OrangeBills

So basically, your argument is...nothing matters This is exactly what the Sino-Russian Psy Op was supposed to get Western Culture to.... It didn't need much of a nudge...

It's very apparent that there is some cabal or administration running this nation. The President's rumbling speech today on Student Loans shows that he can't even complete or articulate a simple coherent story or thought. It's amazing how ironic history becomes...there was so much focus on the Trump ADMINISTRATION through his term, but the Media or whatever seem A-OK with having some unelected group of "people" behind the scenes concocting all sorts of (often ludicrous) policies and executive orders...

We are really effed. I would acknowledge a successful Democratic leader, say Bill Clinton, who I think got a lot of things right, including Abortion ("Safe, Legal & Rare") But these num-nuts in today's Leftist Party see a guy who, quite obviously at this point because the GD data is in and measurable, got everything right in the last two years, but they are taking down a governor just because he might be better than what their part has to offer. It's really sad, and it's why this place will fail in coming years (probably due to a Stagflationary Depression cycle, caused by Leftist Gov't, who will make things worse in trying to save everyone from the problems they created)... MMT anyone?!

Uh, no they are not. Cap Gains held under one year are treated as Regular Income. Cap Gains held for over a year are treated as investments and do get a lower rate because, again, most people understand that societies want to encourage long-term investment. The rest of my post is not gibberish. Witholding taxes are only applied to the first $92k-$106k (or whatever it is, who cares) of income, it is not applied to income above that. Since most people with healthy Cap Gains would be earning more than $100,000, they do not net Withholding Taxes for SS, etc but it's just math...I would not go around calling things you don't understand gibberish, as a rule.

What are you talking about? Capital Gains income are taxed just like other income, although Long-Term Cap Gains are at a lower rate since, you know, most societies want to encourage long-term investment in their economies... But those taxes you reference are Regressive in nature, since in order to get them passed in the first-place, admittedly when our society was in a different place and not run by Left-Wing nut-jobs, that's how they had to be implemented to get them through, again as most normal societies would think/operate. I realize the current US regime IS full of Left-Wing nut-jobs, so they don't understand these basic concepts. For MOST people, Cap Gains income would come in well above the statutory caps so you're correct, they wouldn't be capped. I get that in the new US world order, the Leftists want access to more and more of people's assets/income so they can redistribute them.

It's called a signaling effect. China doesn't care AT ALL about its people, so if it can ruin their lives, BUT demolish Western Nations in the process...well that's worth doing. Shouldn't be that hard to comprehend.

Correct, this is a better summation of my point. These audits will be based on some "Social Credit Score" of their devisement. Probably best to just go dark about now to be honest.

This is all so dumb. 60% of Americans DON'T EVEN PAY FEDERAL INCOME TAX because the Gov't doesn't want them to. So the new IRS agents' target environment is the 40% of Americans who do....and presumably they've been hitting the Elites hard enough (prob this messaging may alter some behavior at the margin, I can see that). But the preponderance of people who are now going to be audited (i.e. hiring expensive Lawyers and Accountants) are going to have to be people who never dreamed they would be in this position. But it's also how Leftist regimes traditionally assume further control over society (the Healthcare control function being a relatively new one).

You're wrong. The 10 year annualized death numbers don't jump when smoothed. And those Asian governments (inclusive of Russia) don't care AT ALL about their people.

Should have been more clear. Complete hoax wrapped around a normal virus after a couple years of globally benign death-rates from the "Flu" The East knew what the West was presently made of and they're winning, unfortuntely

It did. you're referring to "labeling" People get sick and die all the time, and it goes in waves not linear situations

Don Jr is a loser, now do Hunter Biden... At least (to my knowledge) Don Jr isn't a corrupt embarrassment/espionage risk

Alright, I don't want to sound like a Trump-lover but that study is preposterous. Any major Trade policies take YEARS to impact Economic circumstances. That is all so dumb. Look at this way...during the Obama years, ANY company with ANY ability to "export" their IP and pay a lower tax rate to be competitive with the world, did so....legions of Corporations from Tech to Medical to whatever off-shored their HQs to pay lower taxes. That's just a fact. Trump reversed that. He encouraged investment in America that the Biden and Future regimes will benefit from because that is long-tailed progress, not ridiculous stroke-of-the-pen government check-writing stuff (which the Democrats do not understand, at all).

