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It is interesting listening to Thom trip over his dick trying to discredit the Nunes memo. He will need a lot more than a weekend to come up with a list of excuses.
Don't they have lawyers to consult with to make sure of what they are doing is legal? oh wait that's right they fired them all.
@#4 roadrunner
It may be difficult for you to interpret the rules but real people are not having a problem.
"Workers are starting to see more take-home pay as employers implement the new withholding guidelines from the IRS, which dictate how much employers withhold from pay for federal taxes. Those whose checks have remained the same shouldn’t fret — employers have until Feb. 15 to make the changes."
https://www.apnews.com/8821fda1e08b4416a51baa5504b33b44
@#16,
I agree, the sound of democrats being disrespectful to the country was deafening. Does anyone think this helps the leftie/socialist cause, giving the republicans free canpaign ads?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_a6ilbNLQ&feature=youtu.be
Gsaw - Extracurricular: They create "problems" then they get "credit" for fixing the. Why do they stick their noses in other countries while 80% of ours is in critical condition? The "were doing fine" bologna is not sitting well with people who are aware of what's going on. Sure people are buying cars, houses, and gadgets. But it's only the small percentage you see on the surface that are purchasing stuff. People with no money never come out of their dwellings. You don't see them if they are starving, unemployed, or just don't have enough money to come out.
Hatch Act, he probably thinks they got rid of the Hatch act by gutting the FDA. Let chickens hatch the way they want to.
As for the State of the Unium speech (m for Money?), the only thing missing was a Rumpt University commercial with on stage miracle healings followed by the poignant vp leading us into reverent evangelical prayer.
We the people
We must be represented
Is this concept rocket science!?!?!
Paul Ryan and his family benefited from Social Security payments after his father died. So of all people, it's especially hypocritical of him to support the Trump crime family in this anti-american third world manner. There's something extremely unbalanced about Paul Ryan. His budget plans reflect a person filled with hate for his fellow citizens. His issues go well beyond love for Fascists like the Kochs and Fascist wannabees like Trump.
Door Knob: The truth regarding the new IRS tax guidelines...... companies will try to implement the new tables this month...."was next month, yesterday" !
The problem is calculations are very complicated and appear to be setting up underpayments that give out phantom windfall amounts. Thus many taxpayers will end up unexpectedly owing when they file in 2019.
What do you expect from a used car salesman like Crooked Donny my Russian friend?
Diane,
Elephants,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9IcMTlMko
Donkeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvxHVu00dmk
All you need to know!
The tiny fragments I got listening to SOTU in the background sounded really profound
DianeR -- My mind has been poisoned by scientific study. You should really try it sometime. I do not think facts will hurt you that much.
DianeR -- It is such a relief for you to mention the debt/GDP ratio instead of the debt. Debt is both good and bad. Good debt is often called investment. To just say that the debt is $20 trillion ignores the fact that how much of it is good debt. The ratio of debt/GDP is a measure of what kind of debt it is. Bad debt increases the ratio, and bad debt decreases it.
In the February 22, 2016 edition of Time magazine they discuss the two kinds of debt. Obama's debt provided the best ratio of debt/GDP in the world. However, it was still bad (an increase of 11%). It seems that the policies of the tax scam, based on all previous attempts of supply side economics, will make the 11% look like heaven. A difficulty of analyzing all this is that economic policies on average take 7 years to effect the economy. For example, stimulus packages take a few months to have an effect, the GI Bill took about 20 years to have an effect, and the Head Start program took 40 years to show its effect. Of course, the right wing and Phyllis Schafly (on Thom's program) said that since the study was 40 years old the results did not mean anything.
@#28
I will try to phrase this delicately.
You may have written the three most nonsensical paragraphs I have ever read in my entire life.
It is clear you have been poisoned and your chance of recovery may be very dim if you stay on this path.
My question: how can trump or any other government official do their work in our benefit if they have so much extracurricular activities? If you can not complete your daily task as government official, you should be impeached.
Legal or not...
It was as "cheesy" and un-professional as it could ever get. WTF... The State of the Union Telethon!
This is the shit you get...
When you elect nothing more than a f@#kn reality TV star!!
Oh yeah, a convicted con man (tRump University).
DianeR -- With regard to the polls no one on the left has ever said the tRump was not good at being a con man.
DianeR -- I am here to help you understand why an increase in disposable income is not good for workers and everyone else. It seems that the best economic metric to determine how well an economic policy is helping its citizenry is economic inequality.
I use the world "helping" to mean such things as lowering suicides, lowering homicides, reducing teenage pregnancies, longevity etc. Richard Wilkinson in his book "The Spirit Level" fills in the "etc." part.
With that in mind one specific example of the increase in disposable income not being good for workers is the Walmart(?) numbers Thom mentioned. For every $10 benefit the tax scam gave to Walmart, the worker received $0.09. It seems to me that would increase economic inequality.
changeX - I thought the whole point of this thread was there were no tax dollars available. Since there are no tax dollars we have to sell bonds worth $1.5 trillion to give to the 1%.
There's a name for folks who will perform any act, no matter how perverse or dirty, for money, as well as those willing to pay for those acts. What have the Republicans become, thanks to the Citizens United SCOTUS decision. Hopefully, the newly elected Democratic Congress will legislate the dark money out of Federal (and state?) elections for once and for all. It's up to us to make it happen in November!
Similar as in 2008 the rightie/socialists will use tax dollars. Instead this time to cover the purchase of Bonds in place of the Federal Reserve, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China in any amount necessary to a) keep the bubble from bursting and b) keep the delusional ever still deluded. Will they purchase cryptocurrency instead?
Kend & DianeR, I have a question. What great policy change did tRump make to make the unemployment numbers seem so good? I know of one. It used to be that full employment was considered to 3.8% unemployment. Now the trumpsters are calling 4.2% full employment. Also, they have changed the way they measure unemployment. Actually it seems they have changed which of the 9 or so measurements of unemployment they report. It should also be of concern what Steve Keen said. He said the employment/unemployment numbers have been mirror images of each other. The latest numbers aren't.
Off topic:
The false assumption that the private sector can always do a task more cheaply than government ignores that capitalism's motto is not "profit over all," it is "more profit above all else."
@#22 Willie,
I have an idea. If it makes you feel better, and I will extend this offer to any leftie/socialists out there, send me any increased income you will receive and I will find a home for it. I know it is "crumbs" a "token" and a"pitance" but I will still happily accept it and put it to use to improve the economy. I know this would drive Rick Steve crazy as it is other peoples money but I will be thrilled to take it anyway.