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  1. Mike Sixel
    It's so pricey....I know that at one point my son found a download you could install to allow you to use the touchscreen when the car was moving.......also, the radio controls are the worst. Is there any other system where you can't push a button for a particular radio station, with a list of 5 or more on the screen or buttons?
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    I'm not sure what context you need, in addition to wealth is at concentration levels that has historically led to major societal upheavals. Do you need more context than that? Also, I think we won't agree that percentages are the best measure. Let's look at minor league players! Raising their income by 500% or 1000% would put them in a living wage, and other than owners, no one is going to cry foul if that happens. Well, some fans would, but not many........At the same time, if someone worth a billion dollars gets 10% more money, it does not change their lifestyle. Some people do demonize wealth. I demonize some approaches to gathering wealth, and to avoiding paying back to the society that allowed you to gather that wealth in the first place. But suggesting that we have progressive taxes is not demonization, it is not implying that wealth is evil.....it is acknowledging that we are all in this together, and that some people can better afford to help keep society functioning than others can......and in many cases, that help does not hinder their lifestyle at all.
  3. Mike Sixel
    I don't see how anyone trades a current MLB pitcher for Gonzalez. He went unsigned for months.....
  4. Mike Sixel
    I doubt anyone here is suggesting we take all the money from the wealthy.... How about more, on par with where taxes were when we had a middle class, or even close to other nations?
  5. Mike Sixel
    Brock, did you ever change the crappy interface on your Mazda entertainment system?
  6. Mike Sixel
    Cool thread this year, mostly about guys you cared about. Thanks everyone
  7. Mike Sixel
    Not so sunny in Portland either.... But it will feel that way after a Twins' win.
  8. Mike Sixel
    A great example of why many hard core liberals believe there is no point in voting.... They're all the same, Democrats and Republicans. Not my view, but this kind of thing reinforces that view of you have it.
  9. Mike Sixel
    In many other nations it is all pre-filled out, and you just verify it.... Sigh.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Not sure where you get May.... But by mid June it was obvious.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Democrats about to make it illegal for the government to offer free online tax filing..... When do we get real choices? I'd swear, but that's not allowed.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Apparently not for Austin. And yes, they need high end pitching. But then most teams do....
  13. Mike Sixel
    College was a lot cheaper..... And we made good money, and did not buy a big house, and drove our cars into the ground. I barely made it to the dump one year driving my old car there....
  14. Mike Sixel
    Having this level of inequality is bad for democracy, business, poor people, and probably the survival of the US, if history is to be believed.
  15. Mike Sixel
    The question of what to do with Austin has nothing to do with Lynn..... That already happened. The Lynn signing was an ok move, not a great move, that didn't work. But they needed pitching....
  16. Mike Sixel
    It's not about losing Cave, it's about having four good OF on the roster. You can't replace him in the roster without sending out someone else....
  17. Mike Sixel
    I would be good with that......
  18. Mike Sixel
    Where did I demonize inheritance, exactly? I don't demonize income, but I still think it should be taxed. You were the one who brought up "how is inheritance" different, I answered how it is different than income I earn through my actions...... And, are you suggesting that we tax all inheritance? Because I'm pretty sure I've made it clear that's not what I'm suggesting....... this should probably move to general politics, but in the end, it would be cool if you rebutted actual arguments I make, not other ones.
  19. Mike Sixel
    If I was writing this season, Euron wouldn't make it back to Westeros, he'd die at the hands of Daario, when the Second Sons stop the Golden Company from leaving Essos. Or maybe Daario dies, and Euron makes it back.....but to me, that's a battle that should happen, but won't. I look at the cast, and I always go back to my earliest prediction, that at the end, only the women would survive to rule. That leaves Yara out of dying......though now that Jon bleeping Snow is going to the MAN who saves the world (yawn), I guess that overall prediction was wrong. Frankly, I'd prefer an ending like we got in ROME, some good stuff happened, but in the end it was still bad......
  20. Mike Sixel
    I have zero interest in taxing unrealized capital gains. Just as I have zero interest in taxing home values for an unsold home. Or business values for an unsold business.
  21. Mike Sixel
    If only they had an opening last year, where they could have used the young players more......oh, wait....
  22. Mike Sixel
    What work did people that inherit money do for it? That's why it is different than taxing my savings, or Brock's. To me anyway. I'm not in love with taxing wealth, it was already taxed when earned. I'm cool with taxing realized gains at the same as other income, btw. Did you know if you can keep your "income" under a certain level, there is ZERO tax on long term capital gains?
  23. Mike Sixel
    I had forgotten that! Thanks.......I'm not in love with Marwin yet, but I'm also not out of patience to become so.
  24. Mike Sixel
    I share Brock's general fear of taxing wealth. Inheritance? I'm more down for that.......though even amount should be tax free (not sure where the line is, really). But I certainly don't care about people that have hundreds of millions because they were born into a rich family complaining that they'd only have tens of millions if we taxed them some..... Wealth disparity leads to bad things happening in the world, first with the poor, then the middle, and eventually the wealthy when the others get fed up enough.....
  25. Mike Sixel
    Pretty much after my first job......my wife and I really wanted a cushion for emergencies. I mean, I started saving when I was a kid, I had a few thousand saved up before college (which was a decent amount back then)......
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