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Mdhorn

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  1. 1 minute ago, Chooky said:

    "Michael Cohen is a dishonest, lying sack of felony pus so rotten and fetid that he should never be believed. Only an idiot would believe him. I employed him for twelve years."

    As did Sean Hannity and they only employ dishonest, lying sacks of pus.  It's a performance review question--Huckabeef out front should have told ya. 

  2. 5 hours ago, mdmost said:

    When the science doesn't tell you what you want to hear, invent new science that you can use to support your own biased, previously held viewpoints. 

    You know they are already setting up their own research/public policy organizations/think tanks so they can put out wrong information and reference their research centers to provide credibility.  Link this with Fox News and Sinclair and they'll bring back manufacturing, coal and whatever else they want you to believe.   

  3. 9 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    The irony is that Trump needs glasses, but he's too vain to wear them.

    Well, he doesn't read and he's not bright enough to deploy the Rick Perry maneuver of don't these glasses make me look smart?  And then there's the obvious:

     

    Melania Trump and Donald Trump
      

  4. 2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Trump did sort of do that with regard to the Trump Tower collusion meeting. He basically made the argument that they weren't colluding with the Russians but even if they were it was just opposition research and anyone else would've done it. (That was before Giuliani joined the Trump mob and started running the same play over and over again.)

    Yeah, we always conduct opposition research with foreign governments--just not our own.  Wait, I thought we didn't like foreigners?  So it's ok to conspire with foreign governments, especially fascists or communists, in regards to our democratic elections?   I thought we were against commies?  Wow, I'm confused.  It took Russia, the Saudis, Republicans and Trump to bring down Hillary?  Shit, she's the strongest politician the US has ever produced.  It took an axis of evil to usurp her.  Now a whole party is up to their necks in debt to mobsters and dictators.  

  5. 6 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Most people pay little to no income tax.  They pay some FICA but they think it's income tax.  Throw is 5-10% in SALT and they've taken to the streets with their Tea Party pitchforks.

    I throw it around loosely--I'm lumping it all in one category as tax.  It either raises or drops, which unfortunately, is how most are going to see it. 

  6. 23 minutes ago, Okie State said:

    Well, no...as has been mentioned numerous times in this very thread, some people actually did pay less if they took the time to look at what they actually paid and their effective tax rate change. The argument seems to be that it was an irrelevant amount when compared to the breaks received by corporations and the super wealthy. I'd argue that it is all relative and the absolute dollar figure is less important than the impact on an individual household's budget. While $1,000 is peanuts to some, it is significant to others. I also understand how many people piss away any increase in income on garbage rather than reallocate it to something useful so in that case it was pointless.

    All of that said, I still believe that the corporate tax breaks were unnecessary and will likely do a significant amount of long term damage for minimal short term gain.

    It was known they were totally unnecessary. Lindsey Graham said as much when he said they had to pass the cuts so their donors would continue to donate.  It breaks down as this, taxes either come from corporations and the upper crust or the middle class either pays more to make up the difference.

    I think we're agreeing to the same thing. 

  7. 1 hour ago, sidis said:

    i have read this post about ten times and i am still cracking up.

    i absolutely loathe the new law enacted by the dipshit brigade of republican dildos and their adherence to the plutocracy.  however, 90% of this has nothing to do with taxes and appears to be rambling about random goings on.  they changed your witholdings to take out less.  you made marginally more in your paychecks.  the tables and guidance were so fucked up that no one really knew what to do.  you owe because it was a bit off.  however, if you take the amount you paid this year as a percentage of your agi from this year, and compare it to the same thing as last year, you probably paid a slightly lower effective tax rate.

    this pissant amount was given to you so that you would willingly go along with providing corporations and the uber wealthy with substantially greater breaks to enable the capital for buying back all their stock or to further cement their extreme wealth.  at the cost of exacerbating our governmental budget imbalances.  congrats!  it would be helpful if you would go spend it on something worthless.

