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Said speech might have been Trump's foreign policy when he said it. Who knows what it is now.

 

Sounds well thought-out.

 

Surprise! Obamacare Repeal Includes A Stealth Tax Cut For Top Earners

"Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement — which health care policy experts predict could cost 30 million people their health insurance — will also bring a major tax break for high-income Americans.

Two taxes that will be presumably axed with the law affect only those making $200,000 or more. The break the ACA repeal will bring to those taxpayers will amount to a $346 billion tax cut in total over 10 years, according to the CBO report on the 2015 repeal legislation GOP lawmakers say they’ll be using as their model next year.

As University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley pointed out on the Incidental Economist blog, this comes as Trump and his surrogates promised that any major tax cut for the rich will be offset by closing their deductions, which would not be the case with the cuts in the ACA repeal.

"That $346 billion represents about $1,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Every cent will go into the pockets of people making more than $200,000 per year," Bagley wrote.

It's not exactly what's on the top of American public's mind considering all the other dire warnings being issued about the repercussions of repealing Obamacare, even with a delay, without a replacement plan queued up. Call it a stealth tax cut."

“Repealing the Affordable Care Act is a way to give wealthy people a fairly substantial tax cut without that necessarily being the largest headline,” Harry Stein, the director of fiscal policy at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, told TPM.

 

If you run that through the What Trump Really Meant decoder app, what he was saying was "I'm going to make sure the military-industrial-Wall Street complex gets a whole hell of a lot of money and that's why I won't be able to get those highways, bridges, tunnels and airports fixed up like a gilt-covered Trump property."

 

We've got to be strong militarily like we've never been before. Our sad sad military is barely bigger than the next ten militaries in the world all put together.
Sad.
It reminds me of my tiny tiny peenus. Good thing I have a pretty princess to tell me how awesome it is every morning.

 

The people who sold their Lockheed Martin and Boeing stocks on Trump tweets were suckers. Who stands to get the big slices of all that extra military spending?

 

Why are you posting news from six months ago?

 

Hmmmm. If we're going to be planting our lips deep deep in Uncle Vladimir's jockey shorts, and Uncle Vladimir is gonna be our BFF, and Uncle Vladimir commands the NEXT biggest military in the world, if Uncle Vladimir is gonna be our buddy and everything, what do we need the monster humongous military for anymore?

 

To bomb the shit out of ISIS.

 

Because he's dishonest.

 

Interesting angle on the role Putin's mentor played in the rise of the alt-right ...

PUTIN'S COUP AGAINST AMERICA

 

Oops, sorry. Honest mistake. Forgot to check the run date.

So fuck off, you pig-eyed sack of shit!