I tend to think they're being honest about this. But the devil is in the details - what constitutes "100% USDA inspected beef"? Is it cow eyeballs? Is it diseased or old cows? I don't know the answers to these questions. I haven't looked them up. But there could be all kinds of ways they can make the claim and it still not be the kind of thing most of us have in mind when we think "100% USDA inspected beef with no fillers or preservatives"
I have been too lazy to look this up but have LONG figured this has got to be some kind of word game. The law has to be leaving some way for them to get over on this. Wife and I are going out to 5 Guys again tonight for dinner. Pricey damn burgers but, they are every bit as good as I can do at home. Comparing them with a McD's?
It seems to me that hiring a large portion of your labor "off the books" is going to be hard to hide from the tax man. That is, unless you handle a lot of cash and don't report it. Otherwise, any simple analysis will raise a red flag.
It's ok though, as our govt will just limit the amount rent can increase, damn what the market will bear. Gotta protect the people who cannot budget, be responsible, and be gainfully employed. We'll just tax those pesky tax payers for trying to make a living.I have gone through this forever with property tax. People who rent, when some new property tax is proposed are all in. Saying it does not effect them
When you try to explain to them they are voting to raise their own rent they laugh. Until the new tax does go in and their rent does go up. Then they are no longer laughing and will with their last breath insist the higher tax has nothing to do with it.
Could simply mean, all of their "meat" is inspected, meaning 100% has been looked at, not containing 100% beef.
Both feds and then state of WA did this during the great hoax. Told people who owned property they could not toss those who would not pay. The banks of course still wanted the payments. LOT of people lost their rental property. Now of course the law of unintended consequences is roaring here. Those who still rent are FAR more careful about who they rent too. Those who enjoyed living rent free for a year or more are being told no and boy are they mad. They are screaming for law makers to "do something". No doubt law makers after the election will find some way to screw this up even worse to pander to them. Things like rent control are just like socialism. Sounds really good and it of course all turns to
before long. Then they scream for the law makers to "fix" it.
Remember after the BP oil spill in the gulf, they found massive evidence of fraudulent inspection records by federal employees ( sometimes in pencil!)
Some people are very lazy about this. One of my daughters and her family have fallen into this pattern. For one thing, they are all very busy. Yet this is where the planning comes in. Fortunately, my daughter makes very good money (which this son-in-law isn't ashamed to take advantage of) and they can afford to scatter it around. "Eating out" isn't a treat or an exception for them, it's pretty routine. Mrs. Merkt and I are amazed at the money they must spend on this.
Yes, these are things that I wonder about.
Yep, look at San Francisco. For decades they suffered from a housing shortage. Rent control kept a lot of developers out, especially smaller developers who could only afford to build small projects for which the mandatory low income housing provision would eat up most of the units they wanted to build. But even when someone did want to build a big project it got killed by the planning commission and their propensity to cave to NIMBYs who hated big projects. So they killed it from both ends and almost no new housing got built for nearly half a century. They finally had to cave in the mid teens and approved several massive housing towers with almost no low income provisions, only to have the housing market in the city collapse before completion. So now they have under-filled luxury complexes and still have overcrowded lower income markets. Will they let people build what the market actually wants (2-6 unit complexes that replace older unused retail and commercial space)? Nope, those are still zoned/planned out because only the massive developers have the leverage to get exemptions to the legal requirements. San Francisco cannot win for losing and it is 100% self inflicted.Both feds and then state of WA did this during the great hoax. Told people who owned property they could not toss those who would not pay. The banks of course still wanted the payments. LOT of people lost their rental property. Now of course the law of unintended consequences is roaring here. Those who still rent are FAR more careful about who they rent too. Those who enjoyed living rent free for a year or more are being told no and boy are they mad. They are screaming for law makers to "do something". No doubt law makers after the election will find some way to screw this up even worse to pander to them. Things like rent control are just like socialism. Sounds really good and it of course all turns to
Eatin good in the neighborhood.
15.2%
Good for you!
This line of reasoning reveals a basic flaw in your argument. The government does not mandate a bump in my pay. My income is determined by other factors. But when the government mandates an increase in a minimum wage earner's pay, it increases my costs without increasing my pay. Net loss for me.
