General Music Chat

Well Guys, my paycheck isnt as short as I thought, our payroll program had been updated to what wouldve happened if they hadnt reached an agreement.

I understood the SS part, the income tax was the issue. But its the same as before, so my check isnt quite as short as I thought.

have not sold anything on ebay today so no, I have not gotten paid.. LOL..I did sell a cream separator though a couple days ago..

I've been selling some aged out assets for my company on ebay.. it seems that the seller fees are at times outrageous. They also control the auctions by type, meaning some types you cannot 'auction' but are forced to put a buyout price in it, or just set a price, while other items, you can auction starting at almost nil.

The fees are confusing and vary by item as well.

How do you turn profit there dane?

AAAHHHH,,,, You guys are just beginning to get CLOCKED!
You asked for it, you got it!
Kramer you want to just throw away the constitution. Don't worry your team is working on it. Take away your guns and you are the most helpless human anyone has ever seen. They gonna control the amount of bathroom tissue allowed!

Nobody is exempt from the payroll tax returning to 6.2%. Unless you don't work. Just pay it and shut up.

Good for you Jimmy. Tell that to all the folks that can't heat their homes, and are struggling to put gas in their cars, and pay their property taxes, and just one, ONE little thing pushes them over their own personal cliff.

Thanks for the post anyway. I appreciate your understanding, and total involvement in what is really happening.

I'll go tell all these people to just suck it up.

Don't tell the feds about all the big money you'll make playing music this year.

I've been selling some aged out assets for my company on ebay.. it seems that the seller fees are at times outrageous. They also control the auctions by type, meaning some types you cannot 'auction' but are forced to put a buyout price in it, or just set a price, while other items, you can auction starting at almost nil.

The fees are confusing and vary by item as well.

How do you turn profit there dane?

by having patience when I am at auctions attempting to buy.. there is not too much stuff I do not know what it's value is after doing this for 19 years (actually longer than that since when I was 11 or 12 started going to farm auctions with my dad in Iowa)y..it's harder now to buy since the media started running all those "Storage Wars" "Auction Gods" shows etc. .. there are lots of newbies out and about ruining the "market" though the last couple years paying too much.. I have barns full of merchandise I acquired when prices were more reasonable, vintage outboard motors, Keen Kutter skew chisels, Kellogg telephones, you name it I probably got 1 or more..

I am really into buying LAWN-BOY push mowers from the 60's.. LOL

so, bringing in more money is one thing. Cutting spending is another.

Why did they have to be done at the same time? I personally think it's best to deal with both issues separately. I'm all for cutting spending. Here's where I'd cut:

Pentagon, does not need $1 Tirl. Operate on 250Bil, job is to defend our country, not operate bases in 135 other countries. Bring all troops home and let those dirtbags elsewhere kill each other instead of using us for target practice. Take all those left over troops and guard our borders instead. Overhaul the immigration dept and make them do their jobs. Also no more H1B's. None. No more immigration whatsoever until unemployment is under 5%

End all corporate subsidies, big oil and pharma.. pay your own way. Hundreds of billions saved.

End all tax havens- Verizon, GM, Exxon, etc.. pay your damn taxes. Hell, Verizon got a REFUND in 2012. WTF? Hundreds of billions saved.

Cut Synfuel funding. That damn industry has been given $2.5bil a year since the late 80's for doing absolutely nothing. Might as well give me $2.5 bil a year to turn tin into gold. Ain't gonna happen. $2.5 billion annually saved.

End government funded research on animals. Testing effects of cigarettes on dogs? Testing orangutans for boners? c'mon.. Billions Saved.

No new pork! the annual bills that pay for education, transportation, etc.. stop funing pet projects through them.. hell even the fiscal cliff bill had funding in it for some fishery in alaska.. wtf? Trillions saved.

raise fines into the hundreds of millions for corporate lawbreaking. It makes no sense that a chemical company can dump toxic waste into a local stream and be fined only $25,000 when it would have cost them $400,000 to properly dispose of it. Just good business, right? Give the EPA the power and ability to fine companies based on cleanup costs, and to ensure it's far more costly to break the law. Start actual prosecutions of persons in corps who approve the law breaking. Billions earned.

