In the upcoming tax
bill, which of these tax subsidies will Congress end? http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/UncleSamsFavoriteCorporations.pdf.
Here are the largest
corporate welfare recipients: https://www.cheatsheet.com/
business/high-on-the-hog-the-top-8-corporate-welfare-recipients.html/?a=viewall.
GOP wants to cut
taxes for the rich and increase the interest payments on debt
to the Chinese! GOP idea that corporations make jobs with tax cuts was proven
wrong by KS in 2010, when KS cut taxes and almost went bankrupt. Tax cuts
are usually invested overseas where the corporation can make more money from
cheap labor. Example: Carrier
got tax breaks from IN and still moved to Mexico because wages are ¼ US wages.
Can our ‘reps’ end
corporate loopholes and subsidies?
How can Congress do that when our ‘reps’ get their election money from the same
companies/lobbyists? They give profitable energy firms like Exxon subsidies
they don’t need. GOP’s propaganda of tax reform hides the increases for us. Ask
your ‘rep’ to end just one subsidy! While we wait,
Avoid the coming tax
increase: https://www.amazon.com/Pay-No-Taxes-Retirement-legally/dp/1507527977
Cut taxes? Most
large corporations pay no taxes already—No
firm pays 35%
Trump and GOP want
to cut taxes for corporations but most don’t pay taxes
now. Many store
their cash overseas so they can’t be taxed. We can’t do that legally! We must pay tax
on all worldwide income and most of us don’t have a legal team (deductible)
to avoid
taxes with legal gimmicks. For instance, some like Google
use the Dutch Sandwich to save $3.6 Billion in taxes. Others use the Double
Irish to use foreign tax laws we can’t.
Some receive our
tax money as subsidies even though they are profitable: Nike, Royal Dutch
Shell, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, GM, Intel, Alcoa, Boeing. 75% of disclosed
subsidy dollars have gone to 965 big companies. We don’t know the total
value of subsidies to all business but it is in the $ billions. GOP
targets our deductions: we end up paying more taxes instead of corporations
paying their fair share and GOP can say they are NOT increasing our tax
rates. But the net effect is we get less. Business keeps its subsidies!
And
GOP wants to give them more: https://www.amazon.com/Most-U-S-Corporations-Pay-Taxes/dp/1514274116
If the average
income went up why do I not feel it?
Household
incomes have grown in 2 years. More Americans were working, and more had
health insurance in 2016 than the year before. In 2016, the median income of
men was $51,640 but in 1973, the inflation-adjusted median income
of men working full time was $54,030— $2,400 HIGHER. We have less
purchasing power but we are paying more for everything: Taxes—federal state
income tax, Medicare and Social Security. Some pay union dues and discounted
health insurance. If you are lucky you invest for retirement and if really
lucky you are buying a home and paying property taxes. Most
surveys say that you are paying at least 34% just for taxes. Add union dues
of $500, family smart phone plan $2,200, family health insurance $6,471, family
leave insurance $26, unemployment insurance $138, and pension $6,000. You also
may be paying $7,000 on your home and $2,000 in property tax. Most people live
in states with sales tax and pay 5-7% of their disposable income on stuff they
need to live. All
97 taxes.
This is why the GOP talks tax cut—BUT FOR WHO? Many rich
people pay under 18% total tax while we are paying 34% according to Mr Buffett.
Warren Buffett pays 17.7%.
The wealthy
ALREADY have a flat tax. President Trump claimed he pays as little as
possible—1995 return shows he got a REFUND and had charge offs for about 20
years too. Until Congress cuts our TOTAL taxes, we all should …
Avoid taxes like the rich: https://www.amazon.com/Pay-No-Taxes-Retirement-legally/dp/1507527977
Warren Buffett can
be your investment 'advisor'
He does not charge
trading commissions or fees. You can’t pick the wrong stocks. You can earn 11%
on your long-term money and end up with HALF a million dollars or more with one
phone call. The average advisor-assisted investor earned just 3.79%
instead of the market rate of 11%. You use the strategy proven by Warren
Buffett, the greatest investor of our time. We beat Wall Street at their
own game by using Warren Buffett's strategy: buy and keep buying the largest
mutual funds run at cost and owned by us, the investors. Buffett
prediction: index beat best hedge fund ‘professionals’ by a mile.
