https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXOpYq5pkRY
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Look at Brandon go!
Sinema has gone from Code Pink activist twenty years ago to defending private equity guys paying low single digit tax rates. I wonder how they're going to compensate her for this. She if I remember correctly had a net worth of about eighty thousand dollars when she entered the Senate. They can't give her something to invest in and she makes millions with no fingerprints. Difficult to give her a lobbying job when she's only been in the Senate five minutes. Can't be head of a nonprofit because incomes have to be disclosed. In charge of some private company? Doing what? Lobbyist would be the least worst option but there'll be tells they can't hide. They'll be desperate to pay her because that's how future Sinemas do what they're told, they know they're going to get paid in the future because the previous Sinemas all did. Tricky situation for them.
how much are they giving to the irs? could that money not have been better used to help those in need?
House Passes Climate, Tax and Health Package https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/u...dU8dwJUQp-HvRA
Good work Americans.
Inflation also eased off a bit this month and the jobs report was a quite large gain,which might not be a good thing.
Maybe the worst of things is over for now... untill china invades Taiwan :S
:vd:
The climate stuff is excellent. It'll give a huge return on investment, potentially trillions of dollars. And an all of the above policy on energy sources until they can transition to clean stuff. Perfect.
It'll take a few years before Medicare can really negotiate down drug prices but it's finally been done. The GOP blocked $35 a month insulin but Schumer might be able to bring it back as a standalone bill. All good healthcare bits and pieces in it though.
And the IRS get eight billion a year for the next ten years. They're losing 40 000 employees over the next couple of years. They'll be able to hire about 70 000 with the new money which gives them a net gain of thirty thousand which was where staffing levels were ten years ago before the GOP took an axe to the agency. Now they're going to focus on rich tax cheats who steal a trillion dollars a year from their fellow Americans instead of focusing on people fiddling a few EITC dollars like the GOP have had them doing. Problem is the GOP will just reverse all this the next time they can.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government is losing some $1 trillion in unpaid taxes every year and needs more and consistent Internal Revenue Service funding to go after tax cheats, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2C0255
Current Revenue
The U.S. government's total revenue is estimated to be $3.863 trillion for FY 2021.
https://www.thebalance.com/current-u...evenue-3305762
About 0.3% of corporate tax returns filed in 2018 were audited, according to the IRS’s most recent annual data book. That’s compared with a 1.4% audit rate in 2010, according to IRS data.
IRS Is ‘Outgunned’ in Audits of Major Companies, Agency Chief Chuck Rettig Says - Bloomberg
Biden versus Trump:
https://twitter.com/JesseLee46/statu...60137944240129
Worth mentioning that none of the bills Biden has got through would have been possible without Trump telling Georgia voters to stay home because he was upset that Georgia GOP officials hadn't reversed the Georgia election result for him. Without those two Senate seats Biden would have done exactly nothing in office. Nice one Donald.
Deep Blue Minnesota just crossed a line I never thought even NYC could cross:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfui0pSAQAU
sam harris is completely immoral
Billions in relief debt for college loans. Yeh not keen on that and the way it's rolled out at all. In fairness I peaked at Community College ;D:p and sure as shat paid more than I could afford. No loans no grants or tying myself to goliath loans I could not even comprehend. I get the intention but also think it's pure raw politics throwing a fraction of "relief" at standing debt for Graduates who earn under 125k ? and from what I've seen many say it's not enough, they want more of course. Here's an idea how about addressing cost in the first place, up front and the predatory loans. In general, it's a vicious racket stacking readily available 'credit' on kids fresh out of Highschool. Pro tip...learn a trade. Or two!
Not keen either. Ten thousand dollars of money to a bunch of people but then cut off this year so no new people get it. But the ones who do and are currently still in college will just see their tuition pushed up ten thousand or so dollars anyway. Why pick this kind of debt? Why not mortgage debt or credit card debt? Endless questions here. It does seem to be broadly popular though according to the polls.
The main problem is the system. Colleges like Harvard with endowment funds of tens of billions of dollars, bigger than most Wall Street fund managers look after have basically turned into investment funds whose main aim is to grow the fund. Half the world's wealthy want to study at an American university and because they all speak English it's easy for them to come and not say a top German or French institute because they'd have a language barrier. And because of zoning laws college towns can't expand accomodation so they're stuck with a fixed number of places which pushes the price up. And since Reagan aversion to higher education has led to its defunding while Clinton and Obama haven't had it as a priority to try and reverse when they were in office. Plus a million other things I could add.
