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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 18:31:47 GMT
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“Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, Tlaib in joint statement say they'll vote against government funding bill:
"The Department of Homeland Security does not deserve an increase in funding, and that is why we intend to vote no on this funding package."
In other words they support the alternative of another government shutdown hurting the very people they claim they want to help. And not willing to compromise.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 19:12:53 GMT
@fred , as I've said before, a financial transaction tax of .5% on the $1TRILLION traded daily would net (conservatively) $600 BILLION/year. That’s chump change for the Democratic Agenda. Where is the rest of the money coming from? Seriously. AOC 70% marginal tax on income over $10M has estimated amount of I think $54B a year. Again chump change. Elizabeth Warren’s plan is a bit better, generating something in the trillions but, if I remember correctly, under $3T a year. The reason I say this is all chump change is because of the current obligations of the government, including paying down the debt trump and the fiscally conservative Republicans ran up. The economy is heading for a slowdown and possible recession, which means the safety nets will be strained adding to the debt. Climate change is taking a toll on the emergency funds the Feds have and there is no reason to believe that will change anytime soon. And let’s don’t forget fixing Social Security. Yes I know about Sander’s grand plan, but after reading his white paper on how to fund Medicare for all I have my doubts about his plan for fixing Social Security. In theory I support a lot of the laundry list it would seem the Democrats are going to run on. I just don’t see how the various tax plans will pay for it as well as the current obligations that are just important as the ones they are proposing.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 14, 2019 19:25:27 GMT
What I would like to see, is those rushing to tax the hell out of rich, step back and come up with a more realistic way to pay for the laundry list so they don’t end up like the bullet train, BART extension under the GGB, and Medicare for all in CA. I think the people are tired of empty promises made by politicians and elected officials. I think that has a lot to do with 40%+ of registered voters staying home at election time. Of course I know I’m yelling into the wind on this. For some reason people get great delight in the idea of taxing the hell out of the rich. Politicians have trouble with follow through. Today they are missing the word compromise in their collective vocabularies!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 14, 2019 19:27:37 GMT
NBC News.. “Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, Tlaib in joint statement say they'll vote against government funding bill: "The Department of Homeland Security does not deserve an increase in funding, and that is why we intend to vote no on this funding package." In other words they support the alternative of another government shutdown hurting the very people they claim they want to help. And not willing to compromise. I just said this " Today they are missing the word compromise in their collective vocabularies!" in reference to politicians.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 19:59:22 GMT
@fred , as I've said before, a financial transaction tax of .5% on the $1TRILLION traded daily would net (conservatively) $600 BILLION/year. That’s chump change for the Democratic Agenda. Where is the rest of the money coming from? Seriously. AOC 70% marginal tax on income over $10M has estimated amount of I think $54B a year. Again chump change. Elizabeth Warren’s plan is a bit better, generating something in the trillions but, if I remember correctly, under $3T a year. The reason I say this is all chump change is because of the current obligations of the government, including paying down the debt trump and the fiscally conservative Republicans ran up. The economy is heading for a slowdown and possible recession, which means the safety nets will be strained adding to the debt. Climate change is taking a toll on the emergency funds the Feds have and there is no reason to believe that will change anytime soon. And let’s don’t forget fixing Social Security. Yes I know about Sander’s grand plan, but after reading his white paper on how to fund Medicare for all I have my doubts about his plan for fixing Social Security. In theory I support a lot of the laundry list it would seem the Democrats are going to run on. I just don’t see how the various tax plans will pay for it as well as the current obligations that are just important as the ones they are proposing. Fine, make some financial transactions taxed at .7% or 1% - especially the highly structured CDS-type instruments that serve little purpose but to enrich the already engorged. I pay many % on phone taxes and gas taxes, the billionaires can pay a percent or more on their financial trades.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Feb 14, 2019 20:09:08 GMT
