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06-26-2017 , 07:23 PM

#42326

simplicitus

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Looks like tax reform will be dead too now. So, no legislative accomplishments. Now, will he be able to keep the lights on when debt ceiling comes up?

06-26-2017 , 07:24 PM

#42327

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Just saw CNN say that Jared added the best lawyer money can buy to his legal team today. IDK, last night's $285 million exposure may have had something to do with that decision being made today.

Meh, they never mentioned the WaPo story either. All they said was it was amidst the Russia probe heating up.

06-26-2017 , 07:28 PM

#42328

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Can someone explain how the bill is a tax cut for the rich? I don't doubt it is, I'm just curious of exactly how? what is being cut.

06-26-2017 , 07:29 PM

#42329

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Trump seems to be unhinged more than ever since Friday's WaPo Russia story, on a rage filled mission to demolish Obama.

06-26-2017 , 07:31 PM

#42330

MrWookie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Clovis8

Can someone explain how the bill is a tax cut for the rich? I don't doubt it is, I'm just curious of exactly how? what is being cut.

There is a substantial tax on investment income for rich people that was implemented in Obamacare so as to fund it. It would go away.

06-26-2017 , 07:31 PM

#42331

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Clovis8

Can someone explain how the bill is a tax cut for the rich? I don't doubt it is, I'm just curious of exactly how? what is being cut.

They're cutting benefits for the 99% and giving that money saved to the 1% in the form of tax relief.

For specifics

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...e-bill/531258/

06-26-2017 , 07:38 PM

#42332

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by Max Cut

https://twitter.com/petridishes/stat...64790639390720

hehe

Petri throws out some solid tweets every now and then.

06-26-2017 , 07:44 PM

#42333

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Ruh roh. After they pulled up all of Trump's words, about Muslim ban/hate and showing tweets flipping out about the politically correct court bs about it being a TRAVEL BAN and other stuff he did as POTUS, this gem comes up...

Trumpist Jack Kingston: The law doesn't care what the intent is. Only that the President has this power.

Ruh roh. I don't like.

06-26-2017 , 07:50 PM

#42334

Namath12

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listening to Jack Kingston is never correct

06-26-2017 , 07:52 PM

#42335

Namath12

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I must have missed the princess' confirmation hearings

06-26-2017 , 07:52 PM

#42336

Dominic

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Sen. Susan Collins says she'll vote no

06-26-2017 , 08:27 PM

#42337

pk_nuts

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic

Math? How do it work?

So you are saying the number of people who lose there coverage could be as high has 44,000,000? America can do better

06-26-2017 , 08:28 PM

#42338

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Originally Posted by 2OutsNoProb

California's tax contributions go a long way towards allowing miserable red states like Mississippi to continue to exist. Blue states pour, red states drain.

Also, I imagine if CA seceded, their 55 electoral votes would vanish, not be split up, because that 55 represent the numbers of Congressional politicians (53+2), and those offices clearly wouldn't exist. anymore Ergo, it wouldn't be 538 total, 270 to win anymore, but now 483 total, 242 to win.

Curiously, the last four times (Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Obama) a Democrat won the Presidential Election, they'd have done so even if they'd lost CA.

no? the house is locked at 435 seats, cutting Cali would just split their 53 house seats among all the other states. The Senate would drop 2 seats to 98.

06-26-2017 , 08:54 PM

#42339

2OutsNoProb

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Didn't know that, interesting, ty.

06-26-2017 , 09:14 PM

#42340

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Originally Posted by OneStepCloser

Obviously all of you who post here are white. Since all of you write very well.

So why aren't you not celebrating trumps success on the travel ban to keep out these sand n...ii...gg ..er inbred animals?

06-26-2017 , 09:17 PM

#42341

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I'd say keeping out those most in need of the safety and opportunity the US can provide is rather callous and inhumane.

06-26-2017 , 09:20 PM

#42342

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sportsjefe

no? the house is locked at 435 seats, cutting Cali would just split their 53 house seats among all the other states. The Senate would drop 2 seats to 98.

435 is just the number it had grown to when congress decided it was getting too big and passed a law to freeze the number. Congress can change it's size by law whenever they want. The last permanent size increase was with the 1910 census, only four states have been added after that (NM AZ AK HI) all small population territories at time of admission.

06-26-2017 , 09:26 PM

#42343

Huehuecoyotl

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Pretty sure that's just the premise from World War Z.

06-26-2017 , 09:31 PM

#42344

ScreaminAsian

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i do not fear bangladesh

06-26-2017 , 09:34 PM

#42345

otatop

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Scuttle back to t_d cool guy.

06-26-2017 , 09:37 PM

#42346

ScreaminAsian

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this is what steve bannon actually believes

06-26-2017 , 09:40 PM

#42347

TheHip41

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OneStepCloser

How about that 8 year old girl at the Ariana grande concert who got blown to pieces?

And the millions and millions of Muslims who support that happening to her.

Too bad you don't like Ariana grande