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Within the last few days a new player has been introduced into the distribute denial of service (DDoS) amplification attack world and with it brings the potential for much larger DDoS attacks than what we have seen in the past. While most of us think DNS, UpNP/SDP and NTP when we think of protocols that are used in DDoS, memcache has emerged as just as potent of a protocol by which to commit these kinds of attacks. Memcache is a protocol meant to allow for the quick storage and retrieval of data from a server, without all the messy overhead of a database on the back end. Unfortunately, it also has recently been discovered that it makes a great source of amplification and reflection for DDoS.
Now keep in mind that some of this traffic isn't attack traffic per se, but additional overhead from networking (handshaking attempts, etc.), in the end it still holds a significant punch. Just to put this in perspective, according to the Akamai SIRT, this attack was twice the size of what was seen for the Mirai attacks in Sept 2016.
Using memcached is actually pretty easy. You send it a key, it sends you back the data associated with that key. And an added benefit is being able to put as many queries into a single request as you'd like.
In the current attacks, the attackers are making GETS requests against the memcache service to grab whatever data they can on existing keys (steps 3 & 4 in figure 2); however, in many cases the memcache servers are not secured and also allow SET commands (aka putting data INTO the memcache server). The bad actors can use this to set a key to the maximum data blob allowed, and then make their GETS query to that specific key (steps 1-4 in Figure 2) to maximize the size of their reflection attack against the victim.
While memcache can be installed both in TCP (natively) and UDP, these attacks will be primarily found on UDP Port 11211 as the UDP protocol allows for much easier spoofing of the source address, making it more attractive for reflection type DDoS attacks.
Of the 120,458 (at the time of writing of this blog) memcache servers globally, there are just under 10k servers running memcache on UDP according to Shodan. It is more interesting to note that almost one third of these are being seen in active attacks already.
Now, a key factor in the amplification value of memcache has to do with the data blob returned. Generally speaking, the max byte size for these is relatively small, but in some hosting provider space it can be seen that their memcache configuration allows for much larger data blobs (in some cases over 100G), thus increasing their value in a DDoS amplification attack.
This being said, there are a number of caveats and limitations to the size these attacks might grow to. First and foremost, they are inhibited by the links attached to memcached server being used to reflect the attack. A 1Gbps link is only ever going to send 1Gbps no matter how big of a data blob is created by the attack. Ditto for the network card. And finally, the protocol only allows for two eight byte network sequence numbers (the data blob has to be broken into pieces to be sent across the internet – the sequence numbering allows the other end to know how to put it all back together again (like humpty dumpty!). But with only two bytes that means the maximum number of packets the protocol can return is 65,536 and even I can do the math to say the max size of a single packet is 1428, so that the total volume can only ever be 93.58 megabytes, transmitted across the link speed of the server being reflected off of. Or in other words, as a much wiser colleague pointed out – the request / GETS part can be super large, but it then becomes capped because of the limitations of the packet sequencing. This also begs the question, how does memcached handle data blobs that require sequencing higher than its standard allows for, since handling of these packets does not appear to be specified in the protocol. Its these questions that I would love more information on.
Ensure your network providers have implemented anti-spoofing (such as BCP38 & 84) to ensure spoofed packets such as those used in DDoS reflection attacks do not make it to your network in the first place!
As part of looking into this attack vector, several members of the security community assisted. I would like to say thanks to these folks, along specifically with both Damien Menscher of Google for his assistance in understanding the protocol and interaction as attack traffic, and John Matherly of Shodan for assistance with assessing the global impact.


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There is nothing much to say about the World Heritage Site of Khajuraho. It is already very well known all over the world for its more than a millennium old group of Hindu and Jain temples. They have within their precincts one of the finest expositions of Indian temple architecture and sculpture. The temples are known more for the erotic sculpture on their walls than for their architectural style. There were an estimated 85 temples in the region but ravages of time and human insensitivity have reduced them to the current around 25. Curiously, the sculptures on the walls have survived pretty well during the last one thousand years.
Located around 200 kilometres south of Jhansi in the state of Madhya Pradesh (Central Province) the temples have somehow miraculously survived the onslaught of Muslim rulers who acquired ascendency in Central India during 15th and 16th Century. Most of the temples were destroyed during these hundred-odd years; only a few escaped the Muslim hammer. The Muslim travellers Al Baruni and Ibn Battuta apparently visited Kahjuraho around the time when the temples were being constructed. The temples that were left untouched were saved because of difficult and hard approaches to them and, in course of time, nature took over and the temples went into hiding – overtaken as they were with vegetation. They were discovered only when in mid-nineteenth century people of the region having knowledge of the existence of the temples took British explorers to them and, lo and behold, they came out of hiding capturing the imagination of the entire world.
Depicting the plurality of the Chandela rulers – the builders of the temples – one finds at Khajuraho both Hindu and Jain temples. They were built around the same time. The entire complex, therefore, is known as Khajuraho Group of Temples. The Hindu temples are dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, Ganesh, Sun God and Jain ones are likewise dedicated to Jain Tirthankaras (spiritual teachers of Dharma). Kandariya Mahadeva temple is considered the most important, though others like Laxmana and Chaturbhuj, too, are of architectural, historical and religious interests.
The Kandariya Mahadev temple, is supposed to have around 800 statues and other art works. The temples taken together have several thousand sculptures with only around 10% that could be called erotic. The walls seemingly are plastered with them. It is all very mindboggling. One keeps wondering about those remarkable men who conceptualized, designed and executed the construction of these structures taking meticulous care of the minute details, keeping in mind the over-all concept and theme. One also wonders how many sculptors and master-craftsmen worked for how many years to create such remarkable array of thousands of statues of such incredible beauty. It is true the temples are known for their erotic content but it seems they are also a kind of celebration of life. Almost all facets of life and every-day living have been captured on stone with fantastic dexterity representing the life and times of the region in the medieval era.
