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2026 Keisean Henderson 5* QB/ATH from Spring, TX

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One9 said:


soon as i saw this, i said oh Houston gon have this locked up by Sunday dinner... turns out it was by dinner tonight.
#****DemNoles
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I love that legislators like to take credit for writing a law that the courts have already said was the law.
If it is illegal to prevent a college athlete from profiting off his/her NIL, then the same legal logic applies to high school athletes. Age cannot be a determinative factor in whether a person can receive NIL. All it would take is for a single high school athlete to sue if a state prevented him/her from collecting off his/her NIL, and the dam will break.

But good for you Texas legislators. Now you get credit from your ignorant voters and look like you actually did something.
 
AtlAtty said:
I love that legislators like to take credit for writing a law that the courts have already said was the law.
If it is illegal to prevent a college athlete from profiting off his/her NIL, then the same legal logic applies to high school athletes. Age cannot be a determinative factor in whether a person can receive NIL. All it would take is for a single high school athlete to sue if a state prevented him/her from collecting off his/her NIL, and the dam will break.

But good for you Texas legislators. Now you get credit from your ignorant voters and look like you actually did something.
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Texas calls their corporate income tax a "franchise tax" so that they can claim that they don't have an income tax.

Wild.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Texas calls their corporate income tax a "franchise tax" so that they can claim that they don't have an income tax.

Wild.
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Wow.

The funny thing I like to remind people about taxes is that every State has to raise about the same amount of tax revenue per resident because all states provide the same or very similar services. So whereas State ___ may not have one specific tax, or in your example, call it something else, the revenue is still being raised from some other tax. Someone is paying the bill.
 
AtlAtty said:
Wow.

The funny thing I like to remind people about taxes is that every State has to raise about the same amount of tax revenue per resident because all states provide the same or very similar services. So whereas State ___ may not have one specific tax, or in your example, call it something else, the revenue is still being raised from some other tax. Someone is paying the bill.
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Correct. Texas, for example, has 9.25% sales tax and outrageous property tax.
 
Elmer Leghorn said:
Correct. Texas, for example, has 9.25% sales tax and outrageous property tax.
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I know about both of those things. My company's second biggest manufacturing facility is in Houston, and now some dweeby sales tax auditor wants to tell me we are not entitled to the manufacturer exemption.

And after we pay our Harris County property tax, we get a SECOND bill from some random "independent school district" that is actually MORE than the Harris County bill. Our Tangible Business Personal Property Tax bill this year was so high, I couldn't pay it online via EFT, I had to send a paper check (6-figure bill for both the county and the school district, separately).

Texas is slick.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I know about both of those things. My company's second biggest manufacturing facility is in Houston, and now some dweeby sales tax auditor wants to tell me we are not entitled to the manufacturer exemption.

And after we pay our Harris County property tax, we get a SECOND bill from some random "independent school district" that is actually MORE than the Harris County bill. Our Tangible Business Personal Property Tax bill this year was so high, I couldn't pay it online via EFT, I had to send a paper check (6-figure bill for both the county and the school district, separately).

Texas is slick.
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It's crazy, man. They just keep going up too. They artificially inflate the value of your home/property so they can collect more taxes.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I know about both of those things. My company's second biggest manufacturing facility is in Houston, and now some dweeby sales tax auditor wants to tell me we are not entitled to the manufacturer exemption.

And after we pay our Harris County property tax, we get a SECOND bill from some random "independent school district" that is actually MORE than the Harris County bill. Our Tangible Business Personal Property Tax bill this year was so high, I couldn't pay it online via EFT, I had to send a paper check (6-figure bill for both the county and the school district, separately).

Texas is slick.
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Haha, I remember when I moved up outside Philly for a year. Payroll called me and asked what Township I lived in. I was like WTH is a township. And she said you need to find out, because you are paying taxes to it.
 
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Elmer Leghorn said:
It's crazy, man. They just keep going up too. They artificially inflate the value of your home/property so they can collect more taxes.
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For the record, the tax I was talking about is the property tax on corporate FIXED ASSETS.

For the real estate tax, we hire a law firm EVERY SINGLE YEAR to protest the increasing valuation of the corporate real estate. Because, as you said, it just keeps going up every single year.
 
JG14 said:
Haha, I remember when I moved up outside Philly for a year. Payroll called me and asked what Township I lived in. I was like WTH is a township. And she said you need to find out, because you are paying taxes to it.
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My hatred of taxing jurisdictions increases the smaller they get.

I can live with the IRS.

I can barely tolerate the states.

I get ****ED at cities/counties.

I lose my **** for any other smaller descriptions of area, such as "townships" and "villages" and "districts".
 
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JustAFanHTX said:
That’ll be a shame but probably not
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Can’t tell if you are saying this in the sense of you think he should stay or not lol. But no chance Houston can pay this dude to not play.

This has been my point with recruiting HS QBs. If you pay to get an elite HS qb. They better play. And 100x so for a school like Houston.
 
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