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Trump's Second Term

Olmstead said:
There's no way he wrote that.
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Oh I don't know, it's completely wrong in that VAT is fundamentally not like a tariff in the specific sense that he's trying to pretend it is, and it completely overlooks the fact that the US does have sales taxes and because they're set at state level or below (if I understand correctly) they vary significantly so how is that going to be accounted for when setting "reciprocal" tariffs?
 
thaiboxerken said:
The nazis believe that cutting taxes to the wealthy makes them wealthier, and they'll hire more people and pay more people who will pay more taxes which becomes a net positive to reduce debt. They don't let the evidence of actually working the opposite of what they say bother their arguments. The reality is they don't care, as long as they keep the fat cats fat.
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FTFY
 
AmyStrange said:
Because the dems (IMO) are better in many ways than most of my fellow republicans who are stupid beyond belief.


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The more they defend what Trump, Musk, and their supporters say and do, the more they prove your point.

Frankly, I'm surprised you are still a registered Republican. The Republican Party no longer exists. It's become the Trumplican Cult.
 
AmyStrange said:
I don't know. I think the original was fine.

They cut taxes to the rich in the mistakenly stupid (or lying) belief they will hire more people and pay them better, while at the same time ignoring the fact that, that has NEVER happened.


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It's not a belief because they know it's not true. It's an excuse, a lie to justify what they want to do for their own benefit.
 
Orphia Nay said:
apnews.com

Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal

The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs.
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How can a "rescinding notice" be effective after you are fired? Does it just mean "Psych! Get back to work!"?

Once you are fired, the employer has no power to compel you to do anything. They are no longer your boss. To go work at your old job would require being rehired, with all the requisite hoop-jumping and paperwork, surely. So this rescinding notice is all fluff and bluff, or the original notice of firing is ditto.
 
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JayUtah said:
Elon Musk has no experience in federal budgeting or government spending. He seems to be trying the same approach he did at Twitter, which was to fire everyone, pull out all the plugs, and then selectively plug things back in and rehire people until it limps back to a semblance of life. This is fine when the consequences of Twitter being down are simply that people go back to Facebook. When the consequences are failure of vital government programs and exposure of private and secure assets to outside attack, that strategy is dangerous and irresponsible.
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Spot on.
 
Just got back. It wasn't huge, but seemed well attended. Never got above about 25 degrees f. There were some speeches I couldn't hear and then a march around downtown and back to the state capital. As we were arriving, some were already leaving, and as we were leaving a few hours later, many were still arriving. I think a lot of people came but didn't stay long because of the cold, just a constant stream of coming and going and coming and going.

No hints of violence or vandalism. Very little police presence except right around the capital building. And handful of masked activists in black, but they seemed subdued and quiet.

The organizers seem to be an old school communist labor group. Lots of chants about immigration, Black Lives Matter, anti-Elon Musk, anti-Trump. Nothing about federal employees or federal lands from the organizers, although many of the signs mentioned federal workers, DOGE, and some mention of federal lands. I think the alliance of old-school anti-establishment leftists and federal employees/advocates (perceived to be the establishment) is a match made in a political sausage-making factory, but it can work.

Here's a link to a vid of the march portion. Not my vid, but gives some idea of the crowd size. I might be in the frame in the first second of the video, we sort of accidentally ended up near the front of the march. https://bsky.app/profile/hughgraham.bsky.social/post/3lifpayaq2c2w
 
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PolitiFact reported about Social Security payments, "As a percentage of all payments, improper payments account for 0.84% of the total, the inspector general has found. That’s "better than any private insurance company in the nation," and with a lower cost of administration, said Henry J. Aaron, a fellow with the Brookings Institution think tank and a former chair of the Social Security Advisory Board." Considering the article as a whole, I saw room for improvement, but I also became much more aware of how difficult real reform was. Nor was the size of the problem anywhere near what Musk and his traitor tots well meaning but inexperienced programmers indicated. Reports from an inspector general indicated the size of at least some overpayments. This prompts the question, "If one wanted to understand the scope of the problem, why were the inspectors general let go?"
 
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