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GlasgowRose
12/04/09

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On Forbes.com today: When Siblings Don't Pull Their Own Weight
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GlasgowRose
12/04/09

In reply to Steve Forbes Done In By Editor He Deposed, Probably
Forbes Foiled by the Pinkerton Detective Agency!
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Tremonius
08/15/09

In reply to Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book
Back in the nineties, the short megalo Gingrich drew a four million advance from Murdoch. The book was to be standard fascist drool, lists about corporate godism or something. Incidentally, on another front, unbeknownst to either of them, there was in Congress a move to allow bloated tycoons to own more and more of everything newsy in every city.

The book bidness, it used to mean something.
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DennyCrane
08/15/09

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Sorry, but I only buy books from Teve Torbes. Or Lamar Alexander #2.
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gawkimo
08/15/09

In reply to Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book
Let's apply Forbes' flat-tax philosophy to this book thing, shall we?

Which scenario is more of a burden to the individual in each scenario:

a.) Billionaire buys 1,000 copies of this shitty book for $17,160.

or

b.) One of Forbes' furloughed copy editors earning $37,000 buys the exact same number of books for the exact same price.

You see? Real equality! The financial burden of these men are exactly the same!

Flat tax rules!

Excelsior!

And as far as the poor copy editor making ends meet:

CHARITY, people.

Charity is the solution.

For example:

Instead of big guv-mint redistributing these books to the poor, the billionaire should have the personal freedom to donate the extra 999 copies *out of his own personal choice* to the furloughed copy editor -- who can then burn these books in his Franklin stove for heat during the winter months!
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Borromeo
08/15/09

In reply to Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book
Taxpayers financing a rich man's ego-testicle delusions...what's new.
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Gosukusan
08/15/09

@Borromeo:

Does not compute
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Foster Kamer
08/15/09

@Borromeo: Yeah, taxpayers? What? Jesus, I hope not.
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Greasy Thumb Guzik
08/15/09

@Gosukusan:
If the books are expensed, then then the cost of them is written off on Forbes. Inc taxes.
We, the taxpayers pick up 50% of the cost & Silly Steve gives the books away as gifts for buy a subscription to his dieing & doomed mag!
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takeouteurotrash
08/15/09

@Greasy Thumb Guzik: If you're an accountant, I certainly hope you're not practicing.
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Mediahohoho
04/01/09

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Had one of Forbes peer publications given me the opportunity to take a 10% pay reduction instead of laying me off the week before my kid was born, I would have taken it. I think it's a creative way to avoid layoffs and something more available to privately held companies than to those whose shareholders demand layoffs at the first sign of trouble.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
04/01/09

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NOT TO WORRY FOLKS!! Steve Forbes hasn't given HIMSELF a raise in YEARS!
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mfnher
04/01/09

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Don't knock the furlough. I was upset at first, but now take every other Monday off. I get all pissy now when I have a five day work week.
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Better to Eat You With
04/01/09

@mfnher: It depends how they handle it. At Gannett (at least for the papers I know people at, in two different states), it's a forced full week off without pay, all at once. Each time it's required--and it's rumored to be going quarterly--my in-laws try to pay all their bills and huge medical expenses on a half-paycheck with both weeks of insurance deducted.

But your situation sounds kinda great.
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mfnher
04/01/09

@Better to Eat You With: Ugh. That sounds awful. I work for a university. They announced that over a five month period we had to take ten days. They just deduct what would be a day's worth of pay from every paycheck (we get paid twice a month). It's not so bad; my laundry is actually starting to get folded and put away in the same day!
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