Showing posts with label Trump lust. Show all posts
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Friday, March 31, 2017

Your perfect tax shelter

Your perfect tax shelter
Real estate is the perfect tax shelter for your illicit gains. Buy the property via a corporation/trust using funds that need laundering and turn your dirty money into clean money. The asset is legit and you can borrow clean money on it. There is no bank or mortgage company record. With the current investigation of Russian money being used to funnel money to The Don, the Treasury should be interested. The Russian mob created an extraordinary ‘profit’ on the sale of a FL mansion for The Don.  Russians have used foreign banks to do the same laundering operation. Guess who ran the most popular laundering bank for Russians? Trump’s own Commerce Secretary Ross. If you have enough money you can create amazing ways to avoid taxes on your illicit gains and only those in the know, know. “Only the little people pay taxes.”
Use the only legal shelter for working people: https://www.amazon.com/Pay-No-Taxes-Retirement-legally/dp/1507527977

Why is it so hard to fashion a national health care plan?
The pharmaceutical industry alone had 1,400 lobbyists in Washington in 2014. The users of their products had none. There is no mechanism to keep costs down. When we get sick, we don’t go shopping from one doctor to the next for a free price quote. Have you ever called your local hospital and got a price on a broken bone or cut finger? Despite the view of Congress and the president, there is no competition to reduce costs like buying a big screen TV. Congress says that the “free” market will lower costs. They keep saying that an insurance company in Utah will reduce the costs in CA if only CA will let Utah’s insurers into CA. Why would anyone buy insurance from a company with doctors and hospitals in ME when they live in MA? And how many doctors will compete for my Medicaid business? None. In fact, I have to pay them $150 or more over the state reimbursement just to see me. Drug firms can charge anything they like for a new pill for this or that even though the drug was developed by a government agency or a grant (my taxes) to my local university. 
Health care is just not a TV commodity business. Most nations have learned that already. And KS has just tried to reverse course so it can cover 150,000 uninsured with Medicaid. ID, NE, SD, VA and GA are looking at expanding Medicaid to cover more uninsured.

Your Retirement Income Checklist
There are so many unknowns in our futures that we must plan a FLEXIBLE financial future. We can anticipate some expenses but generally, we must plan for a range of possible futures. If you stay invested in some stock mutual funds to overcome inflation, how can you avoid a prolonged flat market? If you count on fixed income like bonds or annuities, what happens if inflation roars back? We can moderate big swings in stocks and bonds by maintaining a balanced portfolio of low-cost funds. If we begin now, where we are, we may be able to add $250,000 to $500,000 before and during retirement. If we can delay taking Social Security and or our pension or IRA, we can add significant amounts to our future nest egg. Few retirees are happy playing around all day after working for 50 years. A gradual shift is more appropriate and rewarding. Today, retirees need to plan for 30 years AFTER working. You need to make two budgets—one for now and one for the survivor using current assumptions about income sources.


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Is it treason?
The Don and his lieutenants may be guilty of assisting a foreign power in influencing our election. The FBI is probably looking at the way Manafort and others were leading the GOP campaign AND being agents of Putin or his oligarchs. Do we know for sure that foreigners did NOT hack the voting data of some states? Has the FBI geeks checked every computer in all 500 voting districts? We don’t need to have a smoking gun to prove that some Trump folks did NOT have America’s best interests at heart. For instance, why did the GOP allow Russians to strike the platform plank about sanctions for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? Why didn’t The Don vet his lieutenants before allowing them to work on his behalf? How can Flynn be a paid foreign secret agent while he works as Trump National Security Advisor? He says he did not know they were working for Russia before or during the campaign. Isn’t that a LIE?  Once you are an agent, you are always an agent is common knowledge. Why is The Don always so positive about Putin and Russia? Why does he deny he has ties to Russia? Dick Cheney says Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election could be "considered an act of war.”  Why did Sessions lie about contact if it was innocent? How can you lie to Congress and not go to jail? Are Ivanka and Jared qualified to be playing the role of Sec of State? Putin would like us to abandon Europe and the former Eastern Block countries and get in a war with N Korea. Are voters scared that his naiveté, lack of judgment and gullibility to BS will start WWIII with the N. Koreans?
What are Nunes, Flynn, Sessions, Bannon, and crew hiding if not guilt of working with/for a foreign power to destabilize America?
Is Trump guilty of treason if he allowed his people to assist Russia in messing with our election process and important policy decisions?
RESULT: Putin wins this “cold” war of winning the hearts and minds of the world!

