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QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 02:34 PM) LMAO.. I'm showing him this!!! I guess that means I am driving now, huh? :banghead

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 02:32 PM) Saudis now pressuring Lebanon to get out too No surprise there... you know the Bush admin has been pushing everyone to say that to Syria.

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 02:28 PM) He never has before... by the 3rd inning we usually don't know if he does or doesn't anyway.. And that's only because it takes Jim until the middle of the first to get there

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 02:28 PM) still runnin'. Go, go Sox.... plus I need a lot of steals for the YNOT, I think I had the highest guess of anyone

Now the feed is up... I guess it was just delayed in starting...

QUOTE(JimH @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 02:09 PM) Harris moves him to 3rd with a grounder to the right side. Pods at 3rd, one out. That sequence brings a tear of joy to my eye.

I am going Friday, and sitting in a suite

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 02:09 PM) There are laws that allow for stiffer penalties when the victim is a Judge. I think those laws should extend the their families as well. Same with cops. Doesn't it automatically become a federal case for the murder of a judge? That would also make it an executable offense.

Under the current system, the poorest quintile of tax payers have a negative tax rate. The poor actually net recieve money from paying taxes because of child credits and EIC and the like.

No live radio feed today on MLB.com :fyou

Also for the comsumption taxers, here is an example of why this is bad for the poor. Take someone earning 10,000 100,000 and 1 million a year with a 20% consumption tax. A person making 10k spends all of their money to survive and ends up paying 2k in taxes at 20% for a marginal rate of 20% Someone making 100k, if they save 10%, spends only 90k which would be all they get taxed on. They pay 18K in taxes, for a marginal rate of only 18%. And finally someone making a million dollars a year and is able to save 50% of their money, would only spend 500k, meaning they only get taxed on 500k for a tax bill of 100k. Their marginal tax rate is only 10%, meaning they would pay half of the tax rate of the people who have to spend all of their money. The system is regressive and would bankrupt the poor.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:47 PM) I don't know if that's true. Making 12,000 a year a far larger percentage of my money would then go to taxes than someone earning ten times my income with a very high sales tax. For this flat tax--are you exempting life necessities (clothes, food, etc)--that might be more fair, but a general flat consumption tax would honestly bury someone in my income bracket. The only exemptions in most flat tax plans are mortgage interest. And actually the only reason I even said flat tax was because it is the simplist of all systems. Your taxes could be done on a postcard. My theory is through negotiations if you start with something extreme like that, maybe we can compromise to a solid progressive multi-rate tax plan, without any loopholes.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:44 PM) I think I prefer a consumption tax as opposed to a flat tax as its more fair ( more you spend more you pay ) and would also encourage people to save more money. Not at all actually. It is extremely regressive against the poor, as they have to spend all of their money to survive. They end up actually paying a higher marginal tax rate. It would be disaster for poor families who now have actually a negative tax rate.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:45 PM) ABBA forwards or backwards... still pure evil

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:42 PM) But then it wouldn't really be *free* ice-cream would it? Oh, hold on, hell is calling to confirm my reservation.... What is the hold music to hell like?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:34 PM) The Bush Administrations panel on tax reform is set to deliver its recommendations for simplifing the tax code on July 31st. I guess we'll see what they say and where it goes from there. I do, however, think that the tax code, as it is now, is archaic and has far too many loopholes for not paying taxes. No doubt about it. Every tax change since 1986 has been about making the system more porous and more complex. I almost wish someone would push a flattax so that maybe we could meet in the middle with a real progressive tax code that is simplified and spackled to prevent leaks.

QUOTE(Goldmember @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:17 PM) just hope he doesn't try to push it and comes back when he's 100% ... That's exactly what I was thinking... missing two months now is better than missing 4 months down the stretch because he rehurt himself.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/03/news/econo...dex.htm?cnn=yes

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:07 PM) If he had nothing to hide he should have proceeded... It comes down to a cost thing. Even if he was innocent it could be worth $5 million to put this behind him. He might not have wanted every detail of his sex life and history paraded out for the American public to hear. And if he has other deep dark secrets, you know that stuff is going to get drug out. Plus from a purely financial standpoint, that $6 mil might have been a bargain as to what he would have had to pay his lawyers for their work on a 6 month trial and everything that goes with that.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:03 PM) Push button phone? WTF is that!? Phone WTF is that?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 12:57 PM) Does every industry have a bias? Could we call some industries liberal or conservative? Obviously Hollywood tends to be liberal, which ones are conservative? White Sox internet message boards

QUOTE(winodj @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 12:53 PM) This is all about the GOB ya know. Good Ole Boys. Been running the city for far too long - and Sheila was one of the biggest GOBs of em all. Until someone like you runs who's actually honest about the city problems, and wants to do something about it, it will continue. Hey, SS - you ever listen to WIMS? You do know that Sheila used Rich Daley's boys to do all of the Franklin Street improvements right? That is what said it all to me. Plus when she decided out of no where not to run again and left office before her term was even up, that threw up all kinds of red flags for me. But she made sure she got her guy elected before he fled. As for WIMS, I don't think I have listened since HS waiting to see if school was closed Like I said I would love to run for something, but I don't know anyone in that town anymore, mostly on purpose. Almost all of my focus has been on work connections in the city, instead of connections in City. Plus you know how hard it would be to get elected as a relative conservative in that town.

Tex about the Ebay auction of infamous breast implants.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 12:44 PM) The Royce comment stands by itself. So does your avatar

Welcome to the 21st century. Its either that or have a Pirates like payroll to match our Pirates like attendance.