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David Dennison

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  1. 21 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    There was also the Comey and the Kremlin. 

    It’s like Pelosi, everyone hates her for bullshit reasons that really have nothing to do with her effectiveness as a leader.

    In other words, we’re too fucking stupid to blame ourselves so we blame her instead.

    She only has herself to blame for being a really shitty candidate.

  2. Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Probably the most tired and bullshit talking point.  Hillary didn’t nominate Trump.  Trump didn’t get more people to vote for him than Hillary.  These are facts.  

    But she was the shitty campaigner who took Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania for granted. 

  3. 3 minutes ago, retread said:

    I think there are certainly some/many Congressmen who are compromised. I think the pols also realize that the voting public has crossed the Rubicon. They've gotten a taste of a R president who will not compromise on anything.

    He the 'conservative' messiah that Rush prophesied for 25 years. He gives it back to the libtards in spades, and that's what they want in future R politicians.

    I hope so. That means a lot of electoral victories for Democrats.

  4. 3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    You can't deny that many people think of it that way, erroneously believing that any college degree makes one instantly, or nearly so, employable.  That was probably true at one time but is no longer..

    There are some that seek purely academic majors for purely academic and intellectual reasons, and some that fall into them while incurring massive studenr debt that have no interest in academic or intellectual pursuits, just the degree and the job that will surely follow. Or not, as the case may be.

    From the February edition of Harper's:

    Percentage of US college graduates whose first jobs do not typically require a college degree: 43

    Of college graduates whose jobs five years after graduation do no typically require a college degree: 35

  5. 1 hour ago, scottsins said:

    Why is no one really questioning the assumption that a bullshit national emergency move will be swiftly struck down by the courts?

    What’s the relevant precedent, other than when SCOTUS ruled in favor of Japanese internment camp?

    Forum shopping and eminent domain.

  6. 22 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Interested in the mechanics of the wealth tax.  Would all americans be required to provide to the government an accounting of their assets to determine if they owed the wealth tax? How does that actually work. Say I have a few hundred million in paintings, or classic cars.  Do I have to have an appraiser come out and issue me a tax appraisal.  How do all those assets gets valued and reported to the government?  Or is this just based on cash and securities in the bank.  Do we all have to report our bank balances to the government each year?

    Are you under the impression the government doesn't already know what your bank balances are?

  7. 4 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

    I’d love it if Trump decided not to seek a second term and Tucker ran with a platform talking about the issues he is raising. It’d win a lot of regular people over and give the Party a real ideology and world view again.

    The party does have a real ideology: support capital at the expense of everything else. That's it. Everything else is a cynical attempt to get votes.

  8. 2 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    All I know is that this is the best year for me getting my “interest free loan to the government” as you all call it. Paid in a lot but getting back a lot. Go tax cut!

    Why is "interest free loan to the government" in quotes? That's precisely what it is.

  9. 15 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Great. Can’t wait for him to not bow out when he should and divide the democrats all the way through the convention again.

    Good luck Bernie, the not a democrat candidate 

    Just wail til Howard Schultz decides to run as an independent.

  10. 5 minutes ago, Crusher said:

    The main thing about the Emergency Powers is that you have to have the funds already available. Universal health care would cost a hell of lot more than is in the military construction funds for 2018. 

    If you can find $33 trillion just laying around somewhere else in the budget then rock on dude!!! Go for it!!

    The eminent domain challenges all but guarantee that Donald Trump will be out of office before most of this gets going, even if he gets favorable rulings in the court for the declaration.

    What a waste.

  11. 3 minutes ago, Crusher said:

    Why would any future President do that? If it was colossal waste of taxpayer funds to build it the first place, wasting more money to tear it down would twice as colossally stupid. Unless President Harris/Warren/Booker/Biden/Gillibrand/Gabbard/Yang/Castro..perpetua ...declares that we truly do have wide open borders and hey come on in.

    Well, declaring a national emergency for border security is colossally stupid, so . . . 

  12. 3 hours ago, CO Horn said:

    Have plenty of clients with a Schedule C, a couple of rentals, Farm income with sales to Co-Ops, 3 or 4 K-1s. The QBI calculation will be fun. 

    Not to mention K-1s that we don’t prep, the new partnership audit rules, etc. Will be interesting to see what our revenue increase is. 

    The QBI only applies when incorporation is involved, correct?

  13. 7 minutes ago, Crusher said:

    Might not be as difficult as you describe. 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act

    Emergency powers[edit]

    Congress has delegated at least 136 distinct statutory emergency powers to the President upon the declaration of an emergency, with only 13 of these requiring a declaration from Congress.[15]

    Emergency presidential powers are dramatic, and have ranged from suspending all laws regulating chemical and biological weapons, including the ban on human testing (50 U.S.C. § 1515, 1969); to suspending any Clean Air Act implementation plan or excess emissions penalty upon petition of a state governor (42 U.S.C. (f) § 7410 (f) 1977); to authorizing and constructing military construction projects (10 U.S.C. (a) § 2808 (a), 1982) using any existing defense appropriations for such military constructions ($10.4 billion in FY2018[16]); to drafting any retired Coast Guard officers (14 U.S.C. § 331, 1963) or enlisted members (14 U.S.C. § 359, 1949) into active duty.

     

    Although the one mentioned about the "Clean Air Act" might interesting as it pertains to David's question about Climate Change. If a President can suspend a portion of an act of Congress surely a future President can reverse the previous use of Emergency Powers.

    Something tells me any wall built using emergency powers can be torn down with a stroke of a pen.

    Donald Trump is really dumb.

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