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Really, Wyoming?
Some triggers are set so light they can go off by just closing the bolt.- MTGomer
- Post #97
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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About danged time
Bears are attracted to blood. If you can get the shot that you were bound to miss off quick enough, you can proceed to the next step of this thing smashing you in the nose, and blood pouring out of it. With a little luck, the bear will lick your blood up off the ground and leave you alone. Bear... -
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Observations
Besides hunting season, it’s the best time. Desert is green, full of flowers and it’s still cool enough to enjoy.- MTGomer
- Post #3
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Observations
The best of “March” Madness is in April. Theres a once in a lifetime eclipse almost every year. (The last one was in October) Bad driving occurs at a higher rate in vehicles with a Prius emblem or handicap license plates on them. In parts of Utah, coffee is not served at some places, but soda...- MTGomer
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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We are fighting the last war . . . .
It’s pretty hard in Arizona to get American citizens to show up on time, sober, and work hard for 40 hours a week for 80 or $90,000 a year. You ain’t going to get them to pick produce in Yuma for minimum wage. And how do you pay that much more than that, when they can farm the same stuff right...- MTGomer
- Post #152
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Good for you Botswana
The motivations of the hunter are far less important than the impact. I personally don’t care if somebody wants to bring back ivory, so they can put it in their texas mansion they purchased with oil money hang it up, drink bourbon they convince themselves doesn’t taste like shit because it’s...- MTGomer
- Post #216
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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Fixing social security
The numbers were based on buying index funds. The SP has averaged over 9% since its inception, so 8% is conservative. Being a professional fund manager, I can see how it’s a touchy subject to you that many of your peers and perhaps yourself, struggle to consistently beat the market index while...- MTGomer
- Post #585
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
PPP: my family’s neighbor https://www.justice.gov/usao-mt/pr/clinton-business-owner-admits-covid-19-relief-loan-fraud- MTGomer
- Post #485
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
Remember when politicians on both sides made it out like the one or two congressmen that opposed printing billions to pump into PPP were horrible anti American scum? That was neat.- MTGomer
- Post #483
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
Do you really think tax policy should break up multi generational working ranches just because the land has increased in value substantially? These aren’t rich people. You and I and many on this thread make way more in a year than they do. I could see a tax if the kid decided to sell the...- MTGomer
- Post #415
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
When I think about “taxing the Rich“ this is what I think too. Judging by comments in this thread or just statements from people or politicians, in general, it means wildly different things to other people. It seems that the couple that both have professional jobs and together are making a...- MTGomer
- Post #304
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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FWP Bonus Point Sketchiness
A preference point system would make them once in a lifetime for the handful of people that would ever have a shot at a tag and never in a lifetime for most everybody else. Pp systems don’t work for species like the big 3. How do you give out ~130 sheep tags to ~27k people with a pp system? -
Fixing social security
I get that it’s an unrealistically high number. But it was being compared to a SS payout based on a high income. To compare it to, Here’s SS for someone that never made a penny under $100k their entire career.- MTGomer
- Post #225
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
I just used 100k as an average so that it could plug into a simple compounding interest calculator. You’ll see that my SS calculator a few posts later was also based on a high income, greater than the contribution ceiling, to make it an apples-apples comparison. Most people my age with real...- MTGomer
- Post #220
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
I don’t think we should take it away from anybody, especially people that spent their entire working lives paying into it, with the expectation that it will be there. I would waive my right to receiving a payout in exchange for being able to opt out of paying in.- MTGomer
- Post #158
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
I think whether or not Social Security is “working“ depends on how you view it. If you view it as something that you pay a not insignificant portion of your income into, for your entire working life, to benefit the other members of society, and possibly/hopefully, but with no guarantee, to get a...- MTGomer
- Post #153
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
Here’s what it looks like working a full career, retiring making $200k. The annual family max benefit is about $72k. For individual it’s about $41.5k.- MTGomer
- Post #35
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
Between you and your employer, 12.4% is put in SSI on your behalf. For easy numbers, let’s say you average $100k salary over 40 years. That’s $12.4k/yr. If invested in Index Funds/ETFs we can say that it will grow 8% annually. In a 40 year career, you’d have accumulated over $3.7 Million...- MTGomer
- Post #15
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fixing social security
I’d take back what I have paid into it. I don’t even want interest. Just give me back my money and let me out of that racket.- MTGomer
- Post #5
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
