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Apr 6, 2024 01:20:17   #
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Apr 6, 2024 01:15:38   #
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Apr 6, 2024 01:00:23   #
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Apr 6, 2024 00:43:37   #
NotMAGA wrote:
Ha! I loved that story about Franklin so much I googled it. Thanks for that. Must have missed all the stories about it when the bequest hit the 2 century mark.
For anyone else who might want to read more about it..

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/627475/200-year-old-gift-from-benjamin-franklin-to-boston-and-philadelphia


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Apr 5, 2024 23:35:04   #
NotMAGA wrote:
Are you in a state that doesn't assess real estate taxes Arch?

Where we are in upstate NY, a homeowner with a house assessed at 200,000 will pay between 4k and 6k annually for school, village, town and county taxes on the assessed value of that house. There aren't many homes in this area worth 7 figures, but taxes on one would be unbelievably high.


There's your problem. You live in the Democrat's socialist taxed dream state of NY.

Have you never heard of the standard deduction? Not everyone pays taxes. Some people do sustain losses during a year and therefore don't have taxable income. You can't judge income based on wealth and you can't judge wealth on income. For example, if you win the lottery for a huge amount and take the lump sum you pay taxes on it in the year won. Then you live off of it the rest of your life, maybe, if you are smart enough to not spend it all immediately.

Here's the real problem Government spends too much. The Federal Reserve prints too much money. Inflation hurts everyone, especially fixed incomes. Inflation is just another form of tax. Social Security isn't keeping up with Bidenflation. CA just increased fast food workers' minimum wage to $20/hour. This will cause price increases and unemployment because bleeding-heart liberals are too stupid to understand the ramifications of their stupi***tic policies. And a person on a fixed income such as SSI just lost more spending power. You can't earn enough interest to make up for your losses due to Bidenflation. You've lost money the past couple of years unless you manage to invest in some very speculative high-yield instruments that are also risky.

If you bought Gold at $1000 an ounce and later sold it for over $2000 an ounce, you didn't earn any money. An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold. It sold for more because of inflation and the Federal Reserve's manipulation of the money supply. The government considers this a capital gain even though you have not gained anything, but the government went off the gold standard, so they consider this a taxable gain.

If you bought a house, made no improvements to it whatsoever, and later sold it for more money because inflation has increased the cost of homes, why should you have to pay taxes on the gain? You paid the taxes already on the money you used to buy it with. You didn't really gain anything. The house didn't change. In fact, it should be worth less because everything is older, worn, and been used more. You have also been paying property taxes on it all along.

I don't have to spell everything out for you, do I? You are smart enough to figure some of this out, aren't you? Our tax system is inherently unfair, to both rich and poor alike. Wealth is not static.


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Apr 5, 2024 22:02:28   #
Americans Differ on Ukraine and Gaza
April 4, 2024
Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Americans overwhelmingly supported Ukraine—as they did with Israel after October 7.

No wonder: Ukraine was surprise attacked by Russia, and Israel was by Hamas.

It seemed an easy binary of good versus evil: both the attacked Ukraine and Israel are pro-Western. Both their attackers, anti-Western Russia and Hamas, are not.

Now everything is bifurcating. And the politics of the wars in America reflect incoherence.

Both Ukraine and Israel are portrayed in the media as supposedly bogging down in their counteroffensives.

More pro-Israel Republicans are troubled by Ukraine’s strategy, or lack thereof, in an increasing Somme-like stalemate.

Yet more pro-Ukrainian Democrats are turning away from Israel as it dismantles Gaza in the messy, bloody slog against Hamas. The left claims either Israel cannot or should not defeat Hamas, or at least at the present cost.

So the left pushes Israel to a ceasefire with Hamas.

It blasts Israeli “disproportionate” responses.

It demands that Israel avoid collateral damage.

It pressures it to form a wartime bipartisan government.

It lobbies to cut it off from American resupply.

It is terrified that Israel will expand the war by responding to aggression from Hezbollah and Iran.

Yet on Ukraine, the left oddly pivots to the very opposite agenda.