Rebuild the SEC, fro the ground up. Give them the power to levy realistic fines against banksters and fraud. Force them to open investigations and follow through. Also TAX derivative trading- $trillions per year in trades that are completely untaxed. Hundreds of billions, if not 1 or 2 trillion saved.

Those things alone would completely turn our deficit into paydown in a matter of years. Charge companies a tarriff for each job offshored, enough that would make it more expensive than hiring a union guy from the USA, and then you have your jobs and middle class back.

It's simple.

Shouldda' voted for Santorum in the primary.

Further proof of a government gone wild.

Don't tell the feds about all the big money you'll make playing music this year.

Bwahahahah !

I think The Bar/venue owners have more to worry about!

so, bringing in more money is one thing. Cutting spending is another.

Why did they have to be done at the same time? I personally think it's best to deal with both issues separately. I'm all for cutting spending. Here's where I'd cut:

Pentagon, does not need $1 Tirl. Operate on 250Bil, job is to defend our country, not operate bases in 135 other countries. Bring all troops home and let those dirtbags elsewhere kill each other instead of using us for target practice. Take all those left over troops and guard our borders instead. Overhaul the immigration dept and make them do their jobs. Also no more H1B's. None. No more immigration whatsoever until unemployment is under 5%

End all corporate subsidies, big oil and pharma.. pay your own way. Hundreds of billions saved.

End all tax havens- Verizon, GM, Exxon, etc.. pay your damn taxes. Hell, Verizon got a REFUND in 2012. WTF? Hundreds of billions saved.

Cut Synfuel funding. That damn industry has been given $2.5bil a year since the late 80's for doing absolutely nothing. Might as well give me $2.5 bil a year to turn tin into gold. Ain't gonna happen. $2.5 billion annually saved.

End government funded research on animals. Testing effects of cigarettes on dogs? Testing orangutans for boners? c'mon.. Billions Saved.

No new pork! the annual bills that pay for education, transportation, etc.. stop funing pet projects through them.. hell even the fiscal cliff bill had funding in it for some fishery in alaska.. wtf? Trillions saved.

raise fines into the hundreds of millions for corporate lawbreaking. It makes no sense that a chemical company can dump toxic waste into a local stream and be fined only $25,000 when it would have cost them $400,000 to properly dispose of it. Just good business, right? Give the EPA the power and ability to fine companies based on cleanup costs, and to ensure it's far more costly to break the law. Start actual prosecutions of persons in corps who approve the law breaking. Billions earned.

Rebuild the SEC, fro the ground up. Give them the power to levy realistic fines against banksters and fraud. Force them to open investigations and follow through. Also TAX derivative trading- $trillions per year in trades that are completely untaxed. Hundreds of billions, if not 1 or 2 trillion saved.

Those things alone would completely turn our deficit into paydown in a matter of years. Charge companies a tarriff for each job offshored, enough that would make it more expensive than hiring a union guy from the USA, and then you have your jobs and middle class back.

It's simple.

I didn't realize you were a conservative? Most of that is what folks in the Tea Party have been saying for a while now.



If there were people going to jail when a corporation broke the law, that company would end pretty quickly. If their wrongdoing was known by the public, market forces would end them even quicker.

But charging a tariff isn't the answer either. That only makes the cost of living for Americans shoot through the roof. Something does need to be done about the Chinese, but the Democrats get so much money from them that it ain't gonna happen. Oh yea, thank you Bill Clinton for selling them all of military secrets so you'd have the cash to win an election.

I think this gun ban debacle will eventually solve all of our problems though. There is about to be a revolution.

Escooose me! Whuts a payyy check?

Escooose me! Whuts a payyy check?

A pay check is what the government gives you so you can pay your local taxes.