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Nonprofit Sector's Big (Often Feared) Question Briefly Arises at House Hearing
The fear is that opening up debate on the charitable deduction could lead to new definitions of what is and isn'ta tax-exempt charity.” Becerra pushed the issue and Colinvaux clarified where congressional attention ought to go, given the increasing …
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Kansas Legislature hammers out alternative tax bill
The new plan also keeps deductions for interest on home mortgages and charitable contributions. However, it slices a tax credit for the working poor by about 16 percent. The proposal allows the state sales tax to drop by six-tenths of a cent next year …
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State senators offer revenue-neutral approach to reduce income tax
Also eliminated would be some individual tax deductions like the earned income tax credit and contributions to college savings plans. “A very important note about this particular program is that it is fully paid for in fiscal year 13 and it is fully …
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www.projectfreeman.com – free MP3 download and PDF of the lyrics. I wrote this song after I’d stopped paying tax because of our governments’ illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a story of the events as they happened and I guess also a kind of statement about my views on tax and how it’s used If you visit the ‘Project Freeman – Peaceful, Lawful Rebellion’ pages you will see that I got into the whole ‘Freeman’ idea as a way to protest against our corrupt governments and how they use our tax for things many of us do not agree with, such as war and bailing out the already massively wealthy banks Once you do the research you realise that withholding tax is actually an obligation we have and an act of “civil obedience” (under the statute legal system, if you’re still a part of it) and the best way we can help to stop the attrocities that are funded by our tax money

Question by Gorginhanson: Can you think of a Purely Unselfish Act?
This Question is Rolling! This is the third time I’ve asked it and her is the compilation of my rebuttals- only 1 good answer so far in my opinion
Here are the first 2 sets if you would like to take a gander

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnSp03iuZQt3VjFCKtO4xvLsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090409174155AAFPB5X

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ailk3e5RufyBk1h1w4J3zNbsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090409180718AAGpeA4

The question is CAN YOU think of one, if you CANT don’t say anything unless you have a good explanation
the only problem is that I won’t be able to correct you

The most common one is going to be that someone says that someone dies for their child, but the reason that that doesn’t work is that the parent just doesn’t want to live with the pain- The option of not saving the child is so undesirable that they won’t even consider it, no way would they want that to happen
It is not PURELY unselfish because the parent feels that they would rather die than let their child die, they picked this choice because the alternative was unbearable, love makes you feel good and that’s just a fact, taking away the person you love is unbearable, it HURTS
too complicated to be unselfish (PURELY)
I’m not saying the act is selfish people, dont tear out my throat…its just not PURELY unselfish, no one wants to let go of this one though… TOO BAD

Volunteering or whatever either makes them FEEL GOOD about doing some good
or 2) the feel like they have fulfilled some societal debt (they are resolving themselves of some kind of guilt)
3)They like telling other people that they’re so awesome that they volunteer.

Next up I’ve gotten this one a few times
“opening a door for someone”, this will bring us back to societal debt I discussed above, it’s the right thing to do so you do it, not necessarily because you want to, but because of something that has been pre-programmed into you that you do at childhood, (being courteous)
sub-consciously you’re bending to a societal pressure here, you aren’t Jesus for holding a door open for someone…

Next up
“Thinking of universal welfare, peace, prosperity and happiness is the only pure unselfish act”
No good buddy, that makes you feel too good inside, everyone likes to think about good things

One guy said that “selfishness” is the only selfless act, well if he had half a brain he would realize before he said one more word that being selfish isn’t being unselfish… sometimes the simplest answer is best no matter how many other things I can say about that…

One guy said the big bang was unselfish… I’m talking about human acts OBVIOUSLY, please think before you speak
Giving away money goes back to that volunteering I talked about, it makes you feel good or its a tax break, or you can brag- NO dice
A couple people tried to tweak the definition to come out on top… just don’t do that, it goes against the real question

Next up, one girl said “Picking up a pop can on the ground and throwing in the trash.” can be unselfish,
For this one we go back to societal debt, bragging, etc
Think about this one lady, how much guilt trip bullshit do recycling campaigns throw at you? they want to build up your feelings of societal debt

Last one I’m going to disprove and then comes the “good” one, not really good, but it’s the best I’ve seen so far
One lady said giving your child up for adoption to people who can’t have one, no good lady, you’re doing something for the unfortunate and that’s going to make you feel good in at least one sense- (same principal as giving money, I dont care what you give away), if you do it to get rid of your kid… you just didn’t want the kid, now did you?

