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I don't know enough about the corporate tax world to feel comfortable commenting on it, but I feel that eliminating deductions would probably go a long way here as well. Maybe we could also outlaw nationally the practice of lowered or no taxes as incentives for companies to build in particular places.

Went there before, don't want to deal with them again.

Let's just say that if I have to step into a classroom, I won't be finishing the class. What places should I look into?

To be fair, most of the people in the DOT that would be affected would be in the NHTSA. I'm guessing there's not that many people employed there to begin with, but they could easily find work with auto manufacturers or the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, or even insurance companies. IRS employees would be valuable to banks and payroll/bookkeeping departments of businesses. They would still do investigations to make sure nobody is cooking the books, just wouldn't need the people involved in yearly tax returns which I imagine are of lower skill and pay anyway. The underlying problem is that the private sector needs to really get moving. During the great recession, all of the money out there didn't just disappear. It's still out there, just being held much more tightly than before. My belief is that a lot of the reason why it's not moving around is that there is far too much uncertainty for anyone to allow much risk. If the gov would step up with a certain, mid to long term tax and budget plan then companies could make more accurate projections of expenses. With that in mind, they would be able to figure out how much they can spend and how much they can risk on growing. With all of the constant fighting and threats of tax raises, they are simply too scared to budge.

Last time I was in a classroom was around 9 years ago. I was so burnt out on school that within 5 minutes of sitting down I was either half asleep or in a complete stupor, I just couldn't do it any longer. I'm working night shift, and with that I have days where I'm busy most of the day, and days where I have 6-7 hours of free time. Along with that free time I have a fast internet connection and my personal laptop. So, I'd be putting my free time at work to good use instead of playing video games.

As in, from a real college, not University of Phoenix or some other scam? Is this something that's actually feasible? I'm starting to think of actually accomplishing something, but don't have the time or willpower to sit in a classroom. Oh, and I'd rather avoid CSCC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_Budget_Amendment We've been underwater since Andrew Jackson was president. The debt was very small until Nixon started tearing down capitalism and turning it into a planned economy, and had to fight off inflation. Clinton claims to have balanced the budget, but he is only able to make that claim because he raided the Social Security fund (which is now on the verge of failing) in order to pull off the fuzzy math it required. Ever since the dot-com bubble popped (before Bush was elected, might I add) the economy has been snowballing towards doom. Now, the Dollar is broken. The national debt is now equal to the national GDP. Congress spent what, 5 years refusing to pass any budget at all? With those kinds of shenanigans going on, there's absolutely no way to pass a balanced budget. Without a balanced budget, there's no way to get out from under this debt. At what point do we declare bankruptcy? I know that if my debt payments alone were more than I was able to bring in, and we are nearly to that point as a nation as that article points out, then I'd have no choice but to declare bankruptcy. As a nation, what do we do when we hit that point? As in, we ignore EVERYTHING else in the budget and only make payments to debt and still miss payments? The credit ratings groups won't let us get away with borrowing to make those payments, our ratings will sink like Greece and Spain, down to the point where our interest rates will soar no matter what bullshit tricks the Fed tries to pull. If we want to avoid this, we need to stop dumping money into the Department of Offense NOW. We need to get people off bullshit disability and off unemployment and off welfare, and get them into jobs NOW. Anything will do so long as they are off the government rolls and doing something productive. We need to stop allowing the federal government to send money to states using hostage situations, such as the DOT giving money to states only if they lower the speed limit, or lower the limit for drunk driving. States should be paying for that shit themselves. If its not involving interstate commerce, the fed needs to GTFO. While we're at it, we should join the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations and eliminate a large portion of the DOT, while also getting better cars. We need to fix all of our broken programs. Social Security has been going down the tubes since I was a kid from being raided to pay for other stupid shit. Healthcare was bad, now is a wreck, and it won't be solved by anyone trying to score political points. It needs a nonpartisan committee full of healthcare and accounting professionals to come up with a plan that actually has a chance. We need to increase revenue. There are easy ways, like mild import tariffs which would also help stimulate US manufacturing. There are hard ways, like fixing the tax code. Make a flat tax. Say good bye to deductions. Make a line in the sand and call it the poverty level, everyone under pays no tax (and also gets no welfare in the form of earned income tax credits). Everyone above pays the same tax rate no matter how much they make. No deductions means no loopholes for the left to whine about, and it heavily discourages people from being baby factories since that no longer earns them more money. If everyone's paycheck has the same percent pulled from it, there's no need for the IRS so eliminate it. I'm sure there's plenty of other things that need to happen, but won't. I'll step off my soapbox now.

Holy shit it's Ben. Stoeger is Benelli's "value" brand. I believe they are made in Turkey, or somewhere in that area, but should be made to the same specs as Benelli.

Sold

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Have you checked the oil level?

Way too late for that.

