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- instrmntl2
- "you're counting on corporations to take that money they now have and plow it right back into the economy, hire people, raise wages..."kona
- "the studies show us that is exactly what does happen."
yes, except, it doesn't... ever.
see reaganomics.kona - fucking scoundrels.kona
- The studies show? Get fucked Eddie...Americans are still waiting for Reagan's tax cuts to trickle down. Lying cunts.BusterBoy
- they need to be called out on the fact that the tax break people will get is going to decrease each year.dorf
- PonyBoy-6
Franken to resign in early January
http://thehill.com/homenews/sena…
"Sen. Al Franken will step down on Jan. 2, a spokesman for the Minnesota Democrat said Wednesday."
- such a shamekona
- that he stuck his tongue down unsuspecting women's throats and felt he could put his hand on anyone's ass he pleased? yeah... huge shamePonyBoy
- no dickwad. it's a shame that he did it as he was a great senator.kona
- Really? What was so great about him, dickwad? The way he’d slip his finger down some woman’s ass crack during a photo Op?PonyBoy
- Not really that “great” a Senator if feels that part of his “right”... or do you think otherwise, dickwad?PonyBoy
- He doesn't feel it was a part of his "right." That's literally why he's stepping down. I wish others accused would do the same.monospaced
- I know... :) I’m just reinforcing what a disgrace he and the rest of ‘them’ are.PonyBoy
- But he WAS a good at his job.monospaced
- BonSeff2
I thought Pence spoke surprisingly well with all that cock in his mouth
- allthethings3
https://twitter.com/molly_knight…
@SpeakerRyan on @TODAYshow: the average tax cut for family of four in America is going to be $2,059
Barry Bonds and I hit an average of 36.5 home runs in 2001.
Beyoncé and I have averaged being nominated for 31.5 Grammys.
- If you have 40 guests at a party and Bill Gates drops by, your average guest will be a billionaire.allthethings
- PonyBoy-10
AT&T is giving $1,000 bonuses to 200,000 employees after tax bill
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/…
"• AT&T's CEO said it was in response to tax reform."
- who downvotes companies providing employees bonuses? are you fucking mad?
*gigglePonyBoy - This is an awesome thing for ATT they get good PR to help with their merger and a huge write off.R_Kercz
- "We're giving $1,000 bonuses to 200,000 employees!!! *cough* upper management and director level ceo type only *cough*kona
- So what, kona? No offense... but they're usually the one's running the teams. They've also worked their way up the chain... thus more money.PonyBoy
- AT&T have close to $50billion in cash reserves. Kissing Trump's ass and just a fucking publicity stunt.BusterBoy
- Don't worry, kona will work his way up that $50b ladder someday kissing ass, getting him some of that delicious $1000 booty.********
- what does that even mean, omg?monospaced
- The point he's making, is that the people most fucked by the tax bill are excluded from the bonuses. The top already gets paid enough.monospaced
- FYI AT&T has 246,740 employees, so 80% of them will get bonuses.********
- nice, and not a single wage increase, exactly what the economy needed, another $500 after increased taxes :/monospaced
- ...And will raise their rates and start slowing down the internet.utopian
- $1000 is nothing, especially after taxes.instrmntl
- ponyboy’s arizona is showingGuyFawkes
- who downvotes companies providing employees bonuses? are you fucking mad?
- dorf4
CFO: Thanks to the GOP tax cuts we made record breaking profits in the last quarter. I think we could reward employees by giving them a raise - even expand production and hire more workers.
