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Showing posts with label red states. Show all posts

16 April 2018

See why Trump tweeted and then deleted this embarrassing photo (we've got the screenshots!) 13APR18


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john kelly with his face in his hands in an attempt to hide the fact that he was at the meeting or that physical response when one covers one's face with a hand when one can't believe what they are hearing and seeing. Keep this in mind, john kelly is a drumpf/trump-pence republican, he is as corrupt and rotten as the rest of the administration, if he wasn't he wouldn't be part of it.....
See why Trump tweeted and then deleted this embarrassing photo (we've got the screenshots!)

Friday April 13, 2018 · 11:04 AM EDT

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Donald Trump wanted to show he’s a serious man who can hold serious meetings. Nothing says “I’m a serious person” like tweeting out photos of you taking a break from Fox News to attend a meeting where your fellow Republicans explain to you that your trade policies are moronic and ill-advised. That’s the scene in the image below as Donald Trump hosted an “Agriculture Roundtable” where red state senators who are worried about re-election and their farmer constituents tried to get Trump to walk back his tariffs and rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership. 
In an attempt to prove he actually does occasionally take a break from Fox News and golfing, he sent out this now deleted tweet bragging about the meeting. Here’s a screenshot of the now missing tweet. Jump below to see why he deleted it.
Donald Trump tweet about his Agriculture Roundtable
That last picture on the bottom right? Let’s zoom in a little closer.
A little closer, please.
Apparently Trump’s babysitter and Chief of Staff John Kelly cannot hide his embarrassment about the entire meeting. 
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20 March 2014

Sarah Palin's new 'Murica show looks amazing 18MAR14


NOTHING explains the ignorance of red states like a TV show hosted by the Fotze Queen sarah palin....
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Amazing America with Sarah Palin is coming, and if the trailer's any indication, it's going to be, well, amazing. Go ahead, give it a watch.
http://youtu.be/dZsyleWw2Qc

See? Wow. It looks to be Sarah Palin saying things about freedom in front of a green screen interspersed with some sort of redneckier-than-thou celebration of people shooting things or injuring themselves. Holy moly.
I say we give a videotape of this thing to every one of our foreign ambassadors. When someone from another country wants an explanation of why American foreign or domestic policy is what it is, we just hand them the tape. Here ya go, we'll say. This ought to explain everything.
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07 October 2012

CHARTING GOVERNMENT DEPENDENTS 18SEP12

CHARTS of the 47%, the takers, the government dependents. As this article from Mother Jones is titled, You Might Be The 47% IF....

…you don't owe federal income taxes because you're a working mom, a soldier, a millionaire, or a corporation.

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By now you've no doubt heard Mitt Romney's thoughts about the "47 percent" of Americans "who pay no income tax." But are you one of them? You might be if you are…

…superwealthy

The 47 percent aren't all moochers. In 2011, 3,000 taxpayers earning more than $2.2 million paid no federal income tax. How'd they manage that? High earners have a wealth of tricks for minimizing their tax bills, including writing off losses, foreign investments, and giving to charity.
Source: Tax Policy Center

…just pretty wealthy

More than 20,000 taxpayers with gross income of more than $200,000 paid no income tax in 2009, according to IRS data (PDF). Overall, the rate of wealthy Americans who pay no income tax has been growing.

Source: IRS

…working hard

About three-fifths of the 47 percent are working and making less than $20,000 a year. However, they still pay payroll taxes (Social Security, Medicare, unemployment) and spend an average of 12.3 percent of their incomes on state and local taxes.
Source: Reuters/Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

…living in a red state

Eight of the ten states with the highest percentage of non-filers are solidly red. The Washington Post's Dylan Matthews predicts that Romney will grab "95 electoral votes from the 'taker' states." (However, most of the non-payers in those states are likely Democrats.)
Source: Tax Foundation

…the lucky Beneficiary of republican tax policies

The Reagan and Bush tax cuts erased many Americans' income tax obligations. George W. Bush even bragged about taking 5 million people off the tax rolls in 2004. And the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which give working families a tax break, were pushed by conservatives as ways to alleviate poverty.

