Recent content by LouderVol

so you would need a 50% tariff, assuming dollar amounts stayed the same, to offset income tax. and this forgets that supposedly Trump was doing this to bring business back to the US. if the US becomes self dependent there is going to be alot fewer imports to tariff.

yeah, been MRI'd once, and I remember them asking all sorts of questions. braces are apparently fine.

I refuse to do a spray, too much impact on others. I really need to figure out how to attract more dragon flys. they are great against mosquitos.

never knew Ozzy Osborne was MAGA, learn something new every day.

oh yeah. they will do the same type of token changes to it. maybe work out some sweetheart deals with whoever is the hot foreign country of the moment that needs/deserves a bigger deal.

Waterworld. Green Lantern, been tried and failed multiple times, but I would like to see a good one. not a remake, but some expansion on Conan the Barbarian universe would be nice. there were some older superhero movies I wouldn't mind getting modernized. Rocket Man. There was one I saw as...

both are going to stay. they may throw the people a carrot and act like its good thing by reducing income taxes by some token amount. or maybe they drop some underperforming tax or something. some type of theatre to say "see look we are being a benevolent government".

depending on what all their "DEI" programs are its probably just more cost savings rather than bending the knee.

yeah, but that is the flaw. you got to kill the other taxes to make this make sense. a consumption tax/tariff on top income and all other taxes isn't a net benefit. Trump hasn't mentioned slashing income taxes. this has all been suggested as a way to increase tax revenue for the government...

I think protecting important sites is one of the few things the government should spend money on. and generally if UNESCO gets involved it ends up being a net money maker because its a big enough/important enough site to draw crowds.

the issue is the efforts you are pushing are only going to further increase those costs. either directly or indirectly thru inflationary spending. all you are doing is making the edge cases the next income level up...

this is not the first time they have done crap like this. Like removing the individual ACA mandate. all Trumps admin had to do was file the paperwork properly, but they didn't. instead it turned into a much longer battle than it should have been before it eventually got removed. all so he...

wait we withdrew from UNESCO? I got distracted from the distractions I guess. that pisses me off.

you don't have to vote for the two choices the party's leave you with.

These pictures of masked feds always makes it feel like we are a third world nation. never saw massed numbers of armed masked men in the states before, but it was all over Guatemala when I visited. makes it really feel like America is back having masked men do whatever they want.