CEO:
- lol... perfect timing... sandwiched right between two posts showing 2 massive companies ready to hand out raises and bonuses cuz of tax cutsPonyBoy
- you must like eating garbage from high end restaurants.dorf
- hey... be upset w/the cnbc journalists and the companies showing you that you're not necessarily 'correct' in your thinking... not lil ol' Pony :) <3PonyBoy
- you've prematurely shot your wad.dorf
- actually I was just sharing two stories about companies that have diff. plans in contrary to what 'lefty' media is cramming down your throatPonyBoy
- Corpos are made of people... CEOs make their way up and value those under them (also contrary to 'lefty media horseshit on Corporations)...PonyBoy
- ... the CNBC (lefty media!!) links weren't meant to upset anyone... again: just sharing that popular sentiment from the left is not actually 'reality'PonyBoy
- corporations' only function is to maximize profits and reduce costs. if you want to believe that this farce pr stunt is vindication for gop tax cuts, go for it.dorf
- PonyBoy-9
Fifth Third Bancorp unveils bonuses, minimum wage hike after tax bill passage
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/…
"Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, Ohio, will pay more than 13,500 employees a bonus and raise the minimum wage for its workforce to $15 after the passage of the GOP tax plan that will cut the bank's corporate tax rate."
- Minimum wage hike? Like the minimum wage hike the Republicans were against not 6 months ago when people picketed?kona
- Carnival Barkers and smoke-n-mirrors.
The stupid lap it up and come March will wonder why they're only getting a couple hundred back from taxes.kona - This has nothing to do w/any republican decision on wage hikes... this is one company's response to the Gov. loosening it's 'take' on profits...employee love...PonyBoy
- ... I figured pretty much everyone in this thread (though many of you are obviously surprised) would welcome this... not mock it.PonyBoy
- So only 20% get the min wage hike, which is still basically poverty, and one time bonuses to maybe 50% who are managers or lower. Weak.monospaced
- Eh... it's never good enough is it, mono?... not unless you put the company underwater... cuz that's AWESOME for the employees... right?PonyBoy
- Everything is either PR or some ploy... you clowns do realize every company is made up of PEOPLE that make it go... yes? Corporations are sooo EVVILLLL. hehePonyBoy
- Underwater?monospaced
- This is a way to avoid anything meaningful or creating new jobs. It's not a meaningful increase to anyone.monospaced
- but I guess if you're working there and make minimum wage, I suppose it's pretty nice and you won't complainmonospaced
- it's just a tiny, miniscule fraction of the cash this bank is making and giving to its top brass insteadmonospaced
- enjoy working for $15 till the day you die because SS will be dead due to that tax plan, GOP killed 3 of their birds w 1 stoneGuyFawkes
- so are they 5th or 3rd? I would trust a bank that can't commitGnash
- *wouldn'tGnash
- sofakingback8
It's like saying: Give me $100k more a year in salary and I'll tip the waiter $1 more when I go to restaurants... maybe.
- BusterBoy5
According to Michael Bloomberg:
Last month a Wall Street Journal editor asked a room full of CEOs to raise their hands if the corporate tax cut being considered in Congress would lead them to invest more. Very few hands went up. Attending was Gary Cohn, President Donald Trump's economic adviser and a friend of mine. He asked: "Why aren't the other hands up?"
Corporations are sitting on a record amount of cash reserves: nearly $2.3 trillion. That figure has been climbing steadily since the recession ended in 2009, and it's now double what it was in 2001. The reason CEOs aren't investing more of their liquid assets has little to do with the tax rate.
CEOs aren't waiting on a tax cut to "jump-start the economy" -- a favorite phrase of politicians who have never run a company -- or to hand out raises. It's pure fantasy to think that the tax bill will lead to significantly higher wages and growth, as Republicans have promised. Had Congress actually listened to executives, or economists who study these issues carefully, it might have realized that.
- This whole idea of "jump-starting the economy" has got to go. Moronic.nb
- ********-6
- Is that a nazi salute?monospaced
- too soon to compare the trump train with an amtrak?capn_ron
- https://cdn.jpg.wtf/…zaq
- omg omgzaq
- I choo choo choose trumpFax_Benson
- colin_s6
- Such a crock, and veiled under the bukkshit cloak of "choice" (as long as it's one they approve of).monospaced
- but but wait...what about Hillary?utopian
- Fuck it...Murica is already dumb, ignorant and loves war. Who needs education? No harm, no foul.
