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Why doesn't it matter more to you that this Country is going bankrupt and the effective corporate tax rate is about 1/4th what the middle class pays?

But still Ruth over Brooks? I'll do mine and it's based on personal preference. Abas could Wrestle today with their scrambling ability where as... given the way Wrestling has changed, I think others would have had more trouble). I'm also prioritizing College Wrestling 125-Abas 133-Vito- The way he dominated RBY and Fix, then won a WT, he gets the nod from me. 141-Zain 149-Dake-I'm throwing him in here 157-Nolf's one of the most overlooked Wrestlers. Only really "lost" to Imar, he also came back and beat Imar. 165-Taylor 174-Starocci- I can see Askren here...I just can't put him over Starocci 184-Brooks 197-Cael HWT-Stevenson I might have Varner as my #2 at 197. 133 others have better careers... but Vito was in a loaded weight and dominant. I'm a guy who didn't see the older guys, I just think Wrestling is better than it was 20 years ago by in large and some of the controversial ones, ie, Snyder...I don't know how you don't givve the edge to the guy 40 pounds heavier. Starocci and Askren, Askren thrived at getting guys out of position... but Carter was a lot like Pentelton in that he was just so technically sound in every position. 10 matches...I'll guess 6/4 Starocci. Jordan Burroughs was a stud, but I'm only going off College...and I just have him right behind Nolf and Taylor. Burroughs was competitive with Howe at 165. Howe got down big and then got banged up so we never saw a healthy rematch(though I suppose you could use that as an argument for JB as I think Howe was a stud and actually underrated). Lee and Abas would be a matchup of styles. I like Abas slick shots, but Lee just worked guys on top. I'm still of the opinion that the best of Lee will come in the next few years, the further his knee injury gets put behind him.

Sorry, but except common sense. Is anone really taking Snyder or Stevenson at HWT? I've been as big a fan of Snyder(sans the girls in the red light district in whatever European city he was Wrestling in on a given weekend) but...this isn't a discussion if Hendrickson doesn't pull off one of the greatest upsets of all time. If it's not close without the upset, then you're allowing one match to change the outcome. As for the Freestyle and Greco, he came, he saw, he conquered. But you're comparing a 97KG Snyder vs a 125KG Stevenson who can match Snyder's footspeed. I don't know what you meant to say by "beat objectively better competing at NCAAs multiple years." I think you went through that quickly and missed a word or something.

That's what he believes. It's more that he advises to the parents that they don't focus on results until you're in 5th and 6th grade and you don't Wrestle many tournaments. And just to reiterate, this is ALL me relaying what people have said or what he's said online. I have some nephews that have gone to AWA for camps or Wrestlers that went there. Now personally, I would have hated that. Wrestling was only fun when I was...Wrestling. Practice was really never fun(unless we were Wrestling) and I hated drilling. Part of that is because I had two kids shat themselves during practice...and often had to Wrestle the HWTs because I was tall and skinny(I have rectified one of those two). -That...I hope is more of a problem unique to me and he finds a way to keep practices more fun than ours were. I think it's mainly the mental aspect(I may be wrong)...from what I've gleaned. If you're a normal, well adjusted adult, it's probably fine to start earlier(and he's not stopping kids, he just doesn't take kids to tournaments at that age). Sadly, kids Wrestling tournaments are like a bunch of psychos betting on dog fights all jockeying to get closer to the action and screaming instructions at their kids...

Works a little better if he's not suing Journalists, calling them the enemy of the state, threatening to throw them in prison... They don't come for the people first there sparky, it's the media(even Fox when they "aren't very nice to him).

LOL...I think you may be the political JimmyCinnabon who trolls his own "team" by saying just ridiculous things. These could go forever. Remember when the Wars in Gaza and the Ukraine started because they didn't respect Biden and Trump would end them on Day1(which we all knew was nonsense as he was going to do everything on day 1)...and now he's wondering...when did Putin become such a mean guy!