Apparently the area had not come under the influence of Muslims as one finds women of incredible physical beauty without any prudery or inhibition indulging in all kinds of every-day activities, including sexual. They are slim, lissome, ethereal and well-formed whereas the ones in Jain temples are somewhat fleshy and voluptuous. Nonetheless, the temples unfold a panorama of visual art, a kind of serenade, that has perhaps not been paralleled ever elsewhere. The sculptures surely reveal the contemporary civilisational mores which appear to be highly emancipated in character in comparison to what we find today after more than a thousand years. Freedom is what the sculptures seem to be screaming all the time rebuffing social and cultural suppression and oppressions that are so familiar to us in our so-called advanced times. No wonder cognoscenti find the temples as something out of this world; some have even called them poetry on stone.
I am no expert on the art of sculpture and, hence, I am unable to describe the technicalities involved in the presentations that we see in these temples. The narratives of the temples, nonetheless, can be admired as they depict women applying make-up, or fixing their girdles, musicians at making music, artisans at work. At the same time, core Hindu values are expressed in various ways – an unbelievable mix of themes. Perhaps, the more one sees them the more would one be able to comprehend their significance and symbolisms. One cannot do that while on a whistle-stop tour.
As the temples have become famous, hordes of tourists land up at Khajuraho. There are hotels galore, including the starred ones. We stayed in a Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Corporation cottage. These have been provided with all the modern facilities but are rustic in appearance and yet are light on the pocket. The Tourism Corporation had tried to create a rural ambiance in the temples' complex creating a chaupal. A chaupal is a central covered area in a village where generally villagers meet after their daily chores. Freshly cooked food also used to be made available there. This was more than thirty years ago. One wouldn't know whether the things have improved or have since gone down.
The two-day long experience in the midst of pure culture was worthwhile – far from the busy workaday life. We got the same feeling when we visited the south-eastern temple-town of Konark in Odisha, another World Heritage Site.
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Charlatan, Nadal give Bob Baffert sweep in Arkansas Derby
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Charlatan romped to victory by six lengths in the first division of the Arkansas Derby and Nadal won the second division, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert a sweep Saturday when the Kentucky Derby was postponed.
The 146th Derby usually would have dominated the first Saturday in May, but it was pushed back to Sept. 5 by the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, 20 3-year-olds ran in two divisions of the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn, each worth $500,000. Each race was worth 170 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby, including 100 to the winners. It was the first time since 1960 that the race was split.
No fans were allowed because of the pandemic on a day that would have been the biggest of the season at Oaklawn.
Charlatan improved to 3-0 after not racing at age 2. His first two wins by a combined 16 lengths came at Santa Anita, where the colt is based. He broke from the No. 1 post in the 1 1/8-mile race under Martin Garcia, who was replacing Drayden Van Dyke for the race. Charlatan was timed in 1:48.49 and paid $2.80 to win.
"He did in all within himself," Garcia said. "I felt someone coming at the three-eighths (pole) and I let him go. He just took off. That's a sign of a really good horse."
Basin finished second and Gouverneur Morris was another neck back in third. Winning Impression finished fourth.
Nadal, named for tennis star Rafael Nadal, won his division in 1:48.34. He is 4-0 in his young career.
"He looked good, very good race," winning jockey Joel Rosario said. "He's a champ."
It was Baffert's third win in the Arkansas Derby.
The race was supposed to be on April 11, but Oaklawn reworked its stakes schedule to run it on closing day Saturday and split it into divisions because of the large number of horses that were entered.


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Wages Soar Fastest among Those with the Least
A bipartisan plan to erase barriers to equity ownership would be productive and beautiful.
By DEROY MURDOCK • National Review
It's an article of liberal faith: Thanks to President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the prosecco is popping on Wall Street, while the unsold Pepsi gathers dust on Main Street, where Americans are too poor to buy soft drinks.
"Workers are delivering more, and they're getting a lot less," former vice president Joe Biden told the Brookings Institution last summer. "There's no correlation now between productivity and wages."
Americans "are sick and tired of the income and wealth inequality that sees the rich getting much richer," Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) told CapitalAndMain.com last month.
"Wages have largely stagnated," the campaign website of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) complains, while "fundamental changes in our economy have left millions of working families hanging on by their fingernails."
These grim, lachrymose myths cannot mask this incredibly upbeat fact: The sparkling wine is flowing on Wall and Main streets, and it's running more rapidly on Main, where take-home pay is expanding the most among those with the least.
Never mind the liberal lies. Hard data reveal this reality. The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank's monthly Wage Growth Tracker shows that Americans are making more money, particularly those who have been forgotten for decades.
Between November 2018 and November 2019, overall median wage growth climbed 3.6 percent, a healthy pace that should lift spirits, too. Those in the bottom 25 percent saw wages advance 4.5 percent, while the top 25 percent lagged, with pay rising just 2.9 percent. This is the 180-degree exact opposite of what Democrats relentlessly bellow. They have equal access to the Atlanta Fed's website. This confirms their rank dishonesty.
When it comes to race, wage growth for whites was a tick behind, at 3.5 percent, while non-whites charged ahead at 4.3 percent.
In terms of age, the young and the restless rule. Those ages 16 to 24 saw wages climb 8.4 percent. Americans 25 to 54 enjoyed 3.9 percent higher paychecks. And the typically higher-income 55-plus crowd was behind the curve, with 2.5 percent wage growth.
Bachelor's degrees generated 3.7 percent wage boosts for those who held them. But those who went no further than high-school graduation also savored 3.7 percent higher pay. Those with associate degrees saw their checks grow just 3.2 percent.
While those in finance and business services scored 4.1 percent higher salaries, workers in manufacturing, construction, and mining were in a photo finish with them at 4.0 percent.
While job stayers earned 3.2 percent more money, job switchers scored an extra 4.3 percent.
Interestingly enough, those with low, medium, and high skills all shared 3.6 percent wage increases, matching the nationwide bonus.
