He would have used the 5th amendment rights. He maybe the final nail in the Insurrection act on January 6th.
The Jan. 6 select committee plans to move forward with contempt proceedings against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for his refusal to comply with the panel's subpoena.
Why it matters: The committee has used the threat of contempt — and the associated financial and reputational costs — to try to ensure evasive witnesses sit for their depositions.
It doesn't matter. This is a post about why the democrats are the party of the rich, and are pulling hard to give the Top 1% richest among us a huge $35,000.00 SALT deduction.
Fuck off alky. Indy voter was right. You ARE a fucking moron.
The so-called Great Resignation lost some steam in October, with the total number of workers leaving their jobs either due to dissatisfaction or better opportunities elsewhere declined, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
Job quitters declined by 4.7%, falling to 4.16 million from 4.36 million, the department said in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The rate as a share of the workforce fell from 3% to 2.8%.
The JOLTS report is closely watched at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere for signs of labor market tightness.
While the quits rate dropped, the level of job openings accelerated to just below its all-time high. That number totaled 11.03 million, an increase of 4.1% as the rate rose to 6.9% from 6.7%.
The number of openings exceeded those looking for jobs by 3.6 million in October. JOLTS data runs a month behind the more closely followed nonfarm payrolls report, which showed a gain of 546,000 for the month.
The coronavirus pandemic has seen quits surge to what had been record highs. Even with October’s decline, the level is still 24% above where it was a year ago.
Economists generally see the exodus as greater opportunity in the pandemic-era jobs market spurred by many workers still reluctant to come off the sidelines either because of child-care issues or health concerns.
Through November, the labor force was still about 2.4 million smaller than what it had been in February 2020. The total employment level was more than 3.5 million down.
In October, total hires edged lower from their level in the previous month, while separations also were down.
This is the most important issue in the BBB system...
Economists generally see the exodus as greater opportunity in the pandemic-era jobs market spurred by many workers still reluctant to come off the sidelines either because of child-care issues or health concerns.
It would people to go back to work! They could afford child care when they go back to work!
Roger, explain to us your theory of "Pent Up Demand"?
Given what Dennis posted: "71% of Americans have a savings account. Most Americans (22%) have$1,000 to$5,000 in savings. 56% of Americans have$5,000 or less in savings,while a third have$1,000 or less."
Here are 10 of the lesser-known provisions in the Build Back Better bill.
$900 tax credit for purchasing an e-bike
Taxpayers would be allowed to claim a tax credit for purchasing an e-bike before 2026, if the bill passes. It's one of many provisions in the spending package aimed at combating the climate crisis.
The credit would be equal to 30% of the purchase cost, up to $900. It would gradually phase out for higher-income households, starting at $75,000 of income for individuals.
The bill would also allow companies to provide tax-free commuting benefits for employees using a bike, e-bike or scooter to get to work.
$35 cap on insulin costs
Among the Build Back Better bill's many drug price provisions is one that would set a $35 monthly cap on insulin for Medicare beneficiaries and those with private insurance. The provision would take effect in 2023.
Medicare Part D plans would not be able to charge more than $35 a month for the insulin products they cover in 2023 and 2024, and for all insulin starting in 2025, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the bill. Private group or individual plans would have to cover one of each dosage form (either vial or pen) and one of each type (rapid-acting, short-acting, intermediate-acting and long-acting) for no more than $35.
Her insulin is too expensive ... so she's been forced to cut doses 02:28
Millions of Americans could save money under the provision, Kaiser said.
The high cost of insulin has been a major concern for diabetic Americans, forcing some to ration their doses -- with sometimes fatal consequences.
This has prompted bipartisan efforts to address insulin's affordability. Biden highlighted the problem in a recent speech about the bill's drug provisions, noting that the nearly 100-year-old medication costs less than $10 to manufacture but is priced at about $375 for a month's supply, on average, and as high as $1,000 a month for those who need to take more insulin.
Advocates, however, are concerned that the uninsured would not benefit from the cap and remain at risk.
12 months of Medicaid coverage for new moms
The legislation would require all states to cover pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, for 12 months postpartum. The provision is considered key to addressing the nation's maternal mortality crisis, which disproportionately affects women of color.
About 720,000 new mothers in a given year would get 12 months of coverage, roughly double the number currently insured postpartum through Medicaid, according to a recent Department of Health and Human Services report.
The BBB contains a huge giveaway to upper income taxpayers in high tax blue states by restoring the full deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT) from the adjusted gross income of federal tax filers. This means that federal taxpayers in lower tax red states are subsidizing the tax and spend policies of California, New York and other high tax/high spend states. It is a perverse incentive for those states to spend more and more money -- the very policies that are driving people to flee to more sensible jurisdictions like Florida and Texas.
Moreover, Biden’s handlers and Congressional Democrats are playing games with Congressional Budget Office calculations of the fiscal impact of the bill. Richard Baehr emails:
The proposed SALT changes in BBB are an example of DC sleight of hand. The Trump tax cuts expire at the end of 2025. The BBB proposal restores an $80,000 limit for SALT in any year for 9 years.
What that does is it gives a tax break to wealthy people in a few states through 2025, and keeps it going after that. But because of the Trump bill expiring in 2025, the presumption for CBO scoring is that SALT is unlimited after 2025. As a result, the Dems BBB proposal records a tax savings after 2025 (the difference between unlimited SALT deduction and 80,000 limit) that matches the cost for 2022 to 2025. So that enables Biden to claim that “it costs nothing.”
Medicaid and CHIP cover more than 42% of births nationwide. Currently, states must provide eligible, low-income women with 60 days of postpartum coverage, though some states already offer extended benefits. Some 45% of women become uninsured at the end of the two months, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The American Rescue Plan, which passed earlier this year, created a temporary option for states to provide 12 months of postpartum coverage and receive federal matching funds, starting in April 2022. About half of states have passed legislation or taken other steps to take advantage of this provision, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The bill also includes $50 million to award grants to establish or expand programs to grow and diversify the doula workforce. Doulas provide nonclinical care to pregnant and postpartum individuals. The funding could help 30,000 doulas receive training over a 10-year period, according to The Century Foundation.
Extra assistance for the jobless to buy health insurance
The American Rescue Plan provides those who receive at least one week of jobless benefits in 2021 with generous federal subsides so they can select Affordable Care Act policies with monthly premiums as little as $0 and with low out-of-pocket requirements.
The Build Back Better bill would extend this measure through 2022.
Tax credits for local news outlets
Companies that employ local journalists would receive a new payroll tax credit if the bill is passed. The credit amount would be equal to 50% of paid wages during the first year and 30% of wages during the next four years. The tax credit would expire after 2025.
The tax relief would come as the United States faces a decline in local news outlets. Over the past 15 years, the country has lost 2,100 newspapers, leaving at least 1,800 communities that had a local news outlet in 2004 without any at the beginning of 2020, according to a report from researchers at the University of North Carolina.
News outlets with more than 1,500 employees would be excluded from the tax credit.
College completion grants
There is $500 million in the bill to fund programs that help low-income college students, particularly those at community colleges, finish their degrees. The money may be invested in financial aid grants awarded to students, as well as wraparound services provided by colleges like mentoring, child care and mental health resources.
Millions of students currently leave school before finishing, leaving them to pay tuition and student loan bills without reaping the benefits of a degree. Nearly 1 in 7 adults have taken some college courses but have not completed a degree, and about 40% of first-time, full-time students don't finish a bachelor's degree within six years.
Like other provisions in the bill, the money set aside for college completion grants is far smaller than Biden's initial proposal, which called for a $62 billion investment. The President also wanted to make two years of community college free, but that plan was dropped during negotiations in Congress.
But the bill still includes a measure to increase the maximum Pell grant by $550. The Pell grant program awards financial aid to undergraduate students with exceptional financial need. The bill would also make undocumented students brought to the US as children, who are known as Dreamers, eligible for the grant.
Public housing repairs
The bill would provide $65 billion to address the backlog of repairs needed at deteriorating public housing buildings. It's a substantial investment that could improve up to 1 million affordable homes for low-income people, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
The bill also includes $25 billion for the construction, purchase or rehabilitation of affordable homes and another $24 billion to expand housing vouchers that help low-income families buy or rent privately owned housing.
Salmon conservation
The bill would invest $1 billion to support conservation projects for Pacific salmon and steelhead populations and their habitats, including projects that increase climate resilience.
The money would flow through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal agency that already has a Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund aimed at reversing the decline of salmon and steelhead, as well as stimulating local economies in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.
National parks and forests preservation
There are billions of dollars in the bill for preserving public lands.
Funds would target the conservation, protection and resiliency of lands and resources administered by the National Park Service, the National Forest System and the Bureau of Land Management.
Several buckets of money are directed at wildfire management efforts, including $10 billion for hazardous fuels reduction projects. Those usually involve removing vegetation so that if a wildfire burns, it is less severe.
Funds for lower-income families to buy food over the summer
The bill would provide the families of 29 million kids with $65 per child each month to purchase food during the summers of 2023 and 2024.
Children who receive free or reduced-price meals during the school year would be eligible for the summer benefit.
The measure is modeled in part on the Pandemic-EBT program that was created at the start of the coronavirus outbreak to replace meals missed when schools were closed.
The Pandemic-EBT, which gave families roughly $375 per child during this past summer, remains in effect for the summer of 2022.
Even before the pandemic, feeding children over the summer was a challenge, with transportation, scheduling and weather proving to be barriers, experts said. Hunger is linked to summer learning loss, as well as a higher likelihood of illnesses and emotional stress.
