A Facebook experiment in selling yourself. (HT: Willy Franzen) (Earlier)
When beds run out in Canada, laboring women get airlifted across the border.
A capital-gains-tax-hike calculator (for those who have any gains left).
How humanoid do you like your robot?
Photo: aussiegall
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About the beds run out in Canada. Could it be because it is cheaper to fly a few to US than to maintain large amount of empty beds and more union staff?
I realize you guys didn’t create the “cap. gains tax hike” calculator, but it seems somewhat irresponsible to link to it ub your blog without disclaimers that the assumptions in the calculator re: Obama’s tax plan are incorrect.
Obama’s plan for capital gains tax (copied from the Obama campaign site at http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/taxes/Factsheet_Tax_Plan_FINAL.pdf) is:
“Capital Gains: Families with incomes below $250,000 will continue to pay the capital gains rates that they pay today. For those in the top two income tax brackets – likewise adjusted to affect only families over $250,000 – Obama will create a new top capital gains rate of 20 percent. Obama’s 20% rate is equal is the lowest rate that existed in the 1990s and the rate that President Bush proposed in 2001. It is almost a third lower than the rate that President Reagan signed into law in 1986.vii”
Yet the calculator uses 28% as the expected rate. That’s a 40% overstatement of the rate to be expected under Obama. I imagine someone using the calculator in the manner suggested by its creators — making informed decisions about whether to realize or continue to defer gains — would be disappointed in the results, which considerably overstate the tax benefit of realizing gains now, when the rates are lower.
In the Facebook ad test, I was actually one of the people who responded to Katelyn, who said she was looking for a job at Disney. We emailed, and I told her a bit about job possibilities at Disney Animation specifically, which is where I worked. We were both from Texas as well, so I felt that the combo of her targeted ad and that fact made me want to help her.
Funny to see that she was actually part of an experiment — and I as well, without even knowing it!
Just wanted to point out that the referenced Canadian healthcare article actually has some updated links for those who couldn’t find the original stories.
http://insureblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/beyond-anecdote.html