September 8, 20214 yr Just now, mr_hunt said: in your face, kellyane! 6:00 p.m. can't get here soon enough. I hope Joe Terminates her by Tweet. LOL.
September 8, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Procus said: But until Biden buys off votes (with resulting deferred inflation) . . . I know, it's Sean Davis and an Economist poll, so Biden is really popular, right?? Watching Trumpbots who denied the validity of polls for the last 4 years, suddenly cling to them for dear life is endlessly entertaining. I'll also point out... still more popular than your orange god...
September 8, 20214 yr https://reason.com/2021/09/08/bidens-total-financial-surveillance/#comments Quote Biden's Total Financial Surveillance What if every one of your noncash financial transactions was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS? MATT WELCH | FROM THE OCTOBER 2021 ISSUE Imagine living in a world where every one of your noncash financial transactions—a restaurant meal, a Venmo transfer to a friend, maybe some bitcoin bought on the dips—was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS. That dystopia will become a reality if President Joe Biden gets his way. Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and key Capitol Hill allies such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) are pushing a vast, intrusive financial surveillance system in the name of closing the "tax gap." But don't worry: There's no need to fear if you've got nothing to hide. "For already compliant taxpayers, the only effect of this regime is to provide easy access to summary information on financial accounts and to decrease the likelihood of costly 'no fault' examinations," the Treasury Department said this May in a nakedly authoritarian document called "The American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda." But "for noncompliant taxpayers," the department continues, "this regime would encourage voluntary compliance as evaders realize that the risk of evasion being detected has risen noticeably." The administration's proposed "comprehensive financial account reporting regime" would dramatically increase the types of financial institutions and transactions exposed to the feds' prying eyes. "All business and personal accounts from financial institutions, including bank, loan, and investment accounts," would be forced to "report gross inflows and outflows" to the IRS. And not just bank accounts: The dragnet would now include PayPal, settlement companies, and "crypto asset exchanges," for starters. The new domestic surveillance program, which requires congressional approval, is one prong of a tripartite strategy for transforming the entire global financial system into a harmonious, haven-free collection funnel to the IRS. The second part, which has taken up the bulk of Biden's multilateral diplomacy thus far, is getting the industrialized world to agree on a global minimum corporate tax of 15 percent, while setting up a system to prevent multinational companies from registering their profits in the lowest-tax jurisdictions. Cutting corporate taxes is "a self-defeating competition," Yellen said in April, "and neither President Biden nor I are interested in participating in it anymore. We want to change the game." In July, representatives from 130 countries, including finance ministers from the G-20 representing the world's richest democracies, agreed in principle to a worldwide minimum corporate tax. "We have a chance now to build a global and domestic tax system," Yellen crowed. "The race to the bottom is one step closer to coming to an end." The agreement still has a significant obstacle to overcome—namely, the legislatures of 130 countries, including the U.S. Congress. But Yellen has some cause to be cocky, because the third prong of Washington's strategy has already been constructed. In 2009, President Barack Obama promised to generate $210 billion in new tax revenue over 10 years by cracking down on "overseas tax loopholes." While the corporate-tax element of the plan was quickly killed by lobbyists, the individual component remained in the form of the 2010 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Built on a foundation of American exceptionalism (the U.S. is one of only two countries that tax citizens living abroad), FATCA imposed onerous new annual reporting requirements on Americans with more than $10,000 in overseas financial institutions. The law brazenly threatened international banks if they didn't rat out their U.S. clients to the IRS. The results were predictable: Expats were locked out of banking services, record numbers of mostly middle-class Americans renounced their U.S. citizenship, and IRS collections went essentially unchanged. But for a very small political price (no one much cares about the estimated 9 million Americans living abroad), Washington was able to bend an entire global financial system to its will. An IRS with the ability to compel global transaction data sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel. Yet here we are—unless we consciously cover our tracks. "Another concern is that [the] information reporting regime will shift taxpayers toward a greater use of cash," the Treasury Department's compliance plan frets. It also notes that cryptocurrencies "already pose a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion." Cash and crypto may be the last currencies compatible with privacy. "I promised to lead the world to deliver a foreign policy for the middle class, and today, we are doing just that," Biden said after the 130-country agreement. Just as long as the middle class has nothing to hide.
September 8, 20214 yr 5 minutes ago, Gannan said: Watching Trumpbots who denied the validity of polls for the last 4 years, suddenly cling to them for dear life is endlessly entertaining. Define "cling for dear life" Methinks you are either quite confused or his nosedive over the past couple of months has you really shaken up. I think it's the latter.
September 8, 20214 yr 41 minutes ago, Procus said: My biggest critique of this situation here is directed towards Biden. Why did he wait so long for this?
