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** Wise Words Department**
“The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.”
― George Foreman
“The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.”
― George Foreman
Thanks for reminding me why I have you blocked. What an absolute imbecile.
You know, for someone who professes to dislike Democrats, you were strangely silent for the entire debacle of the Biden Presidency. Why did you wait until now to express your disdain for “both sides”?
This is not the flex or argument you think it is, and you're completely missing the point. We currently tax INCOME. Meaning if you go bust your ass to provide goods and services for the economy we tax you pretty significantly. I'd rather REDUCE income tax on labor and make up for it by INCREASING taxes on rents and investments. This would make American labor more attractive (e.g., more jobs and better pay for workers). The investment class would still get theirs, but it wouldn't be so lopsided.
Lundergan’s Lexington based company, Emergency Disaster Services (EDS), got two no-bid contracts from King Andy during the Covid lockdowns.
Field hospital on UK’s campus = $7 million
Field Hospital in Louisville = $6 million
Total no-bid contracts awarded = $13 million
Total # of other companies allowed to bid = 0
Total # of patients seen = 0
Seems legit.
wouldn’t want to capture this leprechaun, pot of gold be damned
Thought she was thrown from a train at some point... ?
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I'm guessing he donated 3.25M to the DNC after he got paid...?
Back in the day when I lived in Atlanta I remember an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution of how Home Depot had created more millionaires that any other company. This was before the high tech boom. Was amazing how many managers of HD back then were millionaires based on working/investing in the company. So yeah, some billionaires (Blank, Marcus, Langone) not only created millionairs, but probably more than a million jobs since 1979 (they have 400K+ now).
From your article: "The administration has threatened to reduce federal funding for schools on the list, and others, that it views as being noncompliant with federal civil rights laws."See ya later Cancer research. But don't forget to applaud the kid with cancer for the dog and pony show.
Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers Funded by Federal Aid
The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.www.nytimes.com
So, are they in violation of federal civil rights laws? Apparently the feds believe so, thus the cuts. Of course the article doesn't say, but in all likelihood we're looking at an institution riddled with DEI hiring practices. Guess we'll see soon enough.
Would it be 3.25M or 1.3M? You know, a 10% tithe to the Dem/lib/gods.
That darned Trump family.... So race-ist.....
Affixing a mentally incompetent old man’s signature electronically to a contract without him knowing does not make it valid. That’s the point.
Since leftists are so concerned about eggs…
You’d think they’d be concerned about a 38 trillion dollar debt, but nah. Eggs.
You’d think they’d be concerned about a 38 trillion dollar debt, but nah. Eggs.
I need to make sure I get to the grocery before Sambo, otherwise he’s liable to buy up all the eggs they have with the prices coming down so much.
Right Sam?
My "put" should have been "puts". The point was/intended to be that he controls where they are. But you knew that.
It's wild how nationalism is cool when you oppose Trump but not to protect Canada from foreign invaders that actually hate them. Canada will destroy itself to stand up to Trump. LOL. It's nuts.
How does a democratic republic achieve a 7.9 on a democracy scale?
Thats pretty damn close to full democracy for a government system that doesn’t even pretend to be a democracy.
So I’d imagine, after 4 years of Trump, the US will no longer rate on the retarded scale because USAID funding will be long dried up.
You aren't reading anything outside of MSM are you? Alberta is leaning more and more that way. The left in Canada has the western part of Canada pissed. It's not 100% but certainly isn't 0% anymore.
Earlier today in this thread, a leftist argues that it’s totally cool for an an incompetent old man’s signature to be forged on literally hundreds (thousands?) of government documents.
Later in the thread, a different leftist uses the most batshit crazy leftwing ecosystem (Reddit) to imply that after 4 years, Trump will make our country less democratic.
Take your time processing these two things. Understand the level of sheer malice we are up against.
