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GNR- November Rain

Benenoch declares for the draft.  The OL will be very thin next year.  Losing FUP to home sickness now looms large.

Ouch that one is brutal, I really thought he would stay.  

Made the playoffs in one of my 3 leagues and capped it off with a championship victory.  I dominated that league going 12-1 in the regular season with the most points scored and easily winning both of my playoff games.  Demarco Murray was on my team too, but benched for the final game.  

If they win this back to back set today and tomorrow that'd be a big step forward for this team coming into a long homestand.  

Then get immediately destroyed by LAK. 

If the series happens I think it goes 7 again...at least game 7 wont be at the Honda Center.

I love that if the Ducks make the playoffs then they will have an easier 1st round opponent than the kings...the Pacific blows. 

Mora had injuries to deal with this year. But the fact still remains that UCLA still can't beat teams that punch them in the mouth. The team plays soft.

 

And the penalties. Good Lord. In the past two years UCLA must lead the PAC12 in penalties. That's a coaching issue.

This!  The penalties must stop!  The defense was doomed this year when our top DL, LB, DB all got injured early in the season.  I'm not very optimistic about the defense going into next season right now.  The offense on the other hand should be one of the best in the country.  

saw a dude (again) wearing lounge pants out in public. they're pajama pants and it just looks weird.

Sorry tank, I'll switch to normal sweat pants next time I'm in your neck of the woods.

I had no idea stolen seats was a problem.  Great story!

Clearly salaries leads to increases in costs - but again, I'm not talking about magically creating money but redistributing it. Costs rise because the wealthy want to maintain profit margins. This, of course, is the problem with the minimum wage. An increase in the minimum wage would have to be offset with other restrictions. The point being, we need to lower the ceiling as we raise the floor. Yes, I know, sounds like the evil "S" word!

 

But what's your solution, Geoff? How do you think we should decrease poverty and strengthen the middle class? Or do you not care? I'm honestly curious.

 

 

I'm stumped on how population and cost of living relate - can you explain? (I'm not being facetious, I honestly don't know).

 

So if you think taxes should be reduced, what do we do about our crumbling infrastructure? Are you OK with the fact that US is now decades behind much of Western Europe, South Korea, and Japan in terms of quality of services, transportation systems, high speed internet, etc. What about the exorbitant cost of health care?

 

But I agree with you on the military, no issues there.

 

I personally would reduce the military budget, reduce corporate tax breaks, increase taxes on the top 20% in an increasing curve. I would then re-allocate those funds to abolish Obamacare and replace it with a single-payer system--basically free health care for all--and improve infrastructure, education, etc.

I thought you were just focused on taxing the super rich AJ?  If that is the case you should only be raising taxes on the top .1% or something like that.  A so called 1%er making 380K in California is definitely not super rich.  

Goal for Getzy, 2 for Perry, Ducks win.  Quack!

You know what would really help the middle class?  Elimination of the payroll tax.  It would also be a great boost to small business as the payroll tax kills small business owners. 

AJ, how would you set up the income tax brackets?  There is a big difference between a 1%er who makes 500K and a 1%er who makes 5M.

Geoff - Two questions. One, where are we going to find unbiased views and information Two, does the fact that the chart is from Think Progress automatically invalidate it? Numbers can be used in clever ways, but they generally don't lie.

 

Glen - careful, or you'll end up in Trump territory because the cons argue that part of the reason there are more people than jobs is because of immigrants. And it would be hard to deny that there is some truth to this. Not to mention that in just about every instance I've experience or heard of, Mexican immigrants are better, harder workers than non-immigrants.

 

Clearly we need to create more jobs, and not just low paying manual jobs. We also need to improve wages and/or reduce the cost of living. How to do this? Well, I can think of two things. One, re-allocate government funds towards creating jobs to re-build infrastructure. Stop throwing money at military contractors to make trillion-dollar planes that don't work. Two, tax the **** out of the top 1% and big corporations and use the money to...create jobs and re-build infrastructure, improve health care (single payer), and increase the wages of those making below $100K.

 

The money is there, it just isn't trickling down.

AJ, what level of income do you consider the top 1%?

Our leaders may not be great, but I'm sure happy AJ isn't in charge.  

8th seed is fine by me...anything can happen in the playoffs.

Peyts' mom has posted one of those "Facebook Year in Review"s. 

Despite the high lolz factor, I can't bear to click on it.

Do it, then ctrl c ctrl v for all of us to enjoy.

Or they can beat UK and Gonzaga

 

Tournament games are not decided this early.  After a rough start, nice work against some very good teams.

At the time of that post I thought the Bruins had no chance against UK and Zaga.  I'm very happy the team has done a complete 180 and looks like a very tough team to beat right now.  

I like this trade, we needed a cheap infielder with a high OBP badly.  Middle relievers are a crapshoot (unless their hat is crooked, then they are gold).

Any idea when the spring training fanfest is going to be this year?  Spring training tickets go onsale this week so would be better for the board to know soon so good tickets can be had by the board.

Bruins beat LBSU!

 

Suck it, AO

I'm really happy there wasn't a let down today after beating Kentucky.  The Pac 12 is up for grabs this year, I'm excited for conference play to start!

My favorite part of the homestand was the 3rd period against the Sharks.  Outshooting them 10-2 to lock down the game.  The Ducks game is coming together and I like it!

Nice goal by Stewart, Ducks playing much better after the 1st 10 min of this game.  

Awesome, we should win our last game of the year.

I'd buy HB sooner rather than later...prices aren't going down on that one.  Iowa is going to pack the Rose Bowl, prices jumped to $600 today on stubhub just to get in and you can bet those aren't Stanford fans buying those tickets. 

That's correct, but Arizona's top bracket rate for state income tax is 4.54%, much lower than California.  (Wait until there is a team in Nevada, that might be a much better draw for high ticket guys.)  I don't believe the city income tax in Phoenix, which depends exactly where you live is much to sneeze about.  I don't think it was an important factor in his decision, but it's kind of icing on the cake.  Probably gives him an extra $1-$2 million per year.  If you live and work in California, and you can't shelter much income you could end up giving back almost half of what you make to the government (federal and state) in taxes when you're in his bracket.  It's not as easy to shelter income as it used to be, but I'm sure his financial advisers will ferret out a few.

More than half...39.6% fed, 13.3% state.