"can you name a billionaire that "wants a tax cut"?"

That's your job.

I can name some (without speaking for them) that are AGAINST tax cuts for the wealthy.

George Soros: The billionaire financier has supported proposals that raise taxes on the wealthy and redistribute wealth.

Steven Rockefeller: Philanthropist who has previously joined groups like Responsible Wealth to oppose tax relief for the top 5%.

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield: The founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream have frequently signed public letters asking lawmakers to raise their taxes rather than cutting them.

The Singularity is Nearer..

There is no "conflict".

Alito is not conflicted at all.

Which, of course, is the problem.

He should be.

They want the tax cuts. Everybody wants a tax cut. I want one. You want one.
#26 | POSTED BY EBERLY

You sir, are no billionaire. So you cannot speak for them.

The question is appropriate.

Why does a billionaire want a tax cut? They certainly don't need one.

Time to get a job

#22 | Posted by THEBULL

"Are there no prisons? ... And the Union workhouses? Are they still in operation?"

NYT, but not paywalled for me

It was for me.

#8 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

First access is a guest access second is not free. That's my theory.

Re 5

Oops wrong thread ...

There is no "conflict".

Alito is not conflicted at all.

Which, of course, is the problem.

He should be.

then send the IOUs to his father who would dutifully pay them all back and inter alia keep track of his son and his cohorts.

#19 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

Probably learned that particular surveillance technique from his friends ... the Nazis.

As the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1938"1940), he was a vocal appeaser of Adolf Hitler.

Break the global supply chains and destroy the modern world.

It's not like we don't have historical examples.

The collapse of entire Bronze Age networks is the most famous historical example of a civilization falling due to a collapsed supply chain.

The Late Bronze Age Collapse (~1200 BCE): The premier historical example. Hyper-specialized economies in the Eastern Mediterranean relied on vast trade networks for copper (Cyprus) and tin (from as far away as Afghanistan) to create bronze. When these international trade routes were severed by climate-induced crop failures, regional wars, and the raiding "Sea Peoples," empires"including the Mycenaeans and the Hittites"collapsed within a single generation because they could no longer secure the materials required to maintain their societies.

And so it goes..

Why didn't DOGE find this fraud?

Wasn't that their actual job?

I love the fact that E. Jean elected not to take any money (she was offered) until the case was resolved because the millions of dollars Trumpy owes her (by law) is gathering interest.

Her family will be wealthy for generations now.

Thanks to Trumpy.

I also find it interesting that the case has been on the court docket for years yet the Supremes have delayed the final adjudication of this case at least 12 times.. for Trumpy.

The left hasn't cooperated ...

I for one will never cooperate with this Nazis Gestapo like behavior.

We warned it would be a disaster to try mass deportation the way Trumpy wants to do it. And now here we are.

This is not a "both sides" issue.

It is all on Republicans who currently hold all the reins of federal power atm.

Judge: Corporations Can Vote in Some Delaware Elections

Even if they are woman or black owned?

That Yankee judge be crazy!

A free lunch always tastes much better on a free luxury jet with a cozy love shack in the back.

Then you can pay for your lunch using the subsidies our government provides you.

Studies show that the richer you are the less likely you are to carry any cash to pay for anything.

"Give me a free lunch or I'll kill you"
#11 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Said no child nowhere on earth ever.

Whats more likely to be said is:

"There is no such thing as a free lunch"

If you think working slave job here in earth sucks.

Wait until we have slave jobs in the moon. Where there is no possibility of escape.

Promised a new life. Light years away.
We wrecked the old world. Found a new one to break.

You said, Hey people, come up to space!
Together we'll build up one hell of a place.

But all of your lies all at this moment
This mission looks like A fools rush for gold.

Just like a Mission Control ...

From For All Mankind, season 5

What's the plan?

#64 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

Not Sure.

He is the only one who knows the plan.

The legendary three-point plan goes exactly like this:

Number 1: We've got this guy, Not Sure.
Number 2: He's got a higher IQ than any man alive.
Number 3: He's going to fix EVERYTHING.

Roman emperors frequently fed the crowds at gladiator matches. To maintain popularity, hosts combined the violence of the arena with food distributions and lavish banquets, creating the famous political strategy of "bread and circuses".

I am down for a "lavish banquet"!

Is our wannabe Caligula gonna feed all the people that day, too?

That would be something to see.

Nowadays having five kids with three baby mommas and cheating on them all is the standard for GOP family values.

Example:

MAGA standard bearer Elon Musk has fathered 14 children with four different women. (However, reports indicate that the true number of children he has fathered may be even higher than what is publicly known.)

We're going bankrupt as a country that has hungry children..

But we are creating exciting opportunities for them (and all them immigrants) on the moon!

Personally i believe it's the expedition to the River of Doubt that eventually killed him. I would have done that differently too. I would have studied the natives to see how they were able to live in such primitive conditions first. It would have taken longer but we would have been much better prepared to survive in the jungles of the Amazon. Teddy barely got out alive.

The harrowing Amazon journey severely compromised his health. The combination of tropical diseases like malaria, an infected leg wound, and starvation caused his condition to deteriorate, which ultimately led to a coronary embolism at age 60.

Teddy Roosevelt thinks you are all soft.

Teddy dropped dead at 60.

#47 | POSTED BY LEE_THE_AGENT

Yup! Turns out life is not a race. It's an endurance contest.

Strength comes in many forms. Sometimes it's just patience and dogged perseverance.

If Teddy and I were in a long distance race together I'd be the "turtle" and he'd be the "hare". He would kick my butt in the beginning of the race(and I'd have to let him) but i would eventually outlast him and win that race.