The post addresses that. Maybe read before commenting next time.

She supported pushing the minimum wage up to $15, just over a slightly longer period than Bernie. Her college plan was for debt free college and community college so that poor students would get free support, but rich students wouldn’t. Then there’s the tax plan, which you’ve ignored from your original comment.

What sucks is that social media and short attention spans should make this a great time for poetry and the many great poets out there. I guess the curse of the medium is that there are much greater rewards for hackery.

No, that literally happened.

Clearly you fail to understand the Widow’s Cruse, which proves that doing good things doesn’t matter.

And yet Clinton pushed a tax increase on the wealthy, free college, and a higher minimum wage, plus dozens of other programs that raise revenue from the wealthy to fund benefits for the poor.

Did you see the Jon Bois episode on a hypothetical season in which Bonds never even swung his bat? Great angle.

Uh, no. That’s not how the NBA operates.

Dwight, LeBron, Kobe, Garnett, Amare, Tyson Chandler, Jermaine O’Neal, and McGrady all had pretty good careers. Again, what other leagues do has no bearing on the NBA. Even guys like Sebastian Telfair appreciated the ability to go pro, since his signing bonus allowed him to move his family out of a dangerous situation.

So, not the free market then? It makes no sense to compare leagues. Actual NBA teams in open bidding would pay far, far more than what the rookie wage scale provides. That’s undisputed. I don’t give a shit what the Turkish league pays.

Sure, and other players have said that they appreciate the seasoning. Many others have not benefited at all from their year in college. For top prospects, it’s just a chance to get hurt and give up a year of earnings.

If Brandon Roy had skipped college he probably would’ve had a much longer career. He’s a terrible example of your point, since injuries he sustained during the time he played for free ultimately knocked him off his ascent to superstardom. It’s lucky that he was able to get that second contract before his knees did him…

“NBA offers set contracts for rookies anyway and they’re well, well above what they’d see on the free market”

FYI, I believe it was Josh Barro that pointed this out, but the net effect of the standard deduction increase is about 15%, not 100% (and only 3% for seniors), since the framework calls for the elimination of the personal exemption to partially balance out the standard deduction increase.

How do you think this bill simplifies taxes? I’m pro-simplification, but I don’t see any way this framework helps. Removes some elements that are easy to handle, while throwing in a giant new loophole for shell corps.

I’d tentatively agree to that. Hard to put an exact number, since we haven’t seen actual numbers yet, but I think it’s likely that most low and middle class folks will see something.

Also, not necessarily true on your numbers. The plan also removes head of household status and monkeys with the child tax credit. It’s unclear, until they release the actual plan, whether a middle class single parent will see a cut or an increase. What’s absolutely certain is that heirs to giant fortunes and wealthy…

The reduction in brackets doesn’t even add any simplicity. I do my own taxes. There are two ways to figure out the amount at the end: the table, for which the number of brackets doesn’t matter, and the simple equation they provide, for which the number of brackets also doesn’t matter. It’s what idiots who have never…

The reduction in brackets is one of the least important parts of the bill, but is probably the straight up stupidest. It simplifies nothing and has literally no effect on the tax filing process.

If healthcare is expensive because of the government, then why does every other developed country in the world have universal coverage with cheaper prices? Singapore and France and Switzerland and Canada are all cheaper than we are because of government regulation.