TxFrog1999
The Man Behind The Curtain
That's tomorrow after I'm done with surgery at 7AM. ugh. I so want this over.
FWST: TCU stadium upgrade is another sign that colleges are going pro
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probably should drop some of fica on low earners. do alot more to stimulate economy than giving trumps kids millions . they will only have to fork it over to their russian handlers who will in turn send it to gucifer and wiki.
Maybe we should cut the federal income taxes on the 50% of the country that pays none.
did u vote early for moore?
Bob Sugar
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What's your tax plan? What's is a "fair" amount of income that one should be allowed to keep? $90,000? $70,000? What share should be yours of every dollar they make above that?
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purplePPO
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Oh. I guess like the professionals at The University of Texas?. Just asking.
BleedNPurple
Active Member
I just want to know where and when my helicopter pad is going to be ready! All KFC members invited to my suite. Grow up Mac!
TCURiggs
Active Member
Good luck with your transition!
sorta depends on what u want. greater disparity of income and wealth? repeal inheritance tax will do that. keep carried interest, lower pass thru, and u get that in spades.
u want to stimulate economy or give $4000 raises to every worker. (that's the pitch out of the white house). no tax cut since regan has actually resulted in that happening. Reagan took rates down to 39% but had to raise them again because....wait for it...wait for it...deficits. Remember when R's used to care about deficits? its seems a generation ago. GHW Bush?. nope , no stimulation there, and he raised taxes because wait ...wait...wait ..deficits. Again those pesky deficits. GW Bush?..well we know what happened there. Current 'experiment' in Kansas failed and they just raised taxes.
i guess if your libertarian ur all right with all that. in that case have minimum taxes,a huge military and the deficit will force cuts so SS and Medicaid. Of course if your from Houston u still want FEMA and flood insurance , but otherwise starve the beast. If your middle class likely u want to save Medicaid and maybe SS(something like 'i paid my FICA for 40 years, its my money"). In fact i have yet to find one millionaire retiree who doesn't love his Medicaid and eveyone cashes their SS checks.
so again what do u want? cause what's on offer is just going to make every Trump wealthier.
WhiteHispanicFrog
Curmudgeon
FROG PARENTS 1961
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Good grades AND high school football players from Fort Worth & Dallas and surrounding merto. In Miami the local kids go to play at home. Seems like somehow a program could be implemented where seats that were not filled/sold could be open to these kids in addition to maybe a huge section behind the endzones someday with an end zone expansion. In this computer/digital age either a scan of who actually is in the seats or a seat owner call in program would fill these seats with rabid fans and increase local fan interest and greatly help our home field advantage.
Punter1
Full Member
You haven't?? Isn't your daughter a showgirl??
Deep Purple
Full Member
Actually, Mac got this wrong. TCU announced that the addition of the new luxury and premium seating on the East side will add somewhat over 2,500 seats, not "no more than 1,000," as Mac reported. It's still a small increase in overall seating capacity, but about 1.5 times larger than Mac allowed for.
Also, I don't agree with him that college football is going pro, or even semi-pro. College programs in general, even FBS programs, simply couldn't afford this. People who make this claim don't really understand the nature and scale of the huge economic differences between for-profit (NFL) and nonprofit (college).
Someone (or several) will undoubtedly try to correct me by pointing out that the NFL also enjoys the same nonprofit, tax-exempt status as college programs. If so, your information is partly outdated and completely wrong, for two reasons:
1. The NFL, a $10 billion-per-year enterprise, gave up it's nonprofit tax-exemption in 2015 because it had become so controversial it was (in the words of Roger Goodell) "a distraction."
2. Even when the NFL was still tax-exempt, the exemption applied only to the league's central office, not to the 32 local club franchises that are the NFL's primary money-makers. The local franchises have always paid full taxes on all income from ticket sales, television rights fees, merchandise sales, and sponsorships.
2. Even when the NFL was still tax-exempt, the exemption applied only to the league's central office, not to the 32 local club franchises that are the NFL's primary money-makers. The local franchises have always paid full taxes on all income from ticket sales, television rights fees, merchandise sales, and sponsorships.
Could nonprofit college football possibly afford to go the same route? Not a chance. Among the 460 or so football programs in Division III, Division II, and the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level of Division I, every single program operates at a loss and is heavily subsidized by the host institution. These programs don't make enough money to pay their own operating costs, much less enjoy a profit.
Among the 130 or so schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, or top tier) of college football, only about 20-25 programs earn even enough money to pay their own operating costs, much less a profit that helps pay for all the non-revenue-earning sports programs the institution operates for both men and women. TCU is is among the fortunate few that can afford this, but only very recently (last 2-3 years). Once those other programs are paid for, very little net remains to be added to the university's coffers.
Collegiate football is simply not designed to be a money-making enterprise. Under its current economic model, it will never go pro. It would financially fail overnight. But it does go to show that comparing nonprofit operations like college football to for-profit enterprises like the NFL is a completely inapt mismatch. Like trying to bake an apple pie using oranges.
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YA
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I believe this a NCAA violation to give tickets away to high school kids for free (some of those honor students could be potential recruits for ANY sport). If a donor buys them and does it (like the car dealership), no problem, but the school cannot do it.
Old Greg
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Looks like somebody got a thesaurus for their birthday. Is there another word for Bailey's? Yes sir. Thank you sir.
Long Time Lurker
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ahhh They're going to push grand ma off a cliff!
ahhh This will hurt the children!
ahhh This will hurt the most vulnerable among us!
ahhh The old people will be forced to eat dog food!
ahhh This is a loaded gun pointed at the head of the middle class!
ahhh The constitution applies to every citizen of the world!
ahhh Emotion arguments with scary soundbites...loud noises!
Am I doing this correctly.
ahhh This will hurt the children!
ahhh This will hurt the most vulnerable among us!
ahhh The old people will be forced to eat dog food!
ahhh This is a loaded gun pointed at the head of the middle class!
ahhh The constitution applies to every citizen of the world!
ahhh Emotion arguments with scary soundbites...loud noises!
Am I doing this correctly.
gohornedfrogs
Tier 1
Muck has never sold one damn thing in his entire life. It's a joke that he can be sanctimonious about where our money is coming from.
ShadowFrog
Moderators
I got Deep’d at 0211.
purplecircle
Active Member
Maltese Falcon?
tell me ur net income and i will tell u how the tax cuts screw u...
unless ur a hedge fund manager, run a real estate REIT, partner at a law firm or make over $250K. BTW i always laff at the many. many broke dick R's i have met waiting for trickle down to lift their boat...er...raft...er ....kayak
i never got an answer. i can understand why u may want to be one of the original 15 who donate to rebuild AGS.
but what is the sales pitch to be a guy who subsidized executive suites?
i gather sales of suites and caviar won't cover the $100M spent. on that i could be mistaken.
but what is the sales pitch to be a guy who subsidized executive suites?
i gather sales of suites and caviar won't cover the $100M spent. on that i could be mistaken.
Froglaw
Full Member
I agree. How many club seats does anyone really need. I think the Club Seats should go to those true fans who donate nothing to the school.
1,000 plus on the waiting list for West Side Club seats.
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