Kansas Crimson

zsn wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:32 am Fish - Now, replace the word “gays” in your argument with, sequentially, Irish, Jews, Muslims, Blacks.

This is what I struggle with. One should have the right to broadcast their bigotry so that everyone knows that this person is a bigot. But when does that become a societal problem? What if said person is an emergency room physician in a small town?

I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong in your opinion, just exploring the boundaries.

Feral wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 5:46 pm
Crow was "leasing" his superyacht, from himself...

For years, the Billionaire was paying an average income tax rate of 15%. Typical of Billionaires, but less than many middle-income Americans. I paid > twice that rate last year!

The rich, as we’ve reported, often deduct millions of dollars from their taxes related to buying and operating their jets and yachts. Crow followed that formula through a company that purported to charter his superyacht. But a closer examination of how Crow used the yacht raises questions about his compliance with the tax code, experts said. Despite Crow's representations to the IRS, ProPublica reporters could find no evidence that his yacht company was actually a profit-seeking business, as the law requires.


...In order to claim these sorts of deductions, taxpayers must be engaged in a real business, one that’s actually trying to make a profit. If expenses dwarf revenues year after year, the IRS might conclude the activity is more of a hobby.

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Feral wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2023 11:37 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:01 am "Of course Congress can regulate the Supreme Court. Congress funds the court. Congress has traditionally made changes to the court's structure and composition. Congress has historically made changes to the court's appellate jurisdiction. And there's a provision in the Constitution that says something like, 'The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction under regulations that Congress provides.' It just can't be that the Court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to any checks
and balances from anbody else. I mean, we're not imperial."

twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:09 pm https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics ... index.html

"The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to freeze a lower court order that bars the government from regulating so-called ghost guns – untraceable homemade weapons – as firearms under federal law.

The brief order grants the Biden administration’s request to allow the regulations to remain in effect while legal challenges play out."

twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:27 pm The notion that you are not allowed to regulate ghost guns is fundamentally ignorant and an example of how far away from common sense this whole "but mah right's" BS can carry you.