...he seems to be going senile.
And if he catches the deadly coronavirus he's a goner. Then I suppose the old communist will be there to replace him? LOL. Then what if he catches the pandemic virus and dies.
What oldster will replace him? Hillary? LOL
At least then he won't be grossing out his female Secret Service bodyguards by swimming naked in pools anymore.
shareI admit I don't like Trump and reluctantly voted for him cause I thought Hillary was worse but frankly Bernie is worse because his taking 52% of money from people who make $10million will cause said people to shut down some of their businesses resulting in devastating job loss. But who cares? As long as the people who lost their jobs get free healthcare and free college! People on the far left make me sick! It's like they don't even think anything except, "Screw the rich so poor people can get free stuff!"
shareWhat scares me is
a.) our failed public school system finally was able to turn out people who are ignorant of what has happened in socialist countries in the past, and
b.) these idiots are buying into the exact same lies the Nazi and Communist parties were selling to the Germans and Russians just over a century ago!
I agree. it is scary. Public schools in my area of Southern Illinois aren't doing well cause of the state's massive debt. We have had to raise our property taxes and sales taxes just to pay for our schools. And now the current governor and politicians in charge have raised the teachers' salaries resulting in us having to raise our sales tax and property taxes more. Yet most everyone keeps voting for the politicians who support Mike Madigan who has been speaker of the house for more than 20 years straight.
shareHow come Trumpers don't know what a progressive tax is? That 52% tax would kick in after $10 million. Meaning $10 million is taxed at the normal rate, and then every dollar above $10 million is taxed at 52%.
By the way, those taxes went above 70% before the 70s.
Well frankly I am a bit worried how it will effect business owners is all. I myself don't get why you liberals think smaller businesses can afford a $15 minimum wage. A lot of business owners won't be able to afford to pay their newest employees $15 an hour and give raises to their longtime employees. All $15 minimum wage will do is just make it even harder to make a living. Cause it'll make it so that everything is more expensive and also make it harder for anyone to make above minimum wage. But with how you liberals talk about minimum wage you seem to think it should be the end all and be all of how much someone should make and that's just not how it is at all.
shareThe results seem pretty positive overall, I would say, though I suppose you might disagree if you're a fan of shitty restaurants......
"The cities that have a $15 minimum wage — and the companies affected by it — haven’t had this minimum wage for long, so it’s hard to say definitively what the effects of raising the minimum wage across the country would be. Here’s a summary of what’s happened so far:
Although a survey of New York City restaurant owners found that the majority said they would be reducing restaurant worker hours and that nearly one-third would be eliminating jobs, a study of the effect of NYC wage increases from 2013 to 2018 on the restaurant businesses and its employees found that there were no negative employment effects and sizable average wage gains for restaurant employees.
NYC unemployment rose 0.3% from the time the latest wage increase went into effect (Dec. 31, 2018) through July 2019, although this could be attributable to other factors.
Fewer than a quarter of Seattle business owners reduced their employee hours or cut jobs because of the rise in minimum wage requirements, and the number of restaurant and bar jobs actually grew since the new laws went into effect in 2015.
Experienced low-wage workers in Seattle saw increases in their weekly pay; low-skilled low-wage workers saw little to no difference in their pay.
NYC and Seattle businesses that employ low-wage workers — who fall heavily into the food and accommodations sectors — increased prices for consumers as a result of the higher cost of labor.
Low- and medium-rated San Francisco restaurants were more likely to exit as minimum wage requirements increased; minimum wage increases did not affect highly rated restaurants."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/happened-places-raised-minimum-wage-194711258.html
If you're making over $10 million a year, that ain't no small business.
Businesses were fine in the 50s and 60s. That's the era that all of the older generation harken back to saying it was the perfect time to be alive. Glenn Beck said it all the time during Obama's administration.
$15 is where the negotiation process begins. It would end somewhere lower. I would argue somewhere between $11 and $12 is where it should be right now. Adjusting for inflation, by the time we get an increase to $15, it'll probably be worth $11 in today's dollars anyway.
