Anybody who lifts themselves out of poverty should be able to write off past years losses too. Instead we tax their first dollar to their last with no breaks for their past hardship.

I think what needs to happen is we need to stop categorizing income source. All income should be taxed the same.

How about one native born white person murderer? Should we demand immediate imprisonment of all white people? Why not they do it at higher rates

"Dallas basically become New Orleans, 8.5 degrees hotter and 133 percent wetter."
Are we talking climate or strippers now?

#9 | POSTED BY VISITOR_ AT 2019-02-15 05:03 PM | REPLY

If we were talking strippers Dallas would become Tampa Bay where one strip club spent $2 million in preparation for the Republican National Convention

That is funny. The tool is a computer that was programed by a idiot that believes in man caused global warming.

#4 | POSTED BY SNIPER AT 2019-02-15 11:27 AM | REPLY |

What's funnier is you pretending your ignorant view that human actions have no consequences are equal to the facts revealed by many thousands of man hours of study on the topic.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Isaac Asimov

SNIPER is a deacon in the cult

About 70% of us are for a wall.

#159 | POSTED BY DOCNJO AT 2019-02-15 02:23 PM | REPLY |

Fortunately the us you refer to is a small minority of the population of the USA and is much smaller than the 60% of the entire population that oppose the wall including all of those who will be most directly affected.

force the vote, the dems are running from it after endorsing it, even AOC is creating distance....lol...gotta pass it to see what is in it....lol...

#134 | POSTED BY SCOOTER28054 AT 2019-02-15 08:50 AM | REPLY

the vote is supposed to happen after the details are worked out in committee. You don't vote on a raw initial idea

The republican proposal is to do nothing about climate change and blame the victims for the results

Tbat gives away the game: to weaponize global warming to implement the eternal agenda of the left: expanding the State. Which is why they always assume the most extreme warming predictions.

#79 | POSTED BY NULLIFIDIAN AT 2019-02-13 10:27 AM |

The eternal agenda of the right is to expand the state and simultaneously pretend they want smaller government. The biggest spending increases have come under republican control. Saint Raygun had 2,252,000 federal employees. The population has gone up 60% since then. Obama managed to provide more services to 60% more people with 10% LESS employees

I have no problem with requiring voter ID. I have a problem with adding hurdles to getting the voter ID targeted at specific groups because of their political preference. The new RealID is out in Wisconsin. My Wife needed to renew her existing license. She had her birth certificate, SS card, and current license. No problem, right? Sorry, no. Her birth certificate had a her maiden name while her DL had her married name. You have to come back with your marriage licence. Ok trip #2 obtained a copy of the marriage license. No again. This was a second marriage. We need the divorce decree and marriage license from the first marriage. Ok more money and time spent. visit #3 sorry no, this birth certificate is not the right form. (could have told us that on visit #1) Ok more documents obtained

visit #4 will happen today. I'll let you know if my wife who has had a DL for 47 years can get hers renewed

There will be a huge year over year sales drop for the Feb-April period.

Simple math says lower refunds means less spending cash.

Some media down here in Texas are saying that about illegals 90,000 are registered to vote and 50,000 did votin our last election.
and Beto still lost. By a lot. Not even close.
Even by cheating, Democrats still couldn't win.

#13 | POSTED BY PEGASUS AT 2019-02-12 11:30 AM | REPLY |

What the report said is that 90,000 voter registration APPLICATIONS in 22 years had the same name as an illegal alien. Investigation showed that some self identified as not able to vote and were not registered. Some died, some went back to mexico and some became citizens. There is no evidence ANY illegal aliens VOTED

Red Hat is just an anagram for hatred

Sure there is. SS takes in more than it pays out. That is self funded

By unfunded liabilities Boaz means the things that the republicans don't like, are entirely self funded, but whose funds were borrowed and used to fund things that were actually unfunded and now the GOP wants to transfer the debt to the source of the funds

Evers is owned by the teachers union and the department of public instruction requested a 1.5 billion dollar increase in their budget.

#11 | POSTED BY VISITOR_ AT 2019-02-11 12:51 AM | REPLY |

We need that increase because we are facing a teacher shortage due to Walkers destruction of educator pay scales. Under Walker rule by law the first paycheck any teacher gets is the largest they will ever see in spending power. From then on raises are limited by law to a MAXIMUM equal to COLA and that can only be granted by trading benefits. They also eliminated wage increases for extending education. A teacher with a Master's degree is on the same pay scale as a teacher with a bachelors degree.

Unless huge swaths of people changed their withholding (highly unlikely) as a result of this new law, shouldn't the average refund have increased if overall tax revenues are down?

#18 | POSTED BY JEFFJ AT 2019-02-11 10:13 AM | REPLY

They changed the witholding so that claiming the same amount resulted in less being taken out of each check. So you got an average of $1.50/week more in your take home pay but because of other changes your refund decreased by $300-500.

Winning

It sucks they tax folks who receive SS and can work on top of that.
what makes my SS income (I'm only 50...just thinking ahead) subject to tax because I work when my neighbor doesn't have to pay because he doesn't work?
if we earned the same benefit, we should effectively get the same benefit.

#17 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2019-02-11 10:07 AM | REPLY |

You can thank Ray gun and the Republicans for taxing your SS benefits.

Winning!!

Lower refunds are effecting the economy

Who could have predicted that people with less cash will spend less cash?

The souring of the deal is due to the anti-capitalistic sentiments of the new governor.

#5 | POSTED BY VISITOR_ AT 2019-02-10 06:42 PM | REPLY |

The deal was sour before it was ever put to ink. There was never a need for the plant they promised. They promised to build a plant to build technology that was already obsolete

Aren't Southern Baptists the ones that teach its okay to beat your wife and kids?

Rising rates of bullying is cost to society. This is not a cost to sociery. It is a cost to my wallet.

Funny how you oppose having everyone pay $133 to send every high school graduate to college but you are ok with having everyone pay to let a company make huge profits while providing benefits to a very few

The "Tax cut" gave you an extra $1.50/week on your paychecks in exchange for $hundreds less on your refund check

Her monthly rate is going to go from $0 to $10 (~), more people will have access to the life-saving medication (+), and the insurance company will actually spend money to cover the drug(+) and that makes them unhappy(+). The down-side being that the cost for society will go up(-). The cost to society being that which we all accept to make sure these people who need this expensive medication have access to it. Looks like the positives outweigh the negatives.

#23 | POSTED BY AVIGDORE AT 2019-02-08 11:43 AM | REPLY

Her monthly copay rate is goint to go from $0 to $10 but the insurance company will still get it's $375,000. They will merely raise the premiums for EVERYONE.

The same people who are skerred of LGBTQ because 'the bible says its bad' based on the interpretation of one passage promote this law despite numerous passages in the same bible condemning charging interest on loans at all

Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV
"If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit."

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV
"You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it."

Ezekiel 18:13 ESV
Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

sssshhhhh!!
we have to have folks believing abortion rights are in jeopardy...all of the time.

#3 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2019-02-08 10:01 AM | REPLY |

We have other folks believing that since one attempt to curtail abortion rights failed that the other bazillion attempts in the pipeline pose no threat.

About the equivalent to believing that since one missile was diverted by chaff we can ignore the other 50 inbound missiles