Joe Biden committed tax evasion (2007-08) and should go to federal prison for it.
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Joe Biden committed tax evasion (2007-08) and should go to federal prison for it.
You mean 2017-2018?Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
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Originally Posted by dawg80
He did it again in 2017-2018? Wow! he's a serial tax evader.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
17-18 were the ones Hannity was talking about last night. But if you think he committed tax evasion then that means that you believe the market value of his wages was greater than 250k and 500k for those years.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Of course if we didn’t tax income from capital different (lower) than income from labor, then this loophole wouldn’t really be an issue in the first place.
All taxes need to be lowered and guvmint spending practically eliminated. Neither will happen, of course, because some folks like to vote against real anti-Swamp candidates (ahem..).Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
As it is now, right at 50% of Americans pay ZERO income tax. In fact, many get a frickin' check instead of a tax bill. Everyone, and I mean EVERY one, should have to pay Federal income tax...yes, I can support at different rates...and taxpayers should get an invoice, whereby we see where our money goes, by category. Bet that would open some eyes.
Pipe dream...nothing good like that will ever happen.
Circle back Jen... Psaki: It's ‘Unfair And Absurd’ That Companies Would Raise Costs Due To High Taxes
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed during Monday’s press briefing that it would be “unfair and absurd” for companies to raise costs on consumers in response to the Biden administration raising the corporate tax rate.
It amazes me that people in this admin can be this stupid.. Career politicians and bureaucrats who have never worked in the "real world" have no idea how it works. They look at advice from economists and people who are theorists and have never actually practiced what they preach.
We have a few here who claim to be conservative but will find a way to defend this idiocy.
Cost in any business is divided into 3 or 4 parts. The third or 4th being profit. If you raise the amount attributed to the other parts, the cost to consumer has to go up to preserve the same or sometimes any profit.
They still don’t understand that free school lunches aren’t free. 100 kids get lunch every day. 25 of them eat for free. So instead of everyone paying a dollar, 75 of them pay $1.33. Now, I’m not saying I don’t support paying for things so that the truly needy can be provided for. But don’t mislead by telling us it’s free.
Simple concepts that elude those who have never created anything.
I would guess that most economists and theorists would acknowledge that companies would pass on any and all costs to consumers. They may not like it, in some goody-two-shoes lefty way, but they realize that's the way things are.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
I get the quarterly magazine published by the college of business at the University of Chicago, which includes the very liberal Austan Goolsbee, who was economic advisor to obummer and who appears occasionally on Hannity to offer some goofy, lefty viewpoint, and in this publication, "Chicago Booth Review," I have found a lot of sensible, centric, even some business-friendly opinions. There was an article about a year ago, written by two of their economic professors, which clearly, concisely and fairly explained the reasons that businesses have to raise prices for all kinds of reasons, and even emphasized the double-edged sword of hiking corporate taxes as it will impact the middle class, etc...
So, again, while the lefties may not like it, there aren't very many who don't understand why companies raise prices to consumers. Oh, except if you work in Sleepy Joe's WH apparently. Have to ask Goosey this, if the adults are truly in charge in the Biden Admin, when can we expect them to show up? So far, it's been a free-for-all of unsupervised 8-year-olds with their parents gone and no babysitter showing up.
My nine year old might take offense to that. She has been preparing meals and folding laundry for a couple of years now. I would bet no one in the Biden admin can follow the directions on a box of macaroni.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Biden caught in another whopper, but it will be ignored.
The philosophy of the left is that everyone else should do things for free for the altruistic benefit of mankind. Note that this doesn't apply to them. When they make money (usually by fleecing the ignorant) it's not evil like it is when you do.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Actually economists would not say that. Taxes are not all passed on. Only a portion of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
It shifts the point of the supply and demand equilibrium.
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_...-of-taxes.html
I keep sending messages to Nancy, shifty, chuckle, and mad Maxine that they are more than welcome to cut a check to pay for all their programs. Their offices never respond. I guess those good Jews and Catholics don’t believe in charity.Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgyNWindow
so it is unfair and unfair and absurd to pass on the cost of doing businessQuote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
It just doesn’t happen 1:1. That isn’t reality.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
If you had ever been involved in a small business you’d know reality and not liberal propagandaQuote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
I have.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
I own and operate a small business: my rental properties. I keep a VERY detailed accounting of every penny spent and every penny earned. I'll spare y'all the gory details, but in general increases in property tax drives the price of rent up. Property taxes are reassessed every 5 years so it's a different dynamic than other taxes which may increase year over year, or every other year, or in some combination. But, regardless, all tax increases to me are rolled into the carrying cost of each property. The cost of insurance goes up too, especially when hurricanes cause $billions in damage, and that cost increase is rolled into the overall cost.
