There' such a prime steak irony to the lion after spending some time earlier reading of the Lion of Judah. (Blog: The Rasta Hat and the Lion of Judah)
We will not yield to criminality and it would take a pair of twelve-guage blinders to ignore the rampaging corruption in Washington, in the election and in day-to-day process.
There is no-one else standing up as forthrightly for doing business the way America once did it: honestly.
There is the accusation he has no vision, no plan. Well ...
This should adequately jump from nebulosity to talking points, some of which will elicit an immediate blast from the GOP Death Star ... but ... there are others not so much.
Wall Street Speculation has been discussed previously with our eminent colleagues in the GOP realm (i.e. as opposed to Trumpites) and there is mutual concern for the fast turnover, fast buck specialists on Wall Street. They do nothing good for business with this activity and, in effect, steal from all straight-up investors. This one really doesn't seem it should be any big problem since no-one likes those parasites anyway.
Taxing Offshore Corporate Income does not seem it should be objectionable and an example of it is Pfizer moving operations to Ireland to dodge maybe fifty billion in U.S. taxes. If there is any GOP support for this, it would be novel to hear how it works.
Expanding Social Security is going to get a Roe v Wade reaction but we note this tax is not on wealth but on income. This does nothing whatever toward tapping into the immense store of wealth the 1% is holding. Before the screaming starts, it's important to keep that in mind. From what I see of it, the richest will be a large part of replenishing that which was borrowed against Social Security.
Note: that borrowing is based on shaky logic from media. The precise means by which Social Security has been undermined is not well-researched on this end but that's likely to happen with this up for discussion as to the mechanism.
Note specifically the offset to trillions being thrown about is, with full implementation of one-payer medical, there is no payment by you or your employer to any insurance company. As it stands, with a six-figure income, you're probably paying maybe a grand a month for single-cover medical. Some percentage of that but not all goes instead to the Medicare for All and that's where the saving direct for you because some of it you keep.
In effect, this nationalizes the medical insurance carriers. That is a hellword for the GOP but you have seen the patchwork morass of cover which exists right now and you hear the relentless bitching about coverage being denied routinely, arbitrary cancelations, and all manner of abuses. Somehow the GOP convinces you the state will be worse. Clever trick, that one. It's an extremely clever trick considering the Sanders approach works in every other developed nation.
Previously there was nebulosity and, presto, talking points.
We are the Berniecrats and the revolution is real. Keep your eyes open on Tuesday. Clinton will be covering hers.
We don't want any shooting in this revolution. Y'all are the ones with the guns. Y'all stay cool and we can get this mess swept up so we can all get on with business. Sometimes you just need to wash the dishes and clear the racks. This is one of those times and Bernie Sanders is the one to do it.
Elizabeth Warren, where are you? History is calling you, girl. Clinton will not help you and Goldman Sachs will destroy you. Stand up as this is so much your time too.
By the way, don't look now but this is how democracy works. The talking points are presented and then reviewed in a dispassionate manner to determine that which is valid for the overall view of America. Call that cheerleading if you like but a whole lotta people seem to have forgotten that.
Congress isn't supposed to be fast but it is supposed to be fair. You can see the unfairness now in the senseless gambits to delay review of the new Supreme Court judge and for political purpose rather than democratic fairness. When politics supersede the process, the politics are the fault.
We want democracy and that's why we want Sanders.
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I would comment but pointless as you actually believe this works
If you love NAFTA just watch as every other company follows suit. And moves overseas. Or lower the tax rate to allow them to bring it here
Luckily he isnt electable
Unlikely I could have emphasized more strongly my loathing and detestation for NAFTA and the destructive consequences it has wrought. Sanders doesn't support that nor does he support TPP and is vehemently opposed to job-destroying measures such as those.
What would you call his Rebuild America Act taxing offshore accounts and profits. The entire companies will go overseas
I take that to mean going after Pfizer and other corps which have already bailed overseas or are about to do it.
