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That's what estate planning is for. If the children are "deeply involved in that business", then why don't they have ownership stakes?

The average net worth of the top 1% of Americans is $10.8 million. The average net worth of the top 2% of Americans is only $2.4 million. I think excluding the first $10 million is ok. I don't think it's fair since the median net worth of American households is $121,700, but I would be ok with it because it would put the exclusion just below what it was before before Trump doubled it in 2018.

Less than the $22.36 million it currently is.

Cry me a river for the .1% of Americans who are rich enough to have their estates subject to estate taxes.

I know that, but RochesterRob claimed otherwise so I pointed out two infamous examples that cost people their lives. Coming from you, that's a compliment. Thank you. We're talking examples of quality. You claimed that quality in the past was better than today using Levis as an example even though you don't have first any first hand knowledge of that because you "stopped buying Levi's many years ago" . I disputed your assertion with two infamous examples from the past. My two examples were not only pulled from the market but the manufacturers were held liable for damages.

The old "everything was soooooo much better a few decades ago because it was made in the US" line. It wasn't. Among the most egregious examples of the quality of American made products include the Chevrolet Corvair and the Ford Pinto.

When the hell have conservatives EVER been friendly to labor??? Cotton producers, yes. *****, never.

I don't know if this is practical but it might be worth looking into. American LEOs seem to use deadly force much more frequently than in most other First World countries. Posters have "jumped" on it because it's simply untrue. The basic rule of gun use is to know what you're aiming at and then make sure you hit it. That's why you aim at the center of any target. Missing your target can have deadly consequences. Several years ago in my area, some dumbass deer hunter missed his buck and bagged a school bus traveling along a road about a quarter mile away. Luckily neither the driver nor the school kids were injured, but it could have been a tragedy. I watched the video from Columbus, and the scene was chaotic with multiple people involved. The officer had to make a split second decision. If the officer had aimed at a leg and missed, he could have hit a bystander or the bullet might have entered a home and hit someone . Training would help but I think that we have to take a hard look at current and future police officers. Current police officers who have a history of excessive force complaints -- Derek Chauvin is a perfect example -- need to be evaluated for their suitability to do their job. IMO, if Chauvin had been seriously penalized for his bad behavior, perhaps even fired, it would have been better for everybody involved. For prospective police officers, there needs to psychological evaluations to keep individuals prone to violence off police forces in the first place.

Excuses, excuses, excuses. Wrong. The courts threw out the suits because the complaintants had no relevant evidence to present, ie, actual proof of voter fraud. All they had was suppositions and conjectures ... the same bull manure you're trying to peddle in this thread. Wrong again. The courts threw out the suits because the complaintants had no relevant evidence to present, ie, actual proof of voter fraud. All they had was suppositions and conjectures ... the same bull manure you're trying to peddle in this thread. Ah, yes, the big bad federal government has always sought to impose cultural regimentation on the American people! Just imagine! The big bad feds forced an end to the quaint southern customs of lynching, racial segregation, disenfranchisement of black citizens etc. The evil feds also outlawed public schools promoting Christian religion by requiring students to recite daily prayers and threw out state "blue laws" that required stores to "keep the Sabbath" by staying closed on Sunday. The feds also protect the rights of women, gays and lesbians, the disabled. The feds perniciously provide a basic income and affordable health care for most senior citizens. Undoubtedly, the United States would be sssssoooooooo much better if only healthy, straight, white Christian men ran things like they did back in the 1950s. Save your crocodile tears. You are doing the very thing that you are accusing "the Left and the Media" of doing. Children kill other children with depressing regularity in the US. These killings only make the national news when they are particularly heinous or violent.

Fixed it for you ... The problem with these Roof and Rittenhouse clowns is that they are being hailed as heroes by the right rather than the racist bigots they are. The right truly believes in their minds that Roof and Rittenhouse represent all the people they love, the right, trumpers, white people, christians, and anyone else who embraces fascism, racism, and gun violence. They want anybody, especially black or brown people, who disagrees with their agenda jailed or dead, asap.

^^^ Actually, I think that there's some evidence that connects the amount of violent realistic video games as well as violent movie/tv content individuals play or watch to their likelihood for violence. Notice I said "connects" not "causes". It may be that people who are prone to violence are drawn to violent entertainment content.

Another mass shooting, the 47th since March 16, 2020, occurred early this morning in a Kenosha, Wisconsin tavern. 3 dead, 2 injured. The shooter is still at large. Authorities believe it was a targeted shooting not a random one.

