Congress Catch-All

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“The DOGE caught the CR, and the road only gets bumpier from here.

The latest episode of House Republicans’ fiscal-policy psychodrama featured a familiar problem—how to unite a fractious and slim majority around a continuing resolution, or CR, to keep the government open. That was tough enough before Elon Musk, co-head of President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, spurred Republicans to chuck a bipartisan agreement that included a series of unrelated deals. …”
 
nycfan said:


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A speakership battle will significantly delay anything Trump wants to get done in 2025 -- at least through Congressional action. I know Trump can be dumb sometimes, but that would be especially dumb if this is anything more than a brushback pitch.
 
lawtig02 said:
The man won't even be president for another month and he's ALREADY starting to line up more members of his administration who will call him unfit to serve.
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Please name the GOPers, especially members of the Trumplican Administration, who are willing to call Trump “unfit to serve.”

I have a list. It has ZERO names.
 
Calheel said:
. . .. I know Trump can be dumb sometimes, but that would be especially dumb if this is anything more than a brushback pitch.
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When I read the above, the expression, "hold my beer," just sorta popped into my head.
 
TangledUpInBlue06 said:
Just to drive this home: Every dollar of funding for the IRS nets more than a dollar of revenue for the US. The CBO estimated that a $20 billion rescission in funding would reduce revenues by $44 billion, increasing the deficit by $24 billion. (How Changes in Funding for the IRS Affect Revenues)
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Biden had the audacity to increase IRS funding to enable the agency to go after wealthy tax cheats...

www.cbsnews.com

Richest Americans fail to pay $163 billion in taxes, Treasury estimates

The so-called "tax gap" could total $7 trillion over the next decade.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
 
lawtig02 said:
Congrats, calla! Nice work by the spending cutters in the GOP!!! And just in time for Christmas!
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Yep, it was fantastic work. Not surprising you would look at a gotcha headline like the one NYC posted and make your comment or completely disregard everything else that got cut. The simple fact is trump created DOGE to highlight and eliminate wasteful spending. That your side would ridicule that speaks volumes. However, it also highlights just how out of touch this board is with reality. DOGE will be a huge hit among voters. Just wait and see.
 
heelinhell said:
Biden had the audacity to increase IRS funding to enable the agency to go after wealthy tax cheats...

www.cbsnews.com

Richest Americans fail to pay $163 billion in taxes, Treasury estimates

The so-called "tax gap" could total $7 trillion over the next decade.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
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"Tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthy in part because high-income taxpayers are able to employ experts who can better shield them from reporting their true incomes, the Treasury Department argued in a blog post. More complicated incomes such as partnerships and proprietorships – more frequent among high earners — have a far greater noncompliance rate that can hit as high as 55%."

Change the effing laws then. Nothing like a democrat to participate in creating an extremely complex tax structure that requires "experts" and an entire specialty of law to administer, then complain that people who can afford to hire them are taking advantage of the very system democrats helped create. Quit bitching and lead the effort to rewrite the tax code. If its so bad, shift more resources to auditing rich people and less to the middle class. The answer isn't hiring more overhead. The answer is simplifying the code or focus more on the wealthy. I'm all for people paying the taxes they legally owe. Hell, I'm all for taxing the wealthy in different ways. But I also fully support the 50% who pay nothing having to have some skin in the game as well.
 
Callatoroy said:
"Tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthy in part because high-income taxpayers are able to employ experts who can better shield them from reporting their true incomes, the Treasury Department argued in a blog post. More complicated incomes such as partnerships and proprietorships – more frequent among high earners — have a far greater noncompliance rate that can hit as high as 55%."

