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How will they rule ??!

  • YES - Qualified

    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
Its a great idea in theory but the problem is who determines that value and what qualifies. It would just add onto the massive irs behemoth.

Better method is taxing consumption. That one isnt perfect, but at least hits rich more than poor in actuality (despite the left's argument otherwise).
A flat tax for all no loopholes would help imo along with the consumptions tax.
 
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I didn't say half was being stolen.
You said matter of factly, "they would know".
How is it you determined that?
I would actually assume it's more than 50, by the way.
You said it was being drained. Drained means nothing left.

"they would know" means if there was large scale (50%+) theft, it would be impossible, imo, to hide this from the Ukraine people & the troops as I can't imagine they're stupid enough to keep fighting & thinking they had a chance to survive while being sold out. It's common sense reasoning. You think they're that dumb, fine, think that.
 
Again, lazy.

“Well, it isn’t affecting me, so who cares?!”

Guess what? It’s affecting way more people than you want to believe or admit. And it only takes very few instances to affect many people.

You can dismiss it as a boogeyman all you want, but it’s happening all over the country. And this is why your side will continue to lose ground. Keep doubling down on the nonsense.

I have kids in school in a conservative enclave in Kentucky. My oldest is the governor of our regions KYA. My wife is a teacher. My brother is a teacher. My mom was a teacher. Both my in-laws were teachers. I know what’s going on in the classrooms (no matter how conservative the area). I know how the landscape has changed. I know how different our teachers are today versus yesteryear.

We (majority of America) are sick of it. And we demand change. Get on board or get out of the way.
The people of KY spoke loudly that they don't want change by defeating Amendment 2 2-1. They love monopoly public schools. NET, how do you demand chance inside that? Thanks.
 
They need to tax wealth. I know most of you conservatives are like, "cut spending", but don't actually want SS or Medicare cut. But deficit spending is a tax. And it impacts everybody negatively except the asset class.

So for me, cut spending, increase taxes on wealth, reduce taxes on income, and watch the economy boom.
Horrible idea and waaaaaay too little time for me to explain WHY it would NEVER work. Suffice it to say that economics provides better ways to grow an economy than to steal from others. You need to study supply side economics.
 
Nope, the DoE is a massively bloated Bureaucracy that has only gotten bigger and more bloated each year while our Education system has done nothing but go from being one of the worlds best to where countries have passed us up right and left since it's inception. The vast majority of school funding comes from property taxes. very little in comparison, comes to each district by means of federal dollars from the DoE. Our Federal Tax dollars are being used to pay the salaries of 4,137 government employees making on average almost $138K per year. Can it and put it back to the States.
To be clear, there's over 2M Fed employees & these salaries amount to $0.5B of $7000B+ Fed annual spending.
 
So 50% of American seniors rely on SS to provide at least half of their income. Half of those people basically get all of their income from SS. So 25% of seniors have ZERO economic support outside of SS. What would you replace it with and how do you keep seniors from being on the street?
Stop asking loaded, emotional questions. If you really want to learn something, ask it in good faith.

The answer is that you stop STEALING people's productivity and encourage them instead to SAVE THEIR MONEY.

The whole economy is based on CONSUMING. Every tax, every index, every measure of 'growth' and 'economic fortune' is based on CONSUMPTION.

Go back and learn Austrian economics and stop stealing from people with the inheritance tax and corporate taxes and gas taxes and air taxes and high energy costs and the income tax. Stop spending incomprehensible sums of money on nonsense, racking up enormous national debts which crush the middle class. Knock down the walls of state lines health insurance and give people choices so the middle class will not be crushed by insurance premiums. Stop rewarding congress with insider trading deals. Teach dollar cost averaging.

And finally, to answer your angry, petulant, emo question about SS - grandfather in all current recipients and those within 10 years. Everybody else has time to start saving but the government HAS to get out of the way.
 
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Stop asking loaded, emotional questions. If you really want to learn something, ask it in good faith.

The answer is that you stop STEALING people's productivity and encourage them instead to SAVE THEIR MONEY.

The whole economy is based on CONSUMING. Every tax, every index, every measure of 'growth' and 'economic fortune' is based on CONSUMPTION.

Go back and learn Austrian economics and stop stealing from people with the inheritance tax and corporate taxes and gas taxes and air taxes and high energy costs and the income tax. Stop spending incomprehensible sums of money on nonsense, racking up enormous national debts which crush the middle class. Knock down the walls of state lines health insurance and give people choices so the middle class will not be crushed by insurance premiums. Stop rewarding congress with insider trading deals. Teach dollar cost averaging.

And finally, to answer your angry, petulant, emo question about SS - grandfather in all current recipients and those within 10 years. Everybody else has time to start saving but the government HAS to get out of the way.

My question about what you would replace SS with wasn't an emo question at all. I provided real statistics that showed that 25% of seniors currently have 0 income outside of SS.

Now your response? You sound like an angry overweight bitch. Did I get that part right?
 
So 50% of American seniors rely on SS to provide at least half of their income. Half of those people basically get all of their income from SS. So 25% of seniors have ZERO economic support outside of SS. What would you replace it with and how do you keep seniors from being on the street?
As he said, phase it out. Don't immediately eliminate it. We can argue/discuss alternatives.
 
