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Ah, just a bad attitude. I thought you were answering the tweet, but you were answering "America is a mess". Which we are.

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http://www.politifact.com/t...

Experts see three provisions in Trump’s proposal that could potentially benefit him.

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https://www.nytimes.com/int...

President Trump could cut his tax bills by more than $1.1 billion, including saving tens of millions of dollars in a single year, under his proposed tax changes, a New York Times analysis has found.

On Wednesday, the White House announced a sweeping plan to cut a variety of taxes that would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. The estimate of Mr. Trump’s savings is based in part on information from his 2005 federal tax return. The analysis compares what his tax burden would be under current law with what it would be under the proposal.

Mr. Trump’s 2005 return is the most recent available publicly and was released in March by David Cay Johnston, a former New York Times reporter. The Times’s figure also relies on an estimate of Mr. Trump’s net worth, calculated by the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index to be $2.86 billion.

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go lobbyists go!

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god that is ADORABLE

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In my city, there was a knifing in the middle of downtown a few years back and the cops basically said that they weren't going to spend effort finding the guy with the knife. Assault with a deadly weapon is a low priority. So imagine where traffic and parking enforcement fall in the priority scale.

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David C.J. was on Lawrence O'Donnell's program last night and said his review of the 2005 return indicated that under the proposed "reform" (haha) there would have been an 85% REDUCTION in Trump's Federal income tax.

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I hear the loathsome Sarah Huckabee Sanders picked on April Ryan again today in the press briefing. But that's not racist. Nosiree.

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They sent a deputy to the street to take a look, he called me from the street 200 feet away from my house. He said he would "research and get back to me." If I don't hear from him tomorrow I'm going to call and ask for an officer. One problem is that nobody is home at that house - all 3 students have been gone all week, yet school is currently in session (where are they?), so they can't do anything except tow the truck, which they are unwilling to do. They like to give a warning first.

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Don't mess with her. She was a spy during WWII.

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Forget this guy. Where's that adorable Stevie Mnuchin? What's he wearing today? Are his shoes designer? Sorry, my heart's palpitating over the thought of this gorgeous man discussing our finances while. perhaps, scoring mile high with someone other than the new Mrs. M.

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This is a terrible, terrible observation to make, but that man resembles Picard, without any intelligence of course.

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OT. The words robber barons resonates for me this week in relation to Puerto Rico. That island and it's people have been fucked over for the past hundred and seventeen years if you include the screw job trump himself pulled off there. Just use da google /robber barons/Puerto Rico. I have a lot of P.R. friends, that's why this interests me.

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Would that be on an aluminum pan or a glass pan?

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Would that be on rye or whole wheat?

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A scene from Trading Places. Inflation may have taken its toll on this movie but the spirit is still there.https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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