Trump spoke eloquently about Jerusalem being recognised as Israel's capital. It was a beautiful speech about tolerance and not letting hate get in the way.
Shame the hypocritical man did not understand his own irony.
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Trump spoke eloquently about Jerusalem being recognised as Israel's capital. It was a beautiful speech about tolerance and not letting hate get in the way.
Shame the hypocritical man did not understand his own irony.
Does Kirk realize the tax bill has yet to pass. He keeps running out these numbers but we don't have the finished bill
There's a House bill and a Senate bill. They're in conference now to merge them so we know the outlines of the final bill. Do you think it's suddenly going to change and you're going to get what candidate Trump promised, a tax cut for low/middle income people and the rich not getting their taxes cut at all? Ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
It's going to be a giant corporate giveaway. The reasoning behind it is that if corporations make bigger profits they'll pay their workers more and invest more, employing more people. But corporate profits have doubled since 2000 and are at record levels and corporations have spent the last seventeen years downsizing and outsourcing every job they can, cutting wages and benefits, employing workers via agencies so they don't have to pay healthcare and other benefits etc etc.
They're getting a special low rate on foreign earnings so they'll bring home trillions of dollars and invest it in their businesses, except that that money isn't abroad, it's just booked out as profits to foreign subsidiaries. It's earned in America and is currently invested in America. Once they get the low rate they'll pay it out to shareholders and buy back shares, making shareholders richer and earning executives massive bonuses for putting the stock price up. You know how I know this? Because that's exactly what happened when the Bush administration allowed a holiday on "foreign" profits in 2004. Business investment actually fell that year.
Don't forget 50% of this tax cut goes to foreign globalbists who own 50% of US corporations. More on this tomorrow.
[QUOTE=Kirkland Laing;1457683]There's a House bill and a Senate bill. They're in conference now to merge them so we know the outlines of the final bill. Do you think it's suddenly going to change and you're going to get what candidate Trump promised, a tax cut for low/middle income people and the rich not getting their taxes cut at all? Ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
It's going to be a giant corporate giveaway. The reasoning behind it is that if corporations make bigger profits they'll pay their workers more and invest more, employing more people. But corporate profits have doubled since 2000 and are at record levels and corporations have spent the last seventeen years downsizing and outsourcing every job they can, cutting wages and benefits, employing workers via agencies so they don't have to pay healthcare and other benefits etc etc.
They're getting a special low rate on foreign earnings so they'll bring home trillions of dollars and invest it in their businesses, except that that money isn't abroad, it's just booked out as profits to foreign subsidiaries. It's earned in America and is currently invested in America. Once they get the low rate they'll pay it out to shareholders and buy back shares, making shareholders richer and earning executives massive bonuses for putting the stock price up. You know how I know this? Because that's exactly what happened when the Bush administration allowed a holiday on "foreign" profits in 2004. Business investment actually fell that year.
Don't forget 50% of this tax cut goes to foreign globalbists who own 50% of US corporations. More on this tomorrow.[/QUOTE
What a steaming pile of dogshit you spew out your mouth
Apparently Doug Jones, a 'Demicat' apparently (does that mean he has some cat-like characteristics, or is he actually genetically half feline? Maybe one of our American posters can shed some light on this) has won that election thingy in Alabama.
Hasnt he done well over the years? He sort of disappeared after he gave Cassius Clay all he could handle in that early Ali fight. I think he even may have dropped The Greatest too.
Most of his great contemporaries have fallen, Ali himself, Smokin Joe, Ken Norton, the original Floyd and Old Stoneface too.
Its nice to see Doug built a successful career after boxing, and having someone in charge who is half cat must be good for diversity, looks like 'Bama has come a long way!
With a total combined income of $30,000 a year me and my wife get to write off the first$24,200 of our gross income thanks to Donald Trump as the standard deduction for married filing jointly. That leaves us about $6,000 worth of income to pay tax on. Guess what? That amount of tax is zero because it is below the poverty threshold. Last year I had to pay$1,373 when I filed but this year I will have to pay zero. So basically Donald Trump has just saved our family and millions of other families in the same income bracket at least $1,373 per year.
*****GO TRUMP*****
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Originally Posted by walrus
Since they are giving business owners and wealthy heirs a massive tax break, Republicans have shied away from also cutting the top tax rate. However, the Washington Post reports that the compromise bill between the Senate (which cut the top individual tax rate from 39.6 percent to 38.5 percent, and the House, which kept the top tax rate at 39.6 percent, will be … 37 percent.
