-You think a billionaire notices a missing dollar?

Are you or are you not arguing that billionaires are greedy psychos who have the audacity to limit their tax liability even when it's an insignificant amount of money they're saving? That they wouldn't notice the extra tax being taken so they should just pay it and STFU?

-You comparing me to a billionaire in order to shame me is hilarious

Are you or are you not arguing that billionaires are greedy psychos over money they could easily part with?

Could you not part with more money to the government?

I paid almost $100K in income and property taxes last year. I guess I should be happy it wasn't $105K and I sure as hell shouldn't try to pay $94K this year, right?

Of course I'm comparing you to a billionaire. Billionaires feel pain, feel joy, feel sadness and loss, don't want to get punched in the face nor get robbed. Hell, they even say please and thank you from time to time.

Does that sound anything like you?

"Carroll, whose advice column ran in the women's magazine Elle from 1993 to 2019, has reportedly accused at least six prior men of raping her, including former CBS President Les Moonves. Her bizarre social-media history also included posts making light of sexual trauma and even asking her followers if they found Trump sexually attractive. Trump was prevented from submitting that evidence in his trial."

The case was lawfare from the beginning. They even changed the status of limitations to prosecute Trump, then changed it back after the trial.

BullBringer, who openly supports pedophile Trump.

Is here to bow and kiss the boot of billionaires who are nothing but a plague on society.

Go ahead and defend these clowns who have no idea how wealth is created or how one actually becomes a billionaire.

The economic illiteracy of the DR lefties is astounding.
On topic, the failure to understand how poor accounting standards serves as a trigger mechanism.

#97 | Posted by BellRinger

Ha ha ha.

No, seriously, the Pedo who can't get even basic economic facts right and gets fact checked every time he posts saying something like this.

When you look up Dunning-Kruger anywhere, you see Pedo Jeff's name as the first exmaple.

This MIGHT be why Jeff NEVER explains anything or offers facts. He just says "Drrrr... You guys are wrong!" and runs away to chase the 12 year old girls in his neighborhood.

The economic illiteracy of the DR lefties is astounding.

On topic, the failure to understand how poor accounting standards serves as a trigger mechanism.

Eb. Paid $100k In taxes

In a functional society. Those taxes would go to improving his local community, state and country. Providing people with healthcare and an education. Helping seniors.

In America, they'll go to paying Walmart and Amazon employees' welfare benefits.

Best country on earth!

"700k Kids Lose Food Aid" is actually:
loss prevention from states who states who can't be bothered with fixing their errors.
#63 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Oh I get it.
When kids lose food aid, that's loss prevention.

Like when your health insurance pays a medical bill, that's a loss.
Denying your health care claims is loss prevention.

Giving kids food is a loss; not giving kids food is loss prevention.
The math sure checks out.

We should stop all these losses, right? Why stop with kids?

So you run a 6% to 15% error rate in your checkbook year over year?

#74 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You only care about that when it comes to helping average people. When it's military spending you don't give a ----.

40 some odd states have waste over 6%.
#73 | Posted by lfthndthrds

How much waste in there in the corporate world?
Hint: More than six percent.

No other nation has ever dealt such a monumental strategic defeat to the United States of Amerikkka in so little time as Iran as done via Dummkopf Trumpf's unconstitutional war to benefit Israel.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-29 03:36 PM | Reply | Flag: Soon to cost Amerikkka $100bn

I followed the link in his article and ended up finding that this has nothing to do with Donald Trump starving kids, but more to do with loss prevention from states who states who can't be bothered with fixing their errors.

"Since the program's inception, SNAP has operated as an entitlement program, meaning anyone who qualifies is entitled to receive benefits, regardless of the program's overall cost or budget. However, starting in FY28, due to a change in the OBBBA, those benefit costs will be shifted away from the federal government and over to states, further straining state budgets. States will need to pay a share of SNAP food benefits ranging from five to 15 percent depending on their FY25 or FY26 payment error rate.

