Should the US develop a new bomber?

[JeffreyLebowski]

Which amounts to less than 20% of the power we use. Whereas France obtains 78% of their power from nukes. Overall, however, it's still less than 20% of world power.

That's because hippies and people that don't know fact from fiction are scared of nuclear power. A nuclear reactor doesn't spew carbon into the air. It doesn't require freight trains full of coal or oil, and the disposal/safegaurding of spent rods has been addressed and taken care of for quite a while now with no problems.

Though I'm sure you would sh!t your pants if you knew that material crosses the country in unmarked semi-trailers.

 

[SammyJr]

How does one commercialize something without money? As I said to PoW above, please let me know and I will quickly become filthy rich and won't mind it a bit if you tax me at 60%.

New business: Loans, grants, personal savings
Existing business: Revenue - R&D and new product development are costs which reduce profits, which reduce tax liabilities. Also, business expansion loans and grants.

Profits are not used to fund new products as profits are what is left over after everything else is paid.

Low capital gains tax rates make it better to bump up the profits in the short term to reward stockholders who want to quickly sell at a profit. This is done by shedding R&D, quality control, American employees, and other long term costs.

If we want long term growth and more commercialization in our companies with expenditures on R&D and quality, change the long term capital gains time frame from 1 year to 5 or 10 years. Then companies will have to spend more on quality and new product development.

 

[CycloWizard]

New business: Loans, grants, personal savings
Existing business: Revenue - R&D and new product development are costs which reduce profits, which reduce tax liabilities. Also, business expansion loans and grants.

Profits are not used to fund new products as profits are what is left over after everything else is paid.

Low capital gains tax rates make it better to bump up the profits in the short term to reward stockholders who want to quickly sell at a profit. This is done by shedding R&D, quality control, American employees, and other long term costs.

If we want long term growth and more commercialization in our companies with expenditures on R&D and quality, change the long term capital gains time frame from 1 year to 5 or 10 years. Then companies will have to spend more on quality and new product development.

What the hell does capital gains tax have to do with anything we're discussing here? You've created such a diversion that you don't even know what you're discussing anymore. If you want something for YOUR company, do it. If you want something for "our" companies, leave them the hell alone and let them do what they do best. Just because a company resides in the US doesn't make it yours, comrade.

 

[biostud]

skip it and finish the ion cannon.

 

[piasabird]

Hmm, how about a high altitude unmanned aircraft deployer that can launch cruise missles and drones as well as guided bombs.

 

[nyker96]

Nah, I don't think they need to make more manned bombers, nowadays, 21st centry we got drones baby, computer controlled killer weapons etc. Manned anything is soooo last century. what we need is Skynet w/ a bunch robotic weaponry that are smart and can be cheaply produced, an army of those babies will react 1000x faster than any human being and probably be 20,000 times more lethal. Unleash 1 million of those ain't no man can fight them period! Just make sure they got a kill button so they don't turn on their creators, just to avoid the Judgement day :]