Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

"The sun never sets on the English Empire" is boastful.

You know it was literally true, and thus not boastful, right?

"We're inherently good, and have God on our side, and all who challenge us are bad" is more delusional.

They had all of that too.

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

You do realize that when he said things along the lines of "we do bad stuff" he was proud of that bad stuff, don't you? That he thinks we drop some of the best bombs on people?

The isolationism is the problem. It's just a fact that we live in a multilateral world where we have deep and complex relationships with other countries, with trade, immigration, education, arts, and everything else going both way. If you decide to try to isolate yourself from that, you lose on all sides.

Worse, you make no effort to understand it and base your decisions on intuition and/or Fox and Friends.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

There’s a huge hole in this pass thru thing for med practice owners. All it seems owner has to do is set up an LLC to sell medical supplies to itself. Have it buy all supplies for practice, mark them up and sell them to practice. Drop owner salary by amount corresponding with amount of mark up at years’ end. Voila. You’ve turned a fat pile of high bracket income into 20% deductible pass-through income.

This bill is really retarded.

Not my area, but aren't there other rules that make this difficult? To maybe it's just payor contracts.

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Originally Posted by Icky Thump

IF the dems get in power, to enact revenge they should (but don't have the fucking balls to) enact a $10 a gallon gas tax to pay for National Health. While realistically, that's the way the rest of the world does it.

Add to that mandatory $1 million liability insurance for every gun and you have to register every one at the DMV.

Everyone else also doesn't waste nearly as much on elective wars and defense department pork.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

You know it was literally true, and thus not boastful, right?

Seems to me that it was both true and boastful.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

IF the dems get in power, to enact revenge they should (but don't have the fucking balls to) enact a $10 a gallon gas tax to pay for National Health. While realistically, that's the way the rest of the world does it.

Add to that mandatory $1 million liability insurance for every gun and you have to register every one at the DMV.

Yeah, an remove the "Sanders Shield" on liability for gun manufacturers.

Gas in the US is like Bread in Roman days. It's usually the last thing that gets taxed. I'd put a priority on taxing the billionaire class that just ripped us off in the tax scam bill - get rid of the distinction between cap gains and ordinary income, which never made sense and which Bill Clinton was able to do in his day, put in a $1M plus surtax, etc. etc.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

Not my area, but aren't there other rules that make this difficult? To maybe it's just payor contracts.

Some insurers’ reimbursement policies make it difficult. But as to general supplies, which form the bulk of purchases, and as to all elective and private pay procedures, I haven’t found any obstacles.

I don’t see how guidance prevents it, either. Deference doesn’t allow an agency to violate the black letter, and the black letter here seems to be designed to allow these moves.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Seems to me that it was both true and boastful.

Thank you. I was wondering how those were mutually exclusive.

If you’re boasting and it’s untrue, it’s more bullshit than boast, no?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

You do realize that when he said things along the lines of "we do bad stuff" he was proud of that bad stuff, don't you? That he thinks we drop some of the best bombs on people?

The isolationism is the problem. It's just a fact that we live in a multilateral world where we have deep and complex relationships with other countries, with trade, immigration, education, arts, and everything else going both way. If you decide to try to isolate yourself from that, you lose on all sides.

I thought he was saying it defensively, getting Vlad’s back. But my recollection of the context could be wrong.

I agree isolationism is generally bad, but if there’s any silver lining at all to it, it would be focusing on fixing the rot at home (infrastructure being primary importance). Of course, that probably won’t happen either, so my point is entirely academic.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I thought he was saying it defensively, getting Vlad’s back. But my recollection of the context could be wrong.

I agree isolationism is generally bad, but if there’s any silver lining at all to it, it would be focusing on fixing the rot at home (infrastructure being primary importance). Of course, that probably won’t happen either, so my point is entirely academic.

Heh, heh. "Infrastructure". The ultimate Trump con.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I thought he was saying it defensively, getting Vlad’s back. But my recollection of the context could be wrong.

I agree isolationism is generally bad, but if there’s any silver lining at all to it, it would be focusing on fixing the rot at home (infrastructure being primary importance). Of course, that probably won’t happen either, so my point is entirely academic.

As long aslone party is defined by graft for its donor class, we can't to blindingly obvious stuff like infrastructure.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Yeah, an remove the "Sanders Shield" on liability for gun manufacturers.

Gas in the US is like Bread in Roman days. It's usually the last thing that gets taxed. I'd put a priority on taxing the billionaire class that just ripped us off in the tax scam bill - get rid of the distinction between cap gains and ordinary income, which never made sense and which Bill Clinton was able to do in his day, put in a $1M plus surtax, etc. etc.

Can't tax em enough to matter unless you take it all.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Happy New Year!

May you all survive to the next one.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Happy New Year!

May you all survive to the next one.

It's good to set our expectations low.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

It's good to set our expectations low.

Survival is increasingly seeming like a high expectation. Now it appears that we may die because Trump as a tiny penis. Fucking brilliant.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politi...ear/index.html