House Passes the Build Back Better Bill

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  1. Egoboy

    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Well, he's a dick, so you guys can have him for his next election... we should still have the numbers after 2022 to lose his sorry ass... Sinema will just be replaced by a Democrat on her next election..

    Oh well... I suppose they'll just extend the Child Tax Credit, as Manchin is reportedly for that (if it's an odd numbered day)...
     
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    Wow... you must be shopping for your meat at Neiman Marcus.... or T**** steaks...

    Plenty of deals to be found at our local Costco... we are deciding between a crown roast and a whole beef tenderloin for Xmas dinner...
     
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    Just out of curiosity, can you tell us why the government of our country should subsidize adults who CHOSE to have more offspring than they could fully provide for themselves...?! In all my long life, I've never heard any wanna-be, sob-sister socialist provide a coherent, logical answer to that one simple question, even though there is no (NO) justification for such handout-welfare practices of any kind described anywhere in the Constitution of the United States!
     
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    LOL! You're going to lose the House in 2022. You won't be passing sh!t. There's a better than decent chance you lose the Senate too, even in spite of the favorable terrain.

    https://www.predictit.org/markets/d...y-will-control-the-Senate-after-2022-election
     
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    But remember, Hurricane, you must never underestimate the seductive lure of welfare handouts to sway an election -- and nobody is better at shoveling out 'free stuff' than ward-heeling Democrat machine-politicians....

    Besides, even if Republicans take back both the House and Senate, Biden will simply rule as Obama did -- with presidential proclamations, decrees, and various 'executive actions'. You know -- that "I've-got-a-pen-and-a-phone" bullshit!
     
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    Well actually, I generally make my own bacon ;) But I do from time to time Smiths Kroger for say Poppers of pork fatties.. But for what you get with those brands are hardly something to crow about. well other than the price I suppose..
     
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    If you were actually confident of that, you could make something like a 300% ROI next year.
     
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    No... No longer having a child eligible for the Child Tax Credit, I really don't know the deets about how that plan is administered. What I DO know is that Republicans oppose it, meaning it's almost assuredly good for America somehow...
     
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    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    I bookmarked your website...
     
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    Inflation was accurately described by Kevin O'leary the billionaire on Shark Tank, who has some 30 corporations which
    have to deal with foreign supplies, so he knows:

    1. Pandemic supply chain issues 50% responsible
    2. Trump's and Biden's stimulus 50% responsible

    Ultimately, it's all due to the pandemic, which won't last forever.

     
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    Polls aren't facts. but let's hear from Kevin O'leary, the Shark Tank Billionaire who owns some 30 corporations which deal with oversees suppliers.

    He attributes the inflation as follows

    1. Pandemic caused supply chain issues 50%
    2. Trump's and Biden's stimulus 50%

    Pumping fiat currency into the economy takes several months to cause inflation as it passes through the bidding economy, so graphs do not tell us the cause / effect relationship, they just show us when they occur.

     
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    How's that crap selling?

    We know why we have inflation and we know that Biden and Buttigeig are doing nothing effective to solve the Supply chain mess.
    1. First they deny, then
    2. they minimize, then
    3. they rationalize, then
    4. they blame others.
    What's not on this list? Solving the damn problems.
    So 75% say he is either unhelpful or downright harmful.
    So, 74% say it either won't help or make it worse.
    Biden's a blow it on the Economy
    We don't need MORE inflation, we need LESS inflation.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...ng-inflation-worse-not-better-poll/ar-AARSo77
     
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    I'm not sure why "who" is paying matters. Since the tax burden hasn't been shifted to everyone else, then I'm sure you'll agree that "the rich" haven't been given freebies (by your own definition).
    • In 2018, 144.3 million taxpayers reported earning $11.6 trillion in adjusted gross income (AGI) and paid $1.5 trillion in individual income taxes.
    • Tax year 2018 was the first under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The number of returns filed and the amount of income reported grew in 2018 yet average tax rates fell across every income group and total income taxes paid decreased by $65 billion.
    • The share of reported income earned by the top 1 percent of taxpayers fell slightly, to 20.9 percent in 2018 from 21 percent in 2017. Their share of federal individual income taxes rose by 1.6 percentage points to 40.1 percent.
    • Since 2001, the share of federal income taxes paid by the top 1 percent increased from 33.2 percent to a new high of 40.1 percent in 2018.
    • In 2018, the top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.1 percent of all individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.9 percent.
    • The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (40.1 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (28.6 percent).
    • The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 25.4 percent average individual income tax rate, which is more than seven times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.4 percent).
     
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    So, what was the tax rate when we starting killing Redcoats?
     
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    Apparently, Goldman Sachs is not a big fan of Houseboat Joe ****ing up American growth in 2022

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/goldman-sachs-says-joe-manchins-122006168.html
     

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