bintananth
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But they aren't as big as softballs ...
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No. They are slightly buklier, heavier, and not as easy to throw. Still easy but has more drag
bintananth
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We evolved to throw things with range, power, and accuracy. I'd be surprised if a modern fire control system could figure out how to accurately skip a random rock that just got picked up off the ground across a pond as quickly as a little kid can.
Baseballs and softballs have ballistic aerodynamic characteristics which can be calculated and predicted. A random small rock picked up by small child most definitely does not.
bintananth
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Depends on the school. At a few JROTC is mandatory. At some it's optional*. For most it's not even offered.
* For varying degrees of "optional" depending on what mommy and daddy want.
Abhishekm
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But Mom!!! I don't want to learn how to drive a tank!!!
Neigh I say
bintananth
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The server still has to claim the gift as income if they don't wish to be on the wrong side of the IRS ...
Of course, it could have been this:
A waiter was annoyed after his '$20 tip' turned out to be a Bible pamphlet
"Come on, try Jesus, and see what happens!"
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The server still has to claim the gift as income if they don't wish to be on the wrong side of the IRS ...
Of course, it could have been this:
A waiter was annoyed after his '$20 tip' turned out to be a Bible pamphlet
"Come on, try Jesus, and see what happens!"
Well, gifts as gifts are truly not taxable, at least on the receiver side, and no reporting on their end is necessary. There is a gift tax, payable by the person who gives the gift. However, the exclusion is currently $15,000 per recipient, and you don't really need to do reports if you've given less than that.
So, if it was a legitimate gift, the receiver does not owe any tax or have any reporting requirements, and the giver doesn't really have to do anything unless he gives more than $15,000 dollars to this particular waitress.
Now, whether this would be considered a legitimate gift is another question entirely.
bintananth
behind a desk
The IRS and the server's employer would consider it income because if they don't consider practically everything a server gets while on the clock to be income the overwhelming majority of restaurants with sit down table service would be on the wrong side of minimum wage laws.
LordsFire
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See, they'd actually have to take it to court to get it formally declared as such. The customer says it's a gift, so they have to go through legal rigamarole to prove otherwise. And it's what, 5 or 10 bucks?
Not happening.
Now, if this became common enough that it was a serious percentage of tips being declared gifts instead, you might have some legal proceedings, but as-is, it's not enough of a problem to be worth the trouble.
Yeah, I would probably say that by the letter of the law, this may be legal and tax free, but its really skirting the spirit of the law, and there's room for argument here.
The gift laws are there so that a lot of common everyday stuff doesn't get tied up in taxes. Giving you child an allowance, even your adult allowance, is not taxable income (unless, of course, your giving a lot of money, which is why there's a limit).
Taxes are theft, so I approve of skirting the law in any way possible. They can pry the money from my cold dead hands.
Yes and no.
Taxes are how governments fund things, but it is also how money laundering happens. Romans were taxing people since FOREVER
I want efficient and graft free taxes and spending, more than 'low or high' taxes.
The tax code should also be straightforward enough to fit in nothing larger than a normal vehicle operating manual, and be laid out similarly.
Watching the CO weed industry go to rather extensive lengths the make sure they had enough hard cash on hand to deal with taxes was rather interesting dance of tupperware, rubber bands, and tetris like storage space skills.
I am just saying Taxing is part of how any government larger then a village or town works. Even then in modern times, smaller communities need them in the modern times
Yinko
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The man was Arab.
On the other hand, in the Kurdistian region, the age of consent is puberty, so flips and roundabouts.
EDIT - That is to say, the age at which the eldest male relative can marry a girl off is when she's hit puberty. Sex out of marriage is frowned upon, unless the women are outsiders.
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bintananth
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Setting the age of consent at puberty, while low (it's puberty plus a few years practically everywhere), does make sense and prevents shenanigans like Queen Petronilla of Aragon's marriage.
Her dad was a monk who got pulled out of a monestary and was told by the Pope to take the crown, get married, and produce an heir. Before her 1st birthday her dad had married her off to a Count in his early-20s, effectively abdicated his crown, and went right back to a monestary ... leaving her husband ruling Aragon in her name while she grew up.