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One socialist group of people that thinks they have the right to tell everyone else how to live their life, living with another socialist group of people that thinks they have the right to tell everyone else how to live their life. . . . . yeah that's not going to work.
If I recall, during the presidential campaign rallies, it was liberals who were being ganged up on by conservatives and beaten & kicked ... and a candidate Trump who was egging them on. I think subhub even posted a bunch of those videos on this very thread. Only consistent violence I've seen have been coming from Trump drones.
Top Republicans, Business Leaders Come Out Against Trump
Without the subsidies, insurance companies will be ****** to raise rates on everyone else who buys Obamacare coverage. Analysts say many middle-class Americans could see their premiums jump by 30 to 60 percent.
video
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-republicans-business-leaders-come-154947566.html
Without the subsidies, insurance companies will be ****** to raise rates on everyone else who buys Obamacare coverage. Analysts say many middle-class Americans could see their premiums jump by 30 to 60 percent.
video
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-republicans-business-leaders-come-154947566.html
Former GOP Congressman: 'We Might Be Better Off' If Democrats Win The House
The Huffington Post
A former Republican lawmaker says the nation might be better off if Democrats win back the House of Representatives in next year’s midterm election to help keep President Donald Trump in check. David Jolly, who represented a Florida district, called Trump “unstable” and “risky when it comes to matters of national security” in an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday night. He said: “I personally as a Republican in the past few weeks have wondered, is the republic safer if Democrats take over the House in 2018. I raised that issue with the leading Republican in D.C. last week, and the remarkable thing is he had been thinking exactly the same thing. This is a president that needs ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/b44367...dad9232eb/ss_former-gop-congressman:-'we.html
The Huffington Post
A former Republican lawmaker says the nation might be better off if Democrats win back the House of Representatives in next year’s midterm election to help keep President Donald Trump in check. David Jolly, who represented a Florida district, called Trump “unstable” and “risky when it comes to matters of national security” in an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday night. He said: “I personally as a Republican in the past few weeks have wondered, is the republic safer if Democrats take over the House in 2018. I raised that issue with the leading Republican in D.C. last week, and the remarkable thing is he had been thinking exactly the same thing. This is a president that needs ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/b44367...dad9232eb/ss_former-gop-congressman:-'we.html
Right after claiming he killed ObamaCare, Trump calls the resulting premium hikes 'an ObamaCare mess'
The Week
On Monday, President Trump told reporters that ObamaCare is dead, killed by his executive orders last week. Because he ended the cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to insurance companies, used to subsidize health care for millions of low-income customers — 70 percent of whom live in states Trump won — "there is no such thing as ObamaCare anymore," Trump said. His action prompted Congress to start working on a short-term fix, he added, instead of "having lunch and enjoying themselves." A minute later, Trump blamed the purportedly dead law for insurers raising premiums: Sadly, the Democrats can't join us on that which will be the long-term fix, but I do believe we will have a short-term fix because ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/203b9bf7-3406-381c-bc04-82420fb46a76/ss_right-after-claiming-he.html
The Week
On Monday, President Trump told reporters that ObamaCare is dead, killed by his executive orders last week. Because he ended the cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to insurance companies, used to subsidize health care for millions of low-income customers — 70 percent of whom live in states Trump won — "there is no such thing as ObamaCare anymore," Trump said. His action prompted Congress to start working on a short-term fix, he added, instead of "having lunch and enjoying themselves." A minute later, Trump blamed the purportedly dead law for insurers raising premiums: Sadly, the Democrats can't join us on that which will be the long-term fix, but I do believe we will have a short-term fix because ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/203b9bf7-3406-381c-bc04-82420fb46a76/ss_right-after-claiming-he.html
Mmmm wonder how he votes on healthcare?
Just one of many on the right...looking out for us!
Sen. Orrin Hatch’s charity in Utah is darling of Big Pharma
How to make friends and influence lawmakers under ever more-stringent ethics rules?
Five large pharmaceutical companies and the industry’s trade group donated $172,500 to a charity founded by Sen. Orrin Hatch, their longtime ally in Congress, the Washington Times reported Monday.
The trade group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, also employs Hatch’s *******, Scott Hatch, as a registered lobbyist.
The powerful Utah legislator created the Utah Families Foundation in the early 1990s and continues to chair annual fundraisers which support a gamut of community and health groups from the Utah Food Bank to a cancer wellness center. The foundation’s board of directors includes Hatch’s campaign manager, Dave Hansen, and other Hatch political allies.
The contributions might have remained unknown, except that the IRS mistakenly released a form to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which gave a copy to the newspaper.
Melanie Sloan, director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, told the Salt Lake City Tribune that the companies chose to contribute to Hatch’s foundation on purpose.
