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50% of the population, given that 50% don't pay a penny in income tax

Not true. Try actually googling a real fact and shut off your right wing tv and put down the Miller lite.

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If the "poor" smoked less cigarettes, bought less Starbucks coffee, and took a bagged lunch to work, they would have plenty of money to have their kids play soccer.

From someone who’s big trip each day is getting the mail. No one is doing this. I think I’ve gone months in public without seeing someone or smelling someone smoke a cig. Probably because it’s prohibitively expensive and with no point.

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Even that is getting monetized. AAU isn't the bargain it used to be. But at least with basketball, football and track there are more opportunities to stand out in HS and get noticed by college coaches. In soccer forget it. You have to be in the pricey club system. MLS clubs are the only place where skill counts over money and the girls side doesn't have any of that at all.

There are no opportunities in track unless you win states. That’s like 15 people annually.

AAU is how even Kobe and Labron got noticed, not high school. You have a point about football and Friday Night Lights style culture. Someone is probably paying attention, but still is not cheap. Todays kids train 1:1 in QB camps in far flung places every other weekend. Bubba ain’t making it to college football just for eat’n big. Call it the soccer-fication of football - everyone wants the Manning treatment.

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There are no opportunities in track unless you win states. That’s like 15 people annually.

AAU is how even Kobe and Labron got noticed, not high school. You have a point about football and Friday Night Lights style culture. Someone is probably paying attention, but still is not cheap. Todays kids train 1:1 in QB camps in far flung places every other weekend. Bubba ain’t making it to college football just for eat’n big. Call it the soccer-fication of football - everyone wants the Manning treatment.

AAU isn't like when Kobe and LeBron played. Costs way more now and plenty of families pay for privates and workouts they can't necessarily afford. Football as well, wven trackbis getting outbof hand. Some players do get noticed in HS, especially boys who finally get through puberty and aren't Bambi in Ice awkward any more. There are some private and prep schools that recruit incredible athletes for certain sports and college coaches go watch games.

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Not true. Try actually googling a real fact and shut off your right wing tv and put down the Miller lite.

you are really ignorant

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From someone who’s big trip each day is getting the mail. No one is doing this. I think I’ve gone months in public without seeing someone or smelling someone smoke a cig. Probably because it’s prohibitively expensive and with no point.

Or because you are an 85 year old decrepit invalid shut in Larry

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Not true. Try actually googling a real fact and shut off your right wing tv and put down the Miller lite.

• More than half of American households paid no federal income tax last year due to Covid-relief funds, tax credits and stimulus, according to a new report.
• The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that 57% of U.S. households paid no federal income taxes for 2021, up substantially from the 44% before the pandemic.

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Not true. Try actually googling a real fact and shut off your right wing tv and put down the Miller lite.

Your sadly right on this occasion. It is higher than 50%-

And Miller Lite is pretty popular these days with the beer drinking 20 something crowd-:)

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• More than half of American households paid no federal income tax last year due to Covid-relief funds, tax credits and stimulus, according to a new report.
• The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that 57% of U.S. households paid no federal income taxes for 2021, up substantially from the 44% before the pandemic.

That large jump was still in part because of pandemic relief programs. 2022 will show a figure back down closer to pre pandemic numbers because programs have expired for the most part

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That large jump was still in part because of pandemic relief programs. 2022 will show a figure back down closer to pre pandemic numbers because programs have expired for the most part

Shouldn't even be a split/everyone should pay their fair share. Still makes the Miller Light poster 100% wrong but they knew that when they posted. Must be part of the non-paying group.

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This new league has a chance of being the 2nd best league in the country behind the ECNL for girls and MLS academy’s on the boys side.

No is doesn't.

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Shouldn't even be a split/everyone should pay their fair share. Still makes the Miller Light poster 100% wrong but they knew that when they posted. Must be part of the non-paying group.

If you want to talk about fair share, look at the highest earners and the % of income they pay. It's substantially less %-wise then middle income folks who get squeezed.