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    Social security by the numbers

    I would agree that if the income cap is removed, then the benefit cap at the upper end needs to be modified. Another solution that gets offered is means testing. I have long thought that this would be the beginning of the end for SS, for the reason you state. It is fundamentally unfair to deny...
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    Social security by the numbers

    One of the beauties of SS is that a person can't screw it up. If you work enough to get it, it's there, no matter how badly you handle the rest of your finances. One of my chief concerns about privatizing SS is that there will be a percentage of people that find a way to mess it up. Then...
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    Social security by the numbers

    While removing the cap is fair, it would be another instance where earned income is taxed more heavily than unearned income. Perhaps capital gains should have a SS tax levied on them, medicare tax also.
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    Social security by the numbers

    The Senate filibuster pretty much guarantees that nothing gets enacted, absent a broad bipartisan bill. Each party has much different solutions for the problem, so getting a bipartisan bill is not easy. At the extremes, the left would like to raise taxes on the wealthy enough to sustain SS, and...
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    Montana draw 2026

    I am considering this approach for the cow moose tag, I drew. I have a young dog that should really get put into as many birds as possible this fall. Most of the meat would go to our daughter's family. My favorite big game hunt is the elk hunt that my brother and I do. I don't want to short...
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Vote In Your Primary Election

    In Tim's case, I was being kind to him.
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Vote In Your Primary Election

    I guess the tag line Shady Sheehy has a kernel of truth to it. It really speaks to a person's morality, when they are willing to put their employees at greater risk, so that they make more money.
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Vote In Your Primary Election

    Of course politicians have not been bound by the truth when producing ads, but AI makes it possible to convince voters that their political opponent is actually saying the untruth.
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Vote In Your Primary Election

    I think the Democrats lost the election the night of the debate. That laid bare any remaining doubts about how demented Biden was. It was truly the emperor has no clothes moment. We will never fully know why Biden decided to run for a second term. Had he decided much earlier to be a one term...
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Vote In Your Primary Election

    I am assuming you mean switching the onus from the driver to the cyclists. I think it is unreasonable to think a biker can discern the size and distance of a vehicle behind them, with much precision. I haul a horse to run bird dogs very early in the mornings, during the late summer into early...
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Point Schemes Disguise Tag Declines

    Another change I would make for the big three tags is make the license valid for two years. Shit happens, any number of things could monkey wrench a tag holder's plans. I can see many benefits to having two seasons to fill a tag. A big one is settling for an animal, when it gets late in the...
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Point Schemes Disguise Tag Declines

    Speaking as an old fart who has now drawn four moose tags, making them a once in a lifetime tag, would give more hunters a chance to hunt the big three. After looking at the draw odds, I decided that waiting for a bull moose tag, would likely mean, never drawing a tag. So, I have always applied...
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    Elk Week with Jim Zumbo

    I am grateful this thread got refreshed. I just took the time to listen to the entire podcast, and enjoyed it greatly. The only time I have seen Jim Zumbo was in the bar/grill he was mentioning in Gardiner. Friends and I were at an adjacent table one evening. It was a year that everyone and...
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    Bison Kills Woman

    I considered this to be a final warning years ago, while hiking in YNP with my daughter. It was a trail, not unlike the one in the story. There were quite a few other hikers and fishermen who were also on the trail. I'd guess we were fifty to seventy five yards away, when I took this photo. We...
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    Drought for the west

    We received 0.92 inches of rain out of the last system. It was badly needed. Hopefully there is a little more before the summer gets here.
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