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Time to go Kent St. on their asses.
Getting rid of the cap is a 15% tax increase on upper middle class+ workers & will kill spending & investment. Cutting bennies by raising ages & capping bennies' payments to a certain level is the only reasonable way - vs. a new system. Just letting it go will just give everyone a 20-25% hair cut - not the worst. Why they don't grossly increase Medicare premiums beyond today's for upper income folks escapes me.
Canada's protectionist tariffs are literally the only thing that is keeping them from becoming the 51st State.
Those Maple Leafs will dry up and fold in quick order. They're going to learn, and I mean the HARD way.
Canada likes to talk a big game about their free health insurance (insurance, NOT healthCARE) but it is largely paid for by the United States (via said protectionist tariffs)
Those Maple Leafs will dry up and fold in quick order. They're going to learn, and I mean the HARD way.
Canada likes to talk a big game about their free health insurance (insurance, NOT healthCARE) but it is largely paid for by the United States (via said protectionist tariffs)
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I used to have the exact same opinion as you on the snide comments, and still do to a degree. But recently the thought occured to me that if Trump was the type of person to hold back on what he thinks, he likely would also be the type of person to hold back on what needs to be done. It's his don't give a flip attitude that pushes him to make the hard choices for the country. So when he says something he probably shouldn't now, I just shake my head, grin, and say well that's why he doesn't give a lick what the media says when he decides to protect our borders. Gotta take the bad with the good.
That 20 to 25 percent haircut, is just for the first year. As the fund drops lower (and it will), that 20 percent will be 50 percent within 4 years.
Are you siding with Jimmy Buffett?
If you’re talking about Warren, the Buffett indicator was through the roof at the start of Trump’s term and he’s sitting on a mountain of cash expecting a market downturn.
You cannot be siding with Warren Buffett while also being surprised the market is overvalued.
I think I was wrong before. I was thinking about us distribution instead of making it here.
Im going to guess us alcohol. As proud as they are of their swill, can't imagine them drinking that much bourbon.
Better sell it all now then. We have 47 more months of Trump.
If you're so confident he'll trash it. I'd sell it all today.
If you don't, you're a laying hypocrite.
Jews and Muslims fighting and demanding the world side with one of them is like the political version of Duke vs UNC.
The people who hate him are the ones who built the current failed structure.
That’s not deniable.
You can ask why you should trust him, but I ask who else can you trust?
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I'm not going to engage your loaded, rhetorical questions. You seem a little too emotional about this issue. Try bringing down the tone a bit first.
It would be surprising if I did not already know just how ignorant and or dumb those on the left are in reference to the state of our economy right now and how it will get worse before it gets better. The damage done by the last admin will be hard to correct short term and probably will take a couple of years at least. With liberal judges trying to block almost every move, it will take a concerted effort from the republican party and the SCOTUS to implement totally what needs to be done. I just hope we can scare the rinos enough to convince them that it would be in their best interest to comply.
Get a fantasy World Globe from the Dim site "Idiots are Us". It's rainbow color coded for easier use and Alphabet gender compliant.
I would be tempted to show up in a dress and announce myself as D-Sus. 😝
We have zero business taking over any land in that area....If you know the history there. It's a GD hornet's nest...
Nothing to see here, leftists. Just a guy trying to make our country better instead of shitting his diapers at the beach all day.
Meanwhile, Canadian leftists like to link arms with European and American leftists about “our democracy” and “the world order”.
Just in time for all the bad economic data coming out. Spring will see lower energy prices and then construction should see a pickup going into summer. Get interest rates down and we can be back and rolling by Aug.
Dems throw House into chaos after 10 moderates join GOP to punish Al Green
The House of Representatives voted to censure Rep. Al Green over his outburst during President Donald Trump's address to Congress.
No he said he INTENDS to resign, which as i pointed out at the time, is way different than actually resigning.
Still remember him telling Maher that dems were pushing trans stuff on kids and Maher laughed at him. Fast forward 8 years and Maher is telling dems to stop with the transing kids. LOL.
They won't admit the economy was a lie. Warren Buffet didn't sell 80% of his stocks and sit on cash for no reason. Also, billionaires were getting dual citizenship at a much higher rate under Biden. Very wealthy people were scared to death Biden/Harris would just go ahead and seize wealth. Money fleeing the country for the last 4 years wasn't reported on very often.
Shortly after Kent State, I was stationed stateside. They were expecting protests at a missile site near by. They took a group of us MP's and put us in a large room on stand-by. They issued us M-16's, but told us there would be NO AMMO issued. Thankfully, we were not deployed.
The SS program needs to be fundamentally reformed. Squeezing wage earners to fund the Ponzi scheme for a few more years is useless.
