Middle Class--Not the Rich or the Poor--Pay Majority of Federal Taxes, Says CBO Data

[Drachen]

Yes, I think businesses need exclusion from taxation to compete in the global market we have. That's why I prefer a consumption tax.

I disagree, because if we zero out our corporate taxes in order to make ourselves more compe ive with those countries where lower wages are the norm, then what prevents that country from doing the same? This would then tip the scale back towards that country, and we would be in the same position as before, only with lower tax revenues.

My next problem with this is that if corporations are "people" and demand all the rights and priviledges thereof (corporate funding of candidates for example), then they must also be subject to the responsibilities of a citizen (taxes).

[Wild Cobra]

Are you ing stupid? Of course you can. This is like saying you can't hear a plane that is super sonic when you obviously can.

Not when it's coming toward you.

SONAR is similar to RADAR, but at sound speed rather than light speed. To identify a target moving hundreds of miles per hour when it's designed for slow targets makes it very unreliable, and only visible from the side or rear. Not from the front. It would appear as a glitch rather than a target if even seen by the SONAR.

[MannyIsGod]

Not when it's coming toward you.

SONAR is similar to RADAR, but at sound speed rather than light speed. To identify a target moving hundreds of miles per hour when it;s designed for slow targets makes it very unreliable, and only visible from the side or rear. Not from the front.

SONAR is both active and passive. The vast majority of US sonar operations are not done with active transmission of sound waves but rather just listening for the sounds submarines and other ships and underwater objects make.

I understand what you're saying about it coming toward you, however and it is correct but networks like SOSUS would render that moot.

[Wild Cobra]

SONAR is both active and passive. The vast majority of US sonar operations are not done with active transmission of sound waves but rather just listening for the sounds submarines and other ships and underwater objects make.

I understand what you're saying about it coming toward you, however and it is correct but networks like SOSUS would render that moot.

How many nations use something like that?

I'm not saying it would be invisible, just a far more effective weapon. Then if cavitation could be implemented on something like an attack submarine... Wow...

[word]

SOSUS is no longer used. It was dismantled and declassified. What's left of it is used for scientific research. Tracking whales and like dat'...

[Winehole23]

Manny's detail was more legend than lore, at least, it is allegedly out of date.