“Facts are stubborn things,” President John Adams, 1770. 

Take responsibility for your BS
Unlike The Don, the conspiracy theorist who started the lie about Hillary’s sex ring in Wash DC pizzeria has apologized. When you yell fire in a crowded theater, there will be consequences. The Pizzeria owner has gotten death threats after a crazed gunman shot up the place looking for Hillary’s sex slaves.
Unlike The Don, a conservative millennial firebrand, who told the truth, has lost her job.  Tomi Lahren has been "banned permanently" from Glenn Beck's The Blaze, according to a report in The New York Post. The reported banning comes after Lahren, 24, was criticized in some conservative circles following a March 17 appearance on ABC’s "The View" in which she revealed that she supports abortion rights. “I’m for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well,” Lahren said at the time.
The Don said he doesn’t tell lies, he just repeats what he hears on Fox or other “entertainment” outlets.  He takes no responsibility for what he yells in the theater. Trump declined the opportunity to retract the claim, telling the media that "we said nothing" when he tweeted, "How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sp] my phones during the very sacred election process," and that he was merely quoting a "very talented legal mind" he had seen on Fox News.
 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
7:02 AM - 4 Mar 2017   53,55753,557 Retweets
 "You should be talking to Fox," Trump said. Fox apologized for the lie made by the “very talented? legal mind" that appeared on the entertainment show. Judge faked it. Napolitano’s source was former CIA guy and never said Obama asked the Brits.
The Don just repeats BS from entertainers because he is an entertainer himself.
GOAL: Build the brand so every person on earth knows what “Trump” stands for and keep repeating the name every day in every way.

Are you considering a Fiat Chrysler vehicle?
Take a look at the reliability ratings on your choice. You may be in for a big surprise. Fiat (worst), Jeep (second-worst), and Chrysler (fifth-worst) dominated the list of underachievers. Meanwhile, Dodge ranked sixth among the bottom of the auto industry barrel. Consumer Reports 2016 reliability ratings suggest these results were no fluke. While you are buying a new ride, cut your insurance premiums with 16 discounts: https://www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Insurance-Beware-Double-Coverage/dp/1480027634



The Don will learn that Tax Reform is like health care—complicated
Why are there 5 to 17 lobbyists for each of our Reps in Washington? Lobbyists are paid over $5.7 million per Rep to make laws that favor their employers including tax subsidies and special exemptions. It has taken 30-40 years for lobbyists to bend the rules to favor their employers. Why should they give that up now? Only one reason—put more of the tax burden on some other guy, usually us, the ordinary tax payer. We have NO lobbyists in Washington buying them dinner, trips, re-elections. Dow company gets over 400 subsidies. GM and Buffett’s companies get over 300. FedEx, GE over 200. The top 500 firms account for more than 16,000 subsidy awards worth $63 billion. Many of these same profitable companies also pay NO taxes. You and I pay for them—we pay for their roads AND their subsidies. Like Trump in 1995, paying no taxes is what the rich want. Why would they change that now? Nearly two-thirds of U.S. companies and 68% of foreign corporations do not pay federal income taxes, according to a congressional report. The Don has promised to give corporations and the wealthy an even sweeter deal. The wealthy would receive a cut of 19% while we get only 4.9%.  Corporations pay about 12% on average so the Trump rate of 15% may only appeal to some. Many leave their profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share. Many use expensive accountants and dummy corporations and tax shelters to avoid taxes like The Don. However,

