Random Politics & Religion #02

Please. "Renkei" is the term we use to try to impress the Japanese player base with our elementary knowledge of their terms and culture.

Ain't that the shinjitsu.

Random Politics&Weebs.

Random Politics&Weebs.

The man who supervised Flint's water treatment plant has been charged, along with two state environmental officials, in connection with the Michigan city's water crisis.
Mike Glasgow, a former supervisor at the Flint treatment plant who now serves as the city's utilities administrator, is charged with tampering with evidence and willful neglect of duty as a public officer, according to court records.

The other two are Stephen Busch and Mike Prysby of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
Busch, who is on unpaid administrative leave with the department, and Prysby, who still works with the department, both stand charged with two counts each of misconduct in office, tampering with evidence and violation of the Safe Water Drinking Act.
The next step in the process is a formal arraignment, Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton said.
Leyton is expected to appear with state Attorney General Bill Schuette, who is leading the investigation, at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

For some affected Flint residents, the criminal charges don't go far enough.
Nakiya Wakes said holding three officials accountable "is a start but only a start."
"I won't rest until the governor is charged. It was his person who pushed the change of water supply through and he knew there were problems but did nothing," Wakes said.
"We are still suffering here. And his higher-ups in this mess need to be held responsible, too."

Hmm, Harriet Tubman will supposedly be the new face of the $20 bill. There was talk of putting someone new on the Ten and replacing Hamilton, but apparently Harriet Tubman is too hardcore to replace anyone but Andrew "I Killed A Man In A Duel" Jackson.

It may also have something to do with the fact that having a former-slave abolitionist and an anti-abolitionist Southern sympathizer on money at the same time might send mixed messages, or it could have something to do with the popular Alexander Hamilton musical out now, I dunno.

Either way, not a bad choice by the Treasury Department. The only problem is that they don't actually plan on rolling this out until 2030 from what I've read.

Couldn't you say that about every election though ?

Thats what I recall. The whole Jackson thing was an inside joke. At least thats what I read.

Tubman on the 20 is a pretty big deal considering it's the most widely used denomination outside Washington on the 1. If anything, Grant is screwed, stuck on the 50 dollar bill.

Tubman on the 20 is a pretty big deal considering it's the most widely used denomination outside Washington on the 1. If anything, Grant is screwed, stuck on the 50 dollar bill.

Inflation dictates that Grant's going to get his day sooner or later.

The only question will be how much paper money will be in use by then; it'll never go away, but think about how much cash you use now vs ten years ago.

The only advantage to cash at this point is dodging taxes if you're too poor to do it the rich man's way: with an accountant and creative banking.

Your assertion is false and highly biased due to your absolute hatred of the rich and successful.

Yes, nobody stashes money off shore, no one plays the tax code's intricacies in their favor, etc., etc., etc.

Seriously?

How do you still claim no one does these things with a straight face?

Or are you going to pass it off as semantics and technicalities, much like the acts themselves aren't "technically" dodging taxes?

Random factoid: most profitable industry in the US? Accounting.

So unless you're trying to do that, it's my experience that cash is really of quite limited usefulness and is more an irritation than anything at this point.

You keep saying that the rich dodge/evade taxes, but you can't say how.

You don't have to be rich to avoid taxes. You just need an accountant that's, in your words, 'creative'.

For example, 'I know a friend' who stated that he bought a computer for 7k as a business expense and sold it for 25 dollars, and wrote the difference in loss as a tax write off.