Using "So" to begin a sentence implies you already have the answer to the question you are asking.
Leads one to conclude you really aren't asking a question but making a comment
"So" why are you asking the question
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Not to mention the article never insists Trump re pay, only points out that your boy, based on Prices offer to repay,
is taking everyone to the proverbial cleaners.
As predicted
Last edited by 57Brave; 10-06-2017 at 08:57 AM.
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This one is big. The only way for Trump to make significant inroads in restoring domestic manufacturing is to impose tariffs as often as possible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/u...imes&smtyp=cur
Washing Machine War Will Test Trump’s Mettle on Trade
WASHINGTON — A brewing fight over imported washing machines will pose a key test for President Trump’s willingness to impose the type of strict trade barriers he often touts as necessary to protect American businesses.
The United States International Trade Commission cleared the way Thursday for possible trade actions with its ruling that surging imports of washers are harming American manufacturers.
The ruling stemmed from a rare and potentially powerful type of trade case filed in May by Whirlpool Inc. Whirlpool’s petition — just the latest in a series of claims of unfair trade practices against two South Korean manufacturers, Samsung Electronic Co Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc. — says the companies had hopscotched their production facilities around the world to evade duties the United States had imposed on specific countries.
Rather than bring a typical trade complaint — like those Whirlpool successfully brought twice before, claiming that Samsung and LG were “dumping” their products at unlawfully low prices — Whirlpool chose to file a rarely used type of case that could cover all foreign countries and will leave the ultimate decision to President Trump. In this kind of “safeguard” case, the president has broad authority to impose barriers, including a sweeping tariff, if the United States finds that manufacturers were harmed by rising imports.
jpx7 (10-09-2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/b...imes&smtyp=cur
Not surprisingly, for the most part President Trump has taken the approach of publicizing the benefits of his plan — mostly corporate and business tax cuts — while leaving the hard part, closing loopholes, to Congress. As Steven M. Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank, put it: “Tax cuts are easy. Tax reform is hard.”
But this plan is just an opening salvo. I was surprised this week, in interviews with tax experts from across the political spectrum, to hear that all those issues can be resolved, if Congress is willing to take up the challenge.
Critics of the plan have mostly ignored that substantial elements of it have drawn bipartisan support. Almost everyone agrees that corporate tax rates need to be cut because of global competition. Companies should not be able to stash earnings overseas tax-free. With the standard deduction doubled, many more individual taxpayers could file a simple short-form return. A lower rate for small businesses and pass-through entities, while more controversial, should promote economic growth.
The biggest challenge for legislators is that corporate tax cuts are costly. The Tax Policy Center, in a preliminary analysis, calculated that reducing the corporate rate to 20 percent and eliminating the corporate alternative minimum tax would cost the Treasury nearly $2 trillion over the decade from 2018 to 2027.
Lowering the pass-through rate to 25 percent, the analysis shows, would add another $770 billion to the deficit.
And the White House has also proposed repealing the estate tax. The price tag for that change would be about $240 billion.
Closing various corporate loopholes would add back about $400 billion, the Tax Policy Center estimated. That leaves a net cost of about $2.6 trillion over the 10-year period.
The Republican budget resolution accepts a 10-year revenue shortfall of $1.5 trillion, on the theory that faster economic growth will make up the difference. That’s a debatable proposition, but for purposes of this discussion, let’s accept it.
All of that leaves a 10-year gap of about $1.1 trillion between the Tax Policy Center’s projected net cost and the deficit built into the budget resolution.
So where should the money come from? Here are three proposals that could draw bipartisan support:
Create a new, higher tax bracket for the very rich.
Tax capital gains at death.
Curb the deduction for corporate interest expense.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/1...k-ayers-243416
Nick Ayers urges donors to ‘form a coalition’ to take on GOP leaders and members who don’t back the president.
Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff railed against congressional leaders in closed-door remarks to wealthy donors and called for a “purge” if GOP lawmakers don’t quickly rally behind President Donald Trump’s agenda.
In remarks at a Republican National Committee event at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington on Tuesday morning, Nick Ayers also warned that Republicans are “on track to get shellacked” in next year’s midterm elections if GOP lawmakers don’t pass Trump’s legislative priorities.
“Just imagine the possibilities of what can happen if our entire party unifies behind him? If — and this sounds crass — we can purge the handful of people who continue to work to defeat him,”
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/1...mocrats-243487
Democrats look to wreak havoc in GOP primaries
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Democrats are looking to revive a little Todd Akin magic in 2018.
With Republican Senate primaries from West Virginia to Montana promising to pit Trump-inspired insurgents against more mainstream candidates, Democrats are considering ways to step in and wreak some havoc. The idea: Elevate the GOP’s most extreme option in each race, easing Democrats’ path to victory in a range of states tilted against them.
