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Post by katlady on Apr 13, 2019 6:21:59 GMT
So, 60 big corporations paid $0 in taxes in 2018. Thanks for those tax cuts and loopholes Mr. President. But it is ironic that the Company Trump hates the most, Amazon, was at the top of the list!
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Post by lindas on Apr 13, 2019 10:56:04 GMT
So, 60 big corporations paid $0 in taxes in 2018. Thanks for those tax cuts and loopholes Mr. President. But it is ironic that the Company Trump hates the most, Amazon, was at the top of the list! Let's be fair, Amazon didn't pay any taxes in 2017 either. Can't comment on the other companies since you didn't provide a list of who they are but I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay anything previously or very little. Maybe instead of demanding Trump's returns congress should be looking at these companies to see what loopholes are being used and fix that problem.
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Post by hop2 on Apr 13, 2019 12:07:39 GMT
Newsweek... ”God will tell U.S. energy leaders when to quit relying on fossil fuels, says Trump Federal Reserve pick Herman Cain” Where do these people come from? I think that memo was already sent & he missed it somehow.
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Post by lizacreates on Apr 13, 2019 13:18:36 GMT
So, 60 big corporations paid $0 in taxes in 2018. Thanks for those tax cuts and loopholes Mr. President. But it is ironic that the Company Trump hates the most, Amazon, was at the top of the list! Let's be fair, Amazon didn't pay any taxes in 2017 either. Can't comment on the other companies since you didn't provide a list of who they are but I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay anything previously or very little. Maybe instead of demanding Trump's returns congress should be looking at these companies to see what loopholes are being used and fix that problem. Fix that problem? Did you abstain from reading about Trump's tax gift to corporations? This is the effect of Trump's tax cuts. The number of Fortune 500 companies paying $0 tax doubled from 30 in 2017 to 60 in 2018. That’s on $79 billion pre-tax income representing a loss of $16.4 billion in tax revenue. link Where do you think we’ll recover that loss in revenue? I bet you already know.
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Post by lesley on Apr 13, 2019 13:27:05 GMT
So, 60 big corporations paid $0 in taxes in 2018. Thanks for those tax cuts and loopholes Mr. President. But it is ironic that the Company Trump hates the most, Amazon, was at the top of the list! Let's be fair, Amazon didn't pay any taxes in 2017 either. Can't comment on the other companies since you didn't provide a list of who they are but I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay anything previously or very little. Maybe instead of demanding Trump's returns congress should be looking at these companies to see what loopholes are being used and fix that problem.Oh yes, because they can’t do two things at the same time. It has to be one or the other.
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Post by Merge on Apr 13, 2019 13:42:31 GMT
So, 60 big corporations paid $0 in taxes in 2018. Thanks for those tax cuts and loopholes Mr. President. But it is ironic that the Company Trump hates the most, Amazon, was at the top of the list! Let's be fair, Amazon didn't pay any taxes in 2017 either. Can't comment on the other companies since you didn't provide a list of who they are but I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay anything previously or very little. Maybe instead of demanding Trump's returns congress should be looking at these companies to see what loopholes are being used and fix that problem. We're talking about Trump's personal returns, not his business. Do you have some evidence that Jeff Bezos did not pay any personal taxes?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 14:43:44 GMT
linkHere is yet another reason why trump is unfit to be president. A pattern is emerging of what happens when trump doesn’t Like something and suggests an action that could potentially break a law. Remember when “candidate” trump told someone in the audience at one of his rallies to throw someone out or something like that and he would pay for his legal fees? Here is an example of “president” trump doing the same thing. From The Atlantic.. ”Now both CNN and The New York Times have reported that Trump also personally instructed then–Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan to block asylum seekers, saying that if McAleenan faced jail time as a result of those actions, Trump would pardon him. The Times adds that Trump told McAleenan to go around then–Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who had refused to implement a ban on asylum on the grounds that it was illegal. Two days later, Nielsen was forced out; McAleenan was then appointed acting secretary in her place.” Before he edged people on to potentially breaking the law by claiming he would pay their legal fees, now he has the ability to pardon them if they take the actions he wants and it breaks the law. This coming from The President of The United States. Isn’t that just dandy.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 13, 2019 14:46:08 GMT
So, 60 big corporations paid $0 in taxes in 2018. Thanks for those tax cuts and loopholes Mr. President. But it is ironic that the Company Trump hates the most, Amazon, was at the top of the list! Has anyone else seen the new USPS commercials? They are advertising that the USPS delivers more e-commerce packages than any one else. Fix that problem? Did you abstain from reading about Trump's tax gift to corporations? This is the effect of Trump's tax cuts. The number of Fortune 500 companies paying $0 tax doubled from 30 in 2017 to 60 in 2018. That’s on $79 billion pre-tax income representing a loss of $16.4 billion in tax revenue. link Where do you think we’ll recover that loss in revenue? I bet you already know. See see ... dt gave away his wall!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 15:47:18 GMT
“And we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce energy that we relied on.”
