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EWWWWW where is king’s county hospital? if i got run over by a bike in park slope, is this the hospital i would be taken to? is there way to get on a registry of hospitals you dont want to be taken to in an emergency? does a list like that exist? it should
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Scalpel… Forceps… Bedbugs? It’s never a good day to wind up at Kings County Hospital in need of medical attention, but today seems particularly undesirable. According to a report over the wires, EMS units “are being triaged in the hallway due to a bedbug infestation in the triage room at the hospital.” For reference, this is the same hospital in which surveillance video showed a 49-year-old psychiatric patient left to die on the floor of a waiting room. But what a great place to be a blood-sucking parasite! From the bedbugs’ point of view it’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet at Ponderosa over there. Hope Mason, a spokesperson for the hospital, tells us they have an exterminator on site looking into the situation, but insisted it wasn’t an “infestation.”
Also MM – apropros your comment that people who earn more cheat more – that’s a completely different point and one that suggests you are focusing too much on some kind of income-based concept of fairness. All that matters is how easy it is to police someone’s tax compliance. A successful restauranteur might make millions a year. Doesn’t change what I’m saying at all.
Lechacal: I am glad to see from your taxation plan that your reasoning power is as great as it was wen you were solving global warming.
DIBS: I am positioned for a stock market rally. More than 100% long in fact, which is very unusual for me.
I follow shadow M3, which has been contracting at a frightening rate. As that starts to expand, as it must, some money should find its way into the market. I am guessing it will be fits and starts with sharp sell offs,rather than a nice upslope.
MM, I never said it’s black and white. It’s a judgment call that in certain areas we’re all better off not chasing people for taxes. Industries where tax fraud is rampant and hard to police – like restaurants – are good candidates.
It is much, much harder for salaried employees to cheat. Unless I’m missing something I have effectively no opportunity whatsover to do so and every year pay every little last cent I am required to.
Your response suggests you are offended that I am generalizing about restaurants. That generalization is completely appropriate. Some people have a much harder time cheating on their taxes, and those people cheat the least. For other people, it’s easy, and they cheat the most. There isn’t any kind of moral equivalency here.
oh wow, urban outfitters is burning down down the street from me as i type this..
*Firefighters are currently battling a two-alarm fire on Broadway, just above Houston Street. A reader says the roof of the building with the Urban Outfitters on the ground floor (628 Broadway) caught fire. We also hear that the fire spread to neighboring buildings (or at least the sprinkler system in one was “charged”). ”
Sorry, lechecal, but I still don’t buy the broad generalization that restauranteers are all tax cheats. Of course some are to a greater degree than others, but I would wager you could assign a percentage to every single occupation in the country and be quite right in asserting that there are tax cheats there. In fact, I’d bet the higher up the income scale you go, the more the percentage of “tax cheaters” rises. Only then it’s called “protecting assets”. I would also bet that there’s not a single person on this site who doesn’t legally, and perhaps covertly, protect their assets in whatever way they can. Human nature, I’m afraid.
Obviously cash businesses can do this easier, but they certainly aren’t alone. I don’t buy that food served restaurants is “cheap” because an owner is cutting us a break because he’s pocketing some profits. That makes no sense.
EWWWWW where is king’s county hospital? if i got run over by a bike in park slope, is this the hospital i would be taken to? is there way to get on a registry of hospitals you dont want to be taken to in an emergency? does a list like that exist? it should
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Scalpel… Forceps… Bedbugs? It’s never a good day to wind up at Kings County Hospital in need of medical attention, but today seems particularly undesirable. According to a report over the wires, EMS units “are being triaged in the hallway due to a bedbug infestation in the triage room at the hospital.” For reference, this is the same hospital in which surveillance video showed a 49-year-old psychiatric patient left to die on the floor of a waiting room. But what a great place to be a blood-sucking parasite! From the bedbugs’ point of view it’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet at Ponderosa over there. Hope Mason, a spokesperson for the hospital, tells us they have an exterminator on site looking into the situation, but insisted it wasn’t an “infestation.”
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*rob*
Also MM – apropros your comment that people who earn more cheat more – that’s a completely different point and one that suggests you are focusing too much on some kind of income-based concept of fairness. All that matters is how easy it is to police someone’s tax compliance. A successful restauranteur might make millions a year. Doesn’t change what I’m saying at all.
Lechacal: I am glad to see from your taxation plan that your reasoning power is as great as it was wen you were solving global warming.
DIBS: I am positioned for a stock market rally. More than 100% long in fact, which is very unusual for me.
I follow shadow M3, which has been contracting at a frightening rate. As that starts to expand, as it must, some money should find its way into the market. I am guessing it will be fits and starts with sharp sell offs,rather than a nice upslope.
MM, I never said it’s black and white. It’s a judgment call that in certain areas we’re all better off not chasing people for taxes. Industries where tax fraud is rampant and hard to police – like restaurants – are good candidates.
It is much, much harder for salaried employees to cheat. Unless I’m missing something I have effectively no opportunity whatsover to do so and every year pay every little last cent I am required to.
Your response suggests you are offended that I am generalizing about restaurants. That generalization is completely appropriate. Some people have a much harder time cheating on their taxes, and those people cheat the least. For other people, it’s easy, and they cheat the most. There isn’t any kind of moral equivalency here.
DH!! (You totally suck! (nh))
Dave, that is a nice price, nowadays. If it had all new upgrades, and changes were only cosmetic, like painting, it seems like more than a fair price.
oh wow, urban outfitters is burning down down the street from me as i type this..
*Firefighters are currently battling a two-alarm fire on Broadway, just above Houston Street. A reader says the roof of the building with the Urban Outfitters on the ground floor (628 Broadway) caught fire. We also hear that the fire spread to neighboring buildings (or at least the sprinkler system in one was “charged”). ”
Sorry, lechecal, but I still don’t buy the broad generalization that restauranteers are all tax cheats. Of course some are to a greater degree than others, but I would wager you could assign a percentage to every single occupation in the country and be quite right in asserting that there are tax cheats there. In fact, I’d bet the higher up the income scale you go, the more the percentage of “tax cheaters” rises. Only then it’s called “protecting assets”. I would also bet that there’s not a single person on this site who doesn’t legally, and perhaps covertly, protect their assets in whatever way they can. Human nature, I’m afraid.
Obviously cash businesses can do this easier, but they certainly aren’t alone. I don’t buy that food served restaurants is “cheap” because an owner is cutting us a break because he’s pocketing some profits. That makes no sense.
“Make marijuana legal and tax that.”
I agree with that 100% (and not because I want to use it).