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     Sifo |
Hootowl, thanks for posting Cruz's tax plan for businesses. It actually describes taxing the net income. It's pretty much the current accounting nightmare, along with IRS oversight to figure net income. Let me quote something from that link...
This gets near the problem, but doesn't address it. He's absolutely right that a business is paying the tax for someone else. But why? A consumption tax is far easier and eliminates the need for the complicated business taxation that is being described. A side benefit is that eliminating taxes on businesses encourages businesses to form here in the US. That's a huge plus also. Yes, you and I will pay higher personal taxes, but we are paying them anyway indirectly by having corporations pay the tax "for" us. | ||
| Hootowl |
A compelling argument. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/03/16/wake-up- ted-its-time-to-make-phone-call-to-trump.html | ||
| Court |
Today was my "cultural immersion" day . . . I listened to Raul bitch slap the neighborhood organizer. Then . . . .I listened to Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, John Kasich and Ted Cruz are addressing the pro-Israel group AIPAC's annual policy conference Monday. I'm not fan of Trump but . . . if you missed it . . you might want to YouTube it. You may have your next President there kids. Kasich sounded Presidential . . . I could get behind him in a minute. Trump pretty much hit it out of the park . . . getting one standing ovation after another (sure, his positions have changed a couple times this week, but he's getting locked into a couple that are very appealing to the Jewish community) Cruz was Cruz. Pretty good. More focused than usual but continuing to flail in something we all call 2nd place while silently knowing it isn't. I'm hoping for a White Knight . . . this is getting insane and folks are doing all the wrong things trying to "wing" Trump . . His numbers and strength increase with each attack by the Dems and more so with each attack from the entrenched Republicans. Folks are going to rally behind him . . . not to get a President but to register their discontent. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.dailywire.com/news/4249/soros-has-given -kasich-700000-why-hank-berrien Sounds presidential. Barry was great at columns and Roman / neo nazi iconography. | ||
| Court |
http://www.dailywire.com/news/4251/5-reasons-obama s-trip-cuba-humiliating-disaster-ben-shapiro | ||
| Hughlysses |
Very interesting analysis of Trump by "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams. I think he's on to something: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp /2016/03/21/donald-trump-will-win-in-a-landslide-t he-mind-behind-dilbert-explains-why/ | ||
| Reepicheep |
How would a consumption tax work for used stuff? Whats interesting to me is that it might be a thing that reaps huge ecological benefits, and puts quality back in manufactured products. I guess the idea is that even if you keep a car on the road for 500,000 miles, you have to pay a consumption tax on any new parts needed to keep it running. No idea how they would do internet ecommerce that goes direct to some non US entity with packages coming in the mail. (I'm not saying I'm for or against it, just thinking though the physics of the thing). | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433047/donal d-trump-protests-arizona-highway-blocked There is, however, an answer, one that doesn’t depend on spineless local prosecutors and doesn’t involve a violent response. Sue them. Sue the protesters into bankruptcy. Answer each lawless act with a civil complaint, seek injunctions, take discovery to reveal the full extent of leftist astroturfing — do you really think these protests represent spontaneous, uncoordinated events? — and collect money damages. Protesters aren’t deterred by small fines and short detentions, but financially ruinous damage awards raise the stakes. And when the money trail leads back to a Billionaire like Soros, Sue him for half his worth and make donating it to your favorite charity part of the lawsuit. ( Juries LUV that kind of thing. "We must punish the wrongdoing, and I'm not greedy" ) | ||
| Sifo |
Reagan had a way of getting to the heart of an issue with simple common sense.  | ||
| Hootowl |
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/03/24/students -terrified-by-trump-2016-chalk-drawings.html Several delicate flowers are losing their petals. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Makes me think of the internet poster that shows GIs jumping into the surf at Normandy, titled, "Young people leaving their safe space." Quite a contrast! Can you imagine being one of those flowers telling your son a few years later how you were threatened by chalk? | ||
| Aesquire |
