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400 sq ft would be enough space and would not increase my expenses one cent, because it would allow me to move my inventory out of a rented storage unit and thereby dispense with that expense. Except that the upfront costs are an obstacle.
Methinks the figures are "cooked."
(Could be due to using GDP)
IIRC, when I dug into the U.S. Dept. of Commerce Statistical Abstracts, the gubmint was snarfing down 20% of the GNP (plus or minus), from 1950s onward. (this was late 1980s).
★ Federal spending, per capita : $12,083.0 (percentage of GDP: 24%)
★ State spending, per capita : $ 4,454.10 (percentage of GDP: 9%)
★ Local spending, per capita : $ 5,308.4 (percentage of GDP: 11%)
Summed up, combined government spending takes (approx) 44% of the GDP.
If you’re one of the donors (tax payers), you’re working 44% (or more) of your life to support “their spending habit”.
The rich get tax breaks, the poor get free benefits. The middle class is already doing more than it should and is carrying the entire nation on its back. When the backs of the middle class go--there goes the nation.
How do the rich get tax breaks? They pay the highest tax rates. What's a "tax break" about that?
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Because transfer payments are, in effect, the opposite of taxes, it makes sense to look not just at taxes paid, but at taxes paid minus transfers received. For 2009, the most recent year available, here are taxes less transfers as a percentage of market income (income that households earned from their work and savings):
The negative 301 percent means that a typical family in the bottom quintile receives about $3 in transfer payments for every dollar earned.
The most surprising fact to me was that the effective tax rate is negative for the middle quintile. According to the CBO data, this number was +14 percent in 1979 (when the data begin) and remained positive through 2007. It was negative 0.5 percent in 2008, and negative 5 percent in 2009. That is, the middle class, having long been a net contributor to the funding of government, is now a net recipient of government largess.
What do you mean by unpaid? Neither my spouse nor I, nor our adult children ever had internships that didn't pay. If you're interning for free, you're doing it wrong.
$100 for books plus lower costs would have been the wise route. No reason you couldn't escape your dysfunctional family by going to a state school. If you had living expenses out of state, you could have done the same at a state school.
freemkt is doing nothing wrong. Very few organizations pay their interns. Although many give college credits. You must be one of the few lucky ones to have got paid.
Wow. That just hasn't been our, our childrens', our friends', or their childrens' experience.
Honestly, all interns should be paid. I think it's horrible that they aren't. I think it depends on the company. My nephew who graduated with an engineering degree worked as an unpaid intern for almost 8 months before they finally hired him.
Honestly, all interns should be paid. I think it's horrible that they aren't. I think it depends on the company. My nephew who graduated with an engineering degree worked as an unpaid intern for almost 8 months before they finally hired him.
Was that just recently? I'm not really understanding how an engineering undergrad intern doesn't get paid. My oldest went to Purdue for engineering and had 3 summer internships, all paying about $25/hour. Maybe Purdue just has a better partnership with major companies seeking interns as an employee recruiting strategy?
Hell, companies like Heinz, etc., flew her out for face to face interviews (admittedly, only the final candidates) just for summer internships.
Didn't have any concern over it since I was working.
You?
I've WAY overpaid in taxes over the years for what I get from the government in return. Still am, as I'm unwinding my business. Just sent another quarterly estimate on the 15th.
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