Calling the Searchlight Institute progressive is really inaccurate. They were founded because they thought the Democratic party was too focused on progressive ideas and wanted to focus on moderate independents.
Suggest that attending to Social Security might help! If the cowards in Congress had done their job and increased the wage ceiling for Social Security taxes in line with inflation, the wage base today would be around $1.5 million, and Social Security would not be at risk of going broke in the next 5-7 years.
They need to do more than that, though. Unless they change the benefit formula, that would result in absurd payouts to to those with the highest earned income. There is a need to change Social Security from a pension-mimicking program to a redistributive social insurance program, in part because pensions no longer exist for most workers and those who must rely entirely on Social Security should have a more generous benefit (in relation to their earned income) than those with other resources.
A much larger deductible would be good for average income earners, as long as the loss in revenue was made up by the super wealthy, who can easily afford it. Obsessing about other people’s shoes is just plain freaking weird. Doesn’t he have more important things to be concerned with? Wearing shoes that don’t fit, as I’ve seen in some photos, is also just freaking weird. My gawd these boys are cowards.
Agreed. To say nothing about the fact that DJT has no standing in terms of sartorial talent or expertise. He's got to be the poorest dressed prez in US history.
Whenever I read about Trump spending time on things like this, my first thought is "Well, that's so much less time he has to do even more REAL damage!"
Well, at least the shoes are black. I am so tired of the blue suit/brown shoes trend. Plus, they’ll show the manure being spread at the White House better.
A larger deductible is good, especially in terms of reducing the need for itemizing deductions. OTOH, raising the deduction to 75K is like raising the minimum wage to $25. Why not try doubling the deduction, indexed to inflation, and phasing out the child tax credit for higher incomes?
The thing we could all get behind left and right is saving social security. And I bet it’s not in either of these plans. It still comes out of everybody’s check, but at 51 I don’t think I’ll see a penny. You guys always talk about it fitting on a bumper sticker, “Raise the cap” would fit real nice!
I want to hear more about how Democrats plan to raise taxes on billionaires and corporations, which has historically been the real hard part of tax reform. Plenty of administrations cut taxes on the rich, then also cut taxes on the middle class to prevent political backlash, and then took massive debt to avoid more political backlash from cutting spending. This was never a good idea, always prevented any real improvements in areas like healthcare and infrastructure development, and it isn’t going to keep working now that Trump has alienated all the people who buy US debt with his trade wars and now his actual wars. The only way out of this cycle is to raise taxes, which should be mostly borne by the billionaires and corporate interests who are massively profiting from this country without feeling any need to give back. But they are going to fight it. I want to hear the Democrats have both a will and a plan to deal with this.
If I may, in 1992, Ross Perot released his 1991 tax returns. He made millions that year and paid $15m in Federal Taxes. Sounds pretty impressive. What was really impressive was he paid a little more than 8% of his income in taxes. I grabbed mine and I didn’t pay 8%. I paid about double for far, far less income. Now, Perot’s tax plan in his campaign, would reduce his taxes to under 8%. How nice. Leaving out all the smoke and mirrors of why he paid less and I paid more, if Ross Perot paid my percent on his taxes, that would be an incredible amount, that he could afford! He wouldn’t feel the difference. However, if I could pay 8%, I would certainly, most definitely notice the change.
The notion to raise taxes by these Democratic so called "leaders" is a testament to how out of touch they really are. It's nothing more than tinkering around the edges of a tax code that is riddled with decades of grift and graft for the wealthy corporate elites alleviating them from paying their fair share of taxes. The entire Federal Tax Code needs to be shredded and replaced with a new one that's fair. The "free ride" for the wealthy must end.
Little Mikey Johnson: “Popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law on America is a serious problem.”
A serious Problem???
More serious than an Insane Narcissistic Meglomaniac starting a war in the Middle East for no understandable reason???
Mikey, who exactly is demanding the imposition of Sharia Law in America? Give me names and accurate quotes! The only people talking about this a Morons like you!!!
“…the speaker said this morning, they were voicing legitimate concerns, because of ‘popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law on America is a serious problem.’”
This strikes me as the apotheosis of Republican postmodernism’s divorce from any need or desire for factual grounding of assertions.
The Ogles tweet is a timely reminder to Jewish Republicans that MAGA is *not* on our side. If he thinks that hijabs are anti-American one can only imagine what he thinks of kippot.
"*Reality television celebrity Donald Trump* wanted to eliminate the Head of Household filing status." Well-played, sir. This is why I constantly find myself "Press Pass Maxxing."
I'm more afraid of whatever Christian nation Mike Johnson wants than the chances of sharia law in the US.
I’m sure his group has a sharia-like law waiting in the wings.
Calling the Searchlight Institute progressive is really inaccurate. They were founded because they thought the Democratic party was too focused on progressive ideas and wanted to focus on moderate independents.
Which makes the fact even they're criticizing this plan shows how out of step it is.
Suggest that attending to Social Security might help! If the cowards in Congress had done their job and increased the wage ceiling for Social Security taxes in line with inflation, the wage base today would be around $1.5 million, and Social Security would not be at risk of going broke in the next 5-7 years.
