The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Lowest unemployement number for segments of the population in deades.
Increased wages at rates we hvaen't seen in over a decade
Yeah - the tax bill had no impact on that.
Natural Immunity Croc
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/small...100017769.html
Ho hum
And you all wonder why we trumpy supporters have grown in numbers and are more satisfied than ever.
I think the movie idiocracy explained it just fine.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
The news keeps getting better:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ory-us-budget/
All told the government collected $515 billion and spent $297 billion, for a total monthly surplus of $218 billion. That swamped the previous monthly record of $190 billion, set in 2001.
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“Those payments were mostly related to economic activity in 2017 and may reflect stronger-than-expected income growth in that year,” the analysts said in their monthly budget review. “Part of the strength in receipts also may reflect larger-than-anticipated payments for economic activity in 2018. The reasons for the added revenues will be better understood as more detailed information becomes available later this year.”
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So far, seven months into fiscal year 2018, the government is running a $382 billion deficit. That’s $37 billion worse than last year’s figure through seven months, chiefly because spending has surged 5 percent so far this year.
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Once it can be demonstrated to people that they don't need government services to run their lives we can actually cut spending and fix our debt crisis. You lower taxes and you get higher tax revenues. Its not difficult.
Natural Immunity Croc
Tapate50 (05-25-2018)
Job openings in America are now 6.5M, which is a record since the beginning of tracking it in 2001.
Tax law supports activity like this... Y'all get that, right?
Tapate50 (05-25-2018)
Tapate50 (05-25-2018)
Ventura's Stolen Bases
If you guys don’t care about the deficit, I’m cool with your argument here. If you think the solution to pay for this is to privatize social security and Medicare, it’s not so cool.
And to thethe’s point, a 10% tax would pay the government a lot more than a 1% tax. Ask Oklahoma about their fracking/budget versus North Dakota. Oklahoma probably has the most conservative government in the nation and they’re constantly running deficits because they refuse to do anything about it other than cut education so they can have 4 day school weeks.
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Ventura's Stolen Bases
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Ventura's Stolen Bases
Look at the surplus generated in april. It's consistently a month with surplus but we are still trending at highs while also increasing apending. Let this administration make cuts to programs and allow tax cuts to take full effect. Our budget deficit will look much better at the end of 2024.
Ventura's Stolen Bases
Last edited by Managuarantano's Volunteers; 05-08-2018 at 10:01 PM.
Ventura's Stolen Bases
All I will appreciate is getting back a fraction of the value of the money I put in over time.
I get it. Not everyone makes the right decisions. What I don't get is why those of us that do should be penalized for it. I'm all for supporting the sector of society that truly is unable to support themselves. Those able bodied and mind should fend for themselves. It's not all that difficult to make smart financial decisions.
Repatriation of overseas cash will generate a nice boon for sure. However, ecpandinding workforce also contributed to the tax pool on both the the employer and employer side.
There is a lot of investment being done currently which results in what's called section 179 depreciation. Essentially business owners can buy expensive fixed assets to grow their business and take a temendous amount of depreciation up front reducing their cash outlay for tax purposes in the early years. This will reduce the tax contributions early on but to be made up in the latter years.
We are seeing massive business expansion in all sectors. This is not a temporary fad. All markets of course are cyclical but this growth period is not due to let up for quite some time.