Nice change of subject by the way. The Trumper way :)
The only reason I brought up the $15 minimum wage is because Bernie Sanders wants to make that the minimum wage everywhere in the U.S. Also, Dick Johnson you only brought up big cities in your examples of how $15 minimum wage effects things. I guarantee that all the businesses in rural areas in those states you mentioned are probably not doing so well. They just passed a bill last year here in Illinois to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. Since that passed quite a few small businesses in my home town of Carbondale have shut down because they know they won't be able to afford it.
See, that is my problem with the $15 minimum wage. It works in big cities like the ones you mentioned but us rural folks need a lower minimum wage for our businesses to thrive. There probably won't be much in the way of businesses at all in 5 years where I live and it's all thanks to you leftists who think what works in a big city like Chicago works in a small city like Carbondale. And you know why you think that? Because you're a all a pack of fools who think there's an unlimited amount of money in the world when there isn't. That's why! And you know what? I don't like Trump that much but I still think Hillary Clinton would've been worse. But you leftists just ignore everything bad about her because you choose to be willfully ignorant.
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Hahahaha! No shit, I saw that and I'm like, what?
Seriously, I'm on a re-watch of Mad Men right now, you want to talk about scary taxes? Yoicks!
So tell me ultraviolent, at $10 mil, why would invest your money if you're only going to make 48 cents on the dollar? Seriously, you do all the work and the govt takes over 50%? At that rate, it's more beneficial for the person to just consume it rather than reinvest it. Thus, less capital growth.
Yeah, the taxes were high back in the day, but nobody paid those high rates. There were so many additions to the tax code giving exemptions for rich people that the rate truly means nothing.
Now tell me how come you leftists can't understand a flat tax? Not only is it 100% fair across the board, businesses wouldn't need to be offered tax incentives and tax credits, because they would pay the same tax on their first dollar as their 10 millionth dollar and so on. This way, you wouldn't have GE or Exxon LEGALLY paying zero dollars in taxes. Not only that, auditing a big corporation would be much more transparent and save tons of dollars governmentally and privately.
The left Pride themselves on being Progressive and diverse yet they run a nearly 80 year old white man is their candidate LOL. Biden is so senile that he thinks he's running for Senate. He picks fight with Americans and has a gaffe after gaffe on the campaign trail. Trump will embarrass him in a debate. Not looking good for quid pro quo dementia Biden
sharetrump has embarrassed himself and this nation so many times we've lost count. At least Biden would have competent people surrounding him instead of trump's revolving doors of not enough yes men to assuage his fragile ego. Biden may not be ideal but trump is genuinely dangerous as he has shown by causing the deaths of 176 innocent people after his reckless assassination of someone most of us had never heard of and with no oversight. He's a loose cannon and is damaging our country and democracy every day he's in office.
shareHe caused the deaths of 176 innocent people? Who are these people you are talking about?
Let's rewind for a second. Was Hillary responsible for the deaths at Benghazi? Was Obama responsible for the border patrol man's death for Op. Fast and Furious?
Remember when Clinton gleefully said, "We came. We saw. He died."? She was referring to Qaddafi's death. The Libyan dictator was out of the game and posed zero threat to the US, but they took him out and destabilized the entire region causing many fleeing refugees to flood into Europe. Because of the EU's stupid law of 1st country, Italy is now burdened with a buttload of refugees they're govt can't support.
So stop crying about Trump in generalities and give me some specifics or just move to Venezuela already. It's Sean Penn endorsed! Healthcare for all! Strict gun control laws! Bread lines! Cheap housing!🤪🤪🤪
Progressives preferred the Jewish guy but did so because he fought for the same ideals for over 40 years.
sharetrump took that mantle three years ago. Never elected to any office, shady business man (and I'm being polite), blowhard braggart for no good reason, compulsive liar, using public funds to prop up his own golf resort ... god, one could go on-and-on. A disgrace to this democratic nation.
shareYour 2 choices are, a rich old white man or a rich old white man, so much for the party of diversity.
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