This part of it is the most important issue to me.
National parks and forests preservation
There are billions of dollars in the bill for preserving public lands.
Funds would target the conservation, protection and resiliency of lands and resources administered by the National Park Service, the National Forest System and the Bureau of Land Management.
Several buckets of money are directed at wildfire management efforts, including $10 billion for hazardous fuels reduction projects. Those usually involve removing vegetation so that if a wildfire burns, it is less severe.
It would address the problem with forest fires and prevent flooding and again remind people, why Teddy Roosevelt is on Mount Rushmore in my hometown area.
Several buckets of money are directed at wildfire management efforts, including $10 billion for hazardous fuels reduction projects. Those usually involve removing vegetation so that if a wildfire burns, it is less severe.
So the rest of the country has to bail out California AGAIN, because of their stupid policies
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The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that once provoked a deadly weekend of violence by good people on both sides no more Jews in Charlottesville will be melted down and turned into a new piece of public artwork, following a vote by city lawmakers early Tuesday morning.
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Child poverty is down because of the monthly payments that began in July from the child tax credits. It's a nice panacea but it's not sustainable. What happens when they're ended...like right after the next election perhaps.
As usual, Roger reads only the top line of an economics story and comments about it without having and actual facts.
Biden's Build Back Better Act Will Likely Cost Twice as Much as the CBO Projects. Here's Why.If all the Build Back Better plan's proposals were made permanent, the final price tag would be $4.8 trillion and the bill would add about $2.8 trillion to the deficit.
President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act is likely to end up costing taxpayers about double what the official price tag suggests, and much of that hidden cost will end up being added to the national debt.
That's the conclusion from two independent analyses of the proposal released in recent weeks. Both rely on a key assumption that did not figure into the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) analysis of the bill: that the Build Back Better plan's various policies will be in place for at least the next 10 years.
"The Build Back Better Act relies on a number of arbitrary sunsets and expirations to lower the official cost of the bill," explains the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonprofit that advocates for balanced budgets. The group's newly updated analysis of the Build Back Better plan finds that the package will cost an estimated $4.8 trillion over 10 years if all provisions are made permanent—double the price tag applied by the CBO last month.
As Reason has repeatedly pointed out, several key parts of the bill are designed to game the CBO's method for scoring the cost of legislation by setting arbitrary expiration dates even though lawmakers obviously intend for those policies to be permanent fixtures. Probably the best example is the expanded child tax credit, which would expire after just a single year. Other parts of the bill, including the universal pre-K funding and new subsidies for child care, would expire after six years. Expanded subsidies through the Affordable Care Act would last until 2025.
With all those gimmicks in place, the CBO assessment of the bill projects that it will cost about $1.8 trillion and add about $367 billion to the deficit over the next decade.
If all the Build Back Better plan's proposals were made permanent, however, the final price tag would be $4.8 trillion, and the bill would add about $2.8 trillion to the deficit, according to the CRFB.
"To be sure, lawmakers may choose not to extend some or all of these provisions," the CRFB analysis states. "However, if they do, they would need to more than double current offsets in order for the bill and the extensions to be paid for. The alternative would be a substantial increase in the debt."
The CRFB's projections closely match a similar analysis of the bill conducted in November by the Wharton Budget Model, a number-crunching project housed at the University of Pennsylvania. Making the temporary provisions of the BBB plan permanent, the Wharton analysis found, would raise the overall cost of the package to about $4.6 trillion.
The Wharton analysis also provides a useful illustration of why policy makers engage in this sort of budget gimmickry to pass big spending bills—and, to be sure, this is a game that both Republicans and Democrats are adept at playing.
As currently written—with all those early expiration dates and temporary provisions—the Wharton Budget Model projects that the BBB proposal would add about $274 billion to the deficit over the next decade. It would also result in a 0.2 percent reduction in GDP (relative to expected GDP growth in a reality where the bill does not pass).
Those figures change dramatically when the full scope of the spending package is revealed. If all provisions in the BBB plan are made permanent, "federal debt increase by 24.4 percent and GDP would fall by 2.9 percent relative to current law." The decline in GDP is due to the fact that higher levels of debt will likely sap future economic growth, because the government will have to pay larger sums of money—extracted via taxes from productive parts of the economy—to service the debt.
In short, by hiding the true cost of the Build Back Better plan's provisions over the long term, Congress is also able to hide the long-term economic impact of hiking government spending by trillions of dollars.
The Biden administration's pitch to Americans—and to key holdouts in Congress like Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.)—has been that the BBB plan won't add to the deficit and that it will boost the economy. It's becoming clear that neither is true, no matter how hard Congress tries to hide the true cost of the legislation.
Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling again!
Thirty trillion in debt and yo we're back again Still printing lots of money, telling all of your friends I told you this would happen but you were a doubting Thomas Thirty is the last trillion I'll ever need—I swear, I promise
Printing and spending for businesses we see hurting So much theater stimulus they call me Pee-wee Herman It's like we're spending junkies just getting the itch Can I have another trillion? I promised my district a bridge
It was a crisis before, we took the lesson to heart By spending so much money now we're printing pressing the chart Spending billions and billions on sweet military gear Did any wind up with the enemy? What do you want to hear?
Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling again!
Back up in the Fed and we're still super stoked Somehow printing lots of money while we're working remote Still dropping IOUs in every fund yes sir Hamilton started this place—that's why it only goes "BURR!!!"
Prices are rising at every venue it's bad And for sure that dollar menu looks especially sad Gas prices are rising, it's getting hard for the competent It costs an arm and a leg—where am I? The Saudi consulate?
Leaving IOUs you should give it a try son M1 used to sink your battleship, now it's what you use to buy one Just say the magic word, I'll set the printer abuzz Charmin might run out of paper son, but guess who never does?
Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling again!
Now if you examine the chart and you look close again We borrow more than 40 cents of every dollar we spend Nondiscretionary spending is at terrible paces! Do you have a response? Yes! You're racist!!!!lolololololololololol
We should spend most on children! We should spend most on patients! Okay—hear me out—why don't we spend most on interest payments? We're playing with fire we know the end of this story! How do you classify your incompetence? Transitory
Objects in the mirror are closer than they seem And to a man with a printer each problem looks like a ream But when I'm looking at the folks that we've elected to lead I'm guessing that it won't be long till we're back saying we need to
Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling! Raise the debt ceiling again!
This executive order addressing climate change will dramatically improve the world. But you will insult me
Anna Phillips December 08 at 10:00 AM PST WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will announce Wednesday it aims to buy its way to a cleaner, cooler planet, spending billions to create a federal fleet of electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings and change how the government buys electricity. An executive order President Biden will sign later Wednesday leverages Washington’s buying power to cut the government’s carbon emissions 65 percent by the end of the decade. It lays out goals that would put the federal government on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050 and would add at least 10 gigawatts’ worth of clean electricity to the grid. Under the new approach, federal operations would run entirely on carbon-free electricity by 2030. By 2035, the government would stop buying gas-powered vehicles, switching to zero-emission heavy-duty trucks and cars. A decade after that, most of the buildings owned or leased by the government would no longer contribute to the carbon pollution that’s warming the planet. The order also instructs the government to launch a “buy clean” initiative, prioritizing products produced and transported with low greenhouse gas emissions. Sarah Bloom Raskin, a Duke University law professor who served as treasury deputy secretary under President Barack Obama, said in a recent interview that the administration’s push to reduce its carbon footprint could ripple across the economy. “The government is a significant driver of demand,” she said, adding that federal procurement officers can “send a signal” even without adopting new regulations or passing legislation.
By every objective measure, BBB is stupid on stilts. It pours AT LEAST $4.8 TRILLION into the gaping maw of government, and what trickles out of the ass attached to that gaping maw is pennies on each dollar.
Biden is desperate to be a modern day FDR. That's ALL this is really all about.
"Biden is desperate to be a modern day FDR. That's ALL this is really all about."
He is, the courts continue to bitch slap Biden like they did the Racist Coward FOR.
Their spending is getting to look alike too.
IF, Roger could actually engauge in a Debate, he would tell us how he plans to take enough wealth from the earners to give to the takers , to make the takers as wealthy as the earners.
He would tell us how shares in stocks are unaffected by lowering or stopping dividend payout to rmthe risk takers in the investment class.
This executive order addressing climate change will dramatically improve the world.
The only thing it will dramatically improve is the fortunes of the con artists who get paid for peddling the bullshit.
Under the new approach, federal operations would run entirely on carbon-free electricity by 2030.
Ok fine. Start by ripping out all the AC units in fed offices and have them open a fucking window. But we know that could NEVER happen because the fucking pansies would wilt and cry.
The reason why I post this is because I look at both sides and even more,because I know just enough about economic issues to understnd them. but I have to educated myself about this particular issue..
Because experts on all sides look at it differently and come to different conclusions. I try to find non partisan information. But you don't believe CNN etc. If you don't learn about history, you are easily manipulated.
I generally support regulated capitalist, but there are many times when the experts were wrong about the outcome.
Regulations on pollution control on cars have eliminated smog alerts.
When I moved here in 86, we had stage four warnings. You didn't want go outside because the air was stinky and even made your car dirty..Most Republicans opposed smog regulations even though Nixon created the Epa.
One of the reasons I support Sleepy Joe Biden on climate change programs.
You keep saying that I have been gaslighted by the media, but you don't understand how it actually works on our minds. You still believe the big lie.
Fuck off alky. Indy voter was right. You ARE a fucking moron.
