9 hours ago, frank83628 said:

Another thread about American domestic affairs posted by an Australian, why TF do you care about American  retirement ages and benefit payments? What on earth does it have to do with you?

You are off the chart derangement  sufferer,I think someone should call Guinness to log this as a world record

 

You have to remember the OP still believes in all the lies. 

10 hours ago, simple1 said:

 

Quoted from the article

 

Your post, Your problem. Own it.

23 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

Well if we can't budget our way it of it, then the only other way forward is to make more money. It is going to take a combination of the two.

Making more money means raising taxes not lowering them.  The last round of tax cuts were supposed to stimulate the economy and thereby generate enough revenue to more than offset the tax cut.

Unfortunately, it didn't work that way.  So much for the trickle-down theory.

1 minute ago, Hawaiian said:

Making more money means raising taxes not lowering them.  The last round of tax cuts were supposed to stimulate the economy and thereby generate enough revenue to more than offset the tax cut.

Unfortunately, it didn't work that way.  So much for the trickle-down theory.

Private companies making more money. the government doesn't make money and all spending is a tax. 

 

 

15 hours ago, simple1 said:

Interesting opinion piece...

 

GOP legislators are toying with reducing payouts under the system, including raising the retirement age and other benefit cuts. As one GOP representative recently told Fox Business Network, “we're going to have to have some hard decisions” on Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare.

 

Trump’s GOP will be making “hard” choices, meaning they will be cutting benefits, in order to fund tax cuts for wealthy donors.

 

Here's what happens when the world's richest man buys the presidency | Opinion

 

The US Government needs to make some tough decisions about the federal budget.  

 

The combined cost of Social Security and Medicare is about 9.0% of GDP in 2024, projected to grow to 11.1% by 2035 and 12.3% by 2098, with most of the increase attributable to Medicare. 

 

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

40 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

Private companies making more money. the government doesn't make money and all spending is a tax. 

 

 

Here's how the government makes money.

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/economics/hoe-the-government-makes-money/

32 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Here's how the government makes money.

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/economics/hoe-the-government-makes-money/

Unable to open that link

1 hour ago, bunnydrops said:

Unable to open that link

Sorry.  Try googling, "How the Government Makes Money, Corporate Finance Institute."  That link should be there.

12 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

You can hardly expect those on skid row to pay taxes.

Anyway, it is really not necessary for the bottom half of the population to pay income tax.

The productivity of the USA is already so high that income tax for the bottom half can be abolished.

 

 

So half the people vote for higher taxes every year, it's brilliant. 

money is the dominant factor in US Presidential elections. 

A non wealthy candidate has no chance. 

Well, considering that my asthma meds are equal to $6 in Thailand, $10 in Sweden, and somehow average at $550 in the US... then what do you expect from all these politicians who are bought by companies and interest organisations like AIPAC?!

18 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

Yes, if only the Trump supporting sheeple were smart enough, they would want millions of illegal aliens flooding into the country each year. 

Which is less than .74% of your total population. Of which many are needed for work that support the upper 50% of your population. Systems currently in place are unable to process the people needed via legal immigration. I understand it is important for people to feel in control of their racial quotas and percentages but bottom line is you need immigrants. 

26 minutes ago, jippytum said:

money is the dominant factor in US Presidential elections. 

A non wealthy candidate has no chance. 

Neither Clinton nor Obama were wealthy prior to being President. They are now of course. And Biden did not get rich until he was vice President. 

 

And according to most of the leftists here, Trump is stupid and broke. 

 

 

 

We know that Elon spent $250,000,000 on the election; however Kamala's minders spent from $1,000,000,000-to-2,500,000,000 in 3 months.

How many votes did they buy?  And why didn't Kamala win?

 

4 minutes ago, rct99q said:

Which is less than .74% of your total population. Of which many are needed for work that support the upper 50% of your population. Systems currently in place are unable to process the people needed via legal immigration. I understand it is important for people to feel in control of their racial quotas and percentages but bottom line is you need immigrants. 

No. I don't need illegal aliens, the rich and the left need illegal aliens. 

 

Ten year waiting list for Indian teachers, engineers and doctors, while low and no skilled welfare recipients are allowed to flood across the border to drive down wages of the working poor. 

 

Yeah, I'm just not smart enough to see that as a good thing.  

6 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

We know that Elon spent $250,000,000 on the election; however Kamala's minders spent from $1,000,000,000-to-2,500,000,000 in 3 months.

How many votes did they buy?  And why didn't Kamala win?

 

Because people in the US do not want leftist policies. 

14 minutes ago, rct99q said:

Which is less than .74% of your total population. Of which many are needed for work that support the upper 50% of your population. Systems currently in place are unable to process the people needed via legal immigration. I understand it is important for people to feel in control of their racial quotas and percentages but bottom line is you need immigrants. 

So you are saying the bottom line is to break the law if it takes too long to get something done.  In this case, immigrants. 

One analogy would be if it takes too long to check out your bag of groceries, then walk out without paying.  I could give you many more examples of your faulty logic.

7 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

And why didn't Kamala win?

Simply because all the billionaire donors wasted their money in a seriously flawed and disliked failure of a candidate like Kamala and Walz whose seriously ineffective and laughable campaign whose only strategy was to lambast Trump and his supporters as nazis, fascists, hitler, a threat to America, etc only served to ensure Trumps LANDSLIDE election victory. Trump spent $500 campaigning, Kamala spent $1.5-$2B also on Trumps campaign but couldn't see it....lol

37 minutes ago, Kasset Tak said:

Well, considering that my asthma meds are equal to $6 in Thailand, $10 in Sweden, and somehow average at $550 in the US... then what do you expect from all these politicians who are bought by companies and interest organisations like AIPAC?!

Until lobbying is curtailed or banned this vote buying will continue.

The high cost of prescription drugs is only one example of this legal form of corruption.

14 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

So you are saying the bottom line is to break the law if it takes too long to get something done.  In this case, immigrants. 

One analogy would be if it takes too long to check out your bag of groceries, then walk out without paying.  I could give you many more examples of your faulty logic.

Sorry

21 hours ago, simple1 said:

Here's what happens when the world's richest man buys the presidency | Opinion

Birds of a feather flock together....and rich people attract more rich people and make good things happen.

 

 

3 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

He's not making an argument for why immigrants should enter the country illegally, he is making the argument for why the Biden Administration allowing millions of illegal aliens to flood across the border is a good thing, and that the only reason people that do not want to allow millions of illegal aliens to flood across the border is because they are stupid. 

Let him speak for himself.

21 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

What happened when one of the world's richest men bought the 2020 election? 

Nonsense comment. Proof???😵‍💫

3 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

So half the people vote for higher taxes every year, it's brilliant. 

 

The majority will vote for higher taxes if the majority do not need to pay taxes.

This will increase tax revenue for the government.

Therefore, what are they waiting for?

 

 

Just now, newbee2022 said:

Nonsense comment. Proof???😵‍💫

Yes 😵‍💫

17 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

No. I don't need illegal aliens, the rich and the left need illegal aliens. 

 

Ten year waiting list for Indian teachers, engineers and doctors, while low and no skilled welfare recipients are allowed to flood across the border to drive down wages of the working poor. 

 

Yeah, I'm just not smart enough to see that as a good thing.  

Yup, nobody said you was smart.

2 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Yes 😵‍💫

Enlighten us, please

2 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Enlighten us, please

Us? 😵‍💫

1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

Us? 😵‍💫

Yeah, I'm not the only one on AN 

Just now, newbee2022 said:

Yeah, I'm not the only one on AN 

Oh, sorry.  😵‍💫