The General Political Thread

[Karth]

We just passed a huge tax reform bill in the Senate, no longer will we have the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world, aye

[Toffee]

We just passed a huge tax reform bill in the Senate, no longer will we have the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world, aye

Thoughts on Flynn?

[Karth]

We just passed a huge tax reform bill in the Senate, no longer will we have the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world, aye

Thoughts on Flynn?

He obviously should be held liable for lying to the FBI about talking to Russia.  But what's sad is they spent since May and could only charge him with lying about that... was expecting a bit more given the intensity of the investigation. Flynn is a good guy otherwise, he has a decorated career and has definitely given a lot to this country, so it's sad when his career ends like this

[StevenChilton]

We just passed a huge tax reform bill in the Senate, no longer will we have the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world, aye

Thoughts on Flynn?

He obviously should be held liable for lying to the FBI about talking to Russia.  But what's sad is they spent since May and could only charge him with lying about that... was expecting a bit more given the intensity of the investigation. Flynn is a good guy otherwise, he has a decorated career and has definitely given a lot to this country, so it's sad when his career ends like this

Lol. They're only charging him for that because Flynn entered into some kind of plea deal-he's allegedly given them info on another member of the administration in return for the other charges being dropped. Apparently it's Kushner he's grassed on.

[Riddlez]

We just passed a huge tax reform bill in the Senate, no longer will we have the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world, aye

It's interesting as there seem to be no countermeasures towards to loss of all that money coming in.... even if it will buy jobs, that won't account for the trillions of dollars the US Government will lose... and it still needs the money, or you know, the already dramatic financial situation of the country gets even more dramatic.

[Toffee]

I’ve heard that they slipped some really sneaky shit into that bill too. Dunno if it’s true like but read that they added something on abortions? Can anyone confirm this?

[Riddlez]

That wouldn't make much sense considering it'd make categorisation of law quite hard if we started putting health shit in financial law.

Imagine a future law student failing a test because he missed Abortions are illegal because of Article 483 lid 56 section 12 of the Financial Reform Act states it as illegal.

[Karth]

It's a good bill, the 1.5 trillion deficit doesn't take into considerations the amount of repatriation tax the government will reap over the next decade, with huge corporations already starting next year.  Keep in mind that the Congressional budget office which put out that analysis is not fully bipartisan like they might say, the guy who runs it was a strong liberal for years.

[StevenChilton]

(Occasional reminder that tax cuts are only a good thing if followed by sensible cuts to public expenditure, otherwise you'll have to borrow to meet your commitments)

[DaMonkey]

(Occasional reminder that tax cuts are only a good thing if followed by sensible cuts to public expenditure, otherwise you'll have to borrow to meet your commitments)

Don't worry. They won't cut anything, they never do. Democrats will do everything they can to block cuts to [insert these programs] and the Republicans will refuse to cut [Insert Other Programs]; the Federal Government hasn't known how to become fiscally responsible for a while now because constituents would rather keep spending other people's money for their own comfort, even if we're out of other people's money to spend; combined with certain people's unwillingness to leave the world be.

[Edwin]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/04/supreme-court-permits-full-enforcement-trump-travel-ban.html

Well... that took a while.

[Theodin]

Shoutout to all those who thought a travel ban like that wasn't legal

[TheBoberton]

Don't worry. They won't cut anything, they never do. Democrats will do everything they can to block cuts to [insert these programs] and the Republicans will refuse to cut [Insert Other Programs]; the Federal Government hasn't known how to become fiscally responsible for a while now because constituents would rather keep spending other people's money for their own comfort, even if we're out of other people's money to spend; combined with certain people's unwillingness to leave the world be.

But surely leaders in our democratic system would do something more than just look out for their own (Or their party's) reelection? Someone must look to the future, beyond the lining of their own pockets with public money, right?

[Conway]

Don't worry. They won't cut anything, they never do. Democrats will do everything they can to block cuts to [insert these programs] and the Republicans will refuse to cut [Insert Other Programs]; the Federal Government hasn't known how to become fiscally responsible for a while now because constituents would rather keep spending other people's money for their own comfort, even if we're out of other people's money to spend; combined with certain people's unwillingness to leave the world be.

But surely leaders in our democratic system would do something more than just look out for their own (Or their party's) reelection? Someone must look to the future, beyond the lining of their own pockets with public money, right?

They're called third parties or unemployed.

[Karth]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/04/supreme-court-permits-full-enforcement-trump-travel-ban.html

Well... that took a while.

well that just made all of the other justices who blocked the order look like fools