It believes Ukraine should not be forced to make peace with Russian “f*****ts.” It must become disproportionate to “win” the war.

President Zelensky deserves a pass, despite cancelling e******ns while suspending political parties.

America must step up its resupply to Kyiv with more and far deadlier weapons.

Ukraine has a perfect right to hit targets inside Russia.

Russian threats to widen the war should be considered empty and thus ignored. America should h**e Russia far more than Hamas.

By contrast, conservatives are less supportive of Ukraine’s offensives, if more than ever allied with Israel.

In their realist views, Ukraine is a smaller power, vastly outnumbered by a richer, better-armed Russia. Thus, it should negotiate while it can, rather than eventually losing everything.

Israel, however, is, in their view, defeating Hamas. If allowed to finish the job, it can soon win the war in Gaza and still handle Hezbollah and deter Iran.

Furthermore, the right is wary that Russia is a nuclear power. The Ukraine war is unfortunately creating a new, potent anti-American axis of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea and drawing in former U.S. allies like Turkey and Qatar.

Yet, in Israel’s case, the U.S. is far more powerful than Hamas’s patron, Iran, and can easily deter it should Tehran intervene.

As of now, none of Hamas’s allies have nuclear weapons. Israel, however, does, unlike Ukraine.

Many conservatives further point out that Israel is a long-time U.S. democratic ally.

Ukraine’s e******ns are currently suspended while the country remains under martial law.

In realist terms, the old idea of Russian triangulation still makes some sense. Russia should be no friendlier to China than to the U.S., and China is no more aligned with Russia than with America.

Hamas, by contrast, is a terrorist clique, as are Hezbollah and all of Iran’s terrorist appendages. Their hatred of the U.S. is long-standing, immutable, and transcends the Gaza war.

How about the public’s views in general?

With over $35 trillion in debt, still smarting over the humiliating withdrawal from Kabul, and the military short 40,000 recruits, the public does not wish to get heavily involved in either war, even as polls still show radically differing left/right attitudes toward both.

Americans once overwhelmingly supported vast aid for Ukraine. Now they decidedly believe the U.S. is providing too much to Kyiv.

They still poll strong support for Israel over Hamas, but less so for Israel’s ongoing destruction of Hamas given the collateral damage that follows.

Given there are few Russian-Americans, there are almost no demonstrations on behalf of Moscow’s war. But there are plenty of protests for Hamas since there are lots of Middle-Eastern Americans and visitors within the U.S.

What are we to conclude about these contradictory wars and American attitudes toward them?

The more democratic and defensive the power, the more Americans support it—but only up to a point.

Even more, they demand quick victory—and lose interest when the wars stagnate, costs increase, and protests grow.

When Ukraine and Israel began costly counteroffensives, the former losing thousands and the latter k*****g thousands, the American public began to be less invested in either war.

Final lessons?

Israel should do all it can to destroy Hamas as quickly as possible and end the war.

Ukraine does not have the wherewithal to defeat Russia. It should cease costly offensives against Russia’s fortified lines and seek to negotiate.

Or, put another way, fickle Americans sympathize with those who are attacked. But their continuing support seems contingent on whether the victim can remain sympathetic—and win decisively to end the war rapidly.
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Apr 5, 2024 21:55:22   #
federally indicted mattoid wrote:
Wonder if donny would take your pearls of wisdom about reading books...

Just kidding. He doesn't read books.


Probably not. Neither does Joe.
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Apr 5, 2024 21:40:09   #
federally indicted mattoid wrote:
Maybe dtuck is John Barron, lol


“Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even highly intelligent individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.”

– Thomas Sowell

In other words, engage brain before putting mouth in gear.

This is why we bought you books and sent you to school. What do you do with your education? You treat it as if it is frivolous.
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Apr 4, 2024 20:53:38   #
dwp66 wrote:
How does a rich person "have no income"? Explain that. Either they have an inheritance, or a trust fund, or capital gains - or something!