For further sanguine results of Trumponomics, see Sentier Research's analysis of the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. Sentier clocked U.S. median household income last November at $66,043 — $5,070 higher than this key metric's position when President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017: $60,973. This 8.3 percent increase in middle-class income in less than three years crushes the two-term, eight-year performances of Obama ($1,043, up 1.7 percent) and G. W. Bush (an emaciated $401, or a paltry 0.7 percent boost).
Today's Employment Situation also is encouraging. As the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported at 8:30 a.m., the unemployment rate remains steady at 3.5 percent, maintaining the lowest joblessness level since 1969 — Richard Nixon's first year in office. Employers created 145,000 new jobs last month, a healthy, if not breathtaking, number. And 2.9 percent wage growth, from December 2018 to December 2019, lags the Atlanta Fed's figures but still approximates the 3 percent mark that seems to trigger warmth and toastiness. Scarlett O'Hara's words should soothe any naysayers here: "Tomorrow is another day."
Democrats should stop loathing Trump long enough to show some love for the poor people they claim to represent. Democrats should stop lying to themselves and the country about low-income wages lagging those of the affluent. This is not happening. Democrats should acknowledge the wonders that Trump and Republicans have done via tax reduction, regulatory relief, and a pro-business tone in Washington.
Then, Democrats should make this challenge to Republicans. The 55 percent of Americans who are in the stock markets, per Gallup, are seeing their portfolios soar, as the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq break records. Since Trump's victory, these markets have rocketed 53 percent, 58 percent, and 77 percent, respectively, as of Thursday's highest-ever closing bells.
But the 45 percent of Americans who own no stocks — directly or as part of 401(k)s or IRA accounts — are missing this bonanza.
Democrats should ask Republicans to work with them to make it as easy as possible for those not invested in the stock market to buy in. A bipartisan plan to erase barriers to equity ownership would be productive and beautiful.
Conversely, Democrats can keep weeping among themselves as their have-not base actually grows richer more swiftly than the haves the Democrats love to hate.
Tags: Economic growth, Economy, tax cuts
Why Did the Deficit Just Top $1 Trillion? Here's Another Clue For You All
By John Merline • Issues & Insights
The Congressional Budget Office reported on Tuesday that, with one month to go, the federal deficit for fiscal year 2019 has already topped $1 trillion. As night follows day, Trump administration critics blamed the tax cuts.
And once again, the data prove them wrong.
The CBO report says that the federal deficit reached $1.067 by the end of August. That's up $168 billion from the comparable period in fiscal year 2018. The deficit this year will be larger than the entire budget was in 1987.
Where did the increase come from? Why, tax cuts, of course.
But the report shows that revenues climbed 3.4% so far this fiscal year – a growth rate that's faster than GDP. Spending, however, shot up by 6.4%.
Look within the data, in fact, and you see that the tax cuts are working as promised – by accelerating economic growth, they're at least partially paying for themselves.
Take corporate taxes. Ask any Democrat running for president and they will bemoan the tax "giveaways" to giant corporations. What they won't tell you is that corporate tax revenues are up 5%.
In fact, corporations paid $8 billion more in the 11 months of this fiscal year than they did in the same period of fiscal year 2018. That increase alone is enough to fully fund the Environmental Protection Agency for an entire year.
What's more, the CBO notes that corporate income tax payments through May were on 2018 activities. When you compare corporate taxes from June through August to same months last year, they are already up $18 billion – a 48% increase!
Meanwhile, individual income and payroll taxes are up $82 billion – a 3% increase over the prior year. Payroll taxes alone, which are a good indication of how well the job market is because they are automatically deducted from every worker's wages, are up 6.4%.
Now look at the spending side of the equation.
The CBO report shows that while revenues have climbed by $102 billion, spending shot up by $271 billion.
The entire increase in the deficit over last year is due to rampant spending increases, not the Trump tax cuts.
Spending increases were across the board.
Social Security costs climbed 5.7%; Medicare, 6.5%; Medicaid, 4.6%.
Defense spending is up 7.9%, but spending on everything else in the budget has climbed by 4.5%.
Here's the really worrisome figure: Interest payments on the national debt is up 14% over the prior year.
It should go without saying that these levels of spending growth are unsustainable. Yet instead of confronting them, lawmakers and the Trump administration are aggravating them. Entitlement reform is a non-issue at the moment. Every increase in defense spending has to be matched with a hike in spending on domestic programs. The national debt continues to explode.
And while Republicans appear indifferent to the debt explosion, Democrats are eager to more than double the size of the federal government, without saying how they'd pay for that increase let alone bring existing annual deficits down to earth.
To paraphrase Herbert Stein, something that can't go on forever, won't. The only question is when it won't.
Tags: Deficit, tax, tax cuts
The Four High-Tax States Of The Apocalypse
"This is the flip side (of) tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich. The rich leave, and now what do you do?" said New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Feb. 4
By STEPHEN MOORE • Investors Business Daily
After the Trump tax cut went into effect one year ago, we predicted that the Trump tax reform would supercharge the national economy but could cause big financial problems for the highest-tax states: New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, and New York.
The capping of the state and local tax deduction at $10,000 raised the highest effective state tax rates by about 66% (for example, in New York City, the rate on millionaires rose from about 8% to 13.3%). In New Jersey, the highest rate has risen from 7.5% to 12.75%.
Impact of State and Local Tax Deduction Cap
Now, we have Andrew Cuomo conceding that the trend of rich people moving out of New York has caused the loss of $2.3 billion of tax revenue in Albany's coffers. Cuomo called this tax change "diabolical." We think it was a matter of tax fairness. No longer do residents of low-tax states have to pay higher federal taxes to support the blob of excessive state/local spending and pensions in the blue states.
