The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security is charged with administering and enforcing the Antiboycott Laws under the Export Administration Act. Those laws discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from furthering or supporting the boycott of Israel sponsored by the Arab League, and certain Moslem countries, including complying with certain requests for information designed to verify compliance with the boycott. Compliance with such requests may be prohibited by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and may be reportable to the Bureau.
The antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) apply to the activities of U.S. persons in the interstate or foreign commerce of the United States. The term "U.S. person" includes all individuals, corporations and unincorporated associations resident in the United States, including the permanent domestic affiliates of foreign concerns. U.S. persons also include U.S. citizens abroad (except when they reside abroad and are employed by non-U.S. persons) and the controlled in fact affiliates of domestic concerns. The test for "controlled in fact" is the ability to establish the general policies or to control the day to day operations of the foreign affiliate.
For each violation of the EAR any or all of the following may be imposed:
•General denial of export privileges;
•The imposition of fines of up to $11,000 per violation; and/or
•Exclusion from practice.
Boycott agreements under the TRA involve the denial of all or part of the foreign tax benefits discussed above.
When the EAA is in lapse, penalties for violation of the Antiboycott Regulations are governed by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The IEEPA Enhancement Act provides for penalties of up to the greater of $250,000 per violation or twice the value of the transaction for administrative violations of Antiboycott Regulations, and up to $1 million and 20 years imprisonment per violation for criminal antiboycott violations.
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LGBT, marriage and federal benefits
As members of the LGBT community in the USA we monetarily do more for the federal government than our heterosexual counterparts.
For example, we pay more in federal taxes and we receive less in federal benefits.
So many are quick to tell us we have the same rights to marry the opposite sex as any other citizen.
I propose we listen to their words!
I suggest, before we go to our graves, we marry. Instead of giving our social security survivor benefits to the government when we pass on we should marry an opposite-gender LGBT community member.
After all, why should we give even more to a government that takes advantage of us our entire lives?
As a side note for the gay men. If you marry a female that has children (under the age of 18), the children also receive benefits.
Let’s create a hypothetical (and this doesn’t even take into account the number of natural deaths, accidental deaths and suicides).
Over half a million deaths have occurred in the United States due to AIDS.
Let’s be conservative and say only half of those were members of the LGBT community (we all know it was more).
Of course we know they weren’t married and we know they didn’t pass on at a ripe old age.
We also won’t take into consideration children (this would drastically change the numbers, in our favor).
So let’s say the “surviving spouse” (which is non-existent) was to live another 30 years and receive $500 a month in social security survival benefits. She/he can't collect until they are 60 years of age, unless they have children.
Do the math: 250,000 x $500 x 12 (months a year) x 30 (years) = $45,000,000,000
That’s 45 BILLION dollars the federal government has not had to pay out!
45 billion dollars the LGBT community has given the United States government.
And we all know this is a VERY conservative number. Especially since we didn’t account for children and reduced the number of deaths much more than is actual. We also reduced the monthly payment amount since most would receive more than $500 a month.
Even if the spouse only collected for 20 years, it's still 30 billion dollars.
Sources:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#ddaids
http://www.ssa.gov/ww&os2.htm
For example, we pay more in federal taxes and we receive less in federal benefits.
So many are quick to tell us we have the same rights to marry the opposite sex as any other citizen.
I propose we listen to their words!
I suggest, before we go to our graves, we marry. Instead of giving our social security survivor benefits to the government when we pass on we should marry an opposite-gender LGBT community member.
After all, why should we give even more to a government that takes advantage of us our entire lives?
As a side note for the gay men. If you marry a female that has children (under the age of 18), the children also receive benefits.
Let’s create a hypothetical (and this doesn’t even take into account the number of natural deaths, accidental deaths and suicides).
Over half a million deaths have occurred in the United States due to AIDS.
Let’s be conservative and say only half of those were members of the LGBT community (we all know it was more).
Of course we know they weren’t married and we know they didn’t pass on at a ripe old age.
We also won’t take into consideration children (this would drastically change the numbers, in our favor).
So let’s say the “surviving spouse” (which is non-existent) was to live another 30 years and receive $500 a month in social security survival benefits. She/he can't collect until they are 60 years of age, unless they have children.
Do the math: 250,000 x $500 x 12 (months a year) x 30 (years) = $45,000,000,000
That’s 45 BILLION dollars the federal government has not had to pay out!
45 billion dollars the LGBT community has given the United States government.
And we all know this is a VERY conservative number. Especially since we didn’t account for children and reduced the number of deaths much more than is actual. We also reduced the monthly payment amount since most would receive more than $500 a month.
Even if the spouse only collected for 20 years, it's still 30 billion dollars.
Sources:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#ddaids
http://www.ssa.gov/ww&os2.htm
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