September 8, 20214 yr 8 minutes ago, Procus said: Define "cling for dear life" Methinks you are either quite confused or his nosedive over the past couple of months has you really shaken up. I think it's the latter. His "nosedive" is still considerably higher than Trump as I've pointed out. Is Biden vulnerable in 2024? Of course he is..... Unless..... republicans did something ridiculously stupid like cancelling their primaries and handing Trump the nomination. Which of course, is exactly what they are going to do. So just a reminder...
September 9, 20214 yr Has he announced his mandates and how the deep state is now in complete control?
September 9, 20214 yr Cutting drug prices would be a huge win for Biden! Side note, why does WSJ always call him Mr. Biden? Are they purposely refusing to acknowledge him as PRESIDENT Biden? It seems purposeful and awkward https://apple.news/ArvFj2PkbRxGX9s1T09F6pw
September 9, 20214 yr Just a reminder that the Biden boot-lickers here and elsewhere are just part of the very vocal, but considerable, minority. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/09/08/more-americans-disapprove-joe-biden-poll More Americans than ever before disapprove of Joe Biden’s performance as president Kathy Frankovic Politics & current affairs September 08, 2021, 11:12 AM EDT President Joe Biden is confronting the worst public ratings of his eight-month-old presidency. His approval ratings in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, overall and on his handling of major issues, have all fallen, dramatically in some cases. That includes the evaluation of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, one area where public support had remained high. For the first time, more American adults disapprove of how Biden is handling his job. Nearly half the public (49%) disapproves of Biden’s job performance in the poll conducted September 4-7, while only 39% approve—a drop of six points in the last week. Twice before, during the pullout from Afghanistan, as many people disapproved as approved, but this is the first time in his first-year presidency that Biden’s ratings are negative. The drop in Biden’s approval rating is most severe among Democrats. Around nine in ten of them had approved of Biden’s performance for nearly all of his first year in office. This week, Biden’s approval rating among Democrats dropped nine points to 77% from 86% last week. Biden’s current ratings match those received by former President Donald Trump at a similar stage of his administration. In a poll conducted September 2-6, 2017, 40% approved of the way Trump was handing his job and 52% disapproved. Trump never got approval from much more than 40% of Americans throughout his presidency. Along with the overall drop in Biden’s approval ratings, a falling share of Americans approve of the president’s handling of specific issues. For the first time, a greater share of Americans disapprove (45%) of Biden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic than approve (42%). This week, just 40% approve of the president’s handling of jobs and the economy, while 47% disapprove. In previous weeks, more usually have approved than have disapproved. Only 16% of American adults now think the economy is improving, while nearly three times as many, 44%, say it is getting worse. Another 27% say the economy is about the same. At the beginning of the Biden presidency, just as great a share of Americans as today said the economy was worsening (44% in the Jan. 30-Feb. 2 poll), but that changed quickly. In May and for part of June, more people said the economy was improving than worsening. No longer. Democrats remain somewhat positive about the economy: 33% say the economy is getting better while 22% think it is getting worse—but two-thirds of Republicans (66%) and nearly half of Independents (48%) think the economy is getting worse. The growing concern about inflation, not unemployment, may be exacerbating this. While those who think the economy is getting better — or not changing – are as likely to assign responsibility to Trump (37%) as to Biden (39%), nearly two-thirds of those who say it is getting worse (62%) place the blame on Biden. Monthly Jobs Report There are many reasons for Biden’s slump: economic concerns, the continuing COVID-19 surge and restrictions, reminders of past terrorist attacks, and the difficulties that arose in the pullout from Afghanistan. On that subject, only 33% approve of the president’s management, while 55% disapprove (including 25% of Democrats). This is the case even though more Americans think the original engagement in Afghanistan was a mistake (44%) than believe the decision to withdraw was an error (39%). Alongside declining public approval of the president, there also has been a sharp decline in Americans’ overall sense of where the country itself is headed. This week, only one in four Americans (26%) believe the country is headed in the right direction, down from 39% in the June 5-9 poll. Six in ten (60%) see the country as on the wrong track, up from 48% in the same June poll. Here, too, Democrats’ positive sentiment has declined steeply. Their sense that the country is headed in the right direction dropped nine points this week, to 51% from 60% a week earlier. Just 9% of Republicans and 21% of Independents today think the country is headed in the right direction. Two-thirds of Independents (66%) and 85% of Republicans say it is off on the wrong track. So do one-third of Democrats (35%). Last week: Most Republicans who have heard of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment think it may be effective See the toplines and crosstabs from this Economist/YouGov Poll Methodology: The Economist survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1,500 US Adult Citizens interviewed online between September 4 - 7, 2021. This sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, and education based on the American Community Survey, conducted by the US Bureau of the Census, as well as 2016 Presidential vote, registration status, geographic region, and news interest. Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of all US citizens. The margin of error is approximately 2.8% for the overall sample.
