Well…we’ve know for some time that the repub party is infested with grifters and thiefs but what the senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson did for two of his biggest donors is breathtaking in its crookedness. When the big tax giveaway to the rich that the repubs passed was being written, Johnson had a little bit of specialized tax code added that would benefit the two families that gave him 20 million dollars for his campaigns…and that benefit? They got tax breaks of almost 500 million dollars…not a bad return on your 20 million dollar bribe. This is normal for the repubs these days, scratch any one of them and you’ll find a petty crook inside, using their office to enrich themselves as people starve and the roads crumble….and yet, nothing is done…not one of them goes to jail and the rich keep stealing with their help…it’s pretty damn depressing…geez…
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Getting close…
Well…yep, running late again today getting the political one out…I wanted to get the work started on the new gate while it was not the freezing temps we are going to see for the next 3 weeks…it was not a good day for the criminal trump when a federal appeals court ruled that Mazars has to give up trump’s tax returns to a grand jury that is investigating trump’s crimes in NY…and, of course, his lawyers have said they will appeal to the SC but with losses in two courts, there is a chance that the SC may just let the appeals court ruling stand and not take the case…but, with beer boy Kavanaugh on the court now, he needs to pay trump back for getting him there and will break any precedent to do it so it appears that they are going to say that trump is above the law as his lawyers have been contending for months now. I think the first thing we need to do when we take back the government in 2020 is to codify in law all of the norms of our society that trump and the repubs have been shredding for three years now…a law an order commission that would pass a law that says that all presidential candidates must release their tax returns…and finally get rid of the DOJ guidance that says a sitting president can’t be indicted…saying that the law apply to everyone at all times and when a crime is committed, indictments come as a matter of course….at least then we wouldn’t be in the situation we are in now with a criminal running the country…
Told you so…
Well…if you’ve been coming here for a while, you probably read a post that I did when the repub tax scam was passed where I predicted that the giveaway to the rich and corporations would raise taxes on the middle class to pay for it…and you heard McConnell and the rest of the repubs howl whenever anyone called them out on it…so, today…a new study just came out that said…guess what? That the majority of Americans saw their taxes go up after the passage of the law…and with the withholding shenanigans that the repubs did to snow people into thinking they were getting a tax cut, most returns are down this year and over 20% of the people filing actually owe more money to the IRS. Let’s get this straight, just like was done here in Michigan when they started taxing pensions, and then gave tax cuts to corporations and the rich to “create jobs”…it is the same thing as me writing a check to a CEO for a thousand bucks…the people who owe money this year are writing a check to a corporation or one of the 1% so they can buy another summer home or their 43rd car….and the repubs continue to lie about that scam every day…and the people who voted for them are still so damn dumb they still support them even after writing the checks….oh, and one last thing…after the tax scam, over 65 of the largest corporations in America didn’t pay a damn dime in taxes….that is what the repub party is all about…a reverse Robin Hood…robbing the poor to give to the rich….
You’re going to pay for it…
Well…still hate writing about Trump but I’m behind for the month and need to do two more of these today…it is well known that Trump is a tax cheat and feels that paying taxes is like “throwing money down the drain”….so who do you think would pay for all of the extra money he wants to spend on the military? Not guys like him or corporations, that’s for sure…so who’s left? Yep…you and me by either cutting SS or raising our taxes…but, for a guy who reveled in people losing their homes so he could make profit in 2008 and who lies, and lies, and lies, you won’t hear that from him…he is going to magically run the economy just like all the rest of the repubs…on faith….and if we all just trust him, everything will be huuuuge….god, I hate this guy….
Trump and his taxes…
Well…I know I said I wasn’t going to write much more about ole Donald but I just read a little tidbit about his taxes that I just had to comment on…as you know…Donald is refusing to release his tax returns using every lie in the book to keep from doing it and there just might be a real reason for him not releasing them….in his NY state return, he took a tax credit that can only be used by someone making less than 500K a year…so, either he is lying about his huuuuge amount of money he supposedly makes, or he is committing tax fraud by taking this credit that he is not entitled to. One other reason could be that he has such good lawyers that he is not paying any taxes which would not look good, either, just making him another rich asshole who doesn’t pay his fair share….any one of the reasons should be enough to disqualify him from being president…but, the repub base just doesn’t care if he is a liar and tax cheat, he is still ‘the Donald” and I guess being a celebrity is all the qualifications you need on the right….geez…
Magical thinking…
Well…ole JEB! just came out with his tax plan he will enact if he is elected….okay, I know you laughed at that one…and that is something else we are going to laugh at since it is filled with magical thinking and based on the discredited economics that blew up the deficit under ole GW. The entire plan is just more and more tax cuts for business and the rich and makes the assumption (disproved many, many times) that cutting taxes raises revenue; the old Laffer curve nonsense that even Saint Ronnie had to abandon after the deficits exploded…he was even sane enough to follow the evidence after the cuts and to understand that the only way to raise revenue is to raise taxes…something that this new crop of repubs just won’t do with their stupid pledges to Grover Norquist to never raise taxes. I don’t wonder why ole JEB!’s tax plan looks just like his idiot brother’s…they were the fevered dreams of the same set of advisers so with JEB!, you get 4 more years of ole GW…and we know how well that worked out…geez….
