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Which is of course why the idea of building one over the Ogalla aquifer is so ******* stupid...

Which is of course why the idea of building one over the Ogalla aquifer is so ******* stupid

Actually I'm about a trillion times smarter than you are.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.

The good news is that the House of Representatives passed the tax overhaul bill and the bad news is that the House passed the tax overhaul bill. The Washington Post using one of Trump's old tax returns calculated Trumps tax cut for him and his relatives at $2.1 billion. Someone has to pay for it and by 2025 60% of the middle class will pay higher taxes than they pay now. Whenever there is a tax cut for those who have the most there is a huge sucking sound as the ungodly greedy bleed the middle class once again. There is no such thing as a free lunch. The House tax bill makes no provisions to cut the cost of government operations. The cost of government does not go down when there is a tax cut. We can not continue to raise the deficit $1.4 trillion so the cost of government has been shifted to the middle class each time the Republicans "cut the taxes on the ungodly greedy." One recent example was that the Trump government refused to pay sales tax on Medicaid in Ohio. The trouble was the sales tax funded the ambulance service in Ohio counties. Property owners were faced with a decision to vote for a property tax levy that would raise their property taxes by nearly $50 a year or do without ambulance service. The funeral homes could take back over but they have a vested financial interest in seeing that you don't make it. This happened in hundreds of different ways when Reagan cut the taxes on the ungodly. Regan tax theory was trickle down economics but in reality what we had was trickle down taxes as many state and local taxes were raised to replace the lost federal revenue.

The tax cuts for corporations are permanent but the individual tax cuts are only temporary but the elimination of the tax deductions is permanent so when the tax cuts expire you will not have the tax deductions to fall back on. When the tax cuts on the middle class expire the country will be in such bad shape with an over a $20 trillion deficit that the Republicans will flip yet again declaring that the deficit is the number one problem and they are so sorry but they really had no choice when you reached for your chips they had to cut your hands off at the wrist.

However one deduction that was not eliminated was the 'charitable deduction' and most people think of the Salvation Army or March of Dimes but there are many non profits that qualify for the deduction. The charitable deduction is the very reason that there is a tax cut being debated today. Many of the ungodly greedy contribute up to a $100 million a year to non profit political organization which qualify for the charitable deduction when they have absolutely nothing to do with charity and everything to do with push political ideology like tax cuts for the ungodly rich. This deduction was never ever intended to be used this way. The "charitable deduction' needs to be completely eliminated or all of the loopholes need to be tightened up to stop the abuses. You should not be able to deduct money used to recruits people into cults whether Muslim or Christian. If you want to use your money that way fine but use your money not government money.

We have many states wherein entire watersheds are fucked up because of past coal mining yet we act like this can never happen again.

“Now can we get back to discussing legalizing marijuana and opening the state hospital network to combat the opioid crisis. I am sooooo disappointed by this national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago.” O’Neill finished. “Peace.”

If it's OK when Bill Clinton does it, it's OK when Roy Moore does it.

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For decades after their progressive hero, the brilliant, but deeply bent Clinton used his power and privilege to seduce vulnerable teenagers, intimidate the objects of his lust, and grope, manhandle and even rape the very women whose rights he professed to champion

You forgot the real estate criminality, the cocaine deals and all the murders.

Let's compare and contrast. Was Roger Ailes accused of dealing in cocaine or conspiring to have a bunch of people murdered? No. Bill O'Reilly? Nope. Roy Moore? Trump? Nah. Did Clinton, like Moore, promote himself as a brave and holy gladiator waging punishing war against the morally impure? I don't recall that.

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Sorry. If you give me your e-mail address, next time I'll send you the Reader's Digest condensed version...and replace some of the big words so your self-esteem isn't diminished (BTW that means, so you won't feel bad about yourself.)