It's generally been illegal for civilians to own fully automatic weapons since the 1930s IIRC. Why is that? Because back in the 1920s gangsters, bank robbers, and other assorted criminals were using them to kill bystanders, LEOs, rivals, and just about anybody who crossed them, and Congress did the responsible thing and banned them for most civilians. This was at a time when gun ownership among Americans was significantly more widespread than it is today. The 1930s laws didn't stop the criminals from killing people but it lessened the carnage. It's time for Congress to do its job and at least lessen the carnage.

Does anyone know what “immediate detention mental health temporary hold” actually means? Does it mean that if he underwent a background check to purchase a gun that he'd be denied? I saw a report that the police or the FBI confiscated the gun he owned in 2020, but he obviously acquired a new one.

Partly true. An experienced muzzleloader user can get off maybe 2 shots in a minute. A lucky shooter with a semi-automatic rifle can get off 20-30 rounds in a minute. An experienced shooter can reload and get off many more shots. Limiting the types of guns civilians can own won't stop the entire problem but it can certainly lessen the carnage.

Thank you for delineating what needs to be done, because you are one of very few on the right on PPP who supports sensible restrictions on the people who use guns. The general mindset of many conservatives -- and certainly the political stance of almost all Republican politicians -- remains the NRA goal of insuring that any nut can acquire as many guns of any kind that he/she can amass. They hollowly offer platitudes like "thoughts and prayers" but do nothing. They don't even try. My only difference with your suggestions is that I would ban the military style semi-automatic rifles for civilian use, which are not sporting guns -- unless you consider killing people a "sport". There are semi-automatic shotguns and rifles used for hunting and target shooting which should be allowed. We need to come up with a legal definition that separates sporting guns from the people killers, which has been an excuse for doing nothing about these most lethal weapons for decades.

Really? And how do you propose to do that?

How is it any more of a "horrible tragedy" than the mass murders in Atlanta or Boulder or Indianapolis or anywhere else in the US? Dead is dead.

The beat goes on. Eight dead in a Fed Ex facility in a mass shooting in Indianapolis. The gunman killed himself when confronted by police.

The truth hurts. The Bills sucked at developing QBs, too, until Josh Allen (Kelly spent his first two years as a pro with the Houston Gamblers), but they don't have a patch on the Bears. No team does. Sid Luckman was born 2 years before my father, a WW II veteran, and last played in the NFL the year I was born, 1950.

When has a cop stopped you for an illegal left hand turn or a burned out tail light and demanded that you get out of your vehicle at gunpoint? It happens to black men too frequently, and it never happens to white men. If it did, FAUX NEWS and other Right Wing news outlets would be all over it and you know damn well that that's true. PS . Having an outstanding warrant or multiple ones is not a capital offense in any state in the US.

Viruses mutate. That's why it's important to get as many people as possible who are not ineligible for the vaccine for health reasons, vaccinated ASAP. Without hosts, the vaccine dies out. That's why smallpox now exists only in laboratories and how polio disappeared from the US and most of the developed world. That's how the US effectively got rid of measles, mumps, and rubella for decades until the anti-vaxxers allowed rubella to make a comeback. If the original covid virus and current variants are allowed to survive in the human population, eventually a vaccine resistant variant will appear, and we'll be back where we started in January, 2020. Moreover, death isn't the only consequence of covid. One of the Bills players couldn't play last season because of covid left him with heart problems. I haven't heard if he's recovered, but enough people infected with covid continue to have debilitating symptoms for months afterward, and some of these "long haulers" have been suffering a year or more now.

BINGO!!! The three cases in Wisconsin in the last year (Floyd in Minneapolis, Blake in Kenosha, Wright in Brooklyn Center) were NOT LEOs confronting armed men fleeing a shooting or something. Blake and Wright were traffic stops and Floyd was stopped because of a complaint about a counterfeit twenty dollar bill. In Virginia, Army LT Caron Nazario was threatened and pepper sprayed in a traffic stop. Those are just some of high profile cases in the last year. Police are NOT treating white Americans the same way as they treat black Americans in traffic stops. That's the striking thing about these incidents in the last year. The incidents -- and the others that happened just in the last year that I haven't mentioned -- have all stemmed from traffic stops or petty crimes that the police escalated when they had other options. No amount of "liberal media bias" could possibly suppress news about the police regularly confronting white men during traffic stops with the excessive and too often deadly force that they confront black men. White people wouldn't stand for it. White politicians wouldn't stand for it.

I think your statement about the polio vaccine is incorrect. (Polio vaccine). Doctors have identified a set of conditions that effect polio survivors decades after their exposure to the disease (Post-polio Syndrome).