The problem with many Republicans is that they are as delusional as those on the left, and that causes us to lose elections. Americans LOVE Social Security. They absolutely LOVE it. So when a few of guys say, "we need to phase it out" without what you would put in its place you sound like lunatic leftists who say we need to implement communism. Either provide an iron clad solution that the majority of voters would at least listen to or shut the F up.

Now, take that angry "taxation is theft" asshole on here. 1) He doesn't even address what we'd do with all these old people who can't work and have no money. I'd respect him a little more if he just said, "let them starve and die" because at least you'd be honest. But seriously, provide an idea of how you'd manage that. 2) Also he needs to provide a way for roads, schools, police, fire and defense to be funded without taxes. Or is he suggesting the police send him a bill each time he needs some help?
 
Trey Gowdy was on the other day saying he thought Trump should pardon Hunter because Biden has already lost one son and for an old man to worry about Hunter in his senior years is just not right. My reply to Gowdy would be, f**k Biden AND Hunter, I have zero empathy for the criminal things they have done, and they never not once worried about the American people.
 
Trey Gowdy was on the other day saying he thought Trump should pardon Hunter because Biden has already lost one son and for an old man to worry about Hunter in his senior years is just not right. My reply to Gowdy would be, f**k Biden AND Hunter, I have zero empathy for the criminal things they have done, and they never not once worried about the American people.
 
So what's the (acceptable) space between TDS & 100% MAGA?
Make America Great Again is simple and honest. While being simplistic in concept, it requires honesty in application because all it requires is a want to curb corruption and do the right thing.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is either a mental illness due to ignorance or a corrupt mindset mired in stupidity. Therefore, there is no space in between. Riding the fence is just cowardice. You are either for America or against her. Simple really.
 
Trey Gowdy was on the other day saying he thought Trump should pardon Hunter because Biden has already lost one son and for an old man to worry about Hunter in his senior years is just not right. My reply to Gowdy would be, f**k Biden AND Hunter, I have zero empathy for the criminal things they have done, and they never not once worried about the American people.
Biden should have thought of that before he had Jack Smith go after Trump. What goes around comes around.
 
My question about what you would replace SS with wasn't an emo question at all. I provided real statistics that showed that 25% of seniors currently have 0 income outside of SS.

Now your response? You sound like an angry overweight bitch. Did I get that part right?
You sound like an uneducated moron.

Of course, morons don't know they're morons, so I won't bother to ask for confirmation.

I already answered your question. There are plenty of vehicles to save your money.
 
It should absolutely be investigated along with any others of both parties. However i want to see irrefutable evidence if they are going to prosecute. The prosecution needs to be above reproach.
Because rinos are also involved in many of these schemes it is unlikely she will be voted into the AG position.
 
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The problem with many Republicans is that they are as delusional as those on the left, and that causes us to lose elections. Americans LOVE Social Security. They absolutely LOVE it. So when a few of guys say, "we need to phase it out" without what you would put in its place you sound like lunatic leftists who say we need to implement communism. Either provide an iron clad solution that the majority of voters would at least listen to or shut the F up.

Now, take that angry "taxation is theft" asshole on here. 1) He doesn't even address what we'd do with all these old people who can't work and have no money. I'd respect him a little more if he just said, "let them starve and die" because at least you'd be honest. But seriously, provide an idea of how you'd manage that. 2) Also he needs to provide a way for roads, schools, police, fire and defense to be funded without taxes. Or is he suggesting the police send him a bill each time he needs some help?
You're a FRAKKING IDIOT.

Americans HATE HATE HATE Social Security. The money isn't enough, they have to decide when to start taking it, and the taxes go up every year. Cost of living outpaces SS on the regular. EVERY SINGLE SENIOR I have EVER talked to complains about SS. It's a dependency that is NOT healthy. If it was actually privatized then Seniors would actually have some real money in their bank accounts. But the government uses fancy accounting tricks to STEAL from Social Security and they just give seniors a pittance.

You couldn't be MORE ignorant about what the Federal budget covers. I can't even begin to start with you because your misconceptions cover the entire spectrum.

Who pays for police? Feds or local/state?
Who pays for fire? Feds or local/state?
Didn't the Democats fund an Infrastructure bill? How come the roads still suck?
These are ALL RHETORICAL QUESTIONS which any infant with two brain cells to rub together can answer.

Why can't you?

Entitlements (SS, Welfare, Medicare) are the LARGEST (BY FAR) chunk of the Federal budget.

I already addressed it but you're too STUPID to actually read my full comment. So you just whine. If you had half a clue you wouldn't ask such revealingly IMBECILIC questions.

One...last...question, skippy...

How did the country fund schools, roads, police, fire, and defense before 1913?
 
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There shouldn't be revenge. However there should absolutely be justice delivered to those who previously skated, regardless of the party.

Hunter is undoubtedly one of those.
It's not revenge. Hunter was already convicted. Trump should merely say it's none of his business. Biden is the one who should pardon him. I would if he were my son.
 
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