As we predicted, the wealthy are fleeing these states. The new United Van Lines data were just released that are a good proxy for where Americans are moving to and from. Guess what four states had the highest percentage of leavers in 2018: 1) New Jersey, 2) Illinois, 3) Connecticut and 4) New York. Even high-tax California had more Americans pack up and leave than enter.
Ironically, liberals like Cuomo who argued for years that businesses don't make location decisions based on taxes in their states are now forced to admit that the cap on the state and local tax deduction (which primarily affects the richest 1%) is depleting their state coffers. The rich change their residence by moving for at least 183 days of the year to low taxers such as Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
We advised Cuomo and other blue state governors to immediately cut their tax rates if they wanted to remain even semi-competitive with low-tax states. They are doing the opposite. Connecticut, Illinois and New Jersey have led the nation in tax increases on the rich over the last three years, while "progressives" have cheered them on.
Last year, legislators in Trenton went on a taxing spree, raising the income tax on those making more than $5 million a year to 10.75% — now the third-highest in the country — and then enacting a health care individual mandate tax on workers, a corporate rate increase and an option for localities to impose a payroll tax on businesses. And they are still short of cash. Idiotically, these tax hikes were passed after the state and local tax deduction cap was enacted, thus pouring gasoline on their fiscal fires.
How has this worked out for them?
Deficits Growing In High-Tax States
In addition to New York's fiscal woes, the deficit in Illinois is pegged at $2.8 billion (with a $7.8 billion backlog of unpaid bills), and Connecticut faces a two-year $4 billion shortfall despite three tax increases in five years.
New Jersey has a $500 million deficit this year (even after the biggest tax hike in the state's history) and Moody's predicts that gap will widen to $3 billion over the next five years. This is all happening at a time when most states have healthy and unexpected surplus revenues due to the Trump economic boom and the historic decline in unemployment.
A Pew study published late last year on which states are bleeding the most red ink ranked New Jersey worst, Illinois second worst and Connecticut seventh worst. New York was also in the bottom 10.
Let us state this loud and clear in the hopes that lawmakers in state capitals across the country are paying attention: The three states that have raised their taxes the most now have the worst fiscal outlook.
Worst of all, things don't look like they are going to get better in any of these states.
More Taxes To Come
Last fall, Connecticut, Illinois and New Jersey voters elected mega-rich Democratic Govs. Ned Lamont, J.B. Pritzker and Phil Murphy, who have promised to sock it to the rich — the ones who haven't yet left. In Illinois, Pritzker would eliminate the state's constitutionally protected flat tax so that he can raise the income tax on the rich by as much as 50%. After raising income taxes three times in the last five years, Connecticut's legislature now wants to raise the sales tax rate. No one in any of these progressive states even dares utter the words tax cut. In just one decade, New York lost 1.3 million net residents; Illinois 717,000, New Jersey 516,000 and Connecticut 176,000. California has lost 929,000.
There is also a useful warning for the soak-the-rich crowd of progressives in Washington. If a rise in the state tax rate from 8% to 13% because of the state and local tax deduction cap can have this big and immediate negative impact, think of the economic carnage from doubling of the federal tax rate from 37% to 70% as some want to do. The wealthy would relocate their wealth and income in low-tax havens like Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands and Ireland. That would do wonders for the middle class living in those countries.
We are sticking with our warnings from last year. If the four states of the Apocalypse — Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey and New York — do not reverse their taxing ways and choose to keep making things worse, these once very rich and prosperous states will see thousands more rich taxpayers leave. The politicians in these states just don't seem to understand math. A soak-the-rich tax rate of 8%, 10% or even 13% on income of zero yields zero income when the wealthy leave the state. Cuomo was right: The bleak outlook for the four states of apocalypse is "as serious as a heart attack."
Tags: High Taxes, tax cuts, Tax Reform
Small Business Owners Push Back Against Mischaracterization of Trump's Tax Cuts
By Harris Alic • Washington Free Beacon
Small business owners are pushing back against Democratic mischaracterizations of President Donald Trump's signature Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
More than a year after the legislation went into effect—slashing personal and corporate tax rates across the board—the focus has shifted from worker bonuses and wage increases to shrinking tax refunds. The latter, resulting from a decrease in the level of taxes paid throughout the year and changes to the Internal Revenue Service's withholding formula, has increasingly become fodder for Democrats eager to portray the cuts as a "scam" to benefit the wealthy.
In reality, the issue is more complicated, as Alfredo Ortiz, the president of the Jobs Creator Network (JCN), told the Washington Free Beacon. Ortiz's group, which represents a diverse coalition of small businesses and bills itself "as the voice of Main Street," has been working to educate voters on the benefits of the tax cuts ahead of the April 15 IRS filing deadline. JCN believes that if Democrats are allowed to win the debate over tax refunds, it will make it easier for the party to eventually push for a full repeal of the Trump tax cuts at a later date.
Tags: Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal Tactics, tax cuts
No, The U.S. Isn't 'Undertaxed'
By Investor's Business Daily
Taxes: One of the talking points Democrats and the left often drag out to justify reversing the Trump tax cuts is that the U.S. is "undertaxed" compared with other nations. A new study shows that's false.
Everyone from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to socialist independent Bernie Sanders says they would reverse the tax cuts. It's premised not on the idea that we spend too much, but that working Americans keep just too dang much of their own money.
The problem is, as a new OECD study shows, that's not true.
The OECD, the think tank for the world's wealthiest nations, looked at 12 major countries in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The U.S. finished third in terms of taxes at 18.4% of income. Continue reading →
Tags: Corporate Tax Rate, Liberalism, tax cuts
Good News About Trump's Tax Cuts Keeps Rolling In, So Why Is Public Support Flagging?
Taxes: There's a growing disconnect between the economic benefits spinning off the Republican tax cuts and the poll numbers. Is the public going sour of them? Or is this just more wishful thinking on the part of Democrats and the liberal press?
Just the past week saw three more examples of the tax cuts' benefits.