Netflix paid less in Federal Income Tax on $845 MILLION IN PROFITS than you pay for 1 month of service. This is America. Where we can't have medicare for all because we have to make sure the millionaires turn into centi-millionaires as quickly as possible. Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled the plug on building the bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The reason the cost. When the Bay Area Rapid Transit aka as BART was being built all those years ago, they roughed in the beginnings of extending BART under the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County. It was never done because of the cost. Both are good ideas that would have been very beneficial to the population, whether they knew it or not. Both were abandoned because of cost. Medicare for all is good. California tried to figure out a way of doing it for the people who live in CA a couple of years ago and had to abandon the idea because it would have doubled the state’s budget. CA is not a state that has any problem taxing folks for what they considered a worthwhile reason. Yet they backed off. I certainly don’t have a problem with corporations like Netflix paying taxes. Put the tax brackets back to what they were and close the loopholes. But this idea that if you tax the hell out of the rich and corporations you will get enough revenue to pay for Medicare for all, free college, fighting climate change is naive. What I would like to see, is those rushing to tax the hell out of rich, step back and come up with a more realistic way to pay for the laundry list so they don’t end up like the bullet train, BART extension under the GGB, and Medicare for all in CA. I think the people are tired of empty promises made by politicians and elected officials. I think that has a lot to do with 40%+ of registered voters staying home at election time. Of course I know I’m yelling into the wind on this. For some reason people get great delight in the idea of taxing the hell out of the rich. Are people really talking about "taxing the hell out of the rich"? Or are they talking about closing loopholes and making it so they pay their fair share? Financial issues are not my strong suit and I haven't paid a lot of attention to what is being thrown around because 1) it is not that interesting to me and 2) the numbers are hard to understand in regards to percents, actual numbers in relation to the larger budget, etc. I personally don't think that rich people should be paying a super high percent of their income in taxes. But I do think that they should be paying the same % or a little more than the rest of us. There are no loopholes for small business owners or independent contractors. Why are there for huge companies?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 20:32:07 GMT
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”JUST IN: President Trump plans to sign the border security package released by Congress and declare a national emergency at the same time, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.”
The only national emergency in this country is the idiot sitting in the White House.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 20:40:59 GMT
Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled the plug on building the bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The reason the cost. When the Bay Area Rapid Transit aka as BART was being built all those years ago, they roughed in the beginnings of extending BART under the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County. It was never done because of the cost. Both are good ideas that would have been very beneficial to the population, whether they knew it or not. Both were abandoned because of cost. Medicare for all is good. California tried to figure out a way of doing it for the people who live in CA a couple of years ago and had to abandon the idea because it would have doubled the state’s budget. CA is not a state that has any problem taxing folks for what they considered a worthwhile reason. Yet they backed off. I certainly don’t have a problem with corporations like Netflix paying taxes. Put the tax brackets back to what they were and close the loopholes. But this idea that if you tax the hell out of the rich and corporations you will get enough revenue to pay for Medicare for all, free college, fighting climate change is naive. What I would like to see, is those rushing to tax the hell out of rich, step back and come up with a more realistic way to pay for the laundry list so they don’t end up like the bullet train, BART extension under the GGB, and Medicare for all in CA. I think the people are tired of empty promises made by politicians and elected officials. I think that has a lot to do with 40%+ of registered voters staying home at election time. Of course I know I’m yelling into the wind on this. For some reason people get great delight in the idea of taxing the hell out of the rich. Are people really talking about "taxing the hell out of the rich"? Or are they talking about closing loopholes and making it so they pay their fair share? Financial issues are not my strong suit and I haven't paid a lot of attention to what is being thrown around because 1) it is not that interesting to me and 2) the numbers are hard to understand in regards to percents, actual numbers in relation to the larger budget, etc. I personally don't think that rich people should be paying a super high percent of their income in taxes. But I do think that they should be paying the same % or a little more than the rest of us. There are no loopholes for small business owners or independent contractors. Why are there for huge companies? You have AOC’s plan to tax income of over $10M with a 70% marginal tax rate. Elizabeth Warren is pushing a plan to go after the wealth of corporations and the 1% gang. Sanders plan for saving Social Security that involves taxing the wealthy. Bill Gates has come out and said these guys are doing it all wrong, instead of taxing the income, they should tax the actual wealth. So it’s safe to say the plan to pay for the Democratic agenda is to tax the hell out of the wealthy and corporations. I support raising trump’s tax cuts back to where they were and close all the loopholes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 20:45:48 GMT
I am fine w/"taxing the hell out of the wealthy" as long as people are living in misery. When all are at a basic level of health coverage, elder care, child care, etc, the rich can go back to accumulating 90% of the world's wealth in 10% of the world's people.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 14, 2019 20:46:11 GMT
