If you’re a sole proprietorship you’re at pass through taxation right now, which is the same as your individual rate. But pass through taxation is a flat 25% under the House plan. Under the Senate plan it’s the same as your individual rate. As for deductions, you can deduct 17.4% right now, and 20% under Senate plan.

Non-pedantic note, First Sale Doctrine applies to copyrighted items. E.g. books, movies, etc. This is a much simpler issue of unenforceable restrictions on transferability of personal property.

Yay, another lawyer/law-student/legal commenter.

Or unconscionable, or void as a matter of public policy. The Courts don’t like companies adding strings to outright ownership of personal property, unless they’ve paid for them.

You’re confusing products with services.

Not so clear. Ford needs to show it’s enforceable, and that they suffered damages. Limitations on being able to sell personal property which you own outright are not looked upon favorably by the Courts. If they wanted to prevent 3rd parties from buying, they should have put a right of first refusal in the contract,…

Ford’s lawyers are in for a “smackdown.”

Replace “sea shells” in your example with “gold”. You’re trading commodities and deriving capital gains. You pay taxes on income and capital gains. It’s not that complex

This is far simpler than the bioethicist is making it out to be. Imagine he had a DNR on file with the hospital. Would the argument of “well maybe he changed his mind??” be any less applicable? No.

Yep. Most AirBNB’s use digital keypad locks. I tell my companions that once you Venmo, you get the door code.

Conservatives: “the media is biased and left-leaning and not objective.”

Short version: Because liberals (even rich ones) are spineless.

They are so busy doing ‘good’ in the world that they are missing the ‘long game’ and these right wingnuts not so covert corporate shills have taken over  the western world.

Crypto-currencies are booming because it’s an untraceable currency for the black market, and it’s primed as a pump and dump. Which is illegal with stocks, but not with “crypto-currencies” because there are no real laws on them yet.

Oh, that’s cute, but terribly wrong. See, your conclusion rests upon the flawed premises that the free market actually functions in a way as to empower consumers to either negotiate terms, or “vote with their wallets”and select an alternative vendor. Clearly you have zero business experience.

Banning abortion has very little to do with “protecting babies.” It’s about 1)preventing “sluts” from “getting away with it;” and 2) sticking it to the “DEMONcrats” and “godless liberals.” And the GOP knows that certain religious rubes are single issue voters.( It’s tricky to sell the country out to the rich when 99%…

Yes, it has. When I got in my car this morning, it didn’t blow up. When I go to the airport, my plane has a clear path to land, and I’ve never had a mid-air collision. When I drove to work, there were stoplights to keep ass-hats from plowing into me, licensing laws to ensure the other drivers on the road were…

The “we’re #1" pep talk is for the plebes. Trump (and the entire GOP) are there for the sole purpose of making money for corporate america and the wealthy. Money always trumps pleasing the rubes, to the GOP

Just the opposite. If your cellphone carrier started dicking you around, you’d ditch them for one of the other big 4 (yes there are smaller regional carriers, but they all piggyback off a big 4 network anyways). If your broadband ISP dicks you around, what are you gonna do, downgrade to dial up? Consumers have…

There are no broadband monopolies. There are broadband fiefdoms. The big telcos got together and decided that each would control its own separate regions. Don’t kid yourself, because infrastructure upgrades/expansion are expensive, the telcos do the absolute bare minimum to rake in as much as money as possible while…