Facts matter. Clinton wanted to help coal country adapt, not to tell miners, “You’re fired.” Judy Pang, Palos Verdes Estates
All during the time leading up to the 2016 election I waited for candidates to talk about the real challenges facing the workers in the United States. The challenges of technology and globalization and the fact that jobs that exist today won’t tomorrow. And how are we to prepare for these changes.
The closest anyone came to talking about this was Hillary and the coal miners that went terribly wrong. Above is what she said. The coal miners and others chose not to hear what she said but chose to spin it differently, that Hillary was all for kicking coal miners out in the cold as the country moves away from coal and other fossil fuels. It was after this event, candidates stop telling the people the truth and instead told them what they wanted to hear.
trump being the better liar won these folks vote. Now two years in, word is leaking out, these folks aren’t any better off then before.
For some reason this quote from Hillary popped up on twitter. And the main reason I brought this over here was this one absolutely perfect and truthful response to it. From a guy no less.
“She made the mistake of being honest whilst being female”.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 16:11:15 GMT
Ah this is what brought up the Hillary quote.
From Dave Weigel of the Washington Post..
”Clinton did, but she made a gaffe and said specifically that regulations would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” She wrote in “What Happened” that this was one of her worst mistakes. twitter.com/rizabellepow/s…”
Her mistake was not sticking to telling the truth to folks who work in industries that jobs will disappear from.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 13, 2019 17:33:08 GMT
This will make asylum much more difficult!!! Attorney General William Barr is making drastic changes to the immigration courts, setting up a system in which a handful of appellate court immigration judges can issue sweeping rulings that limit the actions of every other judge in the system. And Barr is on a hiring spree to make sure that the immigration courts are packed with the people necessary to see that Donald Trump’s will is imposed.As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, the Trump White House is presenting these changes as “efficiency measures” to speed up the system. And they do appear to be designed to do just that—by making it possible for appellate judges to rule against asylum-seekers en masse, without ever giving them individual hearings. Earlier this month, Donald Trump declared that “Congress has to ... get rid of the whole asylum system because it doesn’t work. And frankly, we should get rid of judges.” Now it appears that Barr is going to do the next best thing. He’s not going to get rid of individual immigration judges. He’s simply going to neuter them, so that any decisions made by those judges might as well be written on water. Barr’s proposal picks up an idea that was first raised, then dropped, under the George W. Bush administration. It would give a 21-judge appeals court the ability to not just review cases, but issue “cursory opinions” without the need to provide explanations that ground those opinions in existing law. It would also allow small numbers of those judges—even a single judge—to make changes to immigration policy without seeking any kind of congressional approval.
The changes being engineered by Barr do more than get rid of the existing judges; they create a set of Judges, capital J, with extraordinary powers to command the system and determine how immigration into the United States really works, no matter what Congress, or the law, has to say.When asylum-seekers finally get a chance to talk to a judge, the results are incredibly varied. Some judges—especially those appointed by Trump—have rates of denial that are over 98 percent. Other judges, sometimes even those operating in the same city as the judges who turn back all but the tiniest fraction of applications, have rates of denial under 20 percent.It’s easy to guess at which end of this spectrum the appeals judges being put into place by Barr would fall. Of the 800,000 families currently waiting in hopes of being admitted to United States, more than 790,000 could find themselves almost instantly turned away, with nowhere to go but back into chaos and death. The truth about asylum-seekers is that the system was not broken, until Donald Trump broke it. Over 91 percent of those given a court date and released into the United States appeared for that hearing. When they were provided with programs to assist them in meeting deadlines, that number grew to over 99 percent. The reason that the number of cases under review has surged under Trump, and that children are sitting in cages under Trump, and that families are waiting in the heat of dirty parking lots, or crammed behind razor wire beneath a bridge, is that Trump deliberately, and with malice, broke a functioning system to score political points. And now, to solve a problem that he’s created, Trump has not only declared a national emergency, but he’s about to do what a former immigration judge described as “taking away due process and speeding people through to their deportation in some sort of assembly line substitute for justice.”