I can also tell you that an increase in the capital gains tax will affect the cost of rent too. Most investors own multiple properties and regularly divest some of them in favor of others, i.e. sell and buy something else. If an increase in capital gains takes a larger bite out of the profits of selling a property, that is money out of the investor's pocket. I guarantee he will seek to make it up elsewhere. In some cases, he might not have a choice, especially if he was counting on a certain walk-away profit from a sale which is now reduced.
For me, I have lease agreements, so an increase might go into effect, say a tax increase, and some or all of my tenants are in a lease with a set monthly price. I do not (and could not) alter that monthly rent cost. But, when it comes time to renew the lease then I build in the cost increases to me. One time my umbrella policy went up a whole $252/year. Spread over 8 properties = 31.50 each. divided by 12 = $2.65/month. I did not hike rents by the $2.65/month. But, two years later, I did have a general increase which went back and absorbed most of that $252 per year from the previous two years.
All of that to say, sure, there's not always an immediate transfer of costs from the supplier to the consumer, and it may not be an exact $1 = $1 either. But rest assured, cost increases are coming sooner or later that can be directly traced back to the increase of a cost, including a tax increase.
I don't have a fancy graph like in Goosey's post above...I use Excel spreadsheets. (and yes, I know, Excel produces graphs too)
Time to take look at the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Index since Sleepy has now reached/exceeded the worst level that Trump ever got to for three days in a row. Trump's worst point was at -26 on 8/3/2017.
Sleepy's index numbers this week are:
Monday -29 (21% Strongly Approve, 50% Strongly Disapprove; Overall approval-disapproval 40%-58%)
Tuesday -28 (21% Strongly Approve, 49% Strongly Disapprove; Overall approval-disapproval 41%-58%)
Wednesday -26 (22% Strongly Approve, 48% Strongly Disapprove; Overall approval-disapproval 42%-56%)
None of that matters. What do 80% of those surveyed know? Goosey is part of the 21% Strongly Approve crowd. Goosey gets goose bumps, and a tingly feeling running up his leg at the mere sight of Sleepy Joe. He's his hero, ya know. Biden cheated...stole the election...and got "bad orange man" out of office. The end justifies the means. And now...Wow! Biden is doing such a great job systemically destroying this country. Well, Sleepy Joe has exceeded Goosey's wildest dreams, baby!
I would say I disapprove. But would still vote for him again over Trump or one of the Trump-a-likes you guys are likely to get behind.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Because you are a USA hating idiot!Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
https://youtu.be/XK9Lcy8-U44Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
Always living in the past. We are taking about the guy who is president now. No whataboutism. Let’s focus on the guy with an approval rating hovering close to 1/3 of Trumps vaccine efficacy rate.(since you dug up the past)
These 53 restaurant chains on brink of disappearing.. so glad we are building back better...:rolleyes:
https://explore.reference.com/these-...W1g7c8pFYaAhFQ
Capitalism is brutal to bad business models and bad products/services.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
offer more free food to your fellow voters and you’ll continue to see successful business suffering. The average guys ( like me) are not willing to pay $100 for two while an underdressed family of seven is getting better food for free. You people are idiots!Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Yeah, like the capitalism that arises from vaccine and mask mandates from the government, making it impossible for some folks to enjoy going to a restaurant? The kind that causes increases in prices because some moron(s) decided that we don't need skilled manufacturing jobs here, so we can just let China take those with their lower energy and business costs and make it where we have to pay some unemployed actor (waiter and waitress) 20+ bucks an hour because they need a "living" wage in what WAS a starter job for a high school kid?Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Yeah, that's capitalism......right.
Pull those shades down a little tighter and try to not look out of the window. That way you can keep believing what you think you know.
Several good restaurants in Ruston have a 40 minute wait for very day while the dining room is empty. No kitchen staff because the federal government is paying line cooks like they are gormet chefs.