Well, he worked out the end of the Afghan war situation, which would then have been messy, so I'll be fair to the current clown show, but they messed that up more than imaginable... He was dead-right on China and enacted unpopular policies that recognized the end of Trade comparative advantage and set forth a program of build stuff here which was only obvious to normal people when COVID hit and we....didn't have anything because it wasn't made here... He bombed the hell out of ISIS and shut them down....he caved Iran, settled the Middle East through strength (the only thing they respond to)...he managed North Korea, Russia did nothing unlike their behavior during the Obama and Clown Show admins....let's see, what else is there?!

OK, his foreign policy wasn't "wonkish" or "Dem-like", but I have to tell you, it worked a LOT better than what our current clown-show is doing.

I am no "Trump" fan, but literally none of the above is correct. Well the Intel briefing part yes, that was unwise if true. It sucks that in the last 24 or so years, that's the "best" guy this country could find. At least we have Biden to raise taxes to pay for the more expensive Healthcare Obama drew up, I guess...

So dumb. People are leaving Minneapolis, Chicago and other Dem-controlled havens in DROVES You have no ability to contemplate reality beyond the political psycho-spin you live within. My firm CLOSED its Minny office since everyone left due to the defund police efforts.

This has already happened

The poor and most of the Middle Class pay Zero Federal Income Taxes....and most GET money from the gov't each year. Clueless.

Incorrect, the Means To An End Party would be acting like this regardless of "Trump" Sure, he probably amplifies their generational angst, but they truly want to reform the Greatest Nation-State in the history of the world in their image and they'll stop at nothing. They don't respect our Rule of Law because they don't respect how the country "is"... Look at the 3-year NY AG "probe"...if "They" spent 3 years investigating any person in the United States, with all of their absurd rules they've foisted upon us, they could arrest every single person in the country. They will stop at nothing until they've demolished what had existed. Destroy Not Build -- US Democrat Party

They tactically leak when they're involved in a "Political investigation", since shifting the narrative and creating an outcome before/if anything ever really happens IS the point.

I'm quite confident that you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. Rule of Law, Freedom, Personal Responsibility, SMALL State, LESS Government, YOUR Money, YOU Earn It, WE leave you alone, WE DON'T tell you what to do, WE DON'T over-react to a standard cold/flu virus... These are the opposite of Totalitarian/Fascist principles Again, I appreciate that Leftists/Liberals can't comprehend this

These are very bad people. You are mislabeling who the Fascists are here (as has happened throughout history). Nazis (Socialists) Mussolini (Socialist) USSR (Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics) Cuba (Socialists) Venezuela (Socialists) The only real "Fascist" state is North Korea, that's really undefinable...the Middle East non-free societies are just religion-based. All Totalitarian regimes in the West erupt from Socialism, which we are hurtling toward. I understand the Leftist/Liberal mind is incapable of understanding this

Correct, we were lied to by Leftist "scientists", who are really political scientists and they saw an opportunity to seize a weak-minded populaces' freedoms

Because this is the Liberal mind-set (they have no idea how an economy works): Biden got up today and rambled off like 4-5 gov't initiatives of borrowing/taxing and then spending money, then declared "that doesn't sound like a Recession to me" These people are so beyond clueless. SURE! Fake a Pandemic, hand over $1 TRILLION to Pfizer/Pharma, then demand back $200B like that's some "policy win" and give that money to Leftist-friendly Green technology future failures (I'm not even negative on Green Technologies, quite the opposite, but they should happen like any other, some subsidies are fine just like the fossil fuel industry because in the end, and as Europe is finding out, Energy is a National Security issue) Throw $100B at the IRS because there are "tax-evaders" out there not "paying their fair share" when literally 60% of Americans don't even PAY income tax?! Idiots.