Eliminate the limit.
They need to do more than that, though. Unless they change the benefit formula, that would result in absurd payouts to to those with the highest earned income. There is a need to change Social Security from a pension-mimicking program to a redistributive social insurance program, in part because pensions no longer exist for most workers and those who must rely entirely on Social Security should have a more generous benefit (in relation to their earned income) than those with other resources.
A much larger deductible would be good for average income earners, as long as the loss in revenue was made up by the super wealthy, who can easily afford it. Obsessing about other people’s shoes is just plain freaking weird. Doesn’t he have more important things to be concerned with? Wearing shoes that don’t fit, as I’ve seen in some photos, is also just freaking weird. My gawd these boys are cowards.
Agreed. To say nothing about the fact that DJT has no standing in terms of sartorial talent or expertise. He's got to be the poorest dressed prez in US history.
You don't like his blue suit and red tie?
Whenever I read about Trump spending time on things like this, my first thought is "Well, that's so much less time he has to do even more REAL damage!"
Well, at least the shoes are black. I am so tired of the blue suit/brown shoes trend. Plus, they’ll show the manure being spread at the White House better.
A larger deductible is good, especially in terms of reducing the need for itemizing deductions. OTOH, raising the deduction to 75K is like raising the minimum wage to $25. Why not try doubling the deduction, indexed to inflation, and phasing out the child tax credit for higher incomes?
The thing we could all get behind left and right is saving social security. And I bet it’s not in either of these plans. It still comes out of everybody’s check, but at 51 I don’t think I’ll see a penny. You guys always talk about it fitting on a bumper sticker, “Raise the cap” would fit real nice!
I want to hear more about how Democrats plan to raise taxes on billionaires and corporations, which has historically been the real hard part of tax reform. Plenty of administrations cut taxes on the rich, then also cut taxes on the middle class to prevent political backlash, and then took massive debt to avoid more political backlash from cutting spending. This was never a good idea, always prevented any real improvements in areas like healthcare and infrastructure development, and it isn’t going to keep working now that Trump has alienated all the people who buy US debt with his trade wars and now his actual wars. The only way out of this cycle is to raise taxes, which should be mostly borne by the billionaires and corporate interests who are massively profiting from this country without feeling any need to give back. But they are going to fight it. I want to hear the Democrats have both a will and a plan to deal with this.
If I may, in 1992, Ross Perot released his 1991 tax returns. He made millions that year and paid $15m in Federal Taxes. Sounds pretty impressive. What was really impressive was he paid a little more than 8% of his income in taxes. I grabbed mine and I didn’t pay 8%. I paid about double for far, far less income. Now, Perot’s tax plan in his campaign, would reduce his taxes to under 8%. How nice. Leaving out all the smoke and mirrors of why he paid less and I paid more, if Ross Perot paid my percent on his taxes, that would be an incredible amount, that he could afford! He wouldn’t feel the difference. However, if I could pay 8%, I would certainly, most definitely notice the change.
"the demand to impose Sharia law on America is a serious problem."
Who demanded this?
No one. It's a MAGA fever dream. Or grift. Or both.
Seriously. I've been hearing about this since 2001. I've had two kids since then and I know who the real terrorists are.
I believe that would be MAGA who seek to impose their own version of their own religion on everyone else.
Before the MAGA branding unified all the far right nuts, I always enjoyed people calling them "Teahadists"
The notion to raise taxes by these Democratic so called "leaders" is a testament to how out of touch they really are. It's nothing more than tinkering around the edges of a tax code that is riddled with decades of grift and graft for the wealthy corporate elites alleviating them from paying their fair share of taxes. The entire Federal Tax Code needs to be shredded and replaced with a new one that's fair. The "free ride" for the wealthy must end.
Who is paying for the Stepford shoes? Us, the taxpayers who actually pay taxes?
Did Marco's come with lifts?
Little Mikey Johnson: “Popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law on America is a serious problem.”
A serious Problem???
More serious than an Insane Narcissistic Meglomaniac starting a war in the Middle East for no understandable reason???
Mikey, who exactly is demanding the imposition of Sharia Law in America? Give me names and accurate quotes! The only people talking about this a Morons like you!!!
“…the speaker said this morning, they were voicing legitimate concerns, because of ‘popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law on America is a serious problem.’”
This strikes me as the apotheosis of Republican postmodernism’s divorce from any need or desire for factual grounding of assertions.
It plays well in MAGA circles.
I’m getting the feeling that you’re a clothes horse, Joe!
The Ogles tweet is a timely reminder to Jewish Republicans that MAGA is *not* on our side. If he thinks that hijabs are anti-American one can only imagine what he thinks of kippot.
"*Reality television celebrity Donald Trump* wanted to eliminate the Head of Household filing status." Well-played, sir. This is why I constantly find myself "Press Pass Maxxing."
I had an idea for an SNL skit, have Al Bundy and Griff handing out the shoes to cabinet members!