“When companies need a member of Congress and they’ve already donated to their campaigns, they can make very large contributions to members’ foundations,” she said. “It’s another way to curry favor.”
Indeed, the pharmaceutical industry is already Hatch’s biggest contributor, donating more than $1.25 million to his campaigns since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
But donations to a charity usually attract no attention because they aren’t public.
“There’s no disclosure,” Sloan said. “It’s just an accident that we know the ******* companies were giving to the Hatch foundation. … It’s clear the companies are doing it because of the congressional relationship.”
In the Feb. 18, 2008, report to the IRS, the Utah Families Foundation listed the following donations: Eli Lilly and Company, $25,000; medical supply company Becton, Dickinson and Company, $25,000; Barr Pharmaceuticals, $30,000; AstraZeneca PLC, $25,000; drugmaker Sepracor, $27,500; and PhRMA, the lobbying group, $40,000.
Those donations accounted for a small part of the charity’s $1.1 million revenues that year – of which about $726,000 was disbursed to community groups, hospitals, wellness centers, youth and family support groups, and food banks. The remaining $375,000 went for salaries and operating expenses, according to the IRS report.
That same year, Scott Hatch, who is a partner at Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC, a Washington lobbying firm, was paid $120,000 by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America to lobby Congress on pending Food and ******* Administration (FDA) legislation.
The trade group told the Washington Times that it never asked Hatch to discuss any issues with his *******.
“Clearly, Scott’s a very bright guy,” said senior vice president Ken Johnson. “He provides strategic advice.”
Given his *******’s status as the senior Republican on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, he is also a very well-connected guy.
Hatch released a statement yesterday, saying that he sees nothing wrong with the donations to the charity group.
“If a company or organization decides to support the Utah Families Foundation and its wonderful mission of helping so many in need, that’s great. The only benefit I receive is the knowledge that even more people will be helped.”
http://news.muckety.com/2009/03/03/*******-industry-contributes-to-orrin-hatchs-utah-charity/12451
Just one of many on the right...looking out for us!
Sen. Orrin Hatch’s charity in Utah is darling of Big Pharma
How to make friends and influence lawmakers under ever more-stringent ethics rules?
Five large pharmaceutical companies and the industry’s trade group donated $172,500 to a charity founded by Sen. Orrin Hatch, their longtime ally in Congress, the Washington Times reported Monday.
The trade group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, also employs Hatch’s *******, Scott Hatch, as a registered lobbyist.
The powerful Utah legislator created the Utah Families Foundation in the early 1990s and continues to chair annual fundraisers which support a gamut of community and health groups from the Utah Food Bank to a cancer wellness center. The foundation’s board of directors includes Hatch’s campaign manager, Dave Hansen, and other Hatch political allies.
The contributions might have remained unknown, except that the IRS mistakenly released a form to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which gave a copy to the newspaper.
Melanie Sloan, director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, told the Salt Lake City Tribune that the companies chose to contribute to Hatch’s foundation on purpose.
“When companies need a member of Congress and they’ve already donated to their campaigns, they can make very large contributions to members’ foundations,” she said. “It’s another way to curry favor.”
Indeed, the pharmaceutical industry is already Hatch’s biggest contributor, donating more than $1.25 million to his campaigns since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
But donations to a charity usually attract no attention because they aren’t public.
“There’s no disclosure,” Sloan said. “It’s just an accident that we know the ******* companies were giving to the Hatch foundation. … It’s clear the companies are doing it because of the congressional relationship.”
In the Feb. 18, 2008, report to the IRS, the Utah Families Foundation listed the following donations: Eli Lilly and Company, $25,000; medical supply company Becton, Dickinson and Company, $25,000; Barr Pharmaceuticals, $30,000; AstraZeneca PLC, $25,000; drugmaker Sepracor, $27,500; and PhRMA, the lobbying group, $40,000.
Those donations accounted for a small part of the charity’s $1.1 million revenues that year – of which about $726,000 was disbursed to community groups, hospitals, wellness centers, youth and family support groups, and food banks. The remaining $375,000 went for salaries and operating expenses, according to the IRS report.
That same year, Scott Hatch, who is a partner at Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC, a Washington lobbying firm, was paid $120,000 by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America to lobby Congress on pending Food and ******* Administration (FDA) legislation.
The trade group told the Washington Times that it never asked Hatch to discuss any issues with his *******.
“Clearly, Scott’s a very bright guy,” said senior vice president Ken Johnson. “He provides strategic advice.”
Given his *******’s status as the senior Republican on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, he is also a very well-connected guy.
Hatch released a statement yesterday, saying that he sees nothing wrong with the donations to the charity group.