NPR.... ”JUST IN: President Trump plans to sign the border security package released by Congress and declare a national emergency at the same time, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.” The only national emergency in this country is the idiot sitting in the White House. McConnell has stated he will support the National Emergency even though he told dt NOT to do it!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 20:56:24 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tva-defies-trump-votes-to-shut-down-two-aging-coal-fired-power-plants/2019/02/14/6cc0c9f8-3077-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html"The Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors voted to shut down two aging coal-fired power plants, defying a tweet from President Trump on Monday urging the agency to keep one of them open. The TVA directors voted overwhelmingly to close the Paradise 3 plant in Kentucky and the Bull Run plant in Tennessee. Three of the four people appointed by Trump to the TVA board joined the 6-1 majority voting to close down the Paradise coal unit and all four joined the unanimous vote to retire Bull Run. “It is not about coal. This decision is about economics,” TVA chief executive William D. Johnson said. “It’s about keeping rates as low as feasible.” The sole vote in favor of propping up Paradise 3 came from Trump appointee Kenneth Allen, who earlier had been the chief operating officer at Armstrong Coal and president of Bluegrass Coal, both coal-mining companies."
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 14, 2019 21:03:18 GMT
So he calls National emergency= gets his wall. William Barr as AG, abortion video to air, ALL in one afternoon! What else?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 21:04:36 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
”You want to talk about a national emergency? Let's talk about today. The one year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That's a national emergency. Why don't you declare that emergency, Mr. President? ... A Democratic president could."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 21:17:44 GMT
So he calls National emergency= gets his wall. William Barr as AG, abortion video to air, ALL in one afternoon! What else? Watch what Nancy does next:
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Post by hop2 on Feb 14, 2019 21:23:24 GMT
Yeah there are - one I learned here - Asshat- although maybe that’s not strong enough Your right no words
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 14, 2019 22:27:26 GMT
I had measles as an adult. My DS had no immunity from me. I was very fortunate that there were others to take care of him at 6 months. I have only 2 memories of that time, one was the doctor making a house call and him saying if my temp went up from 105 degrees I would be put in the hospital. Didn't happen.
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Post by lucyg on Feb 14, 2019 22:38:16 GMT
Netflix paid less in Federal Income Tax on $845 MILLION IN PROFITS than you pay for 1 month of service. This is America. Where we can't have medicare for all because we have to make sure the millionaires turn into centi-millionaires as quickly as possible. Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled the plug on building the bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The reason the cost. When the Bay Area Rapid Transit aka as BART was being built all those years ago, they roughed in the beginnings of extending BART under the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County. It was never done because of the cost. Both are good ideas that would have been very beneficial to the population, whether they knew it or not. Both were abandoned because of cost. Medicare for all is good. California tried to figure out a way of doing it for the people who live in CA a couple of years ago and had to abandon the idea because it would have doubled the state’s budget. CA is not a state that has any problem taxing folks for what they considered a worthwhile reason. Yet they backed off. I certainly don’t have a problem with corporations like Netflix paying taxes. Put the tax brackets back to what they were and close the loopholes. But this idea that if you tax the hell out of the rich and corporations you will get enough revenue to pay for Medicare for all, free college, fighting climate change is naive. What I would like to see, is those rushing to tax the hell out of rich, step back and come up with a more realistic way to pay for the laundry list so they don’t end up like the bullet train, BART extension under the GGB, and Medicare for all in CA. I think the people are tired of empty promises made by politicians and elected officials. I think that has a lot to do with 40%+ of registered voters staying home at election time. Of course I know I’m yelling into the wind on this. For some reason people get great delight in the idea of taxing the hell out of the rich. (1) how about taxing big business even a little bit? I don’t think we need to totally balance the budget in the backs of large corporations, but they ought to at least be paying something like a “fair share,” which 0 is 0% of. (2) the reason BART doesn’t go into Marin county is because back in 1959ish when the Bay Area voted on implementing a mass transit system, Marin county voted it down. Just like Santa Clara county and San Mateo county. So San Francisco and the East Bay have been paying for BART via .5% sales tax for over 50 years now. If the rest of the Bay Area wants to come out of the Stone Age, they should ante up. I’m ticked off already that SCC is getting a BART extension for practically nothing. Vent over.
