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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (427505)	10/17/2008 3:21:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578495

I take it you have never dealt with the trades. Doesn't matter what you've dealt with. People tend to call anyone doing plumbing work a "plumber", at least if they are getting paid for doing it, or even if its free, if they get paid in other contexts. Yes all sorts of trades have their own formal terms, but the world at large doesn't use them in the same way in most cases. This is just like my example of an associate professor, or like the fact that a one star in the army is a brigadier general, and only a four star has the actual rank of general. Relatively few people are going to say that a one star in the army isn't a general, or an associate professor isn't a professor, or an apprentice plumber isn't a plumber. Apparently he is is not. He doesn't have a license. Which is why I said near rather than at. Nor, apparently, is he close. Nothing I've seen makes that apparent. Or if he was talking about future aspirations and not something that he is ready to do almost immediately who really cares? They aren't exactly in danger of being snuffed out by a tax change at that point. I don't think anyone said they where. "Snuffed out" isn't the issue. Disincentivized at the margin is. Most negative effects from government tax policy are not either "nothing" or "total". They have negative effects at the margin.