Enhanced unemployment ended a month ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
The restaurants in that list had been on the decline for a long time. COVID helped them at the expense of mom and pop restaurants. So try a different excuse.Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgyNWindow
Btw, Carraba’s is on that list. Florida and Texas have the most restaurants from that chain by a longshot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
More free food for those who don’t have to pay for it…say the idiots who voted for Biden.
Where is that happening?Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Okay, Karen.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
But they haven’t needed to come back to work because they were making bank for so long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Well, the business owner could have used the PPP to keep from laying that person off in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
He didn’t need all the people when the idiot Governor locked everything down and you could only do pickup for almost a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Why would you encourage being wasteful. Why pay people to stay home? Oh, lefty, I forgot.
That was the exact point of PPP. If the business owner was a stupid FoxNews viewer and didn’t understand that it would cost him nothing to keep his people on the payroll so that he would have his staff when he reopened, that is on him.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Anywhere (almost everywhere now) EBT cards are accepted.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
They did. It wasn't enough to keep them employed for almost two years while the adults destroyed a booming economy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
I can’t argue with a stump. The whole point is there was no need for a shutdown and some people don’t want to borrow money that will cost them more in taxes over the next several years. Or it will just cost their kids more down the road. We aren’t leaving much of a world for our kids. Many of us work harder for less than our parents. How much worse will it be for the next generation. Obama added, what $11trillion, Trump added $7trillion, and now Biden would like to add about $5trillion in just 9 months of his term. That’s scary isn’t it? If he does this every year, he will add $20trillion by himself. Don’t spend what you don’t have. The end.
Bush II started the debt trend. In round numbers, Bush inherited about a $4 trillion debt from Clinton, obummer inherited about $9 trillion, Trump started with the debt at about $20.5 trillion, and Biden began at about $26 trillion, and as of today October 2, 2021 it is $28.8 trillion.
We went from 1776 until 2001 accumulating about $4 trillion in national debt, and have added another $24 trillion in 20 years. How did this happen?
Restaurants haven’t been shut down that long. PPP was enough of a lifeline to get through the shutdowns. Which was the entire point of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
If you knew anything about actually running a business and payroll you'd know that was not the case and ESPECIALLY for restaurants.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
I obviously know more about it than you.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Nope. I can't believe you think you know how to run a small business although you probably think you do being an engineer, attorney, investment advisor, virologist, and political scientist among other things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Of course, if you aren’t paying much in wages, you get far less bang for your buck with PPP, but that was also the point. And that is also why the big chains mentioned in the original article actually benefitted from COVID at the expense of mom and pop restaurants.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
My wife ran a small business that had to shut down. She didn’t have to lay anyone off, thanks to PPP.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
I find it impossible to believe that Taco Bell is in financial trouble. Don't care if you like their food, or not, but like McDonald's, Taco Bell is an enormously successful business. Their franchisees do VERY well, more take home net income than McDonald's franchisees make.
Guisslap, if your wife's business had to shutdown, did she still keep her employees? If so, why? Seems to me that her employee's lost their jobs when her business shutdown. I am not a genius like you so please explain this to us simpletons.....
Please keep posting, your comments are hilarious!
She was able to pay her employees (around 60 people) and rent thanks to the forgivable PPP loan until they were able to reopen. They had zero income for the period they were shut down. That was exactly the point of PPP.Quote:
Originally Posted by b00mer1
Good thing she had your income to offset the need for her income. Most business owners did not have that luxury so PPP did not completely fill those needs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
I guess it depends if the owner had previously been paying themselves employee wages.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
The main benefit for the owner is you don’t lose your workforce and you don’t go into the red (or as deeply into the red) paying opex while you can’t operate at full capacity.
You live in a dream world of big brother taking care of you even in your private business ventures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
It' all about control.
It is a better solution than putting people on unemployment and breaching leases for (what could have been) a temporary health crisis.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Garland instructs FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose CRT, citing "threats"
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BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools, citing "threats."
The letter follows the National School Board Association's request to classify protests as "domestic terrorism."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA5DmpnV...pg&name=medium
We are getting closer and closer to living in a communist country.. Funny no one seemed to have a problem when democrats and Maxine Watters told people to harass and intimidate Trump's cabinet and members of Congress just a few years ago..
