Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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The Rotten Core of the Republican Party
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Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the top House Republican, recently took to social media to warn that Democrats have hatched a dastardly plot. “Democrats,” he said, “want to track every penny you earn so they can then tax you and your family at the maximum possible amount.”
Well, yes. Democrats want Americans to pay the full amount they owe in taxes.
What doesn’t get enough attention is that many Republicans seem not to agree.
Resistance to taxation is the rotten core of the modern Republican Party. Republicans in recent decades have sharply reduced the federal income tax rates imposed on wealthy people and big companies, but their opposition to taxation goes beyond that. They are aiding and abetting tax evasion.
Republicans have hacked away at funding for the Internal Revenue Service over the past decade, enfeebling the agency. When the rich and powerful open loopholes in the tax code, Republicans reliably fight to keep the loopholes open. Indeed, they valorize Americans who find ways to pay less, a normalization of antisocial behavior that may be even more damaging than the efforts at bureaucratic sabotage.
Former President Donald Trump’s loud and proud declaration that paying very little in taxes “makes me smart” was just a more brazen articulation of what has become party orthodoxy.
The Democratic proposal targeted by Mr. McCarthy — in the video he posted online, he calls it “un-American” — would make it harder for wealthy people to cheat on their taxes.
The I.R.S. estimated in 2019 that Americans conceal from taxation more than half of income that is not subject to some form of third-party verification like a W-2, the form that the government uses to verify ordinary wage income. This blind spot costs the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes. In comparison, more than 95 percent of wage income is reported.
Under the current version of the Democrats’ plan, which is part of the Biden administration’s sweeping “Build Back Better” legislation, banks would be required to submit annual reports on accounts with total inflows and outflows exceeding $10,000, excluding paychecks and government benefits. The banks would report the total amount deposited in the account and the total amount withdrawn. There would be no reporting of individual transactions. The information would give the I.R.S. a better chance to catch cheaters — and it would provide a salutary reminder for people to pay what they owe.
The Biden administration recently cemented an international agreement to establish a 15 percent global minimum tax on corporate income. The long-sought deal would reduce the incentive for American firms to evade taxation by pretending to generate revenue in low-tax havens like Ireland and roughly half the islands in the Caribbean — a practice that has become all but business as usual in industries with intangible products, like finance, technology and pharmaceutical research.
The minimum corporate tax, like the bank reporting requirement, is not aimed at increasing what is owed. It is aimed at collecting what is owed already.
Improving tax collection has another important benefit. Democracy — and capitalism — rest on a lacework of mutual obligation. People fulfill their own responsibilities because they are confident others will, too. Collecting taxes, especially from the rich and powerful, is an affirmation of that faith.
Felicia Wong, the president of the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank based in New York, said that the corporate tax agreement, which includes 136 countries, is valuable as a demonstration that governments have the ability to impose their will on multinational corporations in the service of the public interest — a hopeful model for confronting other problems, like climate change.
“It can and should create more faith in governance,” she said.
Both plans, however, must overcome the united opposition of congressional Republicans.
The Republican Party was reborn in the 1970s under the banner of resistance to taxation, led by anti-tax men like Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan. It remains the party’s fixation, the one major area of policy on which congressional Republicans were able to agree during the Trump administration.
By way of ideological justification, Republicans like to talk about liberty, by which they mean a narrow and negative kind of freedom from civic duty and mutual obligation.
But the fervent opposition to taxation has always found its deeper wellsprings of motivation in concern about how the money will be spent. In the bellwether case of California, the rise of anti-tax activism was inextricably intertwined with the decline of a white electoral majority. It wasn’t a question of whether Americans should ever be required to help one another. The real question was who would be helped.
Opposition to progressive income taxation also draws strength from an imagined democratic ideal in which the people who vote for taxation, pay the taxes and get the benefits are all one and the same.
History tells a different story. From the outset, taxation in the United States was designed as an antidote to inequality. The government initially chose to raise revenue through tariffs collected from wealthy merchants. The introduction of a federal income tax in the early 20th century was a different means to the same end. In a historical analysis published last year, a pair of German political scientists, Laura Seelkopf and Hanna Lierse, showed that progressive taxation is a hallmark of democratic governance.
Political philosophers have long fretted that democracy allows the poor to plunder the rich. The opposite has proved more nearly true. Progressive taxation is not a threat to the wealthy. It is a small price to pay for prosperity.
Cutting taxes to starve social programs is, by itself, a threat to the sustainability of the American experiment in multicultural democracy. In enabling resistance to lawful taxation, Republicans are engaged in an even more direct assault.
Having failed to constrain government spending through the democratic process, they are seeking to undermine government.