Payment errors are largely unintentional mistakes by state agencies or families, and a rigorous quality control process ensures that errors are minimized. States with an error rate of six percent or higher must pay five percent of benefit costs, with the state's share increasing up to 15 percent as its payment error rate increases. All states, with the exception of South Dakota, have had an error rate above six percent at some point in the last two decades. Were error rates to be similar to FY24, we could expect 42 states, including the District of Columbia, to face at least a five percent cost-shift. Instead of assisting states in lowering their error rates, the OBBBA cuts administrative funding and punishes states for such mistakes. These impacts will be felt across the country, from conservative states like Oklahoma to more liberal states like Connecticut"

"you think a $1000 to a billionaire is the same as $1000 to the poor."

To be clear, I don't think that.

I'm not some phony libertarian. I don't call for some flat tax or some national sales tax, VAT or whatever term is used to describe it.

I'm a supporter of an actual progressive tax system. I would like to see the wealthiest pay more of their higher incomes in a higher bracket and not avoid it with "carried interest" and other mechanisms that are legally available to them.

But that's not enough for you guys, is it?

I need to pledge that the mere existence of a billionaire is offensive and should be banned.....or something like that?

-Tax cuts for the middle class were just hush money peanuts to make them accept the much larger tax cuts for the rich

On top of getting half this country out of paying any income taxes (sans FICA of course), yes.

-Bill gates could by a billion sandwiches without feeling a financial pinch.

Of course, and he's a very charitable person or at least that's how a lot of people perceive him.

You think he's a greedy ----- who isn't buying enough sandwiches. And your only argument for that is because he can afford to buy more.

He claims to have paid more than $10 billion in taxes and openly advocates for higher taxes on the wealthy.....but he's made moves to avoid paying billions and billions in estate taxes. Not sure how many sandwiches his foundation buys but he would rather not pay it to uncle sam, obviously.

The money he's not paying to uncle sam is starving kids right now.

To be clear, that's your argument?

I won't argue with you on that but dumping that amount of baseless money in a short time will still cause rampant inflation. The main point being, that it wasn't just one party in on it. It's like saying Trump had a terrible track record for managing unemployment during his first term - when there was a pandemic going on. If anyone blames Trump for 15% unemployment, they had better be ready to blame Biden for 9.3% inflation.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Inflation spiked after covid AROUND THE ENTIRE WORLD, because of a pandemic that no one chose to create.

Current inflation is due to the choice of one man, who had to start a war because israel has video of him raping kids.

-Didn't they also get a $600 tax rebate?

Oh, so you're excusing, perhaps even defending, the tax cuts for the wealthy because we also cut taxes on the middle class?

Maybe you need to rethink that angle.

One of the most brilliant tactics the GOP employed was to place as many folks possible outside the area of paying federal income taxes.

The democrats gladly went along with it but now we have a political environment where a significant portion of the middle class resents the hell out of lower income people paying no taxes while they receive medicaid, food stamps, free school lunches, EITC, etc.

This is how the GOP manages to lure millions of new voters into their camp from the other side because of this frustration. They blame this on the democratic party....which is -------- because the GOP wanted this.

-And what's apparent to me is that you think a $1000 to a billionaire is the same as $1000 to the poor.

buying someone a $10 sandwich is the same whether or not you buy it or I buy it.....or if Bill Gates buys it.

-So, no, I personally did not feel guilty at all.

of course not. That was my point.

-What poor people were screwed to give me that $600?

uh oh...you're starting to show some intelligence, albeit short lived, I'm sure.

If you got to keep more money......that's money we could have used to feed someone. That's been your argument throughout this. The only difference it's your dollar.....not some billionaire's dollar.

I know....you must feel like a total greedy bastard, huh?

Inflation surged around the world at rates not seen since the early 1980s recession. Coincidence, or COVID? Sometimes you gotta realize that massive unemployment, factories and shipping shutting down, massive spending and shrinking tax revenues might have an effect on inflation regardless of who's president.

#11 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-05-29 12:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

I won't argue with you on that but dumping that amount of baseless money in a short time will still cause rampant inflation. The main point being, that it wasn't just one party in on it. It's like saying Trump had a terrible track record for managing unemployment during his first term - when there was a pandemic going on. If anyone blames Trump for 15% unemployment, they had better be ready to blame Biden for 9.3% inflation.

