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Yes.

Now, this is based on some large nets. I can only speak from 1st hand experience. We had some pretty good years in the late 1990s, but never enough to have to pay these kind of numbers. We never even hit the 25% net as we always had thousands in R&D to offset. Again, none of this has any relevancy to health care costs. WE pay 18+% and they pay 10% or less of GDP. So we lose 10% in comparative market costs to operate a business right off the bat. Remember, here, corporate income tax is ONLY PAID ON NET PROFIT. Many of the EEC require corporate tax payments on the gross. Big, Big

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No Puibby, you need to look a lot closer at the relationship between the integrator and the growers. In my 38 years, visiting one hell of a lot of farms, spending a great deal of time with the 4Integrator managers [breeder Manager, Hatchery Manager, and Grow Out Manager, along with the Live Production Manager] they tend to have a very close freindly relationship with their growers. They used to be welcome visitors to the hatcheries, often coming by to eat lunch with the manager, or a beer in the parking lot after work. The BioSecurity issues have pretty much stopped that sort of deal.

If I sell and ship something here to someone out of Ga, I am NOT responsible to collect the 8% sales tax. If they are in Ga I'm to collect the sales tax unless they are exempt. Exports are all exempt. VAT is charged on everything. And the consumer has to apply for a refund if he qualifies.

To quote Harry Truman, ....Show Me! Our 25% corporate tax is middle of the road for world wide. But only charged on NET PROFIT!!!!! Brasil, much of Mexico, all of Europe has their 14% to 25% VAT tax added on to EVERY transaction, as an add on to the GROSS. Add to that Earned Income Tax Credits, R&D credits, export credits, and the list goes on, most of our international companies pay a minisucle amount of tax on substantial net profits. We woulld have a relatively large Net Profit for a year, but also $100,000 in R&D that yielded little to no net, and other costs a

No Pubby it does not work that way. Our integrators are very much ISO divided into areas of responsibility. The Live production side is who the grower works for. The killing plant/processor is who determines the growers success, or lack there of. The top management of each group might ride upstairs on the elevator together, but don't know each other's first name. The system show tonnage of feed, number of chicks delivered, early mortality of chicks, late mortality of chicks, and any other unusual or normal problems. When the catch the birds and take them to the process

I understand there are certain county officials, employees, and consultants who are quite familiar with background checks. Give King David a call and ask him what Mike Jones knows.. Hehehehe

Now factor in International Commerce..... We have to look at what we, the USA, as a base of operations and as a marketplace has to offer to businesses opening here, instead of say Mexico or Canada, or other EEC countries, or Brasil, etc. When the bean counters put the number crunching programs to work, right off the bat they come up with a huge [8 to 10%] discrepancy of what it will cost for healthcare, for their USA employees, and for their EEC employees they bring over here to work. Their national policies are worthless here, so they have to keep paying the home base premiums, as do

The same common sense sections providing for the DOD/military, commerce department, education, social security, the courts/Judicial, law enforcement, highway and infrastructure construction and maintenance, USDA, FDA, FSIS, CDC, EPA, DNR, NASA, Voting, ...... Or shall we home school, have only toll roads, ferries, no military, no courts, etc. ?

This is a very, very poorly done segement, even if done as a satire skit. The Growers can opt out of their contract if they find the work does not suit them. It is my experience some growers burn out after awhile and should, if they can, walk away from it. That will generally mean selling the chicken houses. I do know virtually every chicken complex in the county has "growers to be" lined up waiting in the wings. I know there are a lot of 2nd, and even 3rd generation growers. Tournament challenges are common at many businesses. Sales Call Centers often pit the employees agains

Yes it is the responsibility of the Government to provide the infratructure for the people as is needed and required for successful commerce as well as public transporation, schools/education, as well as providing the military for our defence and the other administrators and clerks for the other agencies as necessary. Or were you going to take care of all of the by yourself ? And we are going to see health care added to that list.

Thank you !! They were both SO unique. SRV was and will always be so super special. He could play a guitar like no one else, other than Clapton, Hendrix, and BB King.