…down on your luck

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the 47 percent figure is an anomaly that reflects "the unique circumstances of the past few years, when the economic downturn greatly swelled the number of Americans with low incomes." In other words, the past few years have left more Americans too poor to pay taxes. That, combined with the tax policies mentioned above, has led to a greater share of Americans who do not owe any income taxes.
Source: Tax Foundation

…a Senior Citizen

More than one-fifth of the 47 percent are senior citizens whose main source of earnings is Social Security. (Senior citizens making more than $25,000 a year— $32,000 for couples—pay income taxes on up to 85 percent of their benefits.)
Source: JeremyOK, Flickr

…in college

College students are a small yet significant chunk of the 47 percent. Most scholarships and financial aid are not taxable. Of course, students who work their way through school pay taxes—and they pay taxes when they (hopefully) enter the workforce after graduation.
Source: CollegeDegrees360/Flickr

…in a combat zone

Members of the military serving in combat zones do not have to pay federal income tax on their pay.

…a corporation

Corporations may be people, my friends, but they don't pay personal income taxes. But they can still avoid the IRS. Betwen 2008 and 2011, 26 major corporations such as Verizon and General Electric paid no net federal corporate taxes. Nearly 55 percent of large American-owned corporations reported zero tax liabilities for mutiple years between 1998 and 2005, according to a Government Accountability Office report (PDF). And corporate income taxes' share of total federal taxes collected has been falling steadily.
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13 April 2012

Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In 16FEB12

JUST like the article states, those who are complaining the most about government spending are getting the most in federal funding (click the link to the article at the bottom of this post to view the interactive maps). This from Mother Jones.......

Even as Republicans gripe about deficit spending, their states get 30 cents more federal spending per tax dollar than their Democratic neighbors.

—By Dave Gilson
States receiving the most federal funding per tax dollar paid:
1. New Mexico: $2.63
2. West Virginia: $2.57
3. Mississippi: $2.47
4. District of Colombia: $2.41
5. Hawaii: $2.38
6. Alabama: $2.03
7. Alaska: $1.93
8. Montana: $1.92
9. South Carolina: $1.92
10. Maine: $1.78
It's no secret: The federal budget is expanding faster than tax revenues, a trend that's been fueled by the rapid growth of entitlement programs and exacerbated by the recession. As a recent New York Times article documents, even as fiscally conservative lawmakers complain about deficit spending, their constituents don't want to give up the Social Security checks, Medicare benefits, and earned income tax credits that provide a safety net for the struggling middle class.
This gap between political perception and fiscal reality is also reflected in the distribution of tax dollars at the state level: Most politically "red" states are financially in the red when it comes to how much money they receive from Washington compared with what their residents pay in taxes.
A look at 2010 Census and IRS data reveals that the 50 states and the District of Columbia, on average, received $1.29 in federal spending for every federal tax dollar they paid. That means that some states are getting a lot more than they put in, and vice versa. The states that contributed more in taxes than they got back in spending were more likely to have voted for Obama in 2008 and were more likely to be largely urban. (There are some clear exceptions: For instance, New Mexico, a rural, Democratic state, gets more federal money per tax dollar than any other state.)
These three interactive maps break down the split between the spenders and lenders. Click on any state for more detailed data, including each state's per capita ratio of spending received versus taxes paid and where it ranked when the Tax Foundation ran the 2005 numbers.

 Red states were more likely to get a bigger cut of federal spending. Of the 22 states that went to McCain in 2008, 86 percent received more federal spending than they paid in taxes in 2010. In contrast, 55 percent of the states that went to Obama received more federal spending than they paid in taxes. Republican states, on average, received $1.46 in federal spending for every tax dollar paid; Democratic states, on average, received $1.16.

This red-blue split may be partly explained by the difference between urban and rural states. Red states are more likely to be rural, and rural states were more likely to receive more federal spending than they paid in taxes in 2010. Among predominantly rural states, 81 percent received more federal spending than they paid in taxes. In contrast, 44 percent of urban states received more federal spending than they paid in taxes. Rural states, on average, received $1.40 in federal spending for every tax dollar paid; urban states, on average, received $1.10. (Rural states are defined as states whose urban population rate is below the national average of 79 percent.)

Note: Data has been adjusted to be deficit neutral using the method described by the Tax Foundation in its earlier analysis of federal spending versus federal taxes paid.
Sources: IRS (state tax data), Tax Foundation (2005 rank of spending vs. taxes), US Census (federal spending, urban/rural)
Front page image: Wikimedia Commons
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