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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1472963
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John Anthony Miller needs to work on expanding his vocabulary.
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AFTER HOUNDING HUNTER BIDEN ABOUT TAXES FOR MONTHS, MIKE JOHNSON CODDLES RICH TAX CHEATS by Marcy Wheeler
Since January, it has been the unrelenting focus of the GOP House — including Mike Johnson — to demand higher penalties on Hunter Biden for not paying all his taxes. Just last month, for example, Johnson [claimed] that people were seeing “the DOJ, of course, aggressively prosecuting President Biden’s chief political rival, Mr. Trump, while at the same time, they see slow-walking and special treatment given to the President’s son. That’s just a fact that everybody can see with their own two eyes.”
But as one of the first acts under Speaker Johnson, he will respond to a terrorist attack by trying to help rich tax cheats. His plan [pays for funding for Israel] by cutting funding to the IRS by $14.3 billion, funding that more than pays for itself.
Johnson’s move to cut IRS funding comes weeks after the [IRS made headlines] for the amounts it is collecting from tax cheats who are far richer than Hunter Biden.
A month after announcing it would crack down on 1,600 millionaires who were far behind on their taxes, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday it has collected $122 million in 100 of these cases.
That’s on top of $38 million in back taxes the IRS has already collected from 175 other millionaires. It brings the recent rake-in of back taxes from wealthy households to $160 million, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said.
“The funds that we’ve collected should give you a fairly good idea of how much money is on the table for us,” Werfel told reporters, highlighting how the IRS is using money from the Inflation Reduction Act.
The IRS is using Inflation Reduction Act to ensure that the super rich no longer get treated better than Hunter Biden.
And in one of his first moves as Speaker, Mike Johnson is moving to make sure that only Hunter Biden must pay his taxes.
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Happy Halloween
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Nine offenses in a 5 week period, including multiple armed robberies and carjackings.
Good riddance. Self selected off the planet. I like the results of his plan.
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Sure took them long enough…
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The stories about Alabama man and Nevada man illustrate once again how successful the fascistgop has been in weaponizing the mentally, psychologically, and emotionally unstable among their base. And there do seem to be quite of few in their base who could be accurately described as such.
It’s a daily thing and it’s sickening.
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Surprised face
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“Never heard a dumber plan”
Until the next one
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‘Watch Everywhere That You’re Going’
This will continue to be a problem until some real teeth are put into the penalties for this kind of behavior. So far, there’ve been no deterrents. I don’t understand - if any of us did this, we’d be in the slammer so fast, heads would spin. But these threats and behaviors are treated as just another day at the office.
Until someone gets hurt. Or killed. Then the handwringing will begin - we didn’t know; what could we do?
Jan. 6 Defendant Loses His Shit In Courtroom Outburst
Same as above.
Special counsel Jack Smith withdrew a subpoena seeking information from former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign this week, a source familiar told CNN.
This is the second withdrawn subpoena related to Smith’s investigation into fundraising practices following the 2020 election. Earlier this month, Smith withdrew a subpoena seeking records from Save America, a Trump-controlled political action committee, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Faux Noise will spin this as evidence that the case against TIFG has no legs and should be dismissed entirely.
John Anthony Miller of Las Vegas faces federal charges in Nevada for allegedly leaving threatening, anti-Semitic voicemails for Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), who is Jewish.
See my first bullet point.
Is there any doubt about the flock to which he belongs?
Not for me - but his constituents in LA voted him into office, so they must be ok with him. Nothing to be done about this one and he’s now just a few heartbeats away from the Presidency. Ain’t it grand?
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What’ll be even dumber is the number of GQPs that vote for it.
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Arthur Ray Hanson II, of Huntsville, Alabama, accusing him of transmitting interstate threats to injure Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Sheriff Patrick Labat in retaliation for the prosecution of Donald Trump.
Stochastic terrorism. Just as predicted that Trump et al would instigate and rely on.
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