He managed the Clinton administration recovery plan that included 21 million jobs
The Democrats’ One Chance to Cut Child Poverty in HalfThe Biden administration has a plan that is estimated to cut child poverty in half. And it’s already in place.
It’s called the Child Tax Credit.
Here’s how it works. Parents of children aged 6 and younger across the country are receiving direct payments of up to $300 per month per child, or $3,600 per year per child. The payments drop to $250 a month for children between the ages of 6 and 17, and phase out for families with higher incomes.
It’s an historic expansion of the original credit that’s already helping millions of working families.
The direct payments are coming because the Child Tax Credit is a refundable tax credit. Normal, non-refundable tax credits simply cut your taxes. But a refundable tax credit, like the Child Tax Credit, helps you even if you don’t earn enough for it to reduce your taxes — so it’s a direct payment to you.
Say you owe $3,000 in taxes. A non-refundable tax credit of $3,600 won’t be worth $3,600 to you. It would just reduce your taxes to zero. So you wouldn’t get the full benefit. And if you don’t owe any taxes to begin with, a non-refundable tax credit wouldn’t do you any good at all since you can’t reduce your taxes to less than zero dollars.
But a refundable tax credit would help you. You’d get the money no matter what, the full $3,600. That’s why this expansion is such a big deal: it ensures that the money gets to lower-income families.
The early results show that this policy is a game-changer. Over 3 million more households with children now report having enough to eat after just the first two payments. More report being able to make rent, stay in their homes, and afford basic necessities. And 3 million children have been lifted out of poverty.
It’s reduced racial disparities, as well. Hunger has fallen by one-third among Latinx families and by one-quarter among Black families.
It bears repeating that if the credit is made permanent, and reaches everyone it should, it could cut child poverty in half.
Yet the Republican Party — the so-called “party of family values” — is dead set against it. That’s because the program works.
Every single Republican in Congress voted against the American Rescue Plan, which contained the initial expansion of the Child Tax Credit. You can bet they’re all going to vote against making that expansion permanent as part of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget plan. It’s obvious: they do not care about helping working families.
Democrats must get this done, no matter how staunch the Republican opposition. In the richest country in the world, it is inexcusable that millions of our children are living in poverty.
For decades, almost all economic gains have gone to the top, leaving working families behind. This historic expansion of the Child Tax Credit is a crucial step towards righting this wrong.
Poverty is a policy choice. Congress must make the Child Tax Credit permanent.
Scott, there is a shortage of people who want to work. Basically like I said before is they are on strike, like I was a couple times. If wages and benefits are increased more people will get apply for them. Unemployment benefits have been reduced dramatically, so they are not welfare queens.
But workers still have the upper hand against recruiters, by and large. Employers are having to raise wages, lower barriers to hiring, and improve working conditions to entice new hires. Yahoo news
“Firms are desperate to recruit and are willing to pay more for staff,” said James Knightley, chief international economist at ING.
But a labor market puzzle remains in the nearly 4 million people that are still on the sidelines of the labor market, compared to pre-pandemic levels. Despite the availability of vaccines and the expiry of supplemental unemployment insurance, pulling those workers back into jobs that are readily available appears to be a bigger challenge than initially anticipated.
Early retirements and child care needs have raised questions about whether or not all of those 4 million people will ever return to the workforce. Policymakers say it is too early to say for sure.
“I think these are all positive signs that suggest it's a fluid labor market right now,” San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly told Yahoo Finance prior to the December jobs report. “Not as smooth as we'd like. But way too early to count these people out and say that they're never coming back and a sustainably growing economy wouldn't attract them.”
Bottom up economics will make more people richer than before Ronald Reagan used top down economics.
I'm just trying to understand how a guy who supposedly garnered 81 MILLION votes has so completely fallen through his own ass, with everything he has touched turning to shit, and he has to work his ass off to keep his approvals above 30%.
Steve Bannon -
There’s a rule of thumb in politics on right-track, wrong-track. If you get down to around a third right track, two-thirds against you, that’s too big a headwind. That’s what we had in ’16 when I stepped in, I said hey, it’s two-thirds, one-third under Obama. She’s [Hillary’s] done. Plus all this other points showing people want a leader like Trump.
27% is unprecedented ladies and gentlemen. These are numbers that have not been seen before. This is worse than when Nixon was walking out to the helicopter. These are unprecedented numbers. Talk about killing the crib. Eviscerated. This administration is done. You can’t come back from numbers like this.”
Thanks to F Daddy for criticizing my column. He helped me improve it.
Scheduled for our local newspaper the Friday before Third Advent: ________
From the pulpit
James Boswell
Tired of the political news, and wanting to get away from it, we turn to the Christmas story for relief. Surely in the beautiful Christmas story we can find relief from the heated language and political infighting and strong, divisive language that is so rampant in America today. Surely we can there find respite from the incessant demand that we must align our thinking with the thinking of either the Republicans or of the Democrats.
And so we turn to the lectionary scriptures for this coming Sunday, and there we find a text in which the author of the Gospel of Luke tries to express what Mary, the mother of Jesus, could have said prophetically about him.
She says, “He has shown great strength with his arm; he has dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart. He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, but lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.”
Oh no! we tell ourselves. Doesn’t this scripture challenge us to have to choose and side with either the thinking of the Republicans or with the thinking of the Democrats? Doesn’t it require us to side with those who are most committed to “bringing down” the powerful, the millionaires and billionaires, from their “thrones,” their positions of greedy power and dominance? Doesn’t it require us to side with those who are most committed to “sending the rich away empty” and “lifting up the lowly” and “filling the hungry with good things”?
Politics just won’t leave us alone, will they? They follow us right into the Christmas story, right into the narrative of a low-born baby who as an adult cared for the poor and criticized the wealthy for their greed, who taught that we should never make the mistake of thinking that life consists in the abundance of our possessions, but should ever strive to love and serve God rather than money, and care for the least and last of people, no matter who they are. __________
Boswell is a retired pastor of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) whose views are available at his website jesuslaidbare-truthsaboutjesus.com. ________
Roger Amick said... The reason why I post this is because I look at both sides and even more,because I know just enough about economic issues to understnd them. but I have to educated myself about this particular issue..
Why does roger think his continuous word salad postings make him look educated ?
They don't. In fact they show his lack of basic skills and logic.
And the only both sides he looks at are his butt cheeks.
83 Tucker Carlson slammed Republican senators Roger Wicker (MS) and Joni Ernst (IA) on Tuesday after they said the United States should help defend Ukraine against a possible Russian military attack. Both senators had made the comments on Carlson’s own network.
Wicker appeared on Fox News earlier in the day on Your World with Neil Cavuto and said the U.S. shouldn’t rule out sending troops to Ukraine or even a nuclear strike.
“Just this afternoon,” said Carlson, “Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi – not a genius, famously, but still, a sitting Republican senator – went on Fox News to say we may need to send American troops to Ukraine, and possibly – because this isn’t insane or anything – think about the use of nuclear weapons. Got that in our back pocket. Nuclear weapons. Roger Wicker, sitting U.S. Senator. No one in Washington laughed at Roger Wicker. This is so crazy, that no one seems aware of how crazy it is.”
The Fox News host then turned his attention to Ernst.
Dog diagnosed with bladder stones? This… AdHill's Pet “Here’s a sad piece of tape,” he said, referring to a recent appearance of Ernst on Fox News. “This is Joni Ernst, who’s totally affable, nice Republican, sort of reasonable on most things from the Midwest suddenly sounding like a bloodthirsty warmonger, sounding a lot like, actually, [Rep.] Adam Schiff [D-CA] when she talks about that dastardly Vladimir Putin.
“He needs to say to Vladimir Putin that we are no longer going to allow you to continue with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline,” said Ernst. “We need you to know and understand that we will defend Ukraine. We will provide them assistance. He needs to make that very clear.”
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Play Video Tucker: Democrats are going to war with fossil fuels Carlson mocked the senator.
“What you just saw there is a child who has no idea what she’s talking about, but keeps talking anyway,” he said. “‘We will defend Ukraine,’ says Joni Ernst. This is a senator from Iowa? So what happens if we don’t defend Ukraine, Joni Ernst? Will kids in Des Moines grow up to speak Russian? No one asked her that question. She’s never thought about it for a moment.”
He concluded, “It turns out that foreign lobbying campaigns work pretty well. And that’s why the Ukrainians paid for one in Washington.”
Carlson has questioned Ukraine’s strategic interest to the U.S. on multiple occasions. In November, he tangled with Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) in a testy exchange that the congressman did not seem to anticipate.
The reason why I post this is because I look at both sides and even more,because I know just enough about economic issues to understnd them. but I have to educated myself about this particular issue..
Alky you know nothing about economics and prove it here daily. And the reason you constantly post or rather cut and paste is because you have nothing else to do, you’re locked down in 600’ semi private room with another dementia patient
Ben Pershing https://mobile.twitter.com/benpershing/status/1468586076663173123
NEW from the @WSJ poll: Hispanic voters are split between supporting Republicans and Democrats on the generic congressional ballot, a significant shift toward the GOP since 2020, @aaronzitner writes.
Funny how Roger talks about how many benefits are in the BBB bill and then how many tax cuts and tax credits are in the BBB bill and then still expects us to believe that it is paid for.
Ironically, however, Roger did post an article suggesting that the BBB bill will more likely than not add between 2.8 and 4.4 trillion to our debt and cause a significant drag on the economy.
Is this Roger's way of looking at both sides, while arguing (of course) that the true figures being calculated are irrelevant but that he "looked at them" so he can pretend to be impartial?