A plain market index fund beat
92-95% of the returns of "professional" managers, including hedge
funds. Stock picking by geniuses works only for a short time. Insiders may have
an edge but it is illegal and you could get caught like Martha Stewart. To
earn more, we pay as little as we can. We own stocks of companies with certain
characteristics. We pay less and get more. We use a special investment
account to eliminate all future income and capital gains taxes. It is IRS
approved for workers only. No one can time the market successfully over
time. We don't pay Wall Street owners the $1.3 Trillion per year revenues
they take from their clients.
You can set up your
account in 1 hour FREE: https://www.amazon.com/Your-First-Mutual-Fund-FREE/dp/1976074118.
New TrumpCare
ends 10 Obama guarantees for all Americans except Congress
GOP
is asking GOP governors to push for Cassidy-Graham passage because their
state will reap
$ billions to save their state budgets from default. This political
settlement provides money to the states (GOP
states get double) to subsidize the old, poor and disabled health care
needs. Bloc grants let states spend what they want on health or new statues. Your
state can decide to let
insurers charge more for those with pre-existing conditions or charge an
unaffordable premium or charge less for excluded cancers or heart disease. We
lose protections on pre-existing, ER, screenings, Medicaid etc. Even Cassidy
own state Health Commissioner says it ends care for 433,000 LA citizens. Our
‘reps’ get to keep these protections in their plan so they face no fight for
coverage. We taxpayers foot their bills and insurers
can jack up the premiums every year. Insurers and lobbyists win and we lose
again: the 32
million without any coverage plan!
The Don and Congress
get to keep the 10 Obama guarantees; we don’t.
Securities
Commission warns investors about bogus designations/titles
Some of the letters
after your advisor’s name provide little assurance of competence. Advisors
make money from selling so the more gravitas they can impress on you the
better. Some letters mean nothing except sales or conference attendance.
Determine what the letters mean here along with
a check on their complaint file. You are entitled to understand how your
advisor and their firm get paid by you so don’t enter a
contract without knowing what you get for how much. And consider that most
charge fees forever, even when they don’t do well. Advisors become
psychotherapists regarding your relationship with money. Financial success
beyond the returns
of simple market index account is hard to achieve over time. Always ask, “Is
this plan really helping me” more than them. One study found that the most
successful investors were those that ‘forgot’ their account. Warren Buffett
advises us to buy
and hold forever too. Buffett has a record of 20% annual returns with 2
down years since 1965. Is your advisor able to beat that record with all the
titles etc? Remember, they are salespeople first. If you are paying too much, use
Buffett as your ‘advisor’: https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffett-Your-Investment-Advisor/dp/1518690963
Which doctor and
hospital is best if you need major surgery or treatment?
This is the question
every citizen should be able to answer easily. But we can’t. The medical
profession has convinced Congress it is not
good business to inform us about specific ‘bad’ docs or hospitals. You may be
able to obtain the information from the National
Practitioner Data Bank through your Congressperson. We have to do our
own research and some of the information we need is withheld like ‘malpractice
payments.’ When I had colonoscopy, I asked each person involved if they
accepted my insurance. I got a bill from an MD never heard of and told him NO
PAY. I got help from the nonprofit Patient Advocate
Foundation.
There are docs I
call ‘floaters’ at hospitals who ‘drop by’ even when you are unconscious and
then bill you. Other people
have been assured the docs are ‘in-network’ and were not. Each of us needs
a witness and cell recorder if we go for elective or emergency services. Some
docs are on https://www.healthgrades.com/
and https://www.usnews.com/ but this is
general. Publica and Consumers’ Checkbook have complication rates based on Medicare
data. See https://projects.propublica.org/surgeons/
and
http://www.checkbook.org/surgeonratings/.
