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See, here's the thing: I get taxed a lot. I'm solid upper-middle class with just my own income already, and then my wife makes a bit more than I do, so we pay. A lot. When I say a lot, I mean that in real numbers, not in percentage alone. 10% tax to someone who only has $100 is a lot for that person. That $10 has more significance for someone who is poor. the same 10% tax to someone who has 1,000,000 is A LOT MORE, right? Except that when it comes to meeting basic needs, the 100,000 is less significant to the person who has 1,000,000. It won't prevent him or her from meeting their basic needs. I use that only for a base example to prove my point: If I had to pay another 3% of my income toward federal taxes, and as a result of that, it would provide tuition-free college education, it wouldn't bother me in the least. The extra money that I'd be paying in taxes wouldn't harm my ability to provide for the basic needs of myself, my wife, or my children. Hell, we'd still be doing really well. And that kind of investment in our own country is sorely needed. The ripples from investing in the grass roots of the country rather than letting it trickle down causes the standard of living to go up for ALL Americans; not just the 1%. I'm really good with that. I love my country. All of it. Not just the wealthy people.

Thank God! Our society can return to its previous course.

No kidding. If you 'hover' over his avatar pic, a box with some user info will pop up. At the bottom of that is a couple 'buttons'. One is "Ignore User." Probably the biggest improvement of the upgrade.

I'm just amusing myself. Apologies.

Good catch. I did say it was interesting.

Update - now over 800 former federal prosecutors have signed the letter making it clear that Trump obstructed justice to try to hide his misdeeds.

And that is why they all pay to come to the US for higher education

Hey Turtle, remember waybackwhen when you made an assertion about someone else's beliefs? I 'member...

I have no doubt that is true, and I would support such a move. However, given that you just claimed that you "despise others telling me to what and how they are going to spend my money" I find your vehemence amusing. Apparently you only despise others telling you what and how to spend your money when it's spent on something that does not support your agenda; when it is something that does support your agenda you are fine with it. Welcome to the attitude of . . . . pretty much everyone in the US, including all those liberals you are always attacking.

What hypocrisy? He said he's happy to pay more than people who make less than him. He said he's happy to pay a greater percentage than people who make less than him. He said he's happy to pay more than he pays now. Sounds pretty damn consistent to me.

None of what you said in the last two posts logically follows from Yobnoc's position. You're arguing against a strawman, and doing it in a dickish way. One can only conclude that the things he is saying make you too uncomfortable to honestly assess your own views on the topic.

Now you're just talking bullshit. The man clearly indicated a willingness to pay a share. We all pay a share, the theory is that we pay some share partly according to our ability to pay. It will always be a never ending battle how much that will be. The bottom line is that no one gets rich without a society based on rules. The fairer the rules are the more wealth will be generated. Less corruption equals more wealth overall.

They preyed upon people that wanted to, and could make a quick buck. They skirted the rules a bit - found a back door into an industry that they could exploit. The only way this works for them is if it's supplemental income to someone, not a full time profession. No sympathy for the companies. Some - but not much sympathy for those that wanted to find a back door and are now complaining. I despise the "You Owe Me" society that we live in now.

I don't have a bit of sympathy for anyone involved in Lyft or Uber. The gig economy put the taxi business entirely out on the street and now they're griping because they don't get paid enough for it to be a real income.

I haven't been posting here long, but from what I can tell, you sidestep and dance around every attempt to get you to clarify your position. That's called trolling. You come in, stir the pot, and never provide any specific answers to probing questions on your positions. I think I'm going to join the growing group of people who put you on "ignore," as soon as I figure out how to do so.

Yea, we have a basic 48v club car at the DZ. It needed batteries. We looked at the price and bought a used Ford Winstar van instead.

I've been doing 450's for a long time now. Last year, I wanted to try out only harness to explore the difference. I think I ended up doing 200 jumps with harness only. I'm jumping a HK-75(WL 2.6) and a HKT-69 (WL 2.9). Front riser turns: Gave me a much faster dive. Sometimes at Pink Open, it can get turbolent. And sometimes so much, that I couldn't hold my front risers down thoughout the dive, ruining the dive. Harness only: A much flatter a searching dive. I was doing the turn too slow though. And when I was speeding up the turn in general, I found it hard to get enough speed for the rollout-power to be efficient. It's quite comfortable though. You just chill and turn, giving your brain peace for concentration(no mucles needed, pretty much). At the moment, I wanna go back to 450 with fronts, or go to 630 only harness. At times, I would get the SAME horizontal speed on the 75(WL 2.6) with fronts, compared to the 69(WL 2.9) with harness only. As far as Setup: Fronts: Easy. You don't travel as much in the dive. You don't have to account for drift in the turn as much. Harness: Semi-Hard. You have to start the turn further out, and you travel a bit more forcing you to really read the winds and try to calculate the drift in the turn. So my conclussion was: Harness only = less speed and power through the gates. Hard setup. Easy to turn. Needs a bigger turn, or I simply need more training to adjust(faster turn). Fronts = More speed and power through the gates. Easy setup. Hard in turbolence.

That is actually good news, we don’t want the economy to overheat. Moderate growth, full employment, real wage growth and low inflation, it doesn’t get any better than that.

April made 12 months - I don't miss it.