Democrats will spend the next few weeks trashing Amy Comey Barrett and railing against her nomination because she is Catholic, while propping up Catholic hair sniffer and serial assaulter Joe Biden for President.
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| So Catholics should not be in positions of power? Depends on what Party you belong to. |
Of course, this isn't unusual for Democrats. You also cannot be Black, Hispanic, Muslim, gay, or any number of things and be a Republican. You will likely be labeled, cancelled, and banned from social media for improperly mixing your creed, color, religion and political Party.
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Tell us a little about the cult(? group?) she belongs (belonged?) to that subordinates women to men.
No it's not a cult. It's more like a bible study group on steroids. It's fair to ask about it. But dems should do so with a ounce of respect. Can they do that?
I don't think that will be a topic
You can be sure she will be asked about it.
Trump didn't like this.
1. You are $1.1 Billion in debt.
2. You are therefore NOT a billionaire.
3. You've been promising to show your taxes since before the 2016 election.
4. You could prove EVERYONE wrong by showing your damn tax returns already.
5. YOU ARE FAKE NEWS.
Roger, I disagree. I think some of the related attitudes toward women the group represents will be part of the questions asked.
However, I THOROUGHLY agree with 12:38!
Health care will be a tough thing for the President
If she votes to overturn the ACA, the fact that 100 million Americans will lose their medical insurance coverage because pre existing insurance coverage will disappear
Now sure exactly how many millions, but THAT'S where the Dems will lay the emphasis.
If she votes to overturn the ACA, the fact that 100 million Americans will lose their medical insurance coverage because pre existing insurance coverage will disappear
we're up to 100 MILLION Americans on 0linsky care now alky?
funny, since the original number was less than 20 MILLION.
geezus... you don't even try to keep your bullshit straight anymore.
I think some of the related attitudes toward women the group represents will be part of the questions asked.
So your logic Reverend...
Is to ask a woman who is about to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court (the epitome of her profession) if she is part of a group that holds women down?
Good one. Won't look like a political reach at all!
Ch asks:
So Catholics should not be in power?
JAMES:
Not if they lie the way Kavanaugh did by saying that he regarded Roe vs. Wade as "settled law."
...to ask a woman who is about to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court (the epitome of her profession) if she is part of a group that holds women down?
I guess that would be like asking a black who is about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court if he/she is part of a group that believes in holding blacks down.
ACB is a monster:
In a 2019 conversation at the Notre Dame Club of Washington, D.C., Barrett was asked how, while raising so many children, two of whom were adopted from Haiti and one who has special needs, she has been able to balance family life with her demanding profession. Her response was as telling as Feinstein’s 2017 remark. Barrett immediately praises her husband (who is also an attorney):
We were open to either one of us staying home at different points. … What’s really made it work is that it’s very much a team effort. … Right now … Jesse is really doing much more of the heavy lifting … the cooking and kids’ doctor’s appointments during the day. We’ve gone in cycles and right now … he’s doing a little bit more of the home stuff. ... We evaluated at every step whether things were working well for the family, for the job I was in … but it was always working and it worked well: the kids were very happy, I loved teaching.
Barrett says that for both parents, the needs of the Barrett children came first, their professions second — and yet both their children and professions thrived. Rather than assume caregiving is a woman’s “choice” to embrace or reject on her own, as Roe does, the Barretts recognize that both mothers and fathers are encumbered by their shared responsibilities to the dependent children in their care. That’s the new feminism building upon, while remaking, the old feminism.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/27/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-nominee-feminist-icon-422059
JAMES:
Not if they lie the way Kavanaugh did by saying that he regarded Roe vs. Wade as "settled law."
where's the lie, pederast?
Earning his "92 SAT " score.
"100 million Americans will lose their medical insurance coverage" Alky Stupid.
Where did you get that number?
'Rather than assume caregiving is a woman’s “choice” to embrace or reject on her own, as Roe does...'
Where in Roe vs. Wade does that appear, rat?
Collins sure feels that she was lied to by Kavanaugh, rat. THERE'S the lie.
I guess that would be like asking a black who is about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court if he/she is part of a group that believes in holding blacks down.
Thurgood Marshall was part of the Democrat party. I don't think he was asked the question.
Clarence Thomas however, got a nice high-tech lynching from the Democrats.
The party you belong to James is the party of racists.
And chief racist and high-tech lyncher of them all is Joe Biden.
If she votes to overturn the ACA, the fact that 100 million Americans will lose their medical insurance coverage because pre existing insurance coverage will disappear.
Approximately 21 million people have ACA coverage. Approximately 175 million Americans have pre existing conditions, including diabetes, obesity, and inherited medical conditions, and age related complications, would lose their medical coverage.
rrb isn't capable of thinking clearly because he has Trumpism stage four brain cancer
Approximately 21 million people have ACA coverage. Approximately 175 million Americans have pre existing conditions, including diabetes, obesity, and inherited medical conditions, and age related complications, would lose their medical coverage.
I thought Thomas came under suspicion because of sexual harassment allegations lodged against him by a female co worker.
Approximately 21 million people have ACA coverage. Approximately 175 million Americans have pre existing conditions, including diabetes, obesity, and inherited medical conditions, and age related complications, would lose their medical coverage.
You don't care!
Not if they lie the way Kavanaugh did by saying that he regarded Roe vs. Wade as "settled law."
"Settle law" doesn't mean it is a good law nor is it a correctly decided law nor is it an immutable law.
Just means it was used as a precedent.
Mr. 92 SAT.
"100 million Americans will lose their medical insurance"
Your logic and math failed.
You are an idiot.
The Republicans are going to be made to pay a BIG price for affirming this nomination.
I posted that last night on Facebook, and sure enough, this morning my feed is filled with people who don’t know shit about taxes retweeting the stupid opinions of other morons who also don’t know shit about taxes. This is just as annoying as last week when these same idiots all suddenly became Constitutional Scholars. Or the month before that when they were all experts on use of force laws and police tactics. Or the month before that when they suddenly got their epidemiology degrees from the University of Internet and turned into infectious disease experts.
Holy shit, you Dunning-Krugerands are annoying. Of course the comments are all about the “morality” of paying your “fair share”. Which isn’t how any of this works in real life. Just stop it with your vapid hot takes already. You clearly have a child-like grasp of a complex topic, and your words are making America dumber.
As a former accountant, please allow me to explain why all of today’s newly formed tax experts are fucking morons, and we should metaphorically put a brick in a sock and beat them over the head with it until they shut up.
I’m going to keep this blog post simple. I’m not going to get into any of the specifics of the leaked Trump taxes. Why? Because:
We don’t know how full of shit the NYT is, and you don’t do taxes based on rumors and innuendo. You do taxes based upon financial statements and the company’s books.
This shit is super complicated and my happy ass is retired and likes getting paid more money to write books instead of reading through thousands of pages of IRS regs.
So big picture time…
First off, “morality” doesn’t have jack shit to do with taxation. You pay what you legally owe. Nobody willingly pays the government more than they legally owe.
This has always been this way since America has had income taxes. There is endless court precedent. You pay what you legally owe. That’s it. If you pay less than you legally owe, then the government will fine or imprison you. If you pay more than you legal owe, the government will laugh and laugh, because you are an idiot, and you deserve to be poor.
Every single person who barks about how somebody else should be paying more? They themselves are paying the minimum they can get away with. As they should. As should you.
I remember when I was taking my first tax class back in college. This class was all accounting majors by this point. At the beginning of the semester the professor (who’d had a long career as a tax guy) gave us an imaginary family as our clients and had us do their taxes. One kid didn’t take advantage of all the obvious deductions for his clients. When the professor asked why, the kid said some mushy thing about how he didn’t think it was FAIR to keep that money from the government… Holy shit. The professor ripped this kid a new asshole. HOW DARE YOU!?! IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT’S MONEY! IT IS YOUR CLIENT’S MONEY. YOU OWE THEM YOUR BEST! IT IS YOUR SACRED DUTY TO SAVE THEIR MONEY! YOU DISGUST ME AND YOU SHOULD NEVER BE A CPA!
