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Transcript of Trump's remarks - rollcall.com

--------- rats everywhere deny any association with this lunatic.

Employers pay payroll taxes, regardless of their legal structure
but you knew that.
#5 | Posted by eberly

You suck at ad-libbing your own right wing talking points.

Who Really Pays Payroll Taxes?
taxfoundation.org

While payroll taxes are legally imposed partially or wholly on employers, employees effectively pay almost the entire tax, instead of splitting the burden with their employers.

This is because tax incidence is not determined by law, but by markets. In fact, the person who is required to pay a tax to the federal government is often different than the person who bears the tax burden. Usually, the marketplace decides how the tax burden is divided between buyers and sellers, based on which party is more sensitive to changes in prices (economists call this "relative price elasticities").
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Because roughly half of the payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare are paid by employers but borne by workers in the form of lower wages, rather than being fully enumerated on pay stubs, taxpayers may underestimate the true budgetary impact of these social programs.

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"The final round of polls released by The Times on Sunday showed Democrats leading in many of the key Senate battlegrounds, including in Michigan by 11 percentage points, in Texas by 7, Kansas by 5 and Alaska by 1.

Silver said the poll's results were close but not within his model's "weird" territory, adding that the data suggests Democrats are likely to take the Senate.

"Democrats could actually absorb a modest-sized polling error and perhaps still prevail given the latest round of surveys," Silver wrote.

With less than a day before Election Day, Democrats hold the edge in the polls. They are poised to win or seriously compete in historically red states, including South Carolina, Kansas and Iowa.

Silver pointed out that even if Democrats lose a handful of these red state races, they won't necessarily be complaining.

"Even if Democrats were to lose a couple of these races " and there's actually some bad news for them here in Alaska, I think " absolutely no Democrat is going to complain if they only flip the top five races in this chart, especially if it comes along with the Texas governorship," Silver wrote."

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"Am I Blue"

Excerpt from "To Have And Have Not" (1944)
Hoagie Carmichael, on piano, sings with Lauren Bacall." (great Bogart/Bacall moment)
www.youtube.com
one min, 40 secs

#1 | POSTED BY CORKY AT 2026-11-02 06:28 PM | FLAG:

Only polls that matter are the ones tomorrow. I don't trust anything else.

#2 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR AT 2026-11-02 07:59 PM | FLAG:

The Vote tomorrow won't matter either if DJT had his way.

I expect his DoJ will try to tie up the results in Court, while Maga Mike refuses to seat Dem winners.

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They will try to sabotage the vote. They will fail, Trump and his cronies aren't very smart..

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