I assume you're a diabetic? Have you tried the new soybean based pastas? I'm not diabetic, but am a low carber. This kind of stuff has been around for 20 years, but back then it was horrible and I gave up on it. Recently I read a LC cookbook that talked about it, so I tried one again. I was pleasantly surprised. It's still not real pasta, that's for sure. But where the old stuff was really inedible, this new stuff is close enough to pasta that with some sauce on it, it's enjoyable. Only about 7g of carb in a serving. It's in the organic, natural food section of my supermarket, Costco has one that half the price of the supermarket ones. Seapoint Farms is one brand, I had their organic edamame fettuccine. I think that's better than the spaghetti style, which is what Costco has, but they are both worth a try. If you have it with some good sauce and a meatball, it's really pretty good.
No, you're the liar. Fretwell just said a new 2% tax on "gross" in the context of personal INCOME TAX. HE didn't specify gross what. Income tax, not small business revenue tax. Small business INCOME shows up on your personal income tax form at the very beginning along with salary, interest, etc as GROSS INCOME. How hard is that to grasp? Obviously you didn't understand that, so you went stupid and now you're dug quite the stupid hole.
While talking about INCOMES fool.
That's a lie what he said was he proposed a new "tax on taxes", to be
2% of "gross". That isn't explicit at all. But anyone knowledgeable about US income taxes would take it to mean a new tax on gross INCOME. When you don't and instead make the bizarre leap that he intended to tax small businesses on their total REVENUE, instead of profit, then you wind up digging yourself into a stupid hole. How are you liking that stupid hole?
What you can't grasp fool is that gross revenue into a small business has never been taxed as INCOME. And I don't think Fretwell intended that. But he can weigh in and decide if he wants to join you in stupidville. If by a 2% tax on gross he meant on gross income, as defined currently in the tax code and carried out on form 1040, then there is no crazy problem where a small business is taxed on their revenue. IF the business has sales of $300K, a profit of $50K, then per todays definition and law, that is $50k in gross personal income. Fretwell? Gone missing?
BS. For someone operating a small business, your personal deductions don't enter in until after GROSS INCOME is established. Gross income comes at the very beginning of the 1040, it includes salary, interest, alimony, and PROFIT (not revenue), from a small business.
That's a lie, as proven by forms 1040 and Schedule C fool. I've filled them out. You don't even know how it's done, which is how you fell into your stupid hole. The individuals gross income is at the top of the form, salary, interest, alimony, small business INCOME, etc.
And one more time. Go look at form 1040. Gross income on the personal tax form is defined and listed. You add up salaries, interest, alimony, and PROFIT (not revenue) from a small business.
I'm still giving Fretwell the benefit of the doubt. I don't think he's stupid, like you. He;s always been pro business and capitalism, I doubt he meant gross to mean gross revenue of a small business, but that he meant it to be gross personal INCOME. That is how it's defined now. If someone wants to change the definitions, then they need to be clear about that. Fretwell?
The profit of a small business is part of the GROSS INCOME of the individual that owns it! That is EXACTLY how it's defined in the code and forms today, fool. I think it was obvious that Fretwell was talking about a 2% tax on individual gross income, not on business revenue. Otherwise you wind up where you are, in stupidville. A small business has $3 mil in revenue, but only earns $50K in profit. You'd tax the small business owner 2% of $3 mil? $60K? That's more than the profit, they couldn't pay it. That's stupidville, where you live. Where I exist, the business owner has $50K in gross income on his personal return and he pays a 2% tax on that, $1000 just like the guy who earns $50k at a job.
The bigger problem is people know it and just don't care. A guy I grew up with is morbidly obese, 100+ pounds overweight. He was diagnosed with diabetes a few years ago. You'd think that would shock him, but instead he was nonchalant, telling me that it's not a big deal, they have medicines to control your blood sugar, yadda, yadda. He has a bag of about 8 different prescriptions he's on now, he refuses to cook, and eats God knows what. I offered to help him, teach him how to do low carb, that I could show him how to cook LC, go shopping, eat with him for a week, etc. No interest.
Mate of mine who I have known for 50 years is much more morbidly obese than that. They couldn’t even weigh the fucker down the hospital, they had to use the scales in the packing shed.
Mine was diagnosed decades ago.
It doesn’t for most, because its so common now.
Mine was so obese that he had to go on a crash liquid diet so he could fly to the US for a holiday and even with that barely made it onto the plane weight wise.
Mine was always into cooking and that was always the main problem. The bugger got me into doing my own bread in a bread machine by bringing one fresh out of his bread machine round to my place.
But the bugger was notorious for wolfing the whole damned loaf straight out of his bread machine drenched in butter while hot and lots of other high calorie stuff.
And still had 3 full other meals every day, mostly home cooked.
Them and most of the rest of my mates used to head off north in their RVs every winter and spend the winter in a mobile home park playing some card game, swatting off the midges and drinking themselves blotto every day.