“If a company or organization decides to support the Utah Families Foundation and its wonderful mission of helping so many in need, that’s great. The only benefit I receive is the knowledge that even more people will be helped.”
http://news.muckety.com/2009/03/03/*******-industry-contributes-to-orrin-hatchs-utah-charity/12451
Fact Checking Trump's Claims About the 'Largest Tax Cuts in the History of This Country'
The Associated Press The Associated Press
President Donald Trump presented a distorted picture of his tax plan this past week and claimed he was trying to keep the Obama health law’s insurance markets afloat even as he took steps that could well sink them.
A look at his statements on a grab-bag of hot topics spanning the economy, Iran, health care and the way he treats his subordinates:
Trump on President Barack Obama’s health overhaul: “What we’re doing is trying to keep it afloat, because it’s failing.” — Forbes interview, conducted Oct. 6 and reported this past week.
The Facts: Days later, Trump pulled the plug on payments to insurers that are critical to making copayments and deductibles more affordable in the subsidized individual insurance market. Barring a reversal by Congress, the courts or administration policy, the move probably will drive up costs substantially for many in the health exchanges, send insurers fleeing from the already troubled marketplace, or both. Trump makes no secret of his wish to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But he had been casting a lifeline to those exchanges by making the payments month to month. Now he’s yanked that back.
Trump also directed his administration to rewrite federal rules to ease the way for “association health plans” that could offer cheaper coverage with fewer protections than are guaranteed in the law’s health plans. That, too, potentially undermines the 2010 law. Furthermore, his administration said before this week that it is sharply cutting programs that promote health insurance enrollment under the law for next year.
Trump: “I’m giving the largest tax cuts in the history of this country.” — comments Tuesday after meeting Henry Kissinger.
The Facts: His tax plan is, at most, fifth largest in its estimated cost, says Marc Goldwein of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It could end up being even lower on the ladder historically.
The estimated cost of the tax plan has dropped by half or more since the spring, when only the contours were known. In an analysis in April, Goldwein’s group found that the $5.5 trillion plan that was then expected would have been the third largest since 1940 as a share of gross domestic product, behind President Ronald Reagan’s package in 1981 and tax cuts enacted in 1945 to phase out revenue generated for World War II. But, citing estimated costs of $1.5 trillion to $2.5 trillion for Trump’s plan now, Goldwein said several other historically significant tax cuts also would surpass Trump’s: from 2013 and 1964.
Trump: “Since the election on November 8th, I’ve increased the value of your U.S. assets by more than the $20 trillion that we currently owe.” — comparing rising values with the national debt, in a speech Wednesday to truckers in Pennsylvania.
The Facts: Trump’s suggestion that his election is the solitary explanation for higher stock and home prices does not reflect how the economy works. Trump’s election and the promise of a tax overhaul certainly helped the stock market at first. But recent gains also reflect better global growth and other factors that are beyond the president’s control.
Most Americans’ primary asset is their home, and there is little evidence that home values are rising because of Trump’s presidency. Much of the increase in home values reflects a dwindling supply of properties on the market relative to demand from would-be buyers. People’s net worth has improved because mortgage debt is being repaid, increasing the equity they have in their homes.
Meantime, the International Monetary Fund expects world economic growth will reach a six-year high this year. Three-quarters of the globe is experiencing growth, the first synchronized worldwide upswing in a decade. That’s a big boost for U.S. companies that earn much of their money overseas, and a lift for the U.S. stock market.
Also, people’s rising stock and home values do not mean a paying down of the federal government’ debt.
Trump: “When it comes to the business tax, we are now dead last among developed nations. Our rate is the least competitive rate. We have the highest tax rate anywhere in the world. How foolish is this?” — Pennsylvania speech.
The Facts: This is a misleading picture and one he paints continually. The U.S. does have the highest statutory corporate tax rate, but that doesn’t tell the full story. Other countries with lower corporate taxes also charge a separate tax on consumption, known as a Value Added Tax, that lets them keep corporate rates lower. The overall tax burden in the United States is among the lowest in the developed world.
Trump: “We are nearly doubling the amount of income that is based at the zero bracket.” Democrats are “not telling you the truth, because they pretend there isn’t a zero rate. And there is, and it’s expanding very substantially under my plan.” — Pennsylvania speech.
The Facts: Some people who accept that statement at face value are bound to get sticker shock at tax time, if his plan is adopted.
With the “zero” tax rate, Trump is talking about his proposed doubling of the standard deduction. While the higher standard deduction would exclude the first $24,000 in family earnings from taxes, the plan would also get rid of the personal exemption. The loss of the exemption would expose some families—particularly larger ones—to higher taxes than the doubling of the standard deduction.
