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8 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Well, we are all entitled to our opinions, and my opinion is 70% is too high. Even the social democracies or democratic socialities or whatever they are called, they don't tax that high. And they actually get something of benefit from their taxes.

 

   At any rate, I think at that level of income, wealthy people will have creative ways to get around it, and I don't think an upper tax limit of 70% will get much support. 

It will. They will basically tell the bottom 51% that the reason they don't have as much as the top 5 % is because the top 5% took it from them. So then they tell the bottom 51% that they are going to take it from the top 5% and give it back to the bottom 51% where it rightfully belongs.  

1 minute ago, Póg mo said:

No, no it's poor = lazy, and the rich = hard workers. Get it right

We all are born with unique qualities. Some love to work, some don't. 

1 minute ago, spookyturtle said:

But you believed it was a bad thing before Trump was President. 

Its kind of like climate change. You keep hearing about impending disasters....but yet they never happen.  

Obama doubled the debt...but I don't ever remember talking about it.  It still seems foolish to spend more than you have, but in the case of the national debt...nothing ever happens. 

7 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

I thought Trump promised to quickly reduce the national debt? Wasn’t he going to eliminate it in 8 years? 

Still has six more years to do that😎

Anyways....I have been hearing about the debt and how it was going to ruin us for as long as I can remember. Yet...nothing ever happens.  I would at this point believe it is possible to increase the national debt every year and never suffer the catastrophe we have been warned about. 

3 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  There are already higher taxes on the wealthy. I think we all realize that. Almost every country in the world works that way. Progressive marginal tax systems are the norm in the modern world, and that's not really the issue here. The question is how high should they be. I don't know the answer, but I do know it's not 70%. Not at any level. 

Its more about punishing the wealthy. They also want to eliminate billionaires. You can't look at it with common sense. You need to understand how the wealthy are evil and must pay. Rich=bad...poor=good. Get rid of the rich and everyone will be good.

1 hour ago, refugee said:

 

Let's fix the ones you have

I agree. No wasted money on trains.

Not much of a shocker to anyone with a sliver of common sense.  Mueller report will find the same thing.

Good. I hate the stupid trains. The light rail in Mlps. is a joke.  B

Build roads not rails.

 Maybe she was just high on weed....or possibly just drunk?  

1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

Read rushlimbaugh.com from today (Friday) to see that this might not be that true...

Yup. We laugh at people who think the earth only has twelve years left, but they have actually been brainwashed into believing that life on earth is going to end soon.  In twenty years most of them will realize(we hope) that they were duped, but the problem in the meantime is that they are allowed to vote.

7 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

I dont see it as a big deal. I was proud Pelosi made comments to the effect of respecting the office of the President and thought she was fairly well behaved.  I also thought Trump gave a great speech and someone did a good job of keeping him conciliatory and purposeful. 

 

As for Stacy Abrams she is nothing more thzn a race hustling poverty pimp, who has made big money off her non profits and still is in debt and a deadbeat off biblical proportions. That cant be the best the Dems have to offer.

Are you crazy?  She is a rising STAR!!  She even got second place in a recent election.  I see her getting even bigger. lol

Found two guys that had a good time.

I believe she just plays Pocahontas at Disney land. No idea of her name.

2 minutes ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

"America will never be a socialist country" 

 

The look on Bernie's face when the camera panned to him 🤯

Classic socialist look. I laughed out loud when they panned to him.

You know...Warren was quite the looker in her younger days.

Very Presidential....and inspiring. Loved it.  

I just wish he had done the moonwalk at the press conference. 

I am not a big fan of using 30 year old pictures as the reason to get rid of someone.  I am a believer that people have the ability to learn and change.

29 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   

 

   From my own experience, kids do test the limits of mental health at times. That is not a risk, it's a consequence.

 

   However the law says "health risk". It doesn't specifically include or exclude anything by design. The risk to health must be determined by a physician. You are speculating that a physician would agree that there some sort of increased risk to mental health by carrying a baby form 24 weeks to 36 weeks?  I don't see it.

 

 

   

I may be speculating....but so are you. I am just going by what the definition of health is.

The increased risk of mental problems is not just from carrying a baby from 24 to 36 weeks, but mostly from actually having the baby and caring for it or giving it up for adoption. I personally think if a woman chooses between keeping the child or giving it up...it would have a huge likelihood of effecting her mental health. Its not a decision I would want to make.

If I follow your argument that you have laid out about the law change you basically say not much has changed. If I understand what happened when the law was signed....huge applause broke out.   Why would that happen?   

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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Mental health is part of health. If they wanted to exclude mental health then they would need to spell it out.

3 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    Where exactly are you getting that this would be allowed for mental health? 

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The Yew York law has added the wording life or health is at risk.

It doesn't exclude mental health.  Makes a loophole in the law that will allow an abortion up to birth as long as the mother feels her mental health is going to suffer. Would not be to hard for her to find a doctor that agrees that she will go crazy if not allowed to abort.

15 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Has there been a worse Superbowl?

Yes.  Half the time they are complete blowouts and it takes a long time to run out the clock to make it official. This one came down to the last few minutes.

Heat is heat. Doesn't matter where if comes from. If you don't have enough it will be cold..to much it will be hot. 

2 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Our new house is one year old, and they really do a good job now on making them energy efficient. Even this week, our furnace wasn't on all that much and it was pretty warm inside. We have space heaters in case the furnace goes out so I am curious to see how they would do. Not in a hurry to find out though. Our old house was better at heating up the outdoors.

Easy. Just shut off your furnace and run the space heaters.  Might as well know if they are adequate before you really do need to use them. You might need more, might be perfect...but at least you can be prepared and have peace of mind.

Bernie still has a large fanbase. If Bernie runs I predict the mainstream media will turn on him like they did with Trump.