Yeah, I'll give that a #COTD...

There's probably a reason why there is only one guy left.

Nobody photographs their way into Mordor.

No company should be too big to fail. None of the bailouts should have happened, and Ford should be owner of GM's assets right now (having purchased them for pennies on the dollar in a bankruptcy auction).

It's Socialism if the government does it and forces it on everybody. Not if Bill Gates does it voluntarily. And you might want to look at the statistics concerning lottery winners and how many of them end up penniless within a few years. Just giving people money isn't necessarily going to improve their standard of…

Just turn off "ask to join networks".

The capital gains tax rate being lower than the income rate is not silly. You risked money that you were already taxed on (by investing in the market, a business, or a development project, for instance), and the gains you make by taking that risk are taxed less as a result of both the risk you took and the fact that…

CEO compensation is between them, their boards, and their shareholders. Unless you're a shareholder of the company in question, you have no standing to protest what the CEO makes. It's none of your business.

You should try having a blade slice a flap of your cornea away (while you're awake, mind you), and then relish the smell of burning eyeball as the laser does its business.

Actually, I think a rapid reversal of an obviously stupid decision makes them look smart, not irresponsible.

I don't know what IRS form you are filling out, but the 1040 I submit has everything on it (wages, tips, capital gains, dividends, etc). The IRS data absolutely includes money you make in capital gains, as it's part of your AGI, and it's all laid out in black and white, sliced up every way you can imagine, on irs.gov.…

Because Warren Buffet makes almost all his income as capital gains. A vanishingly small number of people are in that position, and you don't set public policy based on what's happening with 1000 people. Besides, it's an easy fix to address that edge case if you really want to; the problem is applying a fix that hits…

And they make less than 70% of the total income. So they are paying a disproportionate amount of the tax bill.

The top earners pay a higher percentage of the total tax bill in the US than the percentage of the income that they earn.

"Wasting"? Got news for you: it's not your money. It's his. And the only person who determines whether spending money on X is a waste or not is him. Not you.

"Raise your hand if you love the French! Raise both hands if you *are* French!"

It's magical in Papua, New Guinea.

Thurl Ravenscroft will never get old. One of the best basses of all time, and the Voice Of Disney for decades. And Tony the Tiger, btw.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law

That comment was not intended to offend. Emaciated is emaciated, regardless of the cause. And emaciated people tend to look similar to each other.