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| What does Smoot-Hawley mean to y | 2024-10-27 | 6 | - | 2 | tax | |||||
| Campaign promises to save or fix social security have been | 2024-10-26 | 8 | - | 1 | tax | |||||
| Against all odds, Congress finally allowed the IRS to | 2024-10-15 | 9 | - | tax | ||||||
| Trump wants to cut taxes on the rich! Way to boost the | 2024-06-14 | 2 | - | tax | ||||||
| There are two ideas of governme | 2024-03-09 | 10 | - | 1 | 2 | tax |
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========== What does Smoot-Hawley mean to y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act And to Trump? Still think Trump is a champion of the middle class? He pretended in 2016 - https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ and he's pretending again - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-policy.html Funding the Federal government with a regressive national sales tax has been the dream of the megadonor class ever since the progressive income tax was instituted. Pushing tariffs as the sole revenue source accomplishes two major megadonor goals - moving the tax burden from the hard-working job-creating megadonor class to the improvident middle and lower classes, AND shrinking the Federal government's ability to regulate the megadonor class by shrinking Federal revenue. Whether this could actually come to pass is doubtful. Parts of the megadonor class depend on imports - their costs would increase if consumers won't pay the higher prices - and others on exports - their costs would increase as other countries imposed retaliatory tariffs. And it's been tried - it was called Smoot-Hawley - and the resulting global depression facilitated the rise of dictatorships leading to World War II. But a passing grade in history is not required to be a supporter of Make Aristocracy Great Again. It will all depend on who gets elected to Congress. But it doesn't cost Trump anything to promise something he can't deliver. #PS1tax ===== impact 42 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2024-10-27 ratio 3 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title What does Smoot-Hawley mean to y topic tax wordrate 5 words 211 audclicks 2 epoch Lifetime ID 951201200387822 impress 8 matchedlinkclicks 2 pageid 100064938510484 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/27/2024 16:43" reach 6 title What does Smoot-Hawley mean to y type Links URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/951201200387822 ========== Campaign promises to save or fix social security have been staples for yea https://www.ssa.gov/oact/solvency/list.html https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v58n2/v58n2p74.pdf https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/gspan.html but it's really the toxic third rail that every elected official wants to talk about, but no elected official wants to touch - necessarily involving tax increases, benefit decreases, and inflationary federal deficit increases. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit So they try to get the OTHER guys to grab that rail and pay the price; then the rest of them will blame the OTHER guys, but will grudgingly vote yes and the president will grudgingly sign it. Hasn't happened yet! But if it does, each side plans to blame the other for the result, though all sides deserve blame for the failure to act in a timelier way. This could be the opportunity to rethink taxes and entitlements - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html but it looks like currently, there's nothing REALLY new under this sun - https://www.crfb.org/blogs/what-would-trump-campaign-plans-mean-social-security https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/24/trump-social-security-trust-fund/ https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/trump-social-security-cut/index.html Pay little heed to what Trump or Harris promise; in the unlikely event Congress acts, they likely will grudgingly sign it, then campaign against it. #PS1tax ===== impact 17 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2024-10-26 ratio 8 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Campaign promises to save or fix social security have been topic tax wordrate 4 words 166 epoch Lifetime ID 950256563815619 impress 15 pageid 100064938510484 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/26/2024 08:53" rcs 1 reach 8 sharesimpress 1 title Campaign promises to save or fix social security have been staples for yea type Links URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/950256563815619 ========== Against all odds, Congress finally allowed the IRS to handle simple returns directly and automatically - just as in most western democraci https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-season-treasury-yellen-3c5e3ade465fcd4441f84e1c4edfcc6b The commercial computer tax preparation companies lobbied fiercely against it, since their bread and butter is the simple returns rather than the expensive complicated ones. #PS1tax ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2024-10-15 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Against all odds, Congress finally allowed the IRS to topic tax wordrate 0 words 48 epoch Lifetime ID 941996534641622 impress 9 pageid 100064938510484 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/15/2024 21:31" reach 9 title Against all odds, Congress finally allowed the IRS to handle simple returns type Links URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/941996534641622 ========== Trump wants to cut taxes on the rich! Way to boost the federal deficit and inflati https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/us/politics/trump-corporate-tax-rate.html That's hardly news. Anyway the president does not set taxes, Congress does, and as in 2017, Trump will sign whatever a GOP Congress passes. #PS1tax ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2024-06-14 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Trump wants to cut taxes on the rich! Way to boost the topic tax wordrate 0 words 41 epoch Lifetime ID 857220929785850 impress 2 pageid 100064938510484 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/14/2024 11:30" reach 2 title Trump wants to cut taxes on the rich! Way to boost the federal deficit and type Links URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/857220929785850 ========== There are two ideas of governme There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. William Jennings Bryan, 1896 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech Bimetallism quickly came and went, but the fundamental difference between protecting the ruling class from the masses, vs protecting the masses from the ruling class, hasn't changed a bit. GOP politicians won't usually say, right out loud in public, that their primary job is to protect the wealth and power of their megadonors; they usually say the opposite in public of what they tell their megadonors in private. So if they wanted to stop illegal immigration, they'd set up barb wire concentration camps in the hot Texas sun - and put their megadonors who hire illegal immigrants there. But they don't want to stop illegal immigration - they'd lose a vital campaign issue, and their megadonors would lose their supply of cheap docile exploitable labor and respond by funding somebody else in the next primary. That's why decades of hard-wrought bipartisan compromise immigration reform proposals never get taken up by Congress. In a similar vein, if the GOP wanted to do something about the budget deficit, they'd repeal their 2017 megadonor tax cut bill. But all the talk about balanced budget is just code for eliminate medicaid, obamacare, medicare, and social security. Just like States rights has been code for, successively, Slavery, Segregation, and Suppression of voters, especially the formerly enslaved and segregated. Not all taxes are levied by government, and it's a principle of GOP that taxes should be levied by megadonors on the masses, by time-honored means such as monopoly pricing, union busting, deregulation, and putting the dirty work in or near poor neighborhoods. So their goal is do God's work of rewarding the virtuous rich and powerful by taxing the lazy and improvident. And if that doesn't accord with the scripture YOU read, rest assured that they have clerics on board who will explain it their way. Tax cuts never work the way they said they would. That's no surprise to anybody - just about every serious economist knows better - and says so. But as with clerics, there are economists who can be bought/brought on board to supply a side of Lafferble arguments - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve Trump promised one thing in the 2016 campaign but gladly signed the opposite - https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ Trump doesn't have the attention span or knowledge or interest for the nitty-gritty of working out the details of legislation, so he just let McConnell and Ryan come up with something/anything he could sign. Just as with installing a reactionary Federal judiciary to defend minority rule, Trump's role was messenger boy between Leonard Leo and Mitch McConnell. The 2017 megadonor tax cut was the highlight of Paul Ryan's legislative career. He was so proud of what he did for the masses that he tweeted about it. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-ryan-deleted-tweet-tax-150-pay-increase/ And then he concluded that it wasn't such a good message for the 2018 elections after all, as far as influencing voters. But it worked as intended for influencing megadonors, who got a lot more than $1.50/week out of it. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-04/america-s-big-tax-cut-wasted-almost-2-trillion #PS1tax ===== comments 1 impact 166 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2024-03-09 ratio 3 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title There are two ideas of governme topic tax wordrate 0 words 552 audclicks 2 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 796251102549500 impress 20 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 100064938510484 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "03/09/2024 16:34" rcs 1 reach 10 title There are two ideas of governme type Links URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/796251102549500