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  • #91
    Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

    Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
    I just don't get why he's pushing for the child tax credit. It doesn't fit his politics.
    Because he's just getting attention and something he can blat about to his constituents. He doesn't give a sh-t about the issue, he has a green screen and just projects anything on it. The goal is to get on teevee and make the Very Concerned Face and heroically deliver some cheese.

    The problem with which is... then everybody will make the same pandering run. If Rubio gets even a fig leaf then if I run against any other Republican in 2018 I wail " when Rubio made his demand why didn't you stand up for {Whatever the F-ckwit Issue of the Day Is}? Why didn't you put it in a brothel for orphans? Won't somebody think of the orphans?!"

    So now 51 Republican senators are crawling all over each other like grandfathers at a gay orgy trying to play Posture Princess for the rubes back home. And eventually the needle ticks over $1.5T or something else happens and Corker gets a friend who says "no more debt" or one of the Freedumbers demands something really stupid and is denied and then holds his breath, and suddenly you're up against seating Jones and you have the debt ceiling BS to get through and...

    Anyway. Let's hope this stuff continues to unravel. Anything to stop The Heist.
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    • #92
      Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

      After a night of Ayn Rand love making..........



      U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday defended a one-page (I posted that ridiculous one page Treasury analysis a few days ago) analysis by the Treasury Department that asserted a tax plan pushed by the Republican-led Congress would pay for itself in 10 years.

      “I think that estimate makes a lot of sense. … I do believe the Treasury when they say that this is going to unleash a lot of economic growth, which will accrue more revenues,” Ryan told reporters.
      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...KBN1E624Y?il=0

      Hope you rot in hell, Ryan.
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      Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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      • #93
        Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        The Republican Party in one chart:

        The slide begins circa 1987 (Reagan tax cuts?).

        To 1988 was RWR (R), then to 1992 was GHWB (R), then 1992 to 2000 was WJC (D), 2000-2008 was GWB (R), then BHO (D) from 2008 to 2016, now DJT (R).

        The years in Executive power seem fairly evenly divided between D and R. Seem nobody wanted to pull back on those reins.

        If someone has the breakdown of Congress that'd be interesting too.
        The preceding post may contain trigger words and is not safe-space approved. <-- Virtue signaling.

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        • #94
          Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

          Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
          The slide begins circa 1987 (Reagan tax cuts?).

          To 1988 was RWR (R), then to 1992 was GHWB (R), then 1992 to 2000 was WJC (D), 2000-2008 was GWB (R), then BHO (D) from 2008 to 2016, now DJT (R).

          The years in Executive power seem fairly evenly divided between D and R. Seem nobody wanted to pull back on those reins.

          If someone has the breakdown of Congress that'd be interesting too.
          Look at the inflection points for the 0.1%. It starts going down around 1932 (New Deal) and starts going back up around 1980 (Saint Ronnie). This is a Republican disease with a Democratic cure.

          As I have said a thousand times, the Democrats did very little to rollback the Reagan Error in 1992-00 and 2008-16. They at best plateaued it for a moment until the next GOP idiot restarted the rot. They were neither evil or good, but neutral.

          Job 1 is sweep the GOP from power. This is where Rover and I agree.

          Job 2 is take over the Democratic party with genuine economic liberals and repudiate the last thirty years of compromising with (or being co-opted by) the Plutes. This is where Rover and I go to war.

          But there's no sense in worrying about Job 2 right now. We must all pull together to burn the Republican tick off the American economy.
          Last edited by Kepler; 12-14-2017, 04:24 PM.
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          • #95
            Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
            I just don't get why he's pushing for the child tax credit. It doesn't fit his politics.
            the spics (his peeps) have a lot of kids. geez...
            a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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            • #96
              Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

              Bain and Harvard.

              http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/...dhJ/story.html
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              - Benjamin Franklin

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              • #97
                Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                This is the note I sent to my Congressman today:

