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jazz music says

Repealing the estate tax, for example, would affect just 5,300 or so fortunes a year. For 2017, couples can shield up to $11 million of their estates from any taxation, leaving only the largest inheritances subject to taxation.

If we were a meritocracy, estate tax would be 90% across the board.
Each person would start from roughly the same square.
Plus rich old people would be actually spending like crazy to finish at 0.

Trump believers are truly a cult.

jazz music says

puts you in the category of being a John Locke LIBERAL

I'm definitively a John Locke liberal. That guy was a genius.

Sounds just terrible - An obvious Sell!!

:) :)

Left is defined by their representatives, BLM, feminists, la raza, and all the rest of the prominent liberals who hate success. Your Bernie boy has conviction and heart, but he's full of shit and hates everyone who makes 6 figures and up, dumbass even criticized Obama because left wing voters worship poverty and failure.

jazz music says

FortWayne says

The left is known for hating successful people.

I remind you that the left is well defined by John Locke, not by Rush Limbaugh. You might consider that those who want to live a parasitical existence at the expense of all us productive people would want to discredit the very philosophy that should unite us all against them.

If you are against slavery that automatically puts you in the category of being a John Locke LIBERAL Since you are subscribing to his philosophy and I quote:

Locke believed that people had natural rights to “life, liberty, and property”, and that the role of government was to preserve these rights. If a government does not preserve these rights, then the people have a right to change their government.

This is what scholars refer to as the political theory of Liberalism. Liberalism in this sense differs from the way the...

FortWayne says

Left is defined by their representatives, BLM, feminists, la raza, and all the rest of the prominent liberals who hate success

Corrected that for you:

Left is defined by their representatives, BLM, feminists, la raza, and all the rest of the prominent liberals conservatives who hate success.

The conservative left's bullshit is indicative of conservatism in general, not of liberalism. The conservative left is as much the opposite of liberalism as the conservative right is. You don't get to put your cousin's crazy on my family. It's your inbred ideology that is at fault. The conservative left does not agree with a single principle of liberalism. Furthermore, they use the exact same tactics that the conservative right uses including
- book burning
- criminalizing behavior that should not be criminal
- lying about facts
- silencing dissent
- tribalism
- rewriting history

Christ, if I didn't know the specific arbitrary issues of the left and the right, I could not tell the two apart. They are virtually identical.

The interview is hilarious. Trump has been doing this for years, though. He says something, then will not elaborate when asked wtf he means. That's because he is intentionally vague and his whole shtick falls apart when he has to be specific. The genius of this reporter was throwing the fake news bit into the mix.

Dan8267 says

Left is defined by their representatives, BLM, feminists, la raza, and all the rest of the prominent liberals conservatives who hate success.

Oh those are not conservatives Dan, those are the left buddy. That's your team. It's so bad that you are even ashamed of your own team. Your team is fucked up Dan, really fucked up.

Everyone is guilty of inherited ancestral guilt.
Just commit yourself to hell and go find a handbasket..

"I don't stand by anything" has to be one of his greatest word sequences to date.

I don't think that the thread title is accurate. Spicey pants said effectively said:

Trump was asked to consider raising the gas tax, and he said that he would consider it.

Tim Aurora says

Democrats never had the guts to embrace it but that one policy has many advantages

Meanwhile, democrats tried to get this done in 2015, and met resistance from Republicans.

In any case, I'm all for it as stated in other threads. If he decides to try and can get it done, it would be a step in the right direction.

Perfect.
Give the media the attention they deserve.
No one else could have done it better...

Wait, I'm losing track of the narrative.

The NYT and others who ran multiple articles bragging that the Deep State was putting Trump Team in it's place and had (their words) "Wiretapped communications" (which implies a recorded conversation, therefore a wiretap in colloquial usage), criticized Trump's tweet about it, then admitted Rice captured at least Trump Team members and was sure to keep the the individuals' names who had "unintentionally captured conversations" unredacted before distributing to 17 different agencies to maximize leak potential. The non-standard unmasking and leaking happened during Obama's administration, and the buck stops with him. Indeed one of Obama's last EOs was to allow unmasked intel from FISA to be spread more widely. Now they are saying it never happened again?

Make up your minds, Media!

Bernie Sanders told him how to do it right.
I hope he didn't forget to threaten them like good Ole' Bernie.
"You got a good interview there, you got 10 minutes don't edit it to make me look bad!"(as Bernie rips off mic and walks off interview)

The medium is the message.

FAKE NEWS

I'm writing the biography of Trump's Presidency now.

It is titled 'Diary Of A Wimpy POTUS, Or, The Sound Of Fury Signifying Nothing, Or, All Hat And No Cattle."

How about. 'brokepromise mountain'

YesYNot says

Meanwhile, democrats tried to get this done in 2015, and met resistance from Republicans.

Who said it'll go trough this time?

