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It is nonsense. There is no curve because taxation vs revenue is not a mathematical function; it is not single valued for any taxation rate; infinite other factors are in play. Just because you can scribble on a cocktail napkin does not make you an economist.

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except that, same like always, el pendejo-en-jefe is going to renege on this pledge like it was a common promise to pay a contractor.

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They keep calling him a populist, but that's about the first thing I've seen him do that you could call popular.

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Sept. 30, unless this is the GOP Calendar of Magical Thinking.

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Problem solved!

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Or sending us olds on the iceberg express.

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And car loans.

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Ha... And they're busy melting all the icebergs... Then we'll be safe!

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Thanks for the civil post. I was actually referring to converting equities to cash vehicles within the IRA. Just wasn’t clear I guess.

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Like Pooty hasn't already stolen the silverware AND the cabinet it was kept in.

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Yeah, but he also pinky-swore that we wouldn't cut Medicare and Medicaid, so color me sceptical.

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"you probably think that the tax laws should incentivize saving so that old people don’t starve in the streets."

Just to be clear, I'm not supposed to be planning a YouTube channel called "Starving Olds", correct?

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Well, reading the actual Bible is going to lead you in the opposite direction of Ayn Rand. But the imaginary Bible the right wing uses, along with the imaginary Constitution, fit perfectly.

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Isn't he a lafferstock by now?

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Great name for a punk band

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