This makes lots of good points. Scroll up and down. I think this is what I mean to post, twitter not working in Manhattan right now.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/sta...36250817572864
and
https://twitter.com/GOODProjectsDC/s...54431794282497
and definitely this
https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1562521561118429187
And this is eye opening:
In the next few decades, she worked as a public-school teacher in Pittsburgh and Harlem, in addition to raising two children as a single mother. But she grew increasingly frustrated by the marks of educational inequity—moldy lunches, low-grade reading materials—that plagued her classrooms. “I thought the only way that I could change things was to have a higher degree,” she told me.
In 1983, at the age of fifty-two, Betty Ann enrolled in New York University’s law school. As a middle-aged Black woman, she wasn’t exactly the typical N.Y.U. law student. Her white male classmates would slyly elbow her books off the long library tables, and once, while standing at her locker, a classmate waved a ten-thousand-dollar tuition check, signed by his father, in her face. Betty Ann had borrowed twenty-nine thousand dollars in federal loans. Today, she owes $329,309.69 in student debt. She is ninety-one years old.
Americans aged sixty-two and older are the fastest-growing demographic of student borrowers. Of the forty-five million Americans who hold student debt, one in five are over fifty years old. Between 2004 and 2018, student-loan balances for borrowers over fifty increased by five hundred and twelve per cent. Perhaps because policymakers have considered student debt as the burden of upwardly mobile young people, inaction has seemed a reasonable response, as if time itself will solve the problem. But, in an era of declining wages and rising debt, Americans are not aging out of their student loans—they are aging into them.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-jo...&utm_brand=tny
Jennifer Lawrence has revealed that she always thought herself to be a Republican until an episode of 30 Rock she watched as a teenager changed her perception.
The Hunger Games actor revealed in 2020 that she voted for Republican candidate John McCain in the 2008 presidential election when he ran – and lost – against Democrat Barack Obama.
In Vogue’s October cover story, Lawrence recalled watching 30 Rock at home when she was 16, during which Liz Lemon (played by Tina Fey) uttered a line that struck a chord with her: “I’m not a crazy liberal. I just think people should drive hybrid cars.”
According to the article, travel opened Lawrence’s eyes to the concentration of wealth at the top of society around the world. For her, republicanism had meant: “Why should my taxes pay for your haughty lifestyle?”
Now, she sees that: “Nobody likes to see half their paycheck go away, but it made sense to me. Yeah, for the greater good, I guess it makes sense.”
Lawrence explained via Twitter in 2020: “I grew up in a Republican family and voted for John McCain in 2008, but through Obama’s presidency, and growing up to realise I was voting against my own rights, I am proud to say I am a Democrat.”
The actor was a vocal critic of former US president Donald Trump, recalling on a 2016 episode of The Graham Norton Show that she tried to track the politician down at a concert they were attending in order to yell “f*** you” at him.
Jennifer Lawrence has revealed that she always thought herself to be a Republican until an episode of 30 Rock she watched as a teenager changed her perception.
The Hunger Games actor revealed in 2020 that she voted for Republican candidate John McCain in the 2008 presidential election when he ran – and lost – against Democrat Barack Obama.
In Vogue’s October cover story, Lawrence recalled watching 30 Rock at home when she was 16, during which Liz Lemon (played by Tina Fey) uttered a line that struck a chord with her: “I’m not a crazy liberal. I just think people should drive hybrid cars.”
According to the article, travel opened Lawrence’s eyes to the concentration of wealth at the top of society around the world. For her, republicanism had meant: “Why should my taxes pay for your haughty lifestyle?”
Now, she sees that: “Nobody likes to see half their paycheck go away, but it made sense to me. Yeah, for the greater good, I guess it makes sense.”
Lawrence explained via Twitter in 2020: “I grew up in a Republican family and voted for John McCain in 2008, but through Obama’s presidency, and growing up to realise I was voting against my own rights, I am proud to say I am a Democrat.”