What DJT really needs is time to figure out how to spin this strategic loss.

And get his oil trades done.

Carroll has reportedly accused at least six prior men of raping her, including former CBS President Les Moonves.

What are the odds she isn't a lunatic.

You would have to fall for RussiaGate to buy into this crap. Or Hunter Biden's laptop, or Ashley Biden's diaries, or....

Speaking of Ashley Biden BTW, where is bored?

-People want our taxes to go to protecting us.

Not on election day. The folks who run things know that.

What's apparent to me is that you don't think a dollar that a billionaire gets to keep is different than a dollar you get to keep.

Either way, it's a dollar you are going to keep so the poor person who needs a sandwich can go without.

And when you get to keep that extra dollar, you don't say to yourself, "but damn....that poor kid who needs fed. I just ------ him over"

Of course you don't. You just assume the government will find that dollar elsewhere. You just pay your taxes and go on about your business. Take that dollar you stole from the poor kid and go buy a soda or put it in your Roth IRA, etc.

You're not going to feel guilty about it. What makes you think a billionaire would feel bad or that they should feel bad?

"jurisdictional arbitrage for tax purposes."

I think I know what you mean by that but if you could clarify it I'd appreciate it.

That's Antisemitic Danni.

You should be Ashamed of yourself for your "Jew Hate".

Israel is a "Light unto Nations"

IDF is the "Most Moral Army On Earth".

Lol.

They Demand more than just Acceptance, they Demand APPROVAL.

Otherwise, it's " Blood Libel" and "Jew Hatred".

Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, sniveled that it's just as well the popular mayor doesn't attend.

"We have too much self-respect and self-dignity to have this man bring a dark cloud to our parade," Schneier kvetched. "Do us a favor: Stay home. Stay [at] Gracie Mansion. We'll do just fine without you."

~snip~

Disgraced ex-NYC Mayor Eric Adams, now an Albanian citizen, bleated that he will march in this year's parade, although this ripesuck has little to gain from the wealthy Israeli lobby as his political future is now as moribund as sexual predator Andrew "Judas Iscariot" Cuomo, a quisling who betrayed the Democratic Party of his father for a meager 30 pieces of silver by running as an independent against Zohran Mamdani.

"We'll show them hijab-wearers, right Mr. Mayor?"

"Damn straight, Shlomo!"

"The probe is just the latest among a series of investigations launched by the department into political foes of President Trump, a number of which have faced significant obstacles in the courts and grand juries."

;;

JeffytheB is going to really hate this Lawfare!

" Paxton is a criminal."

... who I'd vote for if I lived there.

At least finish the sentence honestly.

needs to pay this $24 Billion to Iraq so he can win the war.

How many pallets would that be?

AI is just the excuse, not the reason.

The reason is maximizing short term profits even at the cost of a worse product.

the mere existence of a billionaire is offensive
It is.
#60 | Posted by ClownShack

I'm okay with a little nuance here:
A billionaire who doesn't give a hundred million to charity is morally indefensible.
This was the way of the Christian world for about two thousand years.
Until Capitalism rendered ten percent a pretty significant amount of money.
The Church once forbade usury too. Now it's just part of doing business.

The Church re-defined usury from "interest" to "excessive interest" around five hundred years ago.
And if you don't know that and you're a Christian, no you're not.
You're cosplaying a Christian.

No other nation has ever dealt such a monumental strategic defeat to the United States of America in so little time as Iran as done via Trump's War.

Gotta get this done before the war with Iran is over.

In that case, time is not running out.

What's apparent to me is that you don't think a dollar that a billionaire gets to keep is different than a dollar you get to keep.

And what's apparent to me is that you think a $1000 to a billionaire is the same as $1000 to the poor.

No, a thousand dollars does not mean the same thing to a poor American as it does a rich one. In economics, this is known as the law of diminishing marginal utility. As a person's income and wealth increase, the value, impact, and satisfaction derived from each additional dollar inherently decrease.

Because in USA citizens are afraid of their government.

#40 Do you love Grover Norquist?

Equating a one time $600 credit that almost everyone got with selective, targeted Tax Cuts for high earners isn't equivalent.