Threatened by ideas not programmed. Violence to silence other views. Fatuous belief in intellectual superiority while lacking the vaguest clue to the history of those they worship as heroes. Like Che. Really belongs in a "hell in a hand basket" thread..... I suppose Republican politics qualifies.  | ||
| Damnut |
Bye Bye Ted http://gawker.com/national-enquirer-ted-cruz-has-h ad-at-least-5-extramar-1767002606 | ||
| Hootowl |
A national enquirer story? Pfft. Besides, Christians are sinners, like everyone else. | ||
| Aesquire |
Didn't Gawker just get ordered to pay a buncha millions of dollars because they lied about someone's sex life? I admit the National Enquirer was correct about Bill's affairs. When everyone else was still hero worshiping the alleged rapist and admitted thief. But, I understand the desire to have a politician be faithful to their constituents, the Constitution, and it would help, their SO's, if only to show honesty and reduce blackmail. Given a Harry Potter Death-eater magic spell that killed every politician that has cheated on their spouses, D.C. would be pretty empty. Trying to see the downside. | ||
| Aesquire |
Nominating Donald Trump will wreck the Republican party as we know it. Not nominating Trump will wreck the Republican party as we know it. The sooner everyone recognizes this fact, the better. Denial has been Trump’s greatest ally. Republicans and commentators didn’t believe he would run. They didn’t believe he could be an attractive candidate to rational people, no matter how angry with “the establishment” voters said they were. They — which includes me — were wrong. ...... There are only three possible ways to avoid a calamitous walkout. Ted Cruz can win the nomination outright before the convention. That’s very unlikely given that he’d need to win roughly 80 percent of all the remaining delegates. Second, Trump could reveal he has a hidden reservoir of magnanimity and patriotism, and rally his faithful to the consensus nominee. Stop laughing. Third, the delegates could pick someone sufficiently attractive that Trump followers get over their understandable bitterness and support that candidate despite Trump’s objections. Who would that be? Certainly not Mitt Romney. Maybe a reanimated Ronald Reagan. Or Batman? I have no idea. All of these scenarios are so unlikely in part because the split in the GOP isn’t merely about a single personality. Trump represents just the most pronounced of a spiderweb of ideological and demographic fault lines that are increasingly difficult to paper over. As Joel Kotkin put it in a column for the Orange County Register, the Republican party now “consists of interest groups that so broadly dislike each other that they share little common ground.” Put simply, and with the incessant and obtuse comparisons of Trump to Reagan notwithstanding, you cannot have a party that’s both Reaganite and Trumpish. Trump’s cheerleaders insist that he’s a symptom of long-simmering maladies on the right. I’m persuaded (even though I think Dr. Trump’s remedies are nothing but snake oil). Even now, too many GOP leaders think Trump’s success is purely a result of his brash personality, and nothing more. But only when we accept that a terrible diagnosis is real is it possible to think intelligently about our options. To wit: This ends in tears no matter what. Get over it and pick a side. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433102/donal d-trump-republican-party-trumpism-will-end-tears?t arget=author&tid=897 | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-governmen t/election/article68309317.html GOP convention security gears up amid fears of threats With paid, organized rioters certain to show up, it's a good guess this won't be pretty. It's going to be the Soros paid Hydra of multiple overlapping paid protest groups. Hail Hydra! My more paranoid buddies are predicting assassinations, Trump & Cruz, the targets, with the R leaders paying the freight. That's crazy talk of course. I don't dispute the analysis of motive, just question the Will and ability. I suppose one question is, who will be rioting at the DNC convention? Who will be paying for the riots? I suppose that depends on whoever is backing Bernie and what the score is. | ||
| Hootowl |
Word is RNC is getting pressure to allow open carry at the convention. Lefties swoon at the sight of a firearm. Or scream and call 911. Might head off a few rabble-rousers. Sort of like soap and hippies, or oil and water. | ||
| Sifo |
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| Aesquire |
Hoot, the SS already said hell no. Only police and criminals will be armed | ||
| Reepicheep |
That whole open carry at the convention idea was started by a liberal blogger to stir up crap. It was a good play on his part, provided your idea of a good play has nothing to do with helping the country and everything to do with your party "winning". Concealed carry at the convention would probably have been a more interesting and meaningful discussion. Same rights, more privacy, less impact on others who aren't comfortable knowing you are armed, more of a win all around. And more polite. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-braces-for-r ules-fight-that-could-decide-2016-nomination/artic le/2588247 | ||
