*Prompter Thread* (NO personal attacks, NO trolling)

[coldengrey12]

Originally Posted by cazzie34

Parking lot! Parking lot! Parking lot!

We're going to bomb them back to the Stone Age. It's going to be a tremendous stoning. Tremendous. Nobody is going to get more stoned. Believe me, folks. Believe me.

[Lcsulla]

Originally Posted by Route_2

China is still buying from them aren't they?

Yup, illegally just like NK.

[Route_2]

Billionaires: Tax us more, please.

Enthusiasm for a wealth tax on the country’s thin sliver of multimillionaires and billionaires may be unsurprising — after all, most Americans wouldn’t have to pay it. But now the idea is attracting support from a handful of those who would.

A letter published Monday on the website Medium.com calls for “a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest one-tenth of the richest 1 percent of Americans — on us.”

The “us” includes self-made billionaires like the financier George Soros and Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder, as well as heirs to dynastic riches like the filmmaker Abigail Disney and Liesel Pritzker Simmons and Ian Simmons, co-founders of the Blue Haven Initiative, an impact investment organization.

“We thought it would be a good idea,” Mr. Simmons explained by phone as he waited out a traffic jam in the Boston area. “Liesel and I decided to reach out to some other folks to see if they thought it was a good idea, too.”

The letter came together in the last two weeks. Eighteen individuals, spread among 11 families, added their names. All are active in progressive research and political organizations, some of which are pointedly focused on the swelling gap between the richest Americans and everyone else.

A recent analysis of a Federal Reserve report found that over the last three decades, the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans saw their net worth grow by $21 trillion, while the wealth of the bottom 50 percent fell by $900 billion.

The letter unequivocally declares that a wealth tax “strengthens American freedom and democracy” and “is patriotic.”

And it points out that economic researchers estimate that the richest 0.1 percent of Americans will pay 3.2 percent of their wealth in taxes this year compared with 7.2 percent paid by the bottom 99 percent. “The next dollar of new tax revenue should come from the most financially fortunate, not from middle-income and lower-income Americans,” the letter declares.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/b...tics&smtyp=cur

[Route_2]

@AP
BREAKING: Government moves more than 300 children out of Texas Border Patrol station after AP report of perilous conditions.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1143200336401850368

[Climb2safety]

Originally Posted by Route_2

@AP
BREAKING: Government moves more than 300 children out of Texas Border Patrol station after AP report of perilous conditions.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1143200336401850368

They must be reading this thread!

[coldengrey12]

I have every confidence that our government is making sure these kids are put in even worse conditions.

[kydmb99]

Originally Posted by Route_2

Billionaires: Tax us more, please.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/b...tics&smtyp=cur

Middle class me: Please stop taxing the shit I buy after you already taxed the income I use to buy it. Thanks.

[Route_2]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

Middle class me: Please stop taxing the shit I buy after you already taxed the income I use to buy it. Thanks.

Why not both?

[Climb2safety]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

Middle class me: Please stop taxing the shit I buy after you already taxed the income I use to buy it. Thanks.

I believe all sales tax is collected by the state, income mainly by the fed (you deduct your federal income taxes from your state return) so it’s two separate taxing entities.

[kydmb99]

Originally Posted by Climb2safety

I believe all sales tax is collected by the state, income mainly by the fed (you deduct your federal income taxes from your state return) so it’s two separate taxing entities.

Yes I understand that climb. The state still taxes my income and the stuff I buy with it.

[Climb2safety]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

Yes I understand that climb. The state still taxes my income and the stuff I buy with it.

What I think is a bigger issue is all the taxes, surcharges, and fees on cell phone and cable and internet bills. That really pisses me off. I’ve read they can be as high as 40% of your bill.

[Route_2]

I actually don't mind sales taxes that much. In WA we have a sales tax in lieu of state income tax. It is a tax I have greater control over in that I can control how much I spend on goods/services that are subject to tax.

[mthawk07]

Originally Posted by Climb2safety

What I think is a bigger issue is all the taxes, surcharges, and fees on cell phone and cable and internet bills. That really pisses me off. I’ve read they can be as high as 40% of your bill.

They could just charge you the entire amount and not tell you how the bill breaks down. I'd rather know what the specific charges are than just have a flat amount and not know.

