Didn't intend to be overly critical... I just think anytime people talk tax cuts they need to understand bigger picture. Wish I understood the bigger picture too.

Democrats are the party of the rich and Republicans are generally the party of deplorables and hayseeds. Les Miserables, if you well. How that happened I have no idea, but there's no doubt about it. And the Dems hate elimination of the SALT deduction:

"The Democrats are the Party of the Rich. They were swept into the House majority by a revolt of the elites. This party of Orange County, Westchester County, and Chicago’s North Shore is playing the part, wasting no time pushing policies to hand special tax breaks to their upper-middle-class constituents.

Consider Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y. As the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, former chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and in the top 10 in seniority among Democrats, Lowey is among the most powerful members of Congress.

She has introduced two bills so far. One is the appropriations measure to reopen the government. The other is a major tax cut for the rich.

Lowey’s bill would undo exactly one part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: the limit on deductibility of state and local taxes, including property taxes. The law capped the state and local tax deduction, or SALT deduction, at $10,000.

That cap doesn’t affect most tax filers. If you claim the standard deduction, as most taxpayers do, you don’t benefit from the SALT deduction. Since tax reform nearly doubled the standard deduction, about 88 percent of all taxpayers will not itemize. If your state and local taxes are at or below $10,000 per year, you also aren’t affected by the cap.

The cap on the SALT deduction mostly cut into the tax breaks of high earners in high-tax places."


Personally, if only 12 percent of people are getting fucked over by the latest round of tax reform, I can live with that. I don't know if they can, but there's an old saying they should learn: "Suck it up and drive on."

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I thought about that as well, but my thought on the larger picture is that; 1) we must be missing too much at the border, and 2) the bulk of drugs are coming across at those border control points precisely because we have walled other possibilities.

I would be highly skeptical of the theory that most drugs are smuggled via ports of entry because of the wall that exists in places. Most drugs are smuggled via vehicles, boats and planes. Always have been, even before there was 700 miles of wall. More wall won’t change that, but it fits Trumps narrative to say it will.

Well, I guess that settles it then. I mean, why would a El Chapo cartel drug dealer lie to Congress?

Except for the inconvenient fact that the governments own statistics prove that the cartel drug dealers are correct, most of the drugs aren't crossing open borders. But, you can continue to believe Trump because he's only doing it for the good of America and it has nothing to do with politics.

Do you ever stop and think why the Trump supporters first reaction when someone says something opposed to Trump is to attack the accuser but when someone like Trump constantly lies, those are ignored and his word is gospel. It's very strange.

No way! They are carrying bales of marijuana across the desert. Their calves are like freaking melons.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

No way! They are carrying bales of marijuana across the desert. Their calves are like freaking melons.


Yeah, not sure why he is so shocked that drugs don't go across the open border. It was kind of obvious to me that people would try to cross open borders but drugs would come in by plane, boat, or smuggled in trucks or trailers across a legal checkpoint.


But when Trump says something to his followers, common sense is the first victim.