Mr. McCarthy is right to frame a fairly technical change in tax rules as an issue that goes to the heart of American democracy. Democracies impose higher taxes than other forms of government because democracies are communities of common purpose. We create and maintain our society through our contributions.
Or we don’t. And things fall apart.
Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the top House Republican, recently took to social media to warn that Democrats have hatched a dastardly plot. “Democrats,” he said, “want to track every penny you earn so they can then tax you and your family at the maximum possible amount.”
Well, yes. Democrats want Americans to pay the full amount they owe in taxes.
What doesn’t get enough attention is that many Republicans seem not to agree.
Resistance to taxation is the rotten core of the modern Republican Party. Republicans in recent decades have sharply reduced the federal income tax rates imposed on wealthy people and big companies, but their opposition to taxation goes beyond that. They are aiding and abetting tax evasion.
Republicans have hacked away at funding for the Internal Revenue Service over the past decade, enfeebling the agency. When the rich and powerful open loopholes in the tax code, Republicans reliably fight to keep the loopholes open. Indeed, they valorize Americans who find ways to pay less, a normalization of antisocial behavior that may be even more damaging than the efforts at bureaucratic sabotage.
Former President Donald Trump’s loud and proud declaration that paying very little in taxes “makes me smart” was just a more brazen articulation of what has become party orthodoxy.
The Democratic proposal targeted by Mr. McCarthy — in the video he posted online, he calls it “un-American” — would make it harder for wealthy people to cheat on their taxes.
The I.R.S. estimated in 2019 that Americans conceal from taxation more than half of income that is not subject to some form of third-party verification like a W-2, the form that the government uses to verify ordinary wage income. This blind spot costs the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes. In comparison, more than 95 percent of wage income is reported.
Under the current version of the Democrats’ plan, which is part of the Biden administration’s sweeping “Build Back Better” legislation, banks would be required to submit annual reports on accounts with total inflows and outflows exceeding $10,000, excluding paychecks and government benefits. The banks would report the total amount deposited in the account and the total amount withdrawn. There would be no reporting of individual transactions. The information would give the I.R.S. a better chance to catch cheaters — and it would provide a salutary reminder for people to pay what they owe.
The Biden administration recently cemented an international agreement to establish a 15 percent global minimum tax on corporate income. The long-sought deal would reduce the incentive for American firms to evade taxation by pretending to generate revenue in low-tax havens like Ireland and roughly half the islands in the Caribbean — a practice that has become all but business as usual in industries with intangible products, like finance, technology and pharmaceutical research.
The minimum corporate tax, like the bank reporting requirement, is not aimed at increasing what is owed. It is aimed at collecting what is owed already.
Improving tax collection has another important benefit. Democracy — and capitalism — rest on a lacework of mutual obligation. People fulfill their own responsibilities because they are confident others will, too. Collecting taxes, especially from the rich and powerful, is an affirmation of that faith.
Felicia Wong, the president of the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank based in New York, said that the corporate tax agreement, which includes 136 countries, is valuable as a demonstration that governments have the ability to impose their will on multinational corporations in the service of the public interest — a hopeful model for confronting other problems, like climate change.
“It can and should create more faith in governance,” she said.
Both plans, however, must overcome the united opposition of congressional Republicans.
The Republican Party was reborn in the 1970s under the banner of resistance to taxation, led by anti-tax men like Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan. It remains the party’s fixation, the one major area of policy on which congressional Republicans were able to agree during the Trump administration.
By way of ideological justification, Republicans like to talk about liberty, by which they mean a narrow and negative kind of freedom from civic duty and mutual obligation.
But the fervent opposition to taxation has always found its deeper wellsprings of motivation in concern about how the money will be spent. In the bellwether case of California, the rise of anti-tax activism was inextricably intertwined with the decline of a white electoral majority. It wasn’t a question of whether Americans should ever be required to help one another. The real question was who would be helped.
Opposition to progressive income taxation also draws strength from an imagined democratic ideal in which the people who vote for taxation, pay the taxes and get the benefits are all one and the same.
History tells a different story. From the outset, taxation in the United States was designed as an antidote to inequality. The government initially chose to raise revenue through tariffs collected from wealthy merchants. The introduction of a federal income tax in the early 20th century was a different means to the same end. In a historical analysis published last year, a pair of German political scientists, Laura Seelkopf and Hanna Lierse, showed that progressive taxation is a hallmark of democratic governance.
Political philosophers have long fretted that democracy allows the poor to plunder the rich. The opposite has proved more nearly true. Progressive taxation is not a threat to the wealthy. It is a small price to pay for prosperity.
Cutting taxes to starve social programs is, by itself, a threat to the sustainability of the American experiment in multicultural democracy. In enabling resistance to lawful taxation, Republicans are engaged in an even more direct assault.
