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We used to buy the 5 Dozen at Costco for $7 pretty often. It's now $20...if they have them.
ETA: The cutting of the funding for school to buy from local farms was pretty trash.
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ETA: The cutting of the funding for school to buy from local farms was pretty trash.
Yah this is 2 1/2 dozen for basically $10. I get a dozen from my friends farm for $4.50 occasionally but they are amazing, deep orange yolks. She also has duck eggs which I think are better, the white is a bit more rubbery depending on how you cook it.
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So we have been talking about how terrible it would be to shut the government down... I personally don't think it's that big of a deal, but watching Dems refuse to sign the exact same CR they voted for 2 times prior to this admin has been a bright spot in my day. Cue the dems voting to shut the government down and then blaming trump in 3, 2, 1...
FWIW, I don't like the CR, it's full of crap we are supposed to be cutting, and we don't have the votes for cloture- so the status quo from republicans remains. The game is what the game is.
FWIW, I don't like the CR, it's full of crap we are supposed to be cutting, and we don't have the votes for cloture- so the status quo from republicans remains. The game is what the game is.
All I ask is that if they shut it down they at least take until Wednesday to fix it.
My chore list for this weekend is pretty big and I wouldn't mind an extra day or two to knock it all out in one go.
That would be respectful AND should qualify on your 5 bullets list when you get back. Win/Win.
I am not sure what Chuck Schumer is doing here, but he's violating rule 1 of politics- let your opponent fail and stay out of the way. The stock market is a bloodbath, Americans are souring on the economy- why would you ever organize your side to take any part in that??
Now, Trump gets to say "We tried! But these silly dems stopped us, now the government is shut down. I was TRYING to get the economy going- inflation cooled, gas was down, eggs are down... but they just hate me so they shut it down!" Fun fact, the Executive has almost unilateral authority to decide *who exactly is essential when a shut down happens*.
So one the Dems' biggest reason not to sign this CR is "oversight of DOGE" they want included, and only for a month... but you're willing to shut the government down, get a big ole helping of "the democrats own this shut down", AND the president gets to decide who is staying home and where to point DOGE next?
Uh, bold move, cotton. Let's see how this plays out!
I'm a T32 tech, so (for now), I don't have to do 5 bullets; I just get to respond saying "I'm rank so and so and my job is x for the NG". No idea what sense it makes for me to do it every week, but I'm also not on ketamine so who knows?
As to the Dems shutting down, I think they're hoping the average American won't pay attention. Us politically involved people might remember the Republican led shutdowns under Obama; most people blamed those on the President, not the opposition party.
Schumer is probably hoping a similar thing will happen here, but the information landscape and media savvy of this administration is different; I fully agree Trump can spin this in a way previous presidents haven't.
Schumer is hoping for a larger crash in the market while he is delaying signing a bill, if I am reading his retarded intent correctly.
I also remember those shutdowns under Obama- imagine looking back at that shutdown (driven by the Affordable Care Act) and knowing that the people who would benefit most from the ACA were actually the top 5 health insurance companies and not Americans. The absolute craziest thing I just learned- guess which company gained the most? United Health Group. So I guess that CEO that got merked by the Luigi guy can say... thanks, Obama? Hold on let me make a meme... attached.
At least we got to keep our doctors! Did you know that NPR (NPR!!!) voted that little ditty the lie of the year in 2013?
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I am super excited to see how this is racist, sexist, homophobic, and exactly what you would expect from a king.
No taxes if you earn less than $150k. Donald Trump's plan explained
No taxes if you earn less than $150k. Donald Trump's plan explained
Some napkin math using the household income numbers from Wikipedia place about ~20% of Americans above that. Top 25% pays roughly 75% of total income tax revenue, so for ease of maths let's say a 25% reduction. It'd take us 2.2 to 1.6 trillion. in income revenue. A big gap, but not impossible if they make cuts to the big budget items or actually get the overseas companies.
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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.
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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.
From the "republicans can't get their crap together" camp- Schumer folds. Shocked I tell you, shocked. It's almost like we all saw this one coming.
Schumer says he'll vote to keep government open as Democrats criticize GOP plan
Schumer says he'll vote to keep government open as Democrats criticize GOP plan
If they were smart they would take this space to unfuck themselves and rally the troops.
My money's on finger pointing, echo chambers, and yelling at the sun.
Side quest: if the Orange Man is so bad, do Liberals still eat Cheetos?
Nancy Pelosi urges senators to oppose key spending bill, risking shutdown
Pelosi, AOC and the radical left are eating their own. Which party can't get it together?
Pelosi, AOC and the radical left are eating their own. Which party can't get it together?
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Nope. Currently I advocate for more people paying taxes, 53% of citizens do not pay taxes, they get a full refund. So they have no skin in the game.
By moving to 150k and above, which would be a positive for me in general. You reduce the total tax paying base and more people receiving services that they don't pay for.
So unless we're going to cut like 1.5M federal employee bodies and reduce spending. I don't see how you do that? Also that is more taxes for less people. Rather than less taxes for more people...
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I think it seems like “liberal crap” because for like the last 40 years republicans have been saying there would be no incentive to make more money if rich people just paid more taxes. I think it was something about disincentivizing high earners….
Taxing only 8% of the population sounds a lot like tyranny of the majority.
Taxing only 8% of the population sounds a lot like tyranny of the majority.
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