You may notice that isn’t a compromise at all. It seems Republicans got itchy to use their one big chance at government control to give rich people the biggest possible tax cut they could design.
Remember, Steve Bannon had previously floated an increase in the top tax rate as a symbolic nibble at the wallets of rich people, to give Republicans a bit of cover for their corporate tax cuts. Not only have they ignored this approach, they now seem to be going the other way. The bill is horribly unpopular anyway — might as well get all the cash you can get out of it.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...-the-rich.html
https://taxfoundation.org/2018-tax-bracketsQuote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
There's no poverty threshold this year? What the hell is a poverty threshold?
Two people earn $30 000 in a year? Do you collect drink cans?
Insulting poor people, Kirk?
You're all losing focus on the main achievement and the real kernel of the matter here, surely it is Doug Jones' feline attributes?
You graduated from a business school and you're making in a week what a graduate entry level lawyer earns in an hour?Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Republican Rep. Kristi Noem of South Dakota is one of the negotiators trying to reconcile the House and Senate tax bills. No doubt House Speaker Paul Ryan views her as a strong voice for estate tax repeal, because of her personal story of how her farming family struggled to pay the tax.
The House bill would abolish the estate tax, a levy on the intergenerational transfer of immense wealth.
Noem perpetuates the “estate tax hurts farmers” argument using her life experience. The story she tells, however, does not line up with some very basic tenets of the tax code. Now, 23 years later, it is high time to get the facts. It’s also an important time to understand just who is subject to the estate tax and what its repeal really means.
On April 16, 2015, Noem stepped onto the floor of the House and described how her father was killed on March 10, 1994 in a tragic accident on their family farm. Noem, who was a 21-year old student at the time, recounted:
It wasn’t very long after he was killed that we got a bill in the mail from the IRS that said we owed them money because we had a tragedy that happened to our family … We could either sell land that had been in our family for generations or we could take out a loan. So I choose to take out a loan but it took us 10 years to pay off that loan to pay the federal government those death taxes. It is one of the main reasons I got involved in government and politics was because I didn’t understand how bureaucrats and politicians in Washington DC could make a law that says when a tragedy hits a family they somehow are owed something from that family business.There are several important questions raised by Noem’s account. First, the estate tax has had a 100% marital deduction since 1982. In other words, upon the death of Noem’s father, all the family assets could have flowed to her mother without being subject to the estate tax. Noem’s parents were married and her mother, Corinne Arnold, is still alive today.
“It’s hard to believe the estate of a farmer who died in 1994 and was survived by his spouse was subject to tax,” said Robert Lord, a Phoenix tax attorney with an expertise in estate tax law. “It easily could have been deferred. That would have been a no-brainer.”
Another oddity in Noem’s story is that the IRS doesn’t send a bill for an estate tax without a tax filing. In 1994, families had nine months to file a return with the option of filing a six-month extension. The conservative canard that the taxman shows up at the funeral is emotionally gripping, but simply false. The law at the time allowed farms to defer estate taxes for up to five years.
In the event that the Arnold family did owe taxes, the IRS had flexible installment plan at an interest rate lower than any lender. There would have been no need to get a loan from a third-party. But this doesn’t answer the fundamental question: Why did they pay any tax?
“It’s very unclear they would have been subject to the estate tax given the law at the time,” said Lord. “But if she did pay a big estate tax bill. she should elaborate on the unusual circumstances.”
Noem is now at the center of the national debate over estate tax repeal and her personal story is regularly repeated as an example of how the estate tax hurts family farmers and ranchers. But things have changed a lot since 1994, when the amount of wealth exempted by the tax was $600,000 for an individual. The wealth exemption is now $5.49 million per person and $11 million per couple. Closely held businesses and farms have 14 years to pay the tax at low interest.
The number of farmers subject to the estate tax has been dramatically reduced as have the total number of estates. South Dakota is the state with the fewest taxable estates in the entire country, roughly 15 a year.
In her speeches attacking government overreach, Noem leaves out another important fact. Between 1995 and 2016, her family-owned Racota Valley Ranch in Hazel, S.D. cashed $3,704,415 million in government farm subsidies. In 2012 alone, they accepted $232,707 in subsidies.