It’s not a substitute. It’s not even a poor facsimile. It’s certainly not justice.www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/12/1849737/-Barr-making-drastic-changes-to-immigration-courts-setting-up-handful-of-judges-with-total-control?detail=emaildkre
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Post by lucyg on Apr 13, 2019 17:47:02 GMT
Holy hell. What is the point, other than to hurt people?
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Post by freecharlie on Apr 13, 2019 17:50:38 GMT
Newsweek... ”God will tell U.S. energy leaders when to quit relying on fossil fuels, says Trump Federal Reserve pick Herman Cain” Where do these people come from? if he's out there, I'm pretty sure that he's made that clear...time and time again Or do they need a burning bush?
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Post by PrettyInPeank on Apr 13, 2019 18:07:55 GMT
Newsweek... ”God will tell U.S. energy leaders when to quit relying on fossil fuels, says Trump Federal Reserve pick Herman Cain” Where do these people come from? if he's out there, I'm pretty sure that he's made that clear...time and time again Or do they need a burning bush? Nope, just earth destructing fires, floods, and hurricanes apparently.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 18:36:18 GMT
Bette Midler..
“Democrats are concerned Barr will release a heavily edited Mueller report, but Mitch McConnell says Barr is an "honorable man." And Mitch would know! He's served alongside such honorable souls as Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham!”
Problem is, McConnell is anything but an “honorable man” so how would he know one?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 18:50:01 GMT
So, 60 big corporations paid $0 in taxes in 2018. Thanks for those tax cuts and loopholes Mr. President. But it is ironic that the Company Trump hates the most, Amazon, was at the top of the list! Let's be fair, Amazon didn't pay any taxes in 2017 either. Can't comment on the other companies since you didn't provide a list of who they are but I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay anything previously or very little. Maybe instead of demanding Trump's returns congress should be looking at these companies to see what loopholes are being used and fix that problem. Question. Do you think trump should release his tax returns? Follow-up Question. If not, why not? Since Nixon, presidential candidates and sitting presidents have regularly released their tax returns. That is a lot of years of released tax returns. With trump stonewalling the release of his, wouldn’t a reasonable person wonder what is he hiding? Its kind of like the Mueller Report. Barr says there is nothing to see here, but refuses to released an unredacted copy of the report. As a citizen I don’t need to see a complete unredacted copy. But I do not understand Barr’s reasoning for not giving members of the Judiciary Committee in both House copies of the complete report and evidence. Congress is a co-equal Branch Of Government that is charged with oversight of the Execution Branch and as such should receive a copy of the report. In both the cases, a reasonable person has to ask the question “what is trump hiding?” If nothing, then he is his own worst enemy because these questions are ‘t going away. And they shouldn’t until we get answers.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 20:32:04 GMT
trump...
”Why should Radical Left Democrats in Congress have a right to retry and examine the $35,000,000 (two years in the making) No Collusion Mueller Report, when the crime committed was by Crooked Hillary, the DNC and Dirty Cops? Attorney General Barr will make the decision!”
He really doesn’t understand how government/constitution/checks & balance/oversight works does he.
Small but kind of important point here. Part of my taxes are in that $35M that paid for the report. As such I want to see what I paid for.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Apr 13, 2019 20:50:21 GMT
Trump just changed direction AGAIN today. This morning he said they would not be busing immigrants to sanctuary cities, and now says they will be. Playing a cruel fucking game with real human beings' lives. To throw red meat to his base. Each time, I think he can't get any lower. He honestly thinks this is fun. He's got an evil soul, if he even has one. It’s all about controlling the narrative. He now says all the media was lying. Tomorrow he will do it again.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Apr 13, 2019 20:55:19 GMT
So, 60 big corporations paid $0 in taxes in 2018. Thanks for those tax cuts and loopholes Mr. President. But it is ironic that the Company Trump hates the most, Amazon, was at the top of the list! Let's be fair, Amazon didn't pay any taxes in 2017 either. Can't comment on the other companies since you didn't provide a list of who they are but I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay anything previously or very little. Maybe instead of demanding Trump's returns congress should be looking at these companies to see what loopholes are being used and fix that problem. Right. Democrats tried repeatedly to do that. The Republicans are the ones all for saving their buddies, giving benefits to the rich. The point is, the Republicans totally fucked over middle class and the poor.