This won't turn out well. The non-sheeple are about to get a gut full.
You can’t threaten teachers. Right wingers have lost their minds.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
Examples? Who threatened teachers by confronting them at their homes or chasing them into a restroom?
Who has been out there confronting teachers while they simply try to enjoy a meal, pump gas, or pick up groceries? Oh, I know, you misspelled “leftist”.
Fixed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
You forget, it’s called peaceful protest when things are broken, looted, burned, and shot at. It’s terrorism when someone uses their words at a school board meeting.
In today's clown world.. "threatening" teachers is simply disagreeing with them on subject material taught to children. There have been many examples of where "teachers" have actively instructed students to "keep" certain material from their parents..Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
School Boards are now eliminating "new topics" on agendas.. so parents or any others are no longer allowed to discuss anything that is not on the agenda.. If you do, or attempt to do that, you will be removed from the proceedings.. There is no way to openly bring up in a public setting things before the school board. Things must be submitted via online.. where if the board doesn't want to talk about it, it will be summarily dismissed or forgotten about. Not put on record.
Some good things are happening in North Carolina.
The Price Of Gas In Europe Hits All Time High, Has Tripled In One Month
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European gas prices broke new record highs on Wednesday, rising sharply to above $1,900 per 1,000 cubic meters. That is equivalent to $186 per megawatt-hour in household terms.quote:
The price of gas on the European market has nearly tripled since the beginning of September, when October futures cost around $730 per thousand cubic meters.quote:
Energy prices in Europe have continued to spike as the first string of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Europe is being filled with natural gas. According to pipeline operators, procedures are being carried out to test the pipeline’s capacity, but deliveries to the continent have not yet begun.
https://www.rt.com/business/536714-gas-price-europe-new-record/
There are big concerns that the European energy crisis could hit the U.S. Shame that just a year ago we were energy independent and had low prices.. Yesterday WTI hit a 7 year high at $78.00/bbl and natural gas is around $6.00 mmbtu. People gonna be cold this winter.. pay very high energy bills.. Prediction is that mid terms swing in Republicans favor even more..
Are Manchin and Sinema going to hold the line against all this spending or are they going to cave? I saw some comments on chat boards, but no news.
Don't count on Joe Manchin for anything. When I lived in West Virginia I was shocked those people kept electing him (first as Governor then as Senator).Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Joe Manchin is relishing the attention. That's what he does. He will compromise on everything he has said to make the media love him again.
Kelley Paul, Rand’s Wife, Has Had Enough Of The FBI & The DOJ
Kelley Paul
@KelleyAshbyPaul
·17h
A mob held us hostage for ten minutes, spitting on and threatening to kill us. No charges! Fake anthrax and death threats sent to our home. No charges! Now just learned the person who called Rand’s Senate office threatening to shoot us will not be charged. I’m exhausted and angry
Kelley Paul
@KelleyAshbyPaul
·18h
On May 28, a Republican-hating woman called Rand’s DC Senate office threatening to “shoot you all” to our staff member. She was never charged. Yet if you dare express indignation at a school board meeting about CRT or forced masks, the Biden DOJ and FBI say you’re a criminal.
https://i.imgflip.com/4axc2q.jpg
I'm sure there are people on here who support the DOJ and FBI's actions.
Sad but trueQuote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
Any school board member who allows this should be recalled and replaced ASAP.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
More proof that Biden is not running this country.. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves ..
Kerry Tells Stunned French Reporters Biden Wasn’t Aware Of Nuclear Sub Deal
Human Driftwood Sculpture: “President Biden asked me about it and I told him...expressed...uhmm...”
French Journalist: “You told Joe Biden?”
Human Driftwood Sculpture: “He asked me. He said...uhh...what’s the situation and I explained...uhh...exactly...He had not been aware of that. He...uhh...he literally had not been aware...uhh...of what had transpired. And I don’t want to go into the details of it.”
https://i.postimg.cc/8zC03xLj/8-F619...F7-C7-B5-E.jpg
The US has no President. The US government is run by a cabal of military industrial complex chiefs, woke military brass, mega corporate elitists, Fed bankers, intelligence community bureaucrats, and Democrat Party shadow backroom string pullers (i.e. Obama, Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett)
Duh. That’s what we voted for. The adults to be in charge, rather than the petulant egomaniac incumbent.