Item 1: Kroger announced that it was accelerating wage hikes, increasing the company's 401(k) match, enhancing benefits, and expanding employee discounts. All, it said, thanks to the Republican tax reforms. Kroger joins more than 500 other companies who've extended bonuses, wage hikes, or improved benefits to more than 4 million workers in the wake of the law's sharp reduction in corporate tax rates.
Item 2: A Gallup poll found that the public thinks the tax code is more fair today than it was before the Republican tax cuts took effect. Just 42% now say middle income families pay too much in income taxes, down from 51% last year. And 26% Continue reading →
Tags: Corporate Tax Rate, cutting taxes, tax cuts
Federal Tax Revenues Hit Record Highs — Are Trump's Tax Cuts Paying For Themselves?
Investor's Business Daily
The latest monthly Treasury report on taxes and spending shows that gross tax receipts in February were $1.4 billion higher than the year before. Weren't the Republican tax cuts supposed to explode the deficit?
According to the report, the government took in $238.2 billion in taxes in February. The year before, tax revenues were $236.8 billion.
For fiscal year 2018, which started last October, taxes are up $50.5 billion compared with the same months last year, and are at a record high level for this five-month span.
The report does show that net receipts were lower in February compared with last year, but the main reason is that individual income tax refunds jumped $13.3 billion, while corporate tax refunds went up $4 billion, neither of which is the result of the tax cuts that took effect in January.
Even so, net receipts are up by $29.6 billion for the current fiscal year — a 2.4% increase — compared with the same period last year. That's also a record high. (See nearby chart.)
Does this mean tax cuts are "paying for themselves"?
Not exactly. Income taxes collected in February were down $2.5 billion from last year — reflecting the new withholding tables. Corporate income tax collections, however, were essentially flat.
But remember, income taxes are hardly the only source of revenue for the federal government. And a faster-growing economy means more money pouring in from these other sources.
Payroll taxes, for example, are dependent on the number of people working and their wages. In February, the economy added 313,000 jobs, unemployment levels are now at or near record lows, and wages are climbing.
As a result, payroll taxes brought in $1.5 billion more in February than they did last year, and are up $11.4 billion this fiscal year. Federal excise taxes and customs duties are up $3.8 billion and $1 billion, respectively, this fiscal year.
What these numbers do show is that all the hand-wringing about the impact of the tax cuts on federal deficits was based on wildly exaggerated estimates of revenue losses, which failed to take into account the fact that a faster growing economy would offset at least of the lost revenue. That's a point we've made repeatedly in this space.
In contrast, tax hikes almost always bring in less revenue than expected, because they dampen economic growth.
Democrats once understood this truism. It was JFK, after all, who said in 1962 "it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low — and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut rates now."
Today's Democrats, in contrast, uniformly opposed the Trump tax plan, and are now pushing to repeal most of it so they can spend an additional $1 trillion on government make-work infrastructure projects.
Their plan has no chance of being enacted, but at least voters will have a clear choice this November.
Tags: Lower Taxes, tax cuts, Tax Reform, tax revenues
Tax Bill Is Christmas Present Americans Have Been Waiting For
by Alfredo Ortiz • Real Clear Politics
Pending tax cut legislation will eliminate the federal income tax burden on the average American family earning $59,000 a year. It will halve the tax bill for the average family earning $75,000. And it will allow the overwhelming majority of small businesses to protect nearly one-quarter of their income from taxes.
That's the bottom line of the tax bill that needs to be said up front.
Given the critical media coverage of the bill, these benefits have largely gone overlooked. Rather than reporting on its provisions to double the standard deduction, double the child tax credit, and eliminate the 15 percent tax bracket in favor of a vastly expanded 12 percent rate, media coverage has claimed the bill is a gift to the rich. Rather than reporting on the new 23 percent tax deduction for small businesses earning less than $500,000 a year, media
coverage has claimed the bill is a budget buster.
That's a shame because these benefits would bring long overdue relief to hardworking taxpayers who have borne the brunt of the slow growth Obama economy from which the country is finally emerging. Continue reading →
Tags: Corporate Tax Rate, tax cuts, Tax Reform
Liberals Get Four Pinocchio's from Washington Post Regarding GOP Tax Plan
By Glenn Kessler • The Washington Post
"On average, middle class families earning less than $86,000 would see a tax increase under the Republican 'tax reform' plan."
— Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), in a tweet, Oct. 27
"The average tax increase on families nationwide earning up to $86,100 would be $794.00"
— Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), in a tweet, Oct. 24
"Under GOP plan, U.S. families making ~$86k see avg tax increase of $794."
— Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), in a tweet, Oct. 24 Continue reading →
Tags: Liberal Tactics, Political Lies, tax cuts, Tax Reform
Newt Gingrich: Tax cuts are key to reaching four percent growth — Ignore the 'experts'
By Newt Gingrich • Fox News
The left-wing media and the elites never seem to tire of being wrong.
Remember in May when President Trump said his policies would spur the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) to grow at a rate of 3 percent or higher? The so-called experts insisted that it was unrealistic, highly unlikely, and probably impossible.
Some of these experts suggested 3 percent growth could only happen if our immigrant population doubled over a decade or the nation went to a six-day work week. They said even if unemployment fell to zero, we still wouldn't get close.
Imagine their surprise then when the Commerce Department announced on Friday that the GDP has grown at 3 percent – for the second quarter in a row. Continue reading →
Tags: Economic growth, Economy, tax cuts, Trump
The Lynch Mob Targets Scott Pruitt
By Julie Kelly • National Review
Scott Pruitt, Trump's EPA administrator, is the top target of the anti-Trump lynch mob. He's enduring daily attack pieces in the media and threats of violence against him and his family. It's hard to think of any cabinet member — current or former — who has been subjected to more vitriol and vilification than Pruitt, and he's been on the job for less than a year. Suddenly, everything from overlooked Superfund sites to the Flint water crisis to "toxic" pesticides are Pruitt's fault, which of course means he is poisoning children and destroying the planet.