Trump did the US a huge service by making FISA warrant courts and rampant intelligence overreach a household issue. Obama just used the powers available to him, the same as Trump will do with the 1984 tyranny machine. This is not a partisan issue, but the dems are so far up CNN's butt that they cant see past Trump.

NSA ends controversial email collection program.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-security-agency-ends-controversial-email-collection-program/story?id=47094647

anonymous says

If it goes for the intended purpose (basic Infrastructure repair/upgrade and not to consultants, studies, and typical government boondoggles)

ROTFLMAO.

Everybody should wear secretary glasses.

million shares is a nice dollar volume going up, too bad when the trap closes the volume goes away . . .

still, this is a possible double still I guess.

went from $130 in the red to $240 in the black, yeay

It needs to be a tax on foreign oil most of all.

That would raise revenue, encourage American oil production, and reduce our dependence on the source of terrorism.

BlueSardine says

Damn, it took 287 posts to get a straight answer to a simple question...

Hater says

WobblyMolly says

If CO2 level reaches 450ppm, then that's a serious problem.

What happens?

This carbon concentration can cause continuous warming until we can't sustain it anymore. It seems like we are running out of time to keep the level of CO2 below 400 ppm

Donald Trump spent a year saying that NAFTA was the worse trade agreement ever. Now he's for staying in NAFTA. He conned you.

www.youtube.com/embed/okzRqADkzws

A man with bigger hands would have ended NAFTA.

jazz music says

All the other countries that have a high standard of living like we did before Reagan came along have strong unions, lower inequality and good access to health care.

You are more than welcome to live in those "paradises" and not America. But you won't, because those places suck if you actually work and live there. Now if you can take American earnings and spend in those countries, sure it makes sense. But you can't have it both ways, you liberals love to eat the cake and have it too.

From my days working at Schwab long ago, I know that the worst performing stocks are those rated "strong buy" by the analysts (yes, really, it's the best negative indicator). The second worst are those rated "strong sell".

The best performing stocks are those rated hold, or not rated at all. So by this indication, ARLP has good prospects. Would be better if it had a slightly lower analyst rating, but at least it's not "strong buy".

If this is the price of "Free Speech ", what value does free speech have?

FortWayne says

jazz music says

All the other countries that have a high standard of living like we did before Reagan came along have strong unions, lower inequality and good access to health care.

You are more than welcome to live in those "paradises" and not America. But you won't, because those places suck if you actually work and live there.

The standard moronic reply.

Hey, FortWayne, I am a socialist and think America has a fucked up idiotic system (political, tax, health care, educational, etc.). But I like living here. The place is abundant with the likes of you, which gives me competitive advantage. Pretty, pretty good in a winner takes all society.

rando says

From my days working at Schwab long ago, I know that the worst performing stocks are those rated "strong buy" by the analysts (yes, really, it's the best negative indicator). The second worst are those rated "strong sell".

The best performing stocks are those rated hold, or not rated at all. So by this indication, ARLP has good prospects. Would be better if it had a slightly lower analyst rating, but at least it's not "strong buy".

I m not so sure about that assessment. Apple has been a strong buy since around 115...and its 147 now. Outperforming the market by far.
I see a lot of strong buys for ARLP...

It was just statistically true, not an absolute rule.

So they can't help you either then.

Support for Trump is not entirely irrational. Did you read this one? https://patrick.net/1305439/2017-04-27-dems-need-to-abandon-davos-ideology

Hater says

How much time do you suppose we have left?

Do you think that you will be saved from the damages of climate change, because you believe in Jesus?

Hater says

Are you a denier?

Of what? Hater says

believe in science?

What do you mean by this? Hater says

The true believers think all of the skeptics are bible thumping fundamentalists

Did you miss the question mark? Is that why you didn't answer the question?

rando says

It was just statistically true, not an absolute rule.

right

Boosting the cap from 66,000 to 135,000 would please the business community and infuriate many labor activists and anti-immigration hardliners who have long argued that businesses exploit the H-2B program to undercut American workers. It may never happen—the authority to expand the program lies with the secretary of homeland security, and it's hard to imagine the Trump administration throwing open the door to tens of thousands of new foreign workers. But he now has that power.

Sounds like Congress put that in there, not Trump.

The Trumptards got played like crack-whores and should put a quarter in their asses.

It will be interesting to see the reflexive, brainless, thoughtless defense of Trumpibula by the likes of Ironman (Trump ball cuck) and especially, Patrick.

Hater says

The kids are smarter than you think.

Do you know what an exponential curve is and what the mathematical relationship is that when solved leads to exponential growth?

For the record, I don't think that temperature will continue along an exponential curve, but...

Hater says

It's not. Two degrees in a century.

This is not an argument against it.

Hater says

The temp might go up some. It might fall. The sun goes through natural cycles and puts off more or less heat.

Neither is this. If you showed that the sun was going through a huge cycle that lead to a huge temperature change over the last 150 years (2 degrees over that time frame is big), this might have some validity.