gjv001 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 1 minute ago, iinii said: Keep your political views out. That can of worms is too big and everyone’s differing opinions are just that. The one percent don’t pay taxes like everyone else. So please don’t cry any tears for Pegs or Kraft. Their healthcare is fine. The point is the tax disadvantage the Bills have in obtaining free agents. That's the topic.
iinii Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 7 minutes ago, gjv001 said: The point is the tax disadvantage the Bills have in obtaining free agents. That's the topic. And so on topic? Buffalo has the worst tax rate in the country? The highest cost of living in the country? Created by liberals? You opened the door
mjt328 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 The Bills have attracted plenty of top-tier free agents over the years, even when they were bad. Mario Williams, Takeo Spikes, Ted Washington, Bryce Paup, Chris Spielman, etc. all come to mind. Just like when regular people are job-hunting, there are dozens of factors that play into where someone decides to sign a contract (or take a job). Money is usually the biggest factor, regardless of employment field. Cost of living does factor into that. But other very important factors could be: - Comfort with the leadership/boss (head coach or coordinator) - What the position actually entails (scheme fit) - Distance from family (why many take hometown discounts) Athletes have the unique situation of competing for a championship, but that changes from season to season. Fans in Buffalo are very self-conscious about their city's weather. But considering that half the teams in the NFL play in equally cold areas, I doubt it's really much of a factor in where players decide to sign.
ctk232 Posted October 21, 2018 Posted October 21, 2018 On 10/19/2018 at 10:57 AM, LFC24 said: This is one of the most level headed threads ive seen on this forum so much better than all the delusional fans thinking this team is set for the future just b/c we have high cap space. Cap space means nothing for a team like ours. We are a historically mediocre team with little talent, not much outlook of success, small market, and play in a state with massive taxes. Green Bay and New England both for comparison. Mass as a state with mass taxes, and Green Bay for a similar market team. It's as simple as winning football games. Players want to win football games, and they will go to the teams that win and pay them the most money.
Boatdrinks Posted October 21, 2018 Posted October 21, 2018 On 10/19/2018 at 9:45 PM, zonabb said: Great hot take, spot on, completely original, how did you come up with it? I mean, it's completely wrong, but its red hot. You've been fooled and are ignorantly arrogant enough to come and try to show it off what you learned on your coach watching Fox. You're the idiot in the Harvard bar in Good Will Hunting merely regurgitated facts without a single opinion of your own and surely none you could back with actual empirical evidence. Read a book, maybe start with an old edition of Mankiw's Principle of Economics you can find for cheap online. The issue IS NOT, despite what you've been brainwashed into believing, that someone takes your money. Dweebs like you are fine when taxes you pay cover (warning economics term coming) public goods like defense, which causes a raging erections for GOP war hawks like yourself. You're totally cool with getting taxed to death for buying guns and spending more than the next 9 countries in the world on defense combined, even if it means running a deficit and even if one more gun and one dollar more in taxation is not necessary. You're also cool with your money being spent on education, or maybe not, I'm not sure you made it past 8th grade. You're implication, when using the tropes "liberal" and "want money you earned" is that your money is used on people you don't like and therefore do not want to help. Likely, you mean the poor, disabled, unemployed, etc. Simply, you don't want your money going to someone who doesn't deserve it. That should also mean, but I guarantee it doesn't because people like you are not only morons but also hypocrites, that you're not OK with corporate handouts like Elon Musk got ($750m in NYS taxpayer dollars to built him a factory) or is that cool because he's successful and we should open our wallets to help billionaires and not the poor? How about our annual stadium subsidy to Pegula? Cool with that right? You can save your indefensible rhetoric and take it to some Proud Boys website where it'll be appreciated sans (means 'without' so you don't have to look it up, it's not in your comic books) proof or evidence. Corporate tax breaks/ handouts may be a necessary evil for job creation etc. Better than handouts to those unwilling to contribute.
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