“Huge” tax cut for corporations and the wealthy will cost us
There is no free lunch so when The Don promises The Wall and a tax cut; we can expect that the US taxpayer will be on the hook for them. Trump has already promised that we not Mexico will pay for The Wall. The tax cut for corporations will be paid by us as a new tariff (‘border adjustment tax’ fools nobody) of over $1 trillion. Walmart, Dollar Gen and oil refiners are already reminding us they will just pass the tax on to us as price hikes. Mad Max maker Mnuchin fears a global tariff war while Exec VP Bannon claims Boeing and GE will smile. Meanwhile our real wages will continue to slide from the high in 1973. If we get a tax cut of 4.9% as promised, it will be taken by Walmart et al. And what about The Don’s promise of the return of the $25 an hour jobs. When you look at the facts—real facts—that robot sales have tripled in some industries, first in cars and now in every unskilled worker job, you might want to show The Don the new factory. Some robots cost only $25,000 and so more jobs require running a computer than a lathe. He should learn that today’s firm must constantly retrain workers just to stay competitive. Instead of building The Wall and giving tax cuts, he should be giving corporations a tax CREDIT for worker training. The border tax will not be enough to pay for his tax cuts.

GOP states continue to keep Dems from voting
AR reinstated a voter ID law that was found as unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court 2014. The only voter charged with voter fraud this year is the GOP chairman in CO, Steve Curtis. Dems do not need to cheat at the voting booth because they can elect winners every time unless the GOP and their Russian friends cheat. Trump has claimed that millions cheated on the last election that HE WON. He forgot his civics lessons: It is legitimate to be registered in multiple states. Most of his family and colleagues do just that and yet they are not charged with voter fraud. Perhaps if the Dems checked in PA and MI they would find enough GOP voting twice for Trump that the actual president is Hillary. Other GOP states have continued to make up stories of fraud in order to keep Dems from voting at the places and times they have voted in the past. Voter suppression is bigger than fraud. Now the GOP uses the tactic of changing Dems normal voting places.

Can America grow without destroying the earth?
The Don is signing an executive order to promote domestic oil, coal and natural gas by reversing much of Obama’s leadership in world warming. Dismantling Obama’s plan is misguided at best. Even Exxon knows we are headed in the wrong direction. "He’s trying to undo more than a decade of progress in fighting climate change and protecting public health,” David Doniger, director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Short-sighted action has consequences. America has made progress in slowing emissions and abundant gas will nix oil and coal expansion. Leadership is not turning the clock back to 1050’s style growth.

Leadership means making the world better for future generations.
An adult who knows better would do what is best for America’s future. For instance, would an adult cut medical research, infrastructure and community development grants to help pay for an expensive luxury? Mexico will NOT pay for The Wall and no adult would promise something they did not know they could do for sure. An extra tax on things we buy from Mexico may not pass Congress. The Don wants to cut research into medical cures and funding for new roads and bridges here at home. These are tangible benefits. The Wall is easily tunneled under. Buying more carriers and bombs is a luxury to most Americans. Obama killed Bin Laden with Seal Team specialists not carriers.  



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We have entered the Twilight Zone:
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadowbetween science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone" where “alternative facts” and illusions of conspiracies are lived out. Lies are considered true. Truth is what the loudest voice says it is over and over.  
Rod Serling
  

Remember, Don Trump is still a contractor from Queens NY, just richer than most. As a promoter, his income is from lending his wealth “brand” to other’s buildings and golf. Secret Service needs extra $60 million in taxes to watch him in FL and cover sons to travel to promote Trump properties worldwide. Don going for another DC hotel to profit from foreign visitors for himself. SS protection of his property paid by us. 

Bannon called himself a “Leninist” who wanted to “bring everything crashing down.” State Dept being decimated. Putin thrilled with cuts in aid to 3rd world, NATO, etc!
Putin got GOP party plank to drop sanctions on Ukraine invasion. Here is TrumpWorld

GOP cuts programs of folks who have no power to oppose cuts. Cowardly
The Don (Putin) does not like diplomacy, aid to poor, US environment or culture, finding cures for disease, transportation and education programs.
19 Agencies you may use being cut from American society: The Don does not like Meals on Wheels, Sesame St. NPR radio, Arts, Miners retraining, 62 in all for $343 billion

What GOP does NOT cut:
No cuts to subsidies to Boeing, GE, Intel, Nike, Shell, Fiat, GM, Ford, hundreds more.

