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Texas barbecue is the best brisket BBQ, certainly. The same cannot be said for ribs nor pulled pork, however. In Houston, Killen's and Central Texas Bar-B-Cue (across the street from KHOU) are a great place to start, IMO.

Think about it for a moment. When a business owner generates profit, what does he/she do with it? Most of them reinvest the majority back into the business, which in turn drives economic activity and creates jobs. Every penny that is taken away through taxation is unavailable for...

Precisely.

It forces the user to give out a mobile number that they should have zero interest in sharing. This in and of itself is a major security breach.

MFA in general is terrible, at least the way it is generally implemented. In practice, it requires each of us to provide an ever-expanding set of personal data to each and every company we do business with. This does not reduce our individual risk, it increases it. A competent hacker doesn't...

Exactly. In general, I absolutely do not like Apple's closed system approach. However, I keep an iPad around for two specific applications, one of which is Foreflight. It's annoying to have a separate device for just two apps, but those two work for me in iPad form. Right horse for the...

Right. Imagine your parents bought a house in 1975 for $35,000. Today, it’s worth $600K. That’s $565K in “long term capital gains”, which would be taxed at 27.6%. Trouble is, it’s the exact same house in the exact same location, so the government is effectively charging a 27.6% transaction...

1) $500K is a top 1% income. You called it "lower level employee". Pure nonsense, and it exposed the emotional, counter-factual basis of your argument 2) No, your attempted point does not stand. The inconsistencies and goalpost-shifting you are resorting to have shown your lack of sound...

No, but the tax code is the same for all of us. You might do well to study it a bit before posting again, as your statements here have made it clear that you don't have a solid grasp of how it works. Honestly, whenever I see this sort of "tax equality" nonsense, I can tell immediately that...

Yes, they do, and then they spread a bunch of complete nonsense propaganda about higher incomes not paying taxes. :mad2:

No. A billionaire would pay 27.6% in taxes. 20% in regular income tax, 3.8% Obamacare surtax, and 3.8% NIIT surtax. So, if he’s paying tax on a 20% inflation gain (your example), he has a net negative real income of -7.6%.

If you have to resort to calling $500K “middle class”, well, I think that your argument has fallen apart in shreds. [Single-income top 1% cutoff was $403K for 2023.] Your original statement was: Now we just need to fix the capital gains mess that allows billionaires to pay a lower percent in...

That 37% bracket starts at what income level, again? You are comparing 1% income rates with other 1% income rates, and leaving out the surtaxes and double-taxation that capital gains and dividends get hit with. Anyone paying 20% capital gains is also paying an additional 7.6% in Obamacare and...

Instruct. Most of the instructors at the school I’m using have well less than 1,000.

Do you have the job offer in writing? If so, it might be worth filing a suit in small claims court just to make the point. You may not get anything, but forcing them to defend might prevent it from happening to someone else in the future.

Pulled pork is from the Greensboro, NC area. Brisket is from Texas. Ribs are from Memphis. That’s BBQ. Everything else is a poor imitation.

It's more like 27.6% when the aforementioned surtaxes are added. That said, the 20% rate is only applied above the $492,300 cutoff; the Obamacare and NIIT surtaxes are applied above $200/250k (single/MFJ).

How about we start with being honest and accurate in public statements? You don't need to defend other people, but it is reasonable to stand up against media falsehoods and blatant propaganda.

Most people do - it's quite complex, and many of the surtaxes are unknown to people in the lower income ranges. This is partially why there is so much false propaganda circulating that far too many people believe.

Now, add the 3.8% Obamacare surtax and the 3.8% NIIT surtax - surtaxes that everone over $250k gets hit with. That's 24.3% - a rate higher than the average for any income group in the bottom 99%. The canard about high incomes paying lower tax rates needs to be beaten down with extreme...