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Most large American companies now earn more overseas than they do in the US. If you go back on tax reform and raise corporate taxes, you will re-incentivize these companies to keep the profits overseas where taxes are lower or to spin off the foreign operations. It's the other way around. The global market is larger than the US market and Trump has done a pretty good job of beating up the closed economies to open them up to American companies, without being extorted. The numbers back it up. The worst thing about recent tax laws was the elimination of a huge chunk of the American public from income taxes. You've seen the stats in how 47% of the population doesn't pay any income tax. Conversely, the top 20% pays 80% of the tax burden, and the top 1% pays about 50% of income taxes. That's not a very good tax base to implement the liberal agenda. And that's exactly how the socialist downward spirals begin.

Minor correction. The communists were always after racial strife as a weapon, and came close in the 60s. Intersectionality is a reboot of their strategy from 50 years ago.

Do they get a refund if the stock markets or real estate values decline a year after they pay the tax?

I'm arguing reality. A 1% tax rate will have 100% compliance because the cost of avoidance will be more than 1%. The perfect tax rate would be set at the exact intersection of tax compliance and tax avoidance costs. Miraculously than number is always around 20%-25%. Funny how that works.

I think it's a rather compelling argument. What's the point of having high tax rates if nobody ever pays that rate? I would much rather collect 25% of something than 90% of nothing. But that's just me. Nobody here has ever argued that the healthcare industry doesn't need changes to be implemented. Name one product that you buy where you have no idea of the cost before you buy it? Ironically, the evil Trump has signed more orders that improve transparency on healthcare pricing than any President in history. He's also the only one to target the Pharma sector to be more transparent. He's doing things that actually matter to controlling costs, rather than bloviating false promises. Market crashes are a major downside of open economies. Luckily there are enough safeguards in place to prevent full blown panics and depressions. It's more than worth it to maintain growth to keep raising everyone's standard of living. As I've said before, class warfare is never a winning formula for those who think they will benefit. All it does is blow up any opportunities for advancement because you're choking off the productive portion of societies. It's been proven again and again over nearly a century, yet each new generation falls for the siren song of communism.

Here it is. It's junk science, based on totally unrealistic assumptions that a government run system will be more efficient than a privately run system, will somehow reduce $200 billion of costs without impacting service whatsoever.

Throwing out percentages without context is useless. I'm sure you also know that in the days of 90% tax rates, deductions were unlimited and encompassed almost every possible deduction. That meant that the very people who the Bernies of the world thought would pay a 90% tax, actually paid 0% tax. Worse than that a cottage industry grew up that specialized in selling tax shelters, meaning that for a small $10k investment you could buy $50k of tax deductions. Not bad is it? What the Bernies of the world don't realize is that the people he thinks he can fleece for all their worth, are the ones who have the wherewithal to escape the tax. You're also ignoring what happened in the decades between '60s and '80s and the mess that the economy was in before Reagan saved it by unleashing capitalism again. Laissex faire was needed to invigorate stagnant investment which was sitting on the sidelines. Which is another lesson the Bernies of the world never understand. If there's no incentive for investment, nobody is going to invest. That's a lesson Venezuela didn't learn, thinking that the oil would come gushing out of the ground no matter what. The reset is only called for by people needing political points. It would do nothing to actually solve the problem you are trying to solve. When you enact policies that affect the super wealthy job creators, guess who gets hit first and hardest? Then isn't using US health outcomes a red herring when discussing the effectiveness of US healthcare?

Disney Channel is the cash cow now, but they have to invest in the future. (See how the world works, progressives?)

Not the timing. He was supposed to last through year end.

What just happened at Disney?

I hear that, which doesn't explain why he would jump above a guy who had nearly twice the targets on the same team with all that top talent.

.. and a lot of failing at it too. There's a reason many are surprised at his performance so far.

For all the love that Ruggs is now getting, why in the world was he the #3 WR on his college team? Why weren't they spoon-feeding the ball to the apparently best playmaker in college and promptly fell out of BCS contention? Asked another way, when was the last time the 3rd most productive Jr/Sr WR on a nationally ranked team went on to greatness?

You could make the same argument about Michelle's husband when he ran or about the current POTUS.

How do stock market's valuation multiples affect the wages that workers earn? How much of the USA's healthcare rankings affected by lifestyle choices and addictions vs healthcare delivery?

That's archival footage of the original arrest.

She's the shiny new object in a city that's elected a useless buffoon twice. Can't wait until she feels emboldened to run for Mayor.

She's still popular in NYC, and will have no trouble registering in another district where she's never lived in.

It's an effective attack on the hypocrisy of communists. Plenty of parallels to the dacha-owning Soviet leaders who preached to the masses who lived in communal apartments with shared bathrooms. Progress!!

You can just as easily say David Nelson.

You think that government wastes a lot of money when it's in charge of 15% of the economy, so your solution is to hand over another 30% and that will fix things?

Fwiw, "somebody" flagged this video for sensitive content. This is exactly how you get 4 more years of trump

Was just going to post this. They hate the trade, especially the part about getting Sheary back.

Word is 2021 5th rounder (Let's hope they meet the conditions for it to be a 4th). Adding some grit

Hey Jen, a bit of self awareness helps. If you weren't so afflicted with TDS, you may have noticed what happened in the 2016 Dem primaries and the rise of Bernie Bro Antifa to set up 2020.