This is the most liberal crap I've ever seen. Life is a circle.
Here I've been chanting that we need to lower the tax floor so that the majority of Americans have skin in the game.
I suppose, but as Thomas Massie said. This CR is not remotely close to the Trump agenda. It is a full funding extension of the Biden agenda for another 9 months. In reality this is just dunking on Republicans because Republicans can't get organized enough to get an actual deal done.
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Someone talk to me about Hegseth killing the Office of Net Assessment.
Is your argument for more taxes? That's weird. And by "weird" I mean "not in line with the Constitution or the framer's intent for taxation and opposed to the baseline conservative values of small government, less taxation, less regulation and individual rights and freedoms." The 16th amdendment (some legal scholars say) was never ratified, the Supreme Court refused to rule on it, and several court cases (Eisner v Macomber) even argued that work for compensation isn't "gain or profit", it's simply an equal exchange of labor for money and therefore not taxable. The Constitution initially prohibited direct taxation except by apportionment among the states. The list goes on and on- the last thing some family making $125k needs is more taxation to feel a "skin in the game"- they need the government to tax them less and kill inflation to put real wages in their bank account.
Quick Grok/ChatGPT search yields a total percentage of Americans aged 15+ that make under $150K a year is 222.8 million Americans that would benefit- about 92%.
As for that being "liberal crap", I'd like to understand how, exactly. It's not redistribution of wealth; the only subject "harmed" by this action would be the government missing out on that "revenue", and it's exactly in line with what the forefathers intended regarding taxation (meaning, none, unless apportioned by the states). This all changed with the spurious 16th Amendment and the establishment of an income tax and the FED in 1913.
As for the CR- ok? Mike Johnson got the votes with the slimmest of wiggle room and your take is they can't get their house in order? To keep the government open? That's literally what they did- took a fractious body of lawmakers and got the best they could to pass. That's politics, baby.
For the ONA- sure, it's a think tank at the Pentagon that the SECDEF no longer needs. We have entire commands (and to some extent a branch of service) that perform the same functions as ONA- OPLANS, CONPLANS, strategy and emerging threats, AI and cyber- are all handled by the existing DoD architecture. Andrew Marshall did some great work, but apparently (like all government funded good ideas) ONA has drifted considerably from it's intended purpose and those folks will now have the opportunity to engage where my tax dollars are well spent.
Stealth War (the book) has a section on Andrew Marshall and his work before his death.
