Forty years in the tax business; I've never even HEARD of a provision like this. Exempting him and his entire family?!? GTFOH.

No doubt the slurpers will show up en masse to universally condemn this obvious grift.

Any time now.

" As a federal worker, I had to take hours long classes on cool stuff like not being able to buy my immediate boss a lunch that cost more than ten bucks. Heaven forbid I bribe him."

40 years ago, when I began doing taxes, the deductible gift limit was $25 per recipient family per year.

Today, that limit has grown to ... $25 per recipient family, per year.

Unless you're a Supreme Court justice of course, in which case there are no limits at all!!!

" E.Jean Carrol received outside funding for her civil lawsuit after testifying under oath that she didn't but then said she "forgot" that billionaire Reid Hoffman and American Future Republic funded a large portion."

And that makes Trump less guilty ... how?

"It's based on illegal entry into our country."

As adjudicated in a court of law, or as alleged by the ICE guy getting the bonus?

"Considering it was Dan who originally got this started, I wouldn't bank on it being true."

Stuff it, liar.

Ask Laura if you're unsure.

"For all my talk about religion and values, have I ever said or implied that I am better than anyone else?"

You're joking, right?

You literally told Laura you wouldn't be seeing her in the afterlife, because she was going to a different place than you.

Not only is that "implying" you're better, it's out-and-out blasphemy.

"but he admitted the problem of the Hormuz strait became understood as the war went on"

IOW, these putzes wouldn't pass a West Point freshman midterm.

"wages were up 3.6% for the year and inflation was up 3.8%."

If they're admitting 3.8%, it's probably double that amount.

Anyone here think 3.8% passes the smell test???

"I dunno. Is it?"

What's your answer, Bellringer? Is a $1.776 billion slush fund something you want to enable???

If so, how much should Hunter Biden get, since both of the main testifiers Gomer Comer brought against him said he was innocent?

"You sound retarded... Go look it up for yourself"

So ... were you lying?

Or are you, by your own barometer, retarded?

"They even changed the status of limitations to prosecute Trump"

No they didn't.

Every time Trump restated the lie, the clock began again.

It seems like you get your "news" from outlets who believe you can't handle the truth.

" I suddenly felt a brief quivering sensation in the front of my head that lasted about two seconds."

Sounds like you could be the new head of HHS!

"(I predict Danforth's amusement at the grammar Nazidom.)"

Nobody likes to have their participle dangling!

"You think a billionaire notices a missing dollar?"

Eff Yes.

That's how they got there...by watching the pennies.

"If you watch the pennies, the dollars watch themselves."

"I won't argue with you on that but dumping that amount of baseless money in a short time will still cause rampant inflation."

Then you won't argue inflation would've been worse under Trump, who wanted the third stimulus to be 42% higher.

"blame Biden for 9.3% inflation"

Which lasted all of one month, before Biden brought down inflation further and faster than any other G7 nation.

Trump will see no such amelioration.

"Lutnick said economic growth in the first quarter would be 5%. It was actually 1.6%"

But, but, but...when you use Vernon's Calculator, along with Republican Math, it comes out to 6.1% growth!

" getting half this country out of paying any income taxes"

You fell for the trick.

For decades now, Republicans have been stuffing child rearing subsidies onto the 1040. CTC, ACTC, AOC, EITC, CCC, PFL, etc.

Because of that, the same people who used to be scored as "paying income taxes" are now doing the same things, yet they're scored as "not paying income taxes".

Republicans literally passed childrearing subsidies on a Tuesday, and started complaining on Wednesday that less people were "paying taxes".

And here you are, dutifully repeating the talking point.

"The ruling came after a bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges asked Judge Kathleen M. Williams to investigate the circumstances of Trump's questionable settlement"

Well, you know what that means, don't you?

The DOJ is preparing another 35 indictments!

"I am stunned every time I go to the doctor and they say my lungs sound perfect "

It's all those years of deep, deep breathing.

Shall we address the elephant in the room?

The biggest loophole in the US tax code is GRATs, aka Grantor Annuity Trusts. GRATs make the inheritance tax a laughingstock, by allowing unlimited amounts of money transferred from one generation to another. The trust is set up, the money is placed, and the owner simply ... disclaims it! It goes to the next heir, tax-free. And every billionaire uses it, from Adelson to Soros to Thiel to Winfrey to Zuckerberg. Sheldon Adelson used it to transfer $8 billion to his kids, avoiding roughly $2.3 billion in inheritance tax.

And why isn't it repealed? Because, as one wag put it, "the only people affected are the members of the political donor class"

Translation: don't expect GRATs to be repealed anytime soon.

"I beg your pardon?"

Wasn't J6 "the trashy decadence festival we had"...?

Think of "lawn" as a metaphor.

" ... the trashy decadence festival we had on the Whitehouse lawn a few years back."

J6?

" Corky with all due respect. Why should we listen to you?? You said that Kamala would win in a landslide."

You're confusing Corky with me. I'm the idiot who predicted a blue tsunami. I'm the one you shouldn't be listening to.

Notice I've been dead silent this time around.

" Paxton is a criminal."

... who I'd vote for if I lived there.

At least finish the sentence honestly.

"Nothing Kamala might have done would have given us the corruption and war and high prices and loss of power in the world that Your Lard Saviour has done."

BillJohnson always seems to believe in theories with no proof.

What's the word for that? Gullible? Schmuck? Slurper?