Biden is no i***t, unless you think that 62% of Americans are. That certainly even includes some Republicans:

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/396737/average-american-remains-higher-taxes-rich.aspx

"Perhaps the million who agree are also i***ts." Uh-huh. Most of us except for you, tucker. (But you, obviously, know more than the rest of us.)

"Make the taxes too high and they will relocate to another country."

Really? Which one, pray tell?

France: top rate 45%
Spain: 47%
Germany: 45%
Netherlands: 49% (one of the richest per-capita country in the world)
Belgium: 50%
Sweden: 52.9%
Ireland: 40%
Israel: 50%
Austria: 55%
Japan: 55.9%

https://nomadcapitalist.com/finance/countries-with-the-highest-tax-rates/

I could go on, there's a long list of countries that pay much more than we do here - but what's the point? You wouldn't change your mind no matter what empirical data I throw out there, and we both know it.

Fact is, in the 1950's the top 1% in America paid about 43%. And they did just fine.

"The Democrats are never satisfied with the amount of taxes collected because they want to spend more and more on worthless programs that are outside the purview of their responsibility."

Oh really? I guess things like Social Security and Medicare are "worthless programs" out of "purview of their responsibility"? Surely you jest. Or maybe not. Maybe you are exactly the kind of person who not only believes in minority rule, and that everyone else is an "i***t", but also has been utterly convinced that "trickle down" actually works?
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One non sequitur after another. Get real Mr. Dumass. A lot of i***tic assumptions on your part that don't dignify a response. I love it when you trolls are willing to expose your ignorance for the whole world to see.
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Apr 4, 2024 20:20:38   #
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Apr 4, 2024 20:03:02   #
“A society that loses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction.”


So stated New York State Supreme Court Justice Edwin Torres over 30 years ago in a private communication. From the bench, Judge Torres added this lament: “The slaughter of the innocent marches unabated: subway riders, bodega owners, cab drivers, babies; in laundromats, at cash machines, on elevators, in hallways.”


We find the judge’s remarks, which read like today’s headlines, cited in Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1993 article “Defining Deviancy Down.” By normalizing what was once a******l, Moynihan argues, we eventually ensure “the manifest decline of the American civic order.” He uses as his data points soaring rates of crime and gun violence, disintegrating families, a chaos of ideas about sexual practices and marriage, failing schools, and the closure of facilities for the mentally ill.


Moynihan outlines his argument in this way:


I proffer the thesis that, over the past generation … the amount of d*****t behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels the community can ‘afford to recognize’ and that, accordingly, we have been re-defining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the ‘normal’ level in categories where behavior is now a******l by any earlier standard….


Let me, then, offer three categories of redefinition in these regards: the altruistic, the opportunistic, and the normalizing.


The first category, the altruistic, may be illustrated by the deinstitutionalization movement within the mental health profession that appeared in the 1950s. The second category, the opportunistic, is seen in the interest group rewards derived from the acceptance of “alternative” family structures. The third category, the normalizing, is to be observed in the growing acceptance of unprecedented levels of violent crime.


Now, flash forward 31 years.


Those of us old enough to remember the 1990s may recollect that time as idyllic when compared to our present troubles. The Soviet Union had collapsed; the national debt in 1993 was around $5 trillion compared to today’s more than $34 trillion; our southern border was relatively secure. San Francisco was famed for its beauty rather than for its homeless population, crime rates in New York City were declining and would continue to do so over the next decade, and drug overdose deaths in 1993 were less than 10 percent of what they are today.


Fortunately for the future of our country, some Americans of all ages are in fact outraged by today’s cultural radicalism and d*****t behaviors. In “Culture Shock with Lindsay Wigo,” for instance, the young, eye-rolling Ms. Wigo brings us a man who claims deep suntans are r****t, a woman who boasts about being a stalker, and another woman who identifies as a pig. In the 1990s, our society would have looked on this trio as oddballs at best and, at worst, as suffering from mental illness.