Trump: “The Iranian regime has committed multiple violations of the agreement. For example, on two separate occasions, they have exceeded the limit of 130 metric tons of heavy water.” — remarks Friday criticizing Iran’s behavior while stopping short of pulling the U.S. out of the nuclear agreement.
The Facts: Iran is meeting all its obligations under the deal that suspended its nuclear program in return for eased international sanctions, according to International Atomic Energy Agency investigators. They did note some minor violations that were quickly corrected.
Trump is right that Iran exceeded the limit on heavy water in its possession on two occasions. Both times international inspectors were able to see that Iran made arrangements to ship the excess out of the country so that Tehran could come back into compliance.
Supporters of the deal argue that this shows the agreement works. Opponents say that because Iran sells the surplus on the open market, it is therefore being rewarded for violating the deal.
Trump and other critics of the agreement point in particular to Iran’s continuing missile tests, which may or may not defy the U.N. Security Council resolution that enshrined the deal. But those tests do not violate the deal itself.
Trump: “I will tell you, I left Texas and I left Florida, and I left Louisiana, and I went to Puerto Rico, and I met with the president of the Virgin Islands. These are people that are incredible people.” — speech to religious conservatives Friday.
The Facts: He met the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Kenneth Mapp, not a president. It’s not a country so it doesn’t have a president. He correctly referred to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as territories. At a congressional hearing a day earlier, Energy Secretary Rick Perry called Puerto Rico “a country that already had its challenges before the storm,” and apologized when told of the flub.
Trump: “I don’t believe in undercutting people.” — comments to the press Tuesday, when asked about Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The Facts: If a boss’s public disparagement of those who work for him counts as undercutting, Trump undercuts.
He used Twitter to undercut Tillerson’s diplomatic outreach to North Korea (“save your energy, Rex”), then suggested he’s got a higher IQ than his chief diplomat. This, after NBC News reported that Tillerson had described Trump as a “moron.”
Trump also used Twitter and other forums in the summer to humiliate his “very weak” and “beleaguered” attorney general, Jeff Sessions.
If publicly disparaging political associates counts as undercutting, too, the list is very long.
He barked at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to “get back to work” after the collapse of an effort to repeal the health law; said Republican senators “look like fools”; and branded Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., “Liddle’ Bob Corker” after the senator slammed him on multiple fronts.
Consciously or not, Trump’s energy-saving advice to Tillerson and his comment on Corker’s height recalled the taunts he directed against his 2016 Republican primary rivals, “low energy” Jeb Bush and “Little Marco” Rubio, the Florida senator.
Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders argued it’s impossible for a president to undercut his Cabinet because “the president is the leader of the Cabinet. He sets the tone, he sets the agenda.”
Trump: “The Failing @nytimes set Liddle’ Bob Corker up by recording his conversation. Was made to sound a fool, and that’s what I am dealing with!” — tweet Tuesday.
The Facts: The Times wasn’t sneaky in recording the interview. Corker asked that he be recorded, mentioning that his aides were also on the line: “I know they’re recording it, and I hope you are, too,” he told his interviewer. He also said: “I understand we’re on the record.” Corker said in the interview that Trump risked putting the U.S. on a path to world war and treated his office like a reality TV show.
Trump: “So GDP last quarter was 3.1%. Most of the folks that are in your business, and elsewhere, were saying that would not be hit for a long time. You know, Obama never hit the number.” — interview with Forbes magazine.
The Facts: Yes, Obama did, repeatedly. Growth topped 3% in eight quarters during Obama’s presidency.
When Forbes pointed out that Obama had reached that benchmark, Trump amended his claim: “He never hit it on a yearly basis.”
That’s true. The economy never grew by more than 3% for a full calendar year under Obama. That hasn’t happened since 2005. It is unlikely to happen this year, either.
Trump: “I’ve had just about the most legislation passed of any president, in a nine-month period, that’s ever served. We had over 50 bills passed. I’m not talking about executive orders only, which are very important. I’m talking about bills.” — Forbes interview.
The Facts: He’s signed little of consequence into law, a thin record all the more striking because of the Republican majority in the House and Senate. His record pales not just next to Franklin Roosevelt’s but with Obama’s and others. Trump, like his predecessors, has signed a lot of routine legislation, naming federal buildings after people and the like. He’s also signed emergency hurricane aid into law.
But the only far-reaching bill he’s signed is one he didn’t like but went along with, tightening sanctions on Russia and Iran. His promised repeal and replacement of Obama’s health care law has yet to materialize after twice failing in Congress. His proposed tax overhaul is in play, not in place, and the big-ticket infrastructure initiative he promised hasn’t come to Congress.
