#Snare 13.7

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

For a brief moment, I contemplated having Trickster teleport me to ground level, so it was me talking to the local heroes, and not just my swarm.  I could tell them that I was putting my well-being in their hands, risking them arresting me, as a gesture of good faith. Except I couldn’t help but see myself from their perspective.  Warlord of the Boardwalk.  I’d rotted off Lung’s manhood and carved out his eyes.  I’d played an undefined role in Armsmaster’s downward slide.  I’d robbed a bank, terrorized hostages with poisonous spiders, attacked their headquarters and used insects dipped in capsaicin to cripple their junior heroes with incapacitating pain.  All the while, I’d acted with a seemingly ambiguous morality.  Was I a good guy doing all the wrong things?  Or did they see me as dangerous and unhinged?

Given what I know about the characters, I suspect this wouldn't go the way she thinks, but given what she knows...

Taylor should do this, but she doesn't know what we know about the reasons the heroes might actually be willing to believe her at this point.

Also, it might undermine her with Coil, but then, she's never going to actually free Dinah her way. On the other hand, Taylor can't trust... well, pretty much anyone. So she probably wouldn't do this.

I won't disagree that Taylor makes tactical errors, but in a macro-sense... bad choice here, but overall...

[krixwell-liveblogs]

End of Snare 13.7

This went places I didn’t expect. Instead of jumping straight to trying to rescue Grue, we got so much good stuff. Cherish trying to out-Tattle Tattle, her read on Karkat Trickster and Taylor’s musings on that, the idea of Cherish being tied to a fucking bouy in the middle of the bay, Trickster and Tattle awkwardly being like “Coil totally isn’t just using us all, we all believe that, right guys”, Taylor being awesomely dramatic with her swarmophone, Legend and Taylor waxing philosophical about good and evil and identity...

Yeah, it’s safe to say I like this one.

Next time: Trickster has an idea and I have no clue what it might be. All I know is it’s something he could be inspired to come up with by Taylor’s conversation with the heroes. I’m pretty sleepy right now, though, so maybe some theories will occur to me by the time I start the next chapter. I’ll keep you posted if they do.

Finally, before I go off to snooze in my food and eat my bed, I want to officially predict that we’re getting less vague details about the Travelers’ backstory soon. Hell, maybe even next chapter, but I’m thinking next Arc at the latest. We might have a Traveler POV Interlude at the end of this Arc, even. It’d be cool if it were Noelle’s.

So yeah! That’s it from me tonight. See you next time!

[ingridsobre]

Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns Were More Outrageous Than Trump’s Partial One

WASHINGTON In 2005, Donald Trump paid $38 million in taxes on $150 in income, according to two pages of a tax return published by investigative financial journalist David Cay Johnston on Tuesday night. The document was the subject of a lengthy segment on Rachel Maddows MSNBC show, which hyped it as a major revelation.

But there appears nothing damaging or scandalous in the tax documents. Johnstons find shows that Trump paid a 25.3-percent effective federal income tax rate that year. The formal top tax rate for the wealthiest Americans then was 36 percent. Trump appears to have secured his lower rate by taking legal tax deductions.

Other wealthy people have been far more effective at dodging liabilities to Uncle Sam. In 2012, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney revealed that he paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent in 2011, much lower than the rate Trump paid on his 2005 return.

Trump has not disclosed any of his tax returns. Releasing several years of returns has been standard practice for presidential nominees for decades. The documents sent to Johnston by an anonymous source are a rare public look at Trumps federal tax documents. The New York Times reported last year that it had obtained three pages of Trumps 1995 return that showed he took a $916 million deduction that year.

Trump would have paid a much lower tax rate 4 percent if he had not been snared by the Alternative Minimum Tax, designed to increase the tax burden on generally wealthy people who otherwise would pay a much lower tax rate due to tricky deductions and other accounting maneuvers.

That isnt a scandal. In 2005, the AMT worked: it socked it to a rich guy who otherwise would have paid a much lower rate.

Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, was able to avoid the AMT due to a unique tax arrangement for his Bain Capital retirement package, and by receiving most of his $13.7 million income in capital gains passive flows from stocks, bonds and real estate holdings. Romney didnt just pay a low tax rate, he paid a low tax rate by using the tax code in ways that available to only a few, very wealthy financiers, like stuffing an IRA with $102 million when the maximum annual contribution is just a few thousand.

