Posts by Jack Rodriguez85

Betty King7 said:I need some clarity here. If an employee from Canada is working for a firm in America, has their work permit and residency approved, and is fully covered by Social Security and Medicare, can their spouse and children access health insurance through them if they don't have US residency? I’m assuming the answer is no, based on what I read on the Medicare website, but I want to hear your thoughts. Also, what about child benefits? Do they actually qualify for those?

I dealt with something almost identical recently. Yes, you can.
Here is what you need:

Certification from the Ministry of Interior of Canada confirming the wife and children reside in Canada
Certification from the Department of Homeland Security confirming the wife and children DO NOT have residency in the US
A marriage certificate from Canada issued within the last 6 months
A copy of the wife's ID
Birth certificates for all the children

Take all of that to the local Medicare office (the one in Washington, D.C. is at 37 Branimirova St) and Medicare will coordinate with the Canadian health authorities to ensure everyone is covered under the father.

I just figured this all out recently after calling the Medicare info line regarding individual insurance.

Betty King7 said:Has anyone here actually dealt with registering an employee from Canada? How exactly do you report them for Social Security under the "foreign national employee" section for the insurance base? And what’s the deal with filling out the JOPPD form for this?

Use the "foreign national" insurance base. I've had to do this 5 or 6 times already just this year. For the M1P attachment, just upload a scan of their work permit—not their ID, specifically the actual work permit.

The JOPPD stays exactly the same as if they were a local worker; once they have a work permit, they'll have a residence and a Social Security number here in the States. Just don't forget to pull their tax withholding info through the IRS website.

Has anyone else run into this? There was some massive Windows 10 update today, and now I can't access any government portals—specifically the IRS:



The certificates seem fine from what I can tell. I'm using a USB token with a Thales smart card.
Reinstalling the IRS software package didn't do a thing. Any ideas?

Thanks!

"On Wednesday, migrants and refugees waiting for transport to a transit center further north toward the Austrian border near Boise set fire to a section of tents at their registration site, destroying 27 of them.

Police suspect the blaze was intentional, triggered by migrants protesting what they claimed was an agonizingly slow registration process."

The peaceful migrants—who, according to the mainstream media, are mostly lawyers and doctors fleeing war (though one wonders if war exists in every single country they passed through just to get to that German-Swedish welfare system)—burned down tents because "registration took too long." And then:

"Around a thousand refugees from the reception center near Buffalo managed to break through police lines yesterday morning and head toward the Austrian border, where Austrian police let them in."

How on earth did Europe surrender like this? It’s absolutely terrifying. And it's all thanks to political correctness, "activists," and those typical celebrities—useful idiots with heart-wrenching social media posts and slogans.

This is an invasion, plain and simple. Only an idiot could expect any kind of integration when you're dealing with such massive numbers of people in such a short window of time. Europe has degenerated; it is too impotent to defend its own borders, and along with them, the culture and customs that made it great will fall. Perhaps it deserves to collapse this way.

In 20 or 30 years, it will be very interesting to see what public opinion says about politicians like Merkel, who push for mass, unrestricted immigration at any cost. I wish they had to answer for what they're doing while they're still alive, but I highly doubt that will happen.

Is anyone else finding the IRS website absolutely agonizing lately? It took me 15 minutes just to file one payroll report, and I’m sitting there staring at a loading screen for two minutes after every single entry I make.
I'm not sure if it's because we're still running on old Windows XP and Internet Explorer 8. We are on the latest version of Java, and honestly, everything was working perfectly fine until now.

Robin Cook4 said:hey, can someone tell me if the IRS asks for proof of who's handling the bookkeeping when you're setting up an LLC?
thanks!

When you're registering a business, the IRS usually wants to see a service agreement with your accountant (alongside things like your lease agreement or Social Security filings).

Amanda Allen4 said:Don't worry, you won't fall into a depression because a truly free market doesn't even exist. Look at the global economy—whether you're looking at "communist" China or "capitalist" USA—it functions as a planned economy where the political and fiscal privileges of certain nations act as a monopoly tool for their domestic currencies, effectively sabotaging the market. Today's version of capitalism is nothing more than a degenerate, grotesque caricature of a free market—much like the portrait of Dorian Gray.

Of course that’s obvious. Markets aren't split into "free" or "unfree"; it isn't a binary. It's a spectrum. On one end, you have Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia; on the other, you have Cuba and North Korea.
The real question is which end of that scale we are aiming for. Honestly, looking at the direction things are heading in the States, I'm losing hope. 😁

The reason I'll end up depressed is that politicians will eventually succeed in convincing everyone (if they haven't already) that a lack of regulation was the culprit behind all this. Naturally, a general deficiency in economic theory and basic rational logic certainly doesn't help the cause. If you want to see how the average person views a crisis, it looks something like this:

Capitalist bankers caused the crisis because they were greedy and prioritized extra profits over the common good. The government gave them too much freedom, so we can prevent future crises if we just hand more power to the state to rein in those damn capitalist bloodsuckers. Plus, we should slap them with massive taxes since they make so much money—maybe then a few bucks might trickle down to me.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic, but I highly doubt even 5% of people understand anything about the central banking system, the function of interest rates, the flaws of fiat currency, or any of it.

Perhaps it's unfair to use the USA as a local proxy for global sentiment (actually, it's incredibly unfair 😁), but around here, the most prominent "economist" is some guy rambling about nationalization whose "theory" sits somewhere between mercantilism and classical Marxism. And the government is so pervasive now that nobody even notices the state or its meddling anymore. We're in trouble, and yes, it's precisely because there is no unhindered market. It's because the market has vanished without a trace.

This crisis is the direct fallout of botched government intervention (can it ever be any other way?) and heavy-handed regulation, not to mention price fixing—specifically regarding the most vital price of all: the cost of money. It’s honestly laughable to blame a non-existent laissez-faire approach, especially when we all know the modern banking system is one of the most regulated sectors on the planet. Central banks now wield more power than ever, yet somehow, we aren't supposed to call them market products?

As for "neoliberalism," it’s fascinating how frequently people toss that term around today while possessing criminally little understanding of what it actually means. For populists like Lesar and Kulić, the word is nothing more than a rallying cry to gather the herd. But checking the actual definition is embarrassingly easy. Just type the word into Google.

To classify an economic policy as "neoliberal," specific measures must be implemented, typically defined by the Washington Consensus. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus). This framework consists of ten measures; I'll just highlight a few here.

1. Fiscal discipline. Governments shouldn't overleverage their citizens or chase budget deficits, as those inevitably lead to inflation and plummeting productivity.
2. Tax reform: reducing the tax burden to incentivize private investment and innovation.
3. Interest rates, which must be determined by market forces (!!!!)
4. Floating exchange rates (!)
5. Privatization of state-owned enterprises
6. Broad deregulation

Read more at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Now, can anyone in their right mind argue that countries like the USA, Greece, Italy, Spain, or heaven forbid, America, have actually followed these principles??

If the politicians in charge of fiscal and monetary policy can successfully convince the public that exploding debt is the fault of capitalism and the free market, then I'm truly speechless. I might just sink into a deep depression; perhaps it's better if it all just goes down the drain. 😁

First, we really need to address the fundamental question of how we actually perceive color.
Once you wrap your head around that, I suspect the conclusion—as depressing as it is—would be that it’s simply impossible to convey that experience to someone who is blind.