Trump: “Now, we’re going to have to do something with Obamacare because it’s failing. Henry Kissinger does not want to pay 116% increase in his premiums, but that’s what’s happening.” — after meeting Kissinger on Tuesday.
The Facts: Kissinger is going to be OK. The 94-year-old former secretary of state and national security adviser, chairman of his own international consulting firm and prolific author, is surely not bothered by rising premiums. People on Medicare can’t sign up for the insurance exchanges anyway.
But what to make of Trump’s suggestion that people in the exchanges are seeing premiums rise 116%? That comes from one state, Arizona, where unsubsidized premiums for a hypothetical 27-year-old buying a benchmark plan under Obama’s law increased 116% this year, according to an earlier government estimate. That cost, however, could be reduced significantly with subsidies available to low- and moderate-income people.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “Sen. Corker worked with Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration to pave the way for that legislation and basically rolled out the red carpet for the Iran deal.” — briefing Tuesday.
Trump tweet Oct. 8: “He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!”
The Facts: Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had no role in crafting the 2015 international agreement forged by the U.S. and other world powers to constrain Iran’s ability to build a nuclear arsenal. Corker actually was a vocal opponent of the accord and argued Obama should have made the international pact a treaty subject to approval by the Senate.
When Obama didn’t do that, Corker helped fellow senators write legislation that subjected the accord to periodic congressional review. The legislation would have stopped the deal from moving forward if that effort got enough votes. It didn’t. In any event, the ultimate decision to bring the deal into effect was made by Obama, not Congress.
The Associated Press The Associated Press
President Donald Trump presented a distorted picture of his tax plan this past week and claimed he was trying to keep the Obama health law’s insurance markets afloat even as he took steps that could well sink them.
A look at his statements on a grab-bag of hot topics spanning the economy, Iran, health care and the way he treats his subordinates:
Trump on President Barack Obama’s health overhaul: “What we’re doing is trying to keep it afloat, because it’s failing.” — Forbes interview, conducted Oct. 6 and reported this past week.
The Facts: Days later, Trump pulled the plug on payments to insurers that are critical to making copayments and deductibles more affordable in the subsidized individual insurance market. Barring a reversal by Congress, the courts or administration policy, the move probably will drive up costs substantially for many in the health exchanges, send insurers fleeing from the already troubled marketplace, or both. Trump makes no secret of his wish to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But he had been casting a lifeline to those exchanges by making the payments month to month. Now he’s yanked that back.
Trump also directed his administration to rewrite federal rules to ease the way for “association health plans” that could offer cheaper coverage with fewer protections than are guaranteed in the law’s health plans. That, too, potentially undermines the 2010 law. Furthermore, his administration said before this week that it is sharply cutting programs that promote health insurance enrollment under the law for next year.
Trump: “I’m giving the largest tax cuts in the history of this country.” — comments Tuesday after meeting Henry Kissinger.
The Facts: His tax plan is, at most, fifth largest in its estimated cost, says Marc Goldwein of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It could end up being even lower on the ladder historically.
The estimated cost of the tax plan has dropped by half or more since the spring, when only the contours were known. In an analysis in April, Goldwein’s group found that the $5.5 trillion plan that was then expected would have been the third largest since 1940 as a share of gross domestic product, behind President Ronald Reagan’s package in 1981 and tax cuts enacted in 1945 to phase out revenue generated for World War II. But, citing estimated costs of $1.5 trillion to $2.5 trillion for Trump’s plan now, Goldwein said several other historically significant tax cuts also would surpass Trump’s: from 2013 and 1964.
Trump: “Since the election on November 8th, I’ve increased the value of your U.S. assets by more than the $20 trillion that we currently owe.” — comparing rising values with the national debt, in a speech Wednesday to truckers in Pennsylvania.
The Facts: Trump’s suggestion that his election is the solitary explanation for higher stock and home prices does not reflect how the economy works. Trump’s election and the promise of a tax overhaul certainly helped the stock market at first. But recent gains also reflect better global growth and other factors that are beyond the president’s control.
Most Americans’ primary asset is their home, and there is little evidence that home values are rising because of Trump’s presidency. Much of the increase in home values reflects a dwindling supply of properties on the market relative to demand from would-be buyers. People’s net worth has improved because mortgage debt is being repaid, increasing the equity they have in their homes.
Meantime, the International Monetary Fund expects world economic growth will reach a six-year high this year. Three-quarters of the globe is experiencing growth, the first synchronized worldwide upswing in a decade. That’s a big boost for U.S. companies that earn much of their money overseas, and a lift for the U.S. stock market.
Also, people’s rising stock and home values do not mean a paying down of the federal government’ debt.
