12-02-2017, 07:43 AM | #7551 |
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I sure hope they fix the grad school tuition waiver issue. My PhD students take classes, work about 70 hours a week in the lab, and TA for 2 classes during their stay...all for 30k a year. If you tax them on 60-70k of income because the PI or university is paying the tuition, nobody will want to go to grad school. Talk about an innovation killer.
But hey, maybe they can all band together and buy a G4 to get that tax break.
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12-02-2017, 09:05 AM | #7552 |
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More food for thought:
If it's the biggest tax cut in the history of the US, and my taxes go up, what is that saying exactly?
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12-02-2017, 09:16 AM | #7553 |
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If every person in the top 1% doesn't incorporate in some way they are idiots. The top tax bracket being 30-whatever percent is all for show. Pass through's will now be at 25% and as a corporation you can take an income of $1 and everything else will be your business expense. Really what you're seeing is a massive gain for anyone who is in a position to benefit from it.
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12-02-2017, 10:44 AM | #7554 | |
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12-02-2017, 10:45 AM | #7555 |
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Yeah, looks like my taxes will go down by a whole $200. Yipee! I had $11K itemized deductions plus the $4K personal exemption and about $800 student loan interest deduction last year and now I'll just have the $12K standard deduction. And the tax brackets in the Senate bill aren't nearly as generous as the house version to make up for the lost deductions.
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12-02-2017, 10:54 AM | #7556 | |
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You could probably skip buying the plane and just get by on the tax break for your luxury car.
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12-02-2017, 11:37 AM | #7557 |
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12-02-2017, 12:12 PM | #7558 | |
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That's the fix. Punish (liberal-leaning) universities, punish students who have the gall to be not-rich. Limit their opportunities so they can be taken advantage of by the corporate sector.
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12-02-2017, 12:30 PM | #7559 |
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There is a clear message here about what is going on with this bill. They are going to institute everything they possibly can into law, knowing that if they lose control of either side of congress, it is going to be near impossible to roll everything back.
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12-02-2017, 12:36 PM | #7560 |
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Looks like the news is up in arms that he just admitted to OoJ via twitter...
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12-02-2017, 02:08 PM | #7561 | |
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12-02-2017, 02:13 PM | #7562 |
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12-02-2017, 03:35 PM | #7563 |
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Lawyers also don't release statements in Comic Sans, yet here we are.
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12-02-2017, 03:54 PM | #7564 |
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Cobb is fighting for his job. Bannon has been pushing Trump to fire him and Cobb had told Trump the investigation should be wrapped up around Thanksgiving. Continuing to sell Trump in the light at the end of the tunnel is vital to his employment.
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12-02-2017, 04:11 PM | #7565 |
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KT's emails are coming out implicating everyone... huzzah!
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12-02-2017, 04:39 PM | #7566 |
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12-02-2017, 04:54 PM | #7567 |
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The Post is now reporting that the tweet was authored by Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, according to two people familiar with the situation. The fact that Dowd authored the tweet could limit its salience to the investigation, but the White House still hasn't publicly corrected anything. WTF?
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12-02-2017, 10:56 PM | #7568 | |
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12-03-2017, 07:28 AM | #7569 |
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Trump tweeted today that he never asked Comey to back off and basically called him a liar.
The real issue is congress under GOP control would never impeach him/put country before party. We've got so far to go to get the country back from the special interests and gang mentality in DC.
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12-03-2017, 11:51 AM | #7570 |
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71% of likely GOP voters no not believe the allegations against Moore
Moore has a 6 point lead in the same poll McConnell now is saying that the voters of AL will decide who is in the Senate
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12-03-2017, 12:21 PM | #7571 |
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He's beginning to realize it's like Trump said - he (and probably other Republicans) could shoot somebody in the middle of the street in broad daylight and followers wouldn't care. They don't care if their side lies, they don't care if they beat up reporters, they don't care if they harass or molest women/girls.
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12-03-2017, 03:29 PM | #7572 |
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12-03-2017, 03:42 PM | #7573 | |
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12-03-2017, 10:49 PM | #7574 |
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12-04-2017, 04:56 AM | #7575 |
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Having grown up and gone to school less than 10 minutes from Alabama, it's not surprising that my social media contacts contain a fair number of people who live there. In the last couple of weeks, I've endeavored to engage (mostly privately) with old friends who are current Alabamians. There's not a consensus among conservatives that I know there. They range from holding their noses and voting Jones to voting Moore enthusiastically, and everything in between. That said, one common theme definitely has emerged among the ones who say they intend to vote for Moore despite thinking that there's at least *something* to the charges. This sentiment was best expressed in two sentences in an email that I received overnight from a friend who is the father of two teenage daughters.
