And who to marry?
wtf?
You don't think people should be allowed to choose who they marry?
And who to marry?
I am first generation American. My parents both immigrated from Asia (Shanghai, and Hong Kong) and were piss fucking poor. They came here with no money, but busted their asses and saved money to make a better life for both me, and my sister. They literally paved the way for all their relatives (my aunts and uncles and cousins) to move here.
That was the 70s and 80s... Neither of them used welfare or any form of assistance. Both of them barely spoke English, but they learned pretty quickly. They lived in disgusting roach infested apartments to save money until they could move out.
Currently, my sister has a masters from MIT and a J.D. from some law school and is a practicing patent law attorney. She has a huge house in the suburbs of Oregon, and 2 awesome kids, and a successful husband (engineer at Intel.)
She's obviously the "star" of the family because I'm just a *lowly* cop in NYC that has his own 1 bedroom apt and a BS from RPI.
Any healthy individual that complains about things being too hard is a fucking lazy and unmotivated SACK OF SHIT... (barring extenuating and mitigating circumstances, of course) I say all of the above, not because I'm bragging, but as a way of PROVING to people that hard work and knowing how to spend your money goes a LONG, LONG way and it isn't impossible to have a good life after having started out with nothing. All of my cousins are married and have kids and apartments of their own and all of them are employed making good wages. NONE of them ever went on welfare.
People move to America for opportunity and that's what they should be looking to take advantage of. Not fucking handouts.
wtf?
You don't think people should be allowed to choose who they marry?
Cute.says the guy who probably got his job because of a hiring quota lol.
I'm going to spend my money on a nuke then.
I'll also give directions on what to do with it when I die, since I earned it and can do whatever I want with it.
Cute.
And it will be distributed as directed, since it was yours earned to dictate as such. But once it is no longer yours, whoever receives your bequeathing will receive a portion of it since it was not theirs earned. Should the benefactor not be a legal adult, the entire value of their distributed amount should be preserved, and be enough to pay the expenses of the child until they come of legal age should be made available at monthly periods. When they come of age, they should receive as much as is available to pay any taxes and fees on illiquid assets for the duration the calculated liquid assets are provided for. Thus they would get the ability to live up to two decades on their inherited money, if that much was available, plus any amount to pay taxes and fees for that time. Also years for attending college full time should be appended to that; tuition, school fees, etc.
I'm not talking about stripping them down to average level income, and saying "there you go, do amazing things now". It would be everything needed to get all the way through college, and then enough to pay off taxes and whatnot of the illiquid assets acquired through the bequeathal, and on top of that the living expenses of a middle class family for up to twenty years.
Give them an opportunity to do something with it. After that, it's up to them.
At this point, I certainly hope you realize I mean liquid assets only, thus businesses, real-estate, etc would not be included. Those are the true legacy at any rate, and they shouldn't be touched, because incomes off of them are already taxed. Finally, the cutoff point where this would take place would almost certainly never touch anybody who posts on this board. On the order of many millions of dollars.
I couldn't have said it better myself.Also, AJ is retarded.
Yeah... sure. 1) If that was true, it's not something that I tried to take advantage of. I had no say in it and 2) I'm sure the fact that I did really well which placed me on the first 100 of the list had nothing to do with it. 3) My having all my paper and shit together (no tickets, all my work history, phone numbers, references, etc.) was irrelevant too.its not cute its the truth.
Not saying you didn't pass what you needed to, but they sure make it easier for the minority to get hired during the whole process.
I'm not telling the parents a damn thing about their money. I'm telling their children that it's not their money, they didn't earn it, they get some, but not all.
I wouldn't have a dime go to the needy. There are programs in place for them already, and I'm not opposed to slashing those either. As I said, I would have the money put into infrastructure, education.
What the fuck would they do with heirloom jewelry?
If someone earns money, are you for or against telling that person what to do with it?
They can do whatever they want with it. It's theirs. They could buy a nuke with it for all I care.
Yeah... sure. 1) If that was true, it's not something that I tried to take advantage of. I had no say in it and 2) I'm sure the fact that I did really well which placed me on the first 100 of the list had nothing to do with it. 3) My having all my paper and shit together (no tickets, all my work history, phone numbers, references, etc.) was irrelevant too.
You really have no idea how the hiring process works in the NYPD, do you?
edit: I'm not necessarily saying that it isn't made easier for some minorities, but I can assure you my friend, nothing had to be made easy for me. I would've gotten in easily, regardless.
Taxes are socialist. I see where you are coming from.
Try throwing some more ridiculous inflammatory insults my way.
I strongly believe you need to earn what you have. If you are given the opportunity that most people never have, and squander it, then fuck you, get the fuck off the top of the system, you don't belong there. Let somebody who can get there through their own will and wit take your place, because you can't fucking cut it.
Take the money and put it into public uses like education and roads, national mass transit, things that everybody can use. Fuck welfare, fuck affirmative action, fuck social programs, make the restrictions even tighter. Half the people on them are layabouts who don't deserve that money either; the other half are struggling through some means or another, and actually need the help. Put it to real use where everybody can benefit.
All govts need to learn to live with less money coming in, or they need to generate the income through valuable services.
The major school districts in Delaware are having major financial troubles, mainly as a result of bad decisions. They'd actually planned their budgets based on the growth in real estate that we were having here.
DE schools are funded by property taxes. Now, I am a single homeowner with no kids and I pay for these schools. Can you imagine if only people with kids paid school taxes? They couldn't handle that, yet that's all they should need to run on.
Taxes just need to be lower for everyone, across the board. Stop dumb government spending. I propose that govt agencies be held to efficiency guidelines - about on par with what profitable private business runs at. That means, no spending 2X the going rate for office supplies, labor, and other inventory items, There's a start. Then, taxes won't be such a big deal and we won't have to plan around them with every financial move we make.
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DE schools are funded by property taxes. Now, I am a single homeowner with no kids and I pay for these schools. Can you imagine if only people with kids paid school taxes? They couldn't handle that, yet that's all they should need to run on.
Yeah... sure. 1) If that was true, it's not something that I tried to take advantage of. I had no say in it and 2) I'm sure the fact that I did really well which placed me on the first 100 of the list had nothing to do with it. 3) My having all my paper and shit together (no tickets, all my work history, phone numbers, references, etc.) was irrelevant too.
You really have no idea how the hiring process works in the NYPD, do you?
edit: I'm not necessarily saying that it isn't made easier for some minorities, but I can assure you my friend, nothing had to be made easy for me. I would've gotten in easily, regardless.
Socialism tries to level the playing field for all people by taking from the wealthy and redistributing it to whatever "plan" they come up with.
honestly, it would probably keep things a bit clearer in your head if you used the term "socialism" for the concept which it defines