I don't know if that's what HE is saying, I think he's speaking for the general electorate. But...he can clarify that. The Gini coefficient...which tracks income inequality is at it's highest levels since the great depression(not at that level, but on it's way). I know this is a fools errand, arguing that we need to go back to something CLOSER to a 1950s tax rate to address the debt(well, first the deficit and then the debt...if we eliminated the deficit, we could actually... in theory be fine). Meanwhile, the income inequality has gotten BETTER in China. They seem to have at least learned run lesson. You can't JUST have rich oligarch's and then a peasant class. Another thing I omitted in my last post, get rid of oil/natural gas subsidies. I know this is controversial as it was suggested those "costs" would be passed on to the consumer, but...that's asinine as the US doesn't set oil prices and the different would be marginal at best. Pennies a gallon vs tens of billions.

You may be right. People are short sighted...and many people are just trying to survive. One thing that baffles me is how you're eliminating the subsidies on on the ACA. The cost of health insurance is going to sky rocket next year. The very thing the ACA was created to curb. But they keep stripping away piece by piece. But that's why it shouldn't target those making under 50K a year or should keep the child tax credit. But we have to change something. The corporate tax rate. Christ, just make it 12% but make it 12% on net revenue. That's a lot more money. Raise taxes on incomes over 400K. I don't want to see Capital Gains go away as... that's where most of my money comes from, but maybe you make it 5%, 17.5% and 22.5% and if it's part of a CEOs compensation package, it's taxes as income. Cut military spending by 25% Do these things while you CAN and not when you absolutely HAVE to and things are already crumbling. Hell, maybe it's easy to say since I know it won't happen, but that's what I'd do. ***The ONE thing I would also chance, the estate tax. #1-You exempt small farms, BUT...it is taxable if you sell within 5 years. These farmers live their whole lives sitting on...millions or tens of millions of dollars of "net worth," but...they are barely getting by and they've been screwed enough. There are Family farms all around me and since I was a kid, they've tried to figure out how they were going to keep it in the Family. -These people feed us. Don't let them go under because of the value of their land. #2-Don't raise the exemptions for anyone else. Tax liquid assets and then do not reset the capital gains for equities or property. If you Great Grandpa bought land for 150K in 1950 and it's worth 15M now, when you sell that, you have to pay the capital gains. This isn't a "the right are evil" post, this is a KEEP America Great and go back to the playbook that's worked for us in the past when we've accrued his type of debt. Also, 86 the tariffs on our allies. A growing GDP gives you a much stronger tax base. Imagine getting our Debt back down to 50% of the GDP instead of 130% or whatever it's going to be in 2-3 years. Raise the minimum retirement age for those of us under 50 to 65.

I feel like if anyone had REAL inside info(not just...a vague details from someone who kinda knows him which is...more accurate and how I should have articulated what little information I had)...it'd probably be Flo. Sure... never loved the Bare Feet, but I do love the way he brings kids along in the sport. He's not out there trying to get 2nd graders to win National Titles. That's why you have a lot of kids who aren't peaking until they are later in HS or College. But that's all secondary to his wife and children. I'm sure Ben will tell us all exactly what caused this in the future. Not to downplay how serious this is, but...this will not be the end of Ben Askren. ThatI'd bet money on.

