Political discussions about everything
#127764
Yes, my thoughts are that Trump should pay some federal income taxes, just like Republicans expect all Americans to pay income tax. Well, except when they say no one should be taxed (meaning THEY don't want to pay any taxes themselves. They want everyone ELSE to pay them.)

Thanks for giving another opportunity to post thoughts to remind the dimwitted Republicans here that they don't care if billionaires pay taxes as long as people making $25,000 a year pay federal income taxes but can't afford health insurance.
#127770
Clown, I have enough respect for your intelligence to know that you know any billionaire has to pay MILLIONS in income and other taxes at peril of being tossed into prison.

The fact that Chris Wallace asked Trump if he paid only $750 is proof that Chris wasn't paying attention in his undergrad courses.
#127776
"Taxing billionaires does nothing to help me..."-sillydummy

Of course it doesn't, dimwit. You aren't going to pay your share of the national debt anyway, despite the fact that you live on Social Security, Medicare, and veterans benefits, all paid for by taxpayers.

Why would you care if Trump is threatening your gravy train by running up a national debt faster than any other president, and he wants to eliminate the payroll tax that pays for your Social Security check?

sillydummy is another asshole Republican that believes he gets all that stuff for 'free' because he DOES. He pays for nothing he gets.


"and people who can't afford health insurance...
will get health care in an emergency anyway..!"-sillydumbfuck

Yes, they will likely get care anyway and then get sent home with thousands of dollars (tens of thousands?) in billings from the hospital.

I didn't say they wouldn't get care, did I. I said they can't AFFORD care because they have no insurance, dimwit. :O
#127785
silly, it was DEMOCRATS (Roosevelt) who gave you your Social Security against the complaints of Republicans.

It was DEMOCRATS (Johnson) who gave you Medicare and Medicaid, against the complaints of Republicans. (Similarly, it was Democrats against the complaints of Republicans who gave you your 8-hour work day and other benefits you take for granted.)

And the Democrats want to have today's taxpayers actually pay for your veterans benefits, unlike the Republicans who want to cut taxes on the wealthy even further and put the tab on the back of your grandchildren.

Wake up fer cripes sake. Without Democrats you would be dead already.
#127790
Actually, the number of "no" votes was 15 Dems and 15 Repubs.

20 Dems did not even vote.

But the problem has not been original Social Security, which was conceived as a contributory notion whereby productive members of society could build up a "floor" of income for their old age, but all the programs which were later appended such as widow's disability, child's, and the 1969 pneumoconiosis law which was administered by SS before transfered to DoL.
#127794
Clown, then show me a Democrat.
All I see are socialists leaning toward communism...
Obama scared me when he went to Cuba and removed all the embargoes
and asked for nothing in return and there he was taking in a baseball game with Raul...
then the Cubans started sonic attacks on the US embassy...
You know the details... :O
#127795
sillydummy, Social Security is a SOCIALIST program.

Medicare and Medicaid are SOCIALIST programs.

The VA is a SOCIALIST program.

You live soley by the largess of your fellow citizens who support these socialist programs. (Democrats, that is, not Republicans who all pretend to loathe these programs because they are socialist)

Yet you loathe socialism, without which you would be homeless and starving.

What is wrong with your typical Trump supporter? Trump says "socialism" and you all grunt and moan and shit yourselves about how terrible it would be to live the way you are already living.

Even Trump got the best socialist medical treatment the U.S. has to offer. Then he whines about how bad a socialist medical system would be for everyone who isn't him.

silly, Trump doesn't want YOU to have the health care he received on the socialist public dime, and then you bend over and take it up the ass and say "Thank you" with your misguided vote against your own best interest. :/

It can't be understood by rational human beings. It only makes sense to Trump's "herd mentality" Republicans.
#127796
No, the VA is not "socialist."

It is a form of compensation, hopefully not needed, for a soldier's service.

Thankfully, I have never needed to enter one, although my sleek and supple form would certainly have pleased the native nubile nurses.
#127799
Of course it is socialist, johnny. It is a program owned and operated by the government and paid for by taxpayers.

WHY the program exists or what it does has nothing to do with whether it is socialist or not.

Nothing could be more socialist that the VA.

Why can't you bother to pick up a dictionary and learn the meaning of the words you use, johnny? Why am I always forced to try to talk to a bunch of ignorant clowns who constantly argue with me about things that are irrefutably true and factual?
#127806
johnny, reiterating your devastating ignorance is not a rebuttal, dimwit.

The ENTIRE military is a socialist program, you moron.

Anything to do with 'compensating' a soldier's service is a socialist enterprise.



It's obvious johnforbes attended some Podunk high school where the students shot guns in the basement and parked their turnip trucks in the adjoining 'football field'.
#127974
Good, now if only Trump would wear a mask in the elevator. And on AF1, and at his superspreader rallies, and everywhere else he's killing people and encouraging others to do the same.

But given his simper-hypocritical, johnforbes actually supports Trump going maskless.
#127975
The lockdowns were political all along.

Isn't it time for any rational person to ask whether the game was worth the candle?

Had Gov Cuomo and Gov Wolf protected the elderly, their state death tolls would have been much lower.

Scholars such as Dr Ioannidis have said no more lockdowns.

Even the WHO changed its tune to no more lockdowns, fearing a DOUBLING of global poverty.

Not everybody can stay home like Clownswisher and look at his favorite site, homo_hijinks.com.
#127980
Sure, johnny, they were just "political"--a Democrat scam.

I guess that's why the entire developed world did it in some form and is doing it again as the virus surges back and hospitals are nearing capacity again; some face collapse. The Democrats run the entire world. :sweat:

You really need to escape your pea-sized world of self-delusion, johnny. This thing is dangerous and it isn't controlled by Democrats. Republicans are in power and running things. Haven't you noticed? Even Trump said in so many words that he "shut down the economy."

And even if you survive COVID, millions have come away without a sense of smell. (I guess your wife would appreciate that 'side effect' if she doesn't need to smell your skid-marked sweaty briefs any longer.)
#127991
johnny, you will fall for absolutely anything from your handlers, won't you.

Stahl was photographed immediately after she finished interviewing Trump. She didn't yet have a mask on because she didn't have time to get one on yet. So the crew was around her, as they were also around Trump during the entire interview.

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