Policy on Advertising and Promoting Personal Businesses on MGoBlog

Submitted by Wood_Chuckson on

What's the policy for advertising or posting links to personal businesses on MGoBlog? For example, if one did a UM related campaign on T-Spring, would they be able to post the link to their storefront on MGoBlog? I tried to search for an answer without making a thread and I didn't want to assume either way (despite the blog having a store), so I figured I would ask. 

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jmdblue

June 12th, 2016 at 8:40 AM ^

I have some great opportunities for y'all with Amway and several other highly reputable organizations that will enable you to make real$$$$$ either full or part time!!!!

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mgobleu

June 12th, 2016 at 1:54 PM ^

Or maybe he IS wd... Then again, maybe you're wd... Hell, maybe Brian is wd... MAYBE WE'RE ALL WD!!!! MORPHEUS COME WAKE ME UP BEFORE HE TURNS ME INTO AN AGENT! THE SENTINELS ARE ALREADY AT ZION'S GATE! TAKE ME TO THE NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND FLY ME TO THE ORACLE! /hyperventilates; dies.

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jdon

June 12th, 2016 at 2:05 PM ^

I find most of your material funny.... however, you incessant attacks are as annoying as his incessant existence so in a way you cancel out the good you do when you over chastise...

also, sometimes I just like to poke the bear.

love you!

 

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jdon

June 12th, 2016 at 4:02 PM ^

Look at this open challenge!

you gonna take that Timmay!!!!

WD, you better hit the weight bench this offseason cause you know Timmay has anger management issues...

I'm setting the odds at 3-1 in favor of Timmay.

jdon

 

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scanner blue

June 12th, 2016 at 9:02 AM ^

I talked with the owner of Ann Arbor Elder Law who's just a big UM football fan and thinks the small price of sponsorship is basically just burning the money. I disagree-- he's building his name for the future, plus he gets insider acces to exclusive Mgoparties with Seth, Ace, and Brian. I choose Moe's over Mden, Wolverine State Brewing over Arbor Brewing, Underground printing over whatever, etc. Expamnd the MgoLove.

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Optimism Attache

June 12th, 2016 at 9:18 AM ^

Total sidenote here and not to denigrate Ann Arbor Elder Law, because what they seem to do is well within in the law and just smart practice...but we have a huge problem in this country with older, relatively well-off people passing along their wealth while ensuring that their long-term care is paid for by Medicaid.

That's not to say that many elderly people, even financially comfortable folks, need some protection in old age. That's because long-term care is expensive (can exceed $80,000 per year) and Medicare does not cover it--we need a real national srategy for long-term care financing. But being able to pass off hundreds of thousands of dollars to your relatives while you get your care paid for by through a program designed for the indigent (Medicaid) seems...illogical. Nobody expected the Boomers to enjoy lifespans as long as we have today, but the downside is that less than 10% of them have private long-term care insurance.

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a different Jason

June 12th, 2016 at 9:43 AM ^

I could not disagree with you more mostly because I have cashed checks from people who got 000s from Medicaid but still had some left over for me. Those are nice. We can talk when we cut military spending in half, stop paying inner city people to have children, and we stop pouring trillions into high school education that can be purchased online for pennies.

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Optimism Attache

June 12th, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^

The short answer is that Medicaid is for the poor (ie people who do not have much savings, if any) and Medicare is our near universal program for the elderly. As of now, the only way to get publicly financed LTC is to move assets around so it appears that you have spent down almost all your wealth (with the exception of a home) and access it through Medicaid.

If you think there should be a national long term care program that we all pay for, great. But let's do it through Medicare, rather than sap resources from a health initiative targeted to the poor. My hunch is that the main reason long term care is not included in Medicare is that it would cost a hell of a lot of money to do it. We can have debate as a country if we want to explicitly make this benefit available to everyone, but that also means making sure it's paid for via the taxes that fund Medicare.

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Steve in PA

June 12th, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^

Parents can give their married children $56k/yr tax free as a gift.  Each parent gives each of the spouses $14k.  Keep doing that during the 5 year lookback and it's a decent chunk of change.  With more children, I have a sister and my wife has a brother, it doubles or triples depending on the number of children and their married status.

I'm not a tax professinal but this is a conversation my wife and I are beginning to have with our parents as they get older.  

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