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He can....live within your means. It isn't rocket science. If you want nicer things...go out and improve your situation. The opportunities are there.
He knew that going in. He murdered her knowing he could get away with it. Our resident lefits celebrated at it the time, "FAFO! LOLMAO< PLAY STUPID GAMEWZ WIN STUPID PRIZER!




It has never been easier; don't buy the socialist nonsense arguments devoid of real logic. Quit feeling sorry for yourselves and get to work.
It is very easy to have this mindset, wash your hands of the situation, and never think of it again.

Let's pretend that you are a 26 year old living in Wayne county. All the houseboat factories shut down in 2008 and Beldens moved operations to Mexico in 2016. You spend years working at Walmart (biggest employer) at 32 hours a week (to avoid paying for insurance and what not). You finally make the change and begin work at the Tyson plant in Albany making 15 an hour. You're finally able to work full time and bring home 845 bucks a paycheck. Girlfriend works there too and brings home the same amount. Insurance eats 245 of each paycheck so the two of you bring home 2,400 a month.

Girlfriend has 17k worth of student loans when she went to cosmetology school at campbellsville. That’s 200 dollar a month.

Two cricket phone bills total 90 a month.

Gas to and from work is 75 a week or 300 a month.

Rent is 600 a month.

So that 2400 is already down to 1,210.

Food per week is 150 and this includes eating out. So another 600.

Internet and cable is another 120.

down to 490 and now the utilities are due. Electric is 130 and water is another 40

So all of this leaves you with 320 bucks. This doesn’t account for entertainment or a car payment. These guys are lucky in that the cars are paid for, but Cody drives a 2005 pathfinder that has 195,000 miles and Katie drives an 07 mustang that has 200,000+ miles. Insurance for both is another 150 for minimum coverage and these guys are left with 170 dollars.

God forbid if they have to have a medical procedure done, car issues arise, and you see quickly why 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
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J. Maclin moving on now too...

Did we not love it when we had Benny Snell and the whole "Snell Yeah!" machine racking up yards with big runs and big plays on our way to a 10 win season and a Citrus Bowl Trophy? People complain about not keeping up with the joneses and having a high flying fast paced no huddle spread offense, but that Citrus Bowl season was as exciting of a season as we've ever had around here. Hell, the season we had Snell and Williams both go over 1000 yards was pretty epic too. If it's a system that competes and wins games, then bring it back and build for it. Don't pretend to be something we aren't.
I actually enjoyed the physical style ground attack very much. The problem was that it was ineffective against the better teams in the conference. We weren't running over anybody once we got to the meat of our schedule. The front 7s of the SEC are just too talented

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Yea. I heard a theory that the only reason they even went ahead with these cases was to give Joe the justification to pardon him. If he'd have pardoned while still claiming he didn absolutely nothing illegal then it looks really weird. Now he can say "it was just a technicality on a gun charge and a mistake on his taxes".... Never mind the $23M from Ukraine and china.
I was thinking along the same lines.

In my humble opinion, when that judge threw out the plea deal that gave Hunter broad "coverage" for lack of a better term, they had to go the guilty/pardon route on the safest charges.
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Do you think banks just lend money against stock portfolios and don’t expect payments of interest or principal? Where is that cash coming from?
Yes, borrowing against a stock portfolio can help avoid taxes by allowing you to borrow money without selling assets and incurring capital gains taxes. This strategy is known as the "buy, borrow, die" strategy.

Here's how it works:
- Buy: Buy assets that appreciate in value
- Borrow: Use the assets as collateral for a loan, such as a Securities Backed Line of Credit (SBLOC) or a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
- Die: Leave the assets to your heirs

The strategy offers a double tax benefit because you don't pay capital gains taxes on the assets and the loan proceeds aren't considered taxable income.

This came up during the "should we tax unrealized gains" discussion. Guys like Bill Ackman - who were big time against taxing unrealized gains, conceded that if you borrow against assets that should be taxed as income.

“If you have $10 billion of stock in a company you founded,” he wrote on social media, “loans secured by the stock should be taxable as if you sold a like amount of stock.”
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