[Climb2safety]

Sales taxes pretty transparent as well and directly benef the state you live in.

[Route_2]

Enemy of the people!

@oliverdarcy
Some news: Murdoch lieutenant Col Allan ordered the removal of the New York Post's story on Jean Carroll's sexual assault allegation against Trump, sources tell me and @garveyshuffle

Asked why Murdoch lieutenant Col Allan would order the removal of the Post story about Carroll's accusation against Trump, one of the sources told me, "Nobody needs to explain why. We already know."

The removal of the story has generated significant chatter inside the @nypost newsroom, sources say. The dead link was still attracting hundreds of page views on Saturday afternoon (likely because it remained in Google's search results)
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/stat...79181071093760

[Climb2safety]

Originally Posted by mthawk07

They could just charge you the entire amount and not tell you how the bill breaks down. I'd rather know what the specific charges are than just have a flat amount and not know.

Yeah, but all these surcharges and fees are a result of lobbying for these trade groups etc and are in the interests of the carriers. Sounds fishy like we’re paying for their shit when they should be paying.

[kydmb99]

Originally Posted by Route_2

I actually don't mind sales taxes that much. In WA we have a sales tax in lieu of state income tax. It is a tax I have greater control over in that I can control how much I spend on goods/services that are subject to tax.

Well I just bought a truck and not only do they take from the income I used to buy that truck, but I then paid over $1,000 in sales tax when I purchased it and I’ll have to pay them every year to register it.. so yeah it’s just annoying.

[Route_2]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

Well I just bought a truck and not only do they take from the income I used to buy that truck, but I then paid over $1,000 in sales tax when I purchased it and I’ll have to pay them every year to register it.. so yeah it’s just annoying.

Yeah, man. We all make choices in life.

[Climb2safety]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

Well I just bought a truck and not only do they take from the income I used to buy that truck, but I then paid over $1,000 in sales tax when I purchased it and I’ll have to pay them every year to register it.. so yeah it’s just annoying.

All those are tax deductible, if you his thread holds on the sales tax I guess. But the registration fee is.

[kydmb99]

Originally Posted by Route_2

Yeah, man. We all make choices in life.

Except for you know the choice as to whether I pay it or not

[zajDmB1]

Buy electric, get your tax credit.

[kydmb99]

Feel like I would end up paying more for the electric car (do they even make trucks?) after all said and done but I could be wrong

[trd1610]

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/st...791850497?s=21

“Trump denies raping Jean Carroll, saying ‘she’s not my type.’ “

if she was his type he may have though

[drakan]

Originally Posted by coldengrey12

We're going to bomb them back to the Stone Age. It's going to be a tremendous stoning. Tremendous. Nobody is going to get more stoned. Believe me, folks. Believe me.

Tremendous boulders everywhere. People who know boulders tell me they've never seen anything like it.

[drakan]

Originally Posted by Climb2safety

They must be reading this thread!

Something something party of family values.

[drakan]

Originally Posted by Route_2

Enemy of the people!

@oliverdarcy
Some news: Murdoch lieutenant Col Allan ordered the removal of the New York Post's story on Jean Carroll's sexual assault allegation against Trump, sources tell me and @garveyshuffle

Asked why Murdoch lieutenant Col Allan would order the removal of the Post story about Carroll's accusation against Trump, one of the sources told me, "Nobody needs to explain why. We already know."

The removal of the story has generated significant chatter inside the @nypost newsroom, sources say. The dead link was still attracting hundreds of page views on Saturday afternoon (likely because it remained in Google's search results)
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/stat...79181071093760

So Trump complained?

[drakan]

Originally Posted by DMBstandUP1984

Truth

Just surprised to see her billboards in Northern New Hampshire of all places


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Is there a primary there or something?

Where was the billboard?

[drakan]

Originally Posted by ShotgunDMB

So whats the consensus on the Iran sanctions? Pointless?

Why would Iran come to the table when there was already an agreement that the US backed out of. Who would ever trust Trump or the crazy mustache man John Bolton? There is no purpose to a 2nd agreement when the first one was working.

[mrignatious]

Northern New Hampshire, drakan.

[Route_2]

Dixville Notch for Gabbard!