Jump to content

UncleSonny

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    2,607
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by UncleSonny

  1. Pretty light offer list. Counting the aggy offer only he has 2 P5 total with Oregon being the other. And that offer was made almost a year ago.
  2. Haha, “complicated” remains a clear euphemism for “a high maintenance pain in the ass”.
  3. You aren’t wrong about the damage football does, but I thought a lot of Earl’s problems stemmed from a congenital spine disorder or something. That football made way worse I’m sure.
  4. Yeah I know...he’s saying he missed Ohio so he went back this weekend.
  5. Feeling homesick for Ohio is bleak. We dodged a bullet.
  6. I appreciate the response, it wasn’t meant to be a gotcha or prying question by any means. You saying you weren’t for or against it in schools and would go whichever way the wind blew was surprising and in your response: I generally agree with this and I have a hard time squaring that with you being ambivalent about providing that perspective to children in schools. There is a line to what a school can and should teach children about, but I think a critical look at American history (concerning race or anything else) falls squarely inbounds. If it’s valuable to your children it must be valuable to all children and not everyone’s parents will have the capacity or the interest in giving them that critical perspective. As for me personally, I do have two daughters. One is 3 years old and the other is 1 month so the way I handle these things is more theoretical based on my own bullshit than real application my wife and I have put into practice. That said my 3yo’s room is filled with children’s books that have a decidedly political slant. I don’t think I’ll ever make a conscious choice to avoid hot-button issues or politics in the house. Mostly the opposite. Hopefully they have an interest and I can push them on things and they’ll push back on my bullshit when advocating for their own beliefs. (This is probably where people with older kids are laughing at how naive I am). Indoctrination isn’t something I have any interest in either. I appreciate the desire to de-emphasize politics and the state at home but in my opinion being comfortable making that decision for your family is privilege. I have two daughters and my wife immigrated here from Iran as a child. I’m not sure if that is a privilege I can afford my family and I don’t think I would want to if I could. That doesn’t have to mean cable news and the national outrage story of the week though. Being involved on a state and municipal level is something we have talked a lot about instilling in the girls. Like you, I’m making this shit up as I go. I’m not at all confident in even small parenting decisions, let alone the large ones. A lot of times parents seem to be reacting to the way that they were raised, and I was raised pretty sheltered and very privileged. So I guess if I’m going to make mistakes it will be erring on the side of making sure my daughters aren’t naive to the world, for better or worse.
  7. And the numbers bear it out. No data for people born in 2021 (for obvious reasons) but among children born on the 60s to poverty, a black child was twice as likely as a white child to also be poor as an adult: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/two-american-experiences-racial-divide-poverty All of these adults came of age decades after the Civil Rights movement, so if it was “solved” you would think you would see a shift in the numbers by then.
  8. Honest question and sorry if it has been covered. Do you have children and do you teach them or talk to them about CRT aspects in your own household? Without actually calling it "critical race theory" of course. You seem to have generally come around to many of the aspects of CRT as outlined in that twitter thread and other places but don't feel like it's worth the trouble because it's too divisive and won't effect any change in your view. I'm curious if you see value in your own child having a basic understanding of it.
  9. Last game Gary Barnett ever coached which is pretty hilarious.
  10. Not that it matters with all the other bullshit happening here, but if I’m following right I’m pretty sure this girl was used as an example of a POC up-thread:
  11. Surprised Ish wasn’t already Fong’ed really. The fact that Anderson only had the confidence lowered and didn’t get an aggy pick on that run has to be a good sign.
  12. Whoa, you really do need things spelled out for you. I’m laughing at you.
  13. The exemption goes up every year to adjust for inflation. This is pretty a staggering statement, especially given the OP but unfortunately an honest assessment about how plenty of people look at it. The fact it came right after you told me you know multiple (!) people who squandered tens of millions of dollars did make me laugh though.
  14. Not even close to what I said. What I said: Fortunes are lost all the time, I was responding to the estate tax not being so burdensome as to effect the future wellbeing of the direct heirs. What does someone's parents' business going belly up have to do with anything?
  15. LOL. Their "low 8 figures "disappeared" huh? Lets say their low 8 figures is 20 million. Using the 2020-2021 rules give them their $11.7 exemption, so 8.3m is taxable. They'll pay the max base tax plus max rate on that ($345,000 & 40%). Tax burden is $3,320,000 + $345,000 = $3,665000. Leaving their parents well earned fortune "disappeared" from a $20million dollar estate down to $16,355,000 to be divided amongst their poor children who are now forced into the work force. Thoughts and prayers to your friends, hopefully black lung from the coal mine doesn't get them.
  16. The estate tax has never once, literally never, taken away a parents ability to pay for their children's education, nor does it have any bearing on whether that person's children have to work during their lifetime. The estate is exempt from the tax up to the exemption level, currently set at $11.7 million for an individual. An estate valued more than that is only taxed on the amount that exceeds the threshold. The idea that somebody has to hide money away so little Johnny can scrape together his tuition money is fucking stupid.
  17. You don't really seem to get how the estate tax works. Like at all.
  18. Because that's what they are and I quoted for accuracy I guess. I didn't really expect to be questioned on that honestly. Are quotation marks offensive? "Look, Ol'Pappy didn't bust his ass his entire life to amass a great fortune just for me, his great grandson, to be forced to earn my own living. What am I supposed to do, take my paid-for world class education, contacts from a life of privilege, and the paltry high 6 figures/low 7 figures I was given free and clear when he died and just go out and make my way in this world? And do what exactly, work? Like a job or something? Fuck that."
  19. You'll never guess who came up with this fairy tale and continue to push it: https://cei.org/studies/the-anti-environment-estate-tax-why-the-death-tax-is-deadly-for-endangered-species/ Oh wait, you did guess "libertarian think tank"? Never mind then.
  20. This feels like a separate conversation, but why do I care that the grandchildren and great grandchildren of a wealthy individual may only have 18 million to divide between them as opposed to 50 million? I'm especially interested in the bolded part that it's horribly unfair to the folks affected by it. The person who earned that fortune is not affected, so you are referring to the heirs who receive a windfall purely because they were related to the right person and managed to not be removed from the will before they died?
  21. I guess the calendar flipping to June still can't really save the thread from turning to complete shit on occasion. Anyway...apologies for the recruiting related post but Nahlin says this guy is expected to visit: https://247sports.com/player/lander-barton-46097947/
  22. but who owns the yacht that is needed to support Bezos' yacht? https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/jeff-bezos-yacht/index.html
  23. The salary thing is one reason (among others) that an average citizen not paying unrealized gains on their house in Austin is a pretty bad analogy. Hornbri made a good investment, is seeing the value of his house grow every year and that is contributing to his "wealth growth" but nobody here is advocating that he should be paying taxes on those gains before they are realized. Unless he is a Surly .000001% playing coy, I'm going to guess that wealth growth is not approaching 11 figures in five years. It's likely a couple hundred thousand dollars at best. I'm also going to guess he's not in a position to bring down his annual taxable income by taking a nominal salary and sheltering the majority of his income through a myriad of perfectly legal avenues. It's just not even close to the same. I would bet good money that hornbri's effective income tax rate is substantially higher than any billionaire's despite him being protected from paying taxes on his unrealized gains of his house in Austin. I don't have the answer but I'm always shocked that so many average Americans are so blasé about the richest among us paying substantially lower tax rates than us (whether you are using true tax rates or effective income rates).
×
×
  • Create New...