Court Rules In Favour Of Case Against Fluoride

“Give me five minutes to explain taxes to you: The top marginal tax rate is currently 39.6 percent, which remember, is an altogether different thing from the effective tax rate that wealthy people end up actually paying after taking advantage of various tax loopholes. What does that even mean - a ‘marginal tax’ rate of 39.6 percent? Does it mean the average person pays 39.6% in taxes? No. Does it mean that the income earners in the top one percent pays 39.6% in taxes? NO! Here’s what a marginal tax rate of 39.6% means: First, as of 2013 the top tax rate for individuals currently doesn’t begin unless you earn $406,750 dollars. Actually, that tax rate doesn’t even take effect until you make $406,750 + $1 dollar. Got that part? That’s important. Here’s the tricky detail that most people miss: the 39.6% tax rate is only applicable on anything OVER $406,750 dollars. So if you made $406,752 dollars, then only two ($2) of those dollars will be taxed at the highest rate of 39.6%…and the other $406,750 is not. Of course, this does not take into account the numerous tax loopholes that I alluded to earlier. Thus, if the top marginal tax rate is 39.6 percent, then after using any number of tax loopholes, write offs and various other cheats, it’s entirely possible earn over $406,750 dollars per year and still pay even less in taxes than a working class American earning much less. SN: this applies only to people who do actual work for a paycheck. If, on the other hand, your primary income is from inheritance or stock investments and you pay all your bills off of that interest (aka “capital gains”), then your taxes work differently altogether (hint: they’re even lower). Take multi-billionaire Mitt Romney, for example. In 2010 he only paid an effective (real) tax rate of 13.9 percent, odds are that’s much lower than the tax rate you (or your parents) just paid. Here’s the last thing you should remember: Only one percent of Americans make $400,750 a year or higher. Stated differently, the top income tax rate effects around 3.5 million —out of 350,000,000 Americans. And that’s only on the dollars ABOVE $400,750. BOO HOO right? Approximately 3.5 million Americans might, maybe, perhaps *possibly* have to pay the top federal income tax rate…but only on anything above $406,750 dollars…and only if they refuse to take advantage of ridiculously huge tax loopholes so big you could fly a jumbo jet through them. THAT is what conservatives are crying about when they complain about the top tax rate. That’s it.”

— This is why whining about the top tax rate is a joke and Republicans are the party for the Greedy One Percent (and the deluded suckers “future millionaires“ who repeatedly vote for them)

I know what I am.

I am the blackness from which all light shines. I am the void which gives birth to all form. I am the eternal constant of impermanence. I am the self that reflects the other.

I am the breath of the cosmos, the emissary of divinity. Proxy eyes by which the all can see. I am the instrument of creation by which I can discover all that is me.

The world before me is but my own reflection. The vessel from which I’m expressed, one aperture among infinitum. Each aperture a fold in the fabric of ness, a self implosion birthing the illusion of self individuation.

My eyes are, The eyes. My I is, The I. My voice the voice of one; the voice of all. I only know myself by the love at heart, the same love which persists each manifestation. And by knowing the love within you, I further come to know myself.

I know what I am, and I am what I am. I am. I am.

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“You do not become who you really are, it is simply the discovery that you are Consciousness prior to any image, thought, label or belief.”   ~Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

Hat tip to John Ernst Worrell Keely as well.

This is a great team to help balance the lack of real science in the mainstream (psyence).

Psyence =

Initial misconception + Ad Hoc Theories + Blind faith in the originator of a theory + Ad Atiquitam + Derision + Dogmatism

How does the Avengers’ scientific work compare with the current mainstream psyence promoted? E.g. Einstein, Neil Degrase Tyson, Michio Kaku, Bill Nye and the rest of the quackademia that are $elling junk science.

- School of the Holy Science

Let’s Talk About Tax Brackets

Since some people (read: conservatives) are freaking out over the idea of TaXiNg RiCh PeOpLe, let’s talk about tax brackets.

Currently, we have seven tax brackets in the US, at rates between 10% and 37%. All income over $500,000 – whether that’s $500,001 or $1 billion – is taxed, at most, at 37%. What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed is increasing the tax bracket so that people who are very rich and making millions of dollars a year would pay a higher tax bracket (70%).

The response is, basically, “But what if I suddenly get ten million dollars? Then I’ll have to pay 70% of my millions! That’ll make me worse off than if I merely had nine million!”

This comes up in shit around taxes a lot (”Don’t get a raise, you’ll have a higher tax bracket!”), so let’s address this using simple math.

Pretend that tax bracket goes like this: if you make $15 or less, you pay no taxes. If you make $16-30 dollars, they take away 10%. If you make $31-45, they take away 15%. At $46 or more, they take away 20%.

That doesn’t mean that if you make $16, you have that 10% taken from the total income. You don’t get $1.60 taken away from you. You have that 10% taken from every dollar you make over $15. In this case, only $1 is over $15, so only that dollar gets 10% taken out of it (and you lose $0.10). The rest of the money is taxed at the lower rate (which in this case is 0%).

Say that you make $42, so you’re taxed at 15%. So that means that every year, you pay $6.30, right? 

No. You pay:

Nothing on the first $15 (0% of 15 is $0), plus

10% on all the money between $16 and $30 (10% of 15 is $1.50), plus

15% on all the money between $31 and 42 (15% of 12 is $1.80)

So actually you’re only paying $3.30. You have $38.70 left over.

Now you get a raise. You make $50, which pushes you into the next highest tax bracket. Oh, no, that means that they'll take away 20% of your $50, so you’ll have to spend a whole $10!

No. Let’s do the math again.

You pay:

Nothing on the first $15 (0% of 15 is $0), plus

10% on all the money between $16 and $30 (10% of 15 is $1.50), plus

15% on all the money between $31 and $45 (15% of 15 is $2.25), plus

20% on all the money over $45 (20% of $5 is $1)

So actually, you’re only paying $4.75. You have $45.25 left over.

So if there’s a 70% tax bracket on, say, 10 million dollars or more, it doesn’t mean that the second you make 10 million (something that almost no one in this country makes to begin with), you start getting taxed at 70% and they take away 7 million. The first $9,999,999 are still taxed in the lower brackets. They just take away 70 cents from the ten millionth dollar.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Robert Bringhurst (via narnia)

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