The huge questions about Trumps taxes a full understanding of who paid him and his company, for what, and where, along with his personal and corporate debts and deductions remain unanswered. What we know the presidents total income and tax rate for a single year more than a decade ago tell us very little.

There may be more than one scandal buried in the thousands of pages of tax returns Trump and his family businesses have filed over the years. But his income and tax rate from 2005 are not among them.

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WASHINGTON In 2005, Donald Trump paid $38 million in taxes on $150 in income, according to two pages of a tax return published by investigative financial journalist David Cay Johnston on Tuesday night. The document was the subject of a lengthy segment on Rachel Maddows MSNBC show, which hyped it as a major revelation.

But there appears nothing damaging or scandalous in the tax documents. Johnstons find shows that Trump paid a 25.3-percent effective federal income tax rate that year. The formal top tax rate for the wealthiest Americans then was 36 percent. Trump appears to have secured his lower rate by taking legal tax deductions.

Other wealthy people have been far more effective at dodging liabilities to Uncle Sam. In 2012, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney revealed that he paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent in 2011, much lower than the rate Trump paid on his 2005 return.

Trump has not disclosed any of his tax returns. Releasing several years of returns has been standard practice for presidential nominees for decades. The documents sent to Johnston by an anonymous source are a rare public look at Trumps federal tax documents. The New York Times reported last year that it had obtained three pages of Trumps 1995 return that showed he took a $916 million deduction that year.

Trump would have paid a much lower tax rate 4 percent if he had not been snared by the Alternative Minimum Tax, designed to increase the tax burden on generally wealthy people who otherwise would pay a much lower tax rate due to tricky deductions and other accounting maneuvers.

That isnt a scandal. In 2005, the AMT worked: it socked it to a rich guy who otherwise would have paid a much lower rate.

Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, was able to avoid the AMT due to a unique tax arrangement for his Bain Capital retirement package, and by receiving most of his $13.7 million income in capital gains passive flows from stocks, bonds and real estate holdings. Romney didnt just pay a low tax rate, he paid a low tax rate by using the tax code in ways that available to only a few, very wealthy financiers, like stuffing an IRA with $102 million when the maximum annual contribution is just a few thousand.

The huge questions about Trumps taxes a full understanding of who paid him and his company, for what, and where, along with his personal and corporate debts and deductions remain unanswered. What we know the presidents total income and tax rate for a single year more than a decade ago tell us very little.

There may be more than one scandal buried in the thousands of pages of tax returns Trump and his family businesses have filed over the years. But his income and tax rate from 2005 are not among them.

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Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns Were More Outrageous Than Trump’s Partial One

WASHINGTON In 2005, Donald Trump paid $38 million in taxes on $150 in income, according to two pages of a tax return published by investigative financial journalist David Cay Johnston on Tuesday night. The document was the subject of a lengthy segment on Rachel Maddows MSNBC show, which hyped it as a major revelation.

But there appears nothing damaging or scandalous in the tax documents. Johnstons find shows that Trump paid a 25.3-percent effective federal income tax rate that year. The formal top tax rate for the wealthiest Americans then was 36 percent. Trump appears to have secured his lower rate by taking legal tax deductions.

Other wealthy people have been far more effective at dodging liabilities to Uncle Sam. In 2012, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney revealed that he paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent in 2011, much lower than the rate Trump paid on his 2005 return.

Trump has not disclosed any of his tax returns. Releasing several years of returns has been standard practice for presidential nominees for decades. The documents sent to Johnston by an anonymous source are a rare public look at Trumps federal tax documents. The New York Times reported last year that it had obtained three pages of Trumps 1995 return that showed he took a $916 million deduction that year.

Trump would have paid a much lower tax rate 4 percent if he had not been snared by the Alternative Minimum Tax, designed to increase the tax burden on generally wealthy people who otherwise would pay a much lower tax rate due to tricky deductions and other accounting maneuvers.

That isnt a scandal. In 2005, the AMT worked: it socked it to a rich guy who otherwise would have paid a much lower rate.

Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, was able to avoid the AMT due to a unique tax arrangement for his Bain Capital retirement package, and by receiving most of his $13.7 million income in capital gains passive flows from stocks, bonds and real estate holdings. Romney didnt just pay a low tax rate, he paid a low tax rate by using the tax code in ways that available to only a few, very wealthy financiers, like stuffing an IRA with $102 million when the maximum annual contribution is just a few thousand.