Another negative take on our decline into deviancy —and there are countless others, both online and in conversations with our families and friends—can be found in Naomi Wolf’s “Broken in What Way?” Here, Wolf recounts at length a recent visit to New York, a city she loves but which now seems to be in ruins. “I think if one lives here day to day,” she writes, “the shocking decline of the city is not so obvious. But to me, the change in the city was like seeing a beloved friend, who had formerly been beautiful and enchanting and witty, in a hospital bed, on an IV drip, half-unconscious.” Here Wolf puts a finger on another reason for our demise: the gradualism that moves society from condemnation of an idea or a practice first to tolerance and then to acceptance.


So, where do we turn if we wish to reverse this decline into deviancy? In 1993, Senator Moynihan recommended several political solutions, yet given the federal government’s increasingly dismal performance in the 21st century—the massive debt, the lost wars, the broken border, the malfunctioning domestic programs—that rutted roadway promises only more failures.


No—if we are to reverse our present decline, we are the ones who must take action. In some instances, such as reducing the d*****t federal deficit, most of us have only a v**e as our weapon. In other cases, however, such as combating neighborhood crime, seeking the best possible education for our children, or opposing society’s attacks on marriage and the traditional family, our power to effect change vastly improves.


Here we must begin by reviving the old-fashioned concept of decency, which one online dictionary defines as “behavior that conforms to accepted standards of morality or respectability.”


Those standards derive from our Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian heritage, but they have been shoved aside in the last 50 years in favor of relativism, which is no standard at all. We find one glaring example of this sea change in the recent phenomenon of d**g q***n story hours in our public libraries. Billed as family-friendly events promoting diversity and foisted off on communities by the American Library Association, these performances for children aim at subverting the family, normalizing deviancy, and confusing preschoolers about g****r and sex.


At the same time, we must recognize that accepting deviancy as a norm comes with a tremendous cost. In many of our large cities, for example, crime and murder are now accepted as everyday events. The weekend casualty counts, assaults, and robberies out of places like Chicago and New York receive due notice in some media, but little if any effort is put into reducing these tallies of murder, rape, and theft.


Once we understand that the d*****t behavior found across the board in today’s culture is neither normal nor desirable, and we have the heart and the spirit to do something about it, we can take action.


The field of education more easily demonstrates this power of the individual or a group of citizens to make a difference. More families are homeschooling now than ever before, and private academies of all sorts are springing up around the country. Parents are v****g with their feet and leaving government schools.


The Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ad and the subsequent backlash that caused Anheuser-Busch InBev to take a major hit in sales was yet another demonstration of our power to make change. The lesson there was to stop supporting companies that are intent on radical cultural t***sformation.


Public libraries have also become battlegrounds in the culture wars. From Prattville, Alabama, Lori Herring writes “How to Save Your Local Library From Cultural Marxists.” Pratt and a group of concerned parents spent nearly a year working to divest their public library’s children’s section of pornographic material, but they finally succeeded. Courageous people like them are making a difference.


To take charge of our lives rather than looking to government is a tradition as old as America itself, and it can be applied to everything from cleaning up our city streets of trash to crime prevention. Participating in local e******ns, v****g, becoming candidates ourselves, volunteering, staying engaged in local affairs—in these ways and more, citizens can have a direct effect on culture and community. Stout hearts, willing hands, and a sense of common decency can heal any number of the wounds inflicted on our society.


Enough, then, of defining deviancy down. Let’s start defining decency up.


-- Jeff Minick
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Apr 4, 2024 19:59:42   #
I am sure there are plenty of L*****t trolls and Biden Democrats on OPP who think this is a great idea. I will be more than happy to forward your comments to the FBI, so don't hold anything back.

Neocon Super PAC Urges Trump’s Assassination
Posted Apr 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |

The Lincoln Pact is the neocon Super Pac championed by Liz Cheney that has two objectives: 1) continue all endless wars, and 2) eliminate Donald Trump. The group grew in their demands after Nikki Haley ungracefully bowed out of the e******n. This is not a Republican Super Pac as they have endorsed re-electing Joe Biden as the military-industrial establishment must win.

