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Marla's avatar

Oh, sure. Let's stop funding Ukraine in their struggle against Putin's aggression. Because why not?

Everyone already knows how well the first two land wars in Europe went for everyone, amirite?

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IMPOed's avatar

Hey, I have an idea, let's cut taxes fir Harlan Crow so he can give More to Clarence Thomas... WHOOT!!

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

they are showing their asses again, must be a day that ends in y

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DaveB's avatar

That's just what gave us the 1970s economy - spending borrowed money on a full-scale war. Whip Inflation Now Bugaloo 2!!!11!!!

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Stephen St John's avatar

Gotta protect those billionaires!

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JustDontSayDittos's avatar

Heavens, Lovey, we can't protect ourselves like a common Yale man. That's what Gilligan is for, darling!

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

Poor dears.

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Kimberlee Avery Wilkins's avatar

He has been funded be Leonard Leo !! And maga Mike and his Crack- pot of a wife closed down their conversion therapy website/business since he became speaker ! Now what are they gonna do to " wipe the gay " out of young men !!! Disgusting !

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"M"'s avatar

They give me the creeps, these sneaky right wingers

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

I can't follow the Mike Johnson's wife one, missing some context maybe, (or I haz dumbth.)

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"M"'s avatar

I think that person may have gotten tumbled up with emotion

I also don't know that there's that much difference between that thar blonde Mike Johnson wife with the crazy eyes and Casey De Santis ...

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

Nobody brings the cray cray like religious extremists.

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"M"'s avatar

The Nazi right wingers/ avowed white supremacists give them a run for their money, though

https://twitter.com/stayscathed/status/1716896602441613317?t=90Z3tR2B7df819l-LQpYCQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/anotheropinion0/status/1717018663281143842?t=ROgH0QG7f42yCkKIlbPr6Q&s=19

Even as those two groups do overlap

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

Yeah, Venn diagram overlaps, to the assholes that think an accident of birth is their proudest achievement having to compete fairly with other folks feels like religious oppression..

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DrBDH's avatar

Hmm, Substate triplicated my comment.

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DrBDH's avatar

This leads to ask, Whatever happened to the endless audit of Trump's tax returns? And will the NY civil suit that found he was using fraud to manipulate his net worth result in the IRS looking into tax fraud, too?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Probably figured the $14 billion was allocated solely for Trump's audit.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

We must always remember the plight of the ultra rich, and protect them from persecution in the form of being asked to pay taxes, like the Lower Classes do. Remember, they may not be able to afford that 10th home, or 5th yacht.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

If they can do it to me, they can do it to you!

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Eric Paul Jacobsen's avatar

Elected Republicans dare not allow any mere war to distract them from their fundamental duty, which is to condemn taxation and appropriation as the worst crime against humanity ever inflicted by Satan himself upon God's own people.

If the Republican Party ever relented, even for a moment, then more people might realize that taxation and appropriation are the means whereby EVERY democratic state in the history of the world (ever since Athens) has empowered itself to resist its enemies. If we starve democracy, we feed fascism.

To put it another way, fascists can attack democracy in two ways: by undermining fair taxation or by undermining fair representation. It works best to do both at once.

Who will give free advertising to the truth?

The private sector is not a golden goose, and the public sector is not a black hole. Rather, the public sector makes humane rules so that the game of the market does not end up with one man winning and everybody else bankrupt.

Money is not fuel, we do not burn it when we use it, and we cannot run out of it. Money is a lubricant, and it works only if we distribute it throughout the engine of the economy. Its purpose is not to accumulate but to circulate.

Workers do not need investors nearly as much as investors need workers. If everybody was an investor and nobody was a worker, all investments would be worthless.

The greatest job creators are not capitalists but children. Unfortunately, the many jobs that children create are not paid jobs, because children do not come into the world with money to spend. We could change this. We could make the most important job in the world, the job of caring for children, a paid profession. If we really valued children as much as we say we do, we would do this.

Money is not the source of wealth. Wealth is the source of money. The source of wealth is: natural resources, carefully stewarded in a stable biosphere; infrastructure, which connects all private enterprises; technology, developed by private enterprises when profitable, or by public institutions when not yet profitable but in the public interest; and, last but not least, people: people who are healthy, respected, educated, well informed, and paid decently to care for each other and everything else.

If we always invest in the sources of wealth, then we will never run out of wealth.

But whenever we try to save money and waste people, we destroy some of our true sources of wealth, and no matter how much money we save, we cannot buy back what we have lost.

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Demodocus's avatar

It's always politically safe to attack the IRS. Tax collectors (and all the not-collectors who work there) have an evil reputation from back when they were allowed to use mafia-style tactics to collect their wages and no authority cared if that was your last bushel of wheat. Plus there was that scandal *years* back; though i haven't heard there's any evidence of back-sliding there. Cutting taxes doesn't help us commoners much if at all. As in I got a check for a whole dollar from the Bush tax cuts 20 years ago (I blew it all in one place ;) )

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Up Here in the Clouds's avatar

When the Orange One passed his massive tax cut I also got a tiny raise the same week it went into effect. Was my take home pay $2.00 a week more from my tiny raise or my "tax cut"? Who knows?

I know a bunch of my coworkers missed it was for the already rich and powerful and were shocked they got nothing.

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gene108's avatar

Loss of the personal exemption caused my taxes to go up.

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John V's avatar

Grover Norquist is still a thing? Ugh

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Vic's avatar

He's gotta stay on the wingnut gravy train. The slob is 100% unemployable. He's never had a job in his sad, sick life.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

Well he looks like a thing, that's for sure.

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Richard S's avatar

Which one? The Volkswagen "Jeep" style car? The 1954 movie? The 1982 movie?

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

That thing that looked like it was based on the old Kübelwagen?

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clairence's avatar

Karine: "would be a break with the normal, bipartisan process"

pretty sure breaking the normal was and is the right wing end goal.

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clairence's avatar

MAGA: "The government's broke but I ain't gonna pay my taxes. Let the government fix their own problem."

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

Especially the parasite, uh, I mean red states.

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Eileen's avatar

THIS!

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InMyRoom's avatar

My longtime friend lives 4 miles from light rail on her end of the city. I want to visit her. I don't have regular use of a car. Also, I'm 70 now and after a few small strokes don't want to drive.

Choices for the last 4 miles: take the bus for two hours, after a 1 hr light rail trip. Or take an Uber/Lift for about $20. each way (I'm on a smallish fixed income) Or buy a very cool 4 wheel scooter that will get me there in an hour.

Yes, I bought the scooter. It was on a Deal Sale, more than half off. Then, yes, I bought all the cool, fun, make it comfortable stuff.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

You can ride a scooter on the road?

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Rocket Cat's avatar

I’m just going to let Tipsy the Drinking Bird push the button

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