Trump: Palin isnt a Real American anymore. Besides, she is just a 1. I will be revoking her citizenship.
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Palin at the VA ???
Lordy!
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We’re in a strange new universe when Sara Palin is the voice of reason.
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Robert Reich said that the much bigger deal are the federal contracts that Carrier’s parent company has and wants more of. Also, the corporate tax deductions that Trump has promised are federal, as well.
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We will have the equivalent of an always drunk driver in the Oval Office, that is, President while permanently impaired. We will need some gravitas in the Cabinet. Palin ain’t it. Palin to Trump would be like the Ed Helms’ translator character in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay to Rob Corddry’s CIA Acting Secretary’s character…
The promises Trump made regarding federal tax cuts are merely speculative at this point, inasmuch as he’s not President yet and can’t negotiate federal tax abatements, not with any seriousness.
"The final piece of Trump’s seduction was the promise that his administration will cut taxes to save major multinational companies like UTC hundreds of millions of dollars, far more than could be saved by moving workers to Mexico. [And we all know what a Trump promise is worth.] It’s important to think about what this mean for workers. Trump has promised to reduce the top corporate tax rate by 20 percentage points to 15%, and create a special low repatriation rate to encourage companies to bring home overseas cash they have deferred taxes on. He hopes these policies will increase business investment in the US, and jobs.
Yet if there’s one thing we learned from George W. Bush’s repatriation holiday in 2004, it’s that it didn’t bring back US jobs (paywall). Corporations believe that they will be able to wait for the next repatriation holiday if they are patient enough. Congress is also likely to look askance at a repatriation holiday: Republicans there have been working on a more drastic overhaul that would end taxes on the foreign income of US companies entirely. Advocates of such a “territorial” system—like Trump transition official Curtis Dubay—argue that this system is neutral, and will neither encourage nor discourage investment in the US.
But many economists point out that even with lower rates in the US, American companies will still be able to find lower taxes and cheaper workers abroad. If the current system leads corporations to send money abroad simply because they hope they can defer it into the future, a system where they know it will be untaxed is likely to encourage further investment outside the US. Republicans recognize this threat, and intend to tax perhaps 5% of foreign income. Tax fairness advocates and labor leaders fear that this is not enough, and will simply empower the tools that major corporations are using to shift profits and jobs overseas already."
At this point, the federal intervention is still a hazy hookah dream.
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Yaweh, this expresses exactly how I’ve been feeling for the past couple of weeks - well done, charliee…
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And taking dictation from her is really really werd…
If the world is ending (which I think is plausible), I wanna go drunk…
The free market is a myth. Unless you consider which lobbyist can write the the biggest check, for the crappiest, most rigged legislation free market competition.
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She’s still an idiot. Trailer trash.
$7 million per year is $ 8,750 per job saved; not enough to keep Carrier in the US. There were promises to United Technology to give them better contracts for other entities, like Pratt and Whitney etc. But we’ll never hear about that.
And I’ll bet that the union workers will required to make other concessions.
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“Meanwhile, the invisible hand that best orchestrates a free people’s free enterprise system gets amputated.”
That was my favorite quote. I wonder who’s doing her writing now? Brilliant.
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I’ll give Palin credit. It hurts every bit as much to read her writing as it does to listen to her speak.
Yes, false equivalence for sure. There are better examples out there, but unfortunately for the Rs they were almost all done by Republican governors trying to lure businesses to their state.
of course it is well known palin doesnt write her own words…to be fair…not many do…but…you really must finally realize how ass backwards this country has become…when SHE starts sounding like bernie sanders…lol
coulter is just a disgusting opportunist who specializes in throwing red meat at the masses…for what ever issue is currently in the news…that any crack pot from the extreme right finds MSM air time…is what everyone should be fighting against…remember these cretins are still jostling for their position in what will be the end of this country as we know it…under the fuhrer!
I do not believe that a photo inset of Sarah Palin should ever follow a headline that begins with… “Guess Who Thinks”
She could not have seen this coming considering she spent most of her time looking over at Russia from her back deck, instead of focusing on Washington DC.
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For what it’s worth, Palin’s reputation in Alaska was as a “reformer.” Which was why John McCain was convinced to pick her as his VP choice. And we all know how that turned out.
And something for the heartburn…
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