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I love the way the cheese-eaters try to suggest that paying the taxes due is wrong. You follow the law, you fill out the forms, and you send it in, right? You pay what is what is owed.

How many cheese-eaters figure out their taxes, then just add several thousand (or million) to the check they write to the IRS, eh?

Any? Any at all? Ever?

No, they pay what is due, like Trump.

But Trump is somehow screwing them, they think, if he doesn't pay MORE than is due.

Snoop Dogg has been criticised for shooting a toy gun at a Donald Trump character in a music video.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio said the rap star was unwise to pretend to shoot a clown dressed as the US president in the video.

Mr Rubio told TMZ: "If the wrong person sees that and gets the wrong idea, you could have a real problem."

The video, featuring Snoop Dogg and Kaytranada, is a remix of Lavender by Canadian group BadBadNotGood.

Mr Rubio added: "Snoop shouldn't have done that.

"We've had presidents assassinated before... so anything like that is something people should be really careful about."

The video shows Snoop shooting the Trump character with a gun that releases a flag with the word "bang" written on it.

Former US defence secretary and BBC world affairs analyst William Cohen says President Donald Trump's wiretapping allegations against Barack Obama are "unpresidential" and harmful to his administration's credibility.


He adds that the US image abroad has been negatively affected by Mr Trump's unverified claims.

"I think we're seeing the US portrayed as a circus," Mr Cohen told the BBC's Katty Kay and Christian Fraser.

Quote:

Former US defence secretary and BBC world affairs analyst William Cohen says President Donald Trump's wiretapping allegations against Barack Obama are "unpresidential" and harmful to his administration's credibility.


He adds that the US image abroad has been negatively affected by Mr Trump's unverified claims.

"I think we're seeing the US portrayed as a circus," Mr Cohen told the BBC's Katty Kay and Christian Fraser.

Well yes. Follow the link for the interview.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39269899<br />

I don't think it likely that MSNBC broke the law by releasing the tax returns, however, I wonder if the White House releasing the same tax returns BEFORE Maddow's show aired, gives her protection.

I mean, if you take the stance that publishing the tax returns is illegal unless you have permission....and then the white house gives permission by releasing them BEFORE the news can publish it, then how can the news media break the law by showing something that the white house just released?

I'm still waiting for that socialist Bernie

What many of the answers fail to provide is a MODERN understanding of socialist principles. With very few exceptions, long gone are the days of exclusively government-controlled collectivist systems that many fear mongerers routinely invoke in context of the 1950s Red Scare. And while Wikipedia is a robust resource for literal definitions, "capitalism", "socialism", "welfare state" and "mixed economy" are neither mutually exclusive nor final categorizations; there is a great deal of cross-pollination that renders these rigid labels less definitive (remember that many such labels persist only in service of ideological fundamentalism).

A "mixed economy", in context of the United States, is just saying that it's a capitalist economy functioning within a democratic socialist infrastructure. Commerce wouldn't make a dime were it not for A TAXPAYER-FUNDED SYSTEM that protects assets (shared police, fire, municipal services, and the courts), that enables commerce (shared roads, bridges, rail, air, sea, FDIC-insured banks, the post office, and the regulations that govern them), that protects consumers (OSHA, EPA, FTC, FDA, FCC, etc.--effectively all government regulations covering citizen interaction with business), and that promotes enterprise (the teaching of said economics in higher education institutions, government regulation of interest rates and minimum wage, printing currency, bankruptcy courts, etc.).

There is no more concrete evidence of this democratic socialist infrastructure than in the 2008 government bailouts, a.k.a. the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008". The capitalist chest-thumpers will necessarily contest this characterization, but when a government must step in--using the public's money--to keep the "capitalist" system solvent, well, you know who's wearing the pants. The rest is spin and semantics.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-socialism-in-the-United-States?share=1

Have you noticed how you and guijohn have completely ignored the arguments put forward?

Have you noticed how you and guijohn do that a lot?