| Sifo |
3 Arrested, 4 Officers Injured During Clash Outside Trump Rally
But try to remember, it's Trump who is inciting violence!  | ||
| Hootowl |
They're terrified of him because he ignores their 'social justice' and PC messaging. This baffles them, and sends them into murderous rages. | ||
| Xdigitalx |
Some people blocked traffic in Phila today... think they were some Blm folk. Crazy they terrorizing innocent commuters going to work. | ||
| Hootowl |
Pretty stupid for a bunch of people who think that no one cares whether they live or die to run into traffic like that. They must not actually believe their own rhetoric. | ||
| Xdigitalx |
I was listening to talk radio, they had a guy broadcasting live from middle of scene. Cops did nothing and said they have a right to block traffic. | ||
| Macbuell |
I read somewhere that there is now a link between the Occupy Wallstreet folks and Bernie. The tactics certainly are the same. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.pjtv.com/series/trifecta-105/is-the-gop -nomination-rigged-against-trump--trifecta-11929/ | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434455/donal d-trump-white-working-class-what-trumps-defenders- get-wrong?target=author&tid=897 People who don't want Trump to win the nomination are sometimes accused of hating the "working man" or the people who like Trump. ....I’m tempted to say my own response to the charge that my opposition to Trump is motivated by hatred of the white working class is “f*** you.” But I’ll go more highbrow. First, it’s untrue. Second, there’s exactly zero evidence that I have written or said anything of the sort. Third, the notion that my dislike of a politician should be taken as hatred for his supporters, is more than a little cultish and creepy. If Donald Trump is the avatar of your identity and if you mistake him for some kind of secular savior, that’s on you. The misplacement of your self-esteem ain’t my baggage. No, my objection to Donald Trump is . . . Donald Trump. I think he’s a vain ignoramus and bully who mocks the disabled with a long history of exploiting and abusing the little guy. His instincts are nationalistic and authoritarian, not patriotic and liberty-loving. It is revealing that very often when opponents of Donald Trump make the issue Donald Trump, the response from his defenders is to change the subject to the “issues” he’s raising or the anger “he’s tapped into” or the shortcomings of his critics or the failures of Barack Obama. You know what it means when defenders of Donald Trump refuse to defend the actual man Donald Trump? It means he’s indefensible. The same people who’ve mocked Barack Obama — rightly! — for years because he mispronounced corpsmen “corpse-men,” blithely whistle past the graveyard of Donald Trump’s lifeless intellect. The same people who mocked Barack Obama — rightly — for his vanity and arrogance, shiver with school-girl glee at Trump’s Brobdingnagian ego. The same people who’ve denounced Barack Obama’s unilateral statism — rightly — take it on faith that Donald Trump through his own force of will shall set the country aright with Stakhanovite strength. The double standard is so huge, I’d be shocked if you couldn’t see it from space. ..... I think Jonah is a bit over the top here, but not much. Like Jonah, I don't like Trump, because he's Trump. I didn't watch his TV show, because I found it mean. I wouldn't buy Trump Wine or Trump Beef, not because it's from The Donald, but because I don't, as a rule, buy celebrity crap at all. I don't buy Kardashian Glow, or JLow cream, or Partridge Family Toothpaste, ( I made the last one up, the others are real ) because I don't give a darn about seeming to keep up with the rich and beautiful. Now if you told me your experience at a Trump hotel was great and recommended it, I might indeed stay there. lacking such a reference, I'll be at the cheaper hotel down the street... probably after camping in the back of the van the night before to save my money. It's not that I hate Trump. I just find him to be an A--hole. There's a LOT of them out there, and many are running for President. I will, indeed, vote for ANYONE other than Hillary. I have ample proof in her own words that her power, and her lies to get and keep power, are more important than anyone else's life and freedom. ( see her own e-mail stating that the "film maker" had nothing to do with the Benghazi attack, and her own public lies about blaming him, and sending hi to prison for his "crime"... and her subsequent denial of that statement... ) I have no doubt that Hillary would cheerfully have me killed. Any questions? |
