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847badgerfan

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« Reply #26866 on: October 01, 2023, 07:38:57 AM »
Look at all the DO_ in this country, and the number of agencies under them. It's astonishing.

A-Z index of U.S. government departments and agencies | USAGov

What I then like to do is go back and see when they were created, and by whom.
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« Reply #26867 on: October 01, 2023, 07:43:17 AM »
I'd just like to cut the fat and spending

placing blame isn't real important

all politicians are guilty of reckless spending
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« Reply #26868 on: October 01, 2023, 07:45:42 AM »
I'll pick one. 

Why was HUD created?

Do we need HUD?

And if we do, why do we?
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« Reply #26869 on: October 01, 2023, 07:50:15 AM »
I can't see any politician of whatever stripe really cutting the scope of Federal government, so whether it's needed or not is basically irrelevant.

It's a bit amusing to note how many were created under Nixon.
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« Reply #26870 on: October 01, 2023, 08:05:39 AM »
So, the House passed a bill to avoid a shutdown. Oh well.

They've shut down before (4 years ago??) and I never noticed.

Now all of those lemmings get to go suck the clock on Monday. 

Not that I'd notice.
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« Reply #26871 on: October 01, 2023, 08:16:39 AM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on September 29, 2023, 08:29:14 PM
Oh stop and frisk. What a profoundly unAmerican thing.
It worked. 
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« Reply #26872 on: October 01, 2023, 08:21:49 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 30, 2023, 10:45:29 AM
Never thought you a puppet until now.
Where do you live again?
His point was that higher taxes hit the say 30-99% MUCH harder than the 1%. This is unavoidable for at least two reasons:
  • Taxable income is a MUCH larger fraction of wealth for them than the 1%. 
  • The higher you are the more flexibility you have to avoid taxes. 

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« Reply #26873 on: October 01, 2023, 08:25:18 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 30, 2023, 03:04:27 PM
Poor people have more single mothers AND more kids. 

It's brilliant.
We are evolving backwards
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« Reply #26874 on: October 01, 2023, 09:22:26 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on October 01, 2023, 08:21:49 AM
His point was that higher taxes hit the say 30-99% MUCH harder than the 1%. This is unavoidable for at least two reasons:
  • Taxable income is a MUCH larger fraction of wealth for them than the 1%.
  • The higher you are the more flexibility you have to avoid taxes.


this is a problem

but, it's not going away
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« Reply #26875 on: October 01, 2023, 09:30:31 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on October 01, 2023, 08:21:49 AM
His point was that higher taxes hit the say 30-99% MUCH harder than the 1%. This is unavoidable for at least two reasons:
  • Taxable income is a MUCH larger fraction of wealth for them than the 1%.
  • The higher you are the more flexibility you have to avoid taxes.


Hence my statement on the coastal elites. They hold their money, and they hold their power.
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« Reply #26876 on: October 01, 2023, 09:32:20 AM »
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« Reply #26877 on: October 01, 2023, 09:43:09 AM »
I suspect the wealthy often have many of the same troubles we have, though with money some of that can be bought off of course.  If somehow I won some lotto thing, I'd spend most of my efforts trying to give it away to causes that seem to be doing some good, I do that now but obviously with a relative pittance.
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« Reply #26878 on: October 01, 2023, 09:43:27 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on October 01, 2023, 08:16:39 AM
It worked.
Think anything like that would have existed for 5 seconds if it largely targeted rich white people in a similar way? 

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