How so?
Great question and I am wondering that as well. Does it just go to their AP department and do they just cut a check to Dominion? How long do they get to pay up?
Fox deducts the $787M settlement as a business expense on their income taxes. And therefore pays about $200M less on their income taxes. Therefore all the rest of us make up that Federal revenue shortfall versus what would have happened had Fox never defamed anyone and therefore never settled the case that would never have happened.
True, but Dominion will probably have to pay taxes on the amount they recovered from Fox.
You’d have to ask the Donald but I suspect it has to do in part with the lower Canadian dollar & universal Medicare giving some manufacturing labour cost advantages.
Every time I’ve voted, the process was to poke the folded ballot through a slot into the ballot box after the poll worker tears off a little ID number. I’ve never seen any machines in the polling place.
That’s how we did it years ago when we had in-person voting.
Now here (Washington State) all vote is by mail, or dropping the ballot in a drop box.
And the ballots are scannable, being filled out with ink like a ScanTron sheet.
When I was in California, we’s put ballots into a holder that had the various options on different pages, and you’d poke the chad out with a stylus as seen in the picture on this page:
I’m pretty sure those ballots that are also punched cards have been outlawed. Which is a good thing considering the hanging chad issue.
Anyway, California does almost all their voting by mail these days. However, they do have vote centers for those who think voting by mail is communistic or otherwise un-American. But the people who vote there fill out the same ballot as those who do it at home.
Per the preview, they were last used in 2014. FWIW, I always made sure my ballots were clean before turning them in. 
This is how federal & provincial elections are done (only a single candidate to vote on), but for municipal elections (the only ones with multiple candidates here in Ontario), the ballot sheet goes into a folder, which the election clerk puts into a scanner that extracts the ballot, scans it, records all the votes, and drops the ballot into a locked ballot box.
Big advantages of this are that the ballot is instantly rejected if there are any errors, such as a double vote or unreadable mark, so the voter can get a replacement ballot on the spot, the votes are quickly tabulated for a rapid report to the election office, and the paper is kept in case there is a need for a recount.
My memory is that it was about lumber/timber.
I was close. Trees.
Compensatory damages aren’t taxable, so probably not (presuming that Dominion’s attorneys are sufficiently on the ball to make sure the settlement is officially labelled “compensatory” rather than “punitive”).
Aren’t they? Are you sure? Why not?
I mean think about it for a moment. Suppose a company makes profits of $100M. They pay taxes on that sum.
The company gets libeled. As a result of that libel they lose sales. Their profits go down to $25M.
So they sue and get compensation of $75M. Thus restoring their profits to $100M.
Why shouldn’t they be taxed on $100M, rather than $25M? Are you sure they aren’t?
Perhaps legislators are often libeled.
They are. Unless compensation for physical injury.
Christ, a business does not pay taxes on compensation, but an injured person does?
No. The other way around
Okay, thanks.
I am glad to be mistaken.