The huge questions about Trumps taxes a full understanding of who paid him and his company, for what, and where, along with his personal and corporate debts and deductions remain unanswered. What we know the presidents total income and tax rate for a single year more than a decade ago tell us very little.

There may be more than one scandal buried in the thousands of pages of tax returns Trump and his family businesses have filed over the years. But his income and tax rate from 2005 are not among them.

Read more: http://ift.tt/2nmXlo9

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[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“We’ve tried the same strategies we use against Endbringers.  Multiple teams, allying with locals.  Sometimes we get one of them.  Sometimes we get three or four.  But we lose people, lots of people, in the process.  The remaining members of their group always find some way of escaping. The fact that we tried and failed in going all-out gives them notoriety.  They bounce back after an attack like that, and they bounce back hard, with creeps, lunatics and killers flocking to them for the chance at that same sort of glory.”

Okay, but why does that mean you won't ally with people offering you help?

Miss Militia, I don't get you. At all.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“Jack did research on you assholes,” Cherish cut in, still trying to distract us, “I know your schtick, Tattletale.  Pick at people’s weaknesses, tell them stuff they don’t want to know.  I can do the same thing.  I’m better at it than you are.”

I'm no Tattletale Superfan, Cherie, but no, no you're not better at it than her.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

How differently would things have played out if Ballistic had used his power and blown them up?

So we can blame everything that happens after on Ballistic? I'm up for that.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“I refused Hookwolf when he made the same offer, and I’m going to refuse you.  The capes on my teams are good people.  I won’t throw away their lives with a reckless attack.  We’re going to develop our own strategies, plan, and find a safe way to target them.”

And if you were in charge when Leviathan attacked the Bay would you have refused to allow villains to fight alongside?

Seems a mite short sighted, Miss Militia

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“That happened under Armsmaster’s leadership.  You can’t blame us for being intelligent about how we go about this.” I was disappointed my swarm couldn’t convey my anger.  “I can blame you for being cowards.  I’m going.  If you want to talk about morality, start by talking to Armsmaster.”

This one I'll give to Legend. There is something to be said for being careful about your strategy and so forth. Of course, there's being careful and there's being too careful, and I imagine the PRT is probably hoping the local villains will thin the herd or wear themselves out, or at least some of them are, but -

Taylor is being reckless here. But she has a reason, and sometimes reckless does win the day. The PRT has the luxury of time and resources. Taylor really doesn't.

Accusing them of being cowards doesn't help though, Taylor.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“So where do you stand, then?  Where do you see yourself in terms of the sliding scale of good and evil, heroes and villains?” I almost laughed, and some of my humor must have translated in a mental direction to my bugs, because they started making a noise that wasn’t speech.  I stopped them.  It wouldn’t have sounded much like laughter anyways.  “All of the above?  None of the above?  Does it matter?  Some of us wear the villain label with pride, because they want to rebel against the norms, because it’s a harder, more rewarding road to travel, or because being a ‘hero’ often means so very little.  But few people really want to see themselves as being bad or evil, whatever label they wear.  I’ve done things I regret, I’ve done things I’m proud of, and I’ve walked the roads in between.  The sliding scale is a fantasy.  There’s no simple answers.“ “There can be.  You could do what’s right.”

This is... really not the time, Legend.

I'm not sure Taylor can really give a better answer, either for herself, if she could talk freely, but even more, Trickster is right there.

But also like, Taylor, right now is trying to do what's right. Overall, Taylor has never once lost sight of her vision of what is right, and I would agree, overall. She's gone some bad stuff in pursuit of that, but she's never reached the point of being some 'Knights Templar' trope. She's extremely morally pragmatic in pursuit of what she believes is right

And like... I'm not sure she's actually wrong in her priorities under the circumstances she's in.

And I really don't get what Legend is trying here. Like, the guy is trying to give her a shot to come in from the cold, I do get that, he obviously believes her original intent to be a hero and believes it and so forth, but man, Legend, the timing, the fucking timing.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

I'm halfway through 13.7 and I am having a lot of trouble believing our protagonists will actually drive the 9 out of town by the end of Arc 14, which is when I gather the S9 arc ends.

Is Arc 14 gonna feel rushed, or... what?

[krixwell-liveblogs]

We’ll have to see what they come up with next time. I’ll try to make that be tomorrow, though we’ll have to see how it goes. See you then!

(Between chapters) (Snare 13.7, part 1)