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09-16-22 21:09 #10208
Posts: 1068Yes Imagine
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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09-16-22 18:13 #10207
Posts: 1782Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
1. What does this have to do w your claim that I share same policy views as reps / qanon?
2. I have no idea what you mean above. Please can you try again?
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09-16-22 17:25 #10206
Posts: 1119Binary thinking for Repubs?
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
Here let me give you an example:
I think the disillusioned Repubs voters the "status quo new order QAnon/Repubs/bothsideists", should be ecstatic after reading your "bothsidesism", and positive views on the Green party/Independent.
So now I am thinking, the disillusioned Repub voters have 3 choices. Same-ole-same-ole status quo, don't vote or the new option with Green Party/Independent. Not binary all!
There are those rare moments, when I do genuinely wish the best for Repubs, thanks to your "bothsidesism".
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09-16-22 16:03 #10205
Posts: 428Blame the person that caused inflation
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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09-16-22 14:57 #10204
Posts: 1604Actually, they weren't
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02...er-storm-2021/
https://cz.boell.org/en/2021/03/19/t...-energy-market
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-f...-idUSKBN2AJ2EI
But sure, keep on living in fantasy world aka Donnie the Dumbass' Mar-a-Lago Putt-Putt and McDonalds Emporium.
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09-16-22 12:35 #10203
Posts: 1782Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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09-16-22 06:50 #10202
Posts: 5454Imagine a Texas nowhere near Mexico
It is an easily observable reality that border states benefit economically disproportionately due to their immediate proximity to foreign countries with which we have ongoing trade deals.
Shipping logistics, terminals, warehousing, commercial traffic in and out, it goes on and on. Imagine the greater wasteland Texas border towns (if there would be any at all) and districts would be if that power grid-challenged state was located in the middle of the country far, far away from the border of Mexico.
Therefore, in exchange for that benefit, it is only fair that border states disproportionately pay for and deal with the relatively minor downsides to being right on the border as well.
LOL. Crybaby, deadbeat Red state governors are always looking for a free lunch.
Oh, and a gentle reminder on a different issue; the USA government concept of "Divided Government" has nothing whatsoever to do with political party majorities in the House vs the party in the White House vs the majority in the Senate, etc.
Just sayin'.
Bonus info:
CBO Estimates TCJA Extensions Could Cost Up to $2.7 Trillion.
JUN 28, 2022 TAXES
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/cbo-estim...st-27-trillion
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09-16-22 05:39 #10201
Posts: 1957Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
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09-16-22 03:19 #10200
Posts: 1604Here's what we all forget
It seems like supporters of Donnie the Dumbass are continually blaming President Biden for inflation. It reminds me of a 60-year-old quote from Abraham Maslow "If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail". That's supporters of Donnie the Dumbass all right. Everything is "fake news" unless it comes from some bogus rightwingnut source. Then, of course, it has to be "real". Yep, to them, "the election was stolen", "Chinese thermostats changed votes". Or was it Italian satellites? They probably even believe that Jewish Space Lasers cause forest fires. Sheesh.
What these folks forget is virtually every country in the world is suffering from inflation. Gasoline prices are up worldwide. Food prices are up worldwide. Commodities are up. Manufactured goods are up. Now, even the dumbest person in the world ought to be able to see that something else is at work here. "All these countries have one thing in common: they're all struggling to recover from a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that continues to disrupt the supply side of the economy, hampering the ability of businesses, workers, and the global supply chain to operate at full capacity and satisfy boomeranging consumer demand. Rather than putting a Biden "I did that" sticker on products with skyrocketing prices, it's probably more accurate to say "COVID did that. " https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2...blame-on-biden.
But the one thing that no self-respecting supporter of the one-term, twice-impeached, commander-in-chief of the Mar-a-Lago Putt-Putt and McDonalds Emporium would ever do is admit that COVID is probably the main driver of inflation. Because to do so would mean that they would have to acknowledge that we'd have inflation even if Donnie the Dumbass was president*.
After all, even if Donnie the Dumbass was president*, we'd still have surging consumer demand because of the lifting of many of the COVID restrictions. We'd still have labor shortages as US workers say "Screw it, I'm not going to work for some moron who pays peanuts any more". We'd still have global supply chain problems. None of these things would have gone away if Donnie the Dumbass were president*. Unless, of course, "If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail".
So, sorry folks, but Donnie the Dumbass couldn't have fixed this problem either. Just like he made COVID worse by lying to the American public, he'd have done the same thing here. He'd have simply declared the pandemic over and opened up everything. He'd have killed millions more with this strategy plus kickstarted inflation even higher. https://businessinsider.mx/causes-of...ion/?r=US&IR=T.
