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    The One, Big, Beautiful tax bill - that kills the poor and pays the rich

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    On 5/22/2025 at 12:35 PM, Roundybout said:


    Raise taxes on the wealthy and stop giving ICE goons raises 

     

    How wealthy is wealthy?  Raise it how much?

     

    We have a $1.8 trillion deficit in 2025 according to the budget office.  We have 735 billionaires in the US.  Even if each one paid a billion in taxes we'd still be a trillion short.  

     

    Sounds good, but how do you see this penciling out?

     

    https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59946

     

     

     

     

     

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    "Suckers and Losers" 2.0 --Purge Underway at Veterans Administration

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    2 hours ago, Homelander said:

    Happy Memorial Day!

     

     

     

    I was at the VA Hospital yesterday for an appointment.  While I did receive my usual excellent treatment there, I did notice a couple of things.

     

    1. They had in the hall in the past pictures of LGB veterans or people that work there.  They took them down. I was expecting that and whatever but it looks as if they were just ripped from the wall.  The scars are definitely visible.  I guess fixing it would be a waste.  We probably need that money to fix up old airplanes or build a dance floor in the Rose Garden.

     

    2. As I was walking down the hall I saw a group of employees chit chatting.  One said (not an exact quote but really close) "whenever we try to do anything we have to go through DOGE and it's a real pain in the neck.  Now maybe if you have an inside connection to Uncle Donald you can get it."  This is the first time I've ever heard employees bitching there.

    James Comey to be investigated for posting “8647”

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    5 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:

     

    😂 The point, which clearly sailed  over your head, is that Comey inspired copy cats that FBI agents as part of their job now must address.  

     

     

     

    And my point sailed over yours evidently.  For a cop I'm sure it would be nice if people didn't do things he has to investigate. That way he could hang around the office and eat doughnuts like Andy and Barn did.

     

    If it's too much trouble for him to investigate things maybe he should go back to his radio show.  Dumb move by Stretch, but I don't feel sorry for Dan.

    BREAKING America - one bribe at a time – Trump’s gravy train just got a Boeing

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    34 minutes ago, sherpa said:

    Either way, they don't need to build in air to air refueling. that's a simple waste we've never used nor needed.

     

    I believe the thinking is in case of a nuclear attack or some other catastrophic event they can put the Prez  and his team on it and fly it around indefinitely until it's safe to land.  Obviously if the can't refuel in the air they would have to land to refuel.

    BREAKING America - one bribe at a time – Trump’s gravy train just got a Boeing

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    10 hours ago, Doc said:

     

    I keep hearing this.  From where is this coming?  Is this just a number someone threw out there and it became the "truth," like Vance having sex with a couch?

     

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    Turning the 747 into the plane reserved for use by America's leader, essentially a flying White House, could cost about $1 billion and take up to three years, an analyst said.

     

    “If this goes ahead, what we’re looking at is a fit-out cost somewhere between $800 million and $1.2 billion to bring the Qatari royal family’s 747 up to the level of Air Force One,” Dean Mikkelsen, an independent security, aviation, maritime and energy analyst, told The National.

     

    That includes stripping out the gold-plated luxury interiors and replacing them with a secure communications systems, EMP shielding, missile defence, and even aerial refuelling capability.

     

    https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/aviation/2025/05/15/qatar-air-force-one-747-retrofit/

     

     

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    Converting a Qatari-owned 747 jet into a new Air Force One for President Donald Trump would involve installing multiple top-secret systems, cost over $1 billion and take years to complete, three aviation experts told NBC News. 

     

    They said that accepting the 13-year-old jet would likely cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over time, noting that refurbishing the commercial plane would exceed its current value of $400 million. The project might also not be completed by the end of Trump’s term in 2028.

     

    Richard Aboulafia, an analyst and consultant on commercial and military aviation, said he thought turning the Qatari jetliner into Air Force One would cost billions and take years. 

