He's on Medicare, not Medicaid, but I agree. Trump doesn't need their votes anymore, and Musk never did.
He watches a lot of Fox News, so he thinks he's informed, but he's really just full of propaganda. At least at this point he knows better than to debate politics with me, so it's pretty civil when I visit or call. But also on the rare occasion he decides to press a matter, he knows he can never win. I will bring receipts.
My father is the quintessential baby boomer: he's retired and lives off of a federal pension and Social Security, and he's a three-time Trump voter. When I said in a recent call that I wondered if they would go after his pension or Social Security, his response was basically that his income is safe because he's already collecting on it.
He didn't have to say that he didn't care about anyone else: it was implied. I doubt he cares if anyone younger (including me) can ever can draw on the system we're paying into, because he got his.
The board is planning to fight Trump’s order, three of those people told The Washington Post. In an emergency meeting Thursday, the board retained outside counsel and gave instructions to sue the White House if the president were to remove members of the board or attempt to alter the agency’s independent status.
I'm kind of amazed that they're fighting to retain independence.
When people say the rich aren't paying their fair share, they're saying taxes should go up on the richest 1% and 0.1%, who are often paying effective tax rates in the single digits most years because of their various tax schemes and shelters.
The people who are actually paying the highest effective income tax rates are the upper middle class, who between federal, state, and local taxes are being soaked for very little in return (European tax rates without free health care or university, for example). But they're not rich, and they don't have the same options actual rich people do.
If tax rates were flatter, I'm still confident the first group would carve out loopholes so they could keep hoarding wealth. Does the author think Donald Trump, of all people, would actually increase taxes on himself and his rich friends?
This could all play out in a few ways. I wonder if blue states will finally reach a point where they instruct their citizens and registered corporations to stop payment of federal income tax, sparking a civil war.
First of all, that's within the margin of error, so the headline is pure clickbait copium.
Second, it'll take some time for the effects to be reflected in the economy, even with tariffs. Give it time; it will drop further once it impacts people directly.
You need to push back hard. If they come at you to arrest you (as a sitting representative), maybe it'll wake people up. You just have to hope they aren't going to barge in at 6 am with machine guns, because historically that doesn't end well for anyone.
Cobol is heavily used in the financial industry for a reason. It's actually excellent for processing financial data at scale and it's well supported. Many of these institutions attempt to swap out parts of these systems with modern languages or runtimes; these projects often fail because they're simply too slow or the new systems crash too often.
I'm not saying it's impossible to do so, just that it's not worth it.
I think it's also just the destabilizing effect of adding millions of immigrants. Jordan is only 11-12M people; Egypt is about 10x that amount. Both are strongly anti-Islamist and anyone who takes in Palestinians would be taking in some % of Hamas.
I don't even disagree with his answer, but what actually counts is your voting record, you smug motherfucker