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Re: Does Our Media Work For The People?
« Reply #25992 on: April 12, 2020, 01:26:13 pm »
Amazes me how righties have such a low opinion of the USA that they think we can't figure out how to do the things most all of the 1st world countries already have. --And do them better.

The word nazi gets thrown around a lot, and deservedly so, but I think the ultimate goal of the right wing elite is a return to feudalism.
This jibes well with their supporters as a large chunk of the right wing base are monarchists at heart.

I don't think NAZI is thrown around much, but fascism is. There's a difference. NAZI is a German spin on fascism which is a state controlled economy.


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Re: Does Our Media Work For The People?
« Reply #25993 on: April 12, 2020, 01:28:18 pm »
I don't give a shyte.  Don't ask me stupid questions about my posts or comment on whether you do or don't like the format.
Expect disappointment.

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« Reply #25994 on: April 12, 2020, 01:30:58 pm »
Let's not get crazy here. I said people should be able to go to a doctor. But no one said they should be able to eat or to sleep indoors. After all, we aren't communists.
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« Reply #25995 on: April 12, 2020, 01:31:13 pm »
That's my point exactly. I have said it a thousand times. The only difference between us and the Canadians is which side of the river they live on...yet...
Yet what?

Have you ever used the Canadian system? I know people who have.

What's the sales tax in Ottawa, 13 or 15% or thereabouts? I believe the income tax is about 20% up the 48,000.00 income. I forget the increments thereafter, but I don't think people in the US pay anything with that income or very little.
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« Reply #25996 on: April 12, 2020, 01:32:13 pm »
Shows you how bright those guys were. Timothy McVeigh makes his getaway in a car without a license plate and a loaded gun on him. What could have possibly gone wrong?
He should have shot himself.

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« Reply #25997 on: April 12, 2020, 01:32:39 pm »
I'd be willing to let my taxes be increased by a hundred dollars a year so you could live better.

A hundred a year? lol

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« Reply #25998 on: April 12, 2020, 01:33:40 pm »
Oh it's just so sad.

https://news.yahoo.com/millions-tax-paying-immigrants-wont-151225428.html?soc_src=newsroom&soc_trk=com.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard&.tsrc=newsroom

That includes Carmen Contreras Lopez, a 48-year-old housekeeper who, though she earns low wages, files a tax return each year. Since the virus took hold, she has lost most of her clients and is getting by with help from her oldest son. But she won’t see a penny of the money promised to most Americans in response to the pandemic.

“It’s hard because to the government, we don’t exist,” said Contreras Lopez, who has lived in the U.S. for 30 years and has four grown children who are U.S. citizens.

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Look at her attitude.  She's here illegally and complains she doesn't get a check and American taxpayers paid to educate her kids and I am sure we fed them, and gave her the whole enchilada of welfare for them.  I think we have written that ingrate enough checks. All she does is complain.

She is just like my ancestors, tho.  The ones who got nothing from the government. 

This is the 3rd world culture shift undergoing in America.  This is the democrat plan for America and it's happening and has been happening for decades and it's a way bigger threat than corona cause its terminal and once you become Brazil it's not really ever possible to go back from that and it just presents so many problems that a government can't fix.

Our whole demographic is changing more and more towards people who think like this lady too.  She should be so grateful for America ... for providing for her and her kids and instead she is resentful.
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« Reply #25999 on: April 12, 2020, 01:34:01 pm »
You sure about that? You should see me. I haven't had a haircut in three months. I make Charles Manson look like William F. Buckley.

Lol! I feel your pain. I've given to playing ZZTop music.
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« Reply #26000 on: April 12, 2020, 01:34:09 pm »
Have you ever used the Canadian system? I know people who have.

What's the sales tax in Ottawa, 13 or 15% or thereabouts? I believe the income tax is about 20% up the 48,000.00 income. I forget the increments thereafter, but I don't think people in the US pay anything with that income or very little.
You should Google that dude.I would but I'm trying to get this motorcycle running.

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Re: Does Our Media Work For The People?
« Reply #26001 on: April 12, 2020, 01:35:14 pm »
Cruise ships safe, but Trump would let post office die

President Donald Trump will put 600,000 United States Postal Service employees out of work to lash out at Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/4/12/21218103/cruise-ships-safe-post-office-dies

You can’t vote by mail if there’s no mail.
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Re: Does Our Media Work For The People?
« Reply #26002 on: April 12, 2020, 01:36:49 pm »
A hundred a year? lol
Hell,that's a start.

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« Reply #26003 on: April 12, 2020, 01:37:12 pm »
I forgot. Something about why Jeff Bezos should be paying for your medical insurance.

I think he does for his employees. He should be paying more federal income tax.

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Re: Does Our Media Work For The People?
« Reply #26004 on: April 12, 2020, 01:38:49 pm »
Just cause she filed a tax return doesn't mean she pays any income taxes and she doesn't i am sure.  The whole article is written and set up to make people think just cause she files taxes she actually pays taxes, lol.

In fact since her kids are us citizens she would file alone because she would get 4 child tax credits.  She gets money back when she files taxes.  That's why she files.  She's not the only illegal immigrant who does this and it's 2k a kid now.  They come her start popping out kids and if you have 4 or 5 you can get 8k or 10k back, plus food stamps, housing, free school lunch ... school breakfast, Medicaid for the kids.

That's how our media works, tho. They write a piece like that from yahoo and the whole thing is written from outset with intent to deceive and make it sound like that lady pays income taxes.
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« Reply #26005 on: April 12, 2020, 01:39:29 pm »
Excellent analogy..

Except for nothing changes other than the upper 1% make the laws.
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Re: Does Our Media Work For The People?
« Reply #26006 on: April 12, 2020, 01:40:23 pm »
Cruise ships safe, but Trump would let post office die

President Donald Trump will put 600,000 United States Postal Service employees out of work to lash out at Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/4/12/21218103/cruise-ships-safe-post-office-dies

You can’t vote by mail if there’s no mail.
Typical. I worked at the post office for twenty years.There were 750,000 postal workers then.Now? Not so many...Trump's wars with the universe...
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Re: Does Our Media Work For The People?
« Reply #26007 on: April 12, 2020, 01:41:09 pm »
Expect disappointment.

Then expect me to be very unpleasant.
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Re: Does Our Media Work For The People?
« Reply #26008 on: April 12, 2020, 01:41:39 pm »
I don't think NAZI is thrown around much, but fascism is. There's a difference. NAZI is a German spin on fascism which is a state controlled economy.

You do that lot yourself, tbag..


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« Reply #26009 on: April 12, 2020, 01:42:14 pm »
And the fact that I am pro- universal health care doesn't make me a 'communist'.  I still consider myself a Republican. Trump is NOT a Republican. I don't know what he is...worse yet, HE doesn't know what he is.

I don't have a problem with it either as long as it stays at the state level like tuition free state colleges once were before the federal government screwed it up.