Cali , exactly right. "Alky you know nothing about economics and prove it here daily. And the reason you constantly post or rather cut and paste is because you have nothing else to do, you’re locked down in 600’ semi private room with another dementia patient
It’s really quite pathetic"
He lives with another man. COMBINED, they pay $60,000 in freaking rent a year.
Biden misses congressional deadline to disclose Afghan airlift details
The Biden administration has failed to meet a congressionally imposed requirement that it share a breakdown of where the Afghanistan evacuation stands, including a detailed listing of whom it airlifted out of Kabul, according to a senior Senate Republican.
The continuing resolution, passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden on Sept. 30, included language that mandated the Biden administration provide by Nov. 29 details of Operation Allies Welcome, the government's ongoing evacuation and resettlement initiative. A senior lawmaker on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee told the Washington Examiner that they have not received any information from the government as of Monday, one week past the deadline.
Carlson has questioned Ukraine’s strategic interest to the U.S. on multiple occasions.
Contrary to Mediaite's bullshit, (and that's where you STOLE this) what he's questioning is the wisdom of two senators who just want to rush headlong into a shooting war with Russia over Ukraine without thinking it through.
Makes for great TV sound bites but could ultimately prove disastrous.
You claim to "look at both sides" alky yet you choose to only LIE about one side. Consistently.
Sean Davis https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1468436521384611844 Get ready for the same failed morons behind the Iraq war, the 20-year Afghanistan debacle, the Russian collusion hoax, and the disastrous immigration crisis to call you a racist traitor if you oppose their latest stupid plan to start a war over Ukraine.
If we can return to the time when the middle class had a higher demand of the GDP to the same percentage or higher percentage, millions more American citizens will afford housing in middle class neighborhoods, the United States will be the greatest country in the world again.
And a reason for other countries to follow the same path forward..
If we can return to the time when the middle class had a higher demand of the GDP to the same percentage or higher percentage, millions more American citizens will afford housing in middle class neighborhoods, the United States will be the greatest country in the world again.
Those were those halcyon days of 90% tax rates before JFK dropped them and THEN the economy flourished.
The only way you know how to "help" the middle class is to keep taxing the shit out of them while telling them you're taxing the rich.
This situation never fucking changes as long as you tax income instead of wealth, alky.
The rich you fucking hate? They're in 100% compliance with the US tax code.
And adding 87,000 IRS agents to audit 1040-EZ forms won't fix that.
Can we use the same Babble to English decoder for both Biden and Alky.
"If we can return to the time when the middle class had a higher demand of the GDP to the same percentage or higher percentage, millions more American citizens will afford housing in middle class neighborhoods, the United States will be the greatest country in the world again."
Daniel Kishi https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1468363344826544137 The SALT cap "relief" in the House-passed Build Back Better Act—85% of which would go to the wealthiest 10% of tax filers—is included under Title XIII, Subtitle G titled "Social Safety Net." https://taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/state-and-local-tax-salt-deduction-november-2021/t21-0279-increase-limit-deductible
Matt Whitlock Can't make this stuff up.
Important to remember that they're paying for this tax cut for the wealthy by increasing audits on lower and middle class families.
That's why I am trying to determine who is telling Thecoldheartedtruth.
Well that depends Roger...
If you believe that the benefits being suggested in the BBB will actually sunset in five years, but that we will pay for those five years of benefits for ten... and that everyone will be okay with that plan...
Then that is a version of the truth. Nobody is denying that the bill as written and graded by the CBO only has five years .of benefits but ten years of revenues.
If you believe that the idea is to introduce the benefits and expect that they will be popular and thus force new votes, etc... with the idea that they become permanent or even that they last the full 10 years...
Well then the trillions in debt and the drag on the economy is the truth.
$35 cap on insulin costs Among the Build Back Better bill's many drug price provisions is one that would set a $35 monthly cap on insulin for Medicare beneficiaries and those with private insurance. The provision would take effect in 2023.
Alky, that’s been Anthem, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and Aetna’s max on their Medicare Advantage plans for years. Glad you had to codify it, you stupid ass
I'm just trying to understand how a guy who supposedly garnered 81 MILLION votes has so completely fallen through his own ass, with everything he has touched turning to shit, and he has to work his ass off to keep his approvals above 30%.
I'm still try to understand how an old man with obvious dementia manage to get 81 million votes and the election without cheating.
Alky say edumacated people ALWAYS vote democrat because they're so smaht!
As Democrats seek to reach out to Latino voters in a more gender-neutral way, they’ve increasingly begun using the word Latinx, a term that first began to get traction among academics and activists on the left.
But that very effort could be counterproductive in courting those of Latin American descent, according to a new nationwide poll of Hispanic voters.
Only 2 percent of those polled refer to themselves as Latinx, while 68 percent call themselves “Hispanic” and 21 percent favored “Latino” or “Latina” to describe their ethnic background, according to the survey from Bendixen & Amandi International, a top Democratic firm specializing in Latino outreach.
More problematic for Democrats: 40 percent said Latinx bothers or offends them to some degree and 30 percent said they would be less likely to support a politician or organization that uses the term.
At a time when Republicans appear to be making inroads among Latino voters, the survey results raise questions about how effectively the party is communicating with them, according to pollster Fernand Amandi and other Democrats and Latino vote experts.
“The numbers suggest that using Latinx is a violation of the political Hippocratic Oath, which is to first do no electoral harm,” said Amandi, whose firm advised Barack Obama’s successful Hispanic outreach nationwide in his two presidential campaigns. “Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2 percent, but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?”
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He would have used the 5th amendment rights. He maybe the final nail in the Insurrection act on January 6th.
The Jan. 6 select committee plans to move forward with contempt proceedings against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for his refusal to comply with the panel's subpoena.
Why it matters: The committee has used the threat of contempt — and the associated financial and reputational costs — to try to ensure evasive witnesses sit for their depositions.
Why it matters:
It doesn't matter. This is a post about why the democrats are the party of the rich, and are pulling hard to give the Top 1% richest among us a huge $35,000.00 SALT deduction.
Fuck off alky. Indy voter was right. You ARE a fucking moron.
And a hack.
And a loser.
And an economic imbecile.
And a tranny daddy.
And a wife beater
And a drunk.
The so-called Great Resignation lost some steam in October, with the total number of workers leaving their jobs either due to dissatisfaction or better opportunities elsewhere declined, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
Job quitters declined by 4.7%, falling to 4.16 million from 4.36 million, the department said in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The rate as a share of the workforce fell from 3% to 2.8%.
The JOLTS report is closely watched at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere for signs of labor market tightness.
While the quits rate dropped, the level of job openings accelerated to just below its all-time high. That number totaled 11.03 million, an increase of 4.1% as the rate rose to 6.9% from 6.7%.
The number of openings exceeded those looking for jobs by 3.6 million in October. JOLTS data runs a month behind the more closely followed nonfarm payrolls report, which showed a gain of 546,000 for the month.
The coronavirus pandemic has seen quits surge to what had been record highs. Even with October’s decline, the level is still 24% above where it was a year ago.
Economists generally see the exodus as greater opportunity in the pandemic-era jobs market spurred by many workers still reluctant to come off the sidelines either because of child-care issues or health concerns.
Through November, the labor force was still about 2.4 million smaller than what it had been in February 2020. The total employment level was more than 3.5 million down.
In October, total hires edged lower from their level in the previous month, while separations also were down.
This is the most important issue in the BBB system...
Economists generally see the exodus as greater opportunity in the pandemic-era jobs market spurred by many workers still reluctant to come off the sidelines either because of child-care issues or health concerns.
It would people to go back to work! They could afford child care when they go back to work!
Roger, explain to us your theory of "Pent Up Demand"?
Given what Dennis posted:
"71% of Americans have a savings account.
Most Americans (22%) have$1,000 to$5,000 in savings.
56% of Americans have$5,000 or less in savings,while a third have$1,000 or less."
rrb can't argue with me because he is stupid troll squad asshole.
My daughter is not transexual.
Communist News Network lollipop.
Here are 10 of the lesser-known provisions in the Build Back Better bill.
$900 tax credit for purchasing an e-bike
Taxpayers would be allowed to claim a tax credit for purchasing an e-bike before 2026, if the bill passes. It's one of many provisions in the spending package aimed at combating the climate crisis.
The credit would be equal to 30% of the purchase cost, up to $900. It would gradually phase out for higher-income households, starting at $75,000 of income for individuals.
The bill would also allow companies to provide tax-free commuting benefits for employees using a bike, e-bike or scooter to get to work.
$35 cap on insulin costs
Among the Build Back Better bill's many drug price provisions is one that would set a $35 monthly cap on insulin for Medicare beneficiaries and those with private insurance. The provision would take effect in 2023.
Medicare Part D plans would not be able to charge more than $35 a month for the insulin products they cover in 2023 and 2024, and for all insulin starting in 2025, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the bill. Private group or individual plans would have to cover one of each dosage form (either vial or pen) and one of each type (rapid-acting, short-acting, intermediate-acting and long-acting) for no more than $35.
Her insulin is too expensive ... so she's been forced to cut doses 02:28
Millions of Americans could save money under the provision, Kaiser said.
The high cost of insulin has been a major concern for diabetic Americans, forcing some to ration their doses -- with sometimes fatal consequences.
This has prompted bipartisan efforts to address insulin's affordability. Biden highlighted the problem in a recent speech about the bill's drug provisions, noting that the nearly 100-year-old medication costs less than $10 to manufacture but is priced at about $375 for a month's supply, on average, and as high as $1,000 a month for those who need to take more insulin.
