tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4034434967640815321..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Rhetorical Hyperbole about TaxesStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-2313132962088604322017-12-24T14:41:10.008-08:002017-12-24T14:41:10.008-08:00I was assured , repeatedly , that anything close t...I was assured , repeatedly , that anything close to 4% GDP was history. 1.3% was the "new" normal. 8 straight years of 0% Fed rate.. Trump gets elected and the Fed raises rates 4 times in a year! That's all you need to know. So much negativity and politically correct folks don't remember what it was like to have a leader... a true leader for President. So convinced he's a idiot from Queens, they can't see . Fine. Even after one term, much less two, the landscape will have been so thoroughly shook that candidates like we've seen over the last 40 years will be laughable in retrospect. Merry Christmas! ( Ditto on the Treehouse ) and.. MAGA!Uncle Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09201160092477098369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-21900107011946659012017-12-24T12:15:55.873-08:002017-12-24T12:15:55.873-08:00Say! Does the Net Neutrality reversion mean we al...Say! Does the Net Neutrality reversion mean we all have to go back to using AOL? Inquiring minds want to KNOW. (Just a mite of a miniscule attempt at Humor For The Holidays.)Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-11366057202668111802017-12-24T09:03:42.683-08:002017-12-24T09:03:42.683-08:00And Merry Christmas James!
Anonymous said... My g...And Merry Christmas James!<br /><br />Anonymous said... My god, who do you think he's being rude to?<br /><br />The list of course is endless, but the deal-breaker for me was the idiocy of Trump's claim that we're going to build a wall with Mexico, and that Mexico is going to pay for it. Of course having Trump as an idiot bully neighbor has helped Mexican patriotism soar.<br /><br />And even self-described Revolutionist Bannon calls Trump an 11 year old child. Of course children in positions of power are useful idiots if you can get their ear and be the last voice in the room. <br />http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/366062-bannon-called-trump-an-11-year-old-child-report<br /><br />And on the GOP taxcut, I can be content with my ~$75/paycheck taxcut for 2018, but I won't be trickling it down upon anyone, or investing it. I'll go into my nice safe 1% interest savings account for the long string of rainy days that will be coming soon enough. I would recommend everyone uses their tax cut to pay down their personal debts if they have any, and otherwise doing the same as me. This economy is juiced quite enough on cheap debt without ever more senseless consumerism by people who don't have to borrow to spend.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41170976336184602742017-12-24T06:20:03.961-08:002017-12-24T06:20:03.961-08:00W/R/T tax cuts, I do hope the Dems keep arguing th...W/R/T tax cuts, I do hope the Dems keep arguing the position, as AO does, that it's their right to determine how much money people can retain from their paychecks based on what spending they feel is appropriate rather than being sent to prioritize the use of taxes paid. Because you know as soon as Ryan proposes an entitlement reform plan they will savage it. It's taken a lot longer than I imagined but the great mass of people are finally on to the game the Dems have been playing since at least GHWB was president.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29954673862209993162017-12-24T00:59:09.402-08:002017-12-24T00:59:09.402-08:00Sorry jack, I missed you, Merry Christmas!Sorry jack, I missed you, Merry Christmas!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9139258633290007492017-12-23T21:52:57.649-08:002017-12-23T21:52:57.649-08:00Sleep in heavenly peace with the religion of peace...Sleep in heavenly peace with the religion of peace: http://sultanknish.blogspot.ca/2017/12/we-all-live-in-bangladesh-now.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67480453575988733722017-12-23T21:48:49.483-08:002017-12-23T21:48:49.483-08:00With all due respect to this excellent blog, the C...With all due respect to this excellent blog, the Conservative Treehouse has also been doing an outstanding job analyzing, parsing and scrutinizing what has been going on with the Deep State treason against American democracy, focusing on the FBI in particular, given all the recent events. I recommend you all read the spirit and detail of what Sundance is saying there. He is on a roll with unmasking this craziness: https://theconservativetreehouse.