The actor was a vocal critic of former US president Donald Trump, recalling on a 2016 episode of The Graham Norton Show that she tried to track the politician down at a concert they were attending in order to yell “f*** you” at him.
Elsewhere in the Vogue interview, Lawrence expressed her frustration with the gender pay gap in Hollywood following reports that she earned $5m less than Leonardo DiCaprio for Don’t Look Up.
“It doesn’t matter how much I do. I’m still not going to get paid as much as that guy, because of my vagina?” she said of the common discrepancy.
Lawrence also revealed her infant son’s name for the first time and spoke about intending to get an abortion in her twenties before suffering a miscarriage.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainm...43fc0fc309d2bd
Lil' Queenie Lizzy, inbred demon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqtEumRTQyc
Corn Pop shat his diaper and nothing changes, no questions allowed for grampa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P9wS11WcMA
Those aren't questions, that is a torrent of incoherent rude screeches from a group of flag burning kitten kicking hyenas :furious2::-X. Said no one, said Trump apple polishers when he did the same and often sat there like a lump. Who was the fella he was meeting with I wonder.
the screeching is Biden's handlers drowning out the reporters who are trying to get their questions in. Every single time just about. "Thank you! Thank you! OK! OK! Let's go! Thank you! Thank you!"
“Crisis Of Crimes”: New Orleans Becomes Murder Capital Of America
Progressives in top city leadership positions have helped transform New Orleans into the murder capital of America.
WSJ reported the Louisiana city on the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico, recorded the highest homicide rate of any major city so far this year, with 41 homicides per 100,000 residents.
Metropolitan Crime Commission Inc., a nonprofit that works on crime-reducing strategies in the city, said the homicide rate is up 141% compared with the same period in 2019. It pointed out carjackings are up 210%, shootings 100%, and armed robberies up 25%.
“The homicide rate is on pace to surpass last year’s rate, which was the worst since Hurricane Katrina in 2005,” WSJ noted.
"torrent... of... incoherent... rude... screeches... from... a... group... of... flag... burning... kitten... kicking... hyenas" ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
You haven't lost your touch, @Spicoli ;D
"Screeches" and "kitten-kicking hyenas" were my favorite parts. ;D
Agree 100%.
On another note... WHY is it that anyone expects ANY questions to be heard... much less answered... in what pretty much amounts to mayhem with a bunch of microphones being shoved forward from the crowd??
Is the notion of crowd control and orderly process FOREIGN to everyone there??
BTW... a shout-out to "Trump apple polishers" as well. :D
Hey, we won something :domo-kun: :-X. Don't remind me. But it has less to do with progressive than it does straight flat-out incompetence and nonperformance in office. Folks don't get stuck on that party stuff mostly. Cantrell is in over her head and has personalized being called out on it. Teedy makes Mayor Ray Nagin look tolerable and cannot even say the word "crime" in most interviews. Seriously. But it's long beyond the point of simply the politicians making the cure. She gotta go
Agreed. My wife and I spent 16 nights in New Orleans (8 in the French Quarter then 8 in the Garden District) in January 2019......it was rough here & there (at night) but coming from NYC we could easily deal with it, was more tame actually than NYC. Lovely time there we had. Great food, great street music, great drinks, great architecture........ but to go back there now, not too sure until Teedy gotta go for sure. Would love to go back another 16 nights! Them Po Boys, them oysters....etc.... delish!
joe was raised in the puerto rican community at home politically?
Social Security and Medicare eligibility changes, spending caps, and safety-net work requirements are among the top priorities for key House Republicans who want to use next year’s debt-limit deadline to extract concessions from Democrats.
The four Republicans interested in serving as House Budget Committee chairman in the next Congress said in interviews that next year’s deadline to raise or suspend the debt ceiling is a point of leverage if their party can win control of the House in the November midterm elections.
The Republican position — which members are still formulating — could set the stage for an explosive standoff next year, reminiscent of the 2011 negotiations when the Tea Party wave of Republicans took on the Obama administration over spending.
[...]
“House Republicans are openly threatening to cause an economic catastrophe in order to realize their obsession with slashing Medicare and Social Security,” Henry Connelly, a Pelosi spokesman, said in a Tuesday statement to Bloomberg Government. “As House Republican leaders’ own words constantly reveal, dismantling the pillars of American seniors’ financial security is not a fringe view in the extreme MAGA House GOP, it is a broadly held obsession at the core of their legislative agenda.”
