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Who said anything about effective government? If anything, your India example proves my point because they have among the most regulated and bureaucratic rules in the world, and as you say it's one of the more ineffective governments in the world. Nobody is also arguing that there should be no rules or that companies don't deserve to be punished when they break the rules. The argument is - should an effort be made to slow down an ever expanding federal overreach? Because making up rules to put more power in the hands of bureaucrats without seeing benefits from that expansion is not a recipe for success. The EPA has been on a tear over the last 8 years in expanding its regulatory powers outside Congressional oversight. That's not how the executive agencies are supposed to function.

That's because you probably never used it. I've never poured gas out of the new spouts without a spill

He didn't say name THREE. He said name ONE.

Why do people ignore the reality that the countries who are the biggest polluters of the environment happen to be the places where government intrusion into private industry is the highest?

Absolutely not an urban legend, and Daltrey even said "Don't see Mick get special effects like these" (Stones played the stadium the year before) I'd say that Who & Clash shows were the best at Rich. yes, and typical for a Dylan appearance you couldn't understand a word he was singing.

This thread disagrees.

We should be distinguishing between NFL & NFLPA. Looks like a mess up at NFLPA, not the league.

And of course they totally misrepresent the rate. It's not even the 24% rate that they all reported. The effective rate is actually greater than 100%, because the tax rate is calculated on Taxable Income, not on the phantom income number that MSNBC glommed upon. Trump's 2005 taxable income was $31mil and he paid $36 mil in taxes.

I have to agree with meat on this one. Every bad ACA outcome from now on will be blamed on Trump & GOP because they're obviously the impediment to the great law's success. Doesn't make it right, but that's how the spin is now doctored.

GOP will not let ACA collapse because they won't live with the negative repercussions of grandma losing her healthcare. Not that grandma will lose her healthcare, but Dems and allied media are salivating at the prospect of people losing coverage to regain the talking points. There's no way that the story will be spun that Obamacare died its inevitable death. The story will be that Trump & GOP killed it.

Low probability is my guess

I'm sure he would if they weren't tied up in the Russia investigations.

What pisses me off about the tax reporting is they insist on saying that Trump paid a tax rate of 4% but AMT bumped it up to 24% That means that the effective tax rate is 24% not 4%. But no, the reporting isn't slanted.

Wow, WGR finally updated its website to the 20th century

The worst kind of snow. Three hours with snowblower. Can only go 1 foot

Don't understand why people are questioning this. It looks like Bills were spot on Groy's market value and now have an option to match a low starter/high back up contract. With three centers on the roster they have options

There's no shortage of criticism when OBD makes a bad move. The Groy tender doesn't appear to be one, especially since the offer sheet is lower than the tender amount.

Have you considered the other side of the negotiating table that Groy's agent didn't want to accept Bills long term offer until they saw what the market offers? That's why the Bills protected themselves with the tender and guessing that he wouldn't get a blow out offer. They guessed right. The Rams offer isn't a big deal to match, and now Bills have a bigger decision to make about Wood than they do about Groy.

Yup. There's no way Bills are carrying a $7.5 million cap hit on a 30-yr player coming off a big injury. This was the plan all along. Wait until Groy's market value is established, then deal with Wood appropriately. This isn't remotely like the Hogan tender where the Bills' hands were tied.

Dead cap is $3 million less than the carrying value of his contract. I'm guessing that Bills will use the 5 days to either renegotiate Wood's deal, try to trade him to Rams or cut him.

That's been the talking line since Nov 9th.

A Pence takeover of Trump, or a HRC takeover of Pence?

Watch the tape of that game. He more than held his own in passing downs against the very good Jets interior DLs

Don't look at those stats, they don't tell you the story. Just watched All22 of the 1st half. Groy was never physically overmatched by the Jets interior. He did miss a couple of slides to pick up a blitzing LB. But re-watching that game showed that Cujo & few brain cramps by the TEs were a bigger liability. The strip sack on EJ was totally Cujo's fault.

Or, the Bills match the offer and secure a starter for less money than the 2nd round tender. That's a no brainer