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When Trump and Musk spoke of it, Musk was going to help slash the cost and bureaucracy of government. Trump said early in the campaign that he wanted to eliminate the Department of Education, a shill for teachers' unions.
President Reagan wanted to cut government as well in 1981, but the Democrat control of Congress prevented that. Federal "Reduction In Force" did not really reduce the cost or number of federal employees. Employees were allowed to transfer or were given huge financial settlements. They would never get this in private industry.
During the Reagan era, the Department of Agriculture was bloated and had vast numbers of employees who were simply being paid to collect their big paychecks and do nothing all day. The Democrats prevented Reagan from eliminating Jimmy Carter's Department of Energy, whose employees were also doing basically nothing all day long. Their big projects were not cost effective, so there was no reason to throw money at them. Biden's similarly ineffective Green New Deal was the primary cause of inflation rising from 1.5% to 9% in one year. Billions were paid to Democrat donors. Reagan converted the Energy Department's function into another agency doing military work.
President Carter wanted to introduce "zero base budgeting" in 1977 to cut the federal bureaucracy. But the Democrat Congress, led by radical Senator Ted Kennedy, opposed him from cutting federal jobs and spending, which primarily benefited Democrats. Teddy ran against Carter in the Democrat primaries, and lost.
Unlike 2016, Trump did not appear for any of the Republican primary debates. He won all the primaries easily. Yet, except for the former New Jersey governor, Chris Christie (who was bitter about not being named Attorney General by Trump in 2017), his Republican opponents all strongly supported his candidacy and repeatedly spoke on his behalf as surrogates.
I don't recall an election cycle where defeated primary opponents gave more than lip service to the victor.
Hillary was drunk and began hitting her campaign manager on the chest with her fists. She arrogantly thought she had the election in the bag. The media and nearly all pollsters all agreed with her.
A large percentage of the country hated and mistrusted her. She had a long association with being sleazy, and everyone knew that Bill Clinton cheated on her every chance he got.
She had the same celebrities publicly support her as Kamala. That is not enough to fool the American voters.
Wisconsin called for Trump with 88% counted, giving him 277 electoral votes. Trump wins!
Allan Lichtman is a moron and a Democrat boot-licker. You can find an article discussing his method versus Nate Silver's method. They were both wrong.
Trump is winning the popular vote too, despite New York and California's Democrat adulation.
Fox News just called Pennsylvania for Trump with 94% counted, giving him 267 electoral votes. Alaska is an automatic 3 votes, and he's ahead there with 18% lead after 26% counted. He wins the election with 270 electoral votes
So AtlasIntel once again looks like the most accurate pollster for 2024. Trump leads in all the swing states yet to be called. It looks like 312 electoral votes for Trump, my prediction.
Republicans gain control of the Senate, and may hang onto the House of Representatives.
Daytime talk show hostess: "Kackling Kamala."
Kamala thinks that "the rich" and big businesses would do absolutely nothing to protect themselves from her plans to soak them to pay for communism (i.e., equal results for everyone). What business would build or expand a facility in the USA, when she promises the highest tax increases in global history? They'd move their businesses out of the USA.
<b>Trump was the ONLY president to undo Bill Clinton's idiotic NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement</b>.) There were televised interviews showing Walmart buyers telling American suppliers to move their jobs to China, or Walmart would no longer buy from them. Millions of high paying American manufacturing jobs moved to China and Mexico, leaving dozens of cities financially devastated.
This was one of the reasons Trump ran in 2016. European and Asian countries all had tariffs to keep American products out, while the USA did NOTHING to protect American jobs.
At the Kamala-Trump debate, Harris LIED and said that Trump was going to impose a national sales tax. She was talking about tariffs. Trump accurately stated that Biden and Harris kept his tariffs in place, as it brought in over $100 billion.
But GUESS WHAT? In September 2024, Biden ADDED new additional tariffs on an array of Chinese products:
"A host of products—such as EVs, EV batteries and battery parts, solar panel modules, steel and aluminum products, and certain critical minerals and medical items—will be subject to tariff rate hikes ranging between 25% and 100% starting on September 27, 2024."
https://www.bdo.com/insights/tax/ustr-finalizes-section-301-tariff-hikes-on-chinese-imports#:~:text=A%20host%20of%20products%E2%80%94such,starting%20on%20September%2027%2C%202024.