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09-16-22 01:15 #10199
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
As to the tax cuts resulting from the TCJA, I don't know where you're getting 2. 5 million. The JCT and CBO estimated that the federal government would receive about $1. 5 trillion less in revenues over 2018 to 2027 as result of the TCJA. It would have been less if Democrats had terminated the cuts last year, which was in their power to do. The corporate tax cuts were long overdue. At 35% pre-TCJA, when added to state income taxes, we were levying a much higher rate on our corporations than than other nations were on theirs. The TCJA also eliminated corporate loopholes. The GILTI (global intangible low taxed income) tax for the first time imposed tax on USA Companies unrepatriated foreign earnings. This solved two problems. First, it ameliorated the problem with USA Corporations recognizing outsized earnings in foreign subsidiaries in low tax countries, where patents and intellectual property and the like were parked. And it encouraged USA Companies to bring money parked in foreign accounts overseas back to the USA, to be used here. The actual revenue from corporate taxes is now turning out to be higher than the CBO estimated. In fact, for the 2022 budget year, the CBO's current projection is that the USA will realize $395 billion from the corporate tax. And that's even though we went through a small recession. Their original estimate for corporate income tax revenues was $353 million with the TCJA and $389 million without the TCJA.
At the individual level, the TCJA tax cuts made our tax system more progressive, and most people ended up paying less. The one thing I disagreed with was the lower tax rate on pass through businesses with lots of employees. And with lots of depreciable property relative to income, like LLC's that own rental real estate. The later was very beneficial to the Trump organization, because of its rental properties, but it was playing games with the tax system to benefit special interests.
Yes, the Republicans should have cut spending along with taxes so as to not increase deficits. But that's what happens when one party controls the presidency, the House and the Senate. It goes on a spending binge. The same thing happened during the first two years of the Biden, Obama, Bush Jr. And Clinton administrations.
I agree with you 100% on Medicare and drug prices. That's something that should have happened a long time ago.
It's other parts of the Inflation Reduction Act that I believe suck. There's lots and lots of green pork. The bill favors special interests which contribute to the Democratic Party. And citizens who tend to vote for the Democratic Party (upper middle class greenies who want to think they're doing something good for the environment by buying EV's.) A reasonable carbon tax, levied on the end user of electricity and fuels, would be the best way to reduce carbon emissions, if that's your goal. And the Inflation Reduction Act isn't going to do jack to reduce global warming. The spending provisions are largely a waste of money.
As to "Trump's inflation" and "Biden's historic recovery," I've given up on making critical comments about peoples' religious beliefs. I will say that I hope the Republicans win the House. If they don't, and if Democrats can add a couple of progressives to the Senate, then inflation, which would otherwise be likely to subside, may just rev up again because of increased spending. And deficits will be higher than they would otherwise, as Democrats most likely will pass something like the $3. 5 trillion Build Back Better bill.
Divided government is best. The ba*tards in Washington can't screw us over as much.
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09-15-22 23:22 #10198
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
I do know what caused the problem though. This is something I posted on another hooker board contemporaneously. It was later backed up by reporting in the Wall Street Journal. You can blame the situation on the bureaucrats and directors at ERCOT, which is like the air traffic control system for the electric grid in Texas. During the early stages of the freeze, they gave priority to residences and the like over oil and gas wells and gas plants. And that was a very bad decision:
This is from a buddy in Houston who's high up with a gas pipeline company. Oncor (power company) and ERCOT (outfit that controls the electric grid in Texas) in their infinite wisdom decided that compressors on gas pipelines and compressors at the inlets to gas plants were not essential, so blacked them out. They also shut off electricity to wells in the Permian Basin. The effect of all this was to shut off production wells and salt water disposal wells.
So basically a lot of the gas production infrastructure went off line. And it's not so easy to get things going again as when the wells and the compressors and the gas plants stop operating, things freeze up.
So anyway as a result the gas fired power plants were deprived of fuel, so they had to shut down. And just like the gas plants and the compressors and the wells, getting them going again in freezing conditions can be problematic.
In summary, according to my friend, shutting off the power to the oilfield and gas plants generated a chain reaction that resulted in the gas fired power plants going down. He said he and colleagues begged Oncor and ERCOT not to shut off the electricity, because they knew what was going to happen. Undoubtedly people working for other midstream companies were doing the same.
These people just had no common sense. Yes, we need to maintain power to hospitals, etc. But when they cut off the fuel source for the power plants, they put us in a position where that may happen anyway.
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09-15-22 23:21 #10197
Posts: 1119Bothsidesism, what is it really?
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
I will always do my best to provide counterpoints and stand up for things I believe in, as opposed to someone that "stands for nothing and falls for everything".
Mask your naming calling, just like your "bothsidesism", all you want. I see it for what it is.
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09-15-22 23:06 #10196
Posts: 1119Asked and answered...now do the work
Originally Posted by ScatManDoo=2743538
Originally Posted by ScatManDoo=2743538
No need to badger anybody here, when our questions go unanswered, or when we don't get the answers we want to hear.
We all know it's an opinion board and not everyone's questions are answered, when we ask them. God knows, tons of my questions go unanswered, deflected or 'straw-manned'.
Perhaps instead, you could "do the work" and provide proof/support as to why your question isn't irrelevant. It's pretty easy to poke fun and ask questions all day.
P.S.: ScatManDoo, I am speaking for myself, my apologies if I've overstepped.
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09-15-22 23:06 #10195
Posts: 1604Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
In fact, most of these id10 ts believe that conception starts during the romantic dinner the night before.
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09-15-22 22:57 #10194
Posts: 1068They definitely need more viewers
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]