According to the EPA inspector general's office, Pruitt has received "four to five times the number of threats" that his predecessor, Gina McCarthy, did. The level of concern for Pruitt's safety is so deep that agents are being added to his round-the-clock security detail. In a recent Bloomberg News interview, Pruitt said, "The quantity and the volume — as well as the type — of threats are different. What's really disappointing to me as it's not just me — it's family." Continue reading →
Tags: EPA, tax cuts
Report: GOP Tax Framework Could Raise GDP By 5%, Wages By 7%
By Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon
President Donald Trump's tax reform framework could raise GDP by as much as 5 percent and wages by as much as 7 percent, according to a new study from Boston University economists.
"We find that, depending on the year considered, the new Republican tax plan raises GDP by between 3 and 5 percent and real wages by between 4 and 7 percent," the economists explain. "This translates into roughly $3,500 annually more annual real take-home pay for the average American household."
Economists believe this growth can happen due to the plan's aim to reduce the marginal effective corporate tax rate from 34.6 percent to 18.6 percent, which they believe will grow the capital stock by 12 to 20 percent. Continue reading →
Tags: Conservatism, tax cuts, Tax Reform
Take Tax Reform to the People
By Peter Roff • USNews
Serious people are starting to wonder if tax reform can pass, largely because they're only talking to people inside Washington.
Instead they should talk to the American people. Most of them are hungry for it. A quarter of small business owners surveyed by CNBC/Survey Money said taxes were the most critical issue they currently face. Overall it's their No. 1 concern and, since small business is the engine of growth in the U.S. economy, that's an important consideration.
Things have improved since Election Day 2016, but the economy is still not growing like it needs to if we are to have hope of ever paying down the national debt, now equal to about one year's U.S. GDP. Continue reading →
Tags: Congress, Federal Budget, tax code, tax cuts, Tax Reform, Trump
A Tax Cut Victory Before Labor Day
by Lawrence Kudlow, Stephen Moore, Arthur B Laffer, and Steve Forbes • Investor's Business Daily
President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress must act with much more urgency and decisiveness on tax cuts.
In recent weeks the tax cut agenda seems stalled out and the delays and indecision are negatively affecting growth and the stock market. We hear that a tax plan from the White House may not come until the fall and may not even pass Congress until 2018 – if at all.
Is it any wonder that investors are getting jittery? The stock market had priced in much of the anticipated benefits to business, wages and profits, which accounts in no small part for the $3 trillion rise in equity values and the surge in business and consumer confidence after the election. Now the confidence is waning. Continue reading →
Tags: Lower Taxes, tax cuts, Tax Policy
Trump's Tax Plan Would Spur Growth
By Edward P. Lazear • Wall Street Journal
President Trump's tax plan leaves many details undefined, but there is plenty to evaluate. The administration claims its proposed changes would encourage growth and make the tax system more efficient. History suggests they will.
Less certain is the claim that the tax cuts will pay for themselves. Although budget concerns should always be paramount when cutting taxes, revenue neutrality does little to guarantee that this—or any—administration will exercise fiscal responsibility.
Most economists favor moving away from taxing capital and toward taxing consumption through value-added or sales taxes. Taxing capital squelches growth because capital is mobile and can cross borders in search of the highest risk-adjusted, after-tax return. Economists in both parties have scored the effects of eliminating capital taxation in favor of a pure consumption tax. Estimates range from a 5% to 9% total increase in gross domestic product. Continue reading →
Tags: tax code, tax cuts, Trump


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Q1 Esports Entertainment's revenue is $ 222,392
by monster November 18, 2020 Esports / Gaming
Esports betting company Esports Entertainment had $ 222,392 in revenue in the first quarter of its acquisition of Argyll Entertainment earlier this year.
According to the company's financial statements, operating expenses for the three months ended September 30 were $ 3.7 million, a significant increase from $ 700,000 in the first quarter of 2019. The company attributed this increase to "salaries, compensation from stock," marketing, expenses for legal and professional services related to increased business activity. "
The net loss for the period was $ 1.8 million, while the company's total assets at the end of September were $ 10.4 million.
The operator described an "increase" in business in October. Total growth was over $ 16 million a month and revenue for the first month after the first quarter was more than $ 600,000.
Esports Entertainment estimates total sales of $ 13 million for the financial year 2021. The company expects this to grow from its main platforms Argyll and VIE to $ 25 million in the next fiscal year.
Commenting on the results, Grant Johnson, CEO of Esports Entertainment: "We have achieved very important milestones since joining NASDAQ in April.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has really accelerated the rapid growth of esports and generated mass broadcasts for national television viewers on ESPN and Fox.
"This trend helped us set new records for the world-renowned Legend series with our partner Allied Esports. This is just one of many successes this quarter.
"We believe this year's achievements provide a very solid foundation for long-term growth and offer investors a real chance to play clean in the fast-growing world of global exports."
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Will Child Tax Credit Payments Continue In 2022
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If you're thinking of flipping the switch to electric — and taking advantage of the potential tax reduction — here's what you need to know. Families are eligible for remaining child tax credit payments in 2022. If families get a letter from the irs saying how much they received from . The child tax credit in 2022 will return to the conditions offered by the irs before the american rescue plan expanded it. Losing it could be dire for millions of children living at or below the . File your taxes to get your full child tax credit — now through april 18, 2022. As of 2022, the child tax credit has reverted to $2,000 per child under 17 with no advance monthly checks. Last december the cbo estimated that making the 2021 credit under arpa and the tcja permanent would cost $1.597 trillion between 2022 and 2031.
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Families are eligible for remaining child tax credit payments in 2022. As of 2022, the child tax credit has reverted to $2,000 per child under 17 with no advance monthly checks. The 2021 expanded child tax credit . If you're thinking of flipping the switch to electric — and taking advantage of the potential tax reduction — here's what you need to know. If families get a letter from the irs saying how much they received from . Get help filing your taxes and find more information about the 2021 child tax . As of right now, the 2022 child tax credit (which you would get when you file in 2023) is set to go back to $2,000 for each dependent age 17 or . The child tax credit provides certain households with monthly payments.
