Posted on 09/23/2016 11:51:09 AM PDT by Cubs Fan
This year of all years...
The irony, but you are to be commended!
Yep. Tally up all the extra hours you gain each year (for each sport) for things that are much more useful or important. I've been off all the pros for many years, too.
I have been a football and baseball fan for nearly all my life. But I’m done. Just like everything else liberalism gets a hold of they have destroyed them with politically correct double standards.
I no longer see a reason to give my time, attention, money or anything else to organziations that excercise PC double standards with regard to free speech. Goodbye NFL and MLB. And good riddance.
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Could have written this myself and not changed one word. I said my goodbyes 15 years ago and have never regretted it.
You picked a helluva time to start your MLB boycott.
I commend you.
Paying more for cars, beer and pizza for the ‘priviledge’ of watching men get dirty rich for playing with a ball, and other men getting dirty rich for talking about the men playing with balls...umm...I got better things to do. Yep.
Really? The world is burning but we cannot even bring ourselves to boycott a sport?
And this is a conservative forum.
I have a professional background in watching the political life cycles of movements and nations.
I figure there is about a 95% chance that the right in the US is going to be rounded up, raped, shot and re-educated.
Maybe we, as a group, deserve it.
NFL yes
MLB no
Detroit Tiger’s Saltalamacchia wore patriotic cleats last night with a police badge embroidered on the heel.
Wow! ...and no wedding ring.
” Woodrow Wilson, father of .....– THE INCOME TAX!”
It’s hardly accurate to single out Woodrow Wilson for the income tax. Not surprising that people believe it because of the nonsense spouted by the likes of Glenn Beck.
In 1907 President Teddy Roosevelt proposed a progressive income tax:
“When our tax laws are revised the question of an income tax and an inheritance tax should receive the careful attention of our legislators. In my judgment both of these taxes should be part of our system of Federal taxation. I speak diffidently about the income tax because one scheme for an income tax was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; while in addition it is a difficult tax to administer in its practical working, and great care would have to be exercised to see that it was not evaded by the very men whom it was most desirable to have taxed, for if so evaded it would, of course, be worse than no tax at all; as the least desirable of all taxes is the tax which bears heavily upon the honest as compared with the dishonest man. Nevertheless, a graduated income tax of the proper type would be a desirable feature of Federal taxation, and it is to be hoped that one may be devised which the Supreme Court will declare constitutional.”
His successor William Howard Taft supported the Constitutional Amendment that enabled it.
Wilson’s role was signing the bill that both TR and Taft had promoted.
http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/THM1901
Likewise the Federal Reserve was the result of the National Monetary Commission convened by Republican Senate leader Nelson Aldrich after the Panic of 1907. The report released by this Commission became the basis of the Federal Reserve Act some 6 years later, which Wilson signed into law.
Both the income tax and the Federal Reserve were bipartisan efforts.
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