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Post by lindas on Apr 13, 2019 21:26:24 GMT
Let's be fair, Amazon didn't pay any taxes in 2017 either. Can't comment on the other companies since you didn't provide a list of who they are but I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay anything previously or very little. Maybe instead of demanding Trump's returns congress should be looking at these companies to see what loopholes are being used and fix that problem. Question. Do you think trump should release his tax returns? Follow-up Question. If not, why not? Since Nixon, presidential candidates and sitting presidents have regularly released their tax returns. That is a lot of years of released tax returns. With trump stonewalling the release of his, wouldn’t a reasonable person wonder what is he hiding? Its kind of like the Mueller Report. Barr says there is nothing to see here, but refuses to released an unredacted copy of the report. As a citizen I don’t need to see a complete unredacted copy. But I do not understand Barr’s reasoning for not giving members of the Judiciary Committee in both House copies of the complete report and evidence. Congress is a co-equal Branch Of Government that is charged with oversight of the Execution Branch and as such should receive a copy of the report. In both the cases, a reasonable person has to ask the question “what is trump hiding?” If nothing, then he is his own worst enemy because these questions are ‘t going away. And they shouldn’t until we get answers. I have never bothered to look at any previous president's tax returns and I not interested in Trump's. I vote based on issues not tax returns. If congress is so damned determined to see a president's tax return then pass a law making it mandatory. While they're at it they should make it mandatory for all members of congress too, especially those on the Ways and Means and Finance committees. I'd be really interested in seeing how you become a millionaire on a salary of $174,000 a year. As for the Mueller report, Barr is following the law. Redactions are being made not by him alone, Mueller is assisting in what will and will not be released. I don't trust any of them to keep that information secret, we all know Washington leaks like a sieve. Trump has nothing to do with it, he'll see the report the same time the rest of us see it so what could he be hiding. Barr has said repeatedly that he has not spoken to anyone in the White House or the president about the report. Congress can take the issue up with the court just like they did with Fast and Furious which they're still battling over.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 13, 2019 21:58:25 GMT
I have never bothered to look at any previous president's tax returns and I not interested in Trump's. I vote based on issues not tax returns. If congress is so damned determined to see a president's tax return then pass a law making it mandatory. While they're at it they should make it mandatory for all members of congress too, especially those on the Ways and Means and Finance committees. I'd be really interested in seeing how you become a millionaire on a salary of $174,000 a year. I didn't care with others before but he surely seems to want to hide something. He very much does not want others to see. Again I don't need to see them but I do believe that Congress, at less the 'gang of eight' should be able to see and study his taxes, particularly those from 2017 and 2018 through the future of his term. What he is making while president should be known. If he is making $$$ on his business that is extremely disturbing. I have absolutely no problem with members of Congress being reviewed. They might have to do a percentage with random numbers drawn, (maybe in public), like a 1/3 from each house, half from each party. To do 535 might be too time consuming.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 22:50:02 GMT
trump... ”Why should Radical Left Democrats in Congress have a right to retry and examine the $35,000,000 (two years in the making) No Collusion Mueller Report, when the crime committed was by Crooked Hillary, the DNC and Dirty Cops? Attorney General Barr will make the decision!” He really doesn’t understand how government/constitution/checks & balance/oversight works does he. Small but kind of important point here. Part of my taxes are in that $35M that paid for the report. As such I want to see what I paid for. Isn't he omitting what we were able to recoup from the criminals caught in this investigation? I think it paid for itself + more.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 23:13:06 GMT
Get that, they'll take Trump's "colorful" life over Buttigieg - cuz god, guns, gays & greed. Thank you for that link. In the comments section someone linked DJT's various lawsuits, including the ones I was following for years (the rape of very young girls in NY,in Epstein's house --it happened in other states too).