Advocates, however, are concerned that the uninsured would not benefit from the cap and remain at risk.
12 months of Medicaid coverage for new moms
The legislation would require all states to cover pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, for 12 months postpartum. The provision is considered key to addressing the nation's maternal mortality crisis, which disproportionately affects women of color.
About 720,000 new mothers in a given year would get 12 months of coverage, roughly double the number currently insured postpartum through Medicaid, according to a recent Department of Health and Human Services report.
The BBB contains a huge giveaway to upper income taxpayers in high tax blue states by restoring the full deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT) from the adjusted gross income of federal tax filers. This means that federal taxpayers in lower tax red states are subsidizing the tax and spend policies of California, New York and other high tax/high spend states. It is a perverse incentive for those states to spend more and more money -- the very policies that are driving people to flee to more sensible jurisdictions like Florida and Texas.
Moreover, Biden’s handlers and Congressional Democrats are playing games with Congressional Budget Office calculations of the fiscal impact of the bill. Richard Baehr emails:
The proposed SALT changes in BBB are an example of DC sleight of hand. The Trump tax cuts expire at the end of 2025. The BBB proposal restores an $80,000 limit for SALT in any year for 9 years.
What that does is it gives a tax break to wealthy people in a few states through 2025, and keeps it going after that. But because of the Trump bill expiring in 2025, the presumption for CBO scoring is that SALT is unlimited after 2025. As a result, the Dems BBB proposal records a tax savings after 2025 (the difference between unlimited SALT deduction and 80,000 limit) that matches the cost for 2022 to 2025. So that enables Biden to claim that “it costs nothing.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/irs_data_show_trump_tax_cuts_favored_middle_and_lower_income_americans_the_most__unlike_bidens_plan.html
EVERYTHING about the inflation bomb that is BBB is sleight of hand.
EVERYTING.
Medicaid and CHIP cover more than 42% of births nationwide. Currently, states must provide eligible, low-income women with 60 days of postpartum coverage, though some states already offer extended benefits. Some 45% of women become uninsured at the end of the two months, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The American Rescue Plan, which passed earlier this year, created a temporary option for states to provide 12 months of postpartum coverage and receive federal matching funds, starting in April 2022. About half of states have passed legislation or taken other steps to take advantage of this provision, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The bill also includes $50 million to award grants to establish or expand programs to grow and diversify the doula workforce. Doulas provide nonclinical care to pregnant and postpartum individuals. The funding could help 30,000 doulas receive training over a 10-year period, according to The Century Foundation.
Extra assistance for the jobless to buy health insurance
The American Rescue Plan provides those who receive at least one week of jobless benefits in 2021 with generous federal subsides so they can select Affordable Care Act policies with monthly premiums as little as $0 and with low out-of-pocket requirements.
The Build Back Better bill would extend this measure through 2022.
Tax credits for local news outlets
Companies that employ local journalists would receive a new payroll tax credit if the bill is passed. The credit amount would be equal to 50% of paid wages during the first year and 30% of wages during the next four years. The tax credit would expire after 2025.
The tax relief would come as the United States faces a decline in local news outlets. Over the past 15 years, the country has lost 2,100 newspapers, leaving at least 1,800 communities that had a local news outlet in 2004 without any at the beginning of 2020, according to a report from researchers at the University of North Carolina.
News outlets with more than 1,500 employees would be excluded from the tax credit.
College completion grants
There is $500 million in the bill to fund programs that help low-income college students, particularly those at community colleges, finish their degrees. The money may be invested in financial aid grants awarded to students, as well as wraparound services provided by colleges like mentoring, child care and mental health resources.
Millions of students currently leave school before finishing, leaving them to pay tuition and student loan bills without reaping the benefits of a degree. Nearly 1 in 7 adults have taken some college courses but have not completed a degree, and about 40% of first-time, full-time students don't finish a bachelor's degree within six years.
Like other provisions in the bill, the money set aside for college completion grants is far smaller than Biden's initial proposal, which called for a $62 billion investment. The President also wanted to make two years of community college free, but that plan was dropped during negotiations in Congress.
But the bill still includes a measure to increase the maximum Pell grant by $550. The Pell grant program awards financial aid to undergraduate students with exceptional financial need. The bill would also make undocumented students brought to the US as children, who are known as Dreamers, eligible for the grant.
Public housing repairs
The bill would provide $65 billion to address the backlog of repairs needed at deteriorating public housing buildings. It's a substantial investment that could improve up to 1 million affordable homes for low-income people, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
The bill also includes $25 billion for the construction, purchase or rehabilitation of affordable homes and another $24 billion to expand housing vouchers that help low-income families buy or rent privately owned housing.
Salmon conservation
The bill would invest $1 billion to support conservation projects for Pacific salmon and steelhead populations and their habitats, including projects that increase climate resilience.
The money would flow through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal agency that already has a Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund aimed at reversing the decline of salmon and steelhead, as well as stimulating local economies in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.
National parks and forests preservation
There are billions of dollars in the bill for preserving public lands.
Funds would target the conservation, protection and resiliency of lands and resources administered by the National Park Service, the National Forest System and the Bureau of Land Management.
Several buckets of money are directed at wildfire management efforts, including $10 billion for hazardous fuels reduction projects. Those usually involve removing vegetation so that if a wildfire burns, it is less severe.
Funds for lower-income families to buy food over the summer
The bill would provide the families of 29 million kids with $65 per child each month to purchase food during the summers of 2023 and 2024.
Children who receive free or reduced-price meals during the school year would be eligible for the summer benefit.
The measure is modeled in part on the Pandemic-EBT program that was created at the start of the coronavirus outbreak to replace meals missed when schools were closed.
The Pandemic-EBT, which gave families roughly $375 per child during this past summer, remains in effect for the summer of 2022.
Even before the pandemic, feeding children over the summer was a challenge, with transportation, scheduling and weather proving to be barriers, experts said. Hunger is linked to summer learning loss, as well as a higher likelihood of illnesses and emotional stress.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
rrb can't argue with me because he is stupid troll squad asshole.
Argue with YOU, alky?
You mean argue with your plagiarisms. And no, I'm not interested in debating the shit you steal, where you have zero intellectual input.
You're a fraud, alky.
Go fuck yourself. Go jerk off to your Jan. 6 "TRESPASSING!" poster of Bennie Thompson.
10 things you didn't know are in the Democrats' Build Back Better bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/politics/biden-build-back-better-spending-bill/index.html
This part of it is the most important issue to me.
National parks and forests preservation
There are billions of dollars in the bill for preserving public lands.
Funds would target the conservation, protection and resiliency of lands and resources administered by the National Park Service, the National Forest System and the Bureau of Land Management.
Several buckets of money are directed at wildfire management efforts, including $10 billion for hazardous fuels reduction projects. Those usually involve removing vegetation so that if a wildfire burns, it is less severe.
It would address the problem with forest fires and prevent flooding and again remind people, why Teddy Roosevelt is on Mount Rushmore in my hometown area.
Roger is the cheerleader of Socialism.
"Blogger Roger Amick said...
We need to balance the economy..
So that millions of Americans will have a larger percentage of the wealth" alky
You also said you should be given free land, who's land do you feel you should recieve?
Several buckets of money are directed at wildfire management efforts, including $10 billion for hazardous fuels reduction projects. Those usually involve removing vegetation so that if a wildfire burns, it is less severe.
So the rest of the country has to bail out California AGAIN, because of their stupid policies
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The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that once provoked a deadly weekend of violence by good people on both sides no more Jews in Charlottesville will be melted down and turned into a new piece of public artwork, following a vote by city lawmakers early Tuesday morning.
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Not far from me...
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In 11 months, Joe Biden has cut child poverty in America by 40%.
So the rest of the country has to bail out California AGAIN, because of their stupid policies
Yep.
And if it's not Mexifornia it's NY.
But their top 1% really, really, really need their SALT deduction.
Fuck off alky. Indy voter was right. You ARE a fucking moron.
And a hack.
And a loser.
And an economic imbecile.
And a tranny daddy.
And a wife beater
And a drunk.
Rat... are you sure Indy called him all that?
I thought he just referred to him as a moron?
Hey Roger...
Did you know that in the first 11 months that Joe Biden has increased child poverty by 40%?
Child poverty is down because of the monthly payments that began in July from the child tax credits. It's a nice panacea but it's not sustainable. What happens when they're ended...like right after the next election perhaps.
As usual, Roger reads only the top line of an economics story and comments about it without having and actual facts.
Rat... are you sure Indy called him all that?
I thought he just referred to him as a moron?
I Remember it like it was yesterday.
It was FUCKING MORON.
Reason magazine
Biden's Build Back Better Act Will Likely Cost Twice as Much as the CBO Projects. Here's Why.If all the Build Back Better plan's proposals were made permanent, the final price tag would be $4.8 trillion and the bill would add about $2.8 trillion to the deficit.
ERIC BOEHM | 12.1.2021 2:30 PM
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President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act is likely to end up costing taxpayers about double what the official price tag suggests, and much of that hidden cost will end up being added to the national debt.
That's the conclusion from two independent analyses of the proposal released in recent weeks. Both rely on a key assumption that did not figure into the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) analysis of the bill: that the Build Back Better plan's various policies will be in place for at least the next 10 years.
"The Build Back Better Act relies on a number of arbitrary sunsets and expirations to lower the official cost of the bill," explains the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonprofit that advocates for balanced budgets. The group's newly updated analysis of the Build Back Better plan finds that the package will cost an estimated $4.8 trillion over 10 years if all provisions are made permanent—double the price tag applied by the CBO last month.
