Derec

Care to elaborate? Are you seriously claiming that there is no anti-white racism and anti-male sexism that is basically ok'd by being ignored? How do you explain that silly generalisations like "stupid white men" or "all men are pigs" are absolutely politically correct while turning these around would be considered highly politically incorrect and offensive?

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There has been solid, confirmed research

Who did that reseaerch? Have any sources? The only times I have ever heard that was by �ber-feminists and over protective parents that do not want their daughters being tempted.

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to show that female students aged 15 to 18 do better in mathematics, physics and chemistry when in all-female classes.

Of course 15-18 is the usual college age.

Also, proponents of affirmative action always stress the importance of diversity. However, whenever the groups benefiting from AA are in large majority (even 100%, the most undiverse student body possible) the cries for diversity are muffled instantly.

UMoC

enemigo

I don't completely understand how corporate taxation works, so forgive me if this is a stupid question.

According to the US General Accounting Office, between 1989 and 1995 (sorry I don't have new stats), a majority of all US corporations paid no US income tax. So thats no taxes on the corporate level. If I understand correctly, the dividend tax that is being cut is on the individual level. So now, the dividends for the majority of companies won't be taxed at all?

Or does it work differently? ie.. before this tax break, dividends are taxed when paid to an individual, and then taxed again as part of an individual's income tax?


richard

Loren Pechtel

The way Bush has set this up is if the corporation paid no taxes then the dividends are taxable. They are only exempt if the corporation paid taxes on them.

I suspect that "majority" statistic has some problems with it. I don't really think business is doing that badly. However, I see some realms to lie with statisitcs.

1) S-corps *NEVER* pay income tax. The income earned by an S-corp is reported on the personal tax returns of it's owners. Yet they are US corporations...

2) Any company losing money generally pays no income taxes. There are a lot of small businesses that go under. In fact, most do.

Add together these two categories and I suspect you have a majority of corporations.

If you were to look at say the 1000 largest US corporations I think you would find a very different picture.