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Post by flute4peace on Apr 13, 2019 23:33:22 GMT
Get that, they'll take Trump's "colorful" life over Buttigieg - cuz god, guns, gays & greed. Thank you for that link. In the comments section someone linked DJT's various lawsuits, including the ones I was following for years (the rape of very young girls in NY,in Epstein's house --it happened in other states too). “As a Christian “ . Have these people even read the New Testament??? Jesus weeps.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 23:40:56 GMT
I have never bothered to look at any previous president's tax returns and I not interested in Trump's. I vote based on issues not tax returns. If congress is so damned determined to see a president's tax return then pass a law making it mandatory. While they're at it they should make it mandatory for all members of congress too, especially those on the Ways and Means and Finance committees. I'd be really interested in seeing how you become a millionaire on a salary of $174,000 a year. As for the Mueller report, Barr is following the law. Redactions are being made not by him alone, Mueller is assisting in what will and will not be released. I don't trust any of them to keep that information secret, we all know Washington leaks like a sieve. Trump has nothing to do with it, he'll see the report the same time the rest of us see it so what could he be hiding. Barr has said repeatedly that he has not spoken to anyone in the White House or the president about the report. Congress can take the issue up with the court just like they did with Fast and Furious which they're still battling over. “I want to say this to the television audience. I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.”
I wonder if you would vote for a serial killer of children if that person supported the issues you think are important? I think until trump came along, we (the country) never fully understood how important that it is that the person we elect president “be of high moral character”. I mean wouldn’t we as a country want our president to be of “high moral character”? The leader of our country. I’m not sure any of the past presidents ever truly met that lofty goal. A couple like Nixon and some feel Bill Clinton fell short more then other past presidents. But even with these two, we as a country really still didn’t understand that besides voting on the issues, we also needed to take in consideration the person’s character, maybe even more then their stand on the issues. And with trump and his lack of character, we are in uncharted waters in that we have to decide how big a roll character and fitness plays in our decision on who we vote for. How morally bankrupt a person is, is now acceptable when it comes to the President of the United States? That quote above is from Nixon and was in response to what was found on this tax returns. Add that to Watergate and you get a pretty good idea of just how short Nixon fell in being a person of “high moral character”. If we had seen seen his tax returns on a regular basis we might have gotten a better understanding of the man and he wouldn’t have been elected for his second term. One of the reason presidential candidates and sitting presidents have rushed to released their tax returns, was to distance themselves from being seen like Nixon. Then we come to trump. Make a law, you say, requiring the candidates to fork over their tax returns. Funny thing about that, there actually is a law requiring the IRS to turn over any tax returns requested by Congress. And yet trump and company are fighting that law by trying to stop the IRS from complying with the law. What is he hiding?
As to the Mueller Report. I suggest you actually read the law. I have posted it a couple of times on this thread. There is nothing in it stopping the AG from giving the Chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committees in both Houses of Congress a full copy of the report. There are possible legal issues when it comes to grand jury testimony and on going investigations that can be worked around. But Barr is not willing to do it. We only have Barr’s word that Mueller’s team is working on the redactions. Robert Mueller is a good marine in that he is staying quite and will not contradict anything Barr is saying. However, after 2 years of no leaks from the Mueller team, we have learned from leaks, that Mueller’s team put together summaries of their findings that were done to be released to the public, which Barr ignored for his 4 page recap. Again what is trump hiding?
When you look at the entire history of guns going from the US across the border into Mexican Cartel members hands, it really is a disgusting blemish on this country’s history and a testimony to the strength of the NRA and how they control our government when it comes to guns. Fast and Furious is just a tiny blimp in the overall story that has been going on long before President Obama took office.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 14, 2019 0:09:51 GMT
Thank you for that link. In the comments section someone linked DJT's various lawsuits, including the ones I was following for years (the rape of very young girls in NY,in Epstein's house --it happened in other states too). Speaking of: Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Friday wrote a letter requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) release findings of its investigation into whether Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta "committed professional misconduct" in his handling of the criminal case of Florida financier Jeffrey Epstein. The two argue that Epstein's non-prosecution plea agreement, which Acosta helped broker as a federal prosecutor, is a matter of public interest, according to a letter published in full by NBC News. "As new information continues to be revealed, it has become ever clearer that the non-prosecution agreement was a miscarriage of justice and that the victims and the public deserve a full accounting of how this matter was handled by the attorneys at DOJ," they wrote. "Accordingly, we ask that once OPR [the Office of Professional Responsibility] has concluded its investigation into the handling of the Epstein matter, it publish all of its findings without delay." they added. Murray and Kaine said in the letter that the OPR has indicated that it would share the results "as appropriate" but hasn't committed to disclosing the full report. The Hill has reached out to the Justice Department for comment. ** thehill.com/homenews/senate/438705-dems-ask-justice-dept-to-release-findings-of-acosta-epstein-investigation
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Post by quinlove on Apr 14, 2019 0:13:53 GMT
Let's be fair, Amazon didn't pay any taxes in 2017 either. Can't comment on the other companies since you didn't provide a list of who they are but I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay anything previously or very little. Maybe instead of demanding Trump's returns congress should be looking at these companies to see what loopholes are being used and fix that problem. Right. Democrats tried repeatedly to do that. The Republicans are the ones all for saving their buddies, giving benefits to the rich. The point is, the Republicans totally fucked over middle class and the poor. Yep. We really can’t just blame Trump for the mess we’re in. The Republican Congress kiss his ass constantly. They could stand up to him, as anyone with a brain and a conscience would. Didn’t they all take oaths ! Dont get me wrong, I HATE Trump as much as I possibly can.