You are correct.
When they told the story out of time order, I figured out immediately that the woman was the actual villain. I recognized the non-linear story as a gimmick just to hide that.
Yes, she is a devoted Communist. If Kamala is elected, the inflation rate will soar much higher than the 9% rate after Biden took over from the 1.5% inflation under Trump. She has never run a business, never met a payroll, and has no idea of what the financial effects would be from her radical Marxist ideas.
She thinks that "the rich" and big businesses would do absolutely nothing to protect themselves from her plans to soak them to pay for communism (i.e., equal results for everyone). What business would build or expand a facility in the USA, when she promises the highest tax increases in global history? They'd leave the USA.
Trump was the ONLY president to undo Bill Clinton's idiotic NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement.) There were televised interviews showing Walmart buyers telling American suppliers to move their jobs to China, or Walmart would no longer buy from them. Millions of high paying American manufacturing jobs moved to China and Mexico, leaving dozens of cities financially devastated.
This was one of the reasons Trump ran in 2016. European and Asian countries all had tariffs to keep American products out, while the USA did NOTHING to protect American jobs.
At the Kamala-Trump debate, Harris LIED and said that Trump was going to impose a national sales tax. She was talking about tariffs. Trump accurately stated that Biden and Harris kept his tariffs in place, as it brought in over $100 billion.
But GUESS WHAT? In September 2024, Biden ADDED new additional tariffs on an array of Chinese products:
"A host of products—such as EVs, EV batteries and battery parts, solar panel modules, steel and aluminum products, and certain critical minerals and medical items—will be subject to tariff rate hikes ranging between 25% and 100% starting on September 27, 2024."
https://www.bdo.com/insights/tax/ustr-finalizes-section-301-tariff-hikes-on-chinese-imports#:~:text=A%20host%20of%20products%E2%80%94such,starting%20on%20September%2027%2C%202024.
AtlasIntel was the most accurate pollster in 2020:
https://atlas-intel.s3.amazonaws.com/content/654fa659-9daf-4537-a3fd-d6cc04705afb.png
They have Trump within 2% of winning Minnesota, which nearly went to Ronald Reagan in 1984, when he faced Walter Mondale of Minnesota.
<b>Omnibus bill, SF 2995, the actual statute enacted in Minnesota and signed by Gov. Tim Walz</b>:
https://legiscan.com/MN/text/SF2995/id/2815612/Minnesota-2023-SF2995-Engrossed.pdf
Pages 214-217 CONFIRM the changes to allow infanticide and allow abortion for the entire pregnancy, just as reported above.
Minnesota governor Tim Walz LIED about this in the vice president debate, when JD Vance confronted him. In most states, this is murder. So abortionists now try to kill the baby with an injection to induce death, to prevent him or her from being born alive.
People need to educate themselves. Only agents for the communists or Iranian mullahs would dispute this.
A Nevada women's college just forfeited an intercollegiate volleyball game, to avoid playing a southern California team with a man pretending to be a woman. He previously caused a severe concussion with a ball spiked at a female opponent.
Fascists Joe Biden and Kamala Harris issued an executive order, illegally changing title IX, to force women to compete against men.
<b>Standard Deduction</b>
President Donald Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) increased the standard deduction from $6,500 to $12,000 for individual filers, from $13,000 to $24,000 for joint returns, and from $9,550 to $18,000 for heads of household between 2017 and 2018.
The amounts are indexed annually for inflation. The standard deduction amount for tax year 2023 (filed in 2024) is $13,850 for single filers, $27,700 for married couples, and $20,800 for heads of household. The additional deduction for single filers or heads of household who are either age 65 or over or blind is $1,850 ($3,700 if the person is both age 65 or over and blind).
<b>Itemized Deductions</b>:
The TCJA eliminated or restricted many itemized deductions for 2018 through 2025. In 2017, 31 percent of all individual income tax returns had itemized deductions, compared with just 9 percent in 2020. State and local taxes (SALT). Taxpayers can still deduct state and local real estate, personal property, and either income or sales taxes in tax years after 2017, but<b> the TCJA capped the total SALT deduction at $10,000 for tax years 2018 through 2025</b>.
