I personally think they should cut roughly 2 trillion from spending, try to bring in more money via trade, and leave taxes where they are until the debt is paid down. It would probably take 20-30 years but all Americans would have a better life if we made that sacrifice now.
Trump supporters, how do you square this?
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thedukeofearl
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Wedbush is also excitedly eying Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots, which the company has been working on for several years.
Musk has frequently described the robots as, eventually, being capable of doing anything from factory work to serving as a bodyguard or teacher. Tesla hopes to build 10,000 Optimus robots this year and enter volume production in 2026, with plans to eventually sell them for between $20,000 and $25,000.
Damn, musk gonna boost his declining tesla sales with robots
Musk has frequently described the robots as, eventually, being capable of doing anything from factory work to serving as a bodyguard or teacher. Tesla hopes to build 10,000 Optimus robots this year and enter volume production in 2026, with plans to eventually sell them for between $20,000 and $25,000.
Damn, musk gonna boost his declining tesla sales with robots
Since it's such a short period of time, that's the very definition of a small sample size. It also destroys the "transgenderism isn't a mental disorder" argument. Poor people need help and they are the only group of people where for some reason we think it's best to encourage it. Imagine telling someone with multi personality disorder that they're normal or telling someone with anorexia to keep starving themselves. It's truly sad.As we ponder our national priorities, I really wish the Trump administration would move on from "punching down" on vulnerable people like Transgender kids and adults. These are actual people, and there are consequences of hate:
Anti-Transgender Laws Cause up to 72% Increase in Suicide Attempts Among Transgender and Nonbinary Youth, Study Shows
Your Support Saves LGBTQ+Youth's Lives Every DayDonateA first-of-its kind peer-reviewed study found state-level anti-transgender laws increased past year-suicide attempts among […]www.thetrevorproject.org
The tax code does need fixed. Anyone who complains the rich pay so much doesn’t understand the big picture. There is more than spending that makes it difficult to balance a budget. That said we need to reduce spending and the rich should pay their fair share. Yes the pay a lot but their riches are staggering and growing while the rest of us are losing real income . Huge companies like Tesla should not be paying zero or near zero taxes. It’s robbing the poor to feed the rich.
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Nearly 10% Of S&P 500 Companies Paid No Tax — Including Tesla
With all the bellyaching about U.S. corporate taxes, you'd think S&P 500 companies paid up.
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Like start wars that kill lots of people. That's some impressive TDS to think Bush was trying to do the right thing. Clinton was banging chicks in the oval office while married. The only difference in morality between Trump and past politicians is media coverage.
Your faith in past politicians is impressive. It explains your hatred for Trump tho.
Within 10 years everyone will own one. Buy stock now if you like money. With AI coming, the only thing truly stopping the terminator plot from playing out is those robots tho. We will be rich in five years and all dead in ten!
I don't think the rich should pay less. But I'm also not nieeve enough to thing that "fair share" is a term that could ever be satisfied.The tax code does need fixed. Anyone who complains the rich pay so much doesn’t understand the big picture. There is more than spending that makes it difficult to balance a budget. That said we need to reduce spending and the rich should pay their fair share. Yes the pay a lot but their riches are staggering and growing while the rest of us are losing real income . Huge companies like Tesla should not be paying zero or near zero taxes. It’s robbing the poor to feed the rich.
Nearly 10% Of S&P 500 Companies Paid No Tax — Including Tesla
With all the bellyaching about U.S. corporate taxes, you'd think S&P 500 companies paid up.
Also I know how my cooperate taxes work so I understand how big companies pay nothing in cooperate taxes. Spend profit expanding business and pay out all extra in bonuses. You end up breaking even as a cooperation. Bonuses get taxes at a crazy high rate too so its nothing shady going on. My tax guy just tells me it's easier to funnel all of my profits out at the end of the year and pay everything in personal taxes.
Hay Man
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How about tax them more than nothing, like what all these big companies are paying right now. Maybe the rich can pay the same percentage as we do for once.
Hay Man
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Oh, I forgot that tRump has been a choir boy for his entire life. If you think any of the former presidents are more morally and ethically corrupt than the orange turd, then you have some serious internal issues to sort out. Do you need help getting out of the cult you're in???
Westernhawk
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You're lecturing the wrong person about psychiatric issues, depression, and suicidal behavior. I appreciate you have some opinions and feelings on this as a layman, however, so you have the right to have feelings.
I won't talk about my career here, but my wife is a doctoral-level clinical psychologist and many of her clients are LGBTQ. She and I discuss this issue quite a bit.
Nobody is telling someone with anorexia to starve themselves, and no clinician is telling someone with "multiple personality disorder" that they are normal (not sure if that is still a valid dx, btw).
Transgender folks have a high rate of death by suicide. They are treated very poorly by most of society and now our President gives bullies free reign to do it. How they are treated by their communities is definitely a factor in all of this. I appreciate you have opinions but maybe they aren't so well-informed. I'll just leave it there.
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I think corporations should cooperate with paying corporate taxes.
Hay Man
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Trump the anti-war president was always a myth
Let the record show: Trump poured fuel on our endless wars and kicked diplomacy to the curb.
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Westernhawk
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When those robots ask you if you can tell them the whereabouts of John Connor, run.
Westernhawk
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Minor win for our constitution this week (and I hope it's not short lived):
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 that the Executive Branch cannot "impound" and seize funds that have been allocated to programs by Congress.
For review, Congress is the co-equal branch of government (at least I hope it still is) that holds the purse strings. It allocates funding. Previous rulings have sustained the authority of Congress in this regard.
In the case of USAID, this program was created by STATUTE. The supreme court ruled that the White House cannot ignore a federal court's restraining order compelling the release of $2B in foreign aid funds already appropriated by Congress.
This is really important, because if it went the other way, a serious crack in the foundation of our democracy would exist, and ultimately grow.
I know a lot of Americans (strangely) who claim to love our system of government, are supportive of ignoring the Constitution and allowing DOGE and Drumpf to have ultimate power as an Administrative branch.
We'll see how this plays out, but quietly this week, a constitutional crisis has been temporarily averted.
I'm totally okay with folks having all sorts of opinions on policy and how our government should spend our tax dollars. I'm not okay with subverting our democracy and constitution, however. What say you?
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 that the Executive Branch cannot "impound" and seize funds that have been allocated to programs by Congress.
For review, Congress is the co-equal branch of government (at least I hope it still is) that holds the purse strings. It allocates funding. Previous rulings have sustained the authority of Congress in this regard.
In the case of USAID, this program was created by STATUTE. The supreme court ruled that the White House cannot ignore a federal court's restraining order compelling the release of $2B in foreign aid funds already appropriated by Congress.
This is really important, because if it went the other way, a serious crack in the foundation of our democracy would exist, and ultimately grow.
I know a lot of Americans (strangely) who claim to love our system of government, are supportive of ignoring the Constitution and allowing DOGE and Drumpf to have ultimate power as an Administrative branch.
We'll see how this plays out, but quietly this week, a constitutional crisis has been temporarily averted.
I'm totally okay with folks having all sorts of opinions on policy and how our government should spend our tax dollars. I'm not okay with subverting our democracy and constitution, however. What say you?
Nothing? Stats were just shown that say they pay 76% I do understand wanting other people to pay more money and I get the concept that they can afford it. But people just have to quit saying "fair share". There's nothing fair about charging one person more money for government services than another person. To be clear, I'm not making an argument that the rich shouldn't pay more for the betterment of society. I'm just saying stop with the "fair share" bit. It's hilarious for someone who pays 5k per year to yell at someone who pays 5 mil per year to pay their fair share. Dems just need better wording is all I'm saying.
They all start wars and he tries to stop them. You gotta F a lot of porn starts to equal that one out.
Correct that no one is telling an anorexic to starve themselves. So why are they validating someone with body dismorphia? There are two reasons they kill themselves. One is how other people treat them. That's a very valid concern. The other is they feel like they are trapped in the wrong body. To me that's a way bigger issue because no matter what they do they're still trapped in the wrong body.
So someone who is anorexic can never get skinny enough in their own mind to be happy right? So what's the best way to lower the chances of them killing themselves? Is it confirming to them they should keep starving themselves? Or is it to try to council them? Neither one will have a 100% success rate obviously. But which one would work better? If you tell them they are right to starve themselves will they be happy with who they are? My assumption is no. People like you think you're doing the right thing so I've got no ill will towards you. But man is it making matters worse.
And to be clear, if they didn't kill themselves all the time I wouldn't really care what they do. As adults obviously.
I see what you did there.I think corporations should cooperate with paying corporate taxes.
That old running back from Pitt (I think?) is screwed. Or actually now that I think about it, did he die? Jon Connor? I think he got cancer maybe.
