By and large, they don’t. Nor do they pay any taxes on it. Trust me on this.
Note that dudes selling off their personal belongings at a loss- don’t have anything to report. That takes care of a lot of the selelrs, but not much of the gross. And, a few of the largest are legit businesses, and they report everything. It’s what’s in between that’s the problem. I admit most don’t really make enough to replace the job they lost- but if it is all tax free, it ain’t bad.
More money is made by the importers, sellers and domestic manufacturers and growers of illegal drugs than everything on eBay combined. Unless I am very much mistaken (and no doubt someone will point it out if I am) California’s largest cash crop is still marijuana. Cheney et al should factor that in. Then they could claim the economy was booming. :rolleyes:
Hey, I know!
Maybe we could annex Afghanistan. The opium crop over there is doing absolutely terrifically, apparently providing 75% of the world’s supply these days.
Just think of how that would boost our economic numbers. Just say ‘yes’ to heroin as a cash crop! :eek:
In other news, here are at least two characters, as requested by the hamster. All hail the hamster: we must appease it or be destroyed.
Maybe make one’s links easier to find?
There’s no tool that I know of to search a thread for links, which is a pity, because I’d use it all the frickin’ time. Failing that, I search for links to cited material near the cite or discussion of said material. Failing that, in turn, I scan the thread as best I can. Sometimes, those little here links aren’t easy to spot amidst paragraphs of seemingly unrelated text, and my eyes just plain miss that tiny bit of blue amidst all the black and white. At any rate, not having a broadband connection at home (or at work until I get back to my usual desk on Thursday), I’ll have to forego the dubious pleasure of listening to Cheney’s voice to find out what he was talking about.
Boy, Manny, are you on my shitlist now! You just made me listen to 1/2 hour of Dick Cheney. Now I see how psychological torture can be just as bad as physical torture.
At any rate, it is correct that the context in which Cheney mentioned the e-Bay stuff was in terms of discussing the measurement of employment and the payroll vs. household surveys.
Hey, you misspelled, “Oops, my bad.”
And he misspelled, “I posted the link to that speech in post #____, you must’ve overlooked it.”
People misspell shit all the time; let’s not make a big deal about it.