That class was one of my favorites.
Basically, you pay what you owe, no more, and anyone who claims otherwise is full of shit.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/09/28/no-you-idiots-thats-not-how-taxes-work-an-accountants-guide-to-why-you-are-a-gullible-moron/
��@FaithlessJane
Why did Collins feel lied to?
Notice how the riots/BLM/Antifa has left the BlueMedia.
As America turns on the actions of the Socialist Democrats.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10164683718470647&id=890775646
Why is Trump under such a long audit and what is it about?
Since he has done nothing wrong, he should share all this with the public.
Along with the tax returns he long ago promised he would share.
"The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed."
Mr. 92 SAT, eludes Roger, again.
You don't care!
damn right i don't.
before 0linsky-care American's were 90+% happy with the health insurance they had. they loved it. it was affordable, it worked, they were happy...
in other words, it wasn't broken.
but that wasn't good enough for 0linsky and the dems. oh no. so skeets and his merry band of asshats like jon gruber set out to royally fuck up a system that most everyone loved. and fuck it up they did. and they lied like few have lied before to get it done. they lied so much 0lisnky himself was awarded the coveted LIE OF THE YEAR award in 2013.
in other words, they didn't care.
you see alky, most American's recoil from being made to care about most anything.
so yeah, i don't fucking care.
If she votes to overturn the ACA, the fact that 100 million Americans will lose their medical insurance coverage because pre existing insurance coverage will disappear.
You don't know jack-shit about health insurance. Repealing the ACA or having it declared unconstitutional won't even affect the coverage of over 100 million Americans with pre existing conditions because those people get their health insurance through their employer. And the health insurance plan covers the group not individuals.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
"The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed."
Mr. 92 SAT, eludes Roger, again.
the dumb fuck keeps trying to link us up to the ralph maddow fanboi fakebook page as if we're supposed to care.
I so enjoy the 2016 campaign that the Three Water carrier Woman of CHT are re-running.
You don't know jack-shit about health insurance. Repealing the ACA or having it declared unconstitutional won't even affect the coverage of over 100 million Americans with pre existing conditions because those people get their health insurance through their employer. And the health insurance plan covers the group not individuals.
True. "Only" 20 million.
"the dumb fuck keeps trying to link us up to the ralph maddow fanboi fakebook page as if we're supposed to care."
Exactly.
The Fanboi Page is a "private group".
That eludes little tiny SAT Score Alky.
Approximately 21 million people have ACA coverage. Approximately 175 million Americans have pre existing conditions, including diabetes, obesity, and inherited medical conditions, and age related complications, would lose their medical coverage.
So 53% of Americans have preexisting conditions? Wouldn't that make it the rule, rather than an exception?
Why not just go all our Roger.
"If ACA gets overturned.... at least 400 million Americans will die within six months."
That is your line! Use it!
Blogger James said...
Collins sure feels that she was lied to by Kavanaugh, rat. THERE'S the lie.
she feelz, eh pederast?
link us up to her feelz.
LOL
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Who Paid More Taxes Than Donald Trump?
Vox:
“A single adult with no children would have had to earn $17,900 or more in 2017 to pay $750 or more in federal income taxes that year.”
"the dumb fuck keeps trying to link us up to the ralph maddow fanboi fakebook page as if we're supposed to care."
Exactly.
The Fanboi Page is a "private group".
That eludes little tiny SAT Score Alky.
True. "Only" 20 million.
Well than that is already a problem huh?
Considering HIPPA laws state that insurance companies cannot reject due to pre-existing conditions unless that person has allowed their insurance to lapse for at least 6 months.
So apparently 20 million Americans already do not have insurance?
Is that your argument?
If so... then how is ACA helping these people without insurance?
��������@Mr.92.
CHT hold another math class for Alky.
"So 53% of Americans have preexisting conditions? Wouldn't that make it the rule, rather than an exception?"
Kick Ass News
When undocumented immigrants pay more federal income tax than Donald Dotard that makes them more American than Trump.
500 New York Police Officers of every race and of the only two sexes have been injuries by Socialist Democrats.
Pre existing conditions will not be covered if the Supreme Court overturns the ACA and restrictions on pre existing conditions
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Pre existing conditions will not be covered if the Supreme Court overturns the ACA and restrictions on pre existing conditions
flatly FALSE.
cali schooled your ass on this the other day yet you repeat the lie like it's your fucking job.
Illogic by Mr. 92.
Paying taxes is a measure of how American a person is.
wow, no wonder the South Dakota College ejected you from their campus.
I'm not talking about the ACA in regards to millions of Americans who have insurance coverage, that will lose their coverage for pre existing conditions.
Including the millions who were infected with the COVID-19 virus!
Pre-Existing Conditions
Under current law, health insurance companies can’t refuse to cover you or charge you more just because you have a “pre-existing condition” — that is, a health problem you had before the date that new health coverage starts.
These rules went into effect for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014.
What This Means for You
Health insurers can no longer charge more or deny coverage to you or your child because of a pre-existing health condition like asthma, diabetes, or cancer. They cannot limit benefits for that condition either. Once you have insurance, they can't refuse to cover treatment for your pre-existing condition.
https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-conditions/index.html
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that will lose their coverage for pre existing conditions.
you.
dumb.
fuck.
Pre existing conditions will not be covered if the Supreme Court overturns the ACA and restrictions on pre existing conditions
Well it would overturn HIPPA which already protects people with preexisting conditions. Do you ever tire of just being flat out wrong?
The President probably doesn't have the authority to issue an executive order declaring that pre existing conditions need to be covered.
The number of people who will lose their medical coverage for pre existing conditions is not easy to determine but the numbers are huge
HIPPA does not mandate coverage for pre existing conditions on private insurance coverage.
But you have would support the end of Medicare and Medicare
HIPPA provides security on medical issues.
Roger Amick said...
HIPPA does not mandate coverage for pre existing conditions on private insurance coverage.
Pre-Existing Conditions
Under current law, health insurance companies can’t refuse to cover you or charge you more just because you have a “pre-existing condition” — that is, a health problem you had before the date that new health coverage starts.
These rules went into effect for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014.
What This Means for You
Health insurers can no longer charge more or deny coverage to you or your child because of a pre-existing health condition like asthma, diabetes, or cancer. They cannot limit benefits for that condition either. Once you have insurance, they can't refuse to cover treatment for your pre-existing condition.
https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-conditions/index.html
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) Coverage
The Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) ended on April 30, 2014. The PCIP program provided health coverage options to individuals who were uninsured for at least six months, had a pre-existing condition, and had been denied coverage (or offered insurance without coverage of the pre-existing condition) by a private insurance company. Now, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurance plans can no longer deny anyone coverage for their pre-existing condition, and so PCIP enrollees can transition to a new plan outside of the PCIP program. Learn more about your health insurance options at HealthCare.gov.
If the ACA is overturned this no longer covers pre existing conditions!
Scott and rrb are wrong again!
https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-conditions/index.html
But you have would support the end of Medicare and Medicare
wha???
Now, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurance plans can no longer deny anyone coverage for their pre-existing condition, and so PCIP enrollees can transition to a new plan outside of the PCIP program. Learn more about your health insurance options at HealthCare.gov.
If the ACA is overturned this no longer covers pre existing conditions!
Scott and rrb are wrong again!
https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-conditions/index.html
The Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) ended on April 30, 2014.
so... you're arguing about a regulation that ended on 04/30/2014, and now you have proof that if the ACA is overturned, it is a given that the pre-existing condition component of HIPAA will be overturned as well.
is that your argument, alky?
and what proof do you have that will be the case?
