People, he added, that "contributed to society" and "create a lot of jobs and invest a lot of money and give a lot to philanthropic pursuits."
I'm sure starving children, threatened business owners, and seniors with skyrocketing drug costs appreciate the capital gifts to opera houses and hospital wings they don't have insurance to go to.
So Senator Manchin, speaking purely hypothetically now, would favor a fifteen percent alternative minimum tax on stratospherically rich people, provided that this tax was clearly branded as "patriotic" and not at all "punitive"? Have I understood this correctly?
Maybe I have and maybe I haven't, but I don't believe it matters one way or another. I have no doubt that our decent and pragmatic Democrats will grit their teeth and write the word "patriotic" into their legislation wherever Manchin demands to see it, if it really means that much to him.
No, what really matters is whether Senator Manchin will, sometime before the next election, vote in favor of a bill that will actually tax the rich as they ought to be taxed – or whether he will, following his current habit, make up one new b*llsh*t excuse after another to block everything meaningful that Congressional Democrats try to achieve until the Republican Party regains power over the US Senate.
Yeah, but clearly William Jennings Bryan was a much better speaker, wasn't he? (Probably because Bryan was trying to appeal to a very different audience.) Channeling Bryan's words through Manchin is like channeling Abraham Lincoln's words through George W. Bush.
Democracies and religion put together poison both.Prosperity gospel has corrupted religion, possibly for good.Religion has ripped our Constitution to shreds as it demands women be the sperm lockers they want. Not humans with equal rights. In broad daylight.Shameful.King George was also head of the Anglican church. Divine right. That's why the 'no religious tests' was included, as well as 1st amendment walls.Americans looked down their noses at the idea of religion and government as barbaric and corrosive.
Learn from history, or it will boomerang.BTB - Communism as an ideology died in 1989. By late 90s, it died on college campuses.The GQP has raised Joe from the dead.... Time to wave the BS flag
1) Acknowledged. 2) See #1. 3) Proof read, doctor dick.
An excellent point.
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People, he added, that "contributed to society" and "create a lot of jobs and invest a lot of money and give a lot to philanthropic pursuits."
I'm sure starving children, threatened business owners, and seniors with skyrocketing drug costs appreciate the capital gifts to opera houses and hospital wings they don't have insurance to go to.
Judith Miller. Need I say more? The New York Times has all the credibility of Tom Friedman or Francis Fukuyama, towit, none.
The reporter's creed. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
So Senator Manchin, speaking purely hypothetically now, would favor a fifteen percent alternative minimum tax on stratospherically rich people, provided that this tax was clearly branded as "patriotic" and not at all "punitive"? Have I understood this correctly?
Maybe I have and maybe I haven't, but I don't believe it matters one way or another. I have no doubt that our decent and pragmatic Democrats will grit their teeth and write the word "patriotic" into their legislation wherever Manchin demands to see it, if it really means that much to him.
No, what really matters is whether Senator Manchin will, sometime before the next election, vote in favor of a bill that will actually tax the rich as they ought to be taxed – or whether he will, following his current habit, make up one new b*llsh*t excuse after another to block everything meaningful that Congressional Democrats try to achieve until the Republican Party regains power over the US Senate.
Paid crisis actors.
Which are normally some kind of tax dodge for estate planning purposes
Yeah, but clearly William Jennings Bryan was a much better speaker, wasn't he? (Probably because Bryan was trying to appeal to a very different audience.) Channeling Bryan's words through Manchin is like channeling Abraham Lincoln's words through George W. Bush.
Only works with dogs and fire hydrants.
The GQP spent lots of time passing tax cuts for the 1%.Which has robbed our schools and infrastructure.
Anti-intellectualism.
We used to call it 'muckraking.'
Democracies and religion put together poison both.Prosperity gospel has corrupted religion, possibly for good.Religion has ripped our Constitution to shreds as it demands women be the sperm lockers they want. Not humans with equal rights. In broad daylight.Shameful.King George was also head of the Anglican church. Divine right. That's why the 'no religious tests' was included, as well as 1st amendment walls.Americans looked down their noses at the idea of religion and government as barbaric and corrosive.
Learn from history, or it will boomerang.BTB - Communism as an ideology died in 1989. By late 90s, it died on college campuses.The GQP has raised Joe from the dead.... Time to wave the BS flag