As to BMW or some legitimate overseas corp, I imagine they're nicely taxed already and I don't see this applying to BMW anyway. There are multiple examples of corps using Caribbean islands to hide profits and hide from taxes and I'm not clear why trapping that would be a problem.
Actually he is removing the on income cap for SSA tax. Right now they stop taking out SSA tax at about at about $100k so it is a tax increase on income not wealth. So just that tax will increase for my family by about $8000 per year over 100% increase for that tax alone. And we havent calculated his other tax rate increases.
His change to inheritance tax. Is a wealth tax. Ask the farm family in Indiana how to pass the family farm from one generation to another when it is capped at 3.5million.
So many holes so little time
The tax inversions are because it is cheaper to move thier HQs overseas to a more conducive tax rate than bring the overseas profits here. RBA will only increase the rush for the door.
The education for All outside of not all people should go to college. His cost estimste is $75B with over 12M children that to be covered and using the average amount spent on a high school child (12k Dept of Ed) It would cost over 145B dollars per year. Again his numbers only add up to him and thise who drink hia kool-aid
You have two figures with 12M kids, probably high for number attending uni, and 12K per which is high school and not uni so likely that cost is higher. It's already been noted America pays more for high school education than the value it gets. The problem is not failing to spend enough on education but rather a great deal is wasted. Lots of finger pointing on whose fault but I don't think there's any controversy that problem exists.
It's only money as the variable in bailing from US when labor talent pools are similar. It's incumbent on America to make the labor talent pool here better so it's more than a financial dodge if a corp bails. If y'all want to compete then be my guest and play it on the world stage.
Increasing any tax rate will get lots of barking and likely there must be compromise of there is no chance. Unknown how it plays but it does play insofar as it's a plan for discussion whereas all the others will generally maintain the status quo and wait for it to collapse.
I will take the plan because I don't believe anything will pass verbatim but it gives starting points from which to work and the country has been woefully lacking in anything of that nature.
One figure is 12M number of kids in college Second figure is what we pay to educate a high school child per year. So his plan is $70B short from the start.
There doesnt need to be tax increase just quit spending.
I havent see a single plan from Bernie to reduce any waste just spend more and tax more
If as you say there is so much waste why not just cut the waste
Why spend more to solve the problem
Corporations are just moving the official address not the entire HQs They leave everything here but the taxes
$20 Trillion in debt and he wants to spend more
Just like Greece Portugal Puerto Rico Why cant they learn.
We are over 100% of GDP in debt paying over 6% of revenue just to interest.
Continuing to spend money you dont have is insane.
Insanity of spending is understood but you have heard the litany multiple times: I don't see anyone scrapping any submarines.
From what I understand, Pfizer is skipping out on over $50B in U.S. taxes. That's the journo-hyped number and real is unknown but there's some kind of fast dance in-play.
Greek situation is known as the combination of corrupt politicians and Goldman Sachs is fatal. I'm sure you know how GS played them. Unclear who Portugal and PR managed it but shaky politicians had to have had a piece of it.
Already hit on crazy spending and I want to see major demobilization as the first priority as the idea of being constantly prepared for a world war so the U.S. cannot be surprised again is ludicrous when the satellites can spot anyone so much as assembling a marching band. There are endless benefits in doing it and I imagine we're not so far apart on it anyway. Make a satisfactory defense force, maintain it over time, what else is on the agenda. As you know the savings would be astronomical and just why should that be so unrealistic.
Cutting the the military in half saves the same amount as eliminating the interest on the debt. That doesnt take into account payments to the actual debt as,we dont make any
But this discussion really pointless as they will do neither.
PS Obamas latest budget is the largest military budget in history
I know that is the GOPs forcong the issue to bolster thier coffers. Has nothing to do with democrats keeping fat contracts in thier states
Cutting expenses and whatnot works toward balancing the debt but I don't know what miracle you think will pay the twenty trillion down other than tax increases.
Whether it's Reagan or Obama spending on the military makes no defense to me as I've junked new Democrats and Republicans together anyway. Think Clinton will cut military?? Right, me either.