As Reason has repeatedly pointed out, several key parts of the bill are designed to game the CBO's method for scoring the cost of legislation by setting arbitrary expiration dates even though lawmakers obviously intend for those policies to be permanent fixtures. Probably the best example is the expanded child tax credit, which would expire after just a single year. Other parts of the bill, including the universal pre-K funding and new subsidies for child care, would expire after six years. Expanded subsidies through the Affordable Care Act would last until 2025.
With all those gimmicks in place, the CBO assessment of the bill projects that it will cost about $1.8 trillion and add about $367 billion to the deficit over the next decade.
If all the Build Back Better plan's proposals were made permanent, however, the final price tag would be $4.8 trillion, and the bill would add about $2.8 trillion to the deficit, according to the CRFB.
"To be sure, lawmakers may choose not to extend some or all of these provisions," the CRFB analysis states. "However, if they do, they would need to more than double current offsets in order for the bill and the extensions to be paid for. The alternative would be a substantial increase in the debt."
The CRFB's projections closely match a similar analysis of the bill conducted in November by the Wharton Budget Model, a number-crunching project housed at the University of Pennsylvania. Making the temporary provisions of the BBB plan permanent, the Wharton analysis found, would raise the overall cost of the package to about $4.6 trillion.
The Wharton analysis also provides a useful illustration of why policy makers engage in this sort of budget gimmickry to pass big spending bills—and, to be sure, this is a game that both Republicans and Democrats are adept at playing.
As currently written—with all those early expiration dates and temporary provisions—the Wharton Budget Model projects that the BBB proposal would add about $274 billion to the deficit over the next decade. It would also result in a 0.2 percent reduction in GDP (relative to expected GDP growth in a reality where the bill does not pass).
Those figures change dramatically when the full scope of the spending package is revealed. If all provisions in the BBB plan are made permanent, "federal debt increase by 24.4 percent and GDP would fall by 2.9 percent relative to current law." The decline in GDP is due to the fact that higher levels of debt will likely sap future economic growth, because the government will have to pay larger sums of money—extracted via taxes from productive parts of the economy—to service the debt.
In short, by hiding the true cost of the Build Back Better plan's provisions over the long term, Congress is also able to hide the long-term economic impact of hiking government spending by trillions of dollars.
The Biden administration's pitch to Americans—and to key holdouts in Congress like Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.)—has been that the BBB plan won't add to the deficit and that it will boost the economy. It's becoming clear that neither is true, no matter how hard Congress tries to hide the true cost of the legislation.
LYRICS:
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling again!
Thirty trillion in debt and yo we're back again
Still printing lots of money, telling all of your friends
I told you this would happen but you were a doubting Thomas
Thirty is the last trillion I'll ever need—I swear, I promise
Printing and spending for businesses we see hurting
So much theater stimulus they call me Pee-wee Herman
It's like we're spending junkies just getting the itch
Can I have another trillion? I promised my district a bridge
It was a crisis before, we took the lesson to heart
By spending so much money now we're printing pressing the chart
Spending billions and billions on sweet military gear
Did any wind up with the enemy? What do you want to hear?
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling again!
Back up in the Fed and we're still super stoked
Somehow printing lots of money while we're working remote
Still dropping IOUs in every fund yes sir
Hamilton started this place—that's why it only goes "BURR!!!"
Prices are rising at every venue it's bad
And for sure that dollar menu looks especially sad
Gas prices are rising, it's getting hard for the competent
It costs an arm and a leg—where am I? The Saudi consulate?
Leaving IOUs you should give it a try son
M1 used to sink your battleship, now it's what you use to buy one
Just say the magic word, I'll set the printer abuzz
Charmin might run out of paper son, but guess who never does?
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling again!
Now if you examine the chart and you look close again
We borrow more than 40 cents of every dollar we spend
Nondiscretionary spending is at terrible paces!
Do you have a response? Yes! You're racist!!!!lolololololololololol
We should spend most on children! We should spend most on patients!
Okay—hear me out—why don't we spend most on interest payments?
We're playing with fire we know the end of this story!
How do you classify your incompetence? Transitory
Objects in the mirror are closer than they seem
And to a man with a printer each problem looks like a ream
But when I'm looking at the folks that we've elected to lead
I'm guessing that it won't be long till we're back saying we need to
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling!
Raise the debt ceiling again!
California took Covid money to pay workers to stay home.
California complete mismanagement of water , land, timber leads to more fires with greater loss of property.
During the latest drought California did not improve/increase their capacity to sequester rain fall.
They fail to teach home owners how to collect and use 100's of Billions of clean fresh rain water off their roofs.
This executive order addressing climate change will dramatically improve the world. But you will insult me
Anna Phillips
December 08 at 10:00 AM PST
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will announce Wednesday it aims to buy its way to a cleaner, cooler planet, spending billions to create a federal fleet of electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings and change how the government buys electricity.
An executive order President Biden will sign later Wednesday leverages Washington’s buying power to cut the government’s carbon emissions 65 percent by the end of the decade. It lays out goals that would put the federal government on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050 and would add at least 10 gigawatts’ worth of clean electricity to the grid.
Under the new approach, federal operations would run entirely on carbon-free electricity by 2030. By 2035, the government would stop buying gas-powered vehicles, switching to zero-emission heavy-duty trucks and cars. A decade after that, most of the buildings owned or leased by the government would no longer contribute to the carbon pollution that’s warming the planet.
The order also instructs the government to launch a “buy clean” initiative, prioritizing products produced and transported with low greenhouse gas emissions.
Sarah Bloom Raskin, a Duke University law professor who served as treasury deputy secretary under President Barack Obama, said in a recent interview that the administration’s push to reduce its carbon footprint could ripple across the economy.
“The government is a significant driver of demand,” she said, adding that federal procurement officers can “send a signal” even without adopting new regulations or passing legislation.
Roger, you have brought economic issues here , but, past the cut n paste , you can't actually debate.
Please continue, it is so humorous how much you envy wealth, given the fact you haven't ever had any.
Have you ever had a clear deed on a home ( excluding Lydia's)?
By every objective measure, BBB is stupid on stilts. It pours AT LEAST $4.8 TRILLION into the gaping maw of government, and what trickles out of the ass attached to that gaping maw is pennies on each dollar.
Biden is desperate to be a modern day FDR. That's ALL this is really all about.
FDR - physical gimp.
Biden - mental gimp.
https://reason.com/2021/12/01/bidens-build-back-better-act-will-likely-cost-twice-as-much-as-the-cbo-projects-heres-why/
Notice how every promise the Socialist but into is always 10, 15, 20 plus years out.
10 years, according to many on your team if socialist the end was 20 years ago, but, yet, here we are .
"Biden is desperate to be a modern day FDR. That's ALL this is really all about."
He is, the courts continue to bitch slap Biden like they did the Racist Coward FOR.
Their spending is getting to look alike too.
IF, Roger could actually engauge in a Debate, he would tell us how he plans to take enough wealth from the earners to give to the takers , to make the takers as wealthy as the earners.
He would tell us how shares in stocks are unaffected by lowering or stopping dividend payout to rmthe risk takers in the investment class.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
This executive order addressing climate change will dramatically improve the world.
The only thing it will dramatically improve is the fortunes of the con artists who get paid for peddling the bullshit.
Under the new approach, federal operations would run entirely on carbon-free electricity by 2030.
Ok fine. Start by ripping out all the AC units in fed offices and have them open a fucking window. But we know that could NEVER happen because the fucking pansies would wilt and cry.
Old Roger, where is all that new Electricty going to come from, be exact ?
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Notice how every promise the Socialist but into is always 10, 15, 20 plus years out.
I think Gore had the end of the planet pegged at 2012.
Remember how the fucker was supposed to completely freeze over back in the 70's?
Good times.
Climate change: The con that will not die.
The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez says"
2019 , time is running out.
Claim: Says Al Gore said in 2009 that “the North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming.”
Claimed by: Facebook posts
Fact check by PolitiFact: Mostly True
No punishing of the idiot leftist for being so wrong.
The reason why I post this is because I look at both sides and even more,because I know just enough about economic issues to understnd them. but I have to educated myself about this particular issue..
Because experts on all sides look at it differently and come to different conclusions. I try to find non partisan information. But you don't believe CNN etc. If you don't learn about history, you are easily manipulated.
I generally support regulated capitalist, but there are many times when the experts were wrong about the outcome.
Regulations on pollution control on cars have eliminated smog alerts.
When I moved here in 86, we had stage four warnings. You didn't want go outside because the air was stinky and even made your car dirty..Most Republicans opposed smog regulations even though Nixon created the Epa.
One of the reasons I support Sleepy Joe Biden on climate change programs.
You keep saying that I have been gaslighted by the media, but you don't understand how it actually works on our minds. You still believe the big lie.
Fuck off alky. Indy voter was right. You ARE a fucking moron.
And a hack.
And a loser.
And an economic imbecile.
And a tranny daddy.
And a wife beater
And a drunk.
Rat... are you sure Indy called him all that?
I thought he just referred to him as a moron?
He managed the Clinton administration recovery plan that included 21 million jobs
The Democrats’ One Chance to Cut Child Poverty in HalfThe Biden administration has a plan that is estimated to cut child poverty in half. And it’s already in place.
It’s called the Child Tax Credit.
Here’s how it works. Parents of children aged 6 and younger across the country are receiving direct payments of up to $300 per month per child, or $3,600 per year per child. The payments drop to $250 a month for children between the ages of 6 and 17, and phase out for families with higher incomes.