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Given that Kristi Noem is now the national face for estate tax repeal, it would be reasonable to ask these simple questions:
Why did your family not use the spousal exemption to pass along assets to your mother and avoid any estate taxes?
Did you actually get a bill from the IRS? Please show evidence of this bill and the date (redacting out any personal financial information).
Did you actually get a loan from a third party to pay the taxes and from where?
If the government is so tyrannical, why has your family cashed over $3.7 million in taxpayer funded farm subsidy checks since 1995?
Losing one’s father and family breadwinner is a traumatic event. But 23 years later, this story is still being used to justify the elimination of a tax that is now exclusively paid by multimillionaires and billionaires. It applies to about 5,000 estates out of some 2.6 million deaths a year. That's two out of 1,000.
Doubling the estate tax exemption will cost an estimated $83 billion over the next decade while abolishing the estate tax will cost over $269 billion over the same period.
Before she leads the GOP crusade to abolish the estate tax, Kristi Noem has some accounting of her own to do.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...umn/930472001/
Populism!
What a judgement scumbag you are!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingYou graduated from a business school and you're making in a week what a graduate entry level lawyer earns in an hour?Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Die now and make the world a better place!
Kirk it is rather appalling u rag on someone for putting out the figures they made. So the guy makes thirty something k a year. I know people who make more and I've been to villages in china where money did not change hands the reap and sow everything the eat and use. If u truly are loaded, and I call bullshit on that as you have made several mistakes in lingo that someone familiar with the big banks in NYC would never make. Anyway all of our paper money could be wiped out tomorrow. Maybe Brock is well prepared for the end times and his 3,000 cans of baked beans is worth more than you will ever have. How dare you
Exactly
I think this is probably the only time i have ever hit the 'dislike' button because that is usually reserved for benders like you Brock. So now you are suggesting the world would be a better place if another poster was dead because why exactly? He pointed out a simple fact? and he is the judgmental one? Ha!Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbustWhat a judgement scumbag you are!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingYou graduated from a business school and you're making in a week what a graduate entry level lawyer earns in an hour?Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Die now and make the world a better place!
It took longer for u to pipe in than I anticipated you must have thought long and hard before posting that turdQuote:
Originally Posted by BeanzI think this is probably the only time i have ever hit the 'dislike' button because that is usually reserved for benders like you Brock. So now you are suggesting the world would be a better place if another poster was dead because why exactly? He pointed out a simple fact? and he is the judgmental one? Ha!Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbustWhat a judgement scumbag you are!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingYou graduated from a business school and you're making in a week what a graduate entry level lawyer earns in an hour?Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Die now and make the world a better place!
I would never lower myself to explain anything to a mentally ill person like beans. It's like pouring water down a bottomless pit. the sicko was born disingenuous, contrary and a deliberate troll and that is to say the absolute very least
I might jest about taking you for a walk in the foggy moors or introducing you to treacherous cliff edges or the wealth of abandoned tin mines but I would never wish death on any poster. What a couple of snowflakes you and your boyfriend Walrus have proved to be. Bravo:clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Taking somebody for walking in abandoned tin mine is way more Sinister and frightening than anything I have said here it is you who is the sensitive snowflake. It is you who wants to Define what is more over-the-top than what and what is more acceptable than what. The true sign of a mentally ill person deciding for others what is and what is not such and such
"Die now and make the world a better place" that is what you just said to a fellow poster you mong. You don't take somebody for a walk in an abandoned tin mine you just wonder how they mysteriously fell into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Yes beanz I'm a snowflake damn you just can't launch a good counter anymoreQuote:
Originally Posted by BeanzI might jest about taking you for a walk in the foggy moors or introducing you to treacherous cliff edges or the wealth of abandoned tin mines but I would never wish death on any poster. What a couple of snowflakes you and your boyfriend Walrus have proved to be. Bravo:clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
He's saying him and his wife make $30 000 a year between them. You'd make more than that working in Burger King in NY. And he's inventing tax laws that don't exist. I have a feeling he's ***bullshitting*** but can't work out why.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
How can paper money be wiped out exactly?
You're ***making it all up*** aren't you.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbustQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingYou graduated from a business school and you're making in a week what a graduate entry level lawyer earns in an hour?Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
What a judgement scumbag you are!
Die now and make the world a better place!
I ressurect you now, and answer you ~NO~Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingYou're ***making it all up*** aren't you.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbustQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingYou graduated from a business school and you're making in a week what a graduate entry level lawyer earns in an hour?Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
What a judgement scumbag you are!
