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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 .
I don't watch the NBA. Could care less. But this is AD?!!

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Did AD convert to Judaism, or am I reading the look wrong?
 
My understanding is that wage earners pay tax on $60,000 of gross wages with no deduction for SS tax withheld from their wages. Self employed folks may be entitled to a partial deduction.
Would that partial deduction be the portion Employers typically pick up that you don't see on your paycheck?
 
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For as long as I've been alive I've never seen prices actually go down. Some here and there, but once prices go up they mostly stay there because the 'business' has 'baked' in the new price to there operating costs. And especially in the last 3-4 years when wages for some businesses have basically doubled due to caving to the Dem/libs on 'livable wage' and minimum wage.
This is one thing that I wish Trump wouldn't push....lowing cost. Yes gas, etc can go down (some) with increased supply, but overall I have my doubts. But I totally understand why he would say it.

Youre right.

I've seen lumber prices drop post-covid, egg prices dropped initially in November before going up again with the last admin culling flocks of chickens, and utilities/resource prices fluctuate anyway, but an overall drop is very unlikely. What sucks about the price increases of the last few years is that egg producers haven't seen their wholesale prices increase. The same goes for other US producers of products. Store prices have gone up, but that only benefits the companies that, by and large, are donating to D campaigns to try and keep milking the system and paying illegal workers.

Read a FoxNews article this morning about how Lindt chocolates (based in Europe) said that due to Trump's tariffs on Canada (and Mexico) that they will bring in their chocolates, etc from Europe rather than what they do now, from the U.S.
This from the article...'.Despite cocoa prices tripling over the past two years and Lindt reportedly hiking its prices to 6.3% in 2024, annual sales still grew by 7.8% last year, suggesting that shoppers are not easily deterred from splurging on their chocolates.'
So if you raise your price 6.3% and sales go up 7.8%....that's a great result? I don't think so.

Lindt has spent a TON on buying premium placement in grocers and other retail stores for holiday sales. Their prices did go up, but I would never pay full retail for their products. We buy them on sale. If they are so offended over us leveling a measly reciprocal tariff with Canada that they are going to bring in their chocolate from other countries, they can GFT and get their money from Europe.

I'll post about their newfound virtue-signaling from August through February and we'll see how their sales do this fall and winter. There's plenty of US friendly chocolate out there that tastes as good or better. I'll look into Ghirardelli

AND FK LINDT! Slap a tariff on their sht. Do it this afternoon!
 
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Reducing corporate taxes won't affect prices much either. But what it WILL do is entice more production to move to the US.

And if that happens, all those payroll taxes will more than make up for the lack of Corporate taxes (which SHOULD be, IMO, ZERO)
 
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Do what Biden was so fond of: ignore it and re-file.

Yep. Something fraudulent and therefore anti-constitutional cannot be made unfraudulent and constitutional by the courts. They don't have legislative authority. DOGE, however, has executive branch authority to stop fraudulent payments or payments to any fraudulent payee or payee committing fraud.

Sorry about your luck, BUT kick rocks
 
You know it's bad when pages roll by and Show ignored content doesn't appear.


My guess is that we'll prolly have to talk about Honda manufacturing some more. Maybe ten year old rapes in Honda plants.

Today has mostly been about Reagan. More specifically, how much Reagan would despise Trump and all that he stands for, how could the party that supported Reagan even dream of voting for Trump etc. Clutching at straws essentially.
 
Pound for pound, Trump >>>> Reagan

In PARTICULAR for the amount of rage and foolishness he can elicit from the Democrat party.

Now, the Dems HATED Reagan, but Trump, in that department lives on another plane of existence.

I've never seen anything like it. He can wind them up so much that they all behave like the Tasmanian Devil. It's quite a sight to behold.

Hell, he even managed to chase Dion away.

🤣 🤣 😍😍😍
 
Did AD convert to Judaism, or am I reading the look wrong?

Ashkenazi no less. Guess it's hard to get up and down the court wearing a "spodik" though.
Seriously?? I respect people's personal religious beliefs, but I didn't know this. Then again, I generally don't keep up[ with former UK BB players after they leave for the NBA. With the exception of AD, Bam, and Devin Booker, I frankly couldn't tell you which NBA teams our former players play on, or if they're even still in the league for that matter.
 
Time to do some digging on the judges that voted for fraud and see if they should have refused themselves from the vote or need to step down. Simple as that. Bank accounts of the judges, their friends and family, and donors all audited.
Long term I don't think that is how they will rule. A lot of factors played into this, timelines/work already completed etc.

I think that in the end, they will rule in favor of Trump's executive power to dismantle USAID.
 
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Seriously?? I respect people's personal religious beliefs, but I didn't know this. Then again, I generally don't keep up[ with former UK BB players after they leave for the NBA. With the exception of AD, Bam, and Devin Booker, I frankly couldn't tell you which NBA teams our former players play on, or if they're even still in the league for that matter.
I was joking, but I can see how it didn't translate as such.
 
You have no credibility. No president is perfect, and it literally does not matter what be does..you'll bitch, moan, and pout. Topped with you absolutely refused to criticize, by all measures, the worst president in history in biden.

If Trump got up there, and he should have, and just trolled by touting insane dems points...just to show they'll still sit there and act like children. They have no credibility either as they refuse to work towards any solution...absolutely refuse. They only want power, and your money. Yet you fall for every talking point, faint at any comment, and cry over nothing.

Never forget, if you hate trump...its bc democrats are THAT bad



Did you not watch the Red State Address to the nation last night??
Did you not watch him bash Biden, call Dems lunatics, wave his finger at them and talk about ever Dem like they are a total POS???
But why didn't they cheer for him?
You have to be kidding.
Ask the rest of the world, aside from Russia.... Why they can't F'ing stand him.

Trump only appeals to a subset of people. He's just not for everyone and never will be regardless of policies.
Personally, I don't hate every one of his policies but do dislike the majority of them and the tone he sets with the American people.
I didn't like the dumbass Dem cane waver last night either.
 
Reducing corporate taxes won't affect prices much either. But what it WILL do is entice more production to move to the US.

And if that happens, all those payroll taxes will more than make up for the lack of Corporate taxes (which SHOULD be, IMO, ZERO)
the data has been back on trickle down economics for a while, and its a trick all right.

  • In the 2000s, despite many new, “pro-growth” tax cuts, GDP growth averaged only 2.5 percent per year. Compare that to the 1950s, when the top marginal income tax rate was consistently above 90 percent and the corporate tax rate was 52 percent—annual GDP growth averaged more than 4 percent, and employment grew by 7.1 percent.
  • By 1988, millionaires had received an average tax cut of $226,000 via Reagan’s tax cuts, while taxpayers earning only $40,000 in income received an average tax cut of $603.
  • Wage increases have also failed to trickle down. CEOs and other corporate executives have captured 81 percent of the wage gains that flowed from the corporate tax cuts in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).
Meanwhile, US tax revenue as a percent of GDP has hovered consistently below what most OECD countries bring in. This creates real and political limits on our government’s ability to take on big challenges. As Roosevelt President and CEO Felicia Wong wrote recently in the New York Times, “As one of the wealthy nations with the lowest tax rates, the United States has put off investing in our families and children. This deferred maintenance is costly: Our child care, health care, family leave and higher education systems are, as a result, among the most expensive and least accessible in the world.”



 
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