Looks like the Rs are doing that pretty well on their own in Alabama.Originally Posted by Jaw
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The Trump administration has rolled back the birth control mandate for employer health insurance
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Finally some progress
Jaw (10-06-2017)
Yeah the article mentions the Alabama race and that the DNC may use it as a test bed. I don't think there is much for Dems to gain there yet, but this could be beneficial in other states that aren't so solidly red.
This could get interesting. Jones is a puncher
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Doug Jones Fires Back At Roy Moore After Campaign Attack On Joe Biden
Democrat Jones will face off against Republican Moore in Alabama’s special election in December.
By Michelangelo Signorile
U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones (D-Ala.) slammed his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, after Moore’s campaign claimed in a statement that Jones’ “embrace” of Joe Biden “reveals his true colors.” Biden, a longtime friend of the former Alabama U.S. attorney, stumped for Jones in Birmingham this week, speaking to a crowd of over 1,100 people.
Jones is competitive with Moore in several recent polls ― unusual for a Democrat in the heavily GOP state ― in the special election to be held on December 12 to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions when he became President Donald Trump’s attorney general.
“This is the way I take it ― I’m not sure it’s the way he meant it, because he says one thing and means something else,” Jones said in an interview with me on SiriusXM Progress on Wednesday. “But the way I take that is, if my true colors are talking about the working class families in this state and around the country; if my true colors are trying to get affordable health care for everybody, trying to make sure that we protect our rural hospitals with Medicaid and Medicare; if it means getting affordable education, those are the kinds of issues that Joe Biden speaks to.”
“So if that’s revealing my true colors about what I really care about the people of Alabama, ” he continued, “then I accept that, and I welcome that, because that is my true colors.”
Jones warned of the white nationalist fervor that Moore, a far right Christian evangelical who has the strong backing of former White House strategist Steve Bannon, had tapped into during the GOP primary and which Moore seeks to energize during the general election.
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“Over the years we’ve seen a rise in the white nationalists [and we are] kind of going backwards,” Jones said. “Whether it’s in voting rights ― that’s where it’s most significant to me, going backwards on the access to the ballot box. You know, those were all issues I dealt with as a young man. I tried to deal with them as a lawyer. I want to try to take that to the U.S. Senate, so that you have a voice of reason. And I think it’s important, quite frankly, that a Southern voice is going to be that voice of reason on issues of race and reconciliation and equality.”
Jones also pushed back against the extreme positions of Moore, who has said that “laws are superseded by God,” and believes homosexuality should be illegal, claiming “it is not a public right.” Moore was twice removed as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court for violating the oath of office while pushing his personal religious beliefs. The second time, in 2016, Moore was suspended for ordering probate judges in the state of Alabama not to follow the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling which decided that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marriage.
“He exploited an issue that divides people,” Jones commented about Moore’s 2016 suspension. “He exploited the gay marriage issue, the equality issue, for his own personal gain, for his own very personal political agenda, to shore up that very right-wing base. And to stand up for what he believes, so to speak ― [but] no one should consider standing up for what they believe and disobeying the rule of law.”
No Democrat has won a U.S. Senate race in Alabama since the ’90s, when Howell Heflin served as senator. But Jones, who was a staffer for the late Heflin, believes that in 2017, with the combined energy of progressives in the Trump era and Moore’s blatant extremism, Alabama is ready for a change
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Trump at 32% approval in latest AP poll. All the usual caveats about national polls of this kind apply, of course, but one thing is interesting about this one: 67% approval among Republicans. That's the lowest number I've seen.
I dont care which poll is invoked, a name national poll says 31% ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...az_most&wpmk=1
Trump is on track to win reelection
More than half of Americans don’t think Donald Trump is fit to serve as president, yet he has a clear path to winning reelection. If Trump isn’t removed from office and doesn’t lead the country into some form of global catastrophe, he could secure a second term simply by maintaining his current level of support with his political base.
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Since Trump’s inaugural address, his focus has been on maintaining his support among this loyal base rather than expanding it. As counterintuitive as it may seem, this could be a winning political strategy.
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In order to maintain and nurture his base, Trump will continue to embrace conflict, which will probably solidify his historically low approval ratings. Trump cannot win a two-person race this way. But he can prevail in a field with strong independent candidates on the ballot.
So for Democrats and others who want to beat Trump, unifying behind one candidate will be essential. In addition, Trump must carry Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2020 to win. Efforts should begin now to chip away at his support in these states.
It would be as big a mistake to assume that Trump cannot win reelection in 2020 as it was for those of us who never thought that he could become president in the first place.
Much as I think it's folly to talk about 2020 now, my default assumption at this moment is that Trump will win reelection.
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need to flip 90k or get 90,001 that didn't vote in those 3 states combined to beat the piece of ****
Last edited by goldfly; 10-08-2017 at 03:13 AM.
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We need to take seriously the possibility that Donald Trump is trying to goad Kim Jong-un into a first strike, so he can respond.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
still not clear how Trump enablers envision war with N Korea
Last edited by 57Brave; 10-08-2017 at 06:44 AM.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Then there is Pence ...
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
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