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Why is $1,000 the 'magic number' for these companies giving bonuses? -- Late 80s Hokie 01/24/2018 09:08AM Its about 50 cents/hr for a full time employee -- Quaker 01/24/2018 10:42AM And it's a 1 time benefit, not an actual raise. Verizon may have broken -- Late 80s Hokie 01/24/2018 4:15PM Bingo ** -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 1:40PM Crumbs from Armageddon ** -- Tuckahokie 01/24/2018 06:22AM As has been mentioned previously, the total effect of the cuts is what's... -- VisorBoy Hokie 01/24/2018 04:39AM I agree also. I'm no tax or budget expert -- wahoo138 01/24/2018 07:54AM Not to mention my 401K has gone up $130K in the past 12 months -- Hoo23 01/24/2018 08:04AM There is a lot going on. Oil and gold rise daily. -- Shenhoo 01/24/2018 08:18AM Good for you ** -- wahoo138 01/24/2018 08:06AM I think a lot of the tax reform skeptics are being vindicated actually -- BonsackHoo 01/23/2018 9:30PM I'm not sure I'd combine buybacks into the 'capital' bucket -- VisorBoy Hokie 01/24/2018 04:47AM Stock buybacks are 100% to the benefit of capital -- BonsackHoo 01/24/2018 07:59AM Exactly ** -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 08:39AM I've never been all that comfortable discussing the issue in these terms. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/24/2018 08:14AM That's not the right argument for lowering corporate rates anyway. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/23/2018 10:07PM I agree with everything you say except for "and it's hard to see much in -- BonsackHoo 01/23/2018 10:12PM Well if you want to reduce the wealth gap, you know what will do that? -- BocaHoo91 01/23/2018 10:21PM This is just wrong and you know it. -- BonsackHoo 01/23/2018 10:38PM It's not wrong. Look at the wealth gap over time. During the -- BocaHoo91 01/23/2018 10:52PM The wealth gap worsened as a result of the recession. The top 10% may have -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 07:38AM That’s actually not true. The top 1%’s SHARE -- BocaHoo91 01/24/2018 08:07AM Unless you restrict yourself to the point in time when the stock market -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 08:37AM I agree. And hence my point, that the quickest and best, and -- BocaHoo91 01/24/2018 08:58AM Well, there are certainly OTHER ways to shrink the wealth gap other than -- Late 80s Hokie 01/24/2018 11:23AM Well sure, if wealthy people choose to give their wealth -- BocaHoo91 01/24/2018 11:46AM But the recession only worsened the gap, as my link said. The recession is -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 09:14AM My point is the only way to hurt the wealthy relative to everyone else is -- BocaHoo91 01/24/2018 09:24AM I think I agree with all of that. A strong economy with job and wage growth -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 09:31AM The wealth gap can be fixed through growth. Stop with this strawman that it -- BonsackHoo 01/23/2018 11:25PM You've made some terrific, spot on points in this string ** -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 07:40AM You can start fixing the wealth gap by paying off my student loans -- dajoka004 01/24/2018 06:35AM That would certainly benefit those home owners with high student debt -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 07:46AM I think Dajoka was kidding. You sound like you're being -- BocaHoo91 01/24/2018 09:16AM I think I responded appropriately to double naught 4's post. :>) ** -- 111Balz 01/24/2018 09:20AM I'm not being intellectually dishonest. I'm telling you what I believe. -- BocaHoo91 01/24/2018 06:20AM I think concentrated power is a bad thing -- BonsackHoo 01/24/2018 07:46AM Great posts. Enjoyed reading this exchange. ** -- WahooRQ 01/24/2018 10:59AM I think you're looking at this wrong. The tax cuts did not -- BocaHoo91 01/23/2018 9:58PM I take your point but that is a different discussion. My point is about tax -- BonsackHoo 01/23/2018 10:09PM When you anti trumpers sit on this board months before -- TomKazanski 01/23/2018 10:36PM And? Trump is incomplete and a little silly. ** -- hoolstoptheheels 01/23/2018 10:11PM Haha. I am just trying to add the context which I don't think gets -- BonsackHoo 01/23/2018 10:16PM It's right there in the name ... -- Beerman 01/23/2018 9:51PM You should always put these things in ways -- fphoo 01/23/2018 9:48PM I aint give that boy no 5 dollar allowance. I give em a pack -- TomKazanskisMom 01/23/2018 10:02PM Wow. you are really really sad. ** -- hoothat 01/24/2018 09:47AM
