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[djpc]

Could be I'm naive when it comes to fancy pants economics, but it seems like a combination of onshoring jobs and lowering taxes on work conducted in the US is the most straightforward way to improve the economic mobility of the so-called working poor, as well as improving economic growth.

 

[BigWill]

So everyone should support the Supreme Court judges who overturned Roe v. Wade and ruled on immunity from prosecution for Presidents.

They ruled that there is NO constitutional requirement for the Federal Govt to pay for abortions. It is a State issue.

Immunity is entirely reasonable for actions that are required by a President in office.

 

[ILisBest]

Could be I'm naive when it comes to fancy pants economics, but it seems like a combination of onshoring jobs and lowering taxes on work conducted in the US is the most straightforward way to improve the economic mobility of the so-called working poor, as well as improving economic growth.

Trump is trying to stop shipping billions of US dollars over seas
Trump wants to Tariff products made overseas to encourage US manufacturing and create fair trade for US companies
Trump wants to keep or extend the Trump tax cuts that are on all levels of income
Trump wants to reduce wasteful spending including welfare and housing for illegals
Trump wants the US to get a piece of Tic Tok

It seems to me, Jeff thinks the above to be an attack on poor US citizens. I am not sure how?

 

[ILisBest]

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Conflict of interest?

I am wondering if there is a law against this?

 

[BigWill]

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TULSI CONFIRMED !

( I must of had the Clinton's on my mind earlier !)

 

[BigWill]

1,500 rioters attacking Capitol and police that we all saw? Yeah, that was pure politic 🤡 s.

It IS entirely about the Persons that facilitated Jan 6 th !

Nancy, Chuck, Mayor Bow Wow !

 

[Uncoach]

This is the real reason why churches are in decline.

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I’m also going to say if somehow a Republican regime did this, the Dems would be crying about separation of church and state.

 

[stoneaxe27]

Rubio says American Marc Fogel freed from Russia due to 'strength' of Trump | Fox News

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Marc Fogel, an American who had been detained in Russia, was freed because the U.S. has a "strong president."

www.foxnews.com

Where did they say the gave up nothing?

He just freed an American that was in a Russian prison for the last few years, and you are nitpicking because they are taking some credit.

Another 20% position

Keep reading, I heard him say it into a camera and microphone.

 

[Uncoach]

Trump is trying to stop shipping billions of US dollars over seas
Trump wants to Tariff products made overseas to encourage US manufacturing and create fair trade for US companies
Trump wants to keep or extend the Trump tax cuts that are on all levels of income
Trump wants to reduce wasteful spending including welfare and housing for illegals
Trump wants the US to get a piece of Tic Tok

It seems to me, Jeff thinks the above to be an attack on poor US citizens. I am not sure how?

Too many neocons think they will be safe from the Jacobins they willfully empower.

 

[tjfleck6]

Trump wants to pair tariffs with interest rate cuts.

You are talking about reduced government spending and interest rate cuts which has nothing to do with the article.

Blather on!

All great things that the new Jeff opposes. Your brain resembles scrambled eggs with hot sauce, Jeff.

I'm talking fundamentals as I understand how an economy works unlike you who needs to be told. Every dollar spent by the government sector is spent less efficiently than it would be by the private sector or a private citizen. That is just a fact. Reality - you claim you used to know it.

Tariffs - why not have reciprocal and equivalent tariffs with our trading "partners"?

Interest rates - like. Spending cuts - like. Tariffs to create equality - like.

Obviously as a Dem you oppose all of these.

 

[Uncoach]

 

[OhioIllini]

All great things that the new Jeff opposes. Your brain resembles scrambled eggs with hot sauce, Jeff.

I'm talking fundamentals as I understand how an economy works unlike you who needs to be told. Every dollar spent by the government sector is spent less efficiently than it would be by the private sector or a private citizen. That is just a fact. Reality - you claim you used to know it.

Tariffs - why not have reciprocal and equivalent tariffs with our trading "partners"?

Interest rates - like. Spending cuts - like. Tariffs to create equality - like.

Obviously as a Dem you oppose all of these.

I would say that's true in most cases but not all. There's no way we could defend our country without the government as the funding and implementing entity of the military. Closer to home, funding every little street as a toll road would be massively inefficient.

 

[tjfleck6]

I would say that's true in most cases but not all. There's no way we could defend our country without the government as the funding and implementing entity of the military. Closer to home, funding every little street as a toll road would be massively inefficient.

Anything beyond defense and a few other things. Even with roads, private groups get stuff done faster than the feds historically. Hence, all of the pikes out east getting build as toll roads back in the day. Event the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon was a tolled route back in the day.

 

[Uncoach]

Anything beyond defense and a few other things. Even with roads, private groups get stuff done faster than the feds historically. Hence, all of the pikes out east getting build as toll roads back in the day. Event the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon was a tolled route back in the day.

Tollways are a tax on the poor, IMHO.

 

[OhioIllini]

Anything beyond defense and a few other things. Even with roads, private groups get stuff done faster than the feds historically. Hence, all of the pikes out east getting build as toll roads back in the day. Event the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon was a tolled route back in the day.

Sure, there's a place for toll roads. I bet the street you live on and probably every other one in your town wouldn't work as a toll road.

 

[JeffT818]

Tollways are a tax on the poor, IMHO.

Similar to sales tax.

 

[tjfleck6]

Sure, there's a place for toll roads. I bet the street you live on and probably every other one in your town wouldn't work as a toll road.

You seemed to miss the point.

Long ago, it was the private sector which gave you a road. Without them, no road, period. Hence, the “pike” system.


Early history

• 1792: Pennsylvania charters the first private turnpike, the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike
  
  
• 1799: Construction begins on the Great Western Turnpike in New York
  
  
• 1800: 69 turnpike companies are chartered across the country
  
  
• 1908: The Long Island Motor Parkway, one of the first US motor roads, opens

The street I live on actually is paid for by me and my community. So, you would be wrong.

The main trail in the Grand Canyon was originally improved by the private sector and a toll to use it was levied. As I said, the private sector gets crap done. Jeff’s beloved government is a bloated, inefficient blob which can’t even get astronauts to or out of space. Elon and the private sector now define US space capabilities.


Ralph Cameron
Ralph H. Cameron, who would later become a United States senator (R-AZ 1921–27), settled on the canyon rim in 1890 and began improving the old Havasupai trail. It was at this time that the trail was extended all the way to the Colorado River. Once official control of the trail fell to Cameron, he named it the Bright Angel Trail,commonly referred to in its early years as Cameron's Trail, and began charging a $1 toll to access it, plus additional fees for drinking water and the use of outhouses at Havasupai Gardens