Poor Phil

• stlouiedipalma

  BGFalcons82;1373139 wrote:No need to worry about Phil reducing his tax burden. When he dies, y'all will be able to confiscate half his wealth and snicker as you deposit it in the do-gooder cause kickback fund du jour.
  
  And you will sleep better at night knowing that the evil rich motherfucking prick didn't get away with it. Who's showing envy and greed, again?

  I don't begrudge Phil making as much as he can. I just think it's a stretch for him to cry about his taxes and expect average people to either sympathize with him or rally around his plight. I mean, if he has enough to get in a group to buy the Padres he's got a hell of a lot more than the average golfer out there. "Evil rich motherfucking prick"? Your words, not mine. I never cared much for Phil as a golfer, but it never had anything to do with how much money he made.
• QuakerOats

  gut;1373091 wrote:Well, the ironic thing is he probably stood to lose more in endorsements than he was going to from the tax increases.

  Only if he was endorsed by a bunch of gutless liberal pusses ...... screw 'em; he can easily find other, far more noble, far more real American sponsors.
• QuakerOats

  stlouiedipalma;1373390 wrote:I don't begrudge Phil making as much as he can. I just think it's a stretch for him to cry about his taxes and expect average people to either sympathize with him or rally around his plight. I mean, if he has enough to get in a group to buy the Padres he's got a hell of a lot more than the average golfer out there. "Evil rich motherfucking prick"? Your words, not mine. I never cared much for Phil as a golfer, but it never had anything to do with how much money he made.

  
  Who said he was crying about it; who said he was asking for sympathizers? He was simply stating economic reality and articulating exactly what happens when government overreaches, causing people to change their behavior ------ something liberal economists NEVER grasp.
• Curly J

  

  That's FIGJAM just being FIGJAM.
• gut

  I think it will be great if he just shuts his mouth and quietly changes his residency to FL or TX.
  
  I mean, I thought NY was bad with a 9-10% state income tax. I think CA charging 13%+ is going to be epic failure with federal taxes going up. They already had to carve out a tax break for the movie studios because, surprise, they started making films in Canada and elsewhere with much lower taxes.
  
  About everyone who can willl leave. No one is going to voluntarily hang around get bent over for 13%+.
• believer

  

  stlouiedipalma;1373390 wrote:I don't begrudge Phil making as much as he can....

  ....just as long as the gubmint gets to confiscate 60% or more of his earnings so they can squander it away on their latest pork and entitlement projects.
• believer

  

  gut;1373451 wrote:I think it will be great if he just shuts his mouth and quietly changes his residency to FL or TX.
  
  I mean, I thought NY was bad with a 9-10% state income tax. I think CA charging 13%+ is going to be epic failure with federal taxes going up. They already had to carve out a tax break for the movie studios because, surprise, they started making films in Canada and elsewhere with much lower taxes.
  
  About everyone who can willl leave. No one is going to voluntarily hang around get bent over for 13%+.

  My new boss left just California for our plant here in Tennessee. He said one of the biggest reasons he left California is because the state's tax system is out of control. Tennessee has a 0% state income tax rate.
  
  I asked him if he'll miss California since it offers so much more than catfish, grits, and barbecue. He laughed and said, "Trust me. California is governed by Marxists and populated by a wide range of kooks. I won't miss a damned thing."
• gut

  And you can still live in CA up to 6 months a year, while claiming residency in a state with no income taxes. It's a no brainer for people like Phil that aren't tied down by their business.
  
  The flipside is maybe most who could do that were already doing it.
• QuakerOats

  believer;1373510 wrote:I asked him if he'll miss California since it offers so much more than catfish, grits, and barbecue. He laughed and said, "Trust me. California is governed by Marxists and populated by a wide range of kooks. I won't miss a damned thing."

  They have completely infiltrated government, media, academia, and law. And yet, the majority of the dumbed down masses are unable to realize it.
  
  Change we can believe in ...
• stlouiedipalma

  I'll say this. When things change to a system that Quaker is totally satisfied with, it'll be time for me to leave.
• gut

  QuakerOats;1376212 wrote:They have completely infiltrated government, media, academia, and law. And yet, the majority of the dumbed down masses are unable to realize it.

  If you never had an ounce of economic/fiscal sanity - if that issue is completely irrelevant to you - then socialism becomes very appealing. It's a feel good policy of appeasement. Charity is a wonderful thing when you don't have to worry about how to pay for it.
• believer

  

  gut;1376230 wrote:If you never had an ounce of economic/fiscal sanity - if that issue is completely irrelevant to you - then socialism becomes very appealing. It's a feel good policy of appeasement. Charity is a wonderful thing when you don't have to worry about how to pay for it.

  And also if the gubmint is more than willing to confiscate it from the producers for redistribution to bus loads of welfare check recipient voters.
• majorspark

  

  QuakerOats;1376212 wrote:They have completely infiltrated government, media, academia, and law. And yet, the majority of the dumbed down masses are unable to realize it.
  
  Change we can believe in ...

  This guy is a professor of constitutional law. Getting paid to pollute impressionable young minds with his drivel.
  
  "This is our country. We live in it, and we have a right to the kind of country we want. We would not allow the French or the United Nations to rule us, and neither should we allow people who died over two centuries ago and knew nothing of our country as it exists today."
  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57566014/professor-take-our-country-back-from-the-constitution/