Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Gonzales: No plans to dismantle White Sox
(www.chicagotribune.com)
Yeah, and the White Sox had no plans to dismantle when they raved about Joe Borchard.
Read More...General manager Rick Hahn said it’s too early to consider rebuilding the White Sox, although there was an interesting development Monday night.
Second baseman Gordon Beckham started at shortstop in his third game on a minor league rehabilitation assignment for Triple-A Charlotte.
...“We haven’t altered our plan since we left spring training, which was if we’re in a position to contend, we’ll add,” Hahn ...
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1. smileyy posted on October 14, 2011 at 09:01 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Never a more sympathy eliciting statement have I heard.
edit make that 2
/KevinButler
My first thought as well.
$14
- medicare/ss tax
- 13.8M
- 10% agent commission
= 12.4M
- 5% illinois income tax rate
= 11.8M
- 35% federal rate
= 7.7M
I guess most athletes aren't paying 10% commissions anymore, so in reality he wouldn't need much in the way of deductions to net close to $9M.
And if he wasn't actually working for his paycheck, if he was a layabout trust fund dilettante like Theresa Heinz Kerry, his $3M in federal tax would only be something like $1.3M, and like her pay no self employment tax (i.e. social security/medicare).
E.g.,
As for the proposed Buffet rule, Dunn said he wasn’t familiar with the proposal but generally favored buffets.
See, this joke works only if the two words are pronounced the same. Unless the implication is he likes getting smacked upside the head. Perhaps it's too damned subtle for me.
It works much better as a Jimmy Buffet reference.
Which is of course what I said. Hint: deductions. I'll spell it out next time if you need help.
But unless you are also a trust fund dilettante, it's impossible to have enough deductions to reduce your rate to anywhere near Theresa Heinz Kerry levels.
Doesn't this get tiresome for you? I mean, with Nieporent, there's at least a sense of humor. Whatever.
I bet Felix Pie jokes drive you crazy too. I have BTF to thank for teaching me that some people primarily process words as sounds and think these jokes completely fall flat. I wonder what percentage of the population reads that way rather than primarily visually?
This indirectly made me realize something: How did I ever learn how to pronounce Nieporent's name?
Even the most charitable reading suggests you think a competent accountant would be able to knock down the federal rate by only a few points. You don't actually handle other people's money for them, do you?
Yes, but I don't do your work for you. Why don't you show how Adam can get his federal tax rate down to, oh, say, even 15%? Not Theresa Heinz Kerry levels, but close.
Not at all. I always think it's hilarious that Theresa Heinz Kerry and her boy toy campaigned for higher specific income taxes on the "rich" that they were shielded from having to pay, and that they have continued to evade taxes so successfully while pontificating so hypocritically.
And it's always fun to tweak the "raise taxes on the rich" crowd by pointing out how complicated the issue they always try to over-simplify and demagogue about actually is, and the inconvenient fact that so many rich pay such huge amounts of taxes at substantial rates while other rich barely pay at all. They don't want to admit the real problem with the tax code is the unfairness that cuts across taxpayers at the same income levels.
The working rich should be occupying Theresa Heinz Kerry's yacht and camping out in the yards of trust funders everywhere until they start contributing their fair share.
I knew you would try something under-handed like that. Since I was the one who started trolling the thread, it would actually be my responsibility to apologize.
Which I hereby do, since your unexpected graciousness has rendered me defenseless and destroyed my remaining self-rightous anger.
I'm gonna go with 95% (or whatever percent of the world is not deaf). You hear the words when you read them.
Also, the article didn't use enough words with a "K". Cracker! Pickle! Keokuk! Now that's funny.
I seem to recall a young Pete Incaviglia being spectacularly wrong when he was asked what he though a typical working wage was in the US.
Sure...he's one of the Martha's Vineyard Incaviglias.
Maybe Dunn likes blows to the body ;).
There are plenty of words that I read which rarely come up in conversation, so I process them as strings of letters (and I enjoy visual puns), but I think I make up pronunciations for them in my head. I experience problems when it comes to strings of numbers longer than four or five. There are no consonant or vowel numbers. This makes numbers hard for me to process; especially if they are abstract like phone numbers, CUSIPs or account numbers and do not correspond to a quantity of something or a rate. Social security numbers aren't as much of a problem, because dashes divide them into manageable chunks.
I just had an epiphany about this recently, because I was making errors like this at work. I haven't completely figured out what causes this. It could have been an old head injury from a car accident I was in 21 years ago. It could be from a learning disability that I was able to overcome and recent stress has triggered it. Regardless, it makes data entry difficult and I work for a small firm, so I wind up having to do a lot of it.
You don't really need visual cues to chunk. If I come across some account number, say 100928376223, I see it as 100-928-376-223*, and that is easy enough to remember for a little while.
*) that is: ninehundredtwentyeight and not nine-two-eight. It makes a difference.
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