RickWilson

The group is now openly calling for the assassination of Donald Trump. Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson has a career based on his hatred for Trump, publishing books entitled “Everything Trump Touches Dies,” and “Running Against The Devil – A Plot To Save America from Trump And Democrats From Themselves.” Once a Republican, Rick Wilson is simply an establishment tool who will endorse any and all neocon policies. A quick search of his name will show you endless videos of Wilson bashing Trump and the MAGA movement.

Rick Wilson is terrified of a Trump victory, especially as the people clearly indicate that he is their candidate of choice. His solution?

“The donor class can’t just sit back on the sidelines and say, oh, this will all just work itself out. They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. And that’s a fact,” Rick Wilson from The Lincoln Project stated on MSNBC broadcasting.
Imagine if anyone on Trump’s campaign took to live TV to call for the assassination of Joe Biden. He would be immediately condemned for inciting a bloodbath, MSNBC would have weeks of re-education for its staff, and he’d likely face time in prison.

Soros Calls for Assassination of Trump

Alex Soros, Open Society Foundation heir and g*******t, has also been calling for the assassination of Trump. Soros was subtler in his demands for a dead president by image of $47 and a bullet hole implying to assassinate the 47th president, Trump.

Donald Trump has numerous targets on his back. The majority of our computer models say that he will win. Still, there is no possible way that the establishment could allow that to happen, mainly because he wants to put an end to America’s involvement in foreign conflicts and back away from the c*****e c****e agenda that is simply a rouse for the Great Reset. The computer will be right again. There is absolutely no way either side will accept the 2024 e******n result, and Trump’s life is in danger.
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Apr 3, 2024 22:59:54   #
archie bunker wrote:
The tax code needs re-working in my opinion. Too many loopholes, and ways to hide money. They all do it.
I would if I were them too.
Thing is, in my mind, everyone looks at percentage instead of dollar amount. I mean, I could set my family up for life, and live comfortably on the 8% that some of these people/corporations pay yearly.
Our government is just really bad with money. Like, there is an endless supply, and they need to take more from those with more. Depending on the political party, of course.
I'm not against everyone paying what is owed, but if the deductions are there, I'm gonna take them. We all do that.
I'm all for a flat tax. If you make a dollar, you pay a dime.
A million arguments against it, I know.
It's too simple, and just might give the government a finite amount of income to work with. Kinda like the people they allegedly represent do.
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A flat tax tithe works for churches. Why not for the government? Economics is about the scarcity of resources but the government acts as though there is an unlimited supply of tax revenue. 10% should be plenty. No more than 15%. Eliminate credits and deductions. Businesses and individuals should be making economic decisions based on the best practices, not what they can deduct because of what the tax code says. The IRS/Government giveth and they taketh away.
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Apr 3, 2024 22:15:25   #
dwp66 wrote:
That is a good response, and I can see your point. I actually feel that really rich people should be taxed on their incomes, not their property taxes. IMO, really rich folks & corporations like Amazon should be paying more.

I agree with Biden's $400,000 and up recommendation, as do millions of others.

Thanks for your reply.


Okay, what about rich people without incomes? Biden is an i***t. The $400,000 hurts small businesses. Perhaps the million who agree are also i***ts. do you even know what the $400,000 plan is? Stop the envy. The Democrats are never satisfied with the amount of taxes collected because they want to spend more and more on worthless programs that are outside the purview of their responsibility. The government is inefficient. Corporations already pay a lot in taxes. Make the taxes too high and they will relocate to another country. Do you think every person working for them doesn't receive a salary that is not taxed?
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Apr 3, 2024 17:36:27   #
publican wrote:
Good grief, tucker, do your ears hear the words you say? You say:: ",,, you haven't expressed anything except an opinion. Nothing to back it up ...". Then you proceed to express opinions with nothing to back them up.

By the way, you really should stop mainlining Mark Levin. He is affecting your style, and not in a nice way.


Pubic-an, there are no facts in front of you if you read what's-his-name's posts (See, I already can't remember his name because I am not going to waste any more time on this). I am calling him out because he posts trash and is a self-evident egotistic poseur. I can't very well refute facts when he doesn't present any.

Mainlining Mark Levin? Thank you for the compliment! This is far better than what we are used to from you. You might be competition for him someday.
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