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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-life-expectancy-around-the-world-in-2025/ Among other data showing that were falling behind other developed countries in various indicators of quality of life. Too much crappy pesticide-and sugar-laden food, pollutants and infrastructure (or lack thereof) that require you to drive your fat lazy butt anywhere you go. Not to mention drastically overpriced medical care.

What a Sophie's choice. Go against an all-timer in your weaker style, or a GOAT in your better style.

Who is a consumer of any business over 100 employees. ? Amazon. Whole Foods? Jewel ? Mariano’s ? Walmart? Target? Banks? These are proposals. stop spending Rampant $ on nonsense and you don’t need new taxes every year. They already raised my property taxes twice in the last few years. City stickers cost a fortune. Plate stickers cost a fortune. All are increasing. You never comment on rampant spending. Just your dislike for meta or Twitter. why do I pay 0.10 a bag st the grocery store

You are not a consumer on Twitter. You are a set of eyes. What do you currently pay for Twitter?

Taxes to businesses are absorbed by the business or passed on to the consumer. I’m not sure. You seem to know. Let me know

god pyles is dumb

He wouldn't get caught, though he's such a weirdo i could see him turning around cause he thought it would be fun to negotiate or something.

Once again, the proposal does not raise your taxes

This guys a proven tax cheat + a billionaire. 15% of his “income” is gambling wins. Sure. But raise our taxes

Stupid is as stupid does: "In 2021, General Motors CEO Mary Barra announced the auto giant would phase out all gas-burning vehicles by 2035." "Ford announced it was shifting focus from electrics to hybrids. The automaker had separated its production lines into traditional and electric divisions just two years earlier, and since then, "Ford's electric vehicle division has lost $12 billion, including $2.2 billion in the first half of this year," https://reason.com/2025/10/15/g-m-takes-1-6-billion-loss-after-electric-vehicle-subsidy-goes-away/ Tens of BILLIONS of dollars destroyed. Value flushed. The nincompoops are un-EVing factories so they can make cars people want again. How do Barra and Farley and all the other hoaxamanaic climateer glue sniffers keep their jobs? Those shareholders are the most forgiving putzes in the world.

This and it’s endless. The $21 per employee per company over 100 is going to be passed on to Chicago people. Were discussed ad nauseam businesses leaving for tax reasons. They tax bags at the grocery store. $0.10 cents a bag. They need to look at the nonsense they spend $ on vs more taxes. White collar people and companies are leaving. It’s a house of cards

I don't think the singlet is a major factor in wrestling's overall landscape. Most kids that begin in youth wrestling do so because wrestling is in their family. Their dad wrestled, their brothers wrestle, cousins, someone. The singlet isn't going to matter because a lot of these kids are either signed up at an early age or they want to wrestle because someone they know wrestles. They want to wrestle. I think where you are hit the hardest is in recruiting kids that didn't wrestle growing up, especially at the junior high level. There we a number of people I went to school with that said they'd never wear a singlet. Coaches have a hard time recruiting football players because they don't want to wear a singlet. Being from Washington State, there is hardly a rich tradition of wrestling, especially in the more metro areas. Maybe in the mid-west and more traditional wrestling states, the singlet is a smaller obstacle. But I know first hand, especially with kids in Jr. High, a lot of kids have apprehension about coming out for wrestling because of the singlet. How many potential athletes are we losing? I don't know, could be 0.5%, 2%, 5%, who knows. But regardless, objectively, the singlet is ridiculous. If our memories were wiped and we were shown the WNO uniforms and a singlet and asked which you rather wear, literally no one is picking a singlet.

Word.

The real question is how would the city even do this?

This isn't a tax on Chicagoans.

Companies pay taxes all the time. Well, they should, but sometimes don't. Meta's effective tax rate is below 12%.

I think no third party would make the investmemt unless the government went first. You want the government along side for protection.

Chicago is among the highest taxed city in all of America. There are some that are close / worse but they’re crazy with their taxes. Stop wasting and expanding programs and expecting everyone else to pay for your crap. stop blowing billions on illegals and expecting us to pay more and more and more for them

I originally said that his other points had some relevance. But participation numbers are super strong. Kids who want to wrestle are wrestling. We aren't lacking for participants and we don't have a bunch of participants who will come into the sport once the singlet is abolished. There are other arguments to be made, but the singlet holding back participation is a bad argument.

If you replace Megan Fox's head with AJ Ferrari's, is she even hot?

I believe the numbers are the highest they've been in decades, but not all time, not that it really matters for this argument. Yes, numbers of participation are higher than they have been at any other point this century, but that isn't the point here. The question should be asked is, are there any barriers that prevent kids from getting involved with wrestling? If you say that the singlet does not deter kids that are on the fence about going out for wrestling, you are lying to yourself and everyone else. We're on this message board because we are die-hard wrestlers/fans. We aren't the audience to ask about if singlets are a problem, because we already love the sport and that has always been a part of it. Saying things such a "grow a pair and put on the singlet" is just gatekeeping the sport we love from insecure kids that aren't comfortable wearing a singlet in front of their peers. What is the upside of limiting our potential athletes to just those that aren't afraid to wear a singlet? If a change in uniform would get even just a small percentage of new athletes involved in the sport.. what does that hurt other than our nostalgia? Eventually, I do think fight shorts and a rash guard will be the standard in wrestling, and when that happens future generations of wrestlers will look back on singlets the way my generation looks back on how goofy the shorts and tights look of the 80s was, and they won't be able to believe that our sport used to make us wear such a ridiculous uniform.

First they came for Meta and Twitter . . .

Arnold is 5'6. Any idea of him wrestling 197 is ludicrous.

I have a hard time giving a crap about taxing Meta and Twitter.

With all of his contacts on the Street couldn't the Sec Treas have sweet talked a private firm to do it without taxpayer $$ involved? While the goal of stability for an emerging ally is laudable I don't think the federal government should be swapping anything for anything. Swapping is not in the constitution from where I read it. Edit: I should have read all the posts before posting. WKN notes 3rd parties are being approached. My point stands that I object to the US Gov speculating in currencies on principle.