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64036934445457962872017-12-23T21:39:28.188-08:002017-12-23T21:39:28.188-08:00Webutante: I know you're a bright lady, but yo...Webutante: I know you're a bright lady, but you just noticed this? What do you think Trump is fighting against? Do you really think he's that rude? Do you really think this rough rhetoric just magically appeared out of nowhere? My god, who do you think he's being rude to? He's being rude to the Swampians who think they're our lords and masters! Wake up! Watch what is happening, not what he's saying or tweeting. Focus! You're reading in a way that led us astray during the Obama years: all the soaring rhetoric and two terms of the rot, all because Romney once put his dogs up on the roof of his car. The media is in bed with the Dems. The whole chatter-institutional complex is coming down. Watch what's happening at the FBI. That's the institutional rot. The smelly, stinky, skanky symbol of what DC has become. You ain't seen nothing yet. The Dems will come into 2018 scared as all get out. They're going to make some big errors. IAC's right. If Trump does taxes, Obamacare and the wall, it's lights out for the liberals. Drop the mic. Done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-1508813902747772882017-12-23T21:29:53.468-08:002017-12-23T21:29:53.468-08:00James: "you too AO (you're so quiet, it w...James: "you too AO (you're so quiet, it worries me)"<br /><br />You can't be serious. Arguing over 0.6%? That's AO. Smarmy gas bag over stupid little bits. He disapprovals, too. And cares about the debt all of the sudden after his buddy Obama ran it up $10T. And now he thinks Romney makes sense. And of course he'll be miserable if GNP increases 7%.<br /><br />What a joke. It will be a merry Christmas when AO exits this blog. You're fine here, but your happy-happy inclusion of AO as a worthwhile contributor is grating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62831848184277023552017-12-23T17:50:36.213-08:002017-12-23T17:50:36.213-08:00I have no faith and no trust for any of the enemed...I have no faith and no trust for any of the enemedia: TV, "news"papers, and many, many websites (Vox, Slate, and the Puffho come immediately to mind).Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-53105792082141031612017-12-23T15:34:37.283-08:002017-12-23T15:34:37.283-08:00Stuart: the tax rate on the highest earners has be...Stuart: the tax rate on the highest earners has been cut from 39% to 37%<br /><br />Technically it is 39.6% down to 37%, and the Bush top marginal tax rate was 35%, although it took until 2013 that Obama restored the original rate from Clinton. You can see the history here. The highest was 94% in 1944. President Johnson got it lowered to 70% in 1965, and Reagan 38.5% in 1987, while GHW Bush got it as low as 31% in 1991. They were so antitax back then he lost re-election for backing down on his promise to now raise taxes again, and billionaire Perot helped Clinton get elected.<br />https://www.cch.com/WBOT2013/029IncomeTaxRates.asp<br /><br />Of course top marginal rates alone don't tell the story, and capital gains rates are more important for the ultrawealthy, especially lately given the huge returns on the stock market while interest rates have been so low, and everyone feels compelled to pile on risky overpriced assets. But it looks like that's been stable at 15-20%.<br />http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-are-capital-gains-taxed<br /><br />You don't become a billionaire by any salary, but stock options can help get you there.<br /><br />Myself, I disapproval of purposely creating a minimum of $1.5 trillion in new debt beyond our existing deficits and it'll be higher if the imagined 7% annual GNP growth projections don't pan out. <br /><br />Romney suggested any government program be evaluated by the question whether its worth getting into debt to China to pay for it. It would be nice if tax cuts had the same rhetorical question asked, of course the answer to both questions is "Maybe, as long as its sovereign debt, and fools want to buy our debt at low interest rates." But how long does that trick last?Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87533809261558927302017-12-23T10:27:13.232-08:002017-12-23T10:27:13.232-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-20538777191563672962017-12-23T10:20:51.501-08:002017-12-23T10:20:51.501-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57640364590637185362017-12-23T10:02:23.693-08:002017-12-23T10:02:23.693-08:00What continues to completely BLOW MY MIND is the w...What continues to completely BLOW MY MIND is the way elite Washington liberals---and their media lemmings--- speak out against these tax cuts as if it were Washington's money to begin with and the federal government is entitled to it, by golly. In fact, these monies belong to taxpaying US citizens and companies that earned it. Washington grandees act like----with a straight face----it is they who own the money and taking it away from them is a disaster because only they know how to spend our hard-earned money better than we do.<br /><br />This is insanity.Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-83675137993211288532017-12-23T08:46:22.284-08:002017-12-23T08:46:22.284-08:00Merry Christmas,