You must ask the right questions of those who know—his/her peers, staff and
coworkers if they will talk: http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cataract/treatment.html?mcubz=0
and https://www.cbsnews.com/news/consumers-guide-to-top-doctors/
Keep searching state
and consumer sites: http://www.castleconnolly.com/ddi/index.cfm
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/hospitals/ratings.
Search specialty sites: AARP
Bulletin lists complication occurrence rates for common events like
cataracts: 20%! For example: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/cataract-complications.htm
Make sure your
insurance covers all those involved—surgeon, hospital, anesthesiologist,
specialists, hospital ‘floaters’: https://www.amazon.com/Health-Insurance-ONLY-right-policy/dp/1480125083
How to buy a luxury car at 50-60% off
2015
Benz E 350 for $25,000. Original
price $53,225 with lux equip and good MPG. You may find the right ride for
HALF the price. Check the JD
Power reliability study to see what current owners say about your choice
before you research valid sales sites. Check the rating of the dealer too. Some
used car salesmen continue to give the industry a bad name. And don’t forget to
decline any add ons like insurance, warranties, undercoatings, transportation,
clean up and ‘prep’ charges. Hey it is your money. Buy the financing from your
bank or credit bureau if you have good credit. Most dealers make their money on
the finance money.
Ask for all your discounts too: https://www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Insurance-Beware-Double-Coverage/dp/1480027634
Can our ‘reps’ get elected w/o drug money?
Bernie Sanders thinks we can have health care for less cost.
The only people who lose are the middlemen and women who get paid to stand
between us and health care providers. They employ another group of wealthy
people to tell our ‘reps’ what to do on laws. Americans pay about double what
other countries pay in total for less care. Many Americans have to sit in
hospitals all day to be seen. Millions who work for employers without benefits
don’t get care and must get sick to go to the hospital for major problems
especially in GOP states. Even if you have a plan, you
get manipulated by the system. If the doc
or hospital makes a mistake, your family will live through hell or worse.
Imagine paying nothing when you go to the doctor’s office—no
copayments, deductibles or portion of your bill. Any prescription drugs
would cost you no more than $200 per year. And for all this, you’d pay
insurance premiums of just 4% of your income. Since everyone is covered,
most doctors and hospitals will have to accept Medicare reimbursement. And
there are no
tricks from providers who lie about plan coverages.
The insurance company infrastructure would have to find
something else to do. That clerk who tells you that you are not covered for the
procedure your doctor recommends would need to find work. Also the hundreds at
the pharmacy wholesaler who decide EpiPens should cost you $609
not $30. Also hundreds of marketing people who make TV and media adverts to
sell drugs to your doctor. Yes, doctors
are being told what to push.
SO:
If GOP can vote to end ObamaCare, they could help us
and vote FOR Medicare
for US.
Can anyone think of spending $77,000 on a pickup?
The industry has gone crazy in the truck
segment with overpriced extras that keep Detroit
rich. When you pay $40,000 for the worst-rated pickup in the reliability department, you’ll
struggle to get value in the Sierra 2500 when paying the most for the worst. When
Consumer Reports asked its legion of subscribers for the worst-value truck on
the market, Ford F-250 was the answer. Putting lipstick on a pig will
costs you extra but doesn’t add to the quality. Check JD Power reliability on a
3 year
old model for your pick up needs: http://www.jdpower.com/cars/awards/Vehicle-Dependability-Study-%2528VDS%2529-by-Category/1882ENG
And take your discounts too: https://www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Insurance-Beware-Double-Coverage/dp/1480027634
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TrumpWorld
Trump is still just a mafia contractor from Queens—Dad
taught him to be The Don.
The
Don thanks his wife after introduction with a handshake like she’s a guy?