Where does The Don get his information?
Trump urged followers to “Watch@JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight”
Another Judge told him the British CIA spied on him for Obama but Napolitano made it up from former CIA source who NEVER said Obama ordered it.


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Lies or “Alternative facts” of The Don: Promises (lies) and Actual outcomes:


GOP just turned smoke into fire—canceling Russia influence probe sinks all Prez men. Trump men gave secrets to House Intel probe which Nunes gives back to Trump. ??
Flynn wants to spill his guts—FBI should put him in safe house away from Putin

GOP ready to shut government down again—tax cuts cost $5 Trillion in debt to China.       

Everyone is covered” in GOP plan except the 24 million who cannot afford it. TrumpCare failed because of the Democrats the Art of Deal maker claims. TrumpCare was a tax cut for the rich, wrapped up in pretty lies about the poor and needy.

Trump accuses Britain of spying on him for Obama. Pissing off our friends. No apology to Brits for his mistake or to Obama for accusing him of a felony. Like birth cert. LIES

Putin’s FSB does surveillance of Trump campaign; makes it look like Obama for chaos

“ObamaCare has been total disaster” scare tactic works for some supporters in KY
The Don threatens House Reps over health—“you will lose in 2018” Kicks in $85 Bil.
The Promoter in Chief lost. Future promotions look dim.

We all thank the president for NOT destroying our health care system this year. We get to keep our 10 essentials that keep people alive—screenings, pediatric, mental health, etc
The Don is not good at deals that are complicated—“health care is complicated
Kaiser Foundation calculated that average deductibles would be $1,550 higher than under Obamacare

GOP gave business our privacy rights so our browser info can be sold w/o permission

Jared in deep with Putin’s bank which supports Putin’s spy activity. Jared mastermind?



Putin influence: Putin marks all over Trump’s crew—“more than circumstantial case.”
The Don was naïve about Russian influence among lieutenants. Spicer claims Trump never asked Manafort, Flynn, others about pay from foreigners. He never vetted them about who paid them during campaign—Manafort, Page, Flynn, Stone, Tillerson, Ross, etc Connections chart. Manafort was campaign manager paid $10 mil yr by USSR.



Putin influence: Russian foreign minister Ryabkov met with Trump campaign. “But we will of course continue this work AFTER the elections.

Putin influence: State Dept senior people and budget cut—Tillerson out of Trump loop.
Ivanka meets with Germany instead of Sec State. USSR medal for Tillerson and Flynn.  








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Regulators are the only protection against corporations since we can’t sue anymore

Steve Stockman (R-Texas) is accused of stealing nearly $800,000 from 2 charities.
Nissan recalls 56,000 leaks that can cause fires
Daniel Glick, Chicago financial advisor caught using seniors’ money as his own.
Christie throws 2 employees under the bus in his revenge politics. Now drug czar.

We need regulation—GOP wrong—companies/cities wouldn’t fix bad products on own
GM killed 124 because ignition switch pin not replaced after knew it killed first in 2006.


Police want gun control.
When everyone has guns; your chance of being killed goes up. Police don’t know who to shoot. They assume everyone has one and shoot first. You and thief have guns. CO schools now allow teachers/administrators to carry guns in the classroom. Kid lesson! Since 2015, police have killed 86 people with realistic looking FAKE guns--suicide?


FL makes it easier to kill others if you feel threatened—“prove I didn’t feel threatened”

SCAMS:

Ignoramus Award:
United Air cancelled tickets of two teens bec wearing leggings – fashion police or Ivana ?
“We want people to be comfortable as long as it’s neat and in good taste for that environment.”
GA tells couple they can’t name their child what they intend. Must be a parent’s name.