Trump: “When it comes to the business tax, we are now dead last among developed nations. Our rate is the least competitive rate. We have the highest tax rate anywhere in the world. How foolish is this?” — Pennsylvania speech.
The Facts: This is a misleading picture and one he paints continually. The U.S. does have the highest statutory corporate tax rate, but that doesn’t tell the full story. Other countries with lower corporate taxes also charge a separate tax on consumption, known as a Value Added Tax, that lets them keep corporate rates lower. The overall tax burden in the United States is among the lowest in the developed world.
Trump: “We are nearly doubling the amount of income that is based at the zero bracket.” Democrats are “not telling you the truth, because they pretend there isn’t a zero rate. And there is, and it’s expanding very substantially under my plan.” — Pennsylvania speech.
The Facts: Some people who accept that statement at face value are bound to get sticker shock at tax time, if his plan is adopted.
With the “zero” tax rate, Trump is talking about his proposed doubling of the standard deduction. While the higher standard deduction would exclude the first $24,000 in family earnings from taxes, the plan would also get rid of the personal exemption. The loss of the exemption would expose some families—particularly larger ones—to higher taxes than the doubling of the standard deduction.
Trump: “The Iranian regime has committed multiple violations of the agreement. For example, on two separate occasions, they have exceeded the limit of 130 metric tons of heavy water.” — remarks Friday criticizing Iran’s behavior while stopping short of pulling the U.S. out of the nuclear agreement.
The Facts: Iran is meeting all its obligations under the deal that suspended its nuclear program in return for eased international sanctions, according to International Atomic Energy Agency investigators. They did note some minor violations that were quickly corrected.
Trump is right that Iran exceeded the limit on heavy water in its possession on two occasions. Both times international inspectors were able to see that Iran made arrangements to ship the excess out of the country so that Tehran could come back into compliance.
Supporters of the deal argue that this shows the agreement works. Opponents say that because Iran sells the surplus on the open market, it is therefore being rewarded for violating the deal.
Trump and other critics of the agreement point in particular to Iran’s continuing missile tests, which may or may not defy the U.N. Security Council resolution that enshrined the deal. But those tests do not violate the deal itself.
Trump: “I will tell you, I left Texas and I left Florida, and I left Louisiana, and I went to Puerto Rico, and I met with the president of the Virgin Islands. These are people that are incredible people.” — speech to religious conservatives Friday.
The Facts: He met the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Kenneth Mapp, not a president. It’s not a country so it doesn’t have a president. He correctly referred to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as territories. At a congressional hearing a day earlier, Energy Secretary Rick Perry called Puerto Rico “a country that already had its challenges before the storm,” and apologized when told of the flub.
Trump: “I don’t believe in undercutting people.” — comments to the press Tuesday, when asked about Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The Facts: If a boss’s public disparagement of those who work for him counts as undercutting, Trump undercuts.
He used Twitter to undercut Tillerson’s diplomatic outreach to North Korea (“save your energy, Rex”), then suggested he’s got a higher IQ than his chief diplomat. This, after NBC News reported that Tillerson had described Trump as a “moron.”
Trump also used Twitter and other forums in the summer to humiliate his “very weak” and “beleaguered” attorney general, Jeff Sessions.
If publicly disparaging political associates counts as undercutting, too, the list is very long.
He barked at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to “get back to work” after the collapse of an effort to repeal the health law; said Republican senators “look like fools”; and branded Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., “Liddle’ Bob Corker” after the senator slammed him on multiple fronts.
Consciously or not, Trump’s energy-saving advice to Tillerson and his comment on Corker’s height recalled the taunts he directed against his 2016 Republican primary rivals, “low energy” Jeb Bush and “Little Marco” Rubio, the Florida senator.
Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders argued it’s impossible for a president to undercut his Cabinet because “the president is the leader of the Cabinet. He sets the tone, he sets the agenda.”
Trump: “The Failing @nytimes set Liddle’ Bob Corker up by recording his conversation. Was made to sound a fool, and that’s what I am dealing with!” — tweet Tuesday.
The Facts: The Times wasn’t sneaky in recording the interview. Corker asked that he be recorded, mentioning that his aides were also on the line: “I know they’re recording it, and I hope you are, too,” he told his interviewer. He also said: “I understand we’re on the record.” Corker said in the interview that Trump risked putting the U.S. on a path to world war and treated his office like a reality TV show.
Trump: “So GDP last quarter was 3.1%. Most of the folks that are in your business, and elsewhere, were saying that would not be hit for a long time. You know, Obama never hit the number.” — interview with Forbes magazine.
The Facts: Yes, Obama did, repeatedly. Growth topped 3% in eight quarters during Obama’s presidency.
