Comrade Whitaker Chambers and the other card-carrying communist are not on the left they are on the right. Don’t think of a political spectrum as a straight line but as a circle were the extremes meet. There is absolutely no doubt that these communists were among the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement. The communists hated the American government and that hate is carried on by the modern conservative movement today.
Did you see the new NRA hat? The R has now been replaced by the hammer and sickle after one of the key members was found to be working for Russia.
The facts are that charter schools can sign up all the students they want but then they can and do reject a number of students.
They are paid so much for each student but when they send them back to public school the charter school gets to keep the money.
By picking and choosing students they can generate higher test scores while the public schools cannot reject students and are shorted the money.
Cubic dollars speak volumes.
It is very clear that the ungodly greedy got huge tax cuts while a good portion of the middle class did not get a tax cut, the Republicans fully intended to raise the lower tax bracket from 10% to 12% and tell the fools what a big tax cut they got. Only in the last minutes was a tax raise for the middle class voted down.
In some states have already projected that only the richest 65% will get a tax cut in states like New Jersey according to the Tax Policy Center.
Don’t kid yourself when families with several children have to pay taxes on an extra $20,000 that money has to come from somewhere and at least some of it will come out of their food budget.
Sorry history is my strong suit I actually watch the real news not the right-wing propaganda network while your information comes directly from Russia with love on Face Book or viral propaganda. I read extensively I keep books in all 5 of my vehicles so when I am stuck in traffic or have a few minutes to read and in several rooms in the house. I don’t read one book at a time I may read one from the right and one from the left, so I can contrast the differences.
In this case did not have to dig the story of the Arab spring our of history books, I lived it.
The neo-conservatives (read that as card carrying American communists) planned to take over the middle east buy installing “friendly governments” this was not a new idea as the CIA had installed friendly governments and worked to keep them in power. America kept the Shaw of Iran in power from 1941 until 1979.
The Arab Spring was not a boots on the ground operation that type of warfare is now obsolete according to the Russian Chief of Staff. Wars will be waged with information technology to exploit existing differences.
The first to fall under the new warfare was Tunisia in 2010. It is so much easier if a revolution can be sparked no need for boots on the ground. The revolutions spread to five other countries, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain the regimes were toppled or there were major uprisings. “Sustained street demonstration took place in Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Iranian Khuzestan, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Sudan.
The military operation that began after 9/11 the more sophisticated operations took place when Obama was in office, but they had been in the planning stages during the baby Bush’s term in office.
Source: Wikipedia “Arab Spring”
Name calling was big in grade school but in adults it tells you far more about the person doing the name calling than the one who is being called.
Everybody likes to call our economic arrangement as a capitalist society but our society employees both capitalist and social solutions to economic problems.
For instance, fire insurance socializes the cost of replacing your home if it burns down.
Health insurance socialize the cost catastrophic health problems.
In fact, all types of insurance socialize a risk.
In a true a capitalist society risk would not be socialized each person would depend on their own economic lottery.
Social Security is right out of the socialist playbook and we know that Americans absolutely hate social security.
Unemployment is a socialist inspired solution to temporary unemployment. Imagine someone in a capitalist society being paid for not working.
Medicare is again a social solution to the problem of elderly health care.
In the end the American government is far more likely to employee social solutions to the problems of government than capitalist solutions.
Those who run around with their nose in the air and blinders on are only blind because they refuse to see. Every problem is only a nail for those who have only a hammer.
In the real world we realize that every problem is not a nail. You realize of course that socialism is a relative newcomer as an economic system.
There are those who have won the economic lottery and will fight to keep the lottery in place.
Taxes were designed to tax specific things.
Property tax taxes property, sales tax taxes the things you buy, income taxes only excess wealth, if you don’t own property you don’t pay property tax, if you don’t buy anything you don’t pay sales tax.
Only those who have excess wealth should pay income tax and we know that only people that made in excess of a $100,000 (in today’s dollars) paid income tax.
“Way down in the hearts of the masses of mankind there lurks a strong sense…
“That vast accumulations of wealth in the hands of individuals or corporations should help support the government, under which they acquired, by which they are protected and without which they would vanish. “
“Why tax the widow’s mite and the orphan bread and not tax these accumulations? Why lay tribute on what we eat and wear, and leave untaxed millions in the hands of those who can never personally consume it, and with whom it is surplus?”
