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Asian carp may have breached Great Lakes barrier
Did they come in on firewood? (Friday Nov 20 | post #9)
Minneapolis man indicted on animal terrorism charge in Iowa
I was waiting to read that he was training **** to shoot up Army bases or something... (Friday Nov 20 | post #11)
New Pap test guidelines call for scaled-back screenings
Way cheaper to be dead than to need all those pesky cancer tests (and treatments when it is found), right folks? (Friday Nov 20 | post #8)
Minn. farmer cited in truck spill
Actually, the cameras are watching you, not me. (Friday Nov 20 | post #8)
Eau Claire police chief says street cameras deter crime
Famous last words when your daughter gets abducted and raped on the street: "I wish there was a camera that could ID the guy who did this" (Friday Nov 20 | post #19)
Obese South Carolina man dies after 8 months in home recliner
Amen, brother! Amen! (Friday Nov 20 | post #15)
Obese South Carolina man dies after 8 months in home recliner
He could have had his own reality show...why didn't his wife think of that? Oh, that's right...she was too busy shoveling food down his pie-hole and blaming everyone else for their actions. (Friday Nov 20 | post #14)
Oprah Winfrey to end talk show in 2011, after 25th season
I'm sure its hard to run her show AND her puppet President... (Friday Nov 20 | post #49)
More Minnesota homeowners behind on house payment
Ummm...the hardship withdrawl is one form. And loss of your house is directly spelled out: For a distribution from a 401(k) plan to be on account of hardship, it must be made on account of an immediate and heavy financial need of the employee and the amount must be necessary to satisfy the financial need. The need of the employee includes the need of the employee's spouse or dependent. (Reg. §1.401(k)-1(d)(3)( i)) Under the provisions of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the need of the employee also may include the need of the employee's non-spouse, non-dependent beneficiary. Whether a need is immediate and heavy depends on the facts and circumstances. Certain expenses are deemed to be immediate and heavy, including: (1) certain medical expenses; (2) costs relating to the purchase of a principal residence; (3) tuition and related educational fees and expenses; (4) payments necessary to prevent eviction from, or foreclosure on, a principal residence; (5) burial or funeral expenses; and (6) certain expenses for the repair of damage to the employee's principal residence. Expenses for the purchase of a boat or television would generally not qualify for a hardship distribution. A financial need may be immediate and heavy even if it was reasonably foreseeable or voluntarily incurred by the employee. (Reg. §1.401(k)-1(d)(3)( iii)) (Thursday Nov 19 | post #33)
Proposal passes to offer Minnesota Vikings lease extension
But you aren't a billionaire with a sports team. Your business puts people to work, and pays taxes, just like millions of other companies. Collectively, you pay thousands of times the taxes and generate thousands of times the trickle-down taxes for the State. And you get NOTHING in exchange for it. But 3 guys threaten to move their sports teams away, and the State can't throw money at them fast enough. (Thursday Nov 19 | post #45)
Proposal passes to offer Minnesota Vikings lease extension
No, its based on income, not hours. And every penny you make decreases your unemployment income (or welfare check). In fact, it decreases more than what you make on a sliding scale. So why work park time, but bring home the same amount or less? Don't try to tell me that a new stadium is going to get the unemployed a chance to network...they can network 100 ways now. They don't need a $1B stadium to do that. And finally...how much do minimum workers pay in income taxes to the State? Not SS taxes, that's federal. Well, if you make under the poverty line (and minumum wage is right about the poverty line if you work full time), you get any taxes that you paid right back. Most people are smart enough to do their W-2 to not lose any to begin with, so the State get 'el zippo' from that too. Next... (Thursday Nov 19 | post #44)
Proposal passes to offer Minnesota Vikings lease extension
Agreed, but those that are workers (each stand has people who are supervising the volunteers) aren't making a living wage doing it. (Thursday Nov 19 | post #41)
Proposal passes to offer Minnesota Vikings lease extension
I agree with you 100%!!! I'm probably the biggest anti-choo choo and transit person on the boards. The big difference is that with the choo-choo we are subsidizing a program where the income goes back to the State. It certainly doesn't make it right, but at least the 'profits and loss' for the entire operation are for a tax-payer owned operation. If Ziggy gets a stadium, we won't get anything from it directly. People can claim it generates tourism and entertainment taxes and stuff, but Ziggy won't be paying the State rent, or giving us a cut of the take. He will get all the naming rights income, all the suite revenue, and all the ticket sales. He will NOT, however, need to pay for any of the costs of its operation. It would be like us building a choo-choo, and giving the money it takes in (rider payments) to a private party, but still paying all the bills with public money. The state should be doing what is best for the majority of Minnesotans, but they have not done that for a very, very, VERY long time. (Thursday Nov 19 | post #33)
Proposal passes to offer Minnesota Vikings lease extension
No, it isn't. The people working at the stadiums are mostly minimum wage jobs, and very few are full time. In fact, most are 4-5 hours a day at most 5 days a week. So it isn't a 'replacement' job for a programmer or construction worker. If the person is on unemployment, they make more sitting home than working there. But at least the illegals will have somewhere to make money to send back home... (Thursday Nov 19 | post #32)
St. Paul restaurant-allergy proposal retooled to encourage work...
Only if you read the poster first. (Thursday Nov 19 | post #19)
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