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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Germany's official x-Twitter account claps back at Trump's debate claim that dissed their clean energy plan: "Like it or not: Germany's energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables. And we are shutting down " not building " coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest," Germany's foreign office tweeted. "PS: We also don't eat cats and dogs." read more


Thursday, September 05, 2024

A nonpartisan immigration think tank has issued a report challenging misleading and false claims about immigrants prevalent in the presidential campaign season, including the frequent lie that up 20 million undocumented people live in the U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump has cited that number in promising to launch mass deportations if he is reelected -- This is strongly overstated.


Wednesday, September 04, 2024

During a conversation onstage at a Moms for Liberty event last week, Donald Trump said something that made even me look around in confusion at the people around me in the audience. Said Trump: "The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it; your kid goes to school, and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what's going to happen with your child." The is no epidemic of school-based gender-related surgeries. "You take a look at bacon and some of these products," he told a Wisconsin audience last week. "Some people don't eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down " you know, this was caused by their horrible energy " wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn't blow, we have a little problem." As my MSNBC colleague Ja'han Jones responded, "I don't know how you can even fact-check a tangent like that."


Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Donald Trump campaign volunteer in Massachusetts "will no longer have any involvement" in the campaign after he warned in an email that New Hampshire was "no longer a battleground state," according to the Boston Globe on Monday. read more


Thursday, August 29, 2024

A woman visiting the Florida Keys from out-of-state with her husband to meet with a "possible employer" landed in jail after downing half a bottle of liquor in five minutes, crashing into a combination bar-liquor store and then fighting with sheriff's deputies, authorities said. Her husband wound up in jail, too. According to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office arrest report, Kimberly Marie Robins, 47, and Charles Fronefield Lambert, 41, both of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, were in Big Pine Key Monday morning to meet with that employer. The report states that Lambert told deputies that they drove to Coconuts Bar & Liquor Store, and Robins "went into the bar, purchased a bottle of Crown Royal and drank approximately half of the bottle in about (five) minutes," leading to a spat over her drinking. Deputies said Robins got in their pickup truck to "get away" from him, "then drove the truck into the side of the building, causing damage," just after 7:30 a.m.


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Circling the drain. Pobrecito.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED - NOTE THE RATES

The President addressed the issue of tax reform before the Economic Club of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on December 14, 1962.[5] On the advice of Walter Heller, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, President John F. Kennedy proposed a tax cut designed to help spur economic growth.[6] Kennedy believed that the tax cut would stimulate consumer demand, which in turn would lead to higher economic growth, lower unemployment, and increased federal revenues.[7] Kennedy's support for a tax cut reflected his conversion to Keynesian economics, which favored temporary deficit spending in order to boost economic growth.[8] In January 1963, Kennedy presented Congress with a tax proposal that would reduce the top marginal tax rate from 91 percent to 65 percent, and lower the corporate tax rate from 52 percent to 47 percent; in total, the cut was projected to decrease income taxes by about $10 billion and corporate taxes by about $3.5 billion. The plan also included reforms designed to reduce the impact of itemized deductions, as well as provisions to help the elderly and handicapped.[9] Conservatives revolted at giving Kennedy a key legislative victory before the election of 1964 and blocked the bill in Congress.[10]

Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded Kennedy as president after the latter was assassinated in November 1963. After Johnson agreed to decrease the total federal budget to under $100 billion, powerful conservative Senator Harry F. Byrd dropped his opposition to a tax cut, clearing the way for its passage as the Revenue Act of 1964.[11] Johnson signed the bill into law on February 26, 1964.[12] Passage of the long-stalled tax cut facilitated efforts to move ahead on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[13]

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