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CGar, definitively only for them getting you the car. given the parking cost etc, you might as well go get yourself a nice E Class
bfarwell,
umm,
I don’t think Europe will strenghten your argument on taxation.
Ireland, Spain, Portugal come to mind.
Awkward Tip Jar Locations:
5. Your wife’s night stand.
Yes, biff, newspaper aim is much better in the year following a good tip. I’ve done the controlled experiment on that.
mohel jokes always remind me of the SNL commercial parody where they performed a bris in the back seat of a car to demonstrate the smooth ride. At the end, the mohel winks and says “poifect!”
m4l, when I tip at the garage, I do it when they bring me the car, but not when I drop it off. I figure it’s like a public parking garage, where you don’t tip when you leave the car and they give you the ticket, only when you pick up.
I also tip the dog walkers. And, come to think of it, my current dry cleaner takes really good care of me, so I will tip them this year too.
And I also tip the woman at boy luv girl who cuts my hair.
And I suppose I’ll give extra tips to the bartenders at Montero’s.
“Hence the deep poverty of western Europe, a vast slum crawling with children rooting through the trash for a morsel of food while their parents collapse under cardboard boxes for a brief respite from donating blood for food.”
Are you kidding?
Yes, I also tip the newspaper delivery person. Worth every penny to not have to get out of the pj’s first thing in the morning on the weekend and haul ass in the freezing cold to get the paper.
“Slopey – it is not a rhetorical point. Economies expand because people innovate, start businesses and take risks. The money for that comes from people with initiative who invest. Tax those people, and investment goes away.”
1. My point was a rhetorical point about our priorities and the way we talk about this stuff.
2. The economics of this in absolute terms are debatable. For example, how does your point square with the level of investment and job growth in the 1990s at Bush I and Clinton tax levels (i.e the ones we would have had without yesterday’s deal) versus investment and job growth in the near decade following the Bush tax cuts? The difference in the marginal rate at those income levels does not appear to be a major job driver. There are many factors in play. My vies is that the diff. in the marginal rates in the two eras is really not so profound from a private investment standpoint, but it does result in a significant budget impact.