Did you miss the part where I said WHEN THE DEBT IS 2X to 3X the GDP? Also, what is do different about this Country NOW vs under Eisenhower when people paid the higher tax rate because people KNEW we HAD to(and we STILL had massive wage growth and an economic boon)? What do you think becomes of the US at that point? This is quite literally a matter of National Security. I don't WANT to pay another 10K in taxes, but if it were to help the United States eliminate the deficit and THEN start to work to pay down the debt...I would absolutely do that...because there's really no sense in leave your children 10M dollars when that FIAT currently is destined to fail given the path we're on. This used to be something the Republicans PRETENDED to care about(though only the Democrats did something about). The cut to the Estate Tax was made permanent as well as the amount of money you could gift tax free were also made permanent. Taxes that overwhelmingly favor the rich. Oh, and the 529 tax break for K through 12 was made permanent. AGAIN, another that is something the rich OVERWHELMINGLY us vs everyone else. People invest money in a 529 so they can save for their child's College education. The wealthy put money in it so they can pay for 20,000 dollar a year private school. Things like the child tax credit and individual tax rates were not made permanent. This OVERWHELMINGLY favored the top .1%, 1% and top 5%. Right, and they sunset those, but they made the corporate tax rate(which was already a joke. Mind you the effective corporate tax rate prior to the 2017 cuts was 9%. So an already lower tax rate than any employee at a company that makes tens of billions a year. That's permanent. Again...this isn't political beyond NOT wanting to see the United States go the way of the Soviet Union and spend itself into the ground. There will be no Nation that will step up and help us out as we did then. Taxes suck. For the first time ever I actually bought a few BTC this year. Average lifespan of a Fiat currency 40 years. Do the math. Look how long it's been since we were taking off the Gold Standard(thereby making the dollar a Fiat currency). You also have to realize that when even corporations are largely in favor of repealing the permanent tax cuts from 2017 because they see the downgraded credit from Moody's and the ticking time bomb that is the bond market, they realize paying that 9% in taxes vs 6%...is worth it. Now if corporations payed ANYWHERE NEAR 21%...hell, even if they actually paid 15%, this would largely eliminate he problems we have with the deficit. Listen to what Buffett is saying here? Edit-forgot to link the video;

That's a good point. Scout and Jimmy post post incoherent posts, just copy and pasting Twitter content and are unable to stay on topic.

Kid, you are obviously another poster on this board. I've educated you and shown you the economic collapse that would happen to the United States if you were to be able to Thanos your way and eliminate all "illegal immigrants." You're talking 1.5 TRILLION in lost tax revenue and econmic impact...and that's before you get to ANOTHER 1.6 Trillion if Trump deports as many as he claims(though he's doing it haphazardly, arresting German Tourists who are on legal visas, Native American, PUERTO RICANS...who I have no doubt you are unaware are not Americans). The problem with you Jimmy, you're never actually reading what the other person says. You're simply thinking about what stupid posts you're going to say 3-4 times in a row and ignore any actual evidence you don't like. The United States benefits from undocumented workers EXPONENTIALLY more than it costs them....and that's why Trump is making a big show of it and doing such a poor job of it. I take it you never looked into the crisis in Nebraska due to a lack of farm hand? You want to Make America Great AGAIN...this time, skip the segregation and racism like we had in the 1950s, the more prosperous nation in the Countries History, you raise taxes, and you increase work Visa by at LEAST 1-2 MILLION or... we're going to stay on the same path the Republicans have taken us toward bankruptcy(no Republican has cut the deficit since Eisenhower who was not really a Republican or a Democrat as he considered running for either party, but he would definitely be more of a Democrat in TODAY'S political landscape). EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT has cut the deficit (I erroneously stated Carter had no, but he'd taken the deficit, which ws at 4%and cut it to 2.5% by the time he left office. And then you have Reagan, Bush Jr and Trump who MASSIVELY increased it and Bush Sr who increased it and tried to address it with tax increases and was booed and lost the election). (and yes, I know this is too much information for you to absorb in one post...then again...it seems as though it all is).

I like to wait and hear what the actual facts are, but I googled and found that a trans athlete won in CIF(and in retrospect, it wasn't even track, the link was for something else). I have a strong opinion on Men who transition to Women and they compete vs Women. That's black and white IN MY opinion. Lia Thomas is a selfish person with mental health issues. Not because she's trans, but because she competed in what was obviously an unfair event. But DSD is...an ENTIRELY different thing... and it's beyond me if they should be allowed to compete. About 1 in 140 Olympians(Female) have DSD. It's normally about 1 in 20,000 I don't know how to regulate that. What about LeBron? He was born with the genetics that made him 6'8 260 and have a 4.56 40 as a Soph in HS(when he was the Nations top WR prospect). 1-Walking around in a women's locker room with your penis out 2 years after identifying as a Women=Sick and should be banned. 2-DSD after spending your whole life living as a Gender and often not even knowing? And by the way, not all DSD have little dicks. Some of them have internal testes or whatever. They don't necessarily know. So I have no opinion on this other than...I think it is cruel to talk about it in this manner or pretend to be an authority.