Ok best answer so far by Deereman
“How about if one gave their life for a complete and total stranger? I believe this would qualify since the person has no connection to the other person like they would have for a child, family member or friend.”
I’ve thought of this, and I have a few “rules” that this would have to follow… first of all you would have to not think about that guy’s life, (if you didnt save him you would feel so guilty about his death), second you would have to have no one close to you or you would upset them, thirdly, you would have to value your own life ( someone suicidal doesn’t count) and lastly you can’t feel heroic or anything for or while doing it- basically you would have to not think about it at all, but the problem with this is that it would be instinctual which is a combination of societal debt (feeling the need to help others in any way) and acting on instinct doesn’t seem to qualify as unselfish

ok then now, THOUGHTS people? have I roused your interest or did you not even make it halfway through this

Best answer:

Answer by highball116
Lots of people say there’s no such thing as altruism because self-interest is present in every instance. My question is, just because the actor benefits in some way from the action, does that mean that it cannot be altruistic? Why is everyone so hung up on purity?

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Federal Court: Salaries Were Actually Dividends to Shareholders, Not Deductible
Now, the firm must pay a large corporate tax and corresponding penalty. That was the decision of a three-judge panel for the US. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Mulcahy, Pauritsch, Salvador & Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, No.
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SBA names Victoria Tifft Ohio's Small Business Person of the Year
Under the proposal, a company would get credit against income taxes worth up to 10% of the increase in total wages in 2012, “which could come either in the form of salaries for new hires or raises,” The Times notes. A company that increased its payroll …
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Mr. PASCRELL. Thank you, my friend, Mr. Blumenauer. I stand before you to discuss HR 3590, the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009. I want to congratulate Mr. Rangel, Mr. Camp, Mr. Blumenauer. This body stands tallest when we work together for our servicemembers. It really reflects the dignity of this body. And I say this emphatically, that Mr. Rangel and Mr. Camp are always there, not only because they have a deep affection for their country, but because they have a deep connection with our service folks who defend us every day. This is the least we can do. This legislation would extend the first-time homebuyer credit, the time limit by 1 year, for our military members serving outside the United States in 2009. The extension would allow servicemembers currently serving overseas to take advantage of an important tax credit offered to all citizens by the Recovery Act. Our legislation would protect servicemembers from having to repay the credit if they are called up for service overseas and forced to sell their home within 3 years of purchasing. Think of this, Mr. Speaker: this bill comes at a time when our servicemembers are challenged with the dual strain of war and economic strife. Taking care of the responsibilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and trying to take care of familial needs–just imagine, just imagine that stress. The first-time homebuyer credit has already provided tax benefits to a million and a half families. Congress should do everything we can to …

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Grey power drives volunteer work
Across we go to the Reserve Bank's CPI Inflation Calculator on www.rbnz.govt.nz. Comparing the mid-70s and the mid-90s with the latest data, we find that hourly wages have grown faster than the Consumer Price Index in both periods – 1975 to early 2012, …
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Question by laruska: Snappy answer to method actors question?
A method actor in rehearsal once questioned a director on a particular direction he was given asking, “What’s my motivation?”

The director replied, “Your paycheck!”

Who were the actor and director? Or is this just an urban ledgen?

Best answer:

Answer by NYC Director
There are a lot of versions of that. Seems like they are based in fact back there somewhere. Producer/Director Stuart Ostrow takes credit for an example in which he told Janis Page that her motivation was, “You open on Friday.” I think I’ve heard it attributed to George Abbott also. The Ostrow version can be found in Ostrow’s book, “A Producer’s Broadway Journey.”

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During the 1960s, at the height of the Rock ‘n’ Roll era in Memphis, a deck hand on the MARY ELIZABETH wrote and composed a song he entitled, “Proud Mary”. The song describes his feelings and experiences, his life and times aboard his ship, the MARY ELIZABETH. The song was published and recorded by John Fogerty of Creedance Clearwater Revival, and was also performed by other artists such as George Jones and Johnny Paycheck, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen and pop diva, Tina Tuner. Tina Turner’s upbeat rendition was more in the early 1980s style of music and entitled “Rollin’ On The River”. The tune has become one of the most popular and enduring songs of our age and has been placed #155 on Rolling Stone’s 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Many people that listen to the lyrics of the song, come away with the impression that the PROUD MARY was steamboat pushed by sternwheel paddles — those “big wheels keep on turning . . .” Well I’m sorry, but you’d be wrong. In the riverboat vocabulary for tow boats, the word “wheels” often refers to the propellers under the boat that are turned by the engines. Another term is “screws” due to the propellers usually looking like oversized screws and while rotating to propel the vessel, they resemble a screw being turned. So in reality, the “big wheels that keep on turning” are under the tow boat, under water and out of sight, not the big paddlewheels seen behind a steamboat!
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Question by Jo: Should you have to receive a paycheck in order to sue for harassment ?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801313_pf.html

excerpt:
“U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle ruled last month that the D.C. Human Rights Act — one of the most expansive civil rights laws in the country — does not give unpaid interns who claim to have been sexually harassed by a boss the right to sue. The law, Judge Huvelle concluded, protects only those who earn a paycheck.”

What do you think – should people have to receive a paycheck in order to file a harassment suit? What about interns? volunteers? etc.

What message is this sending to employers?

Best answer:

Answer by Nate
They can file a criminal complaint but they’re not covered by employment law since they aren’t employees.

What do you think? Answer below!