Having failed to constrain government spending through the democratic process, they are seeking to undermine government.
Mr. McCarthy is right to frame a fairly technical change in tax rules as an issue that goes to the heart of American democracy. Democracies impose higher taxes than other forms of government because democracies are communities of common purpose. We create and maintain our society through our contributions.
Or we don’t. And things fall apart.
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At least they're being somewhat more 'realistic' with their predictions now. 20 years ago the coastal cities were going to be underwater in 10, you can't get clowned on for your ridiculous doomsday predictions if you revise them to occur after you die.
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"People are nothing but government property": the article.
Up yours, NYT. You're not going after dastardly billionaire tax cheats. You're haranguing ordinary Americans who live paycheck to paycheck.
The Democrat Party is the Party of Rape. They seek to rape your children, your wallet, your way of life, your body, your mind, and your very soul.
They are like a possessive, abusive partner that threatens to kill you if you try to leave them.
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Dear people we are annoying, we don't mean to annoy you, but we won't stop annoying you.
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Just run these idiots over. It'd save the planet better than blocking traffic and letting cars idle for hours.
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Ah yes, because obviously the only option is immediate and catastrophic abandonment of critical infrastructure that supports in all likelyhood billions of people across the globe, and absolutely nobody between now and 2100 will come up with any technology or methods at all to improve on an address this problem. Just like how we didn't manage to do anything to address the Malthusian Limit.
Whether you believe in man made climate change or not, you have to agree that its fascinating that the pro-science group somehow believes the world will never develop past its current point and the only option is to shut it down. This is the Petulant child response to a problem, and not how adults address things.
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I recall seeing a video where these same Extinction Rebellion people were blocking a road in the UK by sitting down on it and they were blocking an ambulance. They refused to let the ambulance through, so some drivers and pedestrians went over and started beating and shoving the protesters until the road was clear. Should honestly become standard protocol here, if you want to be assholes to people except people to be assholes to you.
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He has only yet begun to nationalize everything. IOW, "Our problem was not being Communist enough!"
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Colion Noir made a video on Joe Biden and "Let's Go Brandon"
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This is some George Soros-esque coordinated gay ops but NYC being NYC not getting that Amazon package, Fresh Direct or Whole Foods delivery on time and in optimal condition could cause Manhattanites to
edit: of course give the huge number of schizo homeless hobos shitting it down is possible too
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1. Actiblizz
2. Literally all the doomer sources are experiences from twitter.
3. Government and woke practices being nothing but pandering.
4. Pride Month pandering.
Just because these chucklefucks are stupid enough to hire trannies doesn't magically stop the frat culture of yore, just ask the retards with kotick.
It's also why silicon valley has always been so hilarious. Tech nerds pretending to be frat nerds pretending to be woke nerds.
Just retarded nerds all the way down.
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It's what she deserves after her county shot Trayvon Martin!
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"NYC will be underwater by 2100"
Is there any way we can speed that up? How much would it cost to include LA, SF, Seattle, Portland, and DC?
"Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement"
It's actually depressing to see they've brought over those british psych warfare movements to America. As if shit isn't bad enough as it is, we have more globalist faggot gayops wrecking shit up.
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They went from being used as legit data for marketting firms, research studies - that had government grants btw, and other assorted gaggles of "forward thinkers" for predictive analysis.
To their faggotry and government cockmongling leading to them being labled as junk data by academia - of all people, and forced them to fellate the very government hellbent on their destruction through boomer manuevers like fucking with 230.
Of course they're pissed, but more in the jailbait needing to have sex with a 90 year old gorillionaire to get what she wants narc pissed than anything else
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The fact that these stories are coming out and not getting buried by the MSM suggests Fauci's about to get yeeted.
I mean, the wisest thing the Dems could do, especially going into the hell that will be the midterms, would be to throw jugears off the boat, declare victory over Covid, dial back the mandates down to 'we really think you should get these shots' and try to get things back to something approaching normal.
Yeah, I know. Hand me those Skittles so I can taste the rainbow.
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Humorously enough, the reveal about the beagle experimentation might have been a last straw for JonTron that he's blasting it on Twitter amongst other things denigrating Fauci. Responses have been rather evenly split down the middle, either thanking him for speaking out about how Fauci is a monster, or ignoramuses branding Jon an anti-vaxx science denying MAGA chud due to his past controversial statements.
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the paranoid in me thinks it's part of an orchestrated effort, the rational in me thinks it's MSM have noticed that Fauci is as good a scapegoat as any and smell blood so they're running with it
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The fact that the asshole might finally get the boot not because of the overbearing Big Brother executive mandates he's been pushing, or that because he might have helped fund the development of the China Coof, but because his past experiments horrify the animal lovers, is a sad indictment of our society.
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