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I'd settle for permanent exile to Palm Beach, with the condition that he never leave the island again.

 

So even though Strzok has been caught lying, it's a conspiracy. Got it.

Nevertheless, it wasn't Trump's claim, it's your obsession with Trump that makes it "his claim".

 

And away we go

 

What a fucking joke this whole thing is

 

Yep. But it's OK to cut taxes for the wealthy. Dick move by Trump but no surprise.

 

What about the federal coal miners why don't they get a raise

 

The original WaPo article linked several pages ago, and the various links within that article, provide a fuller picture, including showing that birth fraud is a decades-old problem that has been a concern of previous administrations. I worked on immigrant visa applications in a consulate in Mexico in the late 1980s, and we saw a lot of document fraud involving midwives and church baptismal certificates. What I saw wasn't quite the same as the situation the article covers; many of the applications I reviewed relied on recently obtained Texas birth certificates based on records or affidavits about births or baptisms from decades earlier, and those newly confirmed citizens (often living in Mexico) were the basis for immigrant visa applications to benefit their relatives, who were usually living illegally in the U.S. and had hired a lawyer to help them try to get legal residency. Based on what I saw, I'm sure there are thousands of people who are U.S. citizens based on fraudulent birth documents, either about their own births or those of relatives. I'm sure that a lot of them have no idea that they or their relatives weren't born in the U.S., and in many cases it may not be possible to prove one way or the other.

All that said, I don't see a benefit in stripping citizenship from people who have lived their whole lives as U.S. citizens, even in the cases where there is strong suspicion or proof that they were not originally entitled to citizenship.

 

If the information was false, there would have been no FISA warrant.

 

One of these days, a Trumpist will pull something like this off. And another conservative hero will be born.
Opinion | Look, President Trump, at who’s using your ‘enemy of the people’ rhetoric

 

Why Trump’s Latest Weird North Korea Rant Was Bad News for Mattis

 

And here is the rationalization Fox News is offering.

 

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I wonder what the net revenue impact would be of indexing capital gains to inflation and at the same time making the long-term capital gains rate (and the dividend rate, I suppose) the same as the rate on ordinary income. Compared to the current system, this would encourage stock sales by middle- and upper-middle-income people who had held their shares for a long time and discourage sales by upper-income people who hadn't held their shares as long. Indexing capital gains seems sort of consistent with the current practice of indexing the tax brackets for ordinary income, and if you have indexation, it seems consistent to tax capital gains and ordinary income at the same rates.