    Wait, when did I become a Republican?  I was writing out loud and rambling about how nothing has changed all that much except for the mirage that we're making more--we're not.  They adjusted the amount in taxes we pay into monthly with the caveat of paying them at the end.  That's it! True, I could have written that in two sentences.  Another thing was Ryan was talking about doing away with mortgage deductions which would really hurt if ever enacted. 

  8. 1 minute ago, zork said:

    Did you lose salt deductions this year or was your withholding different, or something else?

    Overall, they changed the withholdings so they began holding less in taxes monthly for one.  I never checked on mine thinking it's the same as it always is--why would it change if I didn't change it?  So although it gives the appearance of making more, we're not.  I don't really spend much--except on food.  Oh yeah, I thought it would be great to pay off more of the home note two years ago.  Everything for the most part is paid off--including the vehicles.  Plus we have no kids but were hit especially hard with dog surgeries.  We paid out close to 15k in dog surgeries for two pups this year.  Amazing how every surgery costs 5k--knee, stomach--doesn't matter. Oh well.  Another positive is I've booked two weeks in and around Yellowstone on July 4th so no DC festivities :)

  9. Just did our taxes and we're 2k in the hole, which is a total 180.  Usually we're up that amount. This is with Turbo Tax which is what we always use. First time we've owed since owning a house--almost 15 years.  On the positive side, we squirrel away money for retirement that isn't taxed.  But I can't wait until the full Trump base receives this message. We may see pitchforks yet.    

  10. 20 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    It is classic Greek hubris (ὕβρις). You start as a Nixon man and end as a Trumpkin because nobody ever stopped you. You never pay a price. You believe you are indestructible. Stone would be tragic if he were not so despicable.

    Stone wants the notoriety and fame of history. He's playing this like it's a movie and he's creating the footage. 

  11. 2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    So you would vote for someone who takes the word of Putin over his own intelligence services?

    Just wanting some clarification here.

    It's a troll.  Do you really think it sat out the last election and didn't vote but will now vote for a president surrounding himself with traitors? Yes on both accounts.  Why talk with shitbags when you know they're full of shit?   Just ignore and hope they can't reproduce.  

  12. 7 hours ago, Jack Straw said:

    fear, unfounded victimization and anger, lack of accountability, getting theirs at the expense of everything and everyone else, complete and utter lack of moral compass, racism, the enjoyment of cruelty and the suffering of anyone not on their “team,” hypocrisy, the hatred of anyone who looks or thinks “different,” the use of the state to impose shitty “religious beliefs” upon others, and selling out the country to own the libs.  

    And this is what we're told to reason with? If you have to meet them halfway, where the hell is that?  I don't see it working until the olds die.  

  13. 6 hours ago, Txsbigeasy1 said:

    Thank you!

    don't think anybody should tell you what to do--really enjoy the surprises.  But the transition is really good and overall really good.  Just don't go using head's plastered on any Berke Breathed characters and you should be fine.  

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  14. Good series--can't weigh in because there's support for several theories that then almost get contradicted by pieces within the same episode.  For a minute, I thought the dark car was death and was courting Purple since it was only seemingly visible to him but then Roland saw it.  I really like how they took an actor like Stephen Dorff who I never considered anything more than a B or C rate actor and elevated his game.  

  15. On 2/13/2019 at 2:45 PM, NIUHuskies said:

    I disagree. Most hard core evangelicals (a big subset of Trump's base) wants Israel to succeed and provoke war so that the rapture can come.

    Depends--most hard core evangelicals want to live in big mansions, drive expensive cars and buy their own planes lord willing.  Televangelists don't dream small or want anything to do with the rapture because their heaven is here.  

    And as I'm watching 60 minutes, apparently bringing your gun to church in case a hero is needed is a thing as well.  Doesn't have shit to do with scripture since this life is your tribulation for the afterworld which is what you sacrifice for.  Slap my cheek and I'll shoot you. If there's a rapture, we're all going to hell, with most of the christians leading the way. I'll at least try and vote for universal healthcare, background checks, climate science and healthy lunches for kids--seems like if it's not the Modern day Christian view, it's at least the right thing to do.    

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