The BBB Tax cuts PERMANENTLY give high Earning People significant Tax cuts while paying for them by increasing the Deficit and cutting Medicaid and Snap.

Reverse Robin Hood in it's purest form.

GTFOH with your BS Eberly.

Trump is Your Man, you lying Bitch.

By it's Fruit shall we Know a Tree.

There is no "conflict".

Alito is not conflicted at all.

Which, of course, is the problem.

He should be.

Trump/MAGA/GOP have completely divorced the need for moral behavior as a qualification for political office.

I'm old enough to remember Gary Hart being forced out of the race after pictures with his mistress surfaced.

Nowadays having five kids with three baby mommas and cheating on them all is the standard for GOP family values.

Meanwhile Paxton gave a sweetheart sentence to Adam Hoffman who raped his son's friend from age 8-10. Hoffman could have got life in prison but the deal gave him just ONE day in prison.

The GOP stands for nothing but protecting child rapists.

You could take Paxton's brain, put it in a bumblebee and it'll fly backwards.

His win is very on brand for Tejas.

Milei described...they both view "taxes as theft,"

Interesting considering taxes pay his salary. He doesn't mind stealing to pay himself.
Quite sad how the oligarchs hate paying taxes, but love hoarding tax dollars for themselves.

"you're trying to understand why a billionaire wants a tax cut but you can't actually point to a billionaire who you know wants a tax cut.
I'm not sure tax rates are that important to billionaires when compared to the other issues
#33 | Posted by eberly"

MAGA made sure America had a murderer in the White House, a man who would ignore international law and elevate the genocidal government of Israel to the status of 51st state. Apartheid is an indicator that a state is not a democracy, goodness knows Israel is no democracy, it has imprisoned millions of Arabs in the illegal Occupied Territories.

"Emails between her and her friend, who was also a key witness in the case, reveal her talking about her grand scheme to remove Trump from office. She was funded by a billionaire Democrat, benefited from changed laws specifically to prosecute Trump, and Carroll was the first person in the state to file under this new law. She won a case against Trump with zero evidence, no eyewitnesses, and in a trial where the judge refused to admit Trump's evidence against Carroll, showcasing a politically motivated prosecution."
If you don't see an issue with that, you are part of the problem.

#13 | Posted by HeliumRat

HeliumPedo lives in an alternative reality. But then again he also worships an admitted rapist and admitted pedophile.

The economic illiteracy of the DR lefties is astounding.
On topic, the failure to understand how poor accounting standards serves as a trigger mechanism.

#97 | Posted by BellRinger

Ha ha ha.

No, seriously, the Pedo who can't get even basic economic facts right and gets fact checked every time he posts saying something like this.

When you look up Dunning-Kruger anywhere, you see Pedo Jeff's name as the first exmaple.

This MIGHT be why Jeff NEVER explains anything or offers facts. He just says "Drrrr... You guys are wrong!" and runs away to chase the 12 year old girls in his neighborhood.

The economic illiteracy of the DR lefties is astounding.

On topic, the failure to understand how poor accounting standards serves as a trigger mechanism.

What does the Israel Day parade have to do with Jews?

What does cinco de mayo have to do with Mexico?

Make a one trillion dollar bill with his face. Make only one of these and offer it to him if he would resign. The bill would be held at a safe place and could not be spent but he would be the first trillionaire.

"getting more"? WTF does that mean?
#70 | Posted by eberly

You've heard of Learned Helplessness.
Eberly is giving Night Classes in Learned Stupidity.

- 6% to 15%

Less than the Trump Crime Family scams and steals each year.

So you run a 6% to 15% error rate in your checkbook year over year?

#74 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You only care about that when it comes to helping average people. When it's military spending you don't give a ----.

This crook had better hope to be dead by the time his term ends. Imagine a Dem administration and a DOJ going after the former POTUS and his crime family, getting back hundreds of millions in fines and disgorgement of profits. No way a SCOTUS will stand by with a 'get out of jail free' card for such brazen criminality, which clearly was NOT part of the president's normal duties while in office. Time will prove that the criminal acts are not shielded...