Are the very wealthy paying their share?

[KrazyHorse]

He also works in academia on things which are virtually entirely government-funded.

[Asher]

I'm convinced this whole Sweden thing is a scam. The country doesn't really exist, it's all a deception by the Finns.

I met one of JM's colleagues and he spoke perfect English and looked like a Finn (they have a distinct look to them, we all can admit). The whole thing is very fishy.

[Jon Miller]

I am a bit surprised that so few people here on apolyton have changed their discourse to be in your framework, KH.

But that makes this thread more relevant in regards to how people feel... which is a crucial part of how they behave.

JM

[KrazyHorse]

I am not surprised at all. People are stupid mules.

And you have to admit that whatever denigration I sent your way was pretty mild (by my standards)

[Jon Miller]

I'm convinced this whole Sweden thing is a scam. The country doesn't really exist, it's all a deception by the Finns.

I met one of JM's colleagues and he spoke perfect English and looked like a Finn (they have a distinct look to them, we all can admit). The whole thing is very fishy.

Actually everyone (under 57?) here speaks perfect english (except immigrants?).

I am occasionally bothered by the low value of the work I do. But than I think of myself more as an artist than as an engineer, and I feel less bothered.

JM

[KrazyHorse]

If you're enjoying your work then you have to remember to count that...

[Felch]

What's complicated about defining income? Isn't it just the money that you get over a fiscal year?

I think that taxing consumption is better than taxing income. The government should structure taxes to encourage investment and savings (which become investments). A land value tax is ideal, but it would need a supplementary consumption tax to raise the money government needs to get **** done.

[KrazyHorse]

I don't dispute that it's easy to define income. My point is that income is a meaningless concept when comparing tax burdens.

[Jon Miller]

I enjoy what I am doing now much more than what I was doing before. Only some of it it is the people. A lot of it is the quest and (hopefully, at some point in the future) the discovery.

Until last night, I hadn't put in an all nighter since I got back from Canada. I think I was almost looking forward to working (well, getting to see plots/etc).

JM

[KrazyHorse]

Why were you in Canada?

[Asher]

Did you get out and do much when here? I saw you hit Johnston's Canyon and did some skiing.

[Asher]

Why were you in Canada?

We had a romantic interlude in Banff.

[KrazyHorse]

Creepy.

[Jon Miller]

I did get out a bit Friday, but had a workshop over the weekend (professors have to teach, so internal workshops have to be over the weekend, which I am not fond of). I gave up on improving my simulation on Sunday (shortly before I gave my presentation), and enjoyed a little bit of snowboarding Monday morning before returning to Calgary to fly home.

JM
(I actually am waiting to look at the results of the same simulation, but with the correct geometry.)

[Dinner]

The hard truth is they are not or as Warren Buffet said "there is something wrong when I pay a lower tax rate then my secretary." A combined total tax rate of 17.1% is entirely insufficient and they need to be paying double that, easily.