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QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 18, 2012 -> 07:52 AM) The 47% thing is a mythical number anyway, it got that high because of a one-time unique situation where unemployment skyrocketed and people took tax credits/unemployment exemptions. A lot of the whiny people on twitter talking about the "I am the 53%" meme ironically didn't pay any income taxes that year. edit: Ironically, leaving the very poor out of the income tax rolls started with Reagan in the mid 80s. Just to say it again...the other irony is that having the lower-income people not hit by the income tax is a huge boon to the wealthiest wage earners...because the payroll tax, state taxes, and local taxes are much more regressive, and a good lobbyist can poke tons of loopholes in the income tax. Link

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 18, 2012 -> 08:49 AM) Ruth 10620 PA's Omar 11997 PA's Ruth: 94 wins, 46 losses, 1221 IP. Vizquel: 0-0, 0 IP.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 10:59 PM) Romney told the donors: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. My job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. Romney seems to be referring to the estimated 47 percent of Americans who did not owe federal income taxes in 2011 because their incomes were so low that they qualified for a tax credit, or because they didn't work at all. Last year, 22 percent of people who didn't owe income taxes were elderly people on Social Security, and an additional 17 percent were students, disabled people or the unemployed. More than 60 percent of the group were low-income workers, many of whom qualified for the child tax credit or the earned income tax credit. (These workers did pay payroll taxes for Social Security and other programs.) www.yahoonews.com This is all Rahm's fault!

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 08:52 PM) Why is Addison Reed the closer? Because Robin Ventura has reinvented the closer role. You only have to get one out, the last one. Thus the closer only has to focus on one batter Genius Keeps Myers from ending another game...

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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 05:24 PM) He also didn't inherit anything! Except a wealthy upbringing full of connections and a bunch of money that paid for his multiple Harvard degrees. I wonder if he really does buy his own "bootstraps" bulls*** and really can't fathom why everyone couldn't make as much money as he did if they just applied themselves. OF course, he could be playing to his audience there just as much as anywhere else. The problem of course is that his audience/donors/supporters...really believe that...which is why he's saying this to that audience. The minorities have it so easy, they all had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps to get into Harvard, they didn't have the advantages that those "lucky-duckies" who don't have to pay income tax get.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 05:32 PM) Isn't a significant portion of the non-FIT payers made up of the elderly? Don't you pay FIT on Social Security income? I thought that was one of the Greenspan reforms.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 05:59 PM) Obama will win by a landslide No. He's correct about one thing. Putting an "R" after a guy's name in the Presidential race will guarantee him 47% unless he turns out to be Jerry Sandusky. Same thing for a D. Unless you count 2008 as a "landslide", which I don't.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 05:33 PM) I just can't believe the Packers lost their first game. I had a grand down that they'd go undefeated. They cost me $500,000! I WAS SO CLOSE. The odds of them going undefeated were only 500-1?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 05:20 PM) Do they really believe that the 47-49% of Americans who pay no net FIT are hardcore Obama/Democrat voters? And there's nothing that can be done to get them to take personal responsibility for their lives. Lazy bums.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:57 PM) Is Avila even available? Unlikely.

Does anyone have a count on "Games Myers has finished"?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:39 PM) Myers warming in the pen. Leaves Reed with Thornton as the emergency backup option in the 9th?

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:31 PM) 5 for 11 since coming back says otherwise. Plus he hit that ball into orbit yesterday.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:30 PM) we need a cushion for addison. Cushion = replacement? I can't say I'd have any confidence seeing Reed in the 9th today.

Mother Jones got their hands on a Romney rich-person fundraiser video. Nothing truly awful in it, but you might be able to turn some of this into a "cling to their guns" (from 08) level annoyance.

Gameday had that pitch to Infante at 100 mph too

The end of season collapse of Paul Konerko continues apace...

Ugh, Young again?

Small fist pump.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 03:21 PM) I feel something good coming from the Tank. I'm not confident since he's facing a righty...

Come on Dayan

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