How our government wastes our money:
$7 million for TV ads for an anti-choice Supreme Court judge? We don’t elect them.
The Wall money comes from cancelled medical research to cure diseases.
Each week the golf outings costs us $250,000 even at his own club, SS and coast guard.
Afghanistan fired 1,000 army personnel and generals for corruption—US provides $

Where have all the jobs gone?
Robot sales have tripled and someone must control and repair them. Pizza delivery in EU.
BlackRock largest asset manager, cut 30 jobs and fees. Vanguard takes clients.
NASA employees lose special door lock in space. Retraining or resign? No extras?

Which job board sites are best for your job search?


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Miracle:
It would be a miracle if Americans could win back the government from politicians.


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Friday, March 10, 2017

TrumpCare give millionaires tax break; poor get ER again

GOP to citizens: Chose iphone or health insurance—insulting us won’t help!
Will GOP “free” us from ObamaCare so that we are “free” to wait in hospitals for care?
Ryan and the millionaire Congress offer their wealthy donors more ‘freedom’ and tax credits but where will that leave us? Without a plan to secure, NOT just have ‘access’ to health care, we will have no choice; no ‘freedom’. We return to the bad old days. When our employer does not provide a plan we can afford—all the co pays, deductibles, etc—we will be forced on to Medicaid which, if left to each state, becomes substandard. We will be back to the process of doing without care/medication or sitting in emergency rooms or paying for a plan that leaves us with $100,000 debt and bankruptcy as before. Medical debt caused HALF of all bankruptcies. Tax credits can’t pay $250,000 cancer treatment. Medicaid expansion meant that people who work for $10 an hour could obtain care. Old Medicaid without fed money only covered those too sick to work. Medicaid qualifications vary from state to state, so the required income level is not consistent; however, it is typically below the poverty line. Few doctors take it.  https://www.healthinsurance.org/alabama-medicaid/  Ryan has proposed giving states a bucket of money which may not reach those who need care. Many states have given away tax money to millionaires to buy art or offshore shelters and are facing school closures etc. They may use the Ryan block grants for other emergencies. Poor sick people can’t complain loud enough to change things. Freedom of ‘choice’ in health care means early death for poor and tax breaks for rich.  

The Don will ‘hurt you and family’ if you’re not loyal—how dictators work
Like the mafia family, Don Trump does not tolerate disloyal leaking of his group’s secrets. When his nephew’s infant child got cerebral palsy, The Don cancelled his family health plan because they contested the father’s will. Every employee, even top WH staff, is having their phone logs and emails monitored for leaks. It is so bad that State Dept officials only speak face to face—no digital communication. Everyone with something important to say is ‘standing in the parking lot’ or meeting after work in the garage just as Watergate’s Deep Throat. Meanwhile Bannon, The Don’s consigliore is having Don sign behind closed doors a measure that killed a regulation to tighten gun background checks. Bannon’s goal is “deconstruction of the administrative state” and so secretly, changed the chain of command at Justice. His boss Sessions is implicated in a conspiracy with Russia to defeat the democratic candidate. Putin vowed to keep Hillary out of power. Bannon sent Priebus to get the FBI to kill their investigation of the Russia collusion. Bannon sent WH Counsel McGahn to meddle in FBI investigation of Russian mob influence.
A special prosecutor would clear the air but that would mean The Don lost control.