If the ACA is overturned this no longer covers pre existing conditions!
point us to the language that explicitly states this.
Well Roger...
Amazing how many people I know who had preexisting conditions and never lost their insurance when they switch jobs or insurance companies. Apparently all of these Insurance companies were wrong.
Either way... how many "people" may or may not "lose" insurance is ACA is declared unconstitutional is irrelevant to whether or not ACA is unconstitutional or not.
If this case ever comes before the USSC again, then we should all expect the Justices to act as Justices, not social justice warriors or politicians with an agenda.
The law is the law is the law and the constitution is the constitution is the constitution... and if we finally have a court that actually views these cases this way (rather than the tit-for-tat take your turn political nonsense that the Roberts court if famous for)....
Then perhaps our actual legislators would care about the constitution, bill of rights, etc... when they put together laws.
This is really where this fight it. Democrats don't want to follow the constitution when it doesn't fit their agenda, and the only way to get around it is to find more people like Ginsburg or JP Stevens who openly dislike the constitution and believe that the oath they take to follow it means nothing.
The Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) ended on April 30, 2014. The PCIP program provided health coverage options to individuals who were uninsured for at least six months, had a pre-existing condition, and had been denied coverage (or offered insurance without coverage of the pre-existing condition) by a private insurance company. Now, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurance plans can no longer deny anyone coverage for their pre-existing condition, and so PCIP enrollees can transition to a new plan outside of the PCIP program. Learn more about your health insurance options at HealthCare.gov.
If the ACA is overturned this no longer covers pre existing conditions!
Scott and rrb are wrong again!
Do you ever tire of just being flat out wrong?
You have the federalist point of view
Your side lost the civil war!
Trump has been mouthing off for a long time that he will get rid of the ACA and replace it with something far better, but he never spells out what it is, or how it will be far better.
You can't comprehend the law
Now, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurance plans can no longer deny anyone coverage for their pre-existing condition, and so PCIP enrollees can transition to a new plan outside of the PCIP program. Learn more about your health insurance options at HealthCare.gov.
If the ACA is overturned this no longer covers pre existing conditions!
Scott and rrb are wrong again!
https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-conditions/index.html
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“It’s why both campaigns have long had Sept. 29 marked on their calendars. A big night for Trump or a bad night for Biden could alter the trajectory of a race that’s barely budged during months of nationwide upheaval.”
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It was covered under you stupid ass
HIPAA was a big advancement at the time in terms of protecting people with preexisting conditions who had employer coverage,” said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor who studies health insurance at Georgetown University.
Specifically, HIPAA required that as long as someone had been continuously covered by health insurance for at least 12 months, without a break longer than 63 days, new insurance at a new job could not impose waiting periods for a worker or family member. HIPAA also required insurers who sold policies in the small-group market to sell to all small groups, regardless of health status, and to cover every eligible member of the group, also regardless of health status.
I beaten you over the the head with this fact 5995 times
"The number of people who will lose their medical coverage for pre existing conditions is not easy to determine"
��@roger, after being nut kicked.
If the ACA is overturned this no longer covers pre existing conditions!
that's simply not true alky.
if the ACA is found to be unconstitutional, HIPAA and its corresponding regulations stand on their own. overturning the ACA doesn't automatically cancel pre-existing conditions coverage.
my God you are so fucking stupid it should be painful.
CHT tags in Cali.
Unfair guys, Roger doesn't have the mental firepower to talk about this.
Unfair guys, Roger doesn't have the mental firepower to talk about this.
the alky needs to hit his knees every day and thank God he's in a nursing home. if he had to fend for himself he'd be dead inside of 30 days.
If the ACA is overturned the HIPPA coverage will not apply.
You are an idiot
If the ACA is overturned the HIPPA coverage will not apply.
The requirement for pre existing conditions was not in the HIPPA act until the ACA was passed and signed by President Obama.
The requirements will no longer apply.
The requirement for pre existing conditions was not in the HIPPA act until the ACA was passed and signed by President Obama.
The requirements will no longer apply.
Low IQ is evident again
This is an example of how misinformation works in the social media era.
Low IQ is evident again
It certainly is and it’s you
HIPAA also established a concept called creditable coverage. This gives you (or your covered dependents) credit for the amount of time you were insured by one plan (called prior coverage) and applies it to the pre-existing condition exclusion period of a new plan. Prior coverage is not creditable if there is a gap of 63 or more consecutive days without coverage. These three scenarios show how it works:
Credible coverage Alky, it’s what I bash in your head over
BTW, Alky, there’s only one person here that was approved by the insurance depts of GA and SC to teach continuing Ed for HIPAA to agents
And I guarantee it was broke down carpenter in Cali.
Got It?
Just shut up
is there anything that the left will not LIE about?
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Read that closely. Trump PAID, as in transferred to the US Treasury, $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017. Note also that most of the overpayment was rolled forward, not refunded. The $750 figure is an ADDITIONAL $750. Thus every single story saying he paid $750 is a lie.
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“What kind of shithoIe country allows a billionaire to pay $750/year in taxes and working class people to pay $750/month for health insurance? Hmmmmmmmm......................” No shit, Sherlock.
The requirement for pre existing conditions was not in the HIPPA act until the ACA was passed and signed by President Obama.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If the ACA is overturned the HIPPA coverage will not apply.
ok alky.
show us explicitly where it is written that if the ACA is overturned the pre-existing conditions provision will be rendered null and void.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The requirement for pre existing conditions was not in the HIPPA act until the ACA was passed and signed by President Obama.
very good alky.
now show us explicitly where it is written that if the ACA is overturned the pre-existing conditions provision will be rendered null and void.
Now, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurance plans can no longer deny anyone coverage for their pre-existing condition,
Not even the President is saying that.
Scott is spreading false information and you would support him.
If the ACA is overturned the HIPPA coverage will not apply.
It would go to the courts to decide whether it applies or not. But given the recent history of appointed judges with conservative beliefs will eventually no longer apply.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If the ACA is overturned the HIPPA coverage will not apply.
now show us explicitly where it is written that if the ACA is overturned the pre-existing conditions provision will be rendered null and void.
Oh and Alky the number in the individual market is about half 20 million you claimed
proximately 11.4 million3 consumers selected or were automatically re-enrolled4 in an Exchange plan during the 2020 OEP. This includes 8.3 million consumers in the 38 states using the HealthCare.gov platform and 3.1 million consumers in SBEs (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Plan Selections during the 2016 – 2020 Open Enrollment Periods5
And Obunghole predicted over 25 million would be enrolled now
The repeal of the affordable care will cost millions more than they can afford!
133 MILLION
Americans with protected pre-existing conditions.
As many as 133 million Americans — roughly half the population under the age of 65 — have pre-existing medical conditions that could disqualify them from buying a health insurance policy or cause them to pay significantly higher premiums if the health law were overturned, according to a government analysis done in 2017. An existing medical condition includes such common ailments as high blood pressure or asthma, any of which could require those buying insurance on their own to pay much more for a policy, if they could get one at all.
The coronavirus, which has infected nearly seven million Americans to date and may have long-term health implications for many of those who become ill, could also become one of the many medical histories that would make it challenging for someone to find insurance.
Under the A.C.A., no one can be denied coverage under any circumstance, and insurance companies cannot retroactively cancel a policy unless they find evidence of fraud. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 54 million people have conditions serious enough that insurers would outright deny them coverage if the A.C.A. were not in effect, according to an analysis it did in 2019. Its estimates are based on the guidelines insurers had in place about whom to cover before the law was enacted.
Most Americans would still be able to get coverage under a plan provided by an employer or under a federal program, as they did before the law was passed, but protections for pre-existing conditions are particularly important during an economic downturn or to those who want to start their own businesses or retire early. Before the A.C.A., employers would sometimes refuse to cover certain conditions. If the law went away, companies would have to decide if they would drop any of the conditions they are now required to cover.