This is wrong…
Well…just read an article about the tax burden here in Michigan and it just confirms what I have been saying since the repubs cut taxes for corporations here…they are no longer paying their fair share of what it takes to run this state…in fact, the people are paying twice what corporations pay in income taxes just in the so called “sin” taxes on tobacco and alcohol…yep, you heard that right, the corporations whose trucks destroy the roads and whose pollution fouls the air and land pay so little in taxes that the few people that drink and smoke pay more in taxes just on those two items than corporations do with the giant tax cuts they were given by Snyder and the repubs. This continues the repubs plan to shift the burden of taxation to the middle class and the poor while allowing corporations to steal the use of the state without paying for it…or understanding that these tax cuts do nothing but destroy the ability of the state to pay it’s bills, as we see from the fight here to try to figure out how to fix Michigan’s roads. Now, I don’t mind paying my taxes because that is what you do in a society…but taxes have to be fair, and since “corporations are people” they should pay their fair share….geez…
No more Ferguson…
Well…with the fear of beating the whole situation in Ferguson to death, I think I’ll move on to other topics this afternoon and see where it goes…first, just read the Obama has grown a spine and has told Harry Reid that he will veto the bill that ole Harry has negotiated with house repubs that would have screwed the middle class by taking away tax breaks and giving them to business…yep, I’m not sure what the hell ole Harry it thinking but that is not what any dem that I would vote for would do….I can now see why people don’t think there is any difference between the parties. Why can’t our side start acting like dems? I applaud Obama for telling Harry it was a non-starter. I also applaud Nancy Pelosi for making sure that there would not be any dems voting to override any veto….hmmm…what’s second? Not much…I am done going out until Friday aft for pool and that feels good…got a bunch of stuff done today and ran a couple of errands but now, it’s veg time with soccer…champions league is not my favorite unless Man U is playing but it’s good for taking a nap…..more later…
Patriots pay their taxes…
Well…in typical repub fashion, just like ole Mitt, the repub senate candidate here in Michigan paid much, much less in taxes by percentage than almost anyone…even me who is living on his retirement. Over the past two years, somehow through accounting nonsense and loopholes, ole Terri land paid under three percent of her income in taxes versus the 4.6% that you and I pay…and the other thing is: how do you have a net worth of over 30 million dollars and only report income of 44 thousand dollars like she did last year? And, why did she separate her “income” from that of her husband, who works for the Land family real estate business? Is it to make it appear that she is just another poor working class person here in Michigan? I am disgusted with these rich asses who think they need just money to make them qualified to represent Michigan in the US senate…just like the DeVos family who tried to buy the governorship a few years back, ole Terri has spent almost 3 million dollars of her own money trying to buy this seat…along with the help of the Koch brothers who have spent millions through their shell companies to help with her purchase. I will deal with the policy differences between her and Gary Peters later…but knowing she is rich, and paying less in taxes than you and I should be enough to disqualify her in the eyes of rational voters…just hope there are a few here in Michigan.
Taxes, taxes…
Well…after tangling with the IRS again for a measly 500 bucks or so…it just pissed me off when I was reminded about GE and how they have been able to manage their tax liability…and, by manage I mean avoid paying any taxes at all. Over the past three years, on 28 billion dollars in income, GE has paid no taxes…in fact, they have used the code written for them to get over 3 billion dollars in refunds…yep, folks…you and I are paying GE 3 billion dollars out of our taxes to bribe them to stay in the US…not that being here is the reason the company exists…that US markets have gotten it to where it is today…no, it is from their wonderful business savvy…if you can’t recognize it, that last part was all snark…the infrastructure, the education, and the market they depend on is all paid for by us and they use if for free since they don’t pay taxes…talk about free riders and takers….how many people would it take to take the 3 billion dollars they take every year? Parasites all……geez…