As of right now, the 2022 child tax credit (which you would get when you file in 2023) is set to go back to $2,000 for each dependent age 17 or . Here's everything you need to know. Families are eligible for remaining child tax credit payments in 2022. The 2021 expanded child tax credit . If you've been trading crypto over the past year, it's vital to understand how crypto holdings have the potential to affect your 2022 taxes. Get help filing your taxes and find more information about the 2021 child tax . The child tax credit provides certain households with monthly payments. Last december the cbo estimated that making the 2021 credit under arpa and the tcja permanent would cost $1.597 trillion between 2022 and 2031. Losing it could be dire for millions of children living at or below the .
As it stands right now, child tax credit payments won't be renewed this year. The future of the monthly child tax credit is not certain in 2022. Losing it could be dire for millions of children living at or below the . File your taxes to get your full child tax credit — now through april 18, 2022. Last december the cbo estimated that making the 2021 credit under arpa and the tcja permanent would cost $1.597 trillion between 2022 and 2031. If you're thinking of flipping the switch to electric — and taking advantage of the potential tax reduction — here's what you need to know. Even if you had $0 in income, you could have received advance child tax credit payments if you were eligible . The law authorizing last year's monthly payments clearly states that no payments .
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If families get a letter from the irs saying how much they received from . The law authorizing last year's monthly payments clearly states that no payments . However, despite calls for the expanded child tax credit payments to be continued into 2022, progression has not gone as many in the democrat . The 2021 expanded child tax credit . Even if you had $0 in income, you could have received advance child tax credit payments if you were eligible . Families are eligible for remaining child tax credit payments in 2022. Last december the cbo estimated that making the 2021 credit under arpa and the tcja permanent would cost $1.597 trillion between 2022 and 2031. As of right now, the 2022 child tax credit (which you would get when you file in 2023) is set to go back to $2,000 for each dependent age 17 or .
File your taxes to get your full child tax credit — now through april 18, 2022. Even if you had $0 in income, you could have received advance child tax credit payments if you were eligible . The future of the monthly child tax credit is not certain in 2022. Losing it could be dire for millions of children living at or below the . As of right now, the 2022 child tax credit (which you would get when you file in 2023) is set to go back to $2,000 for each dependent age 17 or . As it stands right now, child tax credit payments won't be renewed this year. The child tax credit in 2022 will return to the conditions offered by the irs before the american rescue plan expanded it. The child tax credit provides certain households with monthly payments. If you're thinking of flipping the switch to electric — and taking advantage of the potential tax reduction — here's what you need to know.
Last december the cbo estimated that making the 2021 credit under arpa and the tcja permanent would cost $1.597 trillion between 2022 and 2031. The law authorizing last year's monthly payments clearly states that no payments . If you're thinking of flipping the switch to electric — and taking advantage of the potential tax reduction — here's what you need to know. The child tax credit in 2022 will return to the conditions offered by the irs before the american rescue plan expanded it. Here's everything you need to know. If families get a letter from the irs saying how much they received from . As of right now, the 2022 child tax credit (which you would get when you file in 2023) is set to go back to $2,000 for each dependent age 17 or . If you've been trading crypto over the past year, it's vital to understand how crypto holdings have the potential to affect your 2022 taxes.
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The law authorizing last year's monthly payments clearly states that no payments . The child tax credit provides certain households with monthly payments. As of right now, the 2022 child tax credit (which you would get when you file in 2023) is set to go back to $2,000 for each dependent age 17 or . File your taxes to get your full child tax credit — now through april 18, 2022. The child tax credit in 2022 will return to the conditions offered by the irs before the american rescue plan expanded it. However, despite calls for the expanded child tax credit payments to be continued into 2022, progression has not gone as many in the democrat . The future of the monthly child tax credit is not certain in 2022. Even if you had $0 in income, you could have received advance child tax credit payments if you were eligible .
File your taxes to get your full child tax credit — now through april 18, 2022. The law authorizing last year's monthly payments clearly states that no payments . The future of the monthly child tax credit is not certain in 2022. Get help filing your taxes and find more information about the 2021 child tax . As of 2022, the child tax credit has reverted to $2,000 per child under 17 with no advance monthly checks. However, despite calls for the expanded child tax credit payments to be continued into 2022, progression has not gone as many in the democrat . Losing it could be dire for millions of children living at or below the . As it stands right now, child tax credit payments won't be renewed this year. The child tax credit provides certain households with monthly payments.
Get help filing your taxes and find more information about the 2021 child tax .
If you're thinking of flipping the switch to electric — and taking advantage of the potential tax reduction — here's what you need to know. If families get a letter from the irs saying how much they received from . However, despite calls for the expanded child tax credit payments to be continued into 2022, progression has not gone as many in the democrat . Last december the cbo estimated that making the 2021 credit under arpa and the tcja permanent would cost $1.597 trillion between 2022 and 2031. If you've been trading crypto over the past year, it's vital to understand how crypto holdings have the potential to affect your 2022 taxes.
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Throughout this course students will learn how to effectively and accurately measure both flow rates and water levels through calibration, irrigation conveyance design and selection of open-channel flow measurement structures. Utah State University (USU) professor Gary P. Merkley, Ph.D., teaches 'Irrigation and Conveyance Control Systems,' a lecture-based course. Subjects highlighted throughout this course include weirs for flow measurement, designs of earthen canals, inverted siphons and cross-channel sectioning. Any student interested in Agriculture or Engineering will benefit from this undergraduate-level course.