Die now and make the world a better place!
That's the thing you ass wipe I am not going to work at Burger King in order to make that money. My career in Amerikkka sucks, I did better abroad.
Ah people can live on all kinds of cash levels. You are doing well on the dole dreaming of the big banksQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingHe's saying him and his wife make $30 000 a year between them. You'd make more than that working in Burger King in NY. And he's inventing tax laws that don't exist. I have a feeling he's ***bullshitting*** but can't work out why.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
How can paper money be wiped out exactly?
Combined you take home over 50,000 a year. Funny how you are now down to only your income. An entry level English teacher is never going to earn much money in the states anyway. That is a personal choice. You could have upgraded your skills and be working in a US college by now. It's what my friend did. Did his MA and found a job in a college back home fairly quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
There really are a lot of ways to make money other than feeding the Rothschilds, you gotta study shit. If I relied solely on working mans dead fiat I'd struggle as well. You gotta take risks to get ahead. See if you can see what the whales are doing and follow them
You don't need a weather man to see which way the wind blows
You should get one of those high-paying Burger King gigs. They're on $15 an hour minimum which is twice what you're making with the can recycling venture. You can get as many ***free*** packets of ketchup and napkins as you can get in your pockets as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
I am about to go for one since it is $15 an hour now and I can get full time. Teaching English here you can only get part-time hours with a wide split shift almost as wide as your ass Kirkland's meaning teaching from 7:45 a.m. till about 12 noon and then you have a 6 hour wait before your second shift starts at 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. So yeah Burger King would be a much better deal at this point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingYou should get one of those high-paying Burger King gigs. They're on $15 an hour minimum which is twice what you're making with the can recycling venture. You can get as many ***free*** packets of ketchup and napkins as you can get in your pockets as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Screw it brock situations are usually temporary. Who knows what will come up. You are a hustler and run all over for work. I bet things will improve, although they could always get worse
How hard can it be to work at Burger King flipping burgers? 15 US dollars per hour isn't bad at all that would come out to 600 US dollars per week that comes out to $2,600 per month which is way more than you can earn in Korea teaching English
Any honest work is good. Send me a couple grand a month and u might get some profitQuote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Well, for an entry level job, but that entry level job will also see you with a provided home and a culture that is probably a little bit nicer than that of NYC. You would be able to save a fair bit of that income as an entry level instructor too. Good luck earning BK money and surviving in NY. Mind you if both of you were to do it, it would make it easier. I wouldn't mind working in Burger King. The next time I go home I might apply for a few jobs just for the kick. No expectations, so no fear of rejection. Just to see what it is really like. A bit like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty. However, totally not like Kevin Spacey in real life. Yuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
Billy House @HouseInSession
FBI Deputy Director McCabe sscheduled to testify Tuesday to House Intelligence -- but will he? "If McCabe is still there," says one panel Republican. And another, Gowdy, tells FoxNews he'd a"be a little bit surprised if he is still an employee of the FBI this time next week."
12:18 pm - 15 Dec 2017 https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/s...64336690847746
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said Friday that "rumors" on Capitol Hill suggest President Trump could fire special counsel Robert Mueller before Christmas, after Congress leaves Washington for the winter recess.
“The rumor on the Hill when I left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next week. And on Dec. 22, when we are out of D.C., he was going to fire Robert Mueller," Speier told California's KQED News.
Speier, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump was trying to shut down the committee's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, pointing to the lack of interviews scheduled for the new year.
The New York Times reported Friday that the committee is scheduling its final witnesses of the year to testify in New York, despite important votes coming up in Washington, D.C., and confirmed no additional witnesses are scheduled yet in 2018.
"We can read between the lines I think," Speier said. "I believe this president wants all of this shut down. He wants to shut down these investigations, and he wants to fire special counsel Mueller."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...fore-christmas
If Trump fires Mueller, or tries to fire him, and tries to boot anybody independent out at the FBI and put somebody like Giuliani in charge, how will the Trump supporters on the board feel about this?
Clicking the dislike button is a cop out. You're dodging. Do you really want to live under a lawless monarch?
Yes I want trump to declare Marshall law, get rid of the senate and take the title "glorious leader"Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
It's martial law you fucking idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrusYes I want trump to declare Marshall law, get rid of the senate and take the title "glorious leader"Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing