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The Florida senate has also passed a bill that allows the state to determine what are appropriate majors for a certain segment of high performing HS students who earn a particular scholarship from FL, funded by lottery money, not taxes. If kids major in an 'unapproved' field that allegedly doesn't lead to employment, their award can be suspended.

No reason to think the House won't pass it.

Talk about government over reach.

 

Gaetz-tied group threatens to sue reporters writing on his Trump relationship

LOL

The official behind the recent legal threats is Erin Elmore. ...a Season 3 contestant on “The Apprentice.” “Ladies and gentelman [sic], the GREATEST President of the United States,” she captioned an Instagram photo of her and Trump inside his gilded oceanside resort last month.

Also:

Trump finally put out a statement this week that said, “Congressman Matt Gaetz has never asked me for a pardon. It must also be remembered that he has totally denied the accusations against him.”

Denials=proof of innocence

 

Hey, it worked for Pootie.

 

Getting rid of the Trump tax cut is a good idea

It’s Biden’s turn to repeal and replace—the Trump tax plan

 

Want to hurt the middle class? Make them pay tens of thousands of dollars in capital gains tax because they are inheriting a $400,000 home their dad bought for $70,000 many years ago.

 

They’re still getting a $400K home they didn’t earn. My mom just told me they’re doing their will and are sitting on about $2M. I have no idea what I’ll end up getting, but it wasn’t my money, I didn’t earn it, and I’m happy to pay taxes on it.

So shut the fuck up, you selfish asshole.

 

Unless "middle class" dad's estate is valued over $11 million, the entire house will be included in the estate, covered by the $11 million dollar estate tax exemption, had its cost-basis reset, and then can be sold tax free.

You're welcome.

 

The estate tax exemption is now $11 million for individuals, and $22 million for couples. I hope and pray my kids have to worry about paying estate taxes when I die.

 

Every one of these people should be arrested, bound over for trial and sent to prison if convicted.

Trump appointees in the Health and Human Services department last year privately touted their efforts to block or alter scientists’ reports on the coronavirus to more closely align with then-President Donald Trump’s more optimistic messages about the outbreak, according to newly released documents from congressional investigators.

The documents provide further insight into how senior Trump officials approached last year’s explosion of coronavirus cases in the United States. Even as career government scientists worked to combat the virus, a cadre of Trump appointees were attempting to blunt the scientists’ messages, edit their findings and equip the president with an alternate set of talking points.

Then-science adviser Paul Alexander wrote to then-HHS public affairs chief Michael Caputo on Sept. 9, 2020, touting two examples of where he said officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had bowed to his pressure and changed language in their reports, according to an email obtained by the House’s select subcommittee on the coronavirus outbreak.

Pointing to one change — where CDC leaders allegedly changed the opening sentence of a report about spread of the virus among younger people after Alexander pressured them — Alexander wrote to Caputo, calling it a “small victory but a victory nonetheless and yippee!!!”

In the same email, Alexander touted another example of a change to a weekly report from the CDC that he said the agency made in response to his demands. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR), which offer public updates on scientists’ findings, had been considered sacrosanct for decades and untouchable by political appointees in the past.

Two days later, Alexander appealed to then-White House adviser Scott Atlas to help him dispute an upcoming CDC report on coronavirus-related deaths among young Americans.

“Can you help me craft an op-ed,” Alexander wrote to Atlas on Sept. 11, alleging the CDC report was “timed for the election” and an attempt to keep schools closed even as Trump pushed to reopen them. “Let us advise the President and get permission to preempt this please for it will run for the weekend so we need to blunt the edge as it is misleading.”

Alexander and other officials also strategized on how to help Trump argue to reopen the economy in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, despite scientists’ warnings about the potential risks.

“I know the President wants us to enumerate the economic cost of not reopening. We need solid estimates to be able to say something like: 50,000 more cancer deaths! 40,000 more heart attacks! 25,000 more suicides!” Caputo wrote to Alexander on May 16, 2020, in an email obtained by the subcommittee.

“You need to take ownership of these numbers. This is singularly important to what you and I want to achieve,” Caputo added in a follow-up email, urging Alexander to compile additional data on the consequences of virus-related shutdowns.

Atlas, Alexander and Caputo did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Many of the Trump officials clashing with government scientists had little or no previous experience in combating infectious disease. Caputo, a GOP political communications consultant and longtime Trump ally, had not previously worked in public health before Trump installed him to oversee the health department’s communications in April 2020.

Alexander, who was not a physician but recruited as Caputo’s handpicked science adviser, had previously been an unpaid, part-time health professor at Canada’s McMaster University. Atlas was a radiologist neuroradiologist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution who caught the White House’s attention after defending the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Fox News.​

Trump officials celebrated efforts to change CDC reports on coronavirus, emails show — The Washington Post

 

I haven't seen any major corporations come out against Biden's proposal to raise the corporate tax rate. That speaks volumes as to what an absolute gift Trump's tax break really was. Maybe some have come out against Biden's proposal and I didn't see them but, by and large, it sure doesn't seem like they're particularly upset about it.

 

Stepped Up Basis Reform: Biden's Middle-Class Tax Hike?

You're welcome.