The Trump Administration

[Maxidyne]

The republican Trump administration is currently "in power and in bureaucracies".

[Prowrench]

52 minutes ago, Maxidyne said:

What is this "deep state" of which you speak?

https://www.govexec.com/feature/gov-exec-deconstructing-deep-state/

[RowdyRebel]

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On 5/17/2020 at 12:31 PM, Mack458 said:

He has provided the wealthy and companies with a substantial tax cut, while the working class was led to believe they would get the same. For me, while I took home more money, come tax season I paid 3K that I would have rather paid in each paycheck.

There was an abundance of ignorance in that post, but let me address this one.

When the top1% of earners pay 39% of the income tax revenue collected, and the top 10% of earners pay 70%, common sense dictates that the groups that pay in the most will receive the biggest benefit from any taxcut. The bottom 50% paid in only 3% of the tax revenues collected. A "cut" doesn't really amount to much if you don't pay anything to begin with.

As for your $3K, you could've had that withheld from your checks throughout the year. Comparing the interest-free loan you gave to the government (refund) last year vs having to write a check this year doesn't mean jack squat other than you and your employer miscalculated how much to withhold each check. Look on the actual tax forms...AGI vs Tax Due based upon that AGI. Did the tax due increase or decrease, and in what relation was that to the increase or decrease in your AGI? If your AGI went up but your tax due remained the same or declined, you got a tax cut...even if you had to write a check this year when you got a refund last year.

The refund vs write a check is a question of tax due vs tax already paid, NOT an indicator of whether or not you received a tax cut.

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/who-pays-income-taxes

Edited May 20, 2020 by RowdyRebel

[TS7]

Deep State = Career Civil Servants, most of whom never do a honest days work, but are very good at CYA.

[Mack Technician]

The deep state is very similar to the Labor Union you worked in (I currently work under). It’s a bunch of little people in the organization getting together to systematically make the big cheese’s life a living hell to get what you want. 

[General Ike]

15 hours ago, Maxidyne said:

The republican Trump administration is currently "in power and in bureaucracies".

Again it is important to have facts.  You are only 50% correct.  The republican Trump administration IS in power.

However they are the least bureaucratic administration since Reagan or before.  Hence the fact that the man is hellbent on the deregulation of businesses.  If he were bureaucratic than he would be pressing for the typical oppressive regulation that stifled businesses for the 8 years that Obama was in office.  Why is it that during Obama's tenure, that the economy failed to reach 3% GDP growth during any year of his administration? You realize that no President has had that problem dating back to before the great depression, right?  I will give you the answer... the over regulation and taxation of businesses that need to succeed in order to provide paying jobs.

For anyone else that want to go down the road of... "Why do companies need to make so much money?"... It is simple economics that could have been learned by paying attention to middle school math and history classes.  When people complain that a company made $300 million dollars last year and that some of that money should have gone through higher taxes to support others less fortunate people, do you ever take into account that if a company wants to expand into another state and provide hundreds or thousands of new paying jobs that it might cost $1 billion or more dollars to build a new factory in that state.  How does the company build new factories and create thousands of jobs if we tax the crap out of it.  How does that company borrow money to build a billion dollar factory if it doesn't have the earnings power to qualify for the debt?  Oh and what do we all think our pension plans and retirement accounts are invested in?  If the companies don't make money how do their stock prices perform?  If their stock prices don't perform how do we retire.  I guess we could follow Bernie, the left and the new democratic socialist movement and we can all retire like they do in other parts of the world where socialism will provide them with bread and watered down coffee to eat while we sit in our stained white tee shirts in our worn out chair watching an old crappy TV puking crap at us about how the mother land took care of us.

NO THANKS!!!!!

[TS7]

The Florida Coronavirus Website whistleblower was arrested last year and charged with cyberstalking, looking at 12 months in jail. Who's corrupt now.

[kscarbel2]

2 hours ago, TS7 said:

The Florida Coronavirus Website whistleblower was arrested last year and charged with cyberstalking, looking at 12 months in jail. Who's corrupt now.

You're right.

[Red Horse]

 Do you think maybe we should start a petition to get Trump to STFU.....?  Or maybe Hannity his no 1. booster should wake up to the fact we are going to end up with a left wing senile Biden in office for 6 mos before  he ends up in the home and we have our first female president.

Donald Trump picked Memorial Day to attack Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), a Marine Corps veteran, as an “American fraud” and “puppet for Crazy Nancy Pelosi” as the president endorsed the lawmaker’s rival on Monday.

Trump goofed up the attack, referring to Conor Lamb as “Connor Lamm” as he pitched Republican candidate Sean Parnell in the election for Lamb’s Pennsylvania seat.

Trump appeared to be unaware that Lamb, far from being Pelosi’s “puppet,” was one of only 15 Democrats in the House who did not vote for her to become speaker in 2017.