On the trip there he was notorious for insisting on a rest stop at one of the towns along the way where he would storm the cake shop and buy all the cream puffs they had and when no one else was interested, wolf the lot.
He got so bad that whenever he ended up in hospital, which was most months, they had to get the special ambulance from the state capital 400 miles away to get him from his house to the local hospital.
One time he managed to fall down behind his bed and it took a crew of 10 of the SES to get him on his feet again.
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His diabetes ended up as usual with them having to cut off his toes as their died and went gangrenous, then his foot, then the leg below the knee.
I was often the one that took him in his own car to the the next major town to have his wooden leg replaced. Another mate of mine did the trip for the last wooden leg adjustment. When they got back to his house, he couldn’t get out of the car and then his heart just gave up and he died.
He was by far the most obese person I have ever known personally although I have seen more obese in TV docos, mostly just before they died.
It absolutely was in that context. Again, we were talking about Trump's tax cut, the personal income tax refund and the deficit. And that is the context that Fretwell proposed a new 2% tax, which would be on "gross" He didn't specify on gross what and now he appears to be hiding. Again, the only logical, reasonable interpretation is that it would be on personal income tax gross because we were talking about personal income tax. Personal income tax GROSS, includes PROFITS from a business, not the business revenue, nitwit. Go look at 1040 and Schedule C.
It was gross income in the context of personal taxes. Go look at 1040 and Schedule C. A f****it is someone who sits in Australia and tries to tell me how US income tax is computed. I've filled out the forms.
Fretwell has two choices:
A - Acknowledge that what he was talking about was in fact a 2% new tax on personal income tax gross, in which case a business owner with $300K in sales and $50K in profit would pay an additional tax of $1000, just like the guy with a job earning $50K. There is no "problem" like you claim.
B - Tell us that he really wanted the 2% to apply to a person's personal income tax gross *and* if he has a business, it goes beyond his personal income tax gross and extends to the business gross. In which case, he's joined you in stupidville, because now the small business owner would pay a tax on $300K, or $6K. That makes sense to you? To Fretwell? How about a startup business that has $3 mil in revenue and no profit? They pay $60K in tax? And note that per 1040 and Schedule C, an individual's gross income includes business PROFIT, not business REVENUE. THAT is context too.
So, Fretwell, where are you? A or B? Simple question. Or is it that you really don't know what the hell you just proposed?
And note the question is to Fretwell, not you f****it.
I never said that and the scales I recommended doesn’t even do that.
Nope, how much the previous day's meals and exercise has affect your weight given that I said repeatedly that the only way to do it is with the same config every day, like just after getting up after the first piss of the day wearing the same clothes or nothing every day.
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BS. His comment was made in the discussion of Trump's personal tax cuts, tax refunds to PEOPLE and the deficit.
A remarkably stupid statement, even for you. It's impossible to pay down the federal debt without eliminating the DEFICIT. Which is why the 2% new tax wouldn't pay down the debt at all.
BS. The IRS defines "GROSS INCOME" on the personal tax returns we use. It includes PROFIT from a business, not the business revenue. Go look at the forms and see.
No, he has not answered the simple, direct question I posed. Why do you think you speak for him? You're incapable of even speaking for yourself, eg the post about needing a scale to determine if you need to lose weight because you're morbidly obese.
And the vast majority of bathroom scale makers apparently agree, because I have yet to see one that measures down to the gram. I suppose someone, somewhere makes one at a big premium price for dummies that think they can track weight loss by the gram following a meal. Notice not a single poster here agrees with the troll, which isn't surprising.
Well, mine resolves[*] to 45 grams (tenth of a pound). Note that one should generally weigh oneself at the same time of day for a valid comparison (and generally after the morning constitutional, which can result in a quick loss of up to a pound or more).
[*] Keeping in mind the difference between precision and accuracy.
That's yet another lie. You're the moron that first used the word "gram" in this discussion. And you did it when you claimed that you could measure your weight to the gram, so as to determine whether your diet was working based on just your last meal or two. Totally moronic as everyone else here has pointed out.
I didn't say scientific scales, moron. I said BATHROOM scales, as again CONTEXT matters. That is what the thread is about. I know perfectly well that there are scales made by Mettler and others, that weigh down to a gram and beyond. I also know you don't need one to measure your weight.
It's all filling up in your hole of ignorance that you dug. Enjoying it down there?
That's the most bathroom scales I've seen do also, measure down to tenth of a pound. The premise of the troll, that you need gram level accuracy so that you can determine if your last meal or two resulted in body weight gain or loss when dieting, is beyond stupid.
More of your pathological lying. I never ever said anything even remotely like that and even a desperately cowering gutless f****it pathological liar should be able to see that the bathroom scales I recommended doesn’t even measure to the gram, f****it.
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