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Uncle Sam helps us increase our tax refund
‘How can I increase my refund’ is a question I get when I do taxes as an AARP tax-aide volunteer. First, the best way to increase your refund is to run a small business. Every expense you have remotely connected to that business is deductible and losses reduce your income. Example: Trump’s clothing and his clubs in FL and NJ were deductible because he stayed there ‘on business.’ In at least 3 years, his losses were greater than his income and thus no tax. Second, make a deductible IRA contribution to reduce income AND receive a tax credit. Double Benefit! Third, count up all your medical expenses. Some states allow deductions from dollar one. Fourth, count up charity and expenses for the job. Fifth, take a course to improve your skills in computers and take the tax credit against what you owe. Sixth, reduce taxable income by using FSA at work. The child, child care, education, and earned income credits are the most powerful—they reduce your taxes dollar for dollar. I owed $956 on my income but I reduced it by 25% using my wife’s CE education credit, my new windows credit and my retirement savings credit.
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How The Don is played by dictator Putin
Putin did not like the sanctions by Obama for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and feared they could go higher with Hillary. What to do? Like Syria, undermine opposition to Assad. Start meetings with the Trump inner circle suggesting end to US agreements—Europe, China, Asia, Mexico, Canada. Isolate US. Have Trump question NATO and Asian alliance. Promise help in exchange for lifting sanctions and giving up East Ukraine. Use disinformation from RT and offer political guidance on undermining democratic institutions. Pour money into Trump PACS via dummy corporations that can’t be traced back to Russian surrogates. Russia’s elites buy Trump properties and projects like Bayrock Group. Counter-intelligence and hacking is used where effective. Develop pressure points on Trump—30-year ties to Russia, Russian mafia ties, admiration for his vanity, praise for his insecurity, promises of business in Russia. Feed guidance thru Manafort so Trump picks advisors Russia knowsFlynn, Tillerson, Bannon, Page, Sessions, Jared, Ivanka and son Don Jr. All have Russian contacts. Trump has 30 years of doing deals in Russia and with Russians; many Putin colleagues.   
Trump has unreasonable deference for America’s long time enemy. “Follow the money.”
“He will make the greatest President of our century,” claims a Russian with mob ties.

Financial meltdown and recession are more likely now
The Don has vowed to reduce regulation on financial institutions. This causes some Fed officials to warn us. Banks secure their assets (loans and trades) with only $6 per $100. Stress tests have not shown they are strong enough for another crisis. Banks are even more intertwined and oversized than before the recession. Every year, Congress cuts the budget of the regulators of the $34 trillion derivatives trading (2007 crash) so crash 2.0 likely. Trump placed a movie mogul in charge of Treasury. Trump has 3 Fed vacancies so he can continue the reinforcements or put Bannon’s “deconstruction” men in place. We won’t know until we have a crisis like a market crash or nuclear exchange with N. Korea or Ukraine style invasion of Eastern Europe. Putin has his “Make Russia Great Again” plan too.


Your 401k and IRA balance are up—hold or sell, that is the question
The current bull run is now the second longest since 1928. Even without counting dividends, the Standard & Poor’s index has risen more than 6 percent since New Year’s Day, nearly 20 percent in the last 12 months and roughly 250 percent since the start of the bull market in March 2009. Market average is 11% over time. You know it is all expectations: Trump will deregulate all, cut taxes, create jobs, grow the economy 6%, deport 11 million working people and walk on water. Maybe not.
What does the greatest investor, Warren Buffett, say?

Used luxury car or brand new car
Some people are faced with this tough question and ask for help. They do their research. First, what do you really want—reliable, quality, value, good mileage, impress peers, great fun experience, 2nd childhood life, etc. Second, how much are you going to spend? Third, finance it or pay cash or blend? Fourth, good mechanic or good dealer? Fifth, immediate or willing to wait for best deal? Sixth, Internet search within 100 miles: http://www.consumerreports.org/used-cars/best-used-cars-for-under-30000-dollars/
KBB.com, CarGurus.com, Edmunds.com, cars.com, autotrader.com, etc. Your insurance may go up since more people commute and are distracted by cell. Health care and repair costs rise as technology added. Are we safer with more gizmos?

Are you worried about an IRS audit? Forgetaboutit
Don’t worry. Congress has cut staff so low they can’t even finish the audit of The Don. The number of people audited by the IRS in 2016 dropped for the sixth straight year, to just over 1 million. Just 0.7 percent of individuals were audited, either in person or by mail. Corporate audits were down by 17 percent last year. Just 0.49 percent of corporations were audited, the lowest rate in at least a decade. You are more likely to be cheated by your tax preparer than be questioned by the IRS. They don’t call; they send letter. The most common reasons for audit are high income, unreported income, over 50% deductions, all-cash business, over 10% charity, rental losses, alimony, hobby loss, home office, entertainment, foreign bank, foreign income exclusion, car for biz, early IRA/401k income, day/currency trader, big gambling win.
This is how the rich avoid an audit: Trump’s lawyer tells the tax assessor of Ossining that his National Golf Club in Ossining is worth only $1.4 million yet it gives The Don over $10 million a year and is really worth $50 million. Depreciation reduces his taxes more.

