Archive for July, 2010

Marginal tax rate increasing in US

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Tax cuts on income (tax rebates) introduced in 2001 and 2003 by the Bush
Administration will expire on December 31, 2010 and the Obama Administration intends
not to extend to people earning more than $ 200,000 a year and couples earning more
than $ 250,000. This group accounts for 2% of American taxpayers. The tax increase

includes increasing the tax rate of income tax for these taxpayers from 36% to 39.6%,
higher taxes on dividends and capital gains from 15% to 20% and, lastly, stamp duty
sequences re-introduced, reaching the rate of 45% for those who receive an inheritance of
over $ 3.5 million. The objective is to finance the revenue increasing new fiscal stimulus
plans and reduce some of the deficit. There are a number of theoretical and empirical
economic literature that shows that increasing the marginal rates of income tax for higher
income taxpayers can bring down consumption, reduced labor supply and even a leaking
capital, which could produce a net loss of tax revenue. The controversy in the U.S. is
served.

Advertising techniques for small business

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Whether a business is small or large, it can be successful only when proper business plans are implemented and executed. Along with finance, location, quality of the product, employees, marketing aspect should also be taken into consideration in a successful business plan. For small businesses, it is very tough to make a huge budget for marketing. However with modern technologies and inventions, you can carryout perfect marketing of your products or firms through the following ways:
  • Newspapers – One of the traditional and cheap ways of advertising can be done through newspapers. This is the good way to cover a wide number of people of your locality.
  • Word of Mouth – You can spread about your business by conveying it to your friends who in turn will convey it to their friends and relatives and so on. This is the easiest and cost nil way of advertising with respect to small businesses.
  • Temporary marketers – You can look for some temporary marketers like college students who are willing to work part time at a low income. They will deliver circulars, leaflets and paste stickers.
  • Website and Email – The latest trend that has made a wide impact in the field of advertising is advertising through online. As internet users are increasing day by day, this way of advertising has delivered good result for business firms.
  • Social Networking – The trend that is spreading among business firms especially small business firms is advertising their business through social networking websites like facebook, twitter, etc.

Home-Based Business Trend: Catering Service

Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Home Based catering service is found to be one of the most popular business trends with respect to the current society as there are many families where both husband and wife are working professionals and they don’t find time to cook. If you are able to serve food for at least 10 of your neighbors you will yield a good earning. Later, you can extend the service by supplying food to small birthday parties, thanks giving meals, family functions, etc. This business trend will not get bombarded by any environmental situations and economic recession and hence you will not find any downfall with this business. Quality of food, taste, variety and the time management are the issues to be considered to run a successful catering service. Family functions and parties will be going on everyday and so there will be huge demand for this business option ever.

Disagreement on the Fed by the new stimulus plan

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Richard Fisher said on Monday that
he opposed the central bank’s recent decision to acquire up to 600,000 million dollars
in bonds in the coming months. During a speech in San Antonio, Texas, Fisher said the
strategy known as “quantitative easing” (Quantitative Easing) hurts savers, raises the
prices of raw materials, increased financial speculation and could be very costly if rates
rapidly rising interest. The chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed), Ben Bernanke, has
said the policy approved last week by the Federal Open Market Committee’s central
bank, will help keep interest rates low and provide long-term credit for consumer
businesses to invest and thus consume activating the economy. Fisher said he would
have more confidence in the Fed’s strategy if Congress and the White House to agree on
specific measures to reduce the huge U.S. debt and address the federal budget deficit.
According to Fisher, there are few employers willing to invest in the U.S. due to its tax
and regulatory policies, so they take their business to other countries. The actions of the
reserve, said Fisher, could reduce these adverse factors if lawmakers approve prudent
fiscal policies. “The cure for the disease gets our economy in the hands of prosecutors
and regulatory authorities, not the Fed,” said Fisher.

Know This Woman?

Sunday, July 18th, 2010
This woman has been laying in a hospital for over a week in critical condition after being hit by a truck.No one seems to have reported her missing, no one has been by her side. The local TV stations carried her picture without any good leads coming in. The police stated her well kept appearance and jewelry indicated she was not homeless.I can’t imagine the horror of being in this bed with no one beside me, and I can’t imagine turning on the TV to see one of my children laying on that bed with a ventilator attached.I hope someone claims her soon.

Propose to extend the retirement and big spending cuts to reduce deficit

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

A commission appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama on November 10th proposed
increasing the retirement age, big spending cuts and tax reform to reduce the deficit over
four billion dollars the next decade. The panel sought to reduce defense spending and
social protection programs in the country as well as changes in the complex U.S. tax
system. In addition, the draft presented suggests raising the retirement age to 68 years
by 2050 and 69 for 2075. The proposal states that fully implemented, the shortfall would
be about 2.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2015, a figure better than that
pursued by the White House wants to cut the deficit to three percent of GDP. The budget
deficit amounted to 8.9 percent of GDP in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30.The Treasury
Department said today that the deficit in October, the first month of fiscal 2011, was
located in the 140 400 million. U.S. is expected to end fiscal 2011 with a deficit of over
a trillion dollars for the third consecutive year. The panel needs to have its final report
ready for the next first of December. The committee is chaired by Erskine Bowles, chief
of staff under President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) and Alan Simpson, former Republican
senator from Wyoming and consists of a total of 18 members.

Show Me the Money

Saturday, July 10th, 2010
My company changed their policy on evaluations and raises this year. Which absolutely sucked. I had to evaluate all my non-union employees in June on a somewhat stupid numbers based form that when you added it all up and divided by 6 it comes out to their raise. Which the cap was a whole 3%…but since nobody is perfect (except me) no one received the full 3%. Now I had the option to give someone 3% even if the numbers didn’t correlate…but the catch was I had so much money to play with..of course.So I did the chickenshit way out…all salaried employees got 3% the hourly had to take less. Do you know how stupid I feel telling someone…well you got a 2.5% raise this year? Damn stupid.The two previous years I had a 4% cap for an evaluation – everyone got 4%, and a merit raise if I felt someone deserved it.Union raises of course, I’m not involved in..thank God for that. I can pass the buck. I love doing that.The point of all of this is that the following was printed in the Detroit News today. Now am I going to hear it or what?

What's the Big Deal?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Florida is trying to push their high school senior classes out the door..after their junior year. This article states that no other state has tried similar programs.I have no clue where they get their information but in Iowa, I graduated after my junior year and so could my oldest son and daughter except for a better option that became available. So will my youngest son. It’s call forgetting about study halls and the cush courses and get the credits and requirements fulfilled so you can get your ass out the door after your junior year.Now the school system my children were enrolled in and my youngest son still is has even a better incentive to do this. If you have your requirements and credits done by the end of your junior year you can enroll at the community college, take full time credits there courtesy of the school system. You pay for the books.I think Florida needs to come out of the dark ages.

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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

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Too Funny

Monday, July 5th, 2010
Well I just read my post from this morning and seen all the errors in it. Now I read it and proofed it before I posted it this morning. I think.I took a Tylenol with Codiene at work today. I’ve never in my life have taken drugs at work. I told everybody I was going to be in my office..medicated, don’t ask me anything. Now after reading that post..I’m thinking I need to go back and recheck what I did today. Obviously. I did the nursing schedule and posted it…my phones not ringing, so maybe I did okay.I actually had a great day at work today. Laughed alot. The union steward didn’t quite think certain things were as funny as I did. Maybe she needs drugs.