I go back and forth on SS issue. I have a hard time believing that taxing additional income above nearly $170k is 'squeezing' anyone too much. Nor do I think taxing additional income at, worst case 6.2%, is going to be a hit to the economy. My belief is that, above the current income limit, the additional income could most likely be taxed at a lower rate than 15.3% (combined). Bear in mind, the 15.3% includes the 2.9% that is taxed to Medicare on ALL income so the SS portion above the income limit, with no changes, would be 12.4%. Let's say that tax rate could be dropped in half above the current income limit to a total of 6.2% (I have no idea what the correct number would be, of course). Do you really think an extra 3.1% for employed individuals on income > $170k is a 'squeeze'? I'd bet >> 50% of voters would not think so. Or, create a donut hole of, let's say, $100k of additional income before the SS 'surtax' would kick in (similar to the Ocare extra cap gains tax).
I am a fiscal conservative but believe that SS, with all its warts, is a program that should be continued as too many Americans depend heavily on that income. I do not think 'reform' is viable politically. People hate change and changing the current system, most likely drastically, would never get through Congress, imo.
Some combination of the below, imo, would greatly enhance the SS program financially:
1) Eliminate waste and outright fraud (duplicate payments, payments to dead people, payment to non-citizens, etc.) - by itself, this could make a HUGE difference in the viability of the program
2) Tax more earned income as outlined above
3) Reduce/eliminate/means-test COLA increases (with enhanced life expectancy and COLA increases, SS payments far outweigh $$ paid in for individuals who live into their 80s); BTW many private company pensions do NOT include any COLA - why does SS, especially when it's quickly going into a ditch
4) Maybe, as many private company pensions do, give the individual the option of rolling out a lump sum instead of a series of payments
Many of you are surely aware that higher income earners pay more into Medicare and, upon signing up for Medicare at age 65+, can pay as much as 3+X more for monthly Medicare premiums based on their AGI. So, not only have those high earners paid in more, they can pay significantly more for the coverage once they sign up for it. Wouldn't that be nearly the same logic behind no cap on income for SS taxation?
Again, I struggle with the SS issue. But, if I start with the program needs to continue, the above seems both logical and politically viable to me.
I'm sure many of you will 'prove' me wrong, of course.
I go back and forth on SS issue. I have a hard time believing that taxing additional income above nearly $170k is 'squeezing' anyone too much. Nor do I think taxing additional income at, worst case 6.2%, is going to be a hit to the economy. My belief is that, above the current income limit, the additional income could most likely be taxed at a lower rate than 15.3% (combined). Bear in mind, the 15.3% includes the 2.9% that is taxed to Medicare on ALL income so the SS portion above the income limit, with no changes, would be 12.4%. Let's say that tax rate could be dropped in half above the current income limit to a total of 6.2% (I have no idea what the correct number would be, of course). Do you really think an extra 3.1% for employed individuals on income > $170k is a 'squeeze'? I'd bet >> 50% of voters would not think so. Or, create a donut hole of, let's say, $100k of additional income before the SS 'surtax' would kick in (similar to the Ocare extra cap gains tax).
I am a fiscal conservative but believe that SS, with all its warts, is a program that should be continued as too many Americans depend heavily on that income. I do not think 'reform' is viable politically. People hate change and changing the current system, most likely drastically, would never get through Congress, imo.
Some combination of the below, imo, would greatly enhance the SS program financially:
1) Eliminate waste and outright fraud (duplicate payments, payments to dead people, payment to non-citizens, etc.) - by itself, this could make a HUGE difference in the viability of the program
2) Tax more earned income as outlined above
3) Reduce/eliminate/means-test COLA increases (with enhanced life expectancy and COLA increases, SS payments far outweigh $$ paid in for individuals who live into their 80s); BTW many private company pensions do NOT include any COLA - why does SS, especially when it's quickly going into a ditch
4) Maybe, as many private company pensions do, give the individual the option of rolling out a lump sum instead of a series of payments
Many of you are surely aware that higher income earners pay more into Medicare and, upon signing up for Medicare at age 65+, can pay as much as 3+X more for monthly Medicare premiums based on their AGI. So, not only have those high earners paid in more, they can pay significantly more for the coverage once they sign up for it. Wouldn't that be nearly the same logic behind no cap on income for SS taxation?
Again, I struggle with the SS issue. But, if I start with the program needs to continue, the above seems both logical and politically viable to me.
I'm sure many of you will 'prove' me wrong, of course.
Hey Farmy... can you figure out why his earning dried up? How is such a good businessman and legal mind struggling financially?
The left never said a word about this. Amazing they all now have opinions on what Trump is doing wrong. LOL
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The true reason that the Kent. St crowd got unruly, was that the mayor had ordered all bars closed for the remainder of the day, and those kids/townies went berserk, cornered a guard unit against a fence line, and started pelting them with rocks and bottles.
100 percent true story (but you never heard that in the news)
100 percent true story (but you never heard that in the news)
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