So, when will these so-called adults show up? Still waiting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
They did. That is why everything is so much better. If we could just get some adults occupying Republican leadership, we could really be going somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Right...adults in charge of our southern border :icon_roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
...and the oil supply (cost of fuel), record inflation, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
things are fubar.
The US government doesn’t control the price of oil. Inflation is a function of global supply chain issues and ultra-accommodative Federal Reserve policy. Most adults know these things.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Right. This would have been even worse with bad orange man in charge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Biden cut production. We were energy independent, now your adults are OPEC puppets.
China Virus played nicely into the hands of a booming economy. We know what happened.
You have it completely backwards. Trump negotiated cuts in US oil production last year with OPEC and these were implemented through the conservative Texas Railroad Commission.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g...-idUSKBN2172YE
So, Trump oversaw a reduction in production because we, as an O&G exporter, weren’t sending it out because the whole world was shut down. And we weren’t using it domestically because we were shut down too.
Why wouldn’t Biden reopen everything and ramp up production while getting the economy restarted from pandemic levels so he could claim a huge win for his admin?
You have it completely backwardsQuote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
I sure hope these adults get around to rescuing those children they abandoned in Afghanistan. I see some claims have been made recently that they have actually rescued about 800 of the 100 (a handful) folks they said they abandoned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
You must suspend logic and reason to believe these "adults" running the show. You must become a child.
We aren’t communist. That’s why. Biden can’t command O&G companies to produce more. Do you think we live in Russia?Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
O&G companies are more interested in using their cash to repair their ravaged balance sheets than increase CapEx and production.
You do take up the leftist mantra don't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
He totally glosses over the fact that US was energy independent, and Biden changed that in 6 months. That had nothing to do with Trump. Goosey will carry the water for the left forever, it's who he is despite what he claims to be..Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Being a net exporter does not make us energy independent. We were not energy independent under Trump.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
...says the admitted globalist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Gasoline prices hit a 7-year high. Hmmm, who was POTUS seven years ago...wait, oh yeah! obummer was! Now his puppet, the moronic Sleepy Joe is POTUS, and prices are up. No surprise.
Funny how this goof ball is struggling to see and read the teleprompter. Squinting, stammering, coughing, etc.. VERY presidential.:laugh: I love it when the words start moving too fast and he tries to speed up which makes him omit entire syllables in some words. He's an adult.
What awesome September job numbers!!! Not!
Wow, those "adults" are doing so well...:icon_roll:
Sleepy's daily tracking poll numbers back to their worst marks ever at a -29 index after briefly improving all the way to -21 last week. 15 straight daily polls (3 weeks) with the index at -20 or worse after 9 straight polls in late August into early September. Trump's longest stretch at -20 or worse was just 12 polls in a row.
Monday 10/11 -29, 21% Strongly Approve, 50% Strongly Disapprove; Overall approval-disapproval 41%-58%
Sleepy ties the all-time low (GWB) in the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll Approval Index at -30 today.
Monday 10/11 -29, 21% Strongly Approve, 50% Strongly Disapprove; Overall approval-disapproval 41%-58%
Tuesday 10/12 -30, 20% Strongly Approve, 50% Strongly Disapprove; Overall approval-disapproval 41%-57%
Bad Orange man is still making a mess of things. He has been out of office for over 9 months and things are so bad Biden still can't fix them. :rolleyes4:
I have been reading this thread tonight and find it fascinating how those on the left view things so differently. It is discouraging that so many on the left hate Donald Trump so much that they are willing to sacrifice the future of this great country just to prove a point. The issues are too many to list, but if you leftists can't see that this administration, and most in academia, are intent on making us all "woke" (whatever the crap that is supposed to mean) then I don't know what to do for you. It is obvious that the few of you who lean left on BB&B are very "smart", but it is also obvious that you are very stupid as well. I just pray that God will spare us from the destruction that Biden's puppeteers want to bring to this country, and maybe we can turn the tide in mid-term elections.
I see you don't post very much...in fact, I don't recall seeing any of your posts prior to this one. But, you posted more truth and common sense in one paragraph than our resident lefties have produced over tens of thousands of posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by golfkdog
Those that hate Donald Trump hate America. There is a direct correlation.
Good job! Post more often.