Posted on 07/09/2010 1:02:03 PM PDT by Michael Eden
My point is this — His endorsements are not going to be lessened if he were to play in Miami instead of NY.
While Florida, (and other states) have no state income taxes, I’m comfortably certain they make up the difference in other ways. Yes, no income tax concerns... but higher fees, gas prices, property taxes, etc probably eat the majority of the difference away.
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People like Tiger Woods, Rush Limbaugh, and now LeBron James who have millions of dollars seem to disagree with you, as do the millions of retirees who have moved to Florida to stretch their retirement incomes.
Gas prices on average are lower in Miami than New York.
I checked here :
http://gasbuddy.com/GB_Price_List.aspx
Here’s more for comparison :
NEW YORK
State Sales Tax: 4.0% (food, prescription and non-prescription drugs exempt); Other taxing entities may add up to 5.00% in additional sales tax.
Gasoline Tax: 44.6 cents/gallon
Diesel Fuel Tax: 43.6 cents/gallon
Cigarette Tax: $2.75/pack of 20; New York City adds an
additional $1.50.
Florida
State Sales Tax: 6% (food, prescription and non-prescription drugs exempt). There are additional county sales taxes which could make the combined rate as high as 9.5%.
Gasoline Tax: 34.4 cents/gallon
Diesel Fuel Tax: * 29.6 cents/gallon
(Local taxes for gasoline vary from 5.5 cents to 17 cents, plus there is a 2.07% gasoline pollution tax.)
Cigarette Tax: 33.9 cents/pack of 20 ($1.00 surcharge added on each pack in 2010)
From what you demonstrated with LeBron James supporting Obama, you’re right.
Limousine Liberals think that OTHER people should pay the taxes that they claim that everybody should pay.
Which is kind of saying that LeBron did to the I.R.S. what he did to Cleveland.
LeBron - in leaving for a lower-tax environment - might be a hypocrite, but he ISN’T an idiot.
LeBron may purchase property in a state with low property taxes and high income taxes.
People tend to have more patience with idiots than hypocrites, however. Something Mr. James might want to keep in mind...
I don’t know, at least from my own experience:
I get angry at both groups at about the same rate.
I remember learning that John Kerry - after pitching that we all needed to pay much higher taxes - was doing everything he could to shelter his own money from taxes. Whereas George Bush, who said Americans should pay lower taxes, actually personally paid double the rate that hypocrite Kerry did.
I don’t know how much LeBron James pitched Obama. The more he did, the bigger the hypocrite he is now.
No, Cuomo’s show failed. You want to audition big boy?
His former teammate, Delonte West, screwing LeBron’s mother didn’t help Cleveland’s position.
Lebron is an egotistical twit. He is dead to me now.
“Is that old wind bag still on the air ?
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You’re still on FR.
LeBron had also been dealing with the fact that Delonte West was having sex with LeBron’s mother. That had to be a distraction.
I did not know that.
And I kind of wish I STILL didn’t know it.
If mommy slept with a Cleveland Cavalier, mommy might sleep with a Miami Heater, too.
I remember the aforementioned Boston-Cleveland playoff series in which a woman in white got up and shouted at Paul Pierce for a foul, and LeBron shouted at the woman, “Sit your butt down!”
That woman was later identified as James’ momma.
Thank God for my mom, is all I can say.
I think LeBron’s mom has some psychological issues which may have also contributed to his decision to go to Miami rather than New York. If he had gone to NY, one of the papers would have eventually reported on it the first time LeBron had a bad streak.
Strident granted, but nothing like the vitriol spewed when the original Cleveland Browns (owned by Modell) pulled up stakes and went to Baltimore, becoming the Ravens.
Yup longer than you
Thanks for the nibble
The best player would continue to prove that he’s the best, even when the game is a lost cause.
LeBron is the most gifted; he’s still learning.
I hope that he does well in Florida.
I agree.
I’ve been a huge Laker fan since I was a kid (though I became a Blazer fan when I lived in Portland until moving back to California).
My two favorite players are Derek Fisher and Pao Gasol. Fish certainly wouldn’t quit.
Kobe Bryant is not the easiest guy to like, but he wants to win, will do whatever it takes to win, and would NEVER have given up in the way LeBron did.
Here’s one take on the game:
“LeBron was also one turnover away from a quadruple-double. He dribbled the ball off his foot. He threw lazy, bad passes. When the team needed big baskets, he settled for long jump shots. And in the end, he and teammates simply gave in. Down nine, with just over a minute to go, they couldn’t even be bothered to go through the time-honored charade of fouling to extend the game. The effort was lacking, as they say.”
From my point of view, they still had a shot in that game (albeit a disappearing one), and they just sleepwalked to the end of their season.
Here’s a sports link that joins the Cleveland owner in being HARSH on LeBron over his infomercial.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-lebrondecision070910
All that said, one can be the best player and still not be the best player.
LeBron is the best player if you look at his stats, his physique, his skill.
But he’s not the best player if you talk about being a proven winner who can be trusted to lead a team. At least not yet he’s not.
I remember Allen Iverson. As an individual player, he was as good as you got. But he was a selfish brat who put himself and his “numbers” before the team and victories. And so for all his ability he never amounted to anything.
Just whom are you referring to?
What’s your take on the Gilbert letter?
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