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  • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

    Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
    We have a discount ESPP, too. Helps keep investments diversified while giving employees who buy-in a reason to give a sheet about the company's performance.

    Ours is different though, it is a payroll deduction held in escrow for six months. At which time they buy all the whole shares they can for you at a 15% discount from the current list price, and any remainder is returned to your next check as taxable income.
    Same here. At worst, you get 15% on a six month investment, hard to beat that return.

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      I don't know what kind of outfits you all work for but here we're given stock awards, none of this discounted purchase price nonsense!
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      • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

        Found the plute
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        College Hockey 6       College Football 0
        BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
        Originally posted by SanTropez
        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
        Originally posted by Kepler
        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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        • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

          Originally posted by Rover View Post
          I don't know what kind of outfits you all work for but here we're given stock awards, none of this discounted purchase price nonsense!
          One does not exclude the other.

          Cornell '04, Stanford '06


          KDR

          Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
          iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
          gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
          Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
          Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
          TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
          DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

          Test to see if I can add this.

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          • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

            Originally posted by Rover View Post
            I don't know what kind of outfits you all work for but here we're given stock awards, none of this discounted purchase price nonsense!
            At ours they just give us minutes.

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            • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

              Water is wet.
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              • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                Schools are just another business.

                College Board corporation that owns test scores sells student data to schools.
                College Board recorded $100 million in revenue from its business that includes selling student data in 2017, according to the latest tax return available, up from $63 million in 2010.

                ...

                Students are asked before taking College Board’s tests if they want to make their information available to schools. Ms. Johnson said it was not clear to her what the information would be used for, but she hoped schools that were interested in her would send mail. She said she didn’t know her data would be monetized.

                The schools target these students, knowing their scores and knowing they won't get in.
                Jori Johnson took the practice SAT test as a high-school student outside Chicago. Brochures later arrived from Vanderbilt, Stanford, Northwestern and the University of Chicago. The universities’ solicitations piqued her interest, and she eventually applied.
                The students apply and are rejected.
                A few months later, she was rejected by those and three other schools that had sought her application, she said. The high-school valedictorian’s test scores, while strong by most standards, were well below those of most students admitted to the several schools that had contacted her.

                This improves the schools' exclusivity score.
                Each year, 1,900 schools and scholarship programs buy combinations from among 2 million to 2.5 million names, College Board said, declining to say how many names in total it sells. Schools target combinations of geography, socio-economic class and academic interests. A college could buy a list of, say, soccer-playing Caucasian girls from Colorado, Wyoming and Montana who scored 1,200 to 1,300 on the PSAT, are interested in engineering and whose parents didn’t attend college.

                Some schools buy a half-million names a year, admissions officers say. Tulane University said it bought about 300,000 names last year from College Board. Tulane’s applicant pool climbed 174% between 2002 and 2017 and its acceptance rate declined 62%, federal data show.

                ...

                The (Vanderbilt) admissions office doubled its recruiting staff and increased the number of names bought from College Board to about 150,000 from 60,000 during her time at Vanderbilt, she said. ... Vanderbilt’s admissions rate has dropped to 11% in 2017, from 46% in 2002, according to an analysis of federal data. The number of Vanderbilt applicants rose more than three-fold over the same period.

                So, College Board gets money; schools improve their reputations, rejected students pay for it. A perfect scam.
                Last edited by Kepler; 11-07-2019, 02:15 PM.
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                • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  Schools are just another business.

                  College Board corporation that owns test scores sells student data to schools. The schools send information to students. Students apply, generating more revenue for School Board. Applications are rejected, thus improving the schools' exclusivity score. College Board gets money; schools improve their reputations, rejected students pay for it. A perfect system.
                  This should be a crime punishable by catapult.
                  Code:
                  As of 9/21/10:         As of 9/13/10:
                  College Hockey 6       College Football 0
                  BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
                  Originally posted by SanTropez
                  May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                  Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                  I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                  Originally posted by Kepler
                  When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                  He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                  • Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                    This should be a crime punishable by catapult.
                    Universities should be taxed like any other property owner. F them
                    a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                    • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                      Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                      Universities should be taxed like any other property owner. F them
                      Public and private, or only the private?
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                      • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                        Universities should be taxed like any other property owner. F them
                        Throw in churches, and we have a deal.

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                        • Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                          Throw in churches, and we have a deal.
                          Deal
                          a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                          • Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                            Public and private, or only the private?
                            If administrators demand Corp level salaries......
                            a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                            • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                              Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                              Throw in churches, and we have a deal.
                              Deal.
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                              ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
                              Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020

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