Change the effing laws then. Nothing like a democrat to participate in creating an extremely complex tax structure that requires "experts" and an entire specialty of law to administer, then complain that people who can afford to hire them are taking advantage of the very system democrats helped create. Quit bitching and lead the effort to rewrite the tax code. If its so bad, shift more resources to auditing rich people and less to the middle class. The answer isn't hiring more overhead. The answer is simplifying the code or focus more on the wealthy. I'm all for people paying the taxes they legally owe. Hell, I'm all for taxing the wealthy in different ways. But I also fully support the 50% who pay nothing having to have some skin in the game as well.
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i know this is going to blow your mind, but the complexity of the tax code owes primarily to the gop. back in the 1980s, the tax system was simplified in the bipartisan reform act of 86. since then, the gop has added back the complexity because of their love of tax expenditures. virtually all of the gop's domestic policy involves tax credits. child tax credit from w. opportunity zones. special tax treatment for professionals and a different tax treatment for passive income. special treatment for various corporate entities. so on and so forth.

it is not solely the gop but it is primarily, because they use the tax code for social policy. it isn't the fucking democrats who are driving this.

hiring more overhead is called investment. we can add "running a business" to the list of things you know nothing about.
 
Callatoroy said:
"Tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthy in part because high-income taxpayers are able to employ experts who can better shield them from reporting their true incomes, the Treasury Department argued in a blog post. More complicated incomes such as partnerships and proprietorships – more frequent among high earners — have a far greater noncompliance rate that can hit as high as 55%."

Change the effing laws then. Nothing like a democrat to participate in creating an extremely complex tax structure that requires "experts" and an entire specialty of law to administer, then complain that people who can afford to hire them are taking advantage of the very system democrats helped create. Quit bitching and lead the effort to rewrite the tax code. If its so bad, shift more resources to auditing rich people and less to the middle class. The answer isn't hiring more overhead. The answer is simplifying the code or focus more on the wealthy. I'm all for people paying the taxes they legally owe. Hell, I'm all for taxing the wealthy in different ways. But I also fully support the 50% who pay nothing having to have some skin in the game as well.
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So Democrats created a tax system to benefit the wealthy and punish the middle class ?

I did not know that :confused:
 
Callatoroy said:
"Tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthy in part because high-income taxpayers are able to employ experts who can better shield them from reporting their true incomes, the Treasury Department argued in a blog post. More complicated incomes such as partnerships and proprietorships – more frequent among high earners — have a far greater noncompliance rate that can hit as high as 55%."

Change the effing laws then. Nothing like a democrat to participate in creating an extremely complex tax structure that requires "experts" and an entire specialty of law to administer, then complain that people who can afford to hire them are taking advantage of the very system democrats helped create. Quit bitching and lead the effort to rewrite the tax code. If its so bad, shift more resources to auditing rich people and less to the middle class. The answer isn't hiring more overhead. The answer is simplifying the code or focus more on the wealthy. I'm all for people paying the taxes they legally owe. Hell, I'm all for taxing the wealthy in different ways. But I also fully support the 50% who pay nothing having to have some skin in the game as well.
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If you could turn $20 billion into $44 billion in 10 years, would that be a good investment?
 
Callatoroy said:
Yep, it was fantastic work. Not surprising you would look at a gotcha headline like the one NYC posted and make your comment or completely disregard everything else that got cut. The simple fact is trump created DOGE to highlight and eliminate wasteful spending. That your side would ridicule that speaks volumes. However, it also highlights just how out of touch this board is with reality. DOGE will be a huge hit among voters. Just wait and see.
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DOGE is already a flop with freaking Laura Loomer. You think it’ll be popular with the average American?
 
Callatoroy said:
Yep, it was fantastic work. Not surprising you would look at a gotcha headline like the one NYC posted and make your comment or completely disregard everything else that got cut. The simple fact is trump created DOGE to highlight and eliminate wasteful spending. That your side would ridicule that speaks volumes. However, it also highlights just how out of touch this board is with reality. DOGE will be a huge hit among voters. Just wait and see.
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If you think blowing enormous amounts of political capital on a gambit that resulted in zero spending benefits and pretty much everything the Dems wanted while setting up a massive problem for the Pubs just two months into Trump’s presidency is “fantastic work,” then I’m feeling much more confident about how the next couple of years will play out. I guarantee you Trump doesn’t think that Keystone Cops routine was “fantastic work.”
 
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