kemmer

What’s even funnier than Trump wanting to buy Greenland, is his little people thinking he was joking.

woodguru

Your inherently wrong conclusions are the result of patently false rhetoric such as "if you don't support Trump you must hate the country". I would take down the global elite in a heartbeat, they can pay way more taxes than they are, if a working person can pay 20% of their income and another large percentage in healthcare so can a person making 100 million dollars actually pay somewhere around 30 million of what they made, they do not need special write offs that make it to where they in reality pay under 10 million. In a percentage based reality working people pay higher percentages of their incomes than truly wealthy people do. The stock and investment maing excessive shelters on income being made in the stock market, especially shorter term day trading type incomes. Income is income and if anything that huge gain made in short term trading should be paying 40 or 50 percent in taxes. If a person can make a million dollars in a one week trade they can afford to pay a 500,000 tax and be quite happy with making a profit of half a million bucks for a week's "work". Investors should be rewarded for using stock investments as the long term retirement safe havens they are supposed to be by reduced taxes on longer term gains, hammer the person jumping in and taking substantial short term profits.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

How do you know he wasn't?

kemmer

Oh be serious. Trump’s an idiot; of course he wasn’t joking. I’d love to be a fly on the wall when he goes to Copenhagen next month. I bet you’ll be able to hear the laughter in DC.

herbie

what America is all about is not what Trump is all about, he is all about himself and the top 1%. stop fooling yourself by believing he cares because he don`t

herbie

if Trump values a healthy economy then why is he killing it ? his tariffs are finally f***ing up the economy big time and you are actually going to say it is not because of what he has done ???????

Seth

Letting states like California make such determinations is the same as simply handing it out on a corner, but unfortunately all Americans who pay into the system are on the hook for this state's legendary generosity with other people's money.

I wouldn't hold my breath imagining it's not the same in Illinois, New York, Mass, Oregon, Washington State, etc.

herbie

his tax cuts have hurt the economy not helped it, it was doing good till he gave the tax cuts to the wealthy and said it would cause them to invest more in the businesses and hire more people and he was wrong it did not happen. the businesses did not invest in the company they put the money in the bank, as usual Trump didn`t have a clue how to help the economy.

herbie

Trumps tax cuts are taking money out of the middle classes pockets, you just don`t get it or you don`t file taxes or you are in the top 1%

kemmer

California is bigger and richer than whatever sorry state You live in.

herbie

I paid into SS and yes I am entitled to it

Seth

I live in California, bone brain, and therefore am more qualified to talk about the situation here than you are, unless, of course, you live in California.

Of course, you seem to live in a sorry state that goes beyond the geographic definition.

kemmer

I’ve lived in California for 74 years with no complaints. Maybe you’d be happier in the South where you’d have more to complain about.

Seth

I guess if you're a card carrying commie, California's "the place you ought to be."

I grew up mostly in NY, spent a few summers in L.A., did 11th grade in L.A. and graduated H.S. in S.F., lived in S.F. 1999-2004, watched this place go from a great state to a Socialist shithole.

Your kind of place.

Been here as a sort of boat watcher/ guest of a colleague for the past 18 months, leaving soon, never to return, trust me. My friend is also considering moving his live-aboard sailboat to another state, someplace more in keeping with the United States of America, which this state no longer is.

You and this miserable treasonous state can have each other. In fact, you deserve one another.

kemmer

Very good riddance.