When Forbes pointed out that Obama had reached that benchmark, Trump amended his claim: “He never hit it on a yearly basis.”
That’s true. The economy never grew by more than 3% for a full calendar year under Obama. That hasn’t happened since 2005. It is unlikely to happen this year, either.
Trump: “I’ve had just about the most legislation passed of any president, in a nine-month period, that’s ever served. We had over 50 bills passed. I’m not talking about executive orders only, which are very important. I’m talking about bills.” — Forbes interview.
The Facts: He’s signed little of consequence into law, a thin record all the more striking because of the Republican majority in the House and Senate. His record pales not just next to Franklin Roosevelt’s but with Obama’s and others. Trump, like his predecessors, has signed a lot of routine legislation, naming federal buildings after people and the like. He’s also signed emergency hurricane aid into law.
But the only far-reaching bill he’s signed is one he didn’t like but went along with, tightening sanctions on Russia and Iran. His promised repeal and replacement of Obama’s health care law has yet to materialize after twice failing in Congress. His proposed tax overhaul is in play, not in place, and the big-ticket infrastructure initiative he promised hasn’t come to Congress.
Trump: “Now, we’re going to have to do something with Obamacare because it’s failing. Henry Kissinger does not want to pay 116% increase in his premiums, but that’s what’s happening.” — after meeting Kissinger on Tuesday.
The Facts: Kissinger is going to be OK. The 94-year-old former secretary of state and national security adviser, chairman of his own international consulting firm and prolific author, is surely not bothered by rising premiums. People on Medicare can’t sign up for the insurance exchanges anyway.
But what to make of Trump’s suggestion that people in the exchanges are seeing premiums rise 116%? That comes from one state, Arizona, where unsubsidized premiums for a hypothetical 27-year-old buying a benchmark plan under Obama’s law increased 116% this year, according to an earlier government estimate. That cost, however, could be reduced significantly with subsidies available to low- and moderate-income people.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “Sen. Corker worked with Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration to pave the way for that legislation and basically rolled out the red carpet for the Iran deal.” — briefing Tuesday.
Trump tweet Oct. 8: “He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!”
The Facts: Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had no role in crafting the 2015 international agreement forged by the U.S. and other world powers to constrain Iran’s ability to build a nuclear arsenal. Corker actually was a vocal opponent of the accord and argued Obama should have made the international pact a treaty subject to approval by the Senate.
When Obama didn’t do that, Corker helped fellow senators write legislation that subjected the accord to periodic congressional review. The legislation would have stopped the deal from moving forward if that effort got enough votes. It didn’t. In any event, the ultimate decision to bring the deal into effect was made by Obama, not Congress.
you just bought into all the Russian media postings on facebook and etc....how dumb!
But a typical "trumpie"...you come on here read one post and know all you need to know....go back and look around on some of these threads....didn't you get straightened out on the impeachment thread?
and still shooting off your right wing trump brainwashed mouth!
you are proof that most trumpies are not educated!
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Trump has a credibility problem on tax reform
The White House just released a report saying that slashing the corporate tax rate would boost the typical family’s take-home pay by $4,000 per year.
Americans aren’t buying it.
As President Trump and his fellow Republicans roll out their big tax-reform plan, the biggest battles are likely to be over who stands to benefit the most. The framework for tax reform the Trump administration, published in September, called for simplifying the rate structure for individuals, killing the estate tax, lowering taxes on small businesses and slashing the corporate rate from 35% to 20%. The Tax Policy Center (TPC) found that the plan heavily favored the rich. It would boost the after-tax income of the top 1% by 8.5% on average, while the bottom 95% would enjoy just a 1.2% hike in take-home pay, at best.
The White House trashed the TPC analysis for filling in details the White House hasn’t yet provided. And it’s possible the final Trump plan will be kinder to the middle class than the TPC findings suggest. But the factual details of the plan, whenever they arrive, may end up being less important than the impression Americans have of the plan, which will determine the enthusiasm with which members of Congress support tax reform and are willing to risk political consequences to support it.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-credibility-problem-tax-reform-200607509.html
The White House just released a report saying that slashing the corporate tax rate would boost the typical family’s take-home pay by $4,000 per year.
Americans aren’t buying it.
As President Trump and his fellow Republicans roll out their big tax-reform plan, the biggest battles are likely to be over who stands to benefit the most. The framework for tax reform the Trump administration, published in September, called for simplifying the rate structure for individuals, killing the estate tax, lowering taxes on small businesses and slashing the corporate rate from 35% to 20%. The Tax Policy Center (TPC) found that the plan heavily favored the rich. It would boost the after-tax income of the top 1% by 8.5% on average, while the bottom 95% would enjoy just a 1.2% hike in take-home pay, at best.