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Post by flute4peace on Feb 14, 2019 23:01:29 GMT
NPR.... ”JUST IN: President Trump plans to sign the border security package released by Congress and declare a national emergency at the same time, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.” The only national emergency in this country is the idiot sitting in the White House. McConnell has stated he will support the National Emergency even though he told dt NOT to do it! I’m guessing it’s the only way he could get Trump to sign the bill.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 23:48:19 GMT
Contact your legislators. Please.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 23:53:57 GMT
Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled the plug on building the bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The reason the cost. When the Bay Area Rapid Transit aka as BART was being built all those years ago, they roughed in the beginnings of extending BART under the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County. It was never done because of the cost. Both are good ideas that would have been very beneficial to the population, whether they knew it or not. Both were abandoned because of cost. Medicare for all is good. California tried to figure out a way of doing it for the people who live in CA a couple of years ago and had to abandon the idea because it would have doubled the state’s budget. CA is not a state that has any problem taxing folks for what they considered a worthwhile reason. Yet they backed off. I certainly don’t have a problem with corporations like Netflix paying taxes. Put the tax brackets back to what they were and close the loopholes. But this idea that if you tax the hell out of the rich and corporations you will get enough revenue to pay for Medicare for all, free college, fighting climate change is naive. What I would like to see, is those rushing to tax the hell out of rich, step back and come up with a more realistic way to pay for the laundry list so they don’t end up like the bullet train, BART extension under the GGB, and Medicare for all in CA. I think the people are tired of empty promises made by politicians and elected officials. I think that has a lot to do with 40%+ of registered voters staying home at election time. Of course I know I’m yelling into the wind on this. For some reason people get great delight in the idea of taxing the hell out of the rich. (1) how about taxing big business even a little bit? I don’t think we need to totally balance the budget in the backs of large corporations, but they ought to at least be paying something like a “fair share,” which 0 is 0% of. (2) the reason BART doesn’t go into Marin county is because back in 1959ish when the Bay Area voted on implementing a mass transit system, Marin county voted it down. Just like Santa Clara county and San Mateo county. So San Francisco and the East Bay have been paying for BART via .5% sales tax for over 50 years now. If the rest of the Bay Area wants to come out of the Stone Age, they should ante up. I’m ticked off already that SCC is getting a BART extension for practically nothing. Vent over. link Marin County has always been a pain in the ass when it comes to transportation. It was because of Marin County the “narrows” between Novato and Petaluma are just now being widened. I spent way too much time on that section of the highway everyday thanks to Marin County. As to BART, my dad worked for one of the construction firms that worked on BART, so he spent a fair amount of time underground and talked a lot about the rough work they did with the intent of expanding system to Marin County. He always told me it was the cost that there was no BART in The North Bay when I would bitch about my commute home. Being curious, I looked up the history of BART. From BART’s history.. ”The Commission stated that, "If the Bay Area is to be preserved as a fine place to live and work, a regional rapid transit system is essential to prevent total dependence on automobiles and freeways." Thus was born the environmental concept underlying BART. Acting on the Commission's recommendations, in 1957, the Legislature formed the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, comprising the five counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo. At this time, the District was granted a taxing power of five cents per $100 of assessed valuation. It also had authority to levy property taxes to support a general obligation bond issue, if approved by District voters. The State Legislature lowered the requirement for voter approval from 66 percent to 60 percent. and.. ”Hundreds of meetings were held in the District communities to encourage local citizen participation in the development of routes and station locations. By midsummer, 1961, the final plan was submitted to the