[Maxidyne]

GOP, you have a loose cannon...

[j hancock]

23 minutes ago, Maxidyne said:

GOP, you have a loose cannon...

How is Biden's dementia progressing?

Less than stellar candidates...

[Red Horse]

2 minutes ago, j hancock said:

How is Biden's dementia progressing?

Less than stellar candidates...

Like I said- I'm giving him 6 mos.  We have no better choice.  But if he doesn't stop alienating every independent-and a lot of Republicans we are screwed.  My circle of pals?  They are like most of the people on this site and its amazing as I see it-everyone likes the results and can put up with his bullshit and arrogance but  fear he is throwing the election away. 

[Maxidyne]

Agreed, I wouldn't want to be a republican now.

 

[TS7]

Joe Biden. A man who has never done a honest days work his whole life, while sucking off the American taxpayer.

[Maxidyne]

This thread's about Trump.

[davehummell]

joe biden has the integrity of a tick that is laying in wait in my back yard to latch onto one of my dogs. 

[Mack Technician]

Don’t start the big infighting yet!

There’s always the possibility of Trump eating too much fatal Malaria Pez and Biden wandering off into a large forest somewhere, dazed and confused, and neither being on the stage? Got my money on the Donald surviving on the hydroxycholoroquine pez. 

[david wild]

Don't get it, I am given the same stuff in blister packs like it is candy so that I can travel to a shit hole third world country and all I'm told is start taking before you leave and continue for a while after you get home, no Malaria yet so stuff must work yet Trump takes it and the left comes unhinged and he's going to kill himself and on and on , so if he did himself in then the left should be happy but no they complain about his dangerous self medication while most of the drug overdoses and pill poppers in this country are left leaning loons ?????  and yes I should stop calling them loons cause are a really cool bird and are very smart unlike liberals. 

[TS7]

Dave stick to Trump, the rulers of this site say so.

[david wild]

Loons are cool birds, they swim underwater and such and have a nifty call unlike the liberal loon with their nasty hate spewing rhetoric. 

[david wild]

On 5/26/2020 at 2:15 PM, Maxidyne said:

Agreed, I wouldn't want to be a republican now.

 

And what does your side have to offer a old bitchy broad or demented Biden, even Omar thinks he fingered the woman who has accused him,  but she will vote for Biden because she is a mindless twit and will vote the party line. 

[TS7]

It is the Democrats that are trying to destroy America, not Trump. It is the Democrats who will cheat, lie and steal to stay in power, not Trump. It is Trump that has taken on the job of trying to clean the shit hole in DC where the Democrats in power live. Any one who has a hard dirty job knows that tuff talk and hurt feelings happen when your trying to get a  hard job done Trump has not been afraid to get his hands dirty to do that job. 

[kscarbel2]

As I've said before, all political parties should be banned. Clearly, they only serve to convolute government.

Elected government officials should "only" represent their constituencies*..........and nothing else.......such as a political party.

Representing the wills of political parties is not in their job description, nor in the interest of their constituencies .

* Constituency - a body of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body.

[macks in nigeria]

On 5/27/2020 at 12:07 PM, david wild said:

Don't get it, I am given the same stuff in blister packs like it is candy so that I can travel to a shit hole third world country and all I'm told is start taking before you leave and continue for a while after you get home, no Malaria yet so stuff must work yet Trump takes it and the left comes unhinged and he's going to kill himself and on and on , so if he did himself in then the left should be happy but no they complain about his dangerous self medication while most of the drug overdoses and pill poppers in this country are left leaning loons ?????  and yes I should stop calling them loons cause are a really cool bird and are very smart unlike liberals. 

If I were you I wouldn't go to no sh*t hole countries to earn any sh*t hole dollars.

[Mack Technician]

On 5/28/2020 at 9:35 AM, kscarbel2 said:

As I've said before, all political parties should be banned. Clearly, they only serve to convolute government.

Elected government officials should "only" represent their constituencies*..........and nothing else.......such as a political party.

Representing the wills of political parties is not in their job description, nor in the interest of their constituencies .

* Constituency - a body of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body.

Agreed, football games, baseball games, soccer games, hockey games and election games. You only have one choice of uniform colors. Winner takes all, loser goes home. Politics has become a zero sum game in America.

I’ll vote for any independent thinker, so far it’s the Trump 2020. He parasite’d the Republican Party, very crafty. He held them hostage by threatening to run independent. They had a 15% approval during Obama, they hated him coming into 2016 and yet had no foot to stand on.  They would never have beaten Hillary, Cruz would have lost. It remains.......Dems cannot produce that scenario of a hostile takeover. Dems are, and always will be, narrow party line, tribal group thinkers, till the day of liquidation.