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Post by lizacreates on Apr 14, 2019 0:26:07 GMT
Question. Do you think trump should release his tax returns? Follow-up Question. If not, why not? Since Nixon, presidential candidates and sitting presidents have regularly released their tax returns. That is a lot of years of released tax returns. With trump stonewalling the release of his, wouldn’t a reasonable person wonder what is he hiding? Its kind of like the Mueller Report. Barr says there is nothing to see here, but refuses to released an unredacted copy of the report. As a citizen I don’t need to see a complete unredacted copy. But I do not understand Barr’s reasoning for not giving members of the Judiciary Committee in both House copies of the complete report and evidence. Congress is a co-equal Branch Of Government that is charged with oversight of the Execution Branch and as such should receive a copy of the report. In both the cases, a reasonable person has to ask the question “what is trump hiding?” If nothing, then he is his own worst enemy because these questions are ‘t going away. And they shouldn’t until we get answers. I have never bothered to look at any previous president's tax returns and I not interested in Trump's. I vote based on issues not tax returns. If congress is so damned determined to see a president's tax return then pass a law making it mandatory. While they're at it they should make it mandatory for all members of congress too, especially those on the Ways and Means and Finance committees. I'd be really interested in seeing how you become a millionaire on a salary of $174,000 a year. As for the Mueller report, Barr is following the law. Redactions are being made not by him alone, Mueller is assisting in what will and will not be released. I don't trust any of them to keep that information secret, we all know Washington leaks like a sieve. Trump has nothing to do with it, he'll see the report the same time the rest of us see it so what could he be hiding. Barr has said repeatedly that he has not spoken to anyone in the White House or the president about the report. Congress can take the issue up with the court just like they did with Fast and Furious which they're still battling over. Wow. You’re not concerned at all that a president who did not divest his global businesses may be making national security and foreign policies based on what’s good for his pocketbook and not the good of the country? You’re not concerned about conflicts of interests? How about when he makes trade and tariff policies? Are you sure he’s making them without regard to how they will affect his personal bottom line? Do you know if he is violating the Constitution by receiving monetary benefits for his businesses from foreign countries? How about his tax policies? Are they for the good of the citizenry or the good of Trump Inc? It’s entirely up to you if you do not wish to concern yourself with these matters. However, a great number of the citizenry are willing to concern themselves.
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trump...
”Just out: The USA has the absolute legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants transferred to Sanctuary Cities. We hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by the State of California, which is well known or its poor management & high taxes!”
“Democrats must change the Immigration Laws FAST. If not, Sanctuary Cities must immediately ACT to take care of the Illegal Immigrants - and this includes Gang Members, Drug Dealers, Human Traffickers, and Criminals of all shapes, sizes and kinds. CHANGE THE LAWS NOW!”
This man is such a stupid idiot. The vast majority of the folks dimwit donnie is blabbing about are here seeking asylum which is legal. The responsibility of taking of care these folks while their requests for asylum are processed is the federal government, not individual cities, not individual states, but the federal government.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 3:09:13 GMT
MSN...
“Kamala Harris releases 15 years of tax returns”
”Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris released 15 years of tax returns on Sunday, offering a glimpse into how the California public servant ascended the financial ranks to become a multimillionaire.
The documents span the entirety of Harris' career in elected office, from her $142,000 salary as San Francisco district attorney in 2004 to her current post as U.S. senator.
Harris and her husband, Los Angeles-based attorney Douglas Emhoff, jointly reported more than $2 million in income last year, for which they paid nearly $700,000 in taxes.”
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