Here's one of Trump's latest Tweets and I agree with him (though the 7 trillion figure seems a bit high):
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I hope he does get this done.
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Here's one of Trump's latest Tweets and I agree with him (though the 7 trillion figure seems a bit high):
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I hope he does get this done.
Well--You can rest assured gas prices will stay low, due to opening anwr:2thumbs:Quote:
Originally Posted by DirkHammergate
Did reduce a couple plots of real estate in Utah:2thumbs:
Has reduced a pile of business regulations:2thumbs:
All but eliminated any isis strongholds:2thumbs:
Many upper court judges, including SCOTUS:2thumbs:
eliminated the tax penalty for no zero care:2thumbs:
far too many to list---MAGA
At least it's not 7 Brazillion dollarsQuote:
Originally Posted by Scott P
FWIW - The $7 trillion number comes from what has already been spent on the war on terror and what will be spent in the future. It is a realistic high end estimate but does include the cost of homeland security.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott P
That's if you were at all interested in where the number comes from. I believe the US has spent about $2.5 trillion on the Iraq and Afghan wars combined to date. Some future costs like care for wounded veterans needs to be included.
I thought he might have counted every nickel since the Crusades.
He may not have the Congress flowing with him, but I'm sure he's keeping himself busy enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldno7
"Bring me more shit to fix", ya know?
Yeah. No mention of the people who died or were injured in the wreck. Just pure political grandstanding and bluster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott P
To put it in perspective, 7 trillion would be approximately $55,635 per US household.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Yeah... but the cool thing is the world operates on the US dollar and we can always just print more money ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott P
Truth. Lots of fun stuff on this one: http://www.usdebtclock.org/Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
#Winning
It's a done deal: Congress wraps up massive tax package
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=46220988&nid=151
"when the final vote was announced. One Democrat yelled, "Do over!""Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
:roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol:
Say what you will about Trump (Lord knows I have), but this is a massive accomplishment for Trump and the GOP. Even if you think the new tax code is a massive giveaway to the rich, you have to admit it's going to look real good to his base. Who knows what it will do long term to the national debt, but will probably spur on the economy for a few years anyway.
Based on the online calculators I can find, I will save between $8,000 and $10,000 next year. Not a windfall by any stretch but I will take it.
This is what MAGA looks like..
AT&T to give $1000 bonus' if Trump tax plan is signed.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2...-tax-bill.html
And not one dem signed:roflol:
Boeing,Third Bancorp,Wells Fargo--and the list grows--All compensating employees.
Can you say tax generator....
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2...employees.html
I don't think that anyone in either party is worried about the national debt anymore. They should be.It's to the point now that it will never be paid back. It's not even possible anymore. In fact, if there is anything that is going to bring the USA to its knees, I'm betting the crippling amount of debt that we have is what does it. You can't possibly borrow money like that and get ahead in any real way.Quote:
Originally Posted by uintafly
Fortunately, the government doesn't function like the rest of us. We'd already be wearing concrete shoes at the bottom of a nearby body of water if we owed people that much money and didn't pay up. It's insane.
As far as the tax bill goes, simply lowering the corporate rate will free up more cash for hiring new people and creating jobs than anything else would. That's awesome. I'm betting tax revenue goes up because of all the extra people in the workforce because of that alone. I say bravo.
The Democrats are insane. You would think they would get on board with this thing and try to salvage what's left of their party. Oh that's right...their party doesn't exist outside the liberal mass media. Check out Savannah Guthrie freaking out on Paul Ryan this morning. For crying' out loud.
Before the election, I would have never imagined that the liberal power brokers would end up being such foolish buffoons. They won't be able to sell another Obama. What an amazing turn of events...I'm thrilled, quite frankly.
Soo nice to get rid of the likes of bicycle boy and pajama boy and have able bodied Americans running the show.
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Originally Posted by oldno7
Comcast to invest over $50 billion in the next five years as a result of the tax cuts...
Maybe now they can fix my shitty wi-fi...
And the hits keep coming...MAGA
Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote
Trump has got some balls. If Europe and all these other countries want to fund the Palestinian Mafia, I say let them.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldno7
All these democrat skeletons are falling out of closets. Now we've got Hezbollah cocaine and money laundering to the DNC. The laundering tied to the agents trying to get Trump.
And soon--the FBI, DOJ, Trump Dossier tied to hillary and dnc is about to implode.
Andrew McCabe forgot everything yesterday under oath and conflicted prior fbi testimony.
MAGA
It wouldn't hurt my feelings if the US got completely out of the UN. But then I would miss Nikki Haley verbally kicking the shit out of those who oppose us.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldno7
I'm still trying to decide if Nikki Haley or Ivana Trump will be our first female US President.
just saw the Republicans fawning over the President and his fantastic leadership - what a sickening display of loathsome toadiness from elected officials..
