The board is planning to fight Trump’s order, three of those people told The Washington Post. In an emergency meeting Thursday, the board retained outside counsel and gave instructions to sue the White House if the president were to remove members of the board or attempt to alter the agency’s independent status.
I’m kind of amazed that they’re fighting to retain independence.
When people say the rich aren’t paying their fair share, they’re saying taxes should go up on the richest 1% and 0.1%, who are often paying effective tax rates in the single digits most years because of their various tax schemes and shelters.
The people who are actually paying the highest effective income tax rates are the upper middle class, who between federal, state, and local taxes are being soaked for very little in return (European tax rates without free health care or university, for example). But they’re not rich, and they don’t have the same options actual rich people do.
If tax rates were flatter, I’m still confident the first group would carve out loopholes so they could keep hoarding wealth. Does the author think Donald Trump, of all people, would actually increase taxes on himself and his rich friends?
They’re in the middle of an invasion by an expansionist world power. How are they going to hold a free and fair election throughout the country?
This could all play out in a few ways. I wonder if blue states will finally reach a point where they instruct their citizens and registered corporations to stop payment of federal income tax, sparking a civil war.
Dude, I don’t give a shit about your crusade or Al Sharpton. Your links were weak and now you’re mad that one of the few people who actually took the time to read and comment on them wasn’t cornered into sharing your opinion. Sorry. It’s like the 10,000th most important priority right now. Maybe take a look around.
When we finally claw our way out of this mess it’s going to take so long to rebuild
First of all, that’s within the margin of error, so the headline is pure clickbait copium.
Second, it’ll take some time for the effects to be reflected in the economy, even with tariffs. Give it time; it will drop further once it impacts people directly.
You messed up your links, but I went and looked up the URLs anyway. It was pretty weak sauce. Undated descriptions of events and some short, undated, out of context quotes.
I’m going to go ahead and assume most of the quotes were from a long time ago. People evolve, and we should let them. Malcolm X did too, before he was assassinated. I’ve seen a lot of evidence that Sharpton isn’t racist based on his recent appearances, but not much evidence to indicate he is, and of what I’ve seen here, it was probably from a long time ago since all the references are devoid of context.
Have you seen him in swim trunks
You need to push back hard. If they come at you to arrest you (as a sitting representative), maybe it’ll wake people up. You just have to hope they aren’t going to barge in at 6 am with machine guns, because historically that doesn’t end well for anyone.
Cobol is heavily used in the financial industry for a reason. It’s actually excellent for processing financial data at scale and it’s well supported. Many of these institutions attempt to swap out parts of these systems with modern languages or runtimes; these projects often fail because they’re simply too slow or the new systems crash too often.
I’m not saying it’s impossible to do so, just that it’s not worth it.
I think it’s also just the destabilizing effect of adding millions of immigrants. Jordan is only 11-12M people; Egypt is about 10x that amount. Both are strongly anti-Islamist and anyone who takes in Palestinians would be taking in some % of Hamas.
Absolutely horrifying if correct
That’s cool. You’re probably right, Elon. Better just shut down their payments and delete them from the system. I bet that’ll go well for you.
This is a good post, but unless there’s a different clip you’re referring to, you’re misstating what Stewart said. He was talking about the right timing to use (what should be) powerful labels. The fact of the matter is most of the country is in category 2 right now. Using these labels now takes away their power later because people are not primed to take them seriously. Then, when we need to use them, the power is gone and everyone will tune out. He’s waiting for the moment when there’s enough of a shock from Trump’s actions that using a powerful label can wake people up.
This is a pretty big promotion for a no-name former Republican congresswoman. Voters removed her from office in the last election, despite some pretty vicious mailers against her Democratic opponent, Janelle Bynum. Now that she’s being gifted a job, she’ll do as told.
Of course, then Bynum went and voted for Laken Riley.
Because CBS’s parent company Paramount wants an acquisition by Skydance to be allowed by the government. It’s extortion (or bribery, depending on your take).
They’ve killed about 50,000. There are 2,000,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Jordan and Egypt won’t take them since it would seriously destabilize those countries, and it’s not like the US will volunteer. Israel would have to implement a second Holocaust to enact this plan and I don’t even think the Israeli public has the stomach for that.
They have no plan.
Sure. Good luck resettling 2 million Palestinians.
All these right wingers talk big about a civil war because they think liberals and leftists in places like Oregon and Washington State don’t own guns.
Uh, they’re wrong.