Our New President - President Donald Trump

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Counterpoint for LnH:

America being great again is easier to substantiate when more people are alive to bear witness. Other countries are judged by mortality rates rather than wealth, we just picked the one of those figures we're somewhat on top of & overemphasized it until it became an overriding concern. Per capita we're not even close to the top spot in either regard.

If you're really about love then why judge by wealth? Striating economy historically results in all manner of hateful division, it's canonized by definition.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

http://samuel-warde.com/2017/11/a-list- ... ign=buffer

Per capita =/= household. That's also some people, not everyone.

It's not news that people loathe filing taxes but everyone uses things they pay for. Seeing people dying in the street of preventable causes isn't love.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

I try not to get tangled up in the healthcare debates, but no one is really qualified to discuss the issue who doesn't understand the idea of "that which is seen and that which is not seen." The people who push government-run healthcare/insurance are only concerned with that which is seen.

Touted As Middle-Class Win, GOP Tax Plan Directly Benefits Wealthy, Analysis Finds.

Trump delivers on tax cuts.

Good news:
-The first $12,000 in income would be tax free so an immediate savings of $1,323.75 for anyone earning more than $12,000.
-The first tax bracket is 12% $12000-$45000 is mostly 3% lower than the present 15%, so $26000 is tax 3% lower which results in $780 savings for anyone earning more than $38,000.
-Non-itemizers will gain a +2000 deduction (increased standard deduction - loss of personal exemption) so a $200-250 savings

So, individual non-itemizing middle class filers will save like $2300.

While individual itemizing filers will lose deducting the local, state tax, and other deductions, so their savings will be like $1800.

The upper middle class will save more as the 28% bracket would be gone now. So, they could see savings like $4000-5000

Bad News:
The brackets will be based on the Chained CPI.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphill ... 973d24eb83

LOL, Trump has the media so deranged they can't even think straight.