“It's structurally set up to fail," Davis said. LOL. You know what would help Jim Jordan’s “weaponization” investigation? Actual evidence. You know, like the Jan. 6 committee had.
Also, it’s informative that Democrats aren’t frothing at the mouth spouting conspiracy theories about an underwear clad McConnell in a hotel room with a male prostitute.
I didn't know Paul Pelosi was until GOPers started posting complete lies about his attack. Funny how, when the police and surveillance video was released, they all got silent.
Bottom line on the budget proposal is something beats nothing every time.
Recovery from the Bush and Trump tax cuts will take decades just as the deficits and debt caused by them accumulated over decades. Taxes are too low to cover the government spending the public demands. The primary problem with the Biden proposal is a failure to raise taxes enough.
The alternative of cutting enough spending to balance the budget would lead to a total collapse of our country as we know it due to the extreme poverty and suffering caused by it.
Biden's opening move (this is supposed to be negotiation, not a final proposal) is clearly a bloated, overloaded hot fudge Sunday designed to be picked apart. It's a clever opening move, challenging the opposition to identify which parts are too much spending and slash away. The response so far seems to be generic complaining but I can't find any indication WHICH parts of that proposal are too much, together with a counter-proposal that would be more thrifty.
Biden's decades of experience have made him really good at this game.
I geeked out on reading the tables and the problem is in the "mandatory" programs. Both parties need to suck it up. There will be tax increai and SS/Medicare need to be throttled.
SS and Medicare are struggling already and need to be bolstered. And the richest 400 taxpayers who are currently paying between 8 and 9 percent of their income need to pay at least what the middle and upper middle classes pay in percentage terms. That would be a tax increase. And given the amount of wealth those people control, it would make a huge difference to our country.
It's so obvious, isn't it? But for some reason even after acquiring enough generational wealth for eternity some people feel they have never amassed enough.
I don't begrudge anyone any cent of their wealth, nor do I think they should simply sit back and be satisfied with what they have when they reach an arbitrary level. However, wealth does not exist in a vacuum of an individual, rather it depends on the infrastructure of the nation and the activity of the rest of the population to exist.
I'm glad the extremely wealthy seek more wealth because only those types of people can generate enough to pay the taxes needed to fund the government services we need as a nation.
Andrew Carnegie believed in giving wealth away during one’s lifetime, and this essay includes one of his most famous quotes, “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
"when the deficit routinely is more than $1.5 trillion per year - and getting closer to $2 trillion per year - that's unacceptable, and we all know it." We = the small percentage of Americans who pay attention know it. The tax cuts for small businesses sunset in 2025, that'll help pay it off. Like my business, unless perhaps that due to tax policy I decide it's time to retire in 2025 and live off capital gains which for a modest income would be taxed at $0. Like I said ... the small percentage of Americans who pay attention .... also tend to come out ahead.
“I do have to note the different way that the news about McConnell was processed. Unlike when the husband of then Speaker Nancy Pelosi was attacked by an assailant, there were no conspiracy theories or jokes being made about McConnell by lawmakers of the other party.”
That’s because republicans are indecent, deeply disturbed, hateful slugs.
“It's structurally set up to fail," Davis said. LOL. You know what would help Jim Jordan’s “weaponization” investigation? Actual evidence. You know, like the Jan. 6 committee had.
Also, it’s informative that Democrats aren’t frothing at the mouth spouting conspiracy theories about an underwear clad McConnell in a hotel room with a male prostitute.
I didn't know Paul Pelosi was until GOPers started posting complete lies about his attack. Funny how, when the police and surveillance video was released, they all got silent.
Bottom line on the budget proposal is something beats nothing every time.
Recovery from the Bush and Trump tax cuts will take decades just as the deficits and debt caused by them accumulated over decades. Taxes are too low to cover the government spending the public demands. The primary problem with the Biden proposal is a failure to raise taxes enough.
The alternative of cutting enough spending to balance the budget would lead to a total collapse of our country as we know it due to the extreme poverty and suffering caused by it.
All true, of course.
Biden's opening move (this is supposed to be negotiation, not a final proposal) is clearly a bloated, overloaded hot fudge Sunday designed to be picked apart. It's a clever opening move, challenging the opposition to identify which parts are too much spending and slash away. The response so far seems to be generic complaining but I can't find any indication WHICH parts of that proposal are too much, together with a counter-proposal that would be more thrifty.
Biden's decades of experience have made him really good at this game.
I geeked out on reading the tables and the problem is in the "mandatory" programs. Both parties need to suck it up. There will be tax increai and SS/Medicare need to be throttled.
SS and Medicare are struggling already and need to be bolstered. And the richest 400 taxpayers who are currently paying between 8 and 9 percent of their income need to pay at least what the middle and upper middle classes pay in percentage terms. That would be a tax increase. And given the amount of wealth those people control, it would make a huge difference to our country.
It's so obvious, isn't it? But for some reason even after acquiring enough generational wealth for eternity some people feel they have never amassed enough.
I don't begrudge anyone any cent of their wealth, nor do I think they should simply sit back and be satisfied with what they have when they reach an arbitrary level. However, wealth does not exist in a vacuum of an individual, rather it depends on the infrastructure of the nation and the activity of the rest of the population to exist.
I'm glad the extremely wealthy seek more wealth because only those types of people can generate enough to pay the taxes needed to fund the government services we need as a nation.
Andrew Carnegie believed in giving wealth away during one’s lifetime, and this essay includes one of his most famous quotes, “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/
Compare and contrast the ever-popular Prosperity Gospel.
https://oxfordre.com/religion/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-429;jsessionid=613431002C82CACB0807614DA6761812#:~:text=%E2%80%9CProsperity%20gospel%E2%80%9D%20is%20a%20term,view%20of%20how%20faith%20operates.
"when the deficit routinely is more than $1.5 trillion per year - and getting closer to $2 trillion per year - that's unacceptable, and we all know it." We = the small percentage of Americans who pay attention know it. The tax cuts for small businesses sunset in 2025, that'll help pay it off. Like my business, unless perhaps that due to tax policy I decide it's time to retire in 2025 and live off capital gains which for a modest income would be taxed at $0. Like I said ... the small percentage of Americans who pay attention .... also tend to come out ahead.
“I do have to note the different way that the news about McConnell was processed. Unlike when the husband of then Speaker Nancy Pelosi was attacked by an assailant, there were no conspiracy theories or jokes being made about McConnell by lawmakers of the other party.”
That’s because republicans are indecent, deeply disturbed, hateful slugs.
But who didn’t know that?