Congressman Brenton McMillian making the argument for a tax on excess wealth in the Saturday Evening Post
Why should the poor be taxed to pay for multi-million-dollar football and baseball stadiums that they can never afford to go?
Sales tax is a regressive tax and the poor pay a much higher percentage of sales tax because all of their income is taxed while only a tiny percentage of the rich’s income is taxed as they spend only a tiny portion of their income.
Civic Centers and stadiums lose a staggering amount of money, so they are never able to pay for themselves.
If the NFL wants stadiums let them build them and pay for the maintenance.
They should also pay all the taxes due on the properties. The NFL and other sports organization are on government welfare.
The NFL and other sports organization are on government welfare. That is a welfare system for billionaire’s team owners. To give a few thousand a year to feed starving children is an outrage but they see nothing at all wrong with the government giving millions to billionaires. But nobody complains about that $100s of millions in welfare for billionaires wonder why?
Sorry the real debate was held in 1913 and the winning side placed a tax on excess wealth and only excess wealth. The ungodly greedy then used their wealth to pervert the law and shift their tax burden to the working poor and then they have the nerve to complain that the middle class and poor aren’t paying a tax placed on excess wealth.
There are a number of other Federal taxes besides income tax gift tax, inheritance tax, Medicare tax, social security, unemployment tax.
The Trump tariffs will place a tax on everything from $5,000 on a car to 14% on washing machines. The Trump taxes will be higher than anything ever seen before. The foreign countries don’t pay tariffs the American consumers pays the tariffs.
The 1913 tax on excess wealth is the foundation that all later tax legislation stands on it would be like taking the foundation out from under a building, remove the foundation and the building collapses. No matter what it was named it is clearly defined by what it taxed, and it didn’t tax the first $100,000 in income (today’s dollars). The congressmen made it very clear that the tax was never intended to tax the workingman, and these were the men that wrote the law. I suspect that they were far more familiar with what they intend then you ever will be.
Most people have no idea how many different taxes you pay. You pay taxes on utilities, on tires, on your telephone, tolls on roads are taxes, there are state income taxes, city income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and many more to numerous to list here. There is no such thing as a free lunch government services require money.
Sorry the employee does pay the tax. It was deducted from my check and listed as a deduction on my stub. The employer paid nothing. If you made $5 that week you got nothing. It was another example of a regressive tax.
The city council passed an income tax, but the current mayor wanted to make it regressive and cap it at a $80,000. I argued in front of council that the cap should be removed, and all income should be subject to the tax and council removed the cap. The next week the mayor argued again for the cap stating that social security was capped so should this tax and council changed it back with a higher cap. The tax was taken to court and the judge sat on it killing it without a hearing and the regressive tax remained. A doctor making a million a year paid $5 a week as well as a kid working at McDonalds part time.
It is easy to say lie but that does not make the facts disappear the poor and the rich pay 17% of their income in taxes when all taxes are taken into account while the middle class pays 21% of their income in taxes and that was before the last two rounds of tax cuts for the ungodly greedy by now the ungodly greedy will pay a smaller percentage of their income than even the poor.
If you believe the income tax law expired, please list the years no income tax was in effect.
Union President of what? AFSCME local 598 we represented all city of Huntington employees except sworn officers of the Fire, Police departments and administrative employees that amounted to over 300 at one time. The public works department was bigger than either the Fire or Police. We also represented the civilian employees in both the Fire and Police departments.
Let’s compare car insurance to medical insurance. I bought a new Honda CRV for my wife out of state and had to take it to town for an inspection sticker. An idiot blew a red light according to witnesses at 60 mph. He then hit me a second time to shove me out of the way, so he could run. After he was caught he had no insurance and no driver’s license. Even the car was barrowed from someone else. My car insurance paid for the car and even paid the $1,200 in title tax. There was just $300 deducible.
My wife had back surgery that cost $21,000 under the cities health insurance plan the deductible was $1,500 the insurance only pays 80% of the first $10,000 after the deducible is paid. That adds another $2,000. After that there are many other medical expenses that are no longer covered. Add to that another $1,836 in monthly premiums. That would have cost me $3,500 but I was on Medicare with a supplement that paid the entire bill.
The for-profit health insurance in America is in a tailspin and will crash soon.
There is no reason that anybody should make a huge profit off of people dying with cancer. Insurance companies pay CEOs millions of dollars and that money comes from those that are suffering and dying. Every other civilized country knows that health insurance is a scam.