The White House trashed the TPC analysis for filling in details the White House hasn’t yet provided. And it’s possible the final Trump plan will be kinder to the middle class than the TPC findings suggest. But the factual details of the plan, whenever they arrive, may end up being less important than the impression Americans have of the plan, which will determine the enthusiasm with which members of Congress support tax reform and are willing to risk political consequences to support it.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-credibility-problem-tax-reform-200607509.html
just means you have no friggn idea what you are talking about!
I will give you that one!
but now you are talking out both sides of your mouth......first you defend Trump...then you complain about what he does because it effects world policy.....confused about where you are coming from!
Judges turn to extreme remedy to block Trump administration
Less than an hour after the administration announced a termination of cost-sharing reduction payments related to the Affordable Care Act late Thursday, attorneys general in New York and California warned they would go to court. History of nationwide injunctions "There weren't any national injunctions for most of US history," said Samuel Bray, a law professor at UCLA School of Law. Bray said they started in the late 20th century but were rare until the last part of President Barack Obama's second term, when Republican attorneys general started getting national injunctions to stop the Obama administration. Now, the tables are turned. "Democratic attorneys general are getting national injunctions ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/78699d...6de22ce/ss_judges-turn-to-extreme-remedy.html
Less than an hour after the administration announced a termination of cost-sharing reduction payments related to the Affordable Care Act late Thursday, attorneys general in New York and California warned they would go to court. History of nationwide injunctions "There weren't any national injunctions for most of US history," said Samuel Bray, a law professor at UCLA School of Law. Bray said they started in the late 20th century but were rare until the last part of President Barack Obama's second term, when Republican attorneys general started getting national injunctions to stop the Obama administration. Now, the tables are turned. "Democratic attorneys general are getting national injunctions ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/78699d...6de22ce/ss_judges-turn-to-extreme-remedy.html
Just shows.... our government is being BOUGHT!
In money race for governor, Democrats losing badly to Republicans
POLITICO
MIAMI — The top three Democratic candidates for governor are struggling so mightily to fundraise that they pulled in less money last month than a little-known Republican state senator in the race, stoking a fresh round of bipartisan speculation that the GOP is on track to hold on to the governor’s mansion it has controlled for two decades. Together, Gwen Graham, Andrew Gillum and Chris King hauled in $503,000 in September, while Republican state Sen. Jack Latvala raked in nearly $825,000. And the GOP’s fundraising front-runner, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, blew them all away by reporting more than $1.1 million. Story Continued Below Putnam and Latvala raised almost four times ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/a32e16...5297502a7/ss_in-money-race-for-governor,.html
In money race for governor, Democrats losing badly to Republicans
POLITICO
MIAMI — The top three Democratic candidates for governor are struggling so mightily to fundraise that they pulled in less money last month than a little-known Republican state senator in the race, stoking a fresh round of bipartisan speculation that the GOP is on track to hold on to the governor’s mansion it has controlled for two decades. Together, Gwen Graham, Andrew Gillum and Chris King hauled in $503,000 in September, while Republican state Sen. Jack Latvala raked in nearly $825,000. And the GOP’s fundraising front-runner, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, blew them all away by reporting more than $1.1 million. Story Continued Below Putnam and Latvala raised almost four times ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/a32e16...5297502a7/ss_in-money-race-for-governor,.html
But it HAS been proven, BadBitch, and even admitted to by the Russian government. However, the Russian government is denying THEY had anything to do with it ... the government, not private hackers. Haven't you been watching the news or are you simply comprehending what you want to hear? Facebook has already produced false, Russian paid-for advertisements that were created to destroy Hillary Clinton ... that's a known fact ... been on the news for WEEKS. The question is DID Trump and/or any of his administration participate in any way ... providing information, paying for their services, etc etc. THAT'S the question. Heck, even Trump, during the campaign, addressed Russians on TV, and said/encouraged the Russians to find e-mails on Hillary Clinton. You don't recall that, either? Come on ... this isn't about one Presidency, its about the security of the nation ... think beyond the parties, ok? Our government can NOT allow other governments to meddle in our politics and elections and should be considered an "act of war" if proven. So, for once, look beyond Trump, whether you like him or not.
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Your search engine must be broken, or maybe you see only what you want to see. There is violence from both, like it or not. But it is only the left that makes the claim to be "non-violent" and "tolerant" when they are far from it.
talk about a broken search engine!
Trump promoted all through his campaign!...for protesters....even Hillary..saying people who like the 2nd amendment should take care of her.....to offering to pay the legal fees for someone who would punch a protester in the face....
and I won't even mention....well yes I will Charlottesville
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