Racism - It's a real thing.

StPaulHusker said:
Now ask what the Cowboys would do if Dak Prescott took a knee.
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He's not as good as those three I mentioned.... Like I said, I'm not saying I had issues with Kaep's kneeling, I didn't.... I'm saying that there is baggage that comes with what Kaep did, whether justified or not, and you better be pretty good to have that baggage overlooked. Kaep isn't good enough for that to happen. Mahomes, Newton, and Wilson would be.

 
OTHusker said:
It was a pretty harsh statement

however I’m not sure your statement is accurate
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The problem with the statement is that it's extremely misleading in how it's used...even by you.

Forbes

So, who is not paying up on the income tax front and why aren’t they required to bear the same responsibilities that you are?

The vast majority of non-income taxpayers fall into three categories:

  • 17 percent includes students, people with disabilities or illnesses, the long-term unemployed, and other people with very low taxable incomes. Also included would be people like our soldiers in foreign wars who are exempted from paying income taxes while they are on active duty in a war zone.
  • 22 percent of people who did not pay federal income taxes in 2009 are people aged 65 or older who have modest incomes (and do not have earnings).
  • 61 percent are working people who pay payroll taxes but are not paying income taxes.
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The only purpose of the statement is to anger people towards people who aren't paying income taxes....which....the majority are still paying federal taxes.

At worst it's a myth and at best it's a stretch of the truth to divide people into economic groups for political gain.

From these numbers, the majority of these people are not sitting at home thinking the government owes them entitlements.  In fact, that group would be a very small minority.

 
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Landlord said:
Does it actually?

The actual ad (video) has nothing about that. There were billboards and posters and stuff with text over his face, but how much of that is using Kaepernick to send a message to consumers vs sending a message about Kaepernick?

Regardless, he was still a millionaire making millions "playing" football at the time.
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Video didn't. Print & billboard campaign did. 

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Landlord said:
Right. So is Kaep saying that to me, or is Nike saying that about Kaep?
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Well Nike's ad agency wrote the words for both the billboard and the video script, so the answer is:  both. 

My point several posts back was that Kaepernick had a lot less to sacrifice when his career had bottomed out, and it's still interesting to wonder what would happen if a popular athlete at the top of his game had taken that knee. 

 
funhusker said:
But I also know a whole lot of hard working, good people that don't pay a dime in federal income tax because unfortunately they don't make enough.  But they still do an awful lot of complaining about how the government is spending someone else's money.
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They're the people that complain the most, and have the nerve to b!^@h because their tax return wasn't  as much as other years, etc.... Despite not paying a dime in Income tax. :facepalm:

 
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B.B. Hemingway said:
They're the people that complain the most, and have the nerve to b!^@h because their tax return wasn't  as much as other years, etc.... Despite not paying a dime in Income tax. :facepalm:
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This is one of those comments people make with nothing to back it up. 

Like rich people never b!^@h about taxes. 

 
BigRedBuster said:
This is one of those comments people make with nothing to back it up. 

Like rich people never b!^@h about taxes. 
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At least rich people have a reason to b!^@h about taxes. I'd rather hear them complain than those who are pissed they "got back" $3,000 instead of $4,000, despite not paying a dime in Income tax.

 
B.B. Hemingway said:
At least rich people have a reason to b!^@h about taxes. I'd rather hear them complain than those who are pissed they "got back" $3,000 instead of $4,000, despite not paying a dime in Income tax.
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While I think that probably needs to get fixed, what percentage of the population has you triggered? I bet it's not very high...

 
B.B. Hemingway said:
At least rich people have a reason to b!^@h about taxes. I'd rather hear them complain than those who are pissed they "got back" $3,000 instead of $4,000, despite not paying a dime in Income tax.
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Did I miss something?  Tax returns are because someone paid TOO MUCH income tax, not because they didn't pay.

 
ZRod said:
While I think that probably needs to get fixed, what percentage of the population has you triggered? I bet it's not very high...
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A lot of poor people in the Ozarks, so most of the people around me! :lol:  

NM11046 said:
Did I miss something?  Tax returns are because someone paid TOO MUCH income tax, not because they didn't pay.
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This is most definitely not always the case.... In fact, it's probably usually not the case.

 
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