"Im voting for Trump because I want him to crash the system in Washington"
Question put to me: Why not vote for Bernie? His socialism will destroy washington even faster than Trumps efforts. The real effects of Socialism will make people hate DC much more than anything Trump the Crony or Cruz the Crazy could do, starting with the $1000 a month more in taxes. This would hasten the defeat of big government as an ideology.
[Daily Caller] Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group.
The revelation comes on the heels of the release of the Panama Papers, a treasure trove of 11.5 million legal and financial records documenting how some of the world’s richest and most powerful people have used offshore bank accounts to conceal their wealth and avoid taxes.
Since the release of the papers, no American politician has been identified as using the secretive offshore accounts.
But a DCNF investigation has confirmed that the former Massachusetts Democratic senator and his billionaire wife, using an elaborate set of Heinz family trusts, have invested "more than $1 million" each into 11 separate offshore accounts -- mainly hedge funds in the Cayman Islands.
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Since the release of the papers, no American politician has been identified as using the secretive offshore accounts.
Get ready for a double bonus round of Name That Party.
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They would be foolish not to.
One of the arguments against steeply progressive tax rates is that it disproportionately affects people trying to climb the ladder. People who are used to having money know how to manage it and their tax burden. Only people who are new to making big money pay the highest tax rates.
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that would be fine, except the rich progressives routinely denounce Middle America for resisting attempts to confiscate more of their lesser wealth. The hypocrisy reeks
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04/26/2016 11:54 Comments ||
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Secretary of State John Kerry and his second wife's first husband's trust fund...
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Congress has had DECADES to simplify and reform the Federal tax code, and they have not done squat. They cannot live within their budget. They know how to spend. They know how to game the system. They take no responsibilities, and they do not utilize their powers to fulfill their responsibilities.
In short, they take in huge amounts of revenue, and give little value in return.
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04/26/2016 16:10 Comments ||
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So for everyone bashing him and her family you need to take a hard look in the mirror. The USG is throwing money away. That money is tax dollars taken from you. At this rate out government will fail. The money looses it values and our government is in line historically to fall. If you were worth billions burying enough money for your extended family to survive is good commons sense. They are worth billions and they stashed 11 million? Chump change. A lot less than I would have done. Imagine the exodus if Bernie looks to beat Hillary. Everyone will divest their cash into shelters because he already said he would come for it.
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How about flat tax, 10% on personal income, 15% on partnership or sole-proprietor businesses, 20% on corporation businesses. No deductions other than children (dependents), mortgage (only on primary residence), and low income (Earned Income Credit)?
No tax shelters, few accountants, very few lawyers, very few IRS agents needed.
[Iran Press TV] US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... says the sad reality in American society is that "poor people don’t vote" and that’s the reason he has lost the primary elections in 17 states with high income inequality.
Sanders also decried the low voter turnout in US elections during an interview filmed Saturday in Baltimore and aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ... has won the primaries in 17 out of the 25 states with the highest income inequality, "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd told the Vermont senator.
"Because poor people don’t vote," sanders replied. "I mean, that’s just a fact; that’s a sad reality of American society and that’s what we have to transform."
...poor people, young people, busy people who trust that it doesn't matter all that much who thinks they're running the country... That's so everywhere voting isn't mandatory.
"We have one ‐ as you know ‐ one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on Earth," Sanders stated. "In America today ‐ in the last election in 2014, 80 percent of poor people did not vote."
The way he said that makes it sound like that's another "fact" the honourable senator invented out of thin air.
Sanders has based his campaign on a promise to lessen the vast wealth and income inequality in the US, and he has received support from a record number of grassroots donors whose small contributions have consistently added up to monthly fundraising totals that dwarf those of Clinton.
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Look at the politicians we're forced to vote for, and it shouldn't be any great surprise.
[Iran Press TV] US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has censured the newly-formed alliance between rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich, calling them "pathetic."
Cruz and Kasich, who are facing a potential wipeout in the national presidential nominating contests on Tuesday, teamed up against Trump, provoking a barrage of new attacks from the business mogul.
"It shows how weak they are. It shows how pathetic they are," Trump told a cheering crowd in Warwick, Rhode Island, on Monday.
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I still wonder why Walker and Perry have withdrawn in the very beginning.
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I still wonder why Walker and Perry have withdrawn in the very beginning.
Interesting question. I thought Walker looked promising - governor of a state, experience standing up to both the media and the unions. Pure supposition, but maybe The Party told them to stand down in order for one of the favored sons to win.
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Gov. Walker's consultants ran through his money, leaving him nothing to campagn with, and then he said he was in favour of open borders (or something like that) because he knew nothing about international issues. No money and a voter backlash is a bad combination.
[LI] WASHINGTON -- Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia used his executive power on Friday to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 convicted felons, circumventing the Republican-run legislature. The action effectively overturns a Civil War-era provision in the state’s Constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising African-Americans.
The sweeping order, in a swing state that could play a role in deciding the November presidential election, will enable all felons who have served their prison time and finished parole or probation to register to vote. Most are African-Americans, a core constituency of Democrats, Mr. McAuliffe’s political party.
Amid intensifying national attention over harsh sentencing policies that have disproportionately affected African-Americans, governors and legislatures around the nation have been debating -- and often fighting over -- moves to restore voting rights for convicted felons. Virginia imposes especially harsh restrictions, barring felons from voting for life.
In Kentucky, Gov. Matt Bevin, a newly elected Republican, recently overturned an order enacted by his Democratic predecessor that was similar to the one Mr. McAuliffe signed Friday. In Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, vetoed a measure to restore voting rights to convicted felons, but Democrats in the state legislature overrode him in February and an estimated 44,000 former prisoners who are on probation can now register to vote.
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Guess who gave Terry McAuliffe, former Hillary Clinton campaign manager, $25,000? Guess who was basically backing the Democrat establishment and insiders? Guess who was helping the McAuliffe campaign defeat a solid conservative, Cuccinelli?
That’s right, Donald Trump. Helping elect Democrats for years, including this year.
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On the upside, his actions may be unconstitutional, against the Virginia constitution, overriding with executive orders, that which constitutionally requires legislation. And the latter was a ruling by a previous Gov when asked to do this very thing by the ACLU. McAuliffe is pulling an Obama. Who will challenge him?
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