                This Trump fiscal Heist is as damaging as the Reagan Heist. While we recognize the Dems can do little as a minority party, once you regain the majority and the WH you will need to act quickly and decisively. You did almost nothing from 1992-2000 and 2008-2016 to stop the Plutocratic wave. A lot of high level Democrats got rich, but the country was reduced by rapine and theft. The GOP is a lost cause on this, we understand they simply act for the 1% -- that’s their mission statement. But the Dems have also been terrible since the early 90s – at best they have held the line but never reversed the trickle down policies which since the 1980s and really since JFK’s ill-advised tax reform of the 1960s have decimated the middle class. Meanwhile Dem Members, advisors, and pundits live in wonderful homes in Alexandria and ride the revolving door between great jobs in academia, K Street or Think Tanks. They lecture us on why we cannot return to economic justice – boo, too scary -- while sending their kids to the Phillips Academy.

                Well, 2016 taught us all just how tired the whole country is of that shtick. I never said this and you didn’t hear it, but maybe it’s fine the Dems have abandoned the Poors. They don’t vote, they lose. Suboptimal, but understandable for a pol to stick his blood funnel where the votes are. And to be honest, and I didn’t say this either, 2016 showed us what a mess the white Poors are at this point. So OK -- vaya con Dios. But you have also given the middle class the shaft since the DLC took over the party. We noticed. You folks aren’t fooling anyone.

                Real economic liberalism must come back, starting with very high (I mean > 70%) top marginal rates and the elimination of the distinction between cap gains and earned income. Your choices are: (1) liberals regain the Democratic party, we all flourish, and you get the credit, (2) a third party bleeds off liberals and we remain nothing but a neofascist hellhole for the rest of our lives, and you sir don’t get any cushy committee chairs, or (3) bad stuff happens in the streets, in which we all lose, badly, and well we will have deserved it. The DNC’s fiddling while the Republic burns is noted and logged. Nobody is going to follow a well-heeled clique that merely wants to rearrange deck chairs and swap which donor get the kickbacks. If that’s the alternative the Deplorables will continue to win. People are electrified by positive change, not just a stick to avoid.

                OK, so I won’t tell you the public isn’t dumb enough to be fooled by more of the same. Of course they are. But Democratic inaction has nearly ruined this country. If you’re a liberal you need to stop messing around and start thinking about the long term. If you’re a moderate either help or get out of the way.

                Voter anger isn’t all irrational. Plenty of us who would be loyal and pull hard for the blue team have just about had it with party hypocrisy. The Democratic caucus had better start getting results or face electoral extinction. I know I’ll never get a personal answer but feel free to circulate this to other Members you feel need a wake up or, if you’re deeply cynical, a laugh.

                Your cheerful constituent,
                Last edited by Kepler; 12-15-2017, 05:04 PM.
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                • #98
                  Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  This is the note I sent to my Congressman today:
                  This is well written, and good on you for sending it. I think you go a little overboard with the 70% rate though. For me 45% on ordinary income and 30% on capital gains along with getting rid of or reducing certain deductions would be a better way to go. Also, the estate tax over say a million dollars absolutely needs to come back.
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                  • #99
                    Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    This is the note I sent to my Congressman today:
                    I'm guessing you get ignored as that left a mark.
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                    • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      This is the note I sent to my Congressman today:
                      letter as in, you licked paper? or email?
                      a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                      • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                        Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                        letter as in, you licked paper? or email?
                        Email.
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                        • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          Email.
                          Which means no one of consequence will ever see it.

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                          • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            This is the note I sent to my Congressman today:
                            Who's your Congressperson, if I may ask?

                            Cornell '04, Stanford '06


                            KDR

                            Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
                            iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
                            gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
                            Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
                            Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
                            TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
                            DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

                            Test to see if I can add this.

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                            • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                              Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                              Who's your Congressperson, if I may ask?
                              Gerald E. Connolly, VA-11
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                              • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

                                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                                Gerald E. Connolly, VA-11
                                Ah that's right, you're in VA now.

                                Cornell '04, Stanford '06


                                KDR

                                Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
                                iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
                                gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
                                Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
                                Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
                                TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
                                DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

                                Test to see if I can add this.

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