There has been a ton of things like this going on from both sides. It's sad that people can't accept differing opinions.

7pm Central time for Florida. We should have a solid understanding by 10 pm latest.

This pretty much confirms Trump is toast. These approval polls are largely bs but still it's a 15 point gap now.

“@StevenTDennis: Gallup: Obama approval jumps 3 points to 56%, disapproval down to 41%”

Commision based earnings make this calc different, but for non commision based family incomes the #'s are not anywhere close to that.

Unless you have a special talent that enables you to drop your salary from 171K down to 125,999 for only the years your kids were in college and rebounding back to 171k after they graduate you are costing yourself ungodly amounts in future earnings potential.

If we assume you and your wife are 45 and going to retire when you are 65, a couple making 171K currently with 3% rise in income each year is going to earn 4.73 million by retirement. Subtract out the 60K per kid for their college career and you net 4.53 million.

If you slash your pay to 125,999 and assume a similar rise in income of 3% per year(no raises for 8 years until your kids are out of college), even with free college your new net is 3.47 million. So you want to cost yourself over a million in future earning to take advantage of a simple tax break?

With the above assumptions(45 years old, retire at 65, 3 kids in college next 8 year, 3% raise each year when applicable) there is exactly no salary at which point it makes sense to cut your salary to 125,999. Not even 126,000.

Just heard the end of a trump speech, everybody chanting USA USA USA. My God did it ever sound like sieg heil, or something from The Wall. Truly chilling.

Even though community college seems super cheap (and is a great value), believe me when I say that cost is a HUGE factor for students, especially where I work. Keep in mind a lot of these are non-traditional students who have children, work multiple jobs etc.

Seems like a no brainer to me that at least community college education should be free for those who want it and can't afford it. As someone correctly posted, investing in education yields great returns. Hopefully our next President makes positive steps towards making people smarter.

If the majority of US universities are government based, the government should have a super easy time controlling education costs. But they don't.

I think we are not speaking of the same thing. Many US universities are public but a very small percentage of their funding comes from the state and the state has very limited say in terms of tuition increases.

Seems to be a common theme ITT, people willing to sacrifice tons of future earnings just so they can "save" a few thousand today.

What policies do you think Hillary will try and implement, assuming she wins? What will be her priorities?

I'm not convinced she doesn't have some big goals. She's spent her whole life trying to be president and she must know her chances of reelection are not great.

This. I suspect if we could actually get it down to a hard science (we can't, but if), we'd find it's a law: You can have a fair system, or you can have an unexploitable system, but you can't have a fair, unexploitable system.

This is almost as ridiculous as the satanic spirit cooking stuff.

People have been chanting USA at political rallies and conventions and a bajillion other things for as long as I can remember and probably before that.

I'm sure I can find people chanting it at Obama rallies or any other Dem candidate for President.

Ana Navarro: I'm voting for Hillary Clinton -- and against Donald Trump

The market upswing is Comey related. Probably a combination of both increased likelihood of Clinton winning and the removal of the uncertainty of legal issues hanging over the head of the President elect.

it truly is amazing the hypocrisy of people who claim to be most patriotic but yet say America is so bad

Surprised nobody wants Clinton as a 6-1 favorite. Seems like easy money

LOL GJGE Trump.

It's a simple as the market likes certainty, not a coincidence short duration volatility was piled into over the 9 days & now that trade is being unwound.

From what I've heard, some of her early priorities will be:

Infrastructure spending bill (w/some tax changes)
Immigration reform
Amendment to overturn Citizens United

People still think (are hoping?) Brexit is possible again which is hilariously wrong at this point.

Yeah for sure. I meant to say WONT require more years. Whoops

I think everyone in this thread agrees that we want to invest in a more educated country across the board.

I think we also all agree that higher education costs rise at a faster rate than both inflation and professor salaries.

It would behoove us to finally address the root problem instead of a short term patch on the symptoms.

This is assuming your salary stays at 126k (ignoring the 3% rise as thats a wash on both numbers). Id imagine if you voluntarily dropped to 126k, it would not be hard to get back up to 171k. But enough of a derail

You want us to think you're reasonable, but you keep posting stuff like this. It makes it difficult! Trump's rallies are a nightmare straight out of A Clockwork Orange. Can you really not see that?

Early vote everywhere skews democratic and gets counted first. So HRC is going to look like she has a lead everywhere that has early voting early on, and that lead will steadily erode.

My pony might be grunched but I think this chart explains Trump's brand of authoritarian appeal perfectly.