Asking $200 each, or $350 for both. No trades, gotta pay off my early termination fee. For whatever reason Sprint decided I no longer needed reception at my house. Both are mint condition, ALWAYS in a case. One is rooted and bootloader unlocked running Meanbean (Sense based) ROM. The other is 100% stock. Both come in Seidio cases. I have one car dock I'll throw in for an extra $10. Both come in original boxes with original HTC charger. Both have clean ESN's, I'd be more than happy to meet at a Sprint store to confirm this. The rooted one comes with a 16 gig micro SD. These phones are capable of running Sprint's LTE 4G band, which I know is up and running along Morse road inside 270 and around the 71/270 split near Grove City. Not sure where else, but I assume it's growing. These are really nice phones, we would have kept them for quite a while had we not left Sprint. I'll get pics up when I can. I still need to wipe the stock unrooted one, been waiting on the GF to find time to get her pictures off it.

I seriously just fell in love with Raleigh, specifically the Lake Jordan area Holy shit I would lose my mind there with how expensive everything is and how terrible the traffic is. The only part I really liked was the boardwalk.

So by your standards Obama's BFF McCain and Forefather of Obamacare Romney are both socially conservative? The entire reason they got the nomination is because they were LESS socially conservative than most of the others, in hopes of getting votes from the middle. Also, your year old link is completely irrelevant to this thread.

Has Barry responded to this yet? I haven't seen anything. I even went to msnbc.com to see, and the headline story there was about the Shamwow guy (and McAfee gave me a warning that there might be something malicious on that website LOL). Either way, Rand replied. http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/13/sen-rand-paul-president-putin-america-is-exceptional/

May as well post it in here, maybe someone else can use it too. I'd like to grab the Freedom first though to be honest.

If any of you have Chase Freedom or Chase Sapphire Preferred then read this link: http://quickdeals.frequentmiler.net/2013/09/get-up-to-50000-points-for-referring.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=frequentmilersquickdeals Then post here whatever is needed to do the referrals. That link says that referrals are good until the end of January, and I personally would like to pick up both cards so that time frame should make it work out well for myself or anyone else that's thinking of going that route.

I won't have a 10/22 unless it begins with this: http://primaryweapons.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=266&idcategory=26

Ummm, the gift cards I've seen cost a couple bucks up front, and have no other fees. Additionally, a law has passed recently stating that gift cards have to offer a PIN for use in transactions that require a PIN. You can use a PIN to load a Bluebird card (by Amex) at a register at WalMart, $1,000 a day up to I think $5,000 a month. You can then use the Bluebird to pay bills or transfer money to your bank account (I forget the limit on this). So yeah, if you can find a non shitty way to ask for gift cards then you can turn it into real money without too much issue. Just need to get a Bluebird card to transfer it.

$2500 bump

According to this statement here: Your gun case cannot be accessed by anyone but yourself. This means you use real locks, not TSA locks. I've read people that tend to travel with expensive equipment, like photographers, will fly with a gun strictly so they can toss their expensive equipment into the gun case as well and lock it up tight.

Their decision to extend you more credit is based off of many more factors than just how much credit you use. You actually could be doing yourself more harm than good by going near your limit every month, it's hard to say. If your credit is otherwise good to excellent then I would just open more cards. You would probably have to have an extremely high income to get a single card with a $50k limit.

It means Barry can say he took a tough stance on gun crime and succeeded in all the bullshit he claimed he would do, and that congress is worthless trash for not helping in his oppression. That's really all he cares about on this topic.

The only shit that the executive branch can regulate without Congress is stuff they already have legislation backing. In order for a weapon to be imported, it has to be considered a sporting firearm. The ATF decides what is and isn't a sporting firearm. This is why we don't have any imported handguns in .380 (like the Glock) and why Saiga's are imported without a pistol grip. All pistol grip AK's in the country and either built domestically from imported parts kits, or built domestically with new parts. So they can decide that all of those Garands that South Korea is trying to dump aren't "sporting" guns, and refuse to allow them in country. This battle started waaay back in Obama's first term, and to my knowledge doesn't affect anything other than the (American built) Garands being imported back. Trusts are used primarily for people that live in places where their chief LEO refuses to sign off on class 3 items. The NFA gives the ATF leeway in deciding the rules on how people can acquire that stuff, so they are capable of changing the rules (but not preventing people from getting them). I would assume that the ATF is still doing background checks on the people that put their name on them. There are other reasons for using trusts, but that's the big one. Supposedly in return for requiring checks on people in the trust, they are totally eliminating the CLEO sign off. In all honesty, that trade off would make it way easier all around and there would be little need to do a trust, aside from other issues like multiple people having access or in order to pass the weapon down in a will. Truth is, it's just them tooting their horns over nothing. They are preventing what would be big heavy antiquated, and probably not cheap, rifles from hitting the market for collectors, and making it no harder for law abiding citizens to get SBRs and suppressors seeing how no criminal would ever bother paying for the $200 tax stamp, fill out the paperwork and wait 6 months to cut the end of the barrel off their shotgun.