Pubby, I loved the Bobby McFerrin, or whatever his name is. So appropriate. Be Happy, regardless of how the world is tumbling down around you, be happy. But we have to step up to the plate and recongnize that we can't just "Be Happy" unless we start fixing some bad, bad problems. If you think I am boxing you in as a hypocrite, then so be it. What I am centerning on is the plain and simple fact, you can't BE HAPPY, and LIVE FREE, unless there are some basic criteria met. And I don't see OUR BoC, AA, IBA, or any of the rest of the Bastards doing sol Be Happy, and smile,

O.M.G.Becky!!! Come on Patton. What's good for the Goose is Good for the Gander. If King David can show his agenda items as he wants, and can censor a speaker as King Jerry did me so often, then I think that is wrong. Show it all, or show none. If and when we come to a situation, like the Xmas parade of wacko-nut cases using the podium for alternative purposes, then the BOC can address that as needed. Personally in the past 6 months the absolute CRAZY LADY yelling Shut up, Shut up, Shut up, is the closest we have come to someone truly obnoxious and out of order, and she was

Please show me where I have ever complained we spend too much on national defense. Au Contrair, I am very much a hawk when it comes to the DOD, and the various branches of the military, especially the navy. To me thats been the best money spent these past 50 years. My closest Uncle was Admiral Steve Morrison, Jim Morrison's dad, who was one of Admiral Zumwalt's chosen. His SEATO ship was the Enterprise, during most of Vietnam, and he spent his entire career active Navy. He was one of Zumwalt's right arms during the build up for the Submariner base at St Mary's in South Georgia, signed off

Yep. Absolutely, and I believe we have a signed treaty from the 1940s re-iterating that we will indeed step up and defend them. Hence their reason for not spending the bucks on a big military. We can choose to abrogate those treaties and become isolationalists. Think we should ? Oh, and that goes for Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Lithuania, Poland, Czeck Republic, Romania, Serbia, Herzagovia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, etc. etc. etc. Basically, they let us use bases and place equipment and supplies on their turf, and we agree to defend them in the even the Big Bear rears up a

Isn't that a really pitiful condemnation of our government, from one end to the other. Civil Service workers, VA, Military.....all branches, Consular State Department, USDA/FDA/CDC/FSIS, Postal Authoriy, SSN, IRS, Medicaire, Medicaid, DOJ, FBI, CIA, .....all apparently are worthless whores taking the money and not deliverying on the product they are charged with delivering on. What a pitiful sad state of affairs. From where I sit, I mail a letter to England for $0.75, and John gets it in 4-5 business days. John sends me a letter for $2.00, and I get it 10 business days later. Sam

In defense of the FDA, and remember they have specific mandates from congress concerning what they do and don't approve: Many of the drugs released in Europe the past decade have since been recalled because of side effects. Some were released here, and have since been recalled. It seems often when the FDA gives a clinical go ahead, based on the data and results provided by the manufacturer, it turns out a lot of the data was not valid. And our physicians are basically paid and bribed to write Rx for them, only to find later they lost patients as a result. I find it very sad that our s

I don't completely understand how this chart is calculated. Can you expound on it some ? In the out of pocket link you posted, check out the countries with % similar to the USA, and then check out the UK, France, Japan, etc. We should be embarrassed with the company we keep on charts like these. Same site, but the appropriate link showing actual costs per capita http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP/countries And bear in mind, cost of living in all the EEC countries is higher than the US, substantially, along with wages paid [their burger flippers get close to $15 an

The show was cute, and somewhat informative. However, I don't understand you guys especially, defending Austin and company and their secretive ways, and then bashing Todd and the BlueShirts ???? And the Blue Shirts have historically been some of P.com's biggest fans. Why the unnecessary belittlement and criticism of them? For me it is not at all specifically that I am against making the airport a profitable GA facility, or even a commercial facility. My issue all along has been the Leadership of the Airport and the County has shown over and over again they are not capable of formul

Where did you get the idea the single payer systems are free? Employees pay a monthly premium. The Employers pay a monthly premium. The "System" steps in and pays subsidies to those who cannot afford a premium payment, ....primarily through not being employed. Their guidlines for times to see a specialist have no direct bearing on what the time actually is. It can be tomorrow, but not more than 90 days. And the citizens are more than emopowered to buy supplemental policies to fill in the gaps. It also has to do with availability of specialists. The one 10 minutes away might have a

And ours is paid primarily directly to the health insurance companies or the providers, and we pay 18% or more of our GDP. Be that in a sales tax, a premium check off, an ACA subsidy, income tax, or whatever, it is still the most accurate way to trace the cost. Sweden pays half per person for 100% coverage. End of comparrison.

That is correct. Their high personnal [and corporate] tax rates have absolutely nothing to do with their health care. There health care cost per person is basically half of what we pay, and they have coverage on 100% of their population. And the same holds true for virtually all of the EEC.

Sweden pays less than 10% of GDP per person, and their exhorbitant personal income tax rate has nothing to do with their healthcare system. The healthcare system is funded by itself and is very efficient. Remember, that 9.5% per person compares with our 18+%, and 100% of their citizens are covered. Now on the other hand, they spend little in Defense Funding, Military, Foreign Aid, etc., But that is their choice. They also import most of their food.