Recent content by HeelYeah2012

The pitching staff will still be really good. DeCaro has been off the last 2 weeks which I trust won’t continue.

Yeah, think we are all in agreement with all of the above. Nothing controversial in your post at all.

Ah! I see the Tuberville thing now. Yes, extremely dumb. Even as someone who supports women’s athletics being a safe space for biological women, Tuberville looks stupid acting like there are entire teams of transgender people dominating women’s sports. Individual athletes here and there? Yes...

No one said women as a gender aren’t as good as men. Quit being so dramatic. It was relevant to the discussion to point out that ESPN still did their normal men’s college gameday every week this season, no more no less. When I first read WM’s post I thought he meant ESPN had sent their Gameday...

WM said “Gameday was just in Raleigh last week at Reynolds for a women's hoops game” as a way to defend his premise that women’s sports are more popular than ever. I just wanted to point out that it wasn’t like they chose a women’s game for Gameday on a Saturday over doing a men’s game. Apples...

Say what? Which women’s sports? SEC women’s basketball and softball - AKA the two most significant women’s sports - are both miles ahead of the Big Ten.

I don’t disagree with you they’re more popular than ever but they didn’t go to Raleigh for that ahead of a men’s game did they? The women’s game was on Sunday. I assume they did their normal Saturday men’s college gameday too.

I don’t disagree with you there. There are lots of ways to tax rich people more besides just trying to tax their unrealized gains, which has all kinds of pitfalls involved. I’m unclear if you even think taxing unrealized gains is a good idea or not, so I’m not saying you advocated for it.

An unrealized gain is not liquid. If you generate $100k in unrealized gains and then you get a $30k tax bill as a result of it, which liquid cash are you using to pay the tax bill? The investments could also just as easily go down by $100k next year if they went up by $100k this year.

Taxing unrealized gains is not only unconstitutional and completely unfair, but also would be a massive administrative burden. Do people have to get all of their investment properties appraised and such every year to determine their annual tax burden?

Just to be clear, you think it’s more sensible to tax unrealized gains than income?

I agree with the spirit of what you’re shooting for there - simplification of the tax system and everyone paying their fair share, with the elimination of many of the loopholes that currently exist and are used by extreme high earners. The only thing I would push back on and the reason I...

It’s “income” tax, not “wealth” tax.

You raise good points there. Especially in your unique situation I would agree. My initial thinking was that low income folks either don’t pay property taxes or pay very little in them, whereas the vast majority of property taxes paid are by the wealthy. But I am not trying to die on the hill...

You didn’t answer my questions at all. Regressive taxes are bad in general if the overall package of taxes are regressive. But something like sales tax being regressive in that sense has to be viewed against other taxes, like income tax, which are progressive in nature. The question I was...