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If you have your passport, I always liked slipping up to Campobello Island and the Roosevelt International Park. The only US National Park Service park located in another Country.
Yep, I'm out on college sports ✌🏻
But if you are a corporation, you get a commercial account where AEP can slap peak demand surcharges on your account regardless if you are using power during peak hours. My FIL is a partial owner of a strip mall, literally the only thing his electrical bill covers is the parking lot lights all of the individual stores cover their electrical separately. But they get a peak day surcharge slapped on them every month that cannot be contested because it is a commercial account.
But you are right that many of the multi millionaires and billionaires have very small W-2 income. They get stock bonus's as profit sharing, etc. Loans on collateral as a way around income tax is a legal option as it is cheating the IRS spirit but not the law.
Heading up to Maine - Kennebunkport and Bar Harbor (and Acadia NP) next week. There were a decent amount of recs in the 2024 thread that I used to build a rough itinerary, but we still have a good amount of time for just exploring. So if anyone has some must-do's send them here please
It's revamping now, but Butcher and the Rye was outstanding.
Fair point if it saves tech money then bring it on - not like we've gotten a 5 star in 12 years anyway...
Yes but those corporations and businesses with revenue and payroll taxes makeup roughly half the total tax revenue, that's about 1,000,000 entities. The other half is from individual income tax; roughly 120,000,000 entities with a significant portion of that coming from the top 5% of earners.
Keep things in perspective
I assume these laws would apply to the coaches where NIL is tax exempt too?
Billionaires don't have income. Bezos makes like 70k in income, which is great for lots of americans but nothing to him. He then uses his Amazon shares as collateral to get multiple million dollar loans at like 3% and pays off the loan with another loan. And that ball keeps rolling until he dies and his money gets transfered to his heirs where they pay the loans with stock capital gains tax free because it's waved when transferring inheritance.
Corporations have a lot of taxes, but then States will give them money to have jobs in that state. We couldn't hire remote employees at on job because Virginia was basically off setting payroll tax. Also electricity is cheaper for corporations in VA than for residents. So lower power costs help offset those taxes. We have some of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, but because they're progressive tax rates and there are so many deductions, US has one of the lowest tax burdens in the world for corporations. That's not zero taxes but when comparing the rates that a median income american family pays, the rich and large corporations pay way lower percentages
I used to watch everything, I have two sides by side tvs mounted in my basement, and would bring in a third for football season. I have seen games in over 50 college stadiums and a lot were not VT. I have seen 2 games in person in a single day. I've watched the Thursday night games in person then drove to another Saturday gane multiple times. I've been to multiple bowl games in a single bowl season. I've ran back to the car, or people's houses or how ever just to get a game on because I was at UTenn when VT went to 3rd OT vs cuse, or at Clemson when Stanford hard a top 5 statistic upset of Stanford or where ever just to see the game or hear the call. Other than ASU v Texas while I was at the gym, I haven't seen an SEC team play in 2 years. I've been to Bama twice, I went to Vandy, MSU, OU, Tenn, UGA, USC. I've seen every P2 team in person except Indiana, Minnesota, and Illinois.
The iron bowl is meaningless. OSU-Michigan is meaningless. It all no longer matters. I dont care about the playoffs one bit. I wouldn't watch a super league because we have that it's called the NFL.
Just came here to say "F*#k Notre Dame for being included in the ACC reporting". Join a real conference for football or GTFO.
Yeah, I would certainly find something else to do.
It's almost as if they have forgotten you need to fight for viewers.
Central planning rarely works out well long-term.
Me neither.
This sounds awesome. Super pumped now.
If anything, it makes it super convenient for me to avoid them because they'll never play a team I'm interested in.
How much of SMU's spending was school and how much was NIL groups not under school control?
I am also on team Asics
Been living off Under Armour and Brooks for at least the last 10 years
Agreed.
definitely Pamela's diner
Primanti Brothers
Church Brew Works - great beer and awesome pierogies
Penzy's Spices - a must stop to see
too many great cheese shops/delis
I'm not sure i completely buy that college sports are important for Olympics. These are outliers, but Ledecky was 15 when she won her first gold, Phelps never swam in college. Most of the swimmers are trained by their club teams, and some of those teams are coached by college coaches which helps, but not all of them.
Most of the female gymnasts start before college. Weight lifting, skateboarding, surfing, climbing, artistic swimming, archery badminton, boxing, canoeing, cycling, Field Hockey, handball, judo, squash, taekwando, triathlons, and table tennis aren't big college sports. Basketball and baseball aren't going away and if baseball did the minors is alternative to college.
Now you can argue the US doesn't compete in half of that and thats true, but basketball isnt going anywhere. Wrestling, swimming, track are the big ones that rely on college however a lot of those athletes are Olympic level before going to college.
Must attend all meetings with clients in full gear though...
"silly for sports to be tied to a university"- funny a bunch of kids playing on saturdays in tuscaloosa alabama not affiliated with the school? must fucking see TV. LOL- pickleball would get much higher ratings.
This raises the question of the goal of athletics at universities.
Another related concept - in other countries, the olympic sport programs are often directly state funded. In the US, it is done through the university system. I've heard some folks speculate that we could see US dominance in the olympics fall off as a result of the changing college athletic landscape. Not sure I buy it, but it definitely made me reconsider my thought that it's silly for sports to be tied to a university.
+1 for Campobello. We enjoyed it in 2023. Also when you come back across the border in Lubec Maine, there is a Peruvian lady that makes her own chocolate. It is worth a stop. It's called Monica's Chocolates. Get the bourbon truffles.
Also spend some time on Schoodic Penninsula. That part of Acadia is less crowded and has some nice hikes. If you have the ability to cook your own food, we got some amazing swordfish steaks and scallops from Chipmans Wharf up near Millbridge. Super fresh and we got stuff to grill there twice during the week we stayed.