TomRollTideRitter
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| Registered on: | 8/26/2016 |
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re: Allowing a new pitcher in middle of at bat
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 6/1/25 at 10:22 pm
Couldn’t the pitcher just fake an injury even if there was a rule against this
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re: Denmark raises retirement age to 70
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 6/1/25 at 10:16 am
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Data is here, straight from the IRS. As mentioned, those were 2022 figures, as I haven’t been able to find a full breakdown of a more recent year.
This appears to be just average federal income tax rate. I think total effective tax rate which would include FICA and state is a better metric.
This is notable to the original comment because capital gains are not subject to FICA.
So someone who makes a million capital gain with no other income in a year would pay an effective rate of around 19% vs mine at 1/5 of that income would be 14.85% income + 7.26% FICA which equals an effective rate of 22.11%.
With FICA, even someone on only $20K income is paying like 10%, so I think across the board that tax foundation chart is understating true tax burden on every income class.
re: Denmark raises retirement age to 70
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 5/31/25 at 7:02 pm
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Now that we are usuing correct terms, the top 1 % pays 26 %, the top 5%-1% pays 18.8%, the top 10% to 5% pays 14.3%, the top 25% to 10% pays 10.7%, the top 50% to 25% pays 7.7%, and the bottom 50% pays 3.7%. That is the analysis from 2022 tax year, average effective rate paid.
Curious the source of this because all of these seem too low to me across the board. My effective at $180K income was 22.11% last year in a state with no income tax.
re: Could the best college football team beat a UFL team?
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 5/29/25 at 11:12 pm
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They may not be nfl caliber but they are still grown men playing football professionally who were all good in college.
People say this as if guys hit a massive growth spurt at 23. Some of y’all act like guys run a 4.4 at the combine then somehow start running a 3.4 after a year in the league. Most elite athletes are athletically near their peak by 20 or 21, and then develop greater skill as professionals. Oftentimes the biggest line by size in all of football is at the college level.
There were 5 rookie pro bowlers including a QB last year. I don’t think the UFL has produced a single one outside of special teams.
I think the best college teams would run the table in the UFL.
Do you really think Luis Perez is a better QB than Jayden Daniels was at LSU? Jontre Kirlin is a better wideout now than Jamar Chase was at LSU? If age is so important, why doesn’t BYU win the national title all the time?
re: Capitol One buys discover
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 5/26/25 at 6:12 am
I use credit cards from both these companies and have been pretty happy with them. I hope this move doesn’t change too much.
re: Ukraine sends massive drone attack to Moscow as China President Xi arrives
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 5/7/25 at 3:30 pm
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Good. frick RUSSIA
But why?
re: President Trump planning to create commission on college sports
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 5/7/25 at 3:28 pm
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No conflict at all with a guy on still the payroll of Bama leading the commission
Obviously I’m biased here, but Saban strikes me as a consummate professional and someone who genuinely loves college athletics.
I doubt he’s gonna come in with a goal of helping Alabama.
He also correctly predicted all these issues, and everyone just moaned that he was bitching at the time.
re: How would you rank Jalen Milroe amongst our other QBs who have started this century?
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 5/3/25 at 7:48 am
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Andrew Zow Tyler Watts Jalen Milroe
People remember that game against Auburn, and always rank Zow too high on these.
Zow in his junior year completed less than 50% of his passes and had more than twice as many interceptions as TDs.
I know the game is significantly different now, but he’s the worst on this bunch and there’s no chance I’m taking him over Milroe.
re: How would you rank Jalen Milroe amongst our other QBs who have started this century?
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 5/3/25 at 7:41 am
It’s really hard to compare to the guys pre 2010 or so because the rule changes have made the offensive game so much easier.
I would have ranked Milroe pretty low but above some of the lesser Saban era QBs until that Oklahoma game. Based on his slide tackle attempt in that game, he’s not making some of the gritty, “winning” plays that Coker, McElroy, or Sims made.
I think Milroe was definitely better than Zow though, so he’s not dead last.
I would have ranked Milroe pretty low but above some of the lesser Saban era QBs until that Oklahoma game. Based on his slide tackle attempt in that game, he’s not making some of the gritty, “winning” plays that Coker, McElroy, or Sims made.