supervisors of the five District counties for approval. San Mateo County Supervisors were cool to the plan. Citing the high costs of a new system-plus adequate existing service from Southern Pacific commuter trains - they voted to withdraw their county from the District in December 1961. With the District-wide tax base thus weakened by the withdrawal of San Mateo County, Marin County was forced to withdraw in early 1962 because its marginal tax base could not adequately absorb its share of BART's projected cost. Another important factor in Marin's withdrawal was an engineering controversy over the feasibility of carrying trains across the Golden Gate Bridge.” So it was a combination of cost and if the GGB could be a viable way to get the trains across the bay. I would guess, since there are subway trains and cars going across bridges in NYC, it could have been done. So I’m wondering if had to do more with how it would have changed the appearance of the bridge then the feasibility of doing it. My vent, it sure would have made my commute easier if BART had made its way into the North Bay, even if it’s was only in Marin County. Now the cost makes highly unlikely it will ever happen.
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This is a follow up for the post I made on Part 23....
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 15, 2019 0:25:20 GMT
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) has warned the White House that the courts are likely to block a national emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border, according to ABC News. The White House, however, remains confident that it can win on appeal and ultimately have such a declaration approved by the courts, ABC News reported. thehill.com/homenews/administration/430122-doj-warns-white-house-that-national-emergency-will-likely-be-blocked Does he really believe he can win this one? Maybe he will, but Texas ranchers will not give up their land easily. Native Americans have said they will fight for their land in Arizona... Federal Judge dismissed the National Butterfly Association lawsuit....
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Feb 15, 2019 0:43:34 GMT
Netflix paid less in Federal Income Tax on $845 MILLION IN PROFITS than you pay for 1 month of service. This is America. Where we can't have medicare for all because we have to make sure the millionaires turn into centi-millionaires as quickly as possible. How is this even possible? I don't understand. Truly, please can someone explain this to me, because I feel as a private citizen that I am taxed over and over again. Taxed if I earn money. Taxed if I spend money. Taxed special sin taxes on top of sales tax for some items. How do large corporations avoid taxation? They could be contributing so much to society.
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linkNatasha Bertrand... ”NEW: The Senate Intelligence chairman said last week that Chris Steele had remained unwilling to engage. But we can reveal that Steele submitted written answers to the committee in August. The panel then withdrew the subpoena for his testimony. My latest:” You can’t believe anything the Republicans say anymore.
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trump...
”Trying to use the 25th Amendment to try and circumvent the Election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing...which happens in third world countries. You have to obey the law. This is an attack on our system & Constitution.” Alan Dershowitz. @tuckercarlson”
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“That Trump tweet calling the 25th Amendment "unconstitutional power grabbing" is funny because the 25th Amendment is part of the Constitution.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 15, 2019 3:50:27 GMT
despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing...which happens in third world countries. You have to obey the law. This is an attack on our system & Constitution.” And he is trying to do WHAT?!?!?!? National emergency = power grabbing Obey the law = What is he doing every day? Attack on our system & Constitution = What is he doing every day? He has NO CLUE what is in the Constitution!
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Post by hop2 on Feb 15, 2019 5:13:12 GMT
trump... ”Trying to use the 25th Amendment to try and circumvent the Election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing...which happens in third world countries. You have to obey the law. This is an attack on our system & Constitution.” Alan Dershowitz. @tuckercarlson” Kyle Griffin.. “That Trump tweet calling the 25th Amendment "unconstitutional power grabbing" is funny because the 25th Amendment is part of the Constitution.” What the Hell does he think the 25th amendment amended? His dinner menu? His bank statement?
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