<b>As mentioned in the original post, the Trump tax cuts primarily benefit the middle and working class</b>. Raising the Standard Deduction by $7,350 (single) to $14,700 (married filing joint) is practically nothing to millionaires and billionaires. But it was a big deal for the middle class. <b>Capping the state and local tax deductions used by the rich had no real effect on the middle class. But for millionaires and billionaires, especially the rich celebrity Democrat donors, this cap raised their taxes by millions per year</b>.
Kamala promised to eliminate these Trump tax cuts when they expire in early 2025. So she will raise taxes for the middle class and lower them for her rich celebrity political donors.
<i>Agents for the Chinese Communist Party, Putin's Russian Communists and Iran's mullahs do not file American income taxes. So this is beyond their comprehension. They are reduced to posting lies.</i>
1. Cat's Eye (1985)
2. The Black Cat (1981)
3. Puss in Boots (2011)
1. Robert De Niro - Cape Fear (1991)
2. Billy Bob Thornton - Dead Man (1995)
3. John Wayne - The Longest Day (1962)
4. Jack Nicholson - The Last Tycoon (1976)
5. Shelly Winters - The Night of the Hunter (1955)
6. John Mills - Ryan's Daughter (1970)
7. Henry Fonda - Midway (1976)
8. Spencer Tracy - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
9. Frank Sinatra - Not as a Stranger (1955)
10. Ernest Borgnine - Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989)
11. Shirley Maclaine - What a Way to Go! (1964)
12. Sean Connery - The Longest Day (1962)
Agreed.
Designated Survivor (2016) - When the president addresses a joint session of Congress, one member of the cabinet is far off site, in case of a major disaster. An obscure little-known cabinet member (Kiefer Sutherland) has that assignment... and a major disaster occurs.
The second season dropped off a cliff, not helped when much of the cast mysteriously did not get renewed contracts, as it drifted into liberal politics.
PHOTO: Trump approaches his garbage truck in garbage vest:
https://vinnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/twitter_1851762749078147308__1730330151828_Olivia-Rinaldi-Trump-donning-an-orange-vest-gets-into-t-696x392.jpg
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/30/trump-puts-garbage-workers-vest-jokes-green-bay-wi/
Former President Donald Trump gave new meaning Wednesday to the old adage: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. A day after President Biden insinuated that Mr. Trump’s supporters were human “garbage,” Mr. Trump walked off his airplane here in this midwestern battleground state sporting a garbage worker’s vest. He then climbed into a garbage truck with “Make America Great Again” emblazoned on its side.
“How do you like my garbage truck?” Mr. Trump asked reporters on the airport tarmac from the passenger seat. “This truck is in honor of Kamala [Harris] and Joe Biden.”
“This week, Kamala has been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murders in history, and now, speaking on a call with her campaign last night, crooked Joe Biden said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters, he called them garbage.” Mr. Trump defended his supporters, saying they “are far higher quality than crooked Crooked Joe or Lying Kamala.”
“My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans,” he said. “You can’t be president if you hate the American people, which I believe they do.” The blowback is reminiscent of 2016 when Hillary Clinton disparaged Trump supporters as “deplorables,” which became a rallying cry for them.
Kommunist Kamara is STILL LYING about this!
Kamala promised to allow Donald Trump's tax cuts to expire in early 2025. Trump gave a huge tax cut to the middle class and working class, by substantially raising the Standard Deduction for everyone.
Trump also RAISED taxes for the rich, by putting a $10,000 limit on deductions for state income taxes. Think about that. If you make a million or more per year, like most of Kamala's rich donors, you no longer had unlimited deductions for state income taxes paid or withheld.
<b>So Kamala Harris has repeatedly promised to RAISE taxes on the middle class and lower taxes for the very richest (her donors.)</b>
When Biden and Harris got elected, billions of dollars were doled out to Democrat donors, in the form of government grants and contracts for the Green New Deal. That's why we had the highest inflation in 40 years, and why interest rates shot up through the roof, making mortgage rates too high to be able to buy a house or townhouse.
Want lower taxes? Vote for TRUMP!