And this is different from how the Democrats were always fawning over Obama how?!?Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwi_outdoors
Enquiring minds want to know....
Well at least nobody has put a halo over his friggin' head like Rolling Stone did with Obama.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwi_outdoors
Yeah, the ass kissing is a bit thick...but I'm actually digging' it because more of these congressmen are realizing it would be smart to get on the Trump Train.
Not only is he draining the swamp, the swamp is draining itself, too. Franken, for example. This is all good stuff, IMO.
Obama care is dead!
And @DirkHammergate said Trump hasn't accomplished anything.
One thing I noticed almost no one is talking about is this tax cut just chopped Obama care off at the knees. With the elimination of the healthcare mandate (tax) there is no funding for Obama care.
I figured that's what the Democrats should really be bitching about instead of poor people who pay no taxes not getting a bunch of money from the tax cut.
From what I can tell this tax cut is going to be great for me as all three of my business are "pass-through's" (S-Corps and LLC's), which means I get a 20% deduction on that money.Quote:
Originally Posted by uintafly
My house is also paid for, which means we just take the standard deduction, because without a mortgage itemizing is seldom in your benefit, so the doubling of the standard deduction also plays in my favor.
Keeping a lot more of my hard earned money in my pocket, the stock market booming and setting records almost daily, the economy finally igniting after being stalled for 10 years. What's not to like?
#MAGA
Yeah, that last minute pass through income deduction was a nice little change for you. It's gonna finally be enough to get me not being so lazy with my money and pick up some investment real estate this year. The price is high right now, but there is still so much demand for housing along the Wasatch Front that multifamily is still probably a decent investment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
This should also render a final verdict on supply side economics. Has there ever been an industrialized country with tax rates this low? If the economy is still cranking along 3-5 years from now, it will be hard to argue with the success. It's going to be an interesting few years, but like Devo Steve points out, the debt is at some point going to be an issue. Sure would be nice if we could at least stop the deficit for a few years.
I also get a chuckle out of people paying no or almost no taxes complaining that they aren't getting enough of a break on this. I see no good reason why any tax credit should ever be refundable after someone has a tax bill of $0.
I used to worry about the National Debit until I began to understand it better and stopped listening to those using it as a scare tacit.Quote:
Originally Posted by uintafly
The scary part is every person in the US is responsible for $60,890 of the debit. The part they always fail to tell you when quoting that number is every person in the US also has $393,391 in assets by the same measure.
Anyhoo... if anyone is really interested in understanding what I'm talking about here is a good article from Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael...d-i-dont-care/
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While this may be true for now, there will come a day when it's very much not true. The current trends of overspending on cars, houses, and other consumer goods by Americans is going to catch up with all of us. As the national debt climbs higher and higher at an ever increasing rate, the average net worth of the average household will fall. When that ratio flips, we'll see some real problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Either way, it's a mess that will end in real problems for the US one of these days.
Much more MAGA
World leaders rebuking the United States at the United Nations shouldn’t expect the American people any longer to “pay for the privilege of being disrespected,” U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley warned Thursday.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nikki-haley-warns-un-americans-dont-want-to-pay-for-the-privilege-of-being-disrespected/article/2644143
I believe this goes hand in hand with what Devo says about our debt.
If we first take care of our problems first, we will be in a much better position to relinquish the debt.
If we keep spending billions on countries who hate us, it is a lose.
Time to drop the UN!
We do not need them AND they cannot survive without us.
If Trump would work towards us dropping out it would be a yugely big deal...
And now this is coming back up for a look.
Uranium one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...e-deal-n831436
Obama's big claim to fame "no major scandals under my watch", is going to come around and bite him on the ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldno7
/bookmarked
I don't disagree the US debit is a major issue, I'm just saying it's not as scary as some would like you to believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by devo_stevo
The US debit scared the crap out of me when I was 25 because I was told my generation would eventually have to pay it. As I'm nearing retirement age I can now see we are just going to kick the can down the road and make it someone else's problem. I'll be dead and long gone when the bill eventually comes due.
Let the whiny candyass Millenials figure it out when it's their turn as they think they have the answer for everything... LMAO
Same here. Using the calculator for my family and the firm shows a major wind fall for us. We've hired 5 people in the last month and gave out $10K bonuses to most of the upper staff. #MAGAQuote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
All my employees received one full months wage for their Christmas bonus. It's been a couple years since we have been able to be so generous.Quote:
Originally Posted by nelsonccc
I guess I should mention to them that Trump is partially responsible for the bonus as a couple of them were big Hillary supporters.
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Originally Posted by Iceaxe
I didn't know @stefan was a mechanical engineer...:haha: