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I agree. Unfortunately this kid already signed with Southern. There seems to be much higher impact players out there who we should have a better than decent shot at landing. Not sure why you would pull the trigger on this kid, unless there is something we don't know about him...

It's hard to tell just by looking at box scores, but I definitely am dissapointed as well. I like the fact that JJ is looking at high school kids to develop, but this seems like a reach.

Kram, This is no statement at to whether his actions were right or wrong, but refinancing is not an option. No bank would allow you to refinance a $200K mortgage on a $100K house. There is no collateral for them as they would be risking $200K for $100K house.

Keith, The title implied that it was the WSJ reporting on the matter (or at least that is how I interpreted it). That would imply so amount of impartiallity and journalistic standards being followed, that is not the case when it is actually something in the opinion page of the journal. Seemed sort of a misleading way to present something.

You do realize this is an opinion piece written by people who were members of the Bush Justice Department at the time the memos were written, right?

So are you saying if Britain decided today that it wanted to create an Arab state and selected Kansas as the location, that as long as it is ratified by other countries it would not be stealing for arabs to come in and take over Kansas? Regardless of how the US or people in Kansas feel about it?

Unfortunately one of my wife's friends lost everything. Renter's is a must.

Can we trade Shorter for him?? I would through in Knox as well. Not sure if college works like that...

Most mock drafts have him late 20's...some even in 2nd round. I think if he's drafted in that range he will live up to expectations. Anything higher is a little bit of a reach.

I would definitely be in for bball if we can get enough people interested.

I think it would be ridiculous for the NCAA to enforce the rules in that way. It would be one think if people were going to his personal facebook page and contacting him to convince him to go a school. To say that people can't post something stating what they would like a recruit to go to their school because they might see that is over the top.

The Laffer curve is kind of what I was getting at in my last point. Obviously there is some point where tax are so high that it's a discouragement to productivity. The other problem is obviously that there's a point where tax rates are low enough that the government doesn't collect enough to perform necessary functions. Clearly the sticking point is what we condsider necessary functions, something we will have to agree to disagree on.

Dude - I'm not saying there aren't plans to raises taxes. I'm just saying if you are going to post something it would be nice if it had one shred of evidence supporting it. I work with people who deal with these issues every day. If the tax claims that are in that link were serious proposals I can guarantee either my clients or my coworkers would be bringing them up.

Very interesting. Even more interesting would be if the blogger had sourced any of the "proposed" taxes to anything - even the blog of another person pulling stuff out of his butt. I could setup a blog and post the opposite, saying the government is proposing to pay you to drink soda and use batteries...it would hold the same amount of credibility as this guy.

Kram - technically one would have to smoke more then 7 packs a week to have their taxes go up when factoring in the TAX CREDIT that other people have referred to in this thread, which is $400 for each worker. I'm sure there is a phase out, so if you make $150K and love your smokes, your taxes will go up.

In a sense yes. As eligibility for tax credits is typically not determined by your employer, the benefit of them is typically realized when you file your taxes. In this case employers were instructed to adjust withholding so that the benefit is felt now to theoretically stimulate spending. Hence most people get about $8 additional per paycheck (52*8= approximately $400). For Kram - no one will get a "wake up call" in 2009 due to this. They will see that after the deduction of the tax credit from their tax bill, that the withholding was correct.

You are half correct. No change in tax rates and it is not a rebate. It is however a tax credit - meaning a below the line deduction in your tax bill. I believe the amounts are $400 per person/$800 couple. Your tax lability will be calculated the same way as it has in the past, however when the total tax liability is calculated - example $3000 for a couple - $800 will be deducted from that. Just as a disclaimer, I am in no way a tax expert - I only know enough to pass that section of the CPA exam.

So if we want to raise revenue by lowering taxes, how low do we go? Is 0% the target? I'm no expert economist, but I have a feeling 0% would not raise revenue, but that's just me. I've often wondered about the tax issue. Many say lowering tax raises revenue, although nothing shown to me has proven it, nothing I've seen has disproven it. When I look at the issue one thing I consider is that taxes can be an inducement to spend. If I am a business and pay 0% taxes, adding a new employee with a 100K salary costs me $100K. Adding the same employee when I have a 35% tax rate costs me $65K (I suppose an additional 8% or so in FICA/SS). Same thing with purchases of equipment and other expenses, it reduces my marginal costs. So I find somewhat a falacy in the blanket statement that lowering taxes encourages more spending, to me it makes the cost of spending higher and thus acts as a deterant. Of course there is the very logical arguement that there is a point where taxes are so high that it acts as a deterant to investment. Who wants to take a risk in hopes of keeping 10% of the proft (that assumes a return to the draconian 90% tax rates)?

If we can pick up him and Brister that would be great. Sounds like a post player who can score and is decent at the free throw line - we can definitely use him. A big rotation of Trammiel. Odufuwa, Harris and then Spencer (to knock some people around and rebound) sounds pretty good to me.

Add another one to the list: http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewprospect...mp;pr_key=77370 Doward Evans - 5'10 PG from Dallas Carter. If the schools on his list are the school recruiting him and not just schools he's interested in, then he seems like a pretty well respected recruit.

Looking through the HP box scores Edwards definitely had some good games. He also looks like he has a better build than our last high school forward recruit. Hope we are able to land him, I think he would be a good get.

I was wondering the same thing. Surely we would want to encourage the board members to get together and support the team.

You do realize in step 3 you are taxed only on the appreciated value, correct?

I knew it wouldn't be easy with them having Graham and Monroe this time. I'm proud of the way our team hung on and made key free throws down the stretch. Also glad to see we won without McCoy hitting every shot he threw up. Shows many differently people on our team have the ability to stepup.

I wish there was a way to include charges taken in the stats - that would help a player like Stewart. You could try adding or subtracting points based on made or missed shots, but that would lead to double counting for players who are scorers.