September 9, 20214 yr Meaningless. There was a boat parade for Biden in the neshaminy creek just yesterday! A boat parade!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 9, 20214 yr 13 hours ago, Procus said: Just a reminder that the Biden boot-lickers here and elsewhere are just part of the very vocal, but considerable, minority. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/09/08/more-americans-disapprove-joe-biden-poll More Americans than ever before disapprove of Joe Biden’s performance as president Kathy Frankovic Politics & current affairs September 08, 2021, 11:12 AM EDT President Joe Biden is confronting the worst public ratings of his eight-month-old presidency. His approval ratings in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, overall and on his handling of major issues, have all fallen, dramatically in some cases. That includes the evaluation of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, one area where public support had remained high. For the first time, more American adults disapprove of how Biden is handling his job. Nearly half the public (49%) disapproves of Biden’s job performance in the poll conducted September 4-7, while only 39% approve—a drop of six points in the last week. Twice before, during the pullout from Afghanistan, as many people disapproved as approved, but this is the first time in his first-year presidency that Biden’s ratings are negative. The drop in Biden’s approval rating is most severe among Democrats. Around nine in ten of them had approved of Biden’s performance for nearly all of his first year in office. This week, Biden’s approval rating among Democrats dropped nine points to 77% from 86% last week. Biden’s current ratings match those received by former President Donald Trump at a similar stage of his administration. In a poll conducted September 2-6, 2017, 40% approved of the way Trump was handing his job and 52% disapproved. Trump never got approval from much more than 40% of Americans throughout his presidency. Along with the overall drop in Biden’s approval ratings, a falling share of Americans approve of the president’s handling of specific issues. For the first time, a greater share of Americans disapprove (45%) of Biden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic than approve (42%). This week, just 40% approve of the president’s handling of jobs and the economy, while 47% disapprove. In previous weeks, more usually have approved than have disapproved. Only 16% of American adults now think the economy is improving, while nearly three times as many, 44%, say it is getting worse. Another 27% say the economy is about the same. At the beginning of the Biden presidency, just as great a share of Americans as today said the economy was worsening (44% in the Jan. 30-Feb. 2 poll), but that changed quickly. In May and for part of June, more people said the economy was improving than worsening. No longer. Democrats remain somewhat positive about the economy: 33% say the economy is getting better while 22% think it is getting worse—but two-thirds of Republicans (66%) and nearly half of Independents (48%) think the economy is getting worse. The growing concern about inflation, not unemployment, may be exacerbating this. While those who think the economy is getting better — or not changing – are as likely to assign responsibility to Trump (37%) as to Biden (39%), nearly two-thirds of those who say it is getting worse (62%) place the blame on Biden. Monthly Jobs Report There are many reasons for Biden’s slump: economic concerns, the continuing COVID-19 surge and restrictions, reminders of past terrorist attacks, and the difficulties that arose in the pullout from Afghanistan. On that subject, only 33% approve of the president’s management, while 55% disapprove (including 25% of Democrats). This is the case even though more Americans think the original engagement in Afghanistan was a mistake (44%) than believe the decision to withdraw was an error (39%). Alongside declining public approval of the president, there also has been a sharp decline in Americans’ overall sense of where the country itself is headed. This week, only one in four Americans (26%) believe the country is headed in the right direction, down from 39% in the June 5-9 poll. Six in ten (60%) see the country as on the wrong track, up from 48% in the same June poll. Here, too, Democrats’ positive sentiment has declined steeply. Their sense that the country is headed in the right direction dropped nine points this week, to 51% from 60% a week earlier. Just 9% of Republicans and 21% of Independents today think the country is headed in the right direction. Two-thirds of Independents (66%) and 85% of Republicans say it is off on the wrong track. So do one-third of Democrats (35%). Last week: Most Republicans who have heard of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment think it may be effective See the toplines and crosstabs from this Economist/YouGov Poll Methodology: The Economist survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1,500 US Adult Citizens interviewed online between September 4 - 7, 2021. This sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, and education based on the American Community Survey, conducted by the US Bureau of the Census, as well as 2016 Presidential vote, registration status, geographic region, and news interest. Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of all US citizens. The margin of error is approximately 2.8% for the overall sample. Plus he hasn't had a rally since being elected. And his TV ratings have dipped. These are the only metrics that matter.
September 10, 20214 yr 16 hours ago, Gannan said: Meaningless. There was a boat parade for Biden in the neshaminy creek just yesterday! A boat parade!!!!!!!!!!!!! Biden's boat parade was like a toy boat parade when compared to the massive boat parades Trump used to have. Enjoy your itsy bitsy widdle Biden boat parade.
September 10, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, Procus said: Biden's boat parade was like a toy boat parade when compared to the massive boat parades Trump used to have. Enjoy your itsy bitsy wittle Biden boat parade. They all still look afloat though.
September 10, 20214 yr 11 hours ago, Procus said: Biden's boat parade was like a toy boat parade when compared to the massive boat parades Trump used to have. Enjoy your itsy bitsy wittle Biden boat parade. Another notable difference... All the boats in Biden's boat parade actually made it back.
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