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The need to protect people with existing medical conditions from discrimination by insurers was a central theme in the 2018 midterm elections, and Democrats attributed much of their success in reclaiming control of the House of Representatives to voters’ desire to safeguard those protections. Mr. Trump and many Republicans promise to keep this provision of the law, but have not said how they would do that. Before the law, some individuals were sent to high-risk pools operated by states, but even that coverage was often inadequate.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/supreme-court-obamacare-case.html
The poor people don't matter to the President because they won't vote for him Al!
12 MILLION
Adults who could lose Medicaid coverage
Medicaid, the government insurance program for the poor that is jointly funded by the federal government and the states, has been the workhorse of Obamacare. If the health law were struck down, more than 12 million low-income adults who have gained Medicaid coverage through the law’s expansion of the program could lose it.
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In all, according to the Urban Institute, enrollment in the program would drop by more than 15 million, including roughly three million children who got Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program when their parents signed up for coverage.
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Losing free health insurance would, of course, also mean worse access to care and, quite possibly, worse health for the millions who would be affected. Among other things, studies have found that Medicaid expansion has led to better access to preventive screenings, medications and mental health services.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/supreme-court-obamacare-case.html
The requirement for pre existing conditions was not in the HIPPA act until the ACA was passed and signed by President Obama.
I don't think that it would apply anymore because the law didn't apply until the ACA was approved
The law ensures that states will never have to pay more than 10 percent of costs for their expanded Medicaid population; few if any states would be able to pick up the remaining 90 percent to keep their programs going. Over all, the federal government’s tab was $66 billion last year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Stein propounded Stein's Law, which he expressed in 1976 as, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The requirement for pre existing conditions was not in the HIPPA act until the ACA was passed and signed by President Obama.
I don't think that it would apply anymore because the law didn't apply until the ACA was approved
now show us explicitly where it is written that if the ACA is overturned the pre-existing conditions provision will be rendered null and void.
Define credible coverage as specified in HIPAA Mr 92 SAT
I PROTECTED PREX, YOU DUMBASS.
Why the Leak of Trump’s Taxes Matters
David Frum:
“First, it melts Trump’s support a little more.
Trump’s hopes for 2020 depended on fantastic overperformance with white voters without college degrees. He’s lost so much support elsewhere that he must hold every last member of his core group. He doesn’t need to decline much among these voters to convert any faint hope of success into certainty of disaster.
“Second, and perhaps more important, the ink-on-paper confirmation of Trump’s indebtedness, tax dodging, and all-around crookedness will get into Trump’s head.
"His political project through the pandemic has been to mess with his opponents by hurling one crazy distraction after another. Now, suddenly, it’s his own decision loop that has been disrupted.
"On the preexisting trajectory of the 2020 campaign, Trump was going to lose—and probably lose big. He needed something to happen either to help him or, more plausibly, to push the Biden camp into some mistake or misstep.
"Now the banana peels have been dumped beneath his own feet.”
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COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A GUY WHO DESERVES IT MORE.
Unless it goes to the courts, since it didn't apply until the ACA was passed, I believe that it will not apply.
It's my opinion. You can't comprehend how the law works
All of the polls show that Biden is ahead by a good percentage beyond the margin of error!
Unless it goes to the courts, since it didn't apply until the ACA was passed, I believe that it will not apply.
It's my opinion. You can't comprehend how the law works
The Drudge Report
The Fake Billionaire!
'Can you believe how f***ing stupid the IRS is?'
I got this from the Drudge Report!
Matt Drudge is gay and he broke up with the Republican party
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Unless it goes to the courts, since it didn't apply until the ACA was passed, I believe that it will not apply.
It's my opinion. You can't comprehend how the law works
Oh Alky I know both laws far better than you ever will. I’ve forgotten more about them you’ll ever know
#1 richest American @JeffBezos “owns” and founded @Amazon [#AMZN paid $0 in corporate taxes on $11bln in profits in 2018] also owns @washingtonpost.
Why is paying as little taxes as LEGALLY allowed a problem with @realDonaldTrump and not @JeffBezos?
vox.com/platform/amp/2…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8780753/Can-believe-f-ing-stupid-IRS-Trump-mocked-10m-tax-refund-Michael-Cohen-claims.html
So you say laugh out loud at you
Nothing weird at all about the national media pushing a breaking earthshaking story that Trump only pays as much tax as legally required weeks prior to an election while ignoring Joe Biden’s son being wired millions of dollars from a Russian billionaire. Completely normal.
Trump should ask Biden if has son Hunter reported those millions of dollars from Moscow to the IRS.
Over 7 million Americans have been infected by the COVID-45 virus.
They have a pre existing condition.
The debate tomorrow evening should be on his failure to save our lives. And confront his pathological lies about the virus.
Russia Russia Russia is not going to work
Hey Alky, forgot to mention Aetna exited the under 50 fully insured, except one plan, and writes level funded as does, 70% of HUMANA’s business, UHC doesn’t want to write Obunghole care and the Blues, in GA, exited the under 50 as well. All sell an ASO type product.
So they all can underwrite again
Eat your jello take your pills and go back to bed
Well for you Roger stupidity is a pre-existing condition.
Chris Wallace might call him out for lying about Russia
This is amusing because I outthink you idiots
He's broke. He's living in our house. And he's been stealing from us.
President Donald Trump personally holds $421 million in debt and loans that are largely coming due in the next four years
He hasn't told us who does he owe?
It could be a national security issue!
Nancy Amick
Trump should ask Biden if has son Hunter reported those millions
Cramps and twitter.... a supreme pair of idiots......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Funny cramps, ron johnsons report found no such anything in his investigation!!!!!
House members from 26 states; Democrats have the majority in 22 states. Another two, Michigan and Pennsylvania, are tied.
Pelosi said that we have to take the house majority. We need more seats in Michigan and Pennsylvania and 3 more state majorities.
Get out and vote blue Wave tsunami!
Will Joe wear a mask tomorrow during the debate?
Roger proves my case.
CS, Dr 92 SAT. always does
Will Joe wear a mask tomorrow during the debate?
Yes, but that not the question of the debate. That question is did Hunter Biden pay taxes on the million dollar wire transfer from Moscow.
Sleepy Joe is taking Hydroxychloroquine .
That and anti-Dymentia drugs.
Wallace will never ask that hard a question of Biden.
THE ORANGE ABOMINATION MUST BE HAVING A BIG OLE HISSY FIT ABOUT THE TAXES! TO BE A FLY ON THAT WALL!!!
A devout Christian hypocrite
Speaking on Fox News this Monday, network contributor Mike Huckabee blew off the New York Times’ bombshell report regarding President Trump’s tax history, first saying that if the report comes from the Times, it lacks credibility.
But even if the report is true, Huckabee says, “So what?”
Trump Is Nowhere Near as Rich as He Claims
Daniel Shaviro looks at President Trump tax information as reported by the New York Times and concludes he is not as rich as he claims.
“The impending financial liabilities, and selling off of assets (plus taking out of loans) to keep the cash flowing is only one reason for concluding that, as a matter of net worth (as distinct, from say, lifestyle), Trump does not appear to be rich. Consider that, from 2000 to 2018, his net profit from assets – his own businesses, plus investments in businesses run by others – is only $4.2 million (the excess of his investment gains over his business losses).
“This is about $220,000 per year. Just as a very general ballpark comparison, if you were earning $220,000 per year from assets that offered, say, a regular 4 percent annual return, that would imply that you were worth only $5.5 million.”
More Battleground Polls
From New York Times/Siena:
PENNSYLVANIA:
Biden 49%, Trump 40%
From SurveyMonkey:
OHIO:
Trump 51%, Biden 47%
Trump Campaign Accused of ‘Laundering’ $170 Million
“The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Tuesday accusing the Trump campaign of ‘laundering’ $170 million through numerous companies, some with connections to former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale,” Forbes reports.
