Politics

[aiw]

Wow.

 

[aiw]

Weird.

 

[niveklaen]

Not sure if this belongs here or in randomopolous...



Slumlord is ordered to rehab the uninhabitable units that he rents to low income residents for $3-500/month. His response is to evict the tenants and tear down the properties. His attitude is that Dallas' affordable housing policy is to not have affordable housing. As a former slum lord myself (4 units, so lord is a stretch, maybe slum squire?) I am both appalled and in awe of his response. He went full John Gault on society.

 

[deepdarkblue]

Mr Creosote has been added to the list of "cooperative witnesses" in the Mueller investigation:

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/31/sam-clovis-senate-russia-investigation-244370

 

[aiw]

The executive branch is now full on defending Confederates, and by proxy, slavery. Kelly and Huckabee all in. "If some would have compromised, the Civil War could have been avoided." 3/5th, Missouri, Kansas-Nebraska, etc, etc, etc.

This is disgusting and Kelly, the guy they thought would reign in Trump, is a fucking maniac.

 

[rhfarmer]

Yeah, it keeps getting worse. You think it can't sink lower, and you are almost immediately proven wrong.

 

[deepdarkblue]

A lesson here, folks: It's never too early to start teaching your children how to be selfish assholes with persecution complexes

 

[ZackM]

It annoys me how few people know what socialism is.

 

[aiw]

Anyway, a guy who has never worked a day in his life because his dad has never had to work a day in his life shouts socialism as he goes around to strangers houses demanding candy.

 

[deepdarkblue]

Anyway, a guy who has never worked a day in his life because his dad has never had to work a day in his life shouts socialism as he goes around to strangers houses demanding candy.

Also, the only reason the other child doesn't have candy is because he or she was too lazy to go beg for it.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

GOP considering keeping top tax rate of 39-40% for income $1 million and up, finally. I assume this would be for the single bracket, so it would hit married at $2 million since Trump wants to do away with the marriage penalty.

This is the one thing they needed from the start. Maybe it was their goal all along to propose idiotic ideas to enrage the entire middle class, so that when they did something the slightest bit reasonable to not benefit the super wealthy, it would pass with flying colors.

Still a disproportionate tax cut for the wealthy-but-not-super-wealthy (individuals under $1 million). Not much of a tax cut for the super wealthy. This combined with a halfway compromise on state and local deductions should be able to pass through Congress. Touch 401k or mortgage deduction at all, and it will fail.

Ultimately, should end up with something like this for tax reform:

Corporate tax rate of 20%, down from 35%.
Small businesses/pass-throughs taxed 25% max, down from 39-40%.
Corporate taxes lower when bringing foreign cash to U.S.

Single brackets of 12% up to $40k, 25% up to $300k, 35% up to $1mm, 39-40% over $1mm, exactly double brackets for married.
No AMT.
Estate/death tax threshold raised (probably can’t get away with eliminating entirely).
More childcare credits.
Double standard deductions, but state and local itemized deductions cut in half and no personal exemptions.
Nothing else notable changed.

This will likely be bad for the economy long term. But more money in our pockets as long as we can keep jobs when the recession hits.

 

[deepdarkblue]

None of that omerta stuff in this crime family. It's every greedy bastard for himself.

 

[deeyoukayeee]

Just a matter of time before.....

 

[aiw]

Speaking of which

 

[aiw]

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/01/hou...ing-stock-white-house-denies-he-ever-did.html

Hours after Trump calls US justice system 'a laughingstock,' White House denies he ever did

• The White House on Wednesday flatly denied that President Donald Trump had ever called the American criminal justice system "a joke and a laughingstock."
• The denial came just hours after Trump said precisely that during a televised Cabinet meeting.
• Reporters were stunned that the press secretary would deny the president's own words so soon after the president said them.

 

[deepdarkblue]

I don't think any of them fully understand "plausible deniability", they think the denying part is sufficient.

 

[DukeNukem05]

They were taught implausible deniability in DeVos's educational system.

 

[deeyoukayeee]

I don't think any of them fully understand "plausible deniability", they think the denying part is sufficient.

You do understand that term is nine full syllables, right? This group of slack-jawed troglodytes has the same chance of parsing meaning out of that as I do of grasping quantum mechanics.

They are much more comfortable with a simple, bite-sized term: "lie"

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

They really did it. They touched the mortgage interest deduction and property tax deduction. Fools.

Also specifically called out Steph Curry as the one best example of a high-earning individual who should not get tax breaks compared to a small business. Not kidding.

No chance it passes with any changes to the benefits of home ownership. America is home ownership. I say this as a homeless person.

 

[rhfarmer]

Mortgage interest deduction makes no sense if you are GOP.