I think Milroe was definitely better than Zow though, so he’s not dead last.
re: What is today's "prototypical" QB?
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/28/25 at 7:19 pm
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Today it’s just running backs who can throw. I wish they would make a rule to bring back actual QBs.
This would happen if they just let defenses hit again. It’s not like coaches were too dumb to play a scrambler until the 2010s. Scrambling QBs simply could not survive the grind when the game was more violent.
The thing Mahomes does where he fakes like he’s going out of bounds would not have worked.
re: Kentucky to shift athletic dept. to private LLC company in historic move
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/27/25 at 7:17 pm
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I remember when I was going to UNL and if I had a football player in a gen Ed class most of the time they'd hardly show up. Usually every other week, midterm and final.
When I was at Alabama, peak Saban era, every football player was in there every class with some grad assistant checking their attendance.
I don’t know how some passed because they were dumb as bricks, but they made them show up.
I’ve been told it is no longer this way, and that it started to change even before Saban retired.
re: Official NHL Playoffs Thread
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/27/25 at 7:11 pm
The SportsNet feed is like listening to a Canadians university radio broadcast.
re: What are your thoughts on the COVID vaccine?
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/27/25 at 7:10 pm
I got it because I work in healthcare. I work in admin so I wasn’t forced to get it, but felt I should as solidarity with the staff.
Got more sick from the vaccine than the virus, but it only lasted 36 hours or so. I haven’t noticed any long term side effects.
In general, old timers, fatties, and people with other comorbidities probably should have gotten it. The rest, especially children, probably shouldn’t.
Got more sick from the vaccine than the virus, but it only lasted 36 hours or so. I haven’t noticed any long term side effects.
In general, old timers, fatties, and people with other comorbidities probably should have gotten it. The rest, especially children, probably shouldn’t.
re: Has there ever been a more boring draft?
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/25/25 at 8:24 pm
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The draft is never not boring lol
I don’t understand how drafts still do ratings with smartphones.
re: Official NHL Playoffs Thread
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/20/25 at 9:58 pm
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It don't bother me. My shift doesn't start until the middle of the day. I'll take all the 9:00 starts I can get.
Good set up for this time of year. In the past, I have watched the Preds go after midnight only to have to wake up at 5. I can’t really swing that anymore.
re: Official NHL Playoffs Thread
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/20/25 at 9:32 pm
Pour one out for the central time zone fans of Western Conference teams
re: Pickleball - players - first timer here
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/18/25 at 10:38 am
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Pickleball decreases that talent gap to a point where even if you're obviously better, a person with an adequate amount of eye hand coordination can still give you good points.
This. Tennis is more fun if you have time to commit to it. Pickleball is easy to pick up a level of competence.
re: Multiple players threatened to opt out of the CFB Playoffs this past year...
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/14/25 at 8:26 am
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right here. Free market, I thought most here liked it.
The courts mandated that a voluntary organization cannot put any limitations on its volunteers. How is that free market?
Under an actual free market, some private equity guys would have started the Saturday Football League, paid the players, and outcompeted the NCAA until it was obsolete. That didn’t happen because the entire value of college athletics comes from its ties to the government-backed institutions.
Regardless of talent disparity, a minor league Tuscaloosa team would never be more popular than the university-affiliated team.
re: Holy Moly College is expensive
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/12/25 at 3:02 pm
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But yet we got denied from entry from Michigan and UNC with a 4.45 and a 35. Your kid must have started 7 charities and prevented world war then.
Or is just not White, Jewish, or Asian
I had a similar experience as your son with schools like Vandy, and ended up in STEM-MBA at Bama too. Now I make near 200K annual before 30 with no student debt.
I’m not saying that to brag. I’m saying it in hopes that you can share with your son if he gets down over rejections from prestigious companies in these coming years like the elite universities did in high school. Because there were times when I was his age, that it felt like all the work was not paying off.
re: Good for Tennessee
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/12/25 at 2:28 pm
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Exactly, they’re getting everything they deserve right now. frick Tennessee
This. I’m glad they told Nico to kick rocks, but let’s not forget they had their state representatives threatening legal action when the NCAA was investigating the pay for play with Nico I am a leaver.
Those threats basically ended any hope of NIL regulation without federal legislation.
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