The past few days have been absolutely fucking nuts. Donald Trump promised to defund Social Security and Medicare if reelected, accelerated his work to destroy the U.S. Postal Service in advance of the 2020 election, and once again claimed wrongly that it was him, and not Barack Obama, who signed “Vetrans Choice” into law. Oh […]
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Trump promises to permanently eliminate the funding mechanism for Social Security and Medicare if reelected
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Affordable Care Act, bathtub, Ben Sasse, Bernie Sanders, Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century, Donald Trump, eviction, executive actions, executive orders, Grover Norquist, Joe Biden, masks, Medicare, Nancy Pelosi, New Deal, Obamacare, Paul Krugman, post office, preexisting conditions, small government, social security, taking credit for things you didn't do, tax cuts, tax policy, taxes, The Lord, unconstitutional, United States Postal Service, Vetrans Choice, vote by mail 184 Comments
The Buffett Rule dies in Congress, but, like Tupac, and Jesus, it shall rise again
I was all set to write about Tupac, and how I’d known that he was a hologram all along, but then I started reading about today’s failure by the Senate to act on the so-called Buffet Rule, which would have imposed a minimum tax of 30% to all individuals making more than one million dollars […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bernie Sanders, Buffett Rule, Chuck Schumer, class warfare, Coachella, Eric Cantor, holograms, income inequality, Jesus, Joint Committee on Taxation, Jon Kyl, Maine, Mitt Romney, national debt, progressive taxation, small government, small government Jesus, Susan Collins, tax loopholes, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, Tupac, Warren Buffett 26 Comments
Obama decides to channel the populist Teddy Roosevelt in 2012 campaign
It wasn’t billed as a campaign stop, but, today, in Osawatomie, Kansas, President Obama delivered a fiery, progressive speech that seems calculated to define the 2012 campaign… and shift focus away from the fact that no significant job creation has taken place under his watch. The speech, for those of you who haven’t already heard, […]