It’s an historic expansion of the original credit that’s already helping millions of working families.
The direct payments are coming because the Child Tax Credit is a refundable tax credit. Normal, non-refundable tax credits simply cut your taxes. But a refundable tax credit, like the Child Tax Credit, helps you even if you don’t earn enough for it to reduce your taxes — so it’s a direct payment to you.
Say you owe $3,000 in taxes. A non-refundable tax credit of $3,600 won’t be worth $3,600 to you. It would just reduce your taxes to zero. So you wouldn’t get the full benefit. And if you don’t owe any taxes to begin with, a non-refundable tax credit wouldn’t do you any good at all since you can’t reduce your taxes to less than zero dollars.
But a refundable tax credit would help you. You’d get the money no matter what, the full $3,600. That’s why this expansion is such a big deal: it ensures that the money gets to lower-income families.
The early results show that this policy is a game-changer. Over 3 million more households with children now report having enough to eat after just the first two payments. More report being able to make rent, stay in their homes, and afford basic necessities. And 3 million children have been lifted out of poverty.
It’s reduced racial disparities, as well. Hunger has fallen by one-third among Latinx families and by one-quarter among Black families.
It bears repeating that if the credit is made permanent, and reaches everyone it should, it could cut child poverty in half.
Yet the Republican Party — the so-called “party of family values” — is dead set against it. That’s because the program works.
Every single Republican in Congress voted against the American Rescue Plan, which contained the initial expansion of the Child Tax Credit. You can bet they’re all going to vote against making that expansion permanent as part of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget plan. It’s obvious: they do not care about helping working families.
Democrats must get this done, no matter how staunch the Republican opposition. In the richest country in the world, it is inexcusable that millions of our children are living in poverty.
For decades, almost all economic gains have gone to the top, leaving working families behind. This historic expansion of the Child Tax Credit is a crucial step towards righting this wrong.
Poverty is a policy choice. Congress must make the Child Tax Credit permanent.
Scott, there is a shortage of people who want to work. Basically like I said before is they are on strike, like I was a couple times. If wages and benefits are increased more people will get apply for them. Unemployment benefits have been reduced dramatically, so they are not welfare queens.
But workers still have the upper hand against recruiters, by and large. Employers are having to raise wages, lower barriers to hiring, and improve working conditions to entice new hires.
Yahoo news
“Firms are desperate to recruit and are willing to pay more for staff,” said James Knightley, chief international economist at ING.
But a labor market puzzle remains in the nearly 4 million people that are still on the sidelines of the labor market, compared to pre-pandemic levels. Despite the availability of vaccines and the expiry of supplemental unemployment insurance, pulling those workers back into jobs that are readily available appears to be a bigger challenge than initially anticipated.
Early retirements and child care needs have raised questions about whether or not all of those 4 million people will ever return to the workforce. Policymakers say it is too early to say for sure.
“I think these are all positive signs that suggest it's a fluid labor market right now,” San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly told Yahoo Finance prior to the December jobs report. “Not as smooth as we'd like. But way too early to count these people out and say that they're never coming back and a sustainably growing economy wouldn't attract them.”
Bottom up economics will make more people richer than before Ronald Reagan used top down economics.
No imperical data.
Bottom up economics will make more people richer " Alky
By what exact date?
"Bottom up economics will make more people richer
CHT taught you this Roger, do not attempt to co-opt it to be your thought.
"Roger AmickDecember 8, 2021 at 1:59 PM
"Scott, there is a shortage of people who want to work"
A Socialist economy.
You still believe the big lie.
I'm just trying to understand how a guy who supposedly garnered 81 MILLION votes has so completely fallen through his own ass, with everything he has touched turning to shit, and he has to work his ass off to keep his approvals above 30%.
Steve Bannon -
There’s a rule of thumb in politics on right-track, wrong-track. If you get down to around a third right track, two-thirds against you, that’s too big a headwind. That’s what we had in ’16 when I stepped in, I said hey, it’s two-thirds, one-third under Obama. She’s [Hillary’s] done. Plus all this other points showing people want a leader like Trump.
27% is unprecedented ladies and gentlemen. These are numbers that have not been seen before. This is worse than when Nixon was walking out to the helicopter. These are unprecedented numbers. Talk about killing the crib. Eviscerated. This administration is done. You can’t come back from numbers like this.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/numbers-not-seen-worse-nixon-walking-helicopter-steve-bannon-bidens-cratering-poll-numbers/
"Sticking it" to the rich?
Thanks to F Daddy for criticizing my column. He helped me improve it.
Scheduled for our local newspaper the Friday before Third Advent:
________
From the pulpit
James Boswell
Tired of the political news, and wanting to get away from it, we turn to the Christmas story for relief. Surely in the beautiful Christmas story we can find relief from the heated language and political infighting and strong, divisive language that is so rampant in America today. Surely we can there find respite from the incessant demand that we must align our thinking with the thinking of either the Republicans or of the Democrats.
And so we turn to the lectionary scriptures for this coming Sunday, and there we find a text in which the author of the Gospel of Luke tries to express what Mary, the mother of Jesus, could have said prophetically about him.
She says, “He has shown great strength with his arm; he has dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart. He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, but lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.”
Oh no! we tell ourselves. Doesn’t this scripture challenge us to have to choose and side with either the thinking of the Republicans or with the thinking of the Democrats? Doesn’t it require us to side with those who are most committed to “bringing down” the powerful, the millionaires and billionaires, from their “thrones,” their positions of greedy power and dominance? Doesn’t it require us to side with those who are most committed to “sending the rich away empty” and “lifting up the lowly” and “filling the hungry with good things”?
Politics just won’t leave us alone, will they? They follow us right into the Christmas story, right into the narrative of a low-born baby who as an adult cared for the poor and criticized the wealthy for their greed, who taught that we should never make the mistake of thinking that life consists in the abundance of our possessions, but should ever strive to love and serve God rather than money, and care for the least and last of people, no matter who they are.
__________
Boswell is a retired pastor of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) whose views are available at his website jesuslaidbare-truthsaboutjesus.com.
________
So was Jesus for "sticking it to the rich," Ch?
No imperical data.
Bottom up economics will make more people richer " Alky
By what exact date?
"Bottom up economics will make more people richer .
Common Roger , you claim to be the smartest person here.
Back up your claim.
Roger Amick said...
The reason why I post this is because I look at both sides and even more,because I know just enough about economic issues to understnd them. but I have to educated myself about this particular issue..
Why does roger think his continuous word salad postings make him look educated ?
They don't. In fact they show his lack of basic skills and logic.
And the only both sides he looks at are his butt cheeks.
As he extracts his head out of his ass.
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Tucker Carlson slammed Republican senators Roger Wicker (MS) and Joni Ernst (IA) on Tuesday after they said the United States should help defend Ukraine against a possible Russian military attack. Both senators had made the comments on Carlson’s own network.
Wicker appeared on Fox News earlier in the day on Your World with Neil Cavuto and said the U.S. shouldn’t rule out sending troops to Ukraine or even a nuclear strike.
“Just this afternoon,” said Carlson, “Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi – not a genius, famously, but still, a sitting Republican senator – went on Fox News to say we may need to send American troops to Ukraine, and possibly – because this isn’t insane or anything – think about the use of nuclear weapons. Got that in our back pocket. Nuclear weapons. Roger Wicker, sitting U.S. Senator. No one in Washington laughed at Roger Wicker. This is so crazy, that no one seems aware of how crazy it is.”
The Fox News host then turned his attention to Ernst.
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“Here’s a sad piece of tape,” he said, referring to a recent appearance of Ernst on Fox News. “This is Joni Ernst, who’s totally affable, nice Republican, sort of reasonable on most things from the Midwest suddenly sounding like a bloodthirsty warmonger, sounding a lot like, actually, [Rep.] Adam Schiff [D-CA] when she talks about that dastardly Vladimir Putin.
“He needs to say to Vladimir Putin that we are no longer going to allow you to continue with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline,” said Ernst. “We need you to know and understand that we will defend Ukraine. We will provide them assistance. He needs to make that very clear.”
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Carlson mocked the senator.
“What you just saw there is a child who has no idea what she’s talking about, but keeps talking anyway,” he said. “‘We will defend Ukraine,’ says Joni Ernst. This is a senator from Iowa? So what happens if we don’t defend Ukraine, Joni Ernst? Will kids in Des Moines grow up to speak Russian? No one asked her that question. She’s never thought about it for a moment.”
He concluded, “It turns out that foreign lobbying campaigns work pretty well. And that’s why the Ukrainians paid for one in Washington.”
Carlson has questioned Ukraine’s strategic interest to the U.S. on multiple occasions. In November, he tangled with Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) in a testy exchange that the congressman did not seem to anticipate.
The reason why I post this is because I look at both sides and even more,because I know just enough about economic issues to understnd them. but I have to educated myself about this particular issue..
Alky you know nothing about economics and prove it here daily. And the reason you constantly post or rather cut and paste is because you have nothing else to do, you’re locked down in 600’ semi private room with another dementia patient
It’s really quite pathetic
Ben Pershing
https://mobile.twitter.com/benpershing/status/1468586076663173123
NEW from the @WSJ poll: Hispanic voters are split between supporting Republicans and Democrats on the generic congressional ballot, a significant shift toward the GOP since 2020, @aaronzitner writes.
HUGE !!!
and the trend is our friend !!!
Again I want to thank F Daddy for helping me improve 2:19pm.
Disclose.tv
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1468591081017290767
JUST IN - BioNTech CEO: Potentially upcoming vaccine for the #Omicron variant "should be a 3-dose vaccine."