“The complaint alleges that the Trump campaign paid millions of dollars to campaign-connected vendors without reporting those payments to the FEC, specifically honing in on American Made Media Consultants, a firm created by Parscale, which has been paid over $106 million, making it the campaigns largest vendor.”
GOP Fraud Claims Viewed Skeptically by Courts
A review by the Washington Post of nearly 90 state and federal voting lawsuits “found that judges have been broadly skeptical as Republicans use claims of voter fraud to argue against such changes, declining to endorse the GOP’s arguments or dismissing them as they examined limits on mail voting.
“In no case did a judge back President Trump’s view — refuted by experts — that fraud is a problem significant enough to sway a presidential election.”
Dear Trump supporters,
Trump’s taxes have finally been leaked. And wouldn’t you know it, he’s a total fake. He’s not a billionaire. He’s 421 million dollars in debt and is about to get foreclosed on. I pay more taxes than Donald Trump and so do you. Because he’s losing so much money, he’s paid zero in federal taxes 10 of the last 15 years. Two of the years he did pay it was less than 1,000 bucks. He’s been living off credit and hot air. It was all a scam. Just like his college, just like is charity, and just like his political career.
You were so easy for him to scam. He knew you’d be impressed with of all of his boasting. He knew you’d never spot the difference. He knew he’d win you over by taking advantage of your ignorance, your fears, your insecurity, your racism and your ethnocentrism. You were like shooting fish in a barrel for him. He’s convinced you the real news is fake, and the fake news is real. He has you cheering for authoritarianism over democracy. He has you scared and fearful of your neighbors but not of COVID-19. He actually convinced you that he is a Christian. As a former top aide to Vice President Pence just revealed, he thinks you are “disgusting”.
He’s not just a fraud, he’s a criminal. He’s everything he convinced you that Hillary Clinton was four years ago. He’s the one who deserves to be in prison and soon he likely will be. He’s not a Republican and he’s not a Democrat. He’s not a conservative and he’s not a liberal. He’s human trash looking for suckers to take advantage of. And my goodness, did he ever find a willing group of suckers.
You should be ashamed of yourself. I know people who voted for him in 2016 and quickly realized they made a mistake. But not you, not you. You dug in. You doubled down. You embraced Russian style propaganda over the American free press. You embraced conspiracy theories over science and reality. He’s lied to you over 22,000 times since taking office and you never batted an eye. He’s made a fool of this nation.
I imagine Trump and his propaganda news outlets will attempt continue the scam, at least for another six weeks. I also imagine some of you, through some unimaginable mental gymnastics, will continue to allow yourself to get scammed. But Trump is going down on November 3 and the American justice system will come after him and his cronies.
I may be nice to you on the street but do know that you absolutely let this country down. You allowed our republic to get damaged in ways never seen. In the process you exposed some incredibly ugly things about yourself I just can't forget.
Thanks for reading!
The death rate for the last 5 years in the USA is vertically unchanged including 2020.
oye, running the failed 2016 campaign is a joy to watch.
PlayTheTrumpCard
@PlaysTrumpCard
Weird but not weird coincidence:
Trump haters General Zwack & Lt. Col Vindman were working at the US embassy in Moscow at the time Hunter Biden was getting 3.5 million from the mayors wife.
any real reporters out there ?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that Democratic lawmakers unveiled a new, $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which she said was a compromise measure that reduces the costs of the economic aid.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., August 13, 2020. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
In a letter to Democratic lawmakers released by Pelosi’s office, she said the legislation “includes new funding needed to avert catastrophe for schools, small businesses, restaurants, performance spaces, airline workers and others.”
“Democrats are making good on our promise to compromise with this updated bill,” she said. “We have been able to make critical additions and reduce the cost of the bill by shortening the time covered for now.”
Pelosi in recent days has said she thinks a deal can be reached with the White House on a new coronavirus relief package and that talks were continuing. But she also said that she would offer legislation if the impasse continued with the Trump administration over the size and shape of another relief package.
Alky link us up how overturning Obunghole care eliminates HIPAA
It’s been 5 hours since this lie
A devout Christian hypocrite
Speaking on Fox News this Monday, network contributor Mike Huckabee blew off the New York Times’ bombshell report regarding President Trump’s tax history, first saying that if the report comes from the Times, it lacks credibility.
But even if the report is true, Huckabee says, “So what?”
Only a devout Socialist thinks you should pay more taxes them you are legally obligated to pay. And yet strangely they don't pay any more than they have to either.
A far as being a "Christian hypocrite"? You really need the to read Matthew 22:21.
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
That means don't give Caesar one more shekel than he demands.
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
No one in the history of campaigns will have done more time on debate prep and Joe Biden. He better have the greatest performance in the history of debate with as little time as he’s been on the road and obviously preparing.
John Hayward
@Doc_0
Moderator: Gentlemen, welcome to this historic presidential debate. Before we begin, I'd like to review some basic rules for...
Biden: Calling a lid for the day. Talk to my wife if you have any questions.
I still can't believe he will actually show up.
United States - Historical Life Expectancy Data Year Life Expectancy Growth Rate
2020 78.93. ⬆️0.080%
2019 78.87. ⬆️0.080%
Biden 2016 78.86 -0.030%
Trump wrote off $26 million in "consulting fees" between 2010 and 2018 by treating a family member as a consultant and then deducting the fee as a cost of doing business.
James F'ing Daddy
"Biden: Calling a lid for the day. Talk to my wife if you have any questions."
The white snob bitch Jill, told Jake Trapper, she refuses to answer some questions.
Jake Clapper, tucked his balls up his mangina and stopped his line of questions.
2018 78.81 -0.030%
Trump took office in January 2017 after promising to eliminate the national debt during his presidency. When he took the presidential oath, the national debt stood at about $19.95 trillion. As of August of this year, the national debt was estimated to stand at about $26.73 trillion—an increase of about $6.78 trillion during Trump's tenure and a drastically different result from what the president promised.
Caliphate4vrSeptember 28, 2020 at 7:03 PM
Alky link us up how overturning Obunghole care eliminates HIPAA
It’s been 5 hours since this lie"
Mr. 92 SAT. hasn't the deep or breathe of knowledge to support and or debate his topics he brings here.
GOP Silent on Trump’s Tax Avoidance
“Republican lawmakers reacted with nearly complete silence on Monday to a New York Times investigation that revealed President Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and that he oversees a network of businesses that are riddled with debt and losing hundreds of millions of dollars,” the New York Times reports.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
McCabe mislead documentarians in an on-camera interview for HBO special when he described the FBI staff who belatedly searched Hillary's emails found on Weiner laptop as "our technical people." In fact, text messages reveal Peter Strzok & his deputy Moffa did the search
Maybe 92 SAT can explain how Strzok keeps popping up in so many critical "investigations" and what technical expertise he would have in this matter.
It's pretty obvious Obama considered him "one of the right people" but was he a one man show ???
But he was able to finish this huge investigation in just a few days.
OBAMAGATE
Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
Okay, this is hilarious! Peter Strzok's attorney is telling Judge Sullivan that @SidneyPowell1 is violating a court order by filing these additional disclosures. 1/
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1310717272894451712
Guess he doesn't like this new sunlight !!!
If he doesn't end up in jail there is no justice.
Techno Fog
@Techno_Fog
More Flynn docs:
Potential issues w/ National Security Letters against Flynn.
12/23/16 Email from Clinesmith: "No further NSLs are authorized for Razor [Flynn]"
2/2017 - 3/2017: Strzok authorizes NSLs against Flynn.
Short thread.
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1310695210100367361
There's Strzok AGAIN. Was he like a one man FBI ???
GOP Silent on Trump’s Tax Avoidance
For they very good reason that there is no story. What Trump did was legal and prudent
Jane and the other two effeminate boyz are running the 2016 failed campaign.
