Re: [FRIAM] ​Academia.edu​

2017-05-07 Thread Owen Densmore
Here's what I think: Nick should start on his creation of Friam Threads, captured snippets or gists, and post them on Medium. Then once a year, we'll choose which ones could lead to nifty papers and publish them. I think it would be fun! -- Owen

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

2017-05-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
With Amazon Prime, this is all irrelevant. Click and ship what you want and such taxes will be bypassed. Further, Amazon’s distribution costs will be lower than going through a local distributor anyway.Stupid to build a tax base on an business model that is obsolete. From: Friam [mailto:

Re: [FRIAM] ​Academia.edu​

2017-05-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
According to this.. http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Santa-Fe-New-Mexico.html ..there are about 8037 people in Santa Fe with a household income above $100k/year. Baltimore has a 3% tax. D.C. has a 8.5% income tax for income over $40k/year. https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

2017-05-07 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
Taxes bypassed? Probably not so. See https://www.abqjournal.com/962831/amazon-to-start-collecting-taxes-in-new-mexico.html Robert C On 5/7/17 10:49 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: With Amazon Prime, this is all irrelevant. Click and ship what you want and such taxes will be bypassed. Further,

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

2017-05-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
Gross receipts is one thing. Who would build the database of UPC codes that are instances of the taxed class (a small subset of gross receipts)? Maybe other cities have built those databases? I am skeptical the city would be able to maintain such a thing.Compliance and enforcement woul

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

2017-05-07 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
FYI 2017 Personal Income Tax in New Mexico for couples is $768 + 4.9% on taxable income over $32, 650 along with 8.3125% Gross Receipts Tax in Santa Fe City and a Governor sworn to not raise taxes. GRT is applied to goods (not groceries) and some services with a myriad of exemptions and deduc

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

2017-05-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
Robert writes: "Certainly seems like a revenue opportunity here and/or more to the story." If there isn't already such a thing, a mobile app that with a button "Tax it!". A set of city-designated panel could review the accumulated list from time to time. As a tax-and-spend liberal myself, I

Re: [FRIAM] ​Academia.edu​

2017-05-07 Thread Russ Abbott
You might want to consider Zenodo . Host institution Zenodo is hosted by CERN which has existed since 1954 and currently has an experimental programme defined for the next 20+ years. CERN is a memory institution for High Energy Physics and renowned for its