#MAGAutopian - Ironically, it's the conservatives who are the victims here. They are lining up for educations that will get them laughed at and rejected by intellectual societmonospaced
- Imagine applying to a real university, coming from a charter school that doesn't adhere to standards and teaches creationism. lol, what a joke.monospaced
- How far creationism has gotten us? Internet, planes, cars, moon landings, clean water. Where has your Islamic, Satanic, Godless beliefs gotten us?********
- Einstein, Darwin, Bacon, Newton... all believed in God.********
- Bwahahahhahahaha omg you're a moron. Darwin believed in creationism?! bwahahahahahahaahaha...zarkonite
- Darwin was first Baptised as an Angelican and drifted thru agnosticism before taking on his spiritual journey as a Christian til the end of his days.********
- The same Islam that made significant advancements in mathematics and laid the foundations for modern science? Get fucked, troll-boy.face_melter
- lol "significant advancements in mathematics laying foundations for modern science." aka algebra?********
- which btw is a fallacy and common misconception********
- The true nature of algebra came from Greek mathematics and was disciplined by Italian Leonardo Fibonacci.********
- but the bigger question is how you consider suicidal bombers modern science.********
- lol, omg, please tell me you believe in creationismmonospaced
- Did the dinosaurs get on the ark or not OMG?PhanLo
- Why would you ask such a question? I'm assuming dinosaurs were extinct by then.********
- Seriously. Are you a creationist?monospaced
- I believe in Intelligent Design********
- that's creationism ... fucking hilarious, you really are a goddamn retardmonospaced
- So when your ancestors crawled out from the prehistoric sewer, you believe you accidentally evolved from a creationist’s butt waste.********
- lol, that's exactly why this push to give $ to private schools is such a bad idea, it results in people like you who don't understand how evolution worksmonospaced
- you do know that creationists are the laughing stock of the world, and aren't taken seriously in higher education, right?monospaced
- libtards only take it seriously when they watch movies like Prometheus********
- your ancestors:
https://media.nature…
evolutionary yet still a piece of shit.********
- plash6
Democrat wins VA House seat in recount by single vote;
11,608 to 11,607.. a single vote.https://www.politico.com/story/2…
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine tweeted: ‘EVERY. VOTE. MATTERS.’
- omg was too busy trolling to vote that day.GuyFawkes
- follow up: https://www.npr.org/…plash
- lol, what a shit showGuyFawkes
- plash4
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ is now on WordPress
and of course it gets an F rating for security headers:
https://securityheaders.io/?q=wh…
- face_melter2
'Trump will personally save up to $15m under tax bill, analysis finds'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-n…
He sure is draining that swamp. You fucking wingnut cunts.
- ..and AT&T just dropped $200 Million on its employees. What? Do you want to save $15m too? For what?! Being a noodle on QBN?********
- lol, don't act like $200 million is significant compared to the tax break they get that goes straight to the top0.1%monospaced
- They just bought trumps play to their monopoly move. Gonna avoid an antitrust issue with their purchase of this tax bill. It's disgusting.monospaced
- ..and AT&T just dropped $200 Million on its employees. What? Do you want to save $15m too? For what?! Being a noodle on QBN?
- ********0
- but won’t have SS and medicare, MURICUH!GuyFawkes
- land of the corporate slaves.GuyFawkes
- and will payout +5k on insurance that it defunded.plash
- congratulations, with your theoretical savings you can afford to move out of your grandma's basement.dorf
- OMG is a Lizard!err
- ^ the proper term is a reptilian.dorf
- Bluejam3
"Donald Trump has threatened to withhold “billions” of dollars of US aid from countries which vote in favour of a United Nations resolution rejecting the US president’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. "
https://www.theguardian.com/us-n…
- allthethings4
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12…
‘BLAH BLAH BLAH f*ck the poor’: Ivanka comes on Fox News to talk tax policy — and gets destroyed by Twitter
So, she doesn't know that people will be filing for 2017 next April, and is insisting that the tax bill actually 'reforms' taxes, which it doesn't...no one will be filing their taxes "on a postcard," for Jesus' bleeding sake.
- allthethings1
Why? Because it would hide the Medicare cuts until after the 2018 midterms
Trump probably won't sign the GOP tax bill until next year
