"Imagine cutting the government and a bunch of ------- dorks think it's actually tyranny"

Imagine firing government workers and not keeping their contact numbers for emergency rehire. Or not knowing the difference between new hires and new promotions. Or making a claim of savings, only to have it reduced by 1000X because the teenagers you hired can't properly count the number of zeros.

And a bunch of MAGA morons think it's actually governance.

'I saw a graph representation once demonstrating the wealth of the top 1%. The bulk of the money is held by the top .1%. And the rest of the 1% (nine-tenths of 1%) all added together is less than the .1% (one-tenth of 1%)"

Yep, all true.

Now, to the crux of the issue: Do you believe the USA should go another $4-$5 trillion in debt, knowing OVER HALF that money will go to the .1% you reference???

"Over the decades I haven't seen either party take on the rich because they contribute money to their campaigns."

Absolutely true.

Every politician is aware of the biggest tax loophole in the code: GRATS, or Grantor Remainder Annuity Trusts. The uber-rich deposit assets, live off the gains, and then...just...disclaim it.

Those pass to the heirs, tax-free. Sheldon Aldeson avoided over $3 billion in gift and inheritance taxes that way, passing $8 billion to his kids.

"The bulk of the money is held by the top .1%."

Yeah.

And they got 60% of the last tax code's giveaways, and are set to get $3 Trillion of the $5 Trillion in the new code.

Knowing ALL their tax cuts will have to be newly borrowed...are you still in favor?

"I'm not claiming who benefitted less or most or whatever so don't go off on a tangent."

I'm telling you, according to the EQUATION, they got billions, and you got peanuts. And in the long term, YOU'RE the one on the hook for the new borrowing.

"I simply pointed out I sure liked having my tax liability lower last year."

Most of that was probably from Biden's tweaks. What's left of Trump's cuts for YOU probably didn't add up to a dollar a week per filer. Meanwhile, the richest folks will save tens of thousands of dollars a day.

"people are more willing to squeeze to the last penny more than in the past when "greed" was not as socially accepted."

You enable the people who celebrate greed.

"Trump's tax cuts that are due to expire actually help working people too, because the standard deduction increase provided by Trump's tax cut reduces their tax liability."

You missed the part where they took away your personal exemption. If you donated to your church, your taxes probably went UP, since the donations aren't deductible for 95% of filers. And any actual benefit YOU had has expired.

"But you do have to have a job to benefit from it."

You don't know what you're talking about. Do you know who benefited MORE than American workers (and will, again)? Foreign Investors. And who benefits most? The world's wealthiest one-tenth of 1%, getting more than half the tax giveaways.

Their "job" is opening dividend checks for a living. Their biggest "work injury" is a paper cut. They "benefit" the most.

The Republicans want to borrow an additional $5 Trillion so they can give over $4 Trillion to the world's wealthiest 1%. That's the equation.

Are you in favor of borrowing more money while running a deficit budget, just to give away tax cuts?!?

"when Biden waved his big stick"

Like I said, your news sources are morons. They clearly don't trust you with the whole truth.

Did you miss the fact-check part about Biden being one part of a large international team? That alone destroys your theory. Are you smart enough to realize as much?

"That "fact-check" is 100% self-contradictory."

No it's not. It's clear as day, unless you've convinced yourself beforehand. In that case, you're 100% too stupid to understand it.

"Here he is in his own words"

"The Michigan survey showed that Americans are now fearful of higher inflation on the horizon."

That's only because higher inflation is on the horizon.

Thanks, Trump!

"I lost a -------- of money in the markets today."

I saved $6,000 today. My holdings actually went up.

I got almost completely out of the markets recently, fearing Trump would be a lousy steward.

Also, it's very important to remember they're trying to cut $2 trillion, but not to balance the budget, or even get closer. They want to also pass a $5 trillion tax giveaway.

Every single cut to the average taxpayer is meant to give more money to the billionaires.

And all of it, 100%, would all be newly borrowed money.

" Right now Musk is uncovering millions of dollars of waste and fraud in the government."

Are you including what Elon is claiming, or what the real amount was when it turned out his teenagers couldn't count zeros properly?

Musk made a savings claim that was 1000 times the truth.

" regardless of how many friends you have using it wrong."

Don't be a jerk.

In my arts circles, we've always been Allies. Yav confirmed history I lived through, which you don't know. Why dig a deeper hole?

" Biden did threaten to withhold $1 billion "

You people have morons for news sources.

Any threat Biden made, was because he was representing America and countries in Europe. It was a consensus, not Biden acting for Biden.

The entire way this is represented is a classic self-own. You get the facts backwards, and therefore the conclusions backwards.

It's like bringing up Vince Foster, or Benghazi. It just shows you're too stupid and too lazy to find the actual truth.

"If you want to battle the wikipedia editors ... "

I'll just leave that right there.

Meanwhile, I'm collecting two pensions from a career in the arts. I've never heard A referred to as asexual, always ally.

Ask Siri, see what she tells you. The answer I got was either or both.

"It never meant Allies."

Sure it did; look it up.

" According to Danforth it was the cleanest and most ethical act he's ever witnessed."

If you are ever looking for the textbook example of a strawman, bookmark this post.

" Joe Biden threatened to withhold a billion loan to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor who was investigating the firm where Hunter was being handsomely paid"

TOTAL self-own.

Thanks for displaying the ignorance of your news sources. You've succeeded in getting the truth 180 degrees backwards.

Your opening claim alone proves your partisan stupidity.

"statistics like this mean nothing without the raw numbers."

I disagree. Any time you see a leap in disasters by 50%, you know SOMETHING is affecting the change. Not 2 to 3, of course, but definitely 600 to 900.

"Texas Won't Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women"

Oh, look: even more proof!

"The A went from Asexual to Anybody."

When did it stop being Allies?

"Your assumption is the rate is constant, and only people are admitting it now."

Your assumption is people were just as comfortable then as now in admitting it.

Of the two, I disbelieve the latter.

"They must be using Vernon's calculator."

Reminds me of one of Ira Goldberg's sock puppets. He argued we didn't need vaccines, since only 9.7% of this area in India had been vaccinated, yet ZERO deaths from Covid.

Ira didn't realize, in parts of the world, they used periods where we use commas, and vice-versa.

Turns out 97% of the populace had been vaccinated.

No shortage of eggs on his face!

"part of it was to be repaid with captured Russian assets. But we know how that went."

#44

My apologies, you were right.

I got thrown off when you used the word captured, rather than seized.