Showing posts with label Spending 2019. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spending 2019. Show all posts
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Stampede into Roth IRAs expected after passage of Secure Act in massive spending bill signed by Trump limits "stretch IRAs"

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People who have saved $1 million or more in an IRA and plan to pass it on to someone other than their spouses should consider doing Roth ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

After passing NDAA whopper funding The Military Industrial Complex and The Swamp, US House passes another $1.4 trillion in spending in two bills to let Trump say he didn't sign another Omnibus spending bill

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TRUMP IS WORKING WITH THEM AGAINST US YOU IDIOTS. T he House passed a $1.4 trillion federal spending package that averts a government s...
Monday, December 9, 2019

Trump and Congress are spending us blind

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There is no Great Financial Crisis as in 2008, but Trump & Co. are in the process of racking up trillion dollar deficits same as then a...
Monday, December 2, 2019

America was an extremist country until 1913

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So says this nut, Adam Grossman: As a Libertarian, some of [Harry] Browne’s economic proposals were extreme—including, for instance, a...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

How quickly the liberators of Negroes made themselves slaves of the legislature

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Saturday, November 16, 2019

Then most Federalist Society folks are kooky: Senators and Representatives and Judges keep chairs warm for decades while POTUS becomes a lame duck immediately upon re-election

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We live under the spendthrift tyranny of the legislative feared by Madison, with its access to the pockets of the people, augmented by a ...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Trump today, bright and early: There is always plenty of time to cut

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There's always plenty of time to cut spending, by definition, just not right now. NEVER right now, always later. And when later com...
Friday, July 26, 2019

US House advances Bipartisan Budget Act to the Senate 284-149, sets discretionary spending at about $1.37 trillion for both of the next two fiscal years and suspends debt ceiling

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65 Republicans voted for the damn thing, not that it mattered substantively. The thing otherwise would have passed 219-214 even if the 16 D...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

By Trump's own logic he and Congress should be ineligible for office in 2020 for upcoming deficit spending orgy

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10 years after Santelli's rant against Obama's proposed bailout of your neighbor's mortgage, National Review pretends it was about deficit spending

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You will search in vain in this article for the word " mortgage ". If the Tea Party had been about any one thing, it was about ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Yang Gang hates on math as Boomer math because math shows Universal Basic Income is a BFD, not "nothing"

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Total cost of federal regulations in 2012 was $2.028 trillion (in 2014 dollars), according to the National Association of Manufacturers ....
Monday, March 11, 2019

I remember when Trump promised a 10% spending cut in Jan 2017, now Kudlow announces a 5% cut after Republicans spend us blind: 100% politics, 0% serious

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Trump to whack DC with 10% cut to discretionary spending, 20% cut to personnel What a crock that turned out to be. Federal employme...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Contra Dan Henninger of the WSJ, this is hardly the hottest job market in half a century when Obama's was actually better, which ain't sayin' much

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Story of the Year : This past weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a series of stories titled “Inside the Hottest Job Market in Ha...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

LA Times: No construction for Trump's wall has begun anywhere because he signed border deal

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If Trump had been serious about building the wall, he wouldn't have signed a border deal which ties his hands. He would have vetoed it ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Donald Trump is a self-hating fool and a wimp, and so is Mr. Missing in Action, Rush Limbaugh

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Only a self-hating fool and a wimp would have signed this bill, and only a self-hating fool and wimp would defend the self-hating fool and ...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Trump and Republicans make total public debt soar

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We've gone from $19.8 trillion in the hole on Nov 8, 2016 to $22 trillion on Feb 14, 2019. Up $2.2 trillion! Up 11%! Up $81...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Yesterday showed us that Trump is in fact 25th Amendment material

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He didn't remember he let the drug dealers out of prison by just recently signing the criminal justice reform bill when he was riffing ...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

The New Republic attacks The Jew Howard Schultz for getting The Protestant debt religion

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Which teaches that real capitalism is about risking savings, not about leveraging debt. It's The New Republic which has learned not...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

"Improper" drawing of congressional districts is not the problem, improper restriction of the number of districts is

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To Fix Our Democracy, First End Gerrymandering : Gerrymandering, the pervasive practice of drawing congressional districts for politica...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Trump gave away 75% of federal spending as a shutdown bargaining chip over immigration in Sept. 2018, so before Sept. 2019 his only other chip is the debt ceiling

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Flashback to September 28, 2018: Trump signs spending bill, preventing shutdown : President Trump on Friday signed an $854 billion ...