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The last I heard the feds banned the Thomsen submachine gun in the 1930's to control the gangsters. The gangsters had them too. When was that ban ended?
How come I never see a Democrat Tax reform plan?
Here it is from another site.
Here is a good one:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mnuchin-tax-cuts-rich_us_59e78e4fe4...
He is an expert, but I can show him how. So can most on this site (other than Diane).
Same old message, different face. Year in. Year out. Yada yada USA. Pride, world class this, world class that, winning, America first, jobs, tax cuts, fake news, not my fault, China sucks. Blah blah blah.
Ever since Reagan. That's when the big gap began and has intensified over the years until now the middle class is much poorer than it was back in the '80s. Although now we know how it works, some people continue to get snookered and we all suffer. The rich eventually will pay a price but probably not in my lifetime.
Sigh ....
About respect for Trump;
Trump referred to Un as "rocket man," I thought of what we would call Trump ---besides the usual--- and came up with this parody. Pass it on.
BLOCKHEAD MAN (parody of Rocket Man)
His eyes are sagged, it’s dark outside
Tweetin’ now, it’s 3am
White House is qui----et, no one, to stop his hands
It’s not the tower, where he could be a king
In Washington, that’s not the case
He hates this ki----- ind of life, it’s not his thing
Only months but it seems a much longer time
We need someone who hasn’t lost his mind
The childish man needs to be sent back home, oh woe woe woe
He’s a blockhead man------
A blockhead man, turning our stomachs ‘til he’s gone
Only months but it seems a much longer time
We need someone who hasn’t lost his mind
The childish man needs to be sent back home, oh woe woe woe
He’s a blockhead man------
A blockhead man, turning our stomachs ‘til he’s gone
Was he dropped on his head when he was just a kid?
If he has a heart, it’s cold as hell
And a blow to his ego, will make him, flip his lid
And all the things, he doesn’t understand
He doesn’t care, he thinks that he’s a king
What a blockhead man---------------, a blockhead man
Only months but it seems a much longer time
We need someone who hasn’t lost his mind
The childish man needs to be sent back home, oh woe woe woe
‘Cause the blockhead man
Should be in the docket and, we will be so happy when he’s gone
Only months but it seems a much longer time
We need someone who hasn’t lost their mind
The childish man needs to be sent back home, oh woe woe woe
‘Cause the blockhead man
Should be in the docket and, we will be so happy when he’s gone
‘Cause he’s been there too much a long long time
‘Cause he’s been there too much a long long time
‘Cause he’s been there too much a long long time
The U.S. military is a huge freeloader. Taxpayers are paying for a 40 billion dollar cost over run for the F35 fighter from Lockheed and that figure is growing every day. The Abrams tank is an unwanted commodity by our army but Congress demands it still must be built as most representatives have constituents that depend on it for profits.
Don't forget about the bailouts amounting to about 750 or more billion dollars for Wall Street banksters in 2008, 18 billion going for yearly bonuses in that same year. Monsanto has been handed a monopoly market in seed by our government.
Then there's agribusiness where corporate welfare recipients lurk everywhere.
http://investigatemidwest.org/2015/05/12/agribusiness-companies-capitali...
If you paid a tax bill of about $8000, about $36 of that went to individual welfare recipients. Another $6 went for food stamps. Corporate welfare accounted for $750-$800 of your tax bill. Republicans constantly complain about the $42 going for individual welfare and are blithely ignorant of the $800 for corporate welfare.
i am not a union guy but I believe in them. I think workers should have the right. I do not think that the employer should have to collect the union dues. Opps agency fees. To me that is just wrong in every way. I personally think that union workers are great but union bosses are as crooked as it gets. It used to be the business owners where taking advantage of the employees now it's the unions.
Erin (#1): I never had any respect to lose for Trump. He was a scumbag long before he was a so-called president. Too many Americans bought into the Republican myth that someone who hasn't held elected office must not be corrupt.
'Right to work' is another example of Republicans' using a phrase that destroys the conversation. Thom is right, it should be called right to freeload, since all employees must, by law, enjoy the benefits of a union contract but by another law called 'right to work' are excused from their obligation to support the organization that provided them with a decent work arrangement. One more example of how Republicans twist language to their benefit. My answer to 'right to work:' if an employee doesn't want to pay union dues, let's have a law that stipulates that the employee negotiates his or her own contract with the company.
State of emergency (really?) declared by a Gov due to expected protests by WHITE super duper SUPREMACIST Richard lol Spencer at the University of Florida.
It seems this guy is freeloading State Universities. Will they play the National Anthem?
Merry Christmas!
Thom left.
@#54
And the dems are better?
Drain the swamp
It's Union busting by diminishing Union treasuries.
The Corporatiions may be Lobbying to bust unions and that in turn defunds Democrats.
With well crafted TV and Radio commercials,
Democrats could Raise campaign Funds from small dollar donations.
Self-proclaimed conservatives have a deep interest in protecting the long-standing socio-political arrangements and institutions that secure privilege that brings considerable economic advantages to them. Such is the nature of our systems of property law and taxation. Efforts to change our laws and tax policies have been effectively undercut even during decades of apparently progressive legislation. This occurred, in part, because most of those who have proclaimed themselves to be Liberals or Progressives have never fully understood the depth of the problem. Thus, reform efforts consistently attacked the edges rather than the core of privilege.
Our founding fathers hoped they had set down a foundation upon which a just society would emerge. They failed because they ignored a problem as serious as the enslavement of persons of color. What they ignored was landed privilege. Rather than fund public goods and services from the societally-created "rent" of land (i.e., the potential annual rental value of location and land-like assets, such as the broadcast spectrum), the powerful in the United States saw to it that government was paid for by the taxation of income earned by producing goods or services, by the taxation of actual capital goods (e.g., buildings, machinery, technology) and by the taxation of commerce. And, when this did not produce enough revenue (as during a time of war) the nations rentiers stepped forward to lend the nation money at interest.
Edward J. Dodson, Director
School of Cooperative Individualism
www.cooperative-individualism.org
There's actually a second component to Thom's legalized freeloading comment. The states with right to get paid less laws are more dependent on government handouts...aka taker states. In other words they get back more from the the big bad government than they pay in. This makes sense because with massive low income as the norm, less revenue is collected. The fat unregulated capitalist wins again.
As an extremely proud union member I fully agree with deepspace...the only people more clueless/lower than a scab are Crooked Donny trolls.
#27 - Really?
I guess even sharks think... eat... sleep... make baby sharks
Where the hell is the war on Reaganomics! I want our country back!!!
Whether they cross a picket line or work in a union shop without paying dues, in union parlance, another name for freeloader is "scab." No creature lower ...except a Trump troll.
Outback - You can not have a Socratic anything when money infects decision making
Socrates pointed out the foolishness of uneducated voters
He was put to death for this
George Orwell: "In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
So you really think that you have a "gotcha"? No, I think of him as a terrible person to be falling for big pharma dollars in the midst of an opiod crisis in America and promotting and extremely addictive drug. And to think that your leader nominated him. You are one sick person Dianereynolds!