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Other than interest payments of $1.2 trillion, the debt does NOT factor into the budget calculations. You owe $50K on your Chinese EV. You make $100K per year after taxes, you spend $90K per year on living expenses plus $10K per year on car payments. Your budget is balanced. Now you can cut frivolous expenses, like your transgender mouse experiments you perform in your basement, and begin to pay off your car loan and perhaps even your $100K student loan for your masters in lesbian street performing arts you hoped Biden would cancel.

Article author mis-spelled "street racing."

I'm shirley everyone will settle down once Vance is elected. They can enjoy peace in Europe, a balanced US budget, and no taxes on their sociable security benefits.

"They're eating the rich!"

Harrison Salisbury, who had recently been in Hanoi, detailed for the committee how bicycles enabled the Viet Cong (VC) and regular North Vietnamese Army (NVA) to continually resupply their forces even under the most adverse conditions. Salisbury concluded his testimony with a strong assertion: “I literally believe that without bikes they’d have to get out of the war.” The astonished Fulbright, almost springing up from his seat, replied to Salisbury: “Why don’t we concentrate on bombing their bicycles instead of the bridges? Does the Pentagon know about this?”

Not exactly. If the gifting laws are abused to evade taxes, then you may have problems if caught. If the gifting laws are followed, you'll be fine. Wife called the TRD helpline to confirm, gifting law applies to funds given to a spouse into an offshore account, and she can bring in the funds as she pleases. NOT for OUR daily expenses, of course, or for the donor's benefit. I mean, like, dude, really........this particular law was written by those with wealth for their patrons with wealth to reduce their tax burden. Otherwise why set the limit at 20 million baht per year in a land of subsistence farmers.

Who got a "certificate of clearance"? I must have missed that. Do you mean a receipt for filing tax? I've got a bunch of those. How 'bout you?

Ooh! Ooh! I know this one! Because it's a republic!

Vance 2028!

He's just following tradition. I said, “Nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars.” They said, “You have no authority. You’re not the president.” The president said—I said, “Call him.” I said, “I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars.” I said, “You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours.” I looked at them and said, “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.

Revenue is simply income before expenses and deductions. Is possible to have $millions in "revenue", yet make no money. This is something expats in Thailand will have to watch out for if Thailand moves to global taxation. In the US, capital losses may offset capital gains. This is not the case in Thailand. US expat can sell a stock for $1million, making $100K, then sell another stock for $500K, losing $100K. gain = loss, no tax due to the IRS. Under global taxation, the $100K gain is taxed as ordinary income, whereas the loss is not entered into the PIT calculations.

Income or profit? There is a difference. And do we apply the concept to farmers, as well? No deductions for fertilizer or diesel fuel. No write-offs for crop losses? Good luck buying food. Or,............anything.

But it's only fair. And you don't need to make up just-so situations of some guy gaming the system to validate your socialist tendencies. Just take a guy that has made a fortune over the past decades running a plumbing supply chain or investing. Everything legal and according to the rules. If we're gonna strip him of his annual income "for equity", then it's only fair to compensate him for his annual losses "for equity." Work hard, save some bucks, invest and retire. You, too, can make $60K/year and pay zero tax. Until the commies come along.

The point is the billionaire didn't make a billion dollars this year. That is wealth, assets, savings, prior earnings. If he paid $750 in taxes he likely only made $15,000 income after deducting business/investment losses.

You're absolutely right. That billionaire that only paid $750 did so by writing off $millions in business or investment losses against income. Wouldn't you like to reimburse his losses?

You are more than welcome to do your part by donating all your wealth to be split equally at a local homeless shelter. Or are you suggesting we should be liberal/progressive by being extraordinarily generous with OTHER people's money?

Inequality of wealth is only bad if you're a socialist, and specifically one not at the top of the food chain.

Ooooooooh! Anonymous sources said it!

Probably shower time stories.

That's what I thought. You have a talking point. "Proposed" and "possible" is not definite. Why wouldn't the State Department mention even one of those real offers?

You say this like it's a bad thing. $36.5 Trillion in debt, plus another $120 Trillion or so in unfunded liabilities. Time to stop blowing $Millions turning frogs trans. https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Details, please. What offers?

Parse the statement. The US never offered resettlement anywhere.....just vague proposed possibilities. You can be shirley, if there was a definite offer, it would have been mentioned.

Strange, you din't mention the elephant in the outhouse...... Government accounted for the bulk of layoffs, with Challenger tracking 62,242 announced job cuts by the federal government from 17 different agencies. The government has laid off about 62,530 workers in the first two months of the year, a whopping 41,311% increase compared to the same period in 2024. Keep up the good work! Who's a good Doge!!!!!

Nothing to do with shelling a peacekeeping contingent? Sure, let's just add Georgia to NATO. It'll be fine.