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Coming soon to manufacturing zones: hotels
Adrianne Pasquarelli
Not everyone is happy about the hotel boom: Industrial businesses say it has hit their neighborhoods with great force, making space scarcer and more expensive. A new study backs up that narrative, finding at least 115 hotels in M1-zoned areas, which are set aside for light manufacturing, and about 75 more on the way.
The report, by the Brooklyn-based Pratt Center for Community Development, also found that at least 11 hotels have been built since 2007 in industrial building zones, or IBZs, which were established in some manufacturing districts to further protect businesses there from residential development. Another 16 hotels are in the pipeline for IBZs.
Overall, the number of hotels in the city grew by 180, or 35%, between 2004 and 2013, according to the report.
Hotels can be built without any special approval in industrial areas, such as the garment district, Long Island City in Queens and the Gowanus and Williamsburg sections of Brooklyn. Tourism was at much lower levels when the zoning was written, and there was no expectation that guests would want to stay in gritty sections of the city with noisy machinery, trucks and few amenities—or anywhere outside of Manhattan, for that matter.
"The economics have changed since the zoning resolution was first passed," said Adam Friedman, executive director at the Pratt Center, who has been speaking with the City Council about the issue. "In those days, hotels were not displacing manufacturing businesses, but now it's dramatically different."
The Pratt report proposes requiring special permits to build hotels in industrial areas. The report was partially funded by the Hotel and Motel Trades Council, a union supporting that idea. Most of the hotels built in manufacturing districts in recent years have been nonunion shops.
"Looking at the pipeline of future development, you see the concentrations of hotels, which really can have a dramatic impact in a lot of communities," said Mr. Friedman. "The problem is only going to get more severe."
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The best spas gift cards in Sydney open up a myriad of experiences. With so many options from body massages to waxing sessions – a gift voucher is a great present for anyone who wants to enjoy a session of relaxation and rejuvenation!
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Free. Few words in the English language ring with the same appeal as that alluring four letter word promising a good or service provided with no related out-of-pocket costs incurred by the recipient. Free items instantly appeal to basic human nature, automatically generating increased interest and awareness in any Michigan-based businesses looking to exploit that basic characteristic inherent in consumers across America.
Business owners looking to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace are employing these "free" concepts through freebie marketing – a popular marketing method utilizing a loss leader (free) giveaway item or promotion. The gifts may be great or small, but in any case the purpose is the same: shining the spotlight on the gift giver.
Examples abound across all industries where freebie marketing is concerned. A local auto dealer might opt to raffle off a new sport utility vehicle after prominently displaying the shiny new car in the center of a shopping mall food court; a spa owner promoting a massage therapist through an appearance at a public street festival might give away stress-relieving balls (emblazoned with the spa's name, address and contact information) to passers-by; an accountant might attempt to drum up business during tax season by providing a courtesy review of the prospective client's tax return from the previous year.
In each instance – illustrated by the dramatic difference in value between a stress ball costing pennies on the dollar and a state-of-the-art vehicle carrying an equally impressive price tag – the goal is the same: raising awareness in the minds of prospective consumers.
Giving away a good or service runs counter to the basic principles inherent in a business. Loss leader giveaways place an immediate negative mark in the books where profits are concerned, but the belief is that same giveaway will increase profitability in the long term.


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KATH to undergo major renovations
in Health, Latest news February 3, 2011
Authorities of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have announced plans to undertake massive external renovation works on the old "Gee blocks" this year, to give the hospital the much needed facelift.
This would involve re-roofing and painting of the blocks, to be financed through the facility's internally generated funds (IGF) at an estimated cost of GH¢1,360,500.00.
Professor Ohene Adjei, Chief Executive of the hospital, was addressing the opening of the 2010 end-of-year performance review workshop of the hospital in Kumasi on Wednesday.
He blamed persistent problems of congestion and long patient waiting time in the hospital on limited space and ageing facilities caused by years of neglect and lack of expansion of existing facilities to meet the growing patients' attendance.
To strengthen its capacity to match the increasing pressure on its services, the authorities undertook heavy investments in infrastructure and equipment last year to provide some vital tools and facilities required for quality care delivery.
Among these were new Theatre Operating Table and delivery beds, Sysmex Haematology Analyser, Reverse Osmosis and Dialysis machine, as well as Otoscope, Brochoscopy set, Angle lamp and other equipment, all at the cost of GH¢777,551.00.
Prof Ohene Adjei said construction works on a four-storey nurses block were also completed, while contract was awarded to begin the building of a-GH¢877,000 two-storey eye centre.
The hospital also started the renovation of its Psychiatry block.
He said most of the projects were being implemented with funding from the facility's IGF.
The Chief Executive said together with other initiatives, the projects and equipment had helped to significantly improve service delivery, particularly in the area of maternal health.
Maternal mortality went down to 7.91 per 1,000 live births in 2010 from 9.32 per 1,000 live births in year 2009, and 10.73 in 2008.
Prof Ohene Adjei said the hospital would continue to collaborate with its external partners to build staff capacity and enhance performance.
He called on the Heads of the various units and directorates to take firm measures to reduce waste and delays in service delivery and ensure higher productivity.
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congratulations KATH and bigups to the management on your initiatives to make good health achievable to the citizenry. It is left with the staff to put up their best. Better healthcare is achievable next year.


Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University has established HEC's Microsoft IT Academy & Certiport Test Center to equip students, staff & faculty with IT education. HEC's IT Academy initiative is a huge step towards the realization of HEC's vision of having an education system which produces graduates and scholars whose skills are certified against a singular scale, a scale recognize in every country around the globe. HEC & Microsoft has setup awarding status of Microsoft Imagine Academy and Certiport Testing Center to all public sector universities across Pakistan.
The Microsoft IT Academy program provides a complete IT education solution that bridges the world of education with the world of work. The program is designed to help drive employability, digital literacy, technical and STEM-focused training and certification, and 21st-century workforce development for students, staff & faculty Pakistan. Currently Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Microsoft IT Academy has conducted around 264 MOS exams.