Does anyone know what Trump is referring to specifically when he says Dims want to/will raise your taxes 4 times higher? When I hear him, it comes across as 4 times current rates to me. Thanks.
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Why the worry about Harris being the nominee? Come on guys! In the words of Thatcher "This is no time to go wobbly".
You know what? **** the Treasury Department, and good for DeSantis. How anybody could think these Debanking Laws are a bad thing is beyond me. And their fretting over possible money-laundering, while letting REAL risks flood over the border is just so "Government" they make me sick.
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The U.S. Treasury Department said state laws targeted at stopping banks from dropping customers over their politics could harm national security, singling out Florida legislation recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Banks need to be able to probe customers so they can prevent money laundering and counter terrorist financing, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson said in a letter to lawmakers sent Thursday.
“State laws interfering with financial institutions’ ability to comply with national security requirements heighten the risk that international drug traffickers, transnational organized criminals, terrorists and corrupt foreign officials will use the U.S. financial system to launder money, evade sanctions and threaten our national security,” Nelson said.
The Associated Press earlier reported on the letter, which was sent in response to a bipartisan request from several House lawmakers earlier this month.
Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, PHOTO: DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG NEWS
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been at the center of a political fight that has pitted conservatives against financial institutions seen as too left-leaning, which he has derided as “woke capital.” A law that DeSantis signed in May, House Bill 989, bars institutions from looking outside quantitative factors and into their “affiliations” when deciding whether to do business with customers.
The letter extensively criticized that legislation. A representative for DeSantis declined to comment. DeSantis’s communications director on his personal feed on social-media site X said the Biden administration opposes the law because it threatens the administration’s political agenda.
The law is meant to prevent, for example, a bank from deciding not to do business with a legal firearms dealer. Tennessee has also passed similar legislation.
“We are not going to allow big banks to discriminate based on someone’s political or religious beliefs, and we will continue to fight back against indoctrination in education and the workplace,” DeSantis said when he signed the bill.
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But the Treasury Department warned Thursday that banks need to be able to look closely at customers when assessing risks.
Florida’s law against looking into a customer’s affiliations might, for example, stop a bank from considering their connection to a terrorist group, Treasury said.
The law also bars banks from considering factors “related to the person’s business sector,” which some banks might interpret as prohibiting them from taking a close look at high-risk sectors that trade in goods Russia could use for its war effort and the sale of fentanyl precursors, the Treasury Department said.
*U.S. officials have increasingly used the financial sector as a tool to pursue geopolitical goals, including through the extensive sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, and to fight transnational crime, such as the flow of illicit fentanyl.
*(yeah, my ass...)
WSJ:
The U.S. Treasury Department said state laws targeted at stopping banks from dropping customers over their politics could harm national security, singling out Florida legislation recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Banks need to be able to probe customers so they can prevent money laundering and counter terrorist financing, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson said in a letter to lawmakers sent Thursday.
“State laws interfering with financial institutions’ ability to comply with national security requirements heighten the risk that international drug traffickers, transnational organized criminals, terrorists and corrupt foreign officials will use the U.S. financial system to launder money, evade sanctions and threaten our national security,” Nelson said.
The Associated Press earlier reported on the letter, which was sent in response to a bipartisan request from several House lawmakers earlier this month.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been at the center of a political fight that has pitted conservatives against financial institutions seen as too left-leaning, which he has derided as “woke capital.” A law that DeSantis signed in May, House Bill 989, bars institutions from looking outside quantitative factors and into their “affiliations” when deciding whether to do business with customers.
The letter extensively criticized that legislation. A representative for DeSantis declined to comment. DeSantis’s communications director on his personal feed on social-media site X said the Biden administration opposes the law because it threatens the administration’s political agenda.
The law is meant to prevent, for example, a bank from deciding not to do business with a legal firearms dealer. Tennessee has also passed similar legislation.
“We are not going to allow big banks to discriminate based on someone’s political or religious beliefs, and we will continue to fight back against indoctrination in education and the workplace,” DeSantis said when he signed the bill.
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But the Treasury Department warned Thursday that banks need to be able to look closely at customers when assessing risks.
Florida’s law against looking into a customer’s affiliations might, for example, stop a bank from considering their connection to a terrorist group, Treasury said.
The law also bars banks from considering factors “related to the person’s business sector,” which some banks might interpret as prohibiting them from taking a close look at high-risk sectors that trade in goods Russia could use for its war effort and the sale of fentanyl precursors, the Treasury Department said.
*U.S. officials have increasingly used the financial sector as a tool to pursue geopolitical goals, including through the extensive sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, and to fight transnational crime, such as the flow of illicit fentanyl.
*(yeah, my ass...)
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I actually feel somewhat sorry for people like this. There is clearly something clinically wrong with his mental state. His entire psyche is consumed by obsession with one man, hatred, and loathing. It has to be a miserable existence.
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Saw a bunch of reports on X about it but saw no sources on it either. Odd.
Was that Stephen Baldwin "thing" supposed to be intimidating? Because it wasn't. It was just awkward...
Trump "fires back" at the Secret Service...uh oh...
She looks like she stayed out drinking until 3:00 am, woke up on the couch (possibly not her own), ran a comb through her hair, and drove straight to work (in that picture)
The amount of people either having to shut down their social media or losing their jobs because of Libs of TikTok over comments they are making ranging from Trump staged it to the wish he had died is quite funny to me. Not surprising she worked at one of our alphabet agencies...
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Yup, Crowdstrike should ring a bell with people.
My guess. Top officials = Mayorkas
Bro it sounds like we have identical political histories. lol.
I think i may be inhabiting space on a different type of compartmentalized list these days, Master Sgt Brocephus
Logic informs us that we should review Marxist revolutions historically and globally to have a sense of what type things (fabricated and exacerbated conflicts) may be
Coming our way
Watch Europe
Study technologist corporate entities interaction with merciless communist china
See --
I BET you everyone on here would agree that the human trafficking of children as sex slaves -- is Reprehending
Yes?
Organized, continuous flow of innocent lives to be inhumanly devoured and abused -
why don't we see more activity regarding regular people united against something so disturbingly horrible?
Yes?
Organized, continuous flow of innocent lives to be inhumanly devoured and abused -
why don't we see more activity regarding regular people united against something so disturbingly horrible?
They did it to us. Their ineptitude and greed and growing the state in a way that is threatening our personal liberties is what is driving us away. My liberty, my happiness, my American dream is not promised to me under our oaths to each other, but by God my pursuit of such things is mine and all of ours ultimate rights.
Nothing is guaranteed or promised except that opportunity to ascend to a better life if you put in the work. It may work and it may not. But we were promised the chance to succeed on our own merits as well as fail on our own mistakes. But it is our choice to make.
And they are trying to strip us of our free will. All a true American wants is a chance.
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