Showing posts with label Taxes 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxes 2018. Show all posts
Monday, December 31, 2018

Republicans specialize in spending money on putting Americans out of work, by importing cheap foreign labor and giving tax breaks to job-exporting corporations

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Shameless Sen. Alan Simpson can talk of Bush 41's no new taxes betrayal and his loyalty in the same breath without blinking an eye

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Yeah, Bush 41 was loyal to everyone but the taxpayer.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Today's fake news discourtesy of Reuters and CNBC: Republican proposes taxes on retirement plans

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Top US House tax writer floats a tax bill on retirement plans and the IRS The article says no such thing.
Sunday, November 4, 2018

I'm sick of headlines from Democrats claiming to defend the republic when they're out to destroy it

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Like this one from the prince of liars Andrew Sullivan, the spokesman for the freak zone of democracy, not republicanism:  Can the Republic...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg's angry political attack taints the impartiality of the Supreme Court: She should resign

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg calls Trump a 'faker,' he says she should resign : "He is a faker," she said of the pres...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Investors Business Daily thinks no one noticed Obama's recent public embrace of Bernie's radical socialism

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Here . We noticed. We just didn't mention it because we've been pointing out Obama's socialism for nine years already. Yaw...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

My latest utility bill: "We are pleased to pass along the savings from federal tax reform"

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$4.99- What oh what will I do with this unexpected windfall?
Monday, September 3, 2018

Like just about everyone else on the left, Joel Kotkin continues to twist himself in pretzels to avoid calling our system what it already is

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State capitalism. It is the socialism of the right, despite what names people may give it. The fascist model in which business and gov...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

As long as South Africa legalizes theft of farm land owned by whites, the IMF and the UK's Theresa May are all for it

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Reuters reports here . South Africa was ruled by Britain for a hundred years between 1806 and 1910. White Europeans swelled population...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Noah Smith embraces the Trump narrative: "There’s no doubt that the U.S. economy is in a boom"

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Here for Bloomberg. After examining several indicators, which, however, are not unequivocal for their interpretation despite saying ...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Priceless: Yale historian Timothy Snyder blames Democrats for Hillary's loss

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Here , on May 1, 2017, in Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democr...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Frank Rich slams Gary Cohn in NY Mag, Cohn fires back in Bloomberg

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Frank Rich on the 5th, here : The Wall Street bandits escaped punishment, as did most of the banking houses where they thrived. Everyo...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Good comparison of the presidents on GDP by Justin Fox at Bloomberg

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Guess Which Presidents Really Oversaw Economic Booms Fox well reminds his readers that GDP is an inadequate measure in many respects, ...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

The Republican corporate tax cuts Christmas 2017 have produced no surge in private investment in 2018 H1

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Saturday, June 16, 2018

Did Trump voters in 2016 vote for a huge corporate tax cut, war with North Korea, and a DACA amnesty?

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I watched all the rallies and never heard about these things. The enthusiasm was all for The Wall, a symbol of the out of control immi...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Republican corporate tax cuts = record stock buybacks in May 2018 = corporate insiders selling to profit BIGLY

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From the story, "Corporate executives are using stock buybacks to pad their own compensation, according to the SEC", here : ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Slate takes The Atlantic to task for not taking the 1% seriously enough

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Here in "Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem". Actually, the Reagan 1986 tax reform was the problem, but Jordan...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

A Massachusetts liberal for The Atlantic vaguely realizes that the wealthy have withdrawn their money from productive purposes

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In other words, they've behaved like ordinary people behave, as in badly. This was first made possible in America broadly by the K...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

TrimTabs: 1Q2018 pace of corporate stock buybacks and deals outstrips pace of wage increases by 85%

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For the five years previous to the Trump corporate tax cuts, buybacks and deals outstripped wage increases $4.9 trillion to $2.3 trillion....
Friday, March 23, 2018

Spending bill is a giant FU to Trump, prevents him from using any of the new border wall prototypes

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Reported here : But, crucially, the bill specifically prevents the Trump administration from using any of the new wall designs it comm...