In response to the President demands that sleepy Joe to get a drug test.
"Vice President Biden intends to deliver his debate answers in words. If the president thinks his best case is made in urine, he can have at it. We'd expect nothing less from Donald Trump, who pissed away the chance to protect the lives of 200K Americans when he didn't make a plan to stop COVID-19."
Trump: Day 1,347 (THREAD)
-7,361,293 Cases of COVID-19 in US
-US CV19 Death Toll Rises to 209,777
-Recycles Last Month's Testing Story
-Listed Black Americans "Deterrence"
-Ending Census Defying Court Order
-Owes at Least $1.1 Billion in Loans
-Repeatedly Pushed 4 Ivanka as VP https://t.co/Hp2iFZIlUv
"Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris faced renewed scrutiny for her lack of press availability on Monday after she abruptly exited the stage after a speech in North Carolina"
Trump’s tax avoidance is a national disgrace. Don't let him blame 'the system'
THE GUARDIAN
Well, now we know why Donald Trump didn’t want the public to see his tax returns.
The New York Times paints a picture of an elaborate shell game in which losses from some of his companies are used to wipe out tax liabilities elsewhere. It is not always clear how much of his “losses” are real losses rather than creative accounting, but the Times suggests that Trump may be both living large on hundreds of millions in annual income and overseeing distressed and unprofitable businesses.
We had known some of this already. Trump had admitted publicly that he used a $916m loss reported on his 1995 tax return to avoid paying any federal income tax for years. Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen testified last year that he remembered Trump “showing him a huge check from the US Treasury some years earlier” and commenting “that he could not believe how stupid the government was for giving someone like him that much money back”. But now we have stark confirmation of the facts: Trump is a billionaire who doesn’t pay his taxes, leaving the financial responsibility for funding the government to ordinary working people. It’s a national disgrace.
Dick Morris, Kills the Story.
"Contrary to the false impression in the New York Times story, Donald Trump did not avoid taxes. He prepaid them.
In 2016 and 2017, he requested and got an extension to file his returns. As required, he made an estimated tax payment of $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017.
Then, it turned out that he did not owe that much in taxes, but rather than demand the money back, he let the IRS keep it and apply it to any future tax he owed."
I spent over 300 mornings in the Oval Office briefing the president and his senior staff. I had the privilege to manage, edit and deliver the president’s Daily Brief a summary of the most timely and critical intelligence threats to the U.S. from 2010 to 2014.
As a Deputy on the National Security Council, I spent over 1,000 hours in the White House Situation Room providing the intelligence assessments which informed critical U.S. national security policy decisions — including the raid that rendered justice for the victims of 9/11.
Since I have been eligible to vote, I have never registered with a political party. I remain an independent with a history of voting for candidates I believe in — I focused on their policy and not their party. Before this election, I have never spoken out for or against a candidate for any office.
But I can be silent no longer.
In the summer of 1976, I was 14 years old and new to Colorado, my father took command of the Western Region’s National Guard. I enrolled in the brand-new Smoky Hill High School on what was then the far eastern boundary of Aurora. As a military brat, I was accustomed to moving around and not putting down roots — but as readers will know well, Colorado has a way of pulling on your heart and it became home. It remains so as my family spends as much time as possible in our Dillon residence.
Upon graduating from Cornell University, I joined the intelligence community as an analyst during President Ronald Reagan’s increasing investments in defense — a buildup that culminated in the collapse of the Soviet Union by the end of the decade. In my nearly four decades of service, I had the privilege of serving under six presidents — four Republican and two Democrat. The constant across all of those administrations was the oath I took to “protect and defend” the Constitution against “all enemies — foreign and domestic.”
I know what it takes to succeed at the highest levels of our government — intellectual curiosity, the strength of moral purpose and a commitment to selfless service. Broadly speaking, I can personally attest that Americans were very well served by those they elected to fill critical national security positions.
There is one important exception to that statement — our current president.
I have briefed him up close — and I have seen and felt the effect of his faults on our nation’s security. Out of respect for the confidential nature of Oval Office conversations, I will not provide details. Suffice to say that the person you see presiding over COVID-19 press conferences is the same one in the privacy of his office. He has little patience for facts or data that do not comport with his personal world view. Thus, the conversations are erratic and less than fully thoughtful.
While it is natural for there to be tension between the intelligence community and senior policymakers, President Donald Trump’s decision to rely upon the word of dictators like Vladimir Putin is an unprecedented betrayal of his oath to the Constitution. Our current president bases his decisions on his instincts, and his instincts are based upon a personal value proposition — what’s in it for me?
As a Commander in Chief, President Trump comes up tragically short. He fails to protect our soldiers when bounties are placed on their heads by his friend Vladimir. And not only does he not respect their service, but President Trump also belittles combat heroes who were taken as prisoners of war.
As a nation, we were fortunate that a true crisis did not occur during his first three years in office.
Then 2020 happened. This has been an unprecedented year for which many of us were not prepared. In moments of crisis, the American people demand — and deserve — a leader who will put the country first. Full stop. Because the reality and the science of COVID-19 conflicted with his personal views, President Trump knowingly downplayed the pandemic.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/25/donald-trump-fails-us-national-security-interests/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0iTtWwW0nxtJDaFI7ExLvArEidKLTn95J17uTHyEQASIABIEfxA-ZlKlo
Robert Cardillo has held numerous leadership positions in his distinguished 35 years of service in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). Most recently, he served as the sixth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from October 2014 until February 2019, where he led the Agency’s efforts to modernize and grow its global geospatial intelligence mission. Previously, from 2010 to 2014, Mr. Cardillo served as the first deputy director for intelligence integration at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), where he operationalized and implemented the DNI’s vision to fully integrate the IC. In this position, Mr. Cardillo managed, edited, and delivered over 1,400 President’s Daily Briefs.
In 2010, Mr. Cardillo served as the deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where he managed a 20,000-person global enterprise to deliver intelligence advantages to the U.S. military. In addition, from 2006 to 2010, he served as the deputy director for analysis at DIA. In the summer of 2009, Mr. Cardillo served as the acting director for intelligence (J2), a first for a civilian, in support of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Before joining DIA, Mr. Cardillo led analysis and production as well as source operations and management at the NGA from 2002-2006. Mr. Cardillo began his career with DIA in 1983 as an imagery analyst. Mr. Cardillo earned a B.A. in government from Cornell University and an M.A. in national security studies from Georgetown University. His awards include two Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medals, the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award, two Presidential Ranks of Distinguished Executive, the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
Trump will, of course, spin all of this as simply sound business practice. He has previously said that tax avoidance makes him “smart”, and that he is simply taking advantage of perfectly legal and legitimate loopholes. Indeed, some Americans might be inclined to see it the same way. Everyone gets to pay as little in tax as they can get away with under the law, if Trump has found a way to pay nothing, that’s a problem with the system rather than with him.
There are a few reasons why we shouldn’t dismiss it like this, though.
First, the New York Times not only showed that Trump didn’t pay taxes, but it also revealed that some of the methods he used may have bordered on the criminal. The usual distinction made between “tax avoidance” (legal) and “tax evasion” (illegal) is murky in Trump’s case, and the Times reports that the IRS has been looking into his questionable refund and the New York attorney general has been investigating whether he inflated land appraisals to increase his deductions. In his returns, there are allegedly questionable “consulting” fees that seem to have been paid to his children and then claimed as business expenses, thus reducing his liability. Much of Trump’s lavish lifestyle is treated as a business expense. This is easy to claim, since much of his “business” consists of “being Donald Trump”. So he wrote off $70,000 of hairstyling as a business expense. If he is selling a brand, and the brand is “hedonistic self-indulgence”, then, as the Times put it, “everything that feeds the image … can be written off.”
