, where you exploit and nickle-and-dime your own workforce every bit as much as the American taxpayer.
      I don't work for Northrop but do work with about 30 people that do, and they do take very good care of their people (for a large corporation). The small businesses in the DoD world are where you really get taken care of. The Govt shoulders a good chunk of the blame for the bean counterism, LPTA kinda encourages it.

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      • #18
        Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

        NYS AG has shut down DraftKings and FanDuel in the Empire State. Wonder if the Mob will now sponsor fantasy sports?
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        • #19
          Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

          Originally posted by joecct View Post
          NYS AG has shut down DraftKings and FanDuel in the Empire State. Wonder if the Mob will now sponsor fantasy sports?
          UIGEA. Plus, how dare someone robs the vampire state of pony money.

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          • #20
            Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

            Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
            UIGEA. Plus, how dare someone robs the vampire state of pony money.
            Didn't know you had so many goth nerds there...
            Go Gophers!

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            • #21
              Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

              Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
              Didn't know you had so many goth nerds there...
              Maybe in the lower part of the state. Not so much so in the real part of it. In the real part, our definition of "pony" is not animation.

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              • #22
                Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                Yippee! Mandatory 5 day furlough between now and Christmas at my company, and merit increases postponed by at least a quarter in order to appease the angry wall street overlords over a reduction in the sales outlook. I'm guessing the CEO's bonus wont be affected.

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                • #23
                  Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                  Originally posted by jerphisch View Post
                  Yippee! Mandatory 5 day furlough between now and Christmas at my company, and merit increases postponed by at least a quarter in order to appease the angry wall street overlords over a reduction in the sales outlook. I'm guessing the CEO's bonus wont be affected.
                  I've been at my company for 10 years. In virtually every quarter our sales and net profit has increased. And every year our benefits are trimmed.

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                  • #24
                    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    The road to serfdom turned out to be capitalism.
                    The basic problem is that capitalism is an unstable system.
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                    • #25
                      Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                      Yeah, this year 3M decided to continue showing they are run by a bunch of fkwits. OH, we had 7-8% headwinds from forex? Let's gut the labs and supply chain even further. Yeah, that'll work. Solve a short-term problem with long-term damage.

                      It's time we banned pay in the form of stock, stock options, or anything like that. F8ck these azzholes.
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                      • #26
                        Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                        Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                        Yeah, this year 3M decided to continue showing they are run by a bunch of fkwits. OH, we had 7-8% headwinds from forex? Let's gut the labs and supply chain even further. Yeah, that'll work. Solve a short-term problem with long-term damage.

                        It's time we banned pay in the form of stock, stock options, or anything like that. F8ck these azzholes.
                        I don't know that much about 3M. But I've been in there a few times. It struck me as a company that wanted to be about innovation being full of scientists and engineers...but was a hopelessly backward looking one. I know Apple's is a brutal comparison for any company...but it shows how poorly oriented other companies are.
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                        • #27
                          Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                          Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
                          I don't know that much about 3M. But I've been in there a few times. It struck me as a company that wanted to be about innovation being full of scientists and engineers...but was a hopelessly backward looking one. I know Apple's is a brutal comparison for any company...but it shows how poorly oriented other companies are.
                          Apple hasn't innovated ***** since Jobs kicked the bucket. The iPhone 6 was just playing catch-up to Samsung. The iMac and MacBook have been around for years with only modest hardware upgrades. AppleTV and the iPad have a ton of cheaper competition. The only thing "new" in recent memory is the watch, and even that is mainly an expensive accessory for the iPhone.

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                          • #28
                            Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                            Don't like what you get? Go somewhere else. This is the land of opportunity for a reason.

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                            • #29
                              Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                              Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
                              I don't know that much about 3M. But I've been in there a few times. It struck me as a company that wanted to be about innovation being full of scientists and engineers...but was a hopelessly backward looking one. I know Apple's is a brutal comparison for any company...but it shows how poorly oriented other companies are.
                              I think you're insane if you don't think 3M is an innovative company. Regardless of its management.
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                              Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                              I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                              Originally posted by Kepler
                              When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                              • #30
                                Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                                Would the following work?

                                Pass an amendment (so no going back) that if the national debt (not deficit) is positive, the budget cannot exceed the prior year's budget.

                                We start out with the current deficits of $1T a year and a debt of $18T. Obviously, the budget freezes. The years go on, inflation and revenue collection continue to increase and the deficit decreases towards zero (with the debt still building). Eventually you hit a budget surplus (with the debt at I dunno, say $30T). There's still a debt so the budget is still frozen. But surpluses now begin to gallop, and the debt is repaid relatively quickly (particularly as no new debt means decreasing debt service). In a decade or so the debt vanishes utterly, and with a national surplus the prohibition of budget increases flips back off. Future debt is controlled as the budget freeze kicks in whenever the debt returns (not quite the same thing as a balanced budget amendment, since we're free to run up a substantial surplus though, given human nature, Congress would never behave that way).

                                There is pain along the way, but now people know exactly what low tax rates are costing us -- they are forced to cut services rather than roll up more debt. All of a sudden Eisenhower era progressive tax rates sound like a very good idea.
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