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Post by Jeremiah Hill on Sept 24, 2017 21:27:07 GMT
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Post by Ian Noble on Oct 16, 2017 20:03:27 GMT
I'm just going to add this to the Trumpster Fire krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-liesThe major thing I keep taking away from what little I know about American politics though is: the worse Trump is, the less the Democrats need to try, and it seems to me that Democrat neo-liberalism is the gateway drug to Trump's pure fascism. Both sides are fucked. There needs to be a powerful left wing in America or the whole world is fucked along with you.
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Kevin Hollis
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Post by Kevin Hollis on Nov 2, 2017 21:03:00 GMT
Seriously, fuck Trump. Can't even pass a fucking tax bill without fucking everyone. That bill is the biggest piece of garbage I have ever seen. Go figure, fuck all the college students and former students over; fuck everyone who owns a house; fuck any middle class person whom itemizes; fuck anyone that isn't a billionaire. I haven't liked what Trump has done thus far, but this is the biggest piece of shit I have read in a long time.
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Post by Alex English on Nov 2, 2017 22:50:10 GMT
fuck anyone that isn't a billionaire. This is basically it right here. Trump has never been interested in anything in his entire life unless it glorifies or enriches him. He's a petty, selfish, and narcissistic piece of shit who's been able to manipulate, pander, and outright lie his way into office thanks to right wing propaganda. I just hope his ongoing presidency will be the lightbulb moment for so many conservatives that can both see how awful Trump is, and how news outlets like Fox still blindly support him. The game is rigged and the republican party has been stolen. A right wing ideology may be fine, but in the US, right wing politics is toxic and corrupt. The republican party is a kleptocracy run by billionaires.
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Post by Brian Scalabrine on Nov 3, 2017 0:47:09 GMT
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the only change affecting families making over a million dollars that the alternative minimum tax is abolished and in 6 years the estate tax is due to be abolished as well? I think the top tax bracket is staying at the same percentage. Even the mortgage exemption which helps the rich mostly is being repealed.
I'm not smart enough to realize the ramifications of the alternative minimum tax and I am opposed to repealing the estate tax, though raising it to $10 million seems reasonable, but this actually seems comparatively tame compared to most Republican tax proposals, like the Bush cuts.
Don't get me wrong I still oppose this because it explodes the deficit and I'm hesitant on cutting the state and local taxes exemption, but it's somewhat interesting what Trump's direction is here, going against the orthodoxy kind of.
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Kevin Hollis
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Post by Kevin Hollis on Nov 3, 2017 1:27:04 GMT
When you're rich enough, Amt does even impact you anymore. Further more, they are getting rid of personal exemptions, state tax deductions, student interest and other education deductions and expanding the tax bracket for rich people. The max tax bracket is staying the same, but now you need almost 600k more to hit it. So you won't hit the max bracket unless your taxable income is at 1M. I have a very well summarized PDF file explaining al the proposals from my work if anyone is interested. I can post on here too if people would like it. It is really just the house document, so anyone can find it online.
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Post by Jeremiah Hill on Nov 3, 2017 3:30:55 GMT
Hate to say I told everyone so but....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2017 14:59:34 GMT
I absolutely hate these threads, but this is by far the least worst tax cut we've seen by a conservative president, and by far the best thing Trump has put his stamp on so far.
Will it help anyone who needs help? No. Will it make the debt worse? Yes. Will it hurt some lower earners? Yes.
But not nearly as bad as anything else he has attempted to do thus far.
It's just amazing to see how so many people can believe that corporations need a tax cut when they are all absolutely swimming in cash (check out the stock market).
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Post by Jeremiah Hill on Nov 3, 2017 15:56:32 GMT
But her emails!!!
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