How's Michigan's economy and social programs doing with such taxes?

In the crapper? Thought so.

Gender is a phenotype, not a genotype.

If the genes don't get activated, then the phenotype is not seen.

People who make 16.5k in the US before taxes do not pay federal taxes, and in fact get a welfare check from the government in the form of the "Unearned Income Tax Credit".

In Mobile, Alabama, there are 15 insurance plans for a 35 year old that cost under $125/month, far short of $2200 a year.

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I believe what you describe is a Notre Dame home game.

If you've ever been in an SEC stadium with 90,000 other people trying to use their cell phones, you'll understand that live streaming Just Ain't Happenin'â. Text messages are about all you can reliably send/receive during a game.

War Eagle to all, and I can't believe but totally understand the short-sightedness of this.

The SEC became the best conference in college football because fans are rabid. They live, eat, breath this stuff year round. They talk about it year round. Trying to control pics/video/texts from a SEC game is impossible from a practical standpoint and stupid from a marketing standpoint. You want more people talking about your sport, openly, and while there. That increases your brand penetration and desirablity.

This will force the Canadians to Bomb the Baldwin family.

When you give people their own money back, they spend it.

Who'da thunk it?

Why, I think they could learn from this and practice some more evidence based policy by giving everyone their own money back, and then they could stimulate more than just Government Motors.

The Other Other Other White Meat.

Er, /s/health-care Social Security Checks

1) Social Security money has a negative rate of return.
2) Social Security money is not put into a bank where you get to draw from in the future. The money you pay in now is used now. It does not even have to be used for health-care.
3) If you've ever seen a couple try to live on Social Security, you'd be mad about #1 and #2.
4) $100/mo from 18-65 in the S&P 500 is about million dollars, which would give easily 80,000 a year withdrawal without hurting the principle, or 6600/month to live on. The highest social security comes out to about 20,000 a year, or 1600/month. Social Security hurts those it is supposed to help.

Wealth is not finite. There is more wealth in the world right now than there was 500 years ago. Wealth is a concept.

The difference between the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor lies in their behavior patterns around money, much like the difference in the obese, the overweight, and the normal weight lies in their behavior patterns around food and exercise.

It is easy to understand how to become wealthy. It is hard to do - because you have to have decades of discipline.

Who is watching the children while the rest of the world goes to work?

There is a reason school starts before work.