Okay, Iâm out. I have to go to work tomorrow to pay all of the local, state and federal taxes that have been levied on financially successful small business people.
Oh waitâŠthatâs right Obama did not raise taxes on the top bracket as Eye Dentist appropriately pointed out. He simply allowed the Bush tax cuts to expireâŠyes that matters (eye roll).
HmmâŠSuddenly the accusation has changed from âstoking the fires of racismâ to âstirring up racial tensions.â To me, those are very, very different charges. With respect to stirring up racial tensions, I would say both Obama and MLK are guilty as charged. I would also say that, in each case, it was to the good that they were. (Which is not to say Obama is the second coming of MLK, of course.)
Iâve grown accustomed to the less-than-desirable implication of ED, so feel free to use it. (But thanks for asking.)
First, allow me to sincerely congratulate you on being successful enough to end up in the top tax tierâthe only tier of earners that Obama allowed Prez Bush to re-tax via the sunset provision he (Bush) signed.
Second, as one of the millions of tax payers who helped build your business via providing for the infrastructure upon which it rests, may I say âYouâre welcome.â
Finally, if youâll stop by the office, I can give you something to help with that eye roll.
I did think it was funny. But hey I am not going to make any hay with it. I will refer to you as Eye Dentist, or Dentist, or any other name youâd like.
I actually wouldnât mind if some of my tax dollars went for paying for that wall. Itâs the 48 million on food stamps and the millions on welfare that bother me. Donât you think that everyone, if they are a healthy adult, should be doing some sort of work for that money?
Well, you see doctor it happens only on T Nation. Every time someone on T Nation says something that is so outlandish all I can do is look away and roll my eyes.
Do you really think a wall will be built? I donât. The problem for Trump is, the wall seems to hold special significance for his base. (Maybe theyâre all Pink Floyd fans.) So unlike âLock her up!â and âDrain the swamp!ââboth of which vanished immediately after the election, with nary a peep of protest from his baseâmy sense is that âBuild the wall!â cannot be waved away so easily. (Of course, my âsenseâ also told me HRC would win, so itâs not worth a bucket of warm spit at this point.) The question then becomes, how can Trump get out from under âBuild the wall!â without seeming to walk away from it? My hunch is heâs going to make Congress take the fall for it; ie, he will ask Congress to appropriate the seed money for a wall, and they will refuse. In this manner, Trump will be able to say âI tried to build the wall, but Congress blocked me,â and his most central campaign slogan will be saved.
Trump could suggest that the money appropriated for each sanctuary city would instead go to paying for the wall, you would city these chest puffing mayors fall in line in no time flat.
Are you sure Iâm successful? After all, I do spend an awful lot of time on TN.
And youâre right, most private-practice ophthalmologists at my stage in their careers are top-tier earners. However, I work at a state âhospital of last resortâ (aka a âcharity hospitalâ), so my income is far removed from the top tier. That said, and lest anyone think Iâm poâ mouthing (as we say here in the Deep South), let me hasten to add that I do make a great upper-middle-class living, and am in no way complaining about my income. I consider myself very fortunate, very blessed, to have the job that I do.
I understand. A couple of well-placed Botox injections in your extraocular muscles will clear that right up. I guarantee no eye rolls for at least 2 months.
Drain the swamp has not gone away. But, âlock her upâ certainly has and Iâm glad it has. To be quite honest with you, unlike many conservatives, I never really wanted to see Hillary âlocked upâ. I would not mind if she was indicted and then pardoned however. And I only wanted that to happen to make sure that she does not rise from the grave like Dracula and run for President again. I knowâŠI know there is only a very a very tiny chance that she would run again. But, I want to erase any possibility of anyone named Clinton running for President. And for that matter anyone named Bush running for President (I bet that one surprised you). But no I donât want her locked up.
Good question, will the wall be built. I think it will be for three main reasons.
He has virtually built his political reputation on this. His first ever speech (or one of them) was about illegal Mexicans crossing into our country.
It might not be the glorious wall that he spoke of. Part of it can be high fencing and of course part of it state of the art anti-illegal Mexican crossing wall material.
Donât forget what he has been doing for his entire life. He is a builder. And I think he looks at this as a challenge and he sees success when he builds things. Itâs in his DNAâŠ(like grabbing pussy). LOL
So yes in one form or another the wall will be built.
Are you sure you are a liberal? You have not yet called me one single derogatory name. Nor have you used sarcasm as your main theme when responding to my posts.
âŠalthough he later walked this back after being scolded for what was an obvious PR blunder.
That is not a wall. Trump made it crystal-clear during the campaign that references to the wall were not metaphoricalâthat when he said âbuild a wall,â he meant it literally.
âBegin working on an impenetrable physical wall on the southern border, on day one.â