• Obama proposes $238bn tax on overseas profits to fund road and public transport projects
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[QUOTE=Coridan;47060102]All freeways/highways/roads in Michigan (when they aren't covered in snow) are a joke. Everyone has to swerve all over the road/lanes to avoid massive potholes. There are areas of freeway where it's unlevel because there's a layer of it missing in some chunks of the lane from being scrapped off by snow trucks. If there aren't potholes there's literally a big crack going straight accross the road every 6 feet from the joints in the concrete buckling. Oh, but then you have the 3-5 man construction team blocking a lane with a big truck full of asphalt. They dump a little bit into a hole, [B]tap it down with a shovel[/B] and call it fixed. They re-open the lane, cars drive over it and spread it all over and it doesn't get filled properly. Then a snow truck goes over it and rips out everything they poured in. Stupid.[/QUOTE] Came here to say how shit Michigan's roads are. Heres a pothole 'repair' truck being swallowed by potholes [thumb]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9214111.ece/alternates/w620/v3-michigan-new.jpg[/thumb]
[QUOTE=Keegs;47061552]Came here to say how shit Michigan's roads are. Heres a pothole 'repair' truck being swallowed by potholes [thumb]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9214111.ece/alternates/w620/v3-michigan-new.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] Isn't that how potholes are fixed?
[QUOTE=Flapadar;47059314]This will be a beaurocratic nightmare for small US businesses. They'll now have to pay US sales tax AND have a EU vat liability on EU sales. That's a lot of tax.[/QUOTE] If a business has no locations outside the us I'd imagine they wouldn't have a problem, also what kind of small business is a multinational?
[QUOTE=archangel125;47058215]Now, I live in Canada and can't really say I've got a lot of experience south of the border, but one thing I always notice when crossing from the Greater Toronto Area to New York State is that the second you get over the border, roads turn to utter shit. Cracks and potholes everywhere. Is that a relatively bad area, or is it like that all over?[/QUOTE] They're bad here in New Mexico now and they're only getting worse. We've had some moisture in the form of snow this winter (rare these days) but it's warm enough that it melts almost right away and then re-freezes in the night, leaving pot-holes. Then you have the city workers running around like retards in a rubber-band factory trying to patch these holes, which they do while the holes are full of water (derp?) without even attempting to use a heat-gun or torch to force the water out before they dump more asphalt in, and after they fill the hole, they don't pack it down or anything, so the pot-holes they fixed a day or two ago come back and are nearly double the size, if not triple. The roads here are so shitty, that when a friend of mine and I took a trip to Albuquerque, we got on the highway and it was so rough and fucked up that his iPod Nano skipped. [QUOTE=pentium;47058490]Driving the interstate through seattle is like driving on cobblestone.[/QUOTE] We have a brick cobblestone road here in town and it's probably one of the smoothest roads we have.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;47059080]It really varies state to state. Some DOTs like MODOT take good care of their roads IMO.[/QUOTE] Your roads will be shit in few years time. Your governor completely fucked your entire state's budget.
[QUOTE=Sableye;47062188]If a business has no locations outside the us I'd imagine they wouldn't have a problem, also what kind of small business is a multinational?[/QUOTE] Online businesses. New tax laws like this and the EU changes to VAT mean the place of supply is now where the customer lives -- so a small business can have to pay tax in something silly like 50-200 tax areas
[QUOTE=Keegs;47061552]Came here to say how shit Michigan's roads are. Heres a pothole 'repair' truck being swallowed by potholes *pothole swallowing truck*[/QUOTE] Thank you for making my day with this picture. This, everyone, is an accurate representation of Michigan. Everything collapsing with a bunch of people who are supposed to be fixing things standing around staring at the problem.
[QUOTE=Keegs;47061552]Came here to say how shit Michigan's roads are. Heres a pothole 'repair' truck being swallowed by potholes [thumb]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9214111.ece/alternates/w620/v3-michigan-new.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] Some of the roads here in Southampton, UK can be quite bumpy but nowhere near as bad as this. And we complain about the odd bump...
The roads in my town have landmines laid every 30 feet so anyone who drives on the roads is killed
[QUOTE=smurfy;47066689]The roads in my town have landmines laid every 30 feet so anyone who drives on the roads is killed[/QUOTE] I suppose that's one way of enforcing the congestion charge...
It's not going to be passed because the Republicans would rather shoot themselves before they even think about taxing big businesses
Last winter, our roads in Michigan really fell apart bad. The constant temperature swings and moisture destroyed the roads in so many places. I blew two tires from pot holes last winter... two days apart from each other... one on my birthday too. It was a terrible week. [editline]3rd February 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Bbarnes005;47067399]It's not going to be passed because the Republicans would rather shoot themselves before they even think about taxing big businesses[/QUOTE] Gotta protect the job makers!!!1!
Oh yeah, all that money's going to 'build' new 'roads'. :wink:
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