New TrumpCare law is really excuse to cut taxes for the rich
GOP is using the repeal of ObamaCare to give millionaires a big tax cut. The bill has a windfall for the top 1% who now pay 20 taxes for ObamaCare. They don’t say this. Instead they are marketing TrumpCare as “freedom”: “We’re not going to send an IRS agent out to chase you down and make you buy health insurance,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), the chairman of the Energy and Commerce health subcommittee, said last month. “If the [coverage] numbers drop, I would say that’s a good thing, because we’ve restored personal liberty in this country.”
GOP abolishes the mandate so when people get sick or accident, we all will pay like before. You can have “access” but there is no cap on what insurers can charge. Conservatives want to cut even more help for obtaining health insurance. Age-rated tax credit of $2,000 can be advanced so you may buy a substandard policy. If you are really sick or have a coverage gap you will pay much more. Prices will go up so working poor will only buy limited coverage that does not cover all your bills. Trump does not have ACA but calls it “nightmare.” Prices are market driven so Congress millionaires can afford to buy whatever they want and we will get junk policy for $2,000. Minimum for a full-coverage policy now costs about $400/month. Medicaid subsidy to states phased out so fewer poor will be covered for fewer needs. What workers lose with TrumpCare is coverage and money. GOP did not cut insurance prices; gave big pharma blank check.




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We are entering the Twilight Zone:
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadowbetween science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone" where “alternative facts” and illusions of conspiracies are lived out. Lies are considered truth. 
Rod Serling
  

Remember, Don Trump is still a contractor from Queens NY, just richer than most. As a promoter, his income is from lending his wealth “brand” to other’s buildings and golf. The Don does not like to read so policy is 1 page of MAPS—he likes maps and TV. He conducts secret state business in front of the wealthy; letting them play with the nuclear “football” that can kill us all. Richard DeAgazio might be Russian spy who switched nuclear briefcase on Rick during photo op. Creates fear to control base. Tweets all night.

Real Donald Trump called for lock-step marching by all and remember your brown shirts. When ideology “discards and chops off” the facts and calls world normal.
Conservatives jump into anarchy: “the deconstruction of the administrative state.” Bannon called himself a “Leninist” who wanted to “bring everything crashing down.” State Dept being decimated. Putin thrilled!

Racist legacy:  “get out of my country” supporter kills restaurant patron in KS. Bannon previously articulated his dismay with South Asians supposedly dominate Silicon Valley.
White high schoolers launch verbal assault “Trump, trump, trump” in racist chant.
Dentist joked a boy was upset because “Trump is going to deport him.” Kicked off plane!



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Promises (lies) and Actual outcomes:

Does The Don realize that he is now President of a country NOT just a corporation?
Can America have a recall election—I want to change my vote; 61,000 others in PA, MI

Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump Jr. said at the time. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia."
After six bankruptcies, Russian mob money allowed The Don to stay afloat. Russian money allowed The Don to make deals in US and Canada. His development money does NOT come from banks but illicit assets laundered through real estate, like Rybolovlev’s purchase which is a Russian strategy used by Putin’s inner circle.  FBI is checking Russian Alpha bank link to Trump server.

Russian hackers are demanding ransom from groups critical of the Trump administration. Intimidation and fear tactics are powerful weapons in democracy.
New Muslim ban is still unconstitutional--it discriminates. What about 9/11 Saudis?

Movie mogul Mnuchin, Treasury, will suspend payments to certain pension funds as it tries to delay, as long as possible, falling behind on other payments as US hits debt limit. 


“Obama wire tapped me” investigation is smoke. Trump’s Justice Dept has log of requests to court for all wiretaps. Trump does not understand how govt works.
Where do these Trump ‘alternate facts’ come from? Paranoia unstable volatile?

Pentagon wants greater number of weapons for “tailored nuclear option for limited use.”
Trump: “the power, the devastation is very important to me.” Has “codes” as watches TV “maybe ISIL, maybe Europe needs small nuclear; when I negotiate I want them guessing.