Smoking
gun: “Our boy can become president of the USA
and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote in an email to lawyer Cohen. “I will get
all of Putins team to buy in on this.” Manafort
tells Russian mob he will keep them informed about “our boy.”
Trump’s
group places mob ties above country; it’s about money POWER not US
service.
Mob
doesn’t call the FBI when Jr doing an illegal deal with fellow
mobsters. Receiving
stuff from ‘foreign power’ during campaign is illegal—even for idiots.
Russian
agent admits to propaganda war on US. We were duped by pro-Trump agents.
‘Ministry
of Truth’ 1984 novel: Government propaganda is ‘truth’
Trump: middle class is the focus of tax plan, taxes
on the wealthy need to increase. B.S.
Trump Jr wants more ‘privacy’ so gives
up Secret Service watch. Putin can call directly.
The Don dismisses
report of positive contribution of immigrants to US: Racist ideology.
The
Don apologizes to Turkey for Turkey
thugs hitting kicking protestors. Thugs began it
Trump
blames both Clintons for his dilemma with North Korea—they “allowed”
nuclear.
My Theory:
No one expected him to win so no harm getting Putin help. Don
owes Vlad’s mob money so they sent mob
gofer Manafort to run the campaign. ‘Colluding’
Putin style.
TrumpWorld –
using presidency to make money the old fashioned way: theft
Taxpayers
are hit with Mar largo charge of $1,092 for The Don’s party.
Dictator talk time:
“When the president does it, that means it is not
illegal,” Richard Nixon
The Don is moving
us to a dictatorship where the only people who go to jail are his enemies and
non whites he does not like. Racists
and nationalists get pardons. If Flynn and Manafort
get indicted by Mueller, The Don will just give them a “get out of jail
free” card so they don’t rat him out.
Dictators use “back
to law and order” to limit rights, fill jails, fund army, follow enemies.
The Don singles out
trans group to exclude but McCain
joins fight against this discrim.
The Don rejects logic,
threatens
millions of people and calls out man with missiles.
“The
president can’t have a
conflict of interest.” The Don is above the law?
Quid pro quo:
"something for something."
AL Senator
plays race card for election win: racism is the foundation of GOP wins
Equifax
pays $1 million to get GOP to end our right to sue for credit mistakes.
Regulation is
necessary: We
need protection. Saves $12 billion of our money!
Tye Williams, NEXT Securities, TX barred
from selling securities.
Sun Trust caught misleading and selling funds at higher
markups: fine no jail time.
Supremes
give The Don the power to cancel all immigration to US: KKK thrilled
Equifax execs cash in on stock before telling world our data
is gone: 2
quit with riches.
Top Notch Funding caught
lying to NFL, Deepwater, 9/11 victims re: settlements.
Brian Ourand, Live Nation, stole
$2 million from celebrities: 33 mo jail time.
Fiat recalls 494,000 Ram trucks for bad
water pump fire risk.
Watch
FREE theft monitor: Our
SS # stolen from Equifax so thieves may get new CC.
Trump
has suspended our right to bring class action lawsuits against our
advisors.
How Govt wastes our
money:
Cassini
spacecraft crashes into Saturn—we could have fixed 1000 bridges with that
$3B
SCAMS:
Equifax execs make killing on insider
information BEFORE tell us hacking took data.
Jobs:
Trump
doubled the apprenticeship program—skip college debt and earn now.
Trump sending more jobs overseas: US
firms must expand with foreigners who he bans.
Tech
firms need world’s best so must move overseas to hire/compete. US loses
geniuses.
Ford
lay off thousands just before holidays to cut stock piles.
WI taxpayers pay $3 Billion for 3,000 Apple jobs: $1million
per job? regret
by Brazil
Alaska
farming is becoming possible with climate change and technology.
Who owns your account
now?
Who
controls your digital accounts if you are not able: new laws clarify. Will
enough?
Miracle:
IRS
accepts reasonable estimate of loss if storm took your records; plus more
time to file.
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