     

    “You’re taking a 747, disassembling it, reassembling it, and then jacking it up to a very high level,” said Aboulafia, a managing director at AeroDynamic Advisory, a consulting firm.

     

     

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/turning-qatari-747-into-air-force-one-could-cost-1-billion-and-take-years-experts-say/ar-AA1EItok

     

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    “It’s all based on an embarrassing misunderstanding of what Air Force One is meant to do,” Aboulafia said. “If it’s a gold-plated palace in the sky and noth

    HSuch airplanes have been upgraded with capabilities including secure communications systems, military-grade power systems and classified self-defense systems to protect the president against a hostile attack, as well as a medical facility.

     

    Air Force One aircraft have “one of the most exquisite comms suites on the planet,” said Doug Birkey, executive director of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “It functions as a command and control center under some of the most trying conditions [imaginable]. Even just day-to-day, that thing is hyper connected.”

     

    Past Air Force Ones have also been built with redundancies to ensure critical systems can continue operating if something fails, Aboulafia said, as well as survive and keep operating during a nuclear war.

     

    “If [Trump] wants all the capabilities and features of Air Force One, this would be a step backwards,” Aboulafia said. “They’d have to start over again with what they’ve been working on with the other 747-8” under the VC-25B program.

     

    Upgrading a 747 from scratch with those capabilities could take into the 2030s, Aboulafia said, and cost “billions and billions” of dollars.

     

    “Even the ability to manage and communicate with military forces all over the globe with encrypted comms — that’s a tremendously expensive undertaking,” Aboulafia said. “It is underway in the other 747-8s [slated for the VC-25B program], has been for years. Starting over again with the same plane would take a lot longer.”

     

    https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/05/12/experts-qatar-gifted-air-force-one-may-be-security-upgrade-disaster/

     

    And then add in the cost to remove all this stuff before it is put into the fantastic greatest library in the history of the world.

     

    As we used to say,nothing in life is free.

    BREAKING America - one bribe at a time – Trump’s gravy train just got a Boeing

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    3 hours ago, Homelander said:

     

     

     

     

    President Trump is on a roll with these tweets first with the no talent Bruce Springsteen with bad skin and now this.

     

    But you're gonna have to explain how accepting this beautiful "gift" from an amazing country is going to save us taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

     

    We're still on the hook for the 2 Boeing 747s.  We'll have to spend a billion dollars getting the gift up to spec for AF1 over a year's time.  Then we'll fly it for a year or 2 and then give it away.  How does that save money?

     

    BREAKING America - one bribe at a time – Trump’s gravy train just got a Boeing

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    25 minutes ago, Doc said:


    Still waiting for that bridge from when you guys told us he was gonna start World War III in his first term…

     

    Who is "you guys"?

     

    I don't like President Trump and I didn't like President Biden either.  It's not a black and white world.  I can dislike both if I want to.

     

    And please quote me when I posted President Trump will start WW III.  That's one of the things I like about him, he hates war like I do.

     

     

    BREAKING America - one bribe at a time – Trump’s gravy train just got a Boeing

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    It's this week's re open Alcatraz.

     

    It's just silly. Boeing will deliver in 2 years.  Even if we take the airplane it will be months before we get it.  Then we'll have to have the whole thing rebuilt and gone over with a fine tooth comb to bring it up to Air force 1 spec.  That will take over a year according to accounts from military types I've seen.  And will no doubt cost hundreds of millions of dollars. (  thought we were trying to save money to pay down the debt.) Is Qatar gonna pay for that too? For what?  So Presidents Musk and Trump can fly on fancier airplane than the taxpayers provide for 6 months?

     

    We made a great deal LOL.

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    Random Political Thoughts Inc.

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    42 minutes ago, Roundybout said:


     

     

    I think he’s genuinely insane 

     

    This has been going on for a long time.  I remember being in Vancouver, BC on bidness about 15 years ago and had to pass 2 or 3 on location movies sets between my hotel and the office.  I was told they get good tax incentives for shooting there so they do.

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