A particularly egregious instance of bending the law stands out. In 1996, Trump bought a 50,000 sq ft historic mansion in Westchester county, which is surrounded by nature preserves. Trump threatened to develop the property and the people in surrounding towns objected, so instead he agreed not to develop it in exchange for a “$21.1m charitable tax deduction” for land preservation. Trump then classified the mansion as an investment rather than a residence so that he could reduce his property taxes, even though it appears the Trump family did indeed live in it.
So it may not just be that Trump is a businessman with unusually shrewd accountants. He might be exactly what he looks like: a tax cheat. The New York Times reports that most similarly wealthy people pay far more than Trump in taxes. Hell, I pay far more than Trump in taxes, and I edit a tiny print magazine. This could be more a case of fraud than cleverness, even if the law has not yet caught up with Trump.
It’s true that Trump benefited from a system that rewards those who can afford the most creative accountants. We obviously won’t fix the problem by encouraging Donald Trump to feel ashamed of himself, or even by voting him out of office. But Trump is not a mere passive beneficiary of a broken set of rules. The billionaires don’t just exploit the loopholes. They also make them through pushing for ever-expanding exemptions from the tax burden they would otherwise pay. In Trump’s case, it is true in the most literal sense that he made the rules he benefits from. Trump’s major legislative initiative was a whole new tax cut tilted toward giving wealthy people like himself even more favorable treatment. It’s one thing to pay only your legal minimum but understand that the system is unfair. It’s quite another to be actively trying to make that system more grotesquely unequal.
Americans should be disgusted that Trump paid sums ranging from $750 to nothing in federal income taxes. Both his own behavior and the system that made it possible are outrageous. After all, when billionaires don’t pay their taxes, the rest of us have to cover the gaps. When you look at your own tax bill, understand that it could be lower if super-wealthy people like Trump weren’t trying to shift the burden onto everyone else. You paid for Trump’s $73m tax refund and he’s laughing all the way to the bank.
The Times investigation shows us both a system that is corrupted and the way the president has made every sketchy maneuver possible to avoid contributing to the public good. Anyone who believes the rich should pay their fair share should realize that the situation will only grow worse so long as Trump holds power.
Has Trump blamed President Obama for Trump's own tax evasion yet?
Before the debate tomorrow
I have never registered with a political party. I remain an independent with a history of voting for candidates I believe in — I focused on their policy and not their party. Before this election, I have never spoken out for or against a candidate for any office.
But I can be silent no longer.
From the back seat of a stretch limousine heading to meet the first contestants for his new TV show “The Apprentice,” Donald J. Trump bragged that he was a billionaire who had overcome financial hardship.
“I used my brain, I used my negotiating skills and I worked it all out,” he told viewers. “Now, my company is bigger than it ever was and stronger than it ever was.”
It was all a hoax.
From the back seat of a stretch limousine heading to meet the first contestants for his new TV show “The Apprentice,” Donald J. Trump bragged that he was a billionaire who had overcome financial hardship.
“I used my brain, I used my negotiating skills and I worked it all out,” he told viewers. “Now, my company is bigger than it ever was and stronger than it ever was.”
It was all a hoax.
Months after that inaugural episode in January 2004, Mr. Trump filed his individual tax return reporting $89.9 million in net losses from his core businesses for the prior year. The red ink spilled from everywhere, even as American television audiences saw him as a savvy business mogul with the Midas touch.
Twelve years later, that image of the self-made, self-saved mogul, beamed into the national consciousness, would help fuel Mr. Trump’s improbable election to the White House.
But while the story of “The Apprentice” is by now well known, the president’s tax returns reveal another grand twist that has never been truly told — how the popularity of that fictional alter ego rescued him, providing a financial lifeline to reinvent himself yet again. And then how, in an echo of the boom-and-bust cycle that has defined his business career, he led himself toward the financial shoals he must navigate today.
Mr. Trump’s genius, it turned out, wasn’t running a company. It was making himself famous — Trump-scale famous — and monetizing that fame.
Tax Records Reveal How Fame Gave Trump a $427 Million Lifeline https://nyti.ms/3j7AI0e
I have briefed him up close — and I have seen and felt the effect of his faults on our nation’s security. Out of respect for the confidential nature of Oval Office conversations, I will not provide details. Suffice to say that the person you see presiding over COVID-19 press conferences is the same one in the privacy of his office. He has little patience for facts or data that do not comport with his personal world view. Thus, the conversations are erratic and less than fully thoughtful.
I have known people like this. There is no way that he should be the one
"I predict that as soon as Trump utterly fails to steal a second term, and he goes down in flames in the mother of all landslide defeats after the election, his entire criminal enterprise will crumble like a sand castle at high tide.
Trump is leveraged to the hilt. He's NEVER been a competent businessman; he's just been a very lucky grifter, swindler, cheat and conman. But it's all coming to an ignominious end. Trump is OWNED by Vladimir Putin and his cabal of Russian mobsters and plutocrats, who have been using Trump's real estate holdings to launder billions of dirty rubles for over twenty years.
Trump has also managed to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars by defrauding banks, and the notes are soon coming due. Now we find that Trump may be facing massive tax fraud charges, and $100 Millon in penalties.
And there will be no sugar daddy to pull his bacon out of the fire this time.
This is why no low-down, dirty tricks, swindles, fraud, or electoral sabotage are beneath him, in his desperate zeal to steal another term in the White House. Not only is he teetering at the brink of total financial collapse; he's also going to be facing a snow-capped mountain of criminal indictments, the minute he is frog-marched out of the White House bunker on January 20. The whole world will be witnessing (and raucously celebrating) the most epic collapse and implosion in the History of American politics soon.
And THAT is the ONLY thing Trump has ever well and truly earned."
Stephen Sheriff
Anyone who believes the rich should pay their fair share should realize that the situation will only grow worse so long as Trump holds power.
and to think that Slow Joe only had nearly half a fucking century to fix this.
to the TDS afflicted it's a travesty that Trump fully complied with US tax law.
gosh, what other US laws will Trump obey that will send the left around the fucking bend?
LOL.
early half a fucking century to fix this.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! While you had the same amount of time to grow a brain and failed!!!!!!! BTW.....latest Pa poll biden 54 trump 45....gee as goes PA so does trumps fat obese losing ass!!!!!!!
rrb
Kiss my ass
Former vice president Joe Biden leads President Trump in the contested battleground of Pennsylvania, buoyed by strong support in the Philadelphia suburbs and his competitiveness in the state’s western counties that were a Trump stronghold in 2016, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Biden’s support stands at 54 percent to Trump’s 45 percent among the Keystone State’s likely voters and 54 percent to 44 percent among its registered voters. Biden’s current edge among likely voters appears sizable but is not definitive, given the five-point margin of error that applies to each candidate’s support. Other polls of Pennsylvania this month have found Biden leading Trump by an average of eight points.
With five weeks until Election Day, the poll finds that 53 percent of Pennsylvania’s registered voters approve of Trump’s management of the economy, but 57 percent disapprove of his handling of the coronavirus outbreak, and that issue appears to sway more voters than does the economy. Trump’s overall approval rating in the state among registered voters is 43 percent positive and 55 percent negative, with 49 percent saying they disapprove “strongly.”
Pennsylvania is the most populous of three Rust Belt states that proved decisive in the 2016 election. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania as well as Wisconsin and Michigan by less than one percentage point each. All three states had voted for Democratic presidential nominees in the previous six elections before shifting to Trump.
Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes make it the most valuable of the three and the Trump and Biden campaigns have focused their resources accordingly in an effort to tip the state in their candidate’s direction. The candidates, too, have repeatedly campaigned in person in the state, which was home to Biden’s headquarters before the pandemic forced it closed.