Ok...well, in fairness, I have no knowledge of her beyond what I saw in this video and she just seemed... frankly a little pathetic. I think you're jumping to a conclusion with the Craigs List Comment, but...I don't know. I've honestly never used Craigs List for anything....however... I AM learning via intramatwrestle how to find prostitutes. I even know some of the lingo now. Just looking for a QV...(well, that's the extent of the terminology that I've learned).

Because Trump said as much. Because Trump is on video telling a 10 year old girl he'd be dating her in 10 years(so she'd be 20, he'd be in hi 70s). No assumptions need to be made here...he's said it. He did go for an 'older' women when the 54 year old Trump started dating 28 year old Melania.

He pointed at a 10 year old girl...said he'd be dating her in 10 years...loudly and publicly and you are...just fine with that? He was also sued for raping a girl with Epstein named as a co-defendant. This was before the Epstein arrest....well, the 2nd one where he committed suicide while in custody of the Trump DOJ. Of course if you find the "he committed suicide" claim to be a lie, that's what the Trump administration has said. They've "seen the video," as Kash Patel has said and he knows Trump killed himself.

I 100% think Musk going nuclear(figuratively peaking as Scout and El Luchador will think I'm inferring he has access to the Nuclear weapons)...was definitely ketamine fueled. It doesn't mean it's not true. It's just sloppy. Like that group of girls who get too drunk and they start bickering and then one blurts out how Becky cheated on Spring Break! I still think it's hilarious, the most predictable thing ever(who thought this would end well) and it's funny how people are arguing he didn't have access to the Epstein Files...like they have a clue.

Perhaps I missed something, but can you tell me why you're fixated on Trump in this particular case rather than... the fact that you have biological Males competing against girls?

Ok...well, was this thread about Trump or the absurdity of a biological male competing against girls in the California State Track tournament series? I would also bet you have a different opinion about abortion, right? You likely think that it's wrong that this issue was sent back to the states vs the Federal Govt? Correct me if I'm wrong here.

Ok. I don't think a marginally higher tax rate will matter as much to people when our debt is 2X then 3X our GDP. Also, who's tax cuts are expiring? I seem to remember some were made permanent and some...were temporary...

I thought that was just an assumption... Why is "Craiglist fight club" in quotes? You really think she went over there as a prostitute? And it's not a very good job of selling herself as a badass role model. She says she lost that fight that you're dubious about and she talks about how inexperienced she is in Wrestling.

Not "unwilling" to articulate your point, unable as the facts don't match up. I don't know what you would need to "code" here on a message board. And what "challenge" have I refused?

The Nazi's. Keep up Boy. -People focused on Racial Purity. Ie, an ethnocentric nationalist. -An ideological authoritarian. No wonder you keep saying 'watch the video, watch the video,' like a poorly trained parrot.

Yeah, I don't think you understand what the word "Strawman" means either as I CONTINUALLY addressed your point in depth. Your specialty is trying to find someone who thinks what you do, but unlike you is smart enough to articulate it and then say, 'go listen to HIM, HE is smart!' By the way, while you bring up "Strawmaning," you quite literally DID bring up Pol Pot when talking about the biggest threats to Domestic Terroris!

I'm just curious how obsessed with Starocci and his...apparent lack of Wrestling ability he can be. He started numerous threads about 'Cstal' because he wanted to make sure a 5X National Champ wouldn't "pre-emptively" end up on the...Mr Rushmore of Wrestling. He's been talking about him for the last couple years and now he's still randomly bringing him up when the topic has nothing to do with him. You'd think with all the 4X Champs Iowa has, he'd worry about the....oh... ok, now I'm seeing it...