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  1. On 3/6/2024 at 1:42 AM, Dutchrudder said:

    I can agree with you that this particular savings isn't a huge impact, but it's not something to complain about either. What did Trump and the Republicans ever do for those low/middle class families who you are "worried" about?  Do you think their tax cuts had a positive impact on those making less than 50k a year? 100k? Have you looked at the impact of the tax cuts since 2017?  There is tons of data about how it hasn't done anything for individuals and families, but has benefitted corporations significantly. Compound that with the inflation we encountered over the past few years, and they could probably use a proper tax break in the near future. 

    Here are a couple of articles that were done pre-Covid, so the context is relevant to the typical years prior for comparison. This is who Republicans prioritize time and time again. Every time they get power they give huge tax cuts and bailouts to corporations, pay mouth service to "helping the middle class" and years later all we see is ungodly amounts of money going to corporations, who now get to fund the campaigns of those in power who make the rules. 

    From CAP, good article on how only companies have benefited: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tcja-2-years-later-corporations-not-workers-big-winners/

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    Brookings Institute: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-middle-class-needs-a-tax-cut-trump-didnt-give-it-to-them/

    The 2017 tax law doesn’t help the middle class
    The new tax law—known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—will exacerbate this trend. The benefits of the law tilt toward the well-off both now and in the future, according to the distributional analysis of the Tax Policy Center. By 2027, benefits of the tax law flow entirely to the rich. (The Joint Committee on Taxation finds similar results using a different measure.)

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    This one is really something with a 5 year analysis on the impact of those tax cuts. 275 billion going back to companies via subsidies, and yet only 562 billion in collected taxes on 4 trillion in profits from this group of 342 corps. Insane.
    https://itep.org/corporate-tax-avoidance-trump-tax-law/

    The 342 companies included in this study paid an average effective income tax rate of just 14.1 percent during this five-year period, almost a third less than the statutory rate of 21 percent.
    Of these, 55 (16 percent of the total 342 companies) paid effective rates of less than 5 percent. This is particularly striking given that all these companies were profitable for at least five years consecutively. Companies paying less than 5 percent include T-Mobile, DISH Network, Netflix, General Motors, AT&T, Bank of America, Citigroup, FedEx, Molson Coors, Nike, and many others.
    Twenty-three corporations paid zero federal tax over the five-year period despite being profitable in every single year. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of the five years.
    At the other end of the spectrum, 50 corporations paid effective tax rates of more than 21 percent, but most of these companies were also the beneficiaries of large tax breaks because they were paying taxes from previous years that they delayed using depreciation breaks.

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    What?!? The GOP tax cuts only benefited corporations and the wealthy?!

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  2. 3 hours ago, Incredulity said:

    It’s a mosaic really, and I would mostly start here. 

    The Holonomic Toroid. Summary: A 3d Real Local Hidden Variable Theory with one force. It overcomes Bell’s inequalities with Bohmian style locality by mediating FTL information without energy using a spinning ring.

     

    Description: Each electron/proton is a ring. The ring is pure velocity. The velocity is the substance and the motion. The only law is like attracts and unlike repels. The ring spins at light speed. The energy spins in the circumference as it twists in the cross-section. These two velocities create the electric and magnetic force effects. The ring is at equilibrium when the attractive force generated by the twist in the cross section counteracts the repulsive force generated by the spin in the circumference.

    I mean, say what you will about the tenents of @fattyflattie's authoritarianism, at least it's an ethos

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  3. 6 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    There are people who are worse off now than in 2020

    Women: Thanks to Republican appointed SCOTUS judges, women's rights have been gutted. In addition, most Republican controlled states have passes draconian laws to make women subjugated by men again. 

    Jews: They have frequently been targeted thanks to Trump's vocal support of white supremacy and white nationalism. 

    Blacks: While Black employment is doing great thanks to Biden, Republican controlled states have tried to restrict voting rights as much as possible. 

    Young People: People under 40 are worse off and everyone is to blame. If you didn't own a home prior to 2020, you are not doing awesome. Home prices are 40-50% higher, and income isn't that much higher (although a little). While the Republicans will blame Biden for the inflation, that is dumb and not supported by facts. Every single country in the world has had to deal with large amounts of inflation thanks to Covid supply shocks. Yes I know Biden will get blamed either way. The continual transfer of wealth from the middle class to the corporate class via tax cuts or the easy money policy has hurt young people. They missed the boat and it sucks for them. 

     

     

    This is me except I'm 41. Just a poorly timed divorce that forced the sale of our marital home and covid hit while I was paying off debt/putting money away for a down payment to buy another home.

    I certainly don't place the blame at Biden's feet though.

  4. 7 minutes ago, CowtownHorn said:

    I understand we all have our own thoughts on the direction of this country. I don’t think there’s much I can say to make you see my side of things. But the polls do suggest that I’m not alone in how I feel. That’s all I’m trying to say. I spent the majority of my young adulthood in the military, so I tend to look at things from that perspective. I think our country is less safe and less secure than it has been in a long time.

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  5. 22 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    Wait. Annie Potts? The girl from "Ghostbusters?"

    Funnily enough, I wore out my VHS copy of Ghostbusters as a wee 5-7 yr old. Then around the time I hit puberty, I was also taking interest in muscle cars. Imagine my surprise finding this movie with a smoking hot hooker played by "Janine".

     

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

    Air Force Zeros?  

    Air Flight Fat?  

    Dammit.  There's a British Knight or some other discontinued brand joke in here somewhere.  Something about the shoes being exclusive offered only through Payless Shoe Source or Famous Footwear.  Help me out, somebody.  We can go viral.  

    Air Grift 91 Highs - coming soon exclusively at Dollar General

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  7. 1 minute ago, G650 said:

    I feel like this thread needs the Harrison Ford who gives a shit gif

    As a single dad with 2 sons, I have no exposure to Taylor Swift and I really don't give a shit about pro football so my interest in the chiefs or the Kelce brothers is whatever. I'm squarely in the "who gives a fuck" camp but I do have to admit, I was secretly hoping for a chiefs comeback last night just for the maga tears. 

    TLDR: I'm only in it to see the maga snowflakes get worked up over it

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  8. 8 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Well from the original cast Paxton and PSH are long since dead. 
     

    Helen Hunt doesn’t seem to do much these days nor does Jamie Gertz and they killed Cary Elwes character (him  being the bad guy was hard for me given he will always be Wesley)

     Alan Ruck coming off Succession could drop in but I barely remember his character from the original. 

    I feel like Helen Hunt makes the most sense for a cameo. 

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