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It looks like the representation of a really mad Jew eating Stalin. I approve.

The Alternative Minimum Tax became law in 1969 because 155 of the ungodly greedy paid not one cent of income taxes on their multi-million dollar incomes. The purpose of the Alternative Minimum Tax was to make sure this never happened again no matter how many deductions the ungodly greedy came up with they would have to pay at least some tax. It was a national scandal when the richest among us paid no income tax. The rich will always cite the highest tax tables bracket as how they are taxed but none ever pay the 39.6%. Now Trump wants to eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax. Why? So the ungodly greedy can get away without paying a cent in income taxes.

When Trump 2005 tax return is examined Trump had to pay Alternative Minimum Tax and it increased his income tax by $31 million on an income of $153 million without it he would have paid only $7 million a tax rate of 5%. Get the picture? Trump is benefiting Trump. Do you think you will get to pay only 5% of your income? Trump wants to eliminate the estate taxes, the Alternative Minimum Tax, and cut taxes on family owned businesses from 39.6% to 25%. This cut will allow some of the biggest hedge funds to cut their taxes down not to 35% but to 25%. At least one of these hedge funds has made better part of a trillion dollars in the last 6 years.

There is a reason Trump ran so many businesses into bankruptcy and give him enough time he will bankrupt America. Make no doubt about no matter how Trump lies over 50% his tax cut will go to the top 1%, the ungodly greedy while the other 329 million Americans can divide what is left and when it is divided by 329 million it won't amount to much. It would be like everybody winning the lottery once it was divided you might get back what you paid for your ticket.

The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers.

The overseas trips bring the total cost to taxpayers of Price’s travels to more than $1 million since May, according to a POLITICO review.

Price pledged on Thursday to reimburse the government for the cost of his own seat on his domestic trips using private aircraft — reportedly around $52,000 — but that would not include the cost of the military flights.

Price’s wife, Betty, accompanied him on the military flights, while other members of the secretary’s delegation flew commercially to Europe.

But the Bannon-Mercer coalition is much less organized at this stage compared with other major donor operations, particularly the Kochs’ network, which resembles a privatized political party with offices in most states and which has spent more than $1.5 billion over the past dozen years trying to reshape American politics around the brothers’ free-enterprise ideals.

In June, Zinke and his staffers took a four-hour flight from Las Vegas to Kalispell, Mont., aboard a private plane owned by the executives of a Wyoming oil-and-gas exploration firm, aviation and business records show.

The flight cost taxpayers $12,375, according to an Interior Department spokeswoman. Commercial airlines run daily flights between the two airports and charge as little as $300.

...Zinke took the private charter flight in late June after giving a motivational speech to the Vegas Golden Knights, the city’s new National Hockey League team. The team is owned by Bill Foley, chairman of Fidelity National Financial. Employees and political action committees associated with the financial services company donated a total of $199,523 to Zinke’s two congressional campaigns, Federal Election Commission records show.

Zinke was in the Las Vegas area that day after flying on a commercial Southwest Airlines jet from Reno, Nev., where he spoke the night before at a nearby dinner in Lake Tahoe held by the Rule of Law Defense Fund, a conservative group of attorneys general backed by the Koch brothers.

So long before he defeated Hitler. Figures.

but clearly, Stalin did not defeat Hitler

It is now becoming consensus for conservatives in the Bannon/Trump universe that Ryan, McConnell and Karl Rove are RINOs. This is, of course, insane.