Later in the thread, a different leftist uses the most batshit crazy leftwing ecosystem (Reddit) to imply that after 4 years, Trump will make our country less democratic.
Take your time processing these two things. Understand the level of sheer malice we are up against.
what are the odds Sam understands this???
When I was young, I received the presidential physical fitness award with Bill Clinton’s signature on it.
Not once, even as a small child, did I ever pretend Bill Clinton signed that piece of paper or had any idea how physically fit I was.
Yet to lefties here, Bill Clinton’s signature printed on that document would be legally binding.
Not once, even as a small child, did I ever pretend Bill Clinton signed that piece of paper or had any idea how physically fit I was.
Yet to lefties here, Bill Clinton’s signature printed on that document would be legally binding.
Conflating 2 separate issues is often the hallmark of someone self medicating to treat their TDS.
This week is going to be lit.
They won't get kicked out of office... but they can be reassigned or just not funded.
The top 1% owns 33% of the country's wealth. Top 10% owns like 70% of it. Not exactly healthy.
They cheated in Romanian elections now they are trying to kick Orban out. It's all fake though. Orban has overwhelming support.
This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn't understood what I had been judging.I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn't human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent "unprofessional behavior", which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school's own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, "Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood." I wasn't. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn't imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.
How many on here were constitution pounders when a different admin was in, and not sane-turf destroying the checks and balances?
Republicans have the majority, why don’t they actually govern, get laws changed and approved, to execute their actions?
Why is there a sprint to break as many laws and expand presidential power as much as possible?
Republicans have the majority, why don’t they actually govern, get laws changed and approved, to execute their actions?
Why is there a sprint to break as many laws and expand presidential power as much as possible?
Wow. So much in here that I feel is completely misguided.
1. Taxes - which taxes? Income, sales, employment, SS, Medicare, estate, capital gains, gasoline, etc. - lot of things make up 'taxes'. Corporations and very wealthy people don't pay all these taxes?
2. Taxing wealth instead of income is a disincentive to accumulate wealth, is it not? Would it not behoove someone to spend all their income and accumulate no assets under such a regime (an extreme case, obviously)? Punish individuals for accumulating savings, 401ks, home(s), etc.? Really, THAT'S your solution?
3. Seriously doubt a $50k/yr worker pays 30% of his income in taxes. Total tax burden - maybe. Income tax - no way in hell. If you want to talk TOTAL tax burden, the wealthy pay a whole lot more than the $50k/yr guy.
4. Another thing to consider: these awful multi-millionaires and billionaires can afford, literally, to live anywhere. You think they'll just absorb a 'wealth' tax year after year and not think, 'Hmmm, maybe the Caymans or Australia or Canada or... might be nice to live in and avoid this dumba$$ tax policy'? When Elizabeth Warren floated it in her dismal campaign for Dem party, Bill Gates said, if passed, he'd have to look at where he lived and how the wealth tax would affect him.
5. You say you're getting hit with 20% tax on your wealth every year under your example. But, you're making $1M a year in income. How does the math change if you're making $150k? Drastically. If you make $150k a year, should you be taxed at that same 20%?
6. Why does a dollar saved by a billionaire trigger a tax when a dollar saved by a middle class individual not? If you want 'fair share', why not a flat tax on all income? Why not a consumption tax which, logically, would hit high earners/wealthy harder than middle class?
The whole 'the tax system isn't fair' and 'billionaires don't pay their fair share' is horse hockey and has been disproven about a million times.
That Next News guy has been pretty solid. Wasn't sure about him pre election but he evidently has good sources and finds legit stories.
Or.... our understanding of physics is totally wrong. They could be right on one hand but just have no knowledge of higher levels of physics... I'm not smart enough to follow some of the physics stuff but I do understand the math doesn't always come out how they predicted and that makes me think there are variables we aren't accounting for.
** Wise Words Department**
"But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman."
-Ann Coulter
"But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman."
-Ann Coulter
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