The Post-ABC poll suggests Biden is challenging Trump for support among key groups and areas that drove the president’s 2016 win, including White voters without four-year college degrees, who account for about half of Pennsylvania’s electorate. In recent weeks, Biden has pressed the notion that as a Scranton native he has more affinity for blue collar voters than Trump, who was born and raised in wealthy circumstances in New York. Trump has countered that he is their biggest defender.
Trump leads Biden by 17 points among this group in the poll, although Trump won them by more than 30 points both nationally and in Pennsylvania four years ago. Biden also boasts a 23-point lead among White college graduates and a 64-point lead among non-White voters, similar to or larger than Clinton’s advantages with these two groups of voters four years ago.
The fact that Trump paid less in taxes than tens of millions of hard-working Americans struggling to make ends meet is an outrage.
The truthers shrugged their heads off and lick the President's balls.
If Trump wasn't the President, he wouldn't get a top security clearances because of his debts to foreign nations!
fuck off alky, you drunken sot...
Read that closely. Trump PAID, as in transferred to the US Treasury, $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017. Note also that most of the overpayment was rolled forward, not refunded. The $750 figure is an ADDITIONAL $750.
Thus every single story saying he paid $750 is a lie.
https://twitter.com/alexthechick/status/1310558049858400256
Thus every single story saying he paid $750 is A LIE.
A LIE.
A LIE.
A LIE.
Let me clear my throat (ahhhheemmm)
Dear Trump supporters,
Trump’s taxes have finally been leaked. And wouldn’t you know it, he’s a total fake. He’s not a billionaire. He’s 421 million dollars in debt and is about to get foreclosed on. I pay more taxes than Donald Trump and so do you. Because he’s losing so much money, he’s paid zero in federal taxes 10 of the last 15 years. Two of the years he did pay it was less than 1,000 bucks. He’s been living off credit and hot air. It was all a scam. Just like his college, just like is charity, and just like his political career.
You were so easy for him to scam. He knew you’d be impressed with of all of his boasting. He knew you’d never spot the difference. He knew he’d win you over by taking advantage of your ignorance, your fears, your insecurity, your racism and your ethnocentrism. You were like shooting fish in a barrel for him. He’s convinced you the real news is fake, and the fake news is real. He has you cheering for authoritarianism over democracy. He has you scared and fearful of your neighbors but not of COVID-19. He actually convinced you that he is a Christian. As a former top aide to Vice President Pence just revealed, he thinks you are “disgusting”.
He’s not just a fraud, he’s a criminal. He’s everything he convinced you that Hillary Clinton was four years ago. He’s the one who deserves to be in prison and soon he likely will be. He’s not a Republican and he’s not a Democrat. He’s not a conservative and he’s not a liberal. He’s human trash looking for suckers to take advantage of. And my goodness, did he ever find a willing group of suckers.
You should be ashamed of yourself. I know people who voted for him in 2016 and quickly realized they made a mistake. But not you, not you. You dug in. You doubled down. You embraced Russian style propaganda over the American free press. You embraced conspiracy theories over science and reality. He’s lied to you over 22,000 times since taking office and you never batted an eye. He’s made a fool of this nation.
I imagine Trump and his propaganda news outlets will attempt continue the scam, at least for another six weeks. I also imagine some of you, through some unimaginable mental gymnastics, will continue to allow yourself to get scammed. But Trump is going down on November 3 and the American justice system will come after him and his cronies.
I may be nice to you on the street but do know that you absolutely let this country down. You allowed our republic to get damaged in ways never seen. In the process you exposed some incredibly ugly things about yourself I just can't forget.
Thanks for reading!
And God Bless or whatever you say to sleep at night.
By my friend Lauren Catherine
Lolololol lolololol
Your nuts
you're the one reposting and reposting and reposting someone else's TDS-fueled fakebook rants, and i'm nuts.
ok, captain SAT 92.
LOL.
https://twitter.com/alexthechick/status/1
MORE TWITTER BULLSHIT THAT THE MORONIC RAT THINKS IS TRUE.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Sad the levels of stupidity you are capable of.....BTW.....when I got my clearance....I had to provide every credit card number, bank loan and debt I owed.....At my annual briefing it was always emphasized that if you knew anyone with money problems, drug, drinking issues etc, you were required to report it to security !! And trump with his kids and son in law all have massive debt and you don't care.....what a fool you have become!!!!
Your a troll, running wild on Twitter and finding bullshit from non credible sources and insulting, which is against the Coldheartedtruth regulations!
Anyone here think Ivanka getting 800k as a consultant was legit??????? Her talent of looking like a pretty princess is just as telling as trumps taxes.....a fraud!!!!!!
That would be president Ivanka Trump in about 10 years.
mostly (LOL) peaceful
A driver accused of attempted murder for driving a car into a crowd of Trump supporters in California and severely injuring two people has been revealed to be a major Black Lives Matter organizer.
Tatiana "Tia" Rita Turner, 40 of Long Beach, was taken into police custody and charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon following the incident on Saturday when she reportedly plowed her white sedan through a declared riot of 250 demonstrators in Yorba Linda, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Bail has been set an $1 million dollars.
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-woman-who-plowed-her-car-into-trump-supporters-is-a-major-blm-organizer
and finding bullshit from non credible sources
so the NY Times is a non-credible source?
LOL, ok.
thanks for confirming that for us alky.
Per the NYT own story, Trump actually paid to the US Treasury $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017.
gosh, that seems to me to be a lot more than $750.
LOL.
the alky never tires of being caught in a lie.
post another stolen fakebook rant alky.
LOL.
then go eat your cream of wheat and ring the nurse call button for a 'depends' change.
Anyone here think Ivanka getting 800k as a consultant was legit???????
well BWAA, if the IRS says it's legit, it's legit.
that's how it works genius.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! God you need help!!!! They also allowed his haircuts.....do you deduct haircuts on your taxes?????? As for Ivanka.......how do you know the IRS allowed it????? You asshole!!!!! He is under audit .....lololol
and the theft begins -
The New York City Board of Elections issued an alert Monday night after voters complained they received mail-in ballots for November's election containing incorrect names, voter IDs and return labels.
Why it matters: Votes risk being voided if the names and required signatures do not match.
https://www.axios.com/new-york-city-voters-report-mail-in-ballot-errors-2fece58a-6384-40d0-97aa-03e8cd67f4fa.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs
If you're the star of a weekly tv show, the haircuts coyld be a legit expense. It's a valid debate to have with the irs.
LOL -
The old Gray Lady ain't what she used to be, but she can still manage to conjure a story out of nothing. Using stolen tax returns and mirrors, the New York Times manufactured a scandal that will allow Chris Wallace to ask President Donald John Trump about his taxes at tomorrow's debate instead of asking Biden why he and Obama used the FBI to spy on President Trump.
Like any modern journalist, Wallace is relieved that he will not have to ask a substantive question...
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/09/media-exploits-tax-ignorance.html
a weekly tv show, the haircuts coyld be a legit expense
The ball less wonder makes another claim without a shred of proof......BWWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! You enjoy your debate with the IRS.......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
And rat....your stupidity continues unabated.....>BWAAAAAAAAAA!!! Can't provide anything but trumps opinion not fact!!!!!
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/09/media-exploits-tax-ignorance.html
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Don is a retire boeing engineer who used to post nothing but drivel on the boeing yahoo board....He was always complaining how his union was mis treated by boeing and was a laughingstock to the other posters.....Wondered what happened to him an looks like he got dumber than you rat......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!! Great find you dumb fucker....you and donnie deserve each other.....idiots!!!!
Wrong. My proof is an article in Forbes by a tax accountant, as well as my own education and experience in accounting.
intact, as well as my own education and experience in accounting.
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Your experience....,.LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/...
May 31, 2019 · Unfortunately, the IRS views haircuts as a personal expense item and doesn't allow a deduction.
Yep.....you and your experience should be in jail!!!!!!!
IT GETS A LOT MORE INTERESTING ON THE NEXT THREAD UP
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