The Dictator wants to build more carriers which are expensive and can be killed easily and the military can’t use. The enemy can sink a $13 Billion carrier in 20 minutes. Terrorists can be killed in cheaper ways.  

Bannon is halting an inquiry into oil and gas industry emissions of methane that destroys ozone protection from the sun. Bannon pushing to pull down Paris climate accord too. The Don’s golf courses now benefit from his canceling clean water rule—fairway runoffs

Sessions lied on Fox when asked if knew Putin wanted Trump to win. His committee received in January a declassified report from U.S. intelligence agencies that Putin did.
Under oath, Sessions said Jan. 10: “…I did not have communications with the Russians.” 
Sessions can lie: Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause says our Reps ABOVE that law.
Alternative universe: Sessions explanation says “no lie, just correct statement”

The Don boosts tax credit educational system with visit to FL Catholic not public school. But research shows little difference in outcomes. Parental support key to kid success.
KS schools so under funded by tax cuts the court orders KS to fund education fairly.
Charter schools create millionaire owners with no dividend for the kids 

GOP law to end right to sue malpractice docs and class action for corporate wrongs

The Don benefited from a deal with Mexico utility to pipe low-cost TX gas to run US businesses in Mexico against his own promise to keep US jobs here.



Man who patches Mexico border says no GREAT WALL: Trump could learn something.

Flynn back to work for Turkey to spy on US for Putin. More air time on Russian TV.

The Don claims credit for things he had nothing to do with:
Fiat Chrysler will invest in Michigan and Ohio plants and create 2,000 jobs. The CEO said it had been in the works for more than a year and had nothing to do with Trump.
Ford expanded in Michigan rather than in Mexico. But it had more to do with a strategic decision related to investing in electric vehicles not Trump talk.
Walmart said it would create 10,000 jobs in 2017 as part of a $6.8 billion capital spending plan announced in October.
Intel would create 10,000 jobs at a “new” plant in Arizona. But the chipmaker already announced this factory in 2011 with Obama. It just hadn’t opened yet.
SoftBank, the Japanese company that owns a controlling stake in Sprint, announced a $100 billion technology budget but Sprint may only replace workers with SoftBank ones.
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, pledged to create 1 million U.S. jobs if he can unseat Amazon.com as largest e-commerce as planned in 2015.



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Regulators are the only protection against corporations since we can’t sue anymore

Mercedes-Benz recalls 1 million vehicles with fire potential
Bannon’s “deconstructing of the state” cancels 90 regs we need like mental ill gun ban, care in handling SS numbers, etc. 90 regs killed by lobbyists. Chase asked for 16 kills.
William D. Allen, NFL, caught defrauding other NFL players $16.8 million; off to jail
Regs are ignored by detention “courts” to deport not just criminals but the unlucky.

We need regulation—GOP wrong—companies/cities wouldn’t fix bad products on own
GM killed 124 because ignition switch pin not replaced after knew it killed first in 2006.


Police want gun control.
When everyone has guns; your chance of being killed goes up. Police don’t know who to shoot. They assume everyone has one and shoot first. You and thief have guns. CO schools now allow teachers/administrators to carry guns in the classroom. Kid lesson! Since 2015, police have killed 86 people with realistic looking FAKE guns--suicide?



SCAMS:
GOP new bill will delay all regulations—poison food, asbestos, fertilizer, water, safety.


Ignoramus Award:      

How our government wastes our money:

Where have all the jobs gone?
This is where the best job holders live in NJ.
GM will lay off 1,100 in Michigan after domestic production shift
RadioShack closed 187 more stores—lay off 2000 more



Which job board sites are best for your job search?

Who owns your account now?
Apartment rents in Manhattan fell FELL and your landlord account will negotiate


You can read how this all comes out in Orwell’s 1984: CIA tracks everyone everywhere just like in the book:  http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/2/


Robo calls handled by Mr NoMoRobo: https://www.nomorobo.com/

Miracle:
Will we ever know whether Putin and his friends have been bankrolling The Don since his bankruptcies and need payback?

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