Trump's big win = Americans paying more taxes.

Some victory.

" She did not include the income from the dark money group on her disclosure form, which experts called a likely violation of federal ethics requirements."

Likely?!? LIKELY???

Here's the IRS's approach to the average taxpayer:

If you got the money, you KNOW you got the money.. Period, full stop.

This is a Clarence Thomas level of perfidy. According to the IRS, there is NO EXCUSE for omitting income.

Now say it with me, Republicans: "No one is above the law!"

"do you believe Vince Foster killed himself"

Vince Foster is a self-own.

His own sister knew he killed himself the moment she heard.

Meanwhile, you're using the corpse of a suicide as a political pawn.

"What people actually see is parents forcing kids to watch hypersexualized performances "

But the kids don't seem them that way. Only YOU combine drag queens and sex.

Thanks for proving my point!

"Drag queens are the entertainment keeping them distracted while they indoctrinate their minds."

Did anybody ever notice? The folks who see drag queens, and immediately think about sex with children...

...never really needed the drag queens to get there.

"He would tell you, if you want to see heaven, to stop being gay."

Why didn't he say that when he had the chance? Homosexuality was know in Biblical times. Why no condemnation out of Jesus' mouth?

He certainly wasn't shy when it came to the religiously gaudy, those who would judge others, and those who treated others as "the least" of their brethren.

But a condemnation of gays from a guy who hung out mostly with other men, and lived with his mother until he was 30?!? Nowhere to be found!

? If we are following the bible, I really dont care."

What a riot.

You can't name two Commandments Trump follows. Nor can you name any of the six markers of the Anti-Christ he's not.

"you forgot to add....." they all do it"

All the Republicans, certainly.

For the record, are you for or against this BBB, which borrows trillions and trillions more, mostly to give away in expiring tax cuts?

"Just because a few of his actions overlap with parts of it doesn't mean he's secretly following the playbook."

My guess is Fox News never reported the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought (the guy Trump pretended not to know), was put in charge of OMB.

"Senate Advances Trump Tax Cut, Spending Bill"

Annnnnd, once again, those who talk against this bill, and Trump, fall in line when it comes to the vote.

" And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you shut up liberals trying to change the bible to excuse sin."

What a coincidence.

The way to shut up a Trump Humper is to ask them to name any two of the Ten Commandments Trump follows.

"narrowing down injunctive relief to those who filed the lawsuit, not the entire nation."

So, only plaintiffs are wronged?

" That's Afghanistan's problem, I dont know how it became the American taxpayer's problem."

Cain has spoken.

"More patients may die as a result..."

Oh, puh-leeze.

We're talking about macro dials being turned. More patients WILL die as a result.

" we didn't have an out break of measles or anything else once eradicated until we had a major outbreak of illegal immigration."

That would make a lot of sense ... if that was the way contagion works.

Are you actually suggesting these folks HAD measles when they crossed ... and it laid dormant in them for months and months?!?

Again ... that's not how it works.

" Doctors know (or should know) that treatment of a non-uterine "pregnancy" is not, and has never been considered an abortion from a medical standpoint."

They do know.

What they don't know is does the current AG know. And therein lies the rub.

Even "being right" might cost six figures.

"Actually, the legal definition I see is "A criminal is someone who has violated the law, either through an act or omission, and is subject to legal prosecution."

So are you saying the guy who went 31 in a 30mph zone is a criminal?!?

"Why cant you liberals/progressives understand you are on the wrong side of this illegal immigration issue?"

I'm more than happy to deport the known gang members and known criminals. When will that begin? Trump said on "day one", but I've yet to see a single raid or mass arrest of ANY gang.

Was he lying, and are you covering?

"You'd think that if the folks who told you to believe something are found to not believe it that you would stop believing it..."

They're watching "news" outlets who skip that particular issue.

For example, you're not going to see a lot of Smartmatic trial coverage on Fox News. Or OANN.

And the Hannity and Carlson texts to each other, giving up the game? ZERO segments on Fox, or the Fox wannabees.

"In fact, the only liberal response to it was always something like, "Yeah, well Trump lies more so there!"

So basically, you don't like whataboutism...unless it's you doing it.

"the "sanctions" weren't doing ---- to stop them from acquiring nukes"

Nonsense. For the first time, the US was able to monitor the supply chains of nuclear programs.. It was actually a diplomatic breakthrough; anyone who talks trash about the deal is clueless.

But Trump dumped it...because Obama.

OCU,

It looks like you got some very good advice over the years. Nicely done. I especially like your trio of DB pensions.

I've got a pair of defined benefit pensions, also with the 100% survivor's benefit. My wife is about a year younger than me, so that was an easy option to choose.

Our plan has been to live off our Taxable IRAs for the time being, so we can increase each of our SS payments to the max. And it turned out I didn't want to retire when I turned 65, as I'd always believed. So for the time being, I'm actually taking extra out of our taxable IRAs, then turning around and maxing out our Roth IRAs. Our goal is as much in Roth IRAs as possible, and as little in Traditional IRAs as needed. Our three pensions and SS will, of course, be taxable, but for the next three years before the RMDs, we'll live on pensions, SS, and ROTH IRAs.

Once we hit RMDs, the plan is to use ALL RMDs for charity, via Qualified Charitable Distributions. That way: no income tax, federal or state.

Maybe DJ Vance would be funnier.

"Wake me up when the deposits are late."

You're joking, right?

One of the HUGE advantages of Social Security is we can see the future quite easily. For example, we knew when Reagan changed the withholding rates, that meant we'd be over-collecting Social Security taxes until around 2010, when we'd have to start dipping into the reserves. We saw that coming decades in advance, just like we saw the baby boomer retirement coming for decades. We're currently in the 11th year of a 17 year stretch where 10,000 baby boomers a day turn 65. We can see actuarial shortfalls within a dozen years, especially if we don't address the imbalance in the equation.

Currently, 1 additional point for both the employer and the worker would put the Social Security equation in balance into actuarial perpetuity (75 yrs). There are other possibilities as well, including slowly raising the retirement age. Any significant wait before enacting reforms will force the changes to become more drastic.

Padilla should've responded, "Anybody could've made that mistake...even James Donald Bowman."