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6 shots and counting !!!
thanks Fauci
big pharma billionaires are beaming !!!
I think Americans are starting to see what is going on
Saw someone estimate a 100 seat shift in the House in 2022 !!!
Funny how Roger talks about how many benefits are in the BBB bill and then how many tax cuts and tax credits are in the BBB bill and then still expects us to believe that it is paid for.
Ironically, however, Roger did post an article suggesting that the BBB bill will more likely than not add between 2.8 and 4.4 trillion to our debt and cause a significant drag on the economy.
Is this Roger's way of looking at both sides, while arguing (of course) that the true figures being calculated are irrelevant but that he "looked at them" so he can pretend to be impartial?
Cali , exactly right.
"Alky you know nothing about economics and prove it here daily. And the reason you constantly post or rather cut and paste is because you have nothing else to do, you’re locked down in 600’ semi private room with another dementia patient
It’s really quite pathetic"
He lives with another man. COMBINED, they pay $60,000 in freaking rent a year.
Stupid as fuck.
That's why I am trying to determine who is telling Thecoldheartedtruth.
Trump said he was going to cut drug and medicine costs.
He said that. He never did that.
Biden misses congressional deadline to disclose Afghan airlift details
The Biden administration has failed to meet a congressionally imposed requirement that it share a breakdown of where the Afghanistan evacuation stands, including a detailed listing of whom it airlifted out of Kabul, according to a senior Senate Republican.
The continuing resolution, passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden on Sept. 30, included language that mandated the Biden administration provide by Nov. 29 details of Operation Allies Welcome, the government's ongoing evacuation and resettlement initiative. A senior lawmaker on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee told the Washington Examiner that they have not received any information from the government as of Monday, one week past the deadline.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/biden-misses-congressional-deadline-to-disclose-afghan-airlift-details
Biden breaking his own rules
And still not letting us know how many Americans he left behind and who the hell the Afghans were he let in
shameful behavior
and incompetent
Carlson has questioned Ukraine’s strategic interest to the U.S. on multiple occasions.
Contrary to Mediaite's bullshit, (and that's where you STOLE this) what he's questioning is the wisdom of two senators who just want to rush headlong into a shooting war with Russia over Ukraine without thinking it through.
Makes for great TV sound bites but could ultimately prove disastrous.
You claim to "look at both sides" alky yet you choose to only LIE about one side. Consistently.
Sean Davis
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1468436521384611844
Get ready for the same failed morons behind the Iraq war, the 20-year Afghanistan debacle, the Russian collusion hoax, and the disastrous immigration crisis to call you a racist traitor if you oppose their latest stupid plan to start a war over Ukraine.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/20/after-afghanistan-no-more-moral-blackmail-from-failed-global-interventionists/
Pederast trump could’ve cut costs if it hadn’t been for an angry loser from AZ voting out of spite
You fucking stupid old man
If we can return to the time when the middle class had a higher demand of the GDP to the same percentage or higher percentage, millions more American citizens will afford housing in middle class neighborhoods, the United States will be the greatest country in the world again.
And a reason for other countries to follow the same path forward..
If we can return to the time when the middle class had a higher demand of the GDP to the same percentage or higher percentage,
I’ll take the blue cheese on the side please
Roger Amick said...
If we can return to the time when the middle class had a higher demand of the GDP to the same percentage or higher percentage
Word salad roger strikes again !!!
"brilliant"
ROFLMFAO !!!
Caliphate4vr
You got served first...
and I was still chewing
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If we can return to the time when the middle class had a higher demand of the GDP to the same percentage or higher percentage, millions more American citizens will afford housing in middle class neighborhoods, the United States will be the greatest country in the world again.
Those were those halcyon days of 90% tax rates before JFK dropped them and THEN the economy flourished.
The only way you know how to "help" the middle class is to keep taxing the shit out of them while telling them you're taxing the rich.
This situation never fucking changes as long as you tax income instead of wealth, alky.
The rich you fucking hate? They're in 100% compliance with the US tax code.
And adding 87,000 IRS agents to audit 1040-EZ forms won't fix that.
God DAMN you are fucking stupid on this topic.
Insider Paper
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1468621474076446729
NEW: Twitter has suspended ‘Ghislaine Maxwell trial’ tracker account having more than 525,000 followers
It's almost like big tech and state media don't want anyone to know what's going on
I wonder why ?
Can we use the same Babble to English decoder for both Biden and Alky.
"If we can return to the time when the middle class had a higher demand of the GDP to the same percentage or higher percentage, millions more American citizens will afford housing in middle class neighborhoods, the United States will be the greatest country in the world again."
Lordie.
Roger , stated, the USA is not the greatest country in the world.
So , Salad boi, which country is better then the USA?
Daniel Kishi
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1468363344826544137
The SALT cap "relief" in the House-passed Build Back Better Act—85% of which would go to the wealthiest 10% of tax filers—is included under Title XIII, Subtitle G titled "Social Safety Net." https://taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/state-and-local-tax-salt-deduction-november-2021/t21-0279-increase-limit-deductible
Matt Whitlock
Can't make this stuff up.
Important to remember that they're paying for this tax cut for the wealthy by increasing audits on lower and middle class families.
Joe Biden's America:
Billionaires cheer
Lets squeeze more out of the peasants
They deserve nothing
That's why I am trying to determine who is telling Thecoldheartedtruth.
Well that depends Roger...
If you believe that the benefits being suggested in the BBB will actually sunset in five years, but that we will pay for those five years of benefits for ten... and that everyone will be okay with that plan...
Then that is a version of the truth. Nobody is denying that the bill as written and graded by the CBO only has five years .of benefits but ten years of revenues.
If you believe that the idea is to introduce the benefits and expect that they will be popular and thus force new votes, etc... with the idea that they become permanent or even that they last the full 10 years...
Well then the trillions in debt and the drag on the economy is the truth.
Jack Posobiec
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1468677905483976709
BREAKING: Epstein pilot logs presented in Ghislaine Maxwell case almost completely redacted
odd
Who do you think was "on board" with Epstein ?
regularly
Maybe Hillary would have a clue ?
* Someone inadvertently using a Black Sharpie instead of highlighting Bill’s name ?
accidents do happen
I wonder what state media is reporting ?
* James Comey's daughter is prosecuting the case.
Am sure we can trust her to not let politics in and protect anyone
If alky's word salads used real lettuce we'd need to allow 50 Million beaners into the US just to pick it all.
BIDEN: "We're making progress. We're going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1468688475138498571
Blogger Roger Amick said...
10 things you didn't know are in the Democrats' Build Back Better bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/politics/biden-build-back-better-spending-bill/index.html
December 8, 2021 at 11:16 AM
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$35 cap on insulin costs
Among the Build Back Better bill's many drug price provisions is one that would set a $35 monthly cap on insulin for Medicare beneficiaries and those with private insurance. The provision would take effect in 2023.
Alky, that’s been Anthem, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and Aetna’s max on their Medicare Advantage plans for years. Glad you had to codify it, you stupid ass
Here’s your proof.
Humana is offering affordable, predictable insulin costs through the Part D Senior Savings Model
What the Insulin Savings Program is
The Part D Senior Savings Model—which Humana calls the Insulin Savings Program—helps address the needs of the more than 3.3 million people with Medicare who use insulin.1 The program is available with certain Medicare Advantage plans and all Humana Premier Rx Plan™ (PDP) prescription drug plans.
How the Insulin Savings Program works
Eligible members* pay stable copays of $35 or less at all in-network pharmacies for a 30-day supply of covered Select Insulins, PDF(opens in new window) through the coverage gap (often called the “donut hole”). Those savings can add up for an average projected annual savings of $446 (66%) per year on Select Insulin costs.2†
While the maximum copay for each Select Insulin is $35 (for up to a 30-day supply from an in-network pharmacy), some plans feature copays as low as $0 for up to a 30-day supply. See the Summary of Benefits and Evidence of Coverage for each plan for specific copays.
But we needed a huge spending bill to do this.
Dumbass
Roger knows nothing.
I'm just trying to understand how a guy who supposedly garnered 81 MILLION votes has so completely fallen through his own ass, with everything he has touched turning to shit, and he has to work his ass off to keep his approvals above 30%.
I'm still try to understand how an old man with obvious dementia manage to get 81 million votes and the election without cheating.
Alky say edumacated people ALWAYS vote democrat because they're so smaht!
As Democrats seek to reach out to Latino voters in a more gender-neutral way, they’ve increasingly begun using the word Latinx, a term that first began to get traction among academics and activists on the left.
But that very effort could be counterproductive in courting those of Latin American descent, according to a new nationwide poll of Hispanic voters.
Only 2 percent of those polled refer to themselves as Latinx, while 68 percent call themselves “Hispanic” and 21 percent favored “Latino” or “Latina” to describe their ethnic background, according to the survey from Bendixen & Amandi International, a top Democratic firm specializing in Latino outreach.
More problematic for Democrats: 40 percent said Latinx bothers or offends them to some degree and 30 percent said they would be less likely to support a politician or organization that uses the term.
At a time when Republicans appear to be making inroads among Latino voters, the survey results raise questions about how effectively the party is communicating with them, according to pollster Fernand Amandi and other Democrats and Latino vote experts.
“The numbers suggest that using Latinx is a violation of the political Hippocratic Oath, which is to first do no electoral harm,” said Amandi, whose firm advised Barack Obama’s successful Hispanic outreach nationwide in his two presidential campaigns. “Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2 percent, but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/hispanic-voters-latinx-term-523776
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