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and many many others h...Merry Christmas,<br />Sam<br />IAC<br />tw<br />and many many others here,<br />you too AO (you're so quiet, it worries me)<br />and of course the Master of Ceremonies..............Stuart!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19503284625142141692017-12-23T08:35:41.643-08:002017-12-23T08:35:41.643-08:00HUSH YO MOUTH, Stuart! The Dems might read this a...HUSH YO MOUTH, Stuart! The Dems might read this and, possibly, though not probably, wise up.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-18503465301694591272017-12-23T07:44:31.501-08:002017-12-23T07:44:31.501-08:00IAC,
Is not it interesting that a number of us tri...IAC,<br />Is not it interesting that a number of us tried to intimate that Trump does not do anything without a purpose. Great listing of some of the reasons Trump does what he does. I used to wonder and now am just amazed at his political acumen. When one has McConnel saying he now likes Trump’s “tweeting” a milestone has been reached. Heads up for somethings that look like they are in the offing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9835126600401974902017-12-23T06:04:38.433-08:002017-12-23T06:04:38.433-08:00Little did I know that tax reform and lower rates ...Little did I know that tax reform and lower rates would be the opening bars of The Apocalypse. I writhe in agony, welcoming the Sweet Meteor of Death. SMOD lives, the rest of us die. Cofeve.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10632932480521574682017-12-23T05:41:28.313-08:002017-12-23T05:41:28.313-08:00“You would think that Donald Trump has driven his ...“You would think that Donald Trump has driven his political opponents stark, raving mad. Was that the strategy all along?”<br /><br />Yes, and many of us have been trying to point this out all year. <br /><br />The media is crazed, living in an echo chamber while losing any dignity, relevance and respect they had. No one believes them anymore. <br /><br />As for the tweeting, it’s harmless. Keep your eye on what the other hand is doing. <br /><br />http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/year-one-list-81-major-trump-achievements-11-obama-legacy-items-repealed/article/2644159<br /><br />I believe the polls are entirely wrong, just as they were in 2016. People are not going to say they like Trump. When I’m in polite company, I don’t talk about him at all. Instead, I do a lot of listening and observation. There are always a few Lefty people who are babbling about what a dolt Trump is, but the majority look down at their drinks or plates or otherwise refuse eye contact. I’ve checked in with a few of these people later. They don’t hate Trump, but they don’t like him, either. But they do like what he’s doing. For that, they can forgive the style points. And after 8 years of Obama the Messiah, we all know talk is cheap. <br /><br />Trump has passed tax reform, and it is a victory people will see on their paychecks every two weeks in 2018. If Congress officially repeals ObamaCare and construction begins on the southern border wall, I doubt the House will be in jeopardy.<br /><br />Remember in 1992 when the media swooned over the Carville and Stehanopolous “War Room” and their brilliant rhetoric “It’s the economy, stupid”? <br /><br />Perhaps it is, eh?<br /><br />All the virtue-signaling and choir-preaching may have Lefties feeling good, but these are phyrric moments of victory that have a 53-second half-life before the criers return to their natural misery. Always remember: they are destroyers. <br /><br />Merry Christmas, indeed. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-66545930039034345612017-12-23T05:27:40.778-08:002017-12-23T05:27:40.778-08:00I did have several witty and profound observations...I did have several witty and profound observations to make, but unfortunately I am dead.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.com