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San Diego Tenth Most Expensive City
If you live normally, with a fridge, etc, most people pay $100-200 a month == No one using normal amounts of electricity with normal appliances is spending anywhere near $200 a month on electricity, not even $100.— October 1, 2011 8:59 a.m.
San Diego unions push transaction tax
OK, lets see how messed up we can make this box/posting reply. Oh man, what happened,. this box was SUPPOSED to be a reply below RFG's post above mine, and it was supposed to be skinnier than his!!!! Oh well........— September 30, 2011 11:18 p.m.
San Diego Tenth Most Expensive City
Also, we anticipate spending less on utilities because of the mild climate == When I was in college we would see how LOW we could get our 2 bedroom aprtment utility bill. $5.50 was the lowest. I never used the heat in my condo-ever. So utility bills will be much lower.— September 30, 2011 11:12 p.m.
U.S. May Crack Down; Bridgepoint Stock Plunges
Bridgepoint and other schools like it are going to fold once the student loan house of cards caves in. When only 2-3% of the Bridgepoint students have he ability to pay back their student loans, because the other 98% only have minimum wage jobs and their degree turns out to be worthless, then the jig will be up. Same with law schools. 75% of students attending the bottom 150 ABA law schools (out of 200) will default on their student loans becuase they will not have the income to pay the loans back. In fact there are several lawsuits against some of the lower rated law schools (including Thomas Jefferson here in San Diego) with good students who cannot get jobs, and never will get jobs because there are no law jobs out there. John Marshall LS in Chicago is now charging close to $5K per CLASS, times that by 30 classes, and this is from a 4th tier POS law school where 90% of the students will never come close to earning the money needed to pay off thst kind of debt.— September 30, 2011 11:01 p.m.
Rumor: Papa Doug Buying U-T
B is proably correct. The U-T today looks like a supoed up version of my K-6 paper, the "The Weekly Reader".— September 29, 2011 10:57 p.m.
San Diego unions push transaction tax
In fact, Jeff, I'd say that we probably agree on far more than we disagree. I'd also label myself as a sort of anarcho-capitalist-libertarian Ayn Rand kind of guy. == I found this on Jeff's web page, so you two, and even me, are not that far apart on certain things (HFT is not one of them); “[W]hen you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.” Ayn Rand— September 28, 2011 9:53 p.m.
San Diego unions push transaction tax
I can make a pretty good guesstimate of most players. == No you can't, you just claim you can, and even in your speculative claim you yourself admit in your own words it is just a "guesstimate".— September 28, 2011 9:50 p.m.
San Diego unions push transaction tax
Since I have repeatedly made it known that I am primarily a wheat trader, what kind of returns do wheat traders make per year in your estimation? == Jeff that is impossible for you or anyone else to know (and BTW you had never made that fact "known" here). There is NO WAY you, or anyone else, has access to that info- to every single "wheat trader"'s income, or rate of "return" (I am assuming you mean by return their profit, and by profit then their income). Heck there is no possible way to even know how many wheat traders are out there. It would be like asking how much return an commercial industrial real estate broker makes. Imposible to know. You may know what a few make, or even what many make,but you do not know what they all make.— September 28, 2011 5:05 p.m.
Carriers' U-T Case Certified as Class Action
I am very concerned that if Platinum Equity is culpable, it will fire more U-T employees if it is hit with a judgment. == B-if they fired the carriers the paper would cease to exist, so that is not really an option, they will just have toi cowboy up and pay an honest days wage for an honest days work. These IC scams are done for one reason, to get out of the payroll taxes and boost the bottom line at the expense of the poor who are doing these skilless, but necessary, jobs. Businesses who do this deserve to be sued and deserve to be hit with major liabiltiy judgments. Ripping off the poor and those least abole to care for themselves because they ares tuck in deadend jobs like this is the bottom of the barrel, the lowest of the low.— September 28, 2011 4:57 p.m.
Carriers' U-T Case Certified as Class Action
In addition to independent contractors making their own hours -- doesn't the IRS also look at whether the employer establishes the ground rules -- that is, directs -- the work of an alleged IC? == Absolutely. This exactly why these carriers are NOT independant contractors. They are employees, with set hours and set wages. Many employers TRY to pull the IC scam so they get around paying **payroll taxes**, costs like SS, workers comp, things like that. But the IC rule is very simple, you are essentially your own boss working under the flag/license of another. You call the shots on hours. you are generally not supervised, not directed, you have broad discretion on how to work your business splan. For example when I was a commercial real estate broker, I worked in UTC where we had an office, and everyone came in M-F usually from 7 or 8 until 5 or 6. But if I wanted to come in at 11AM I would. If I wanted to work form home I would. If I wanted to leave at 11:30 to work out at my gym in Solana Beach from 12-1 I would. If I wanted to play golf on Friday's I would. No one could stop me or interfer. Of course I was also on straight commission.— September 28, 2011 4:52 p.m.