Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:And... (Score 1) 669  by
rjstanford (#46477277) Attached to: 70% of U.S. Government
Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals  Not quite true, since
you're paying payroll taxes regardless and just not anything for
"federal income tax withholding". However, since payroll taxes
are a 16% proportional tax on your income, its a little unfair
to characterize them as escaping all income taxes, especially in
the context of social security and medical benefits, which are
taxed regardless even in the "0%" bracket.  Comment: Re:Bit coin
is highly misunderstood by many (Score 1) 191  by rjstanford
(#46436061) Attached to: The Tangled Tale of Mt. Gox's Missing
Millions  Doesn't this story of MtGox completely invalidate the
idea of Bitcoin? It was made to appear safe due to an algorithm,
but obviously it can disappear without a trace and then what?
There was never any sovereign authority behind that currency.
Thus no international muscle to go track down the bad guys or
figure out what h