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rates will automatically go up unless congress and the president stop it from happening. that s what we are asking to happen don t let the taxes go up, mr. president. that will hurt american families and jobs and american competitors, don t allow the tax rates to go up on anybody. by the way, what he is proposing is not marginal rates, but the death tax. so if if you are the child, have you a brother and sister and your dad owns a plumbing business and he dies, you are faced, underwent his proposal with a 45% tax rate on the income subject to the death tax, in other words what the value of that business is, minus the exemption, 45% tax rate is that fair? greta: a couple of issues. one is the impact and doesn t have, the proposal on the economy. and business owners. the other is whether or not the iniosed rev new and taxes for people making over $250,000 a year, whether that would have a significant dent in handling our
rates will automatically go up unless congress and the president stop it from happening. that s what we are asking to happen don t let the taxes go up, mr. president. that will hurt american families and jobs and american competitors, don t allow the tax rates to go up on anybody. by the way, what he is proposing is not marginal rates, but the death tax. so if if you are the child, have you a brother and sister and your dad owns a plumbing business and he dies, you are faced, underwent his proposal with a 45% tax rate on the income subject to the death tax, in other words what the value of that business is, minus the exemption, 45% tax rate is that fair? greta: a couple of issues. one is the impact and doesn t have, the proposal on the economy. and business owners. the other is whether or not the iniosed rev new and taxes for people making over $250,000 a year, whether that would have a significant dent in handling our
inconveniences over the next 12 to potentially 24 hours. we ve been talking about the sun here for a good couple of months because we re entering the cycle or part of an 11-year cycle where we re in the solar maximum. the next 18 to 24 months really we ll see a lot of this stuff. what do we mean by that? a lot of this stuff. black areas on the sun. sun spots. a lot of geomagnetic energy there. these are areas that throw out solar flares. we love looking at these puppies. this stuff coming to us. this is as measured in the x-ray part of the wave lengths. that just looks cool. this is the solar flare that happened a day and a half ago. you see it kind of bubbling up and then, boom. there it goes. all those x-rays and radio wave lengths immediately get to the earth. the radio blackout happened about 1.5 days ago. it also emits coronal mass of plasma that s highly charged stuff. that eventually gets to the earth as well. when it does so, boy, we start to see some things happen. t
and professionals can focus on doing the work instead of getting the work. instant gratification is the name of the game. i think it s a good opportunity for people to get what they need and as a contractor in this business i get what i need, and makes it efficient and does cut out a lot of the red tape. chris s plumbing business is only a year old. he says between 85 and 95% of his revenue is from the work through the multiple lead generation portal he uses. for companies in their infancy it s probably crucial. word of mouth can take years. if you re not doing this you re not going to make it. there is no way that i can foresee anybody being able to start a business without getting into this new technology of instantly connecting with the customers. there is no way. and keith should know. he suffered the ups and downs of the economy when he started his