"It's quite possible that he's a child molester, and there's no way I want him anywhere near {daughters' names}, but we're not hiring a babysitter. We're hiring someone to wage political war against our enemies on the left, and there's no question that he's the best candidate for that job." This is where we are.
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12-04-2017, 05:16 AM | #7576 |
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Hmmmm...when the President's lawyer is saying that the President cannot obstruct justice, I'm guessing that's an admission that if it were anyone else, it'd be obstructing justice.
Exclusive: Trump lawyer claims the "President cannot obstruct justice" - Axios
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12-04-2017, 06:55 AM | #7577 |
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#3a16282832ba
I find this argument to be laughable as household actually do pay down their debt by making mortgage and other loan payments, but this does bring up another question - when does the federal debit become a problem? |
12-04-2017, 08:27 AM | #7578 |
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Another way of putting it: Nixon's only error was admitting defeat.
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12-04-2017, 08:56 AM | #7579 | |
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For current policy makers, it doesn't. Not as long as GDP keeps growing and even if it doesn't as long as there's some other way to rationalize it, they'll just keep letting it ride. Hey, they'll be dead long before any of this really matters to them.
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12-04-2017, 09:37 AM | #7580 | |
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The problem with this view, of course, is that the President can ABSOLUTELY obstruct justice, because the concept of Presidential infallibility implies a form of Divine Right that is not inherent in the American political tradition. The man isn't a King; he's simply the guy we hired to see to it that the REAL infallible part of American democracy, the Constitution, is followed. The President can only be incapable of obstructing Justice when his actions are in service to the document. If he is obfuscating the attempt to determine whether his administration's actions undermine the Constitution, then you can't consider that anything BUT obstruction. |
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12-04-2017, 02:04 PM | #7581 | ||
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Senate GOP Accidentally Killed All Corporate Tax Deductions
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12-04-2017, 05:09 PM | #7582 |
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It would appear KT McFarland committed perjury.
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12-04-2017, 05:17 PM | #7583 |
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12-05-2017, 08:46 PM | #7584 |
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Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital | TheHill
Because we want, you know, more unrest in the Middle-East than there already was.
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12-05-2017, 09:44 PM | #7585 | |
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On the bright side, the knowledge that Trump is calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel should be enough to unify the rest of the world in the belief that it isn't. |
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12-06-2017, 07:42 AM | #7586 | |
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This attack on Romney by Steve Bannon is really ugly:
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12-06-2017, 07:55 AM | #7587 |
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But his former boss... deferments...okay.
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12-06-2017, 08:15 AM | #7588 |
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Those heel spurs are nothing to mess around with. Trunp is lucky that he can still golf 5 days a week. |
12-06-2017, 11:13 AM | #7589 |
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Not sure what to think about recognizing Jerusalem. Its not as if anything is happening right now anyway but is definitely dangerous ... this may change the calculus, spur more talks (after the initial intifada-like reactions) or blow things up long-term.
The so-called ISIL caliphate has been cowed, we are much less beholden to ME oil, and some Arab countries are probably more concerned about the SA-Iran power struggle. All makes for a very interesting dynamic. |
12-06-2017, 03:04 PM | #7590 |
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The issue isn't really recognizing it as the capital, the issue is that there is zero chance he is doing it for the right reasons and not as some sort of demented powerplay (towards other countries), political statement against the arab world and as a showboating move.
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12-06-2017, 03:31 PM | #7591 | |
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12-06-2017, 06:01 PM | #7592 |
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Funny how we demand something from countries for everything else but we're giving this to Israel for nothing. America first...after Israel.
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12-06-2017, 06:57 PM | #7593 |
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Israel have a whole lot of leverage, being located where they are.
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12-06-2017, 07:01 PM | #7594 | |
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12-06-2017, 08:38 PM | #7595 | |
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To be fair, we also don't demand anything from Russia.
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12-07-2017, 01:24 AM | #7596 |
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12-07-2017, 09:39 AM | #7597 | |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.73b3cca2ba8f
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12-07-2017, 10:14 AM | #7598 |
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What a deal for Russia. Either they get everything they wanted from Trump or they end up having us look like complete idiots to the rest of the world while not-so-slowly destroying us from within.
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12-07-2017, 12:21 PM | #7599 |
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You appear to be misunderstanding what that term means ... it was first thought to mean 'remove money from politics' or 'remove corporate interests from politics' ... But what it means to the right is 'removing any left wing influence from politics' - as far as I can see most right wing people on Fox don't care about Russian influence, Corporate influence or billionaires milking the system ... so long as anything associated with the Democrats is destroyed. Last edited by Marc Vaughan : 12-07-2017 at 03:33 PM. |
12-07-2017, 12:24 PM | #7600 | |
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