Americans Are Asked What The Biggest Threats Are To The U.S. And Trump Tops The List
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• The government/Poor leadership- 35%
• Immigration- 19%
• Healthcare- 6%
• Race relations/Racism- 5%
• Unifying the country- 4%
• Poverty/Hunger/Homelessness- 4%
• Environment/Pollution- 3%
• Ethics/Moral/Religious/Family decline-3%
• Federal budget deficit/Federal debt- 3%
• Economy in general- 3%
• Unemployment/Jobs- 3%
• Lack of respect for each other- 2%
• Education- 2%
As we approach the heart of tax season, the mood of the country is getting surly and more surly. It's not what the Trump regime and their lickspittles in Congress were expecting. Reporting for HuffPo, Arthur Delaney wrote that "Republicans boasted all last year that their new tax law boosted paychecks and showered bonuses on several million workers. But now that tax season is upon us, several million Americans are getting a nasty surprise: a bill from the Internal Revenue Service that they never expected."
Many people who had less in federal taxes withheld from the paychecks last year are having to pay for it-- and then some-- in surprise demands from the IRS, demands as much as 5 times more than what they thought they had saved because of the Republican Tax Scam! Two reasons: the Republicans purposely limited deductions that would hurt tax payers in blue states like New York, California, New Jersey and Massachusetts, Hawaii, Minnesota, Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois, Oregon-- and is also hitting Iowa and Wisconsin hard. Voters responded last year by defeating 7 of the 14 California members of Congress from California. All but one of New Jersey's red congressional districts flipped. Iowa went from 1 Democrat and 3 Republicans in their delegation to 1 Republican and 3 Democrats. 2 Red seats flipped in Minnesota and in Illinois and 3 flipped in New York. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and Hawaii went into the election already Republican-frei.
The average refund is down 8.7% so far this year. "By capping deductions for state and local taxes," explained Delaney, "Republicans knew the tax hikes in their law would be concentrated on states with high taxes-- which tend to be led by Democrats, who use the taxes to provide more social services." Republican voters in Wisconsin and Iowa are "collateral damage." And although Wisconsin is gerrymandered enough to protect Republican legislators, every single Republican running statewide in the Badger state was defeated in 2018.
Labels: tax scam, Trump's popularity
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 5:00 AM
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So what if Individual 1 is the top on a rigged list? No one is going to do anything about the Orange-utan. The Republicans will take full advantage of this fact and further the goal of collapsing the economy to bring about the crisis which allows them to establish the corporatist dictatorship they have worked for since Lewis Powell wrote the script for them.
That entire list is only a partial list of symptoms and consequences of the real problem: colossally stupid, gullible and evil human beings tasked with their own self-determination.
The spiral downward is resonant. Each degradation is caused by stupid people. Each degradation serves to make people more stupid. Therefore they further degrade their own society. lather, rinse, repeat.
Were it not for the "New Deal" and "Great Society" reforms (and a few other organic advances, like marriage equality recently), we'd already have plummeted into the abyss that germans chose for themselves in the '30s. We're plodding steadily thereto, but we had further to trudge and are going slower.
If americans were smarter, we'd never have been gullible enough to elect a Reagan (and all 8 clone admins since) on a platform of magic math; never have sat for 36 years with our thumbs up our asses as Reagan et al assimilated the media into their propaganda arm; no fox; no Murdoch; never have blithely accepted the total corruption and annihilation of the party of FDR by the DLC; never have allowed Nixon's and Reagan's treasons; no Clinton admin that started the erasure of the "New Deal" firewalls preventing 1929 from recurring; no cheney/bush; no Iraq war; no torture; no 2008 crash; no obamanation/holder refusing to do anything at all in their mandate; and no trump.
AND, most importantly, during the entire 40 years of the resonant degradation due to our own stupidity, we would not be so gullible as to fall for every single sheepdog's exhortations to apply band-aids and poultices for every symptom (most of which will actually cause MORE damage) instead of discussing ways to actually solve the underlying problem.
we're, collectively, dumber than shit! Fix that... no more trumps. ever.
Don't fix that... we'll have more (worse than) trumps until we just collapse into the great tire fire of history. I don't care how many times you beg us to "hold our nose and vote for any blue", it won't ever make anything better. It'll do what it's done for 40 years -- make things worse.
Oh good. Another Trump Derangement story. We haven't had one of those in about 2 hours.
Funny how there's nothing good to say about the herd of people running against him. BTW I saw that your friend, the liberal icon Ted Lieu, endorsed Kopmala Harris the other day. Looks like he wants Trump re-elected despite all the rhetoric.
Unfortunately, many Americans must suffer for them to see the light with the Republican party. Nothing like hitting their pocketbooks for people to wake up.
The Republicans pave the Road To Hell in so many ways. Letting this criminal sociopathic traitorous so-called president remain in office tops the list. Trump is "murdering the Constitution," said Katyal on The Last Word. Exactly. Well said. Sums it up.
Biggest threat is the non representation of voters by the US Senate. By allowing 51 votes to confirm Judges, the already non representative US Senate became even more of a farce.
Hone, still blind to the same effect that electing democraps is causing? How many criminal sociopaths, war criminals, torturers and traitors did obamanation prosecute? Pelosi? scummer? harriet reid? hoyer? cliburn? kamala harris? any democrap at all? how many did Bernie call for indicting? Elizabeth? biden?
*ALL* americans suffer because NONE of them can see the light... about both parties.
the biggest, in fact ONLY threat to the usa is the ambivalence, stupidity and evil of the 200+ million in the electorate.
a third will always elect the worst... the Nazi.
a third will always elect a party that won't ever do shit about either the Nazis nor FOR people
a third never vote... nobody for whom to vote who will ever be of any help.
the second and third groups refuse to collaborate in electing anyone who will ever act in the interests of the people.
it's us/US. We're the problem. The only problem.
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