MaxAmps Race Edition Lipos

Originally Posted by fastbaja5b

So are you saying that it's ok for Businesses to take advantage of the present economic climate by offering exploitative wages to attract people who have already been kicked in the crotch so many times the past few years?

How is that an exploitative wage? 9 bucks to do some menial job soldering cells together and wrapping it with expensive wrap seems fair in my opinion. It's not like they are doing brain surgery.

[SPC Racing]

How do you think that would work out?

[hemiblas]

This are so bad out here, for a couple bucks more an hour you can get a degreed electrical engineer out of school to clean your monitor. I can only hope the schools stopped telling them all they are going to make 60k a year out here. That only works when there are jobs available and you dont have 20 people that have experience applying for the same position.

[fastbaja5b]

So for a $230 pack, you get something assembled by someone on $9/hr. Awesome!

$9/hr for general labor sort of work isn't that bad. Would be a good job for somebody in school, I know I wouldn't mind assembling batteries for $9/hr. I really don't see what's so wrong about offering a job up for $9/hr?

[fastbaja5b]

Wow, living costs must be relatively low then. I think the minimum wage in Australia now is $13-$14 an hour for a full timer and at present $1 AUD = $1 USD.

[josh9mille]

Originally Posted by fastbaja5b

Wow, living costs must be relatively low then. I think the minimum wage in Australia now is $13-$14 an hour for a full timer and at present $1 AUD = $1 USD.

The sad thing is that Washington state has the highest minimum wage in the country.

Originally Posted by fastbaja5b

Wow, living costs must be relatively low then. I think the minimum wage in Australia now is $13-$14 an hour for a full timer and at present $1 AUD = $1 USD.

That's what I was thinking too. I wonder how the cost of living compares if someone can live on that kind of income.

[PBO]

Originally Posted by fastbaja5b

Wow, living costs must be relatively low then. I think the minimum wage in Australia now is $13-$14 an hour for a full timer and at present $1 AUD = $1 USD.

It's actually $15 p/hr

I have trouble attracting unskilled labourers for $18.50 p/hr

[thzero]

Originally Posted by fastbaja5b

Wow, living costs must be relatively low then. I think the minimum wage in Australia now is $13-$14 an hour for a full timer and at present $1 AUD = $1 USD.

Well maybe its that, but what are you taxes like?

[PBO]

Originally Posted by thzero

Well maybe its that, but what are you taxes like?

Tax rates 2010–11

Taxable income	Tax on this income
0 – $6,000	Nil
$6,001 – $37,000	15c for each $1 over $6,000
$37,001 – $80,000	$4,650 plus 30c for each $1 over $37,000
$80,001 – $180,000	$17,550 plus 37c for each $1 over $80,000
$180,001 and over	$54,550 plus 45c for each $1 over $180,000

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by PBO

Tax rates 2010–11

Hmm, that's not too bad. For a married, two-income couple w/ professional degrees, lets say a combined income of 120K. The taxes are almost exactly the same. However, that doesn't acct for all the exemptions, deductions, and other taxes. We also have a payroll tax of 2%(?) on the first ~$100K to fund the gov't pension program for the elderly (social security,) OTOH we get large exemptions for home owners, such as being able to deduct the interest paid on morgages. Alot of the game is hitting these to get taxes down. Sure its the same there, but don't know specifics.

My wife and I both have good jobs and end up in the upper income percentiles (we're not rich by any means, and having two young kids makes us feel broke all the time, lol ;) ) but are federal tax rate ends up close to 20% or so.

[PBO]

versus usa

Tax Rate	Married Couples Filing Jointly	Most Single Filers
10%	Not over $16,750	Not over $8,375
15%	$16,750 – $68,000	$8,375 – $34,000
25%	$68,000 – $137,300	$34,000 – $82,400
28%	$137,300 – $209,250	$82,400 – $171,850
33%	$209,250 – $373,650	$171,850 – $373,650
35%	Over $373,650	Over $373,650

[Kcaz25]

Yeah 9 per hour isn't bad for anywhere in Alabama. I would enjoy the job. I've worked 4 jobs and never made that much. Only twice have I made more than minimum. I'm only 22 though.

The MA bashing is kinda weird. They overcharge and they make false claims. They get big annoying ads in rc magazines. They burnt a couple of guys years ago on RCM. The biggest(longest) threads on this forum are what? MA bash threads. Its weird. lol

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by Kcaz25

The MA bashing is kinda weird. They overcharge and they make false claims. They get big annoying ads in rc magazines. They burnt a couple of guys years ago on RCM. The biggest(longest) threads on this forum are what? MA bash threads. Its weird. lol

Not that big of a deal huh...

And BTW, they burnt more than a few of us.

And everyone loves to beat a dead orse, especially here. Where have you been? If you check the number of builds is kinda low on the forum compared to a few years ago. So we have to have something to do, and beating up on MA is kinda fun in a SM kinda way...

As for the crawler guys liking MA packs, just commenting on what I have seen. Maybe they got wise and started buying the better stuff that HC sell.