I'm clear on the pork and both teams own bringing it into their states and getting highly defensive with it. That's one prime target for a line-item veto right there as I understand that's how most of the pork gets into the budget anyway.
You dont always have to raise taxes. It is possible to spend less.
Just as John Q Public gets out of debt. He spends less than he makes. He quits spending based on what he might make. He spends what he does make
Actually, he doesn't as is shown by the credit card debt which is higher than ever before. These aphorisms look good on billboards but applying my budget or that of any individual to international affairs really doesn't go anywhere.
Taxes goes up because the state borrows to spend money and doesn't pay it back (e.g. Iraq conflicts I, II or III).
Borrowing isn't some inherently big deal ... unless you start wars for which you have no intention of paying and intend to blame that on the next administration (i.e. exactly what happened).
If you Mr Public wants to get out of debt that is exactly how he does it.
Obama didnt spend $10trillion because of Iraq.
Your numbers never add up no matter how you try to spin them.
As always blame someone else it always works.
And yes borrowing is a very big deal. I love it when broke people tell me about finances. Which is which is why I dont take financial advice from broke people or marriage advice from divorced people
And I need advice on addicts I listen to recovered addicts
It works well
I'm not spinning any numbers and I don't know what Obama spent but I do know Bush started two wars on a reduced tax income and nothing whatsoever was done to pay for them. Your willingness to write that off shows a bizarre generosity or a huge political slant.
Your anti-Obama campaign runs in direct parallel with a go-soft-on-Bush campaign and that's not a fast path to credibility no matter how many dried-out junkies may recommend it.
I'll cheerfully slam Obama when he has it coming but the man can't fart without the GOP busting his ass for it. Sure as hell, he will respond as a Pavlovian goldfish to the Brussels attack and bomb more people in the Middle East. Then there are the inevitable reprisals and people go ... well ... that's how those bastards are. They don't think like us.
I dont write off any of it. I have never supported Bush just your slant
France is the one who first responded we are at war
More on defense than Bush a d more in total the every other president combined
For some reason you continually list me as GOP. I am not I just want government to pay for the programs it runs. Today not with my grandchildrens taxes.
If he doesnt want his ass busted have him do something worthwhile
What slant?? He didn't start these wars?? He didn't spend a known trillion in Iraq and who knows how much more in Afghanistan??
I hear a lot about accountability but I still see this guy getting a pass.
Sorry about GOP as it sounds like Independent would be more accurate. You're a mixed read as you don't seem to have much support for social programs but you also don't seem to have much use for a huge military. I don't see any evidence you support the wholesale wasting of people about the world.
In fact, I'll post a bit on Trump and this one will likely surprise you.
Name me a president that hasnt bombed Iraq in the last 25 years.
Obama said he ended that war 3 years ago and sends 3000 troops there this month
I haven't ignored that and neither have I supported it. I believe I've been fairly clear about my non-support for New Democrats who differ little from Neocons who differ tremendously from Goldwater Republicans.
Nevertheless, the stated cost of the campaign waged by Bush in Iraq was a cool trillion and there were never any even faintly credible numbers about what all of his operations cost.
It's been my contention Clinton may well have precipitated the attack on NYC by his half-ass attack on the al Qaeda base in the 90's.
In any case, this has run up enormous debt all 'round and the only thing I want to hear now is someone will stop it or at least bring some kind of reason to it, particularly regarding any intentions toward regime change for which America has no legal right whatsoever.
I will support paid for programs
There isnt a single candidate that cares if they run the debt up. The GOP is projecting huge deficits also Cruzs will push the debt to about 120% of GDP
Nothing Trump does surprises me He is just like Howard Stern just says stuff to incite people
The military justs needs to keep pace with Russia and China. Doesnt need to set the pace
That's exactly it. There's no need for any race, only for equivalence.
I wrote up an article a little while ago about Trump and it might seriously surprise you. Some of his ideas make sense. He's so arrogant he thinks he farts rainbows and every idea is genius but some of them go right to it.
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