Smith said Republicans will focus on “protecting and preserving” Social Security and Medicare, but he declined to say specifically if he supports the RSC proposal to raise the eligibility age. He said broadly that Republicans would find “innovative ways to drive down the cost of health care.”
https://about.bgov.com/news/entitlem...bt-limit-deal/
So the plan seems to be to threaten to default on the national debt (which would cause a financial meltdown that would make 2008 look like nothing and take a decade or two to recover from and permanently raise interest rates/debt repayments for Americans after that) unless they get entitlement cuts. And I can guarantee if they're successful the next time they're in power they'll use the fiscal headroom generated by the cuts to enact a gigantic tax cut for the top one percent.
The problem is that unlike with previous attempts to blow up the global economy (it really would be seriously bad, google what happens if the USA defaults on its debt) this time there are enough crazies in the House to actually shoot the hostage. If Trump comes out in favour of forcing default, and he would because it would be tied round Biden's neck as voters don't understand policy, there will be enough MAGA nutcases in the House after the midterms to do it. The Democrats need to have a plan to scrap the debt limit in the lame duck session or maybe just raise it by a googolplex or three. This is dangerous as hell. You have a nihilistic sociopath leading this cult who is in a world of hurt facing endless criminal charges and who is desperate to lash out at the people in power. This needs to be dealt with.
Here is a senior FBI guy explaining to other senior FBI guys as diplomatically as he can that the majority of the FBI supported the January 6th coup. Note also that African-American FBI agents don't trust white FBI agents in any kind of situation involving armed conflict. This all seems problematical.
https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1580632482822561793
At least with Britain doing its best to tip the global financial system into chaos next week we can rely on strong noncorrupt regulation and oversight in America to prevent significant damage to the US financial system:
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/s...84208825655296
And the Durham investigation was going to expose the deep state with Obama, Hillary, Comey and the rest of them carted off to Guantanamo. The FBI was going to be shown to be a deep state organ. Instead he's only managed to bring two minor people to trial, both for lying to the FBI. The first trial got thrown out by the jury with the jury foreman saying it should never have been brought and the second one isn't going well for Durham:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/12/p...-probe-witness
Looks like he believes at least some of the conspiracy theories.
Woke liberals all over America wrecking the state justice systems and causing skyrocketing crime. There has to be a reckoning here and policies changed to crack down on the crimewaves in these high crime areas:
https://twitter.com/dawsonjames498/s...51676764106752
OK, OK, some crime seems to be happening in Republican states but that's down to national leadership. It's down to weak on crime Joe Biden and the rest of the national Democrat leadership. That's why crime rates have skyrocketed since the start of 2020. Oh wait. 2020. The start of 2020. Before George Floyd. Who was president back then?
Context:
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-conte...US_2.png?w=640
this paul pelosi story is full of bullshit
A hippie, nudist, hemp bracelet arts n crafts homosexual with BLM and lgbtq rainbow flags in front of his house displayed in his windows, whose EX-boyfriend claims he is mentally ill,..... Is somehow now a right wing radical?
Why was he in his underwear at 2:00 a.m. and carrying a manifesto? Why was Paul pelosi in his underwear holding a hammer?
This definitely makes total sense.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
How gullible are the pair of you?
You are both so naive and easily manipulated that 'actors' like Musk and Alex Jones click their fingers and you both come running like hounds hungry for their slop.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...GAtc8-e2T8wGPR
spergy larry i only said the story is full of bullshit & to ban assault hammers, so don't misrepresent me with your red herring & strawman arguments that i never brought to the discussion. i'm sure old paul & nancy have great security camera's & the cops should have the whole encounter on body cams so once that's all released (i doubt any will be) then there will be something to analyze
TIC you struggle to construct a sentence, let alone an argument.
All your 'stories' are 99% Bullshit. They are built around supposition, unverifiable claims, bias, stupidity and the desire to be seen as special.
spergy larry you have been shown to be a liar repeatedly on this site. i ask questions to find the true. you need to believe. please provide specifics on what unverifiable claims i have made & where i have ever said i desire to be seen as special. i know you can't because you are lying & making things up as usual you retard. you are a parasite that sponges of the backs of others