that we seem to build things up… only to tear them down.
Ya, the e-e-ee-economy (if you say that out loud you may be reminded of a song) is tanking.
But, look what GOOD it has actually done!
OK, so now you may have to trade in your clunker, using the Cash of Clunkers federal rebate program to get $4500 off your next HYBRID car purchase. Or, maybe by the end of this year the Democrates, which are the majority in House and Senate with Obama at the charge with HEALTHCARE REFORM. (Let’s all thank Obama’s Mama for having him in the first place…thanks Ma!)
Also, the change from Oil and Coal to Wind Farms and ’sustainable energies’ are finally lowering mankind’s (sorry, but it is a man’s world, and why it’s being destroyed) CARBON FOOTPRINT (better to say, taking your oiling boot and making a global skyward smudge on our atmosphere).
So, it takes a Global Economic Crisis… ok… that’s it just the way it goes, I guess.
Now, for all us Computer Scientists, nerds, Open Source is infiltrating more and more corporate businesses, that many small businesses knew about for a decade or more. Why? because Linux and Open Source saves people money, bottom line. And, without lowering the quality of the software. In fact, lowering it is a discredit as a lot of Open Source is better than Proprietary software, in the form of less security holes and bugs, coupled with high stability.
Let’s see, what else has or will change for the better now that we fskd the economy up?
Health care reform
Better software
Smaller Carbon Foot prints
Cooler electric cars???
You know, just about EVERYWHERE things are, things are changing. They HAVE to change… one big one that they (the politicians) are grapling with right now is the MASSIVE deficit to the 2008 Federal Tax Returns filed.
So, the government has a 58% drop in corporate tax and 22% drop in individual tax income for the year of 2008. That is the lowest the Federal Government will get in Income Tax from the people since The Great Depression of 1932. This is a MAJOR problem.
Why? If the U.S. Federal Government has a 50%+ drop in money to fund Government programs, than how will they deal with running the United States. They say the Health Care reform being proposed (which we NEED some kind of reform) will cost 1 TRILLION tax dollars. Throw on top of that the 1 Trillion already spent with the ‘TARP’ thingy and bailing out the U.S. automotive industry.
Things could not look worse … But, here is where when ‘the shit hits the fans’ makes things change for the better… (excuse my french)
Obama said he would NOT raise middle income taxes. Yet, traditionally, this is exactly where the U.S. gets most of it’s taxes.
So, what to do?
Did you know that most major corporations pay only 3-6% on there taxable income? Oh corps like Microsoft, Mc Donalds, WAL-MART, ok EVERYONE of them…
How do they get away with a 3-6% tax break, when most of us have to cough up 25-30%???
Move your Corporate HeadQuarters to Ireland! It’s that simple. Ireland is a poor country, so to get money they inacted a law which allowed forgien Corporate Business to move HQ to their country. And with enough lawyer money and exploitation of the ‘ear marked’ Law Books, they are able to avoid the massive U.S. tax laws, yet still SELL and OPERATE in the good ol’ United States!
How is that for a kick in the nutts. (Again, excuse the french).
But, can you blame the major Corps for doing this seemingly criminal, yet legal tax evation? The answer is NO.
The U.S. taxes are so high, on top of corps needing to provide Health Care and all the other costs to pay employees, simply makes it unfavorable to have your corp HQ (cough, cough, I mean Tax evation offices) in Ireland.
In other words, the U.S. Federal Government is encouraging, or literally forcing all major U.S. Corps to such measure, because of all the costs of running such a business in America. Now, the U.S. Government is wondering why they have no tax Income.
So, this leads me to answer the big question of where does ‘Uncle Sam’ get the tax revenue it needs? First, make it illegal to have tax evation offices in Ireland ( and some other countries ) and second lower Corp income tax, fix Health Care so Corps can afford to pat taxes in the first place, get rid of the 60 Billion dollar bank rolls of major Corps accounts, like Microsoft and all other Major corps, fix the golden parachute problem, change greed to not greed… and on and on…
Ya, it is a MESS… All I can say is… let’s go broke together! Only then will people start to lift a fist and start asking the bigger questions to start clearing the shit that fit the fan.
Some pray and meditate in the Alps. Become a Nun or a Monk.
Be CAPITALISTIC forever… assholes.