Biden calls for middle-class tax hike
Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/24/2024 9:09:31 PM
President Joe Biden has repeatedly said he won’t hike taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000, but then this week he promised on X to hike taxes on just about everyone. Now, to be fair, Biden may not have understood that’s what he’s saying. Letting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire and “stay expired” would be a massive middle-class tax hike because the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a massive middle-class tax cut. Yes, wealthy people also saw their taxes reduced by the TCJA, but the law actually shifted a greater portion of the tax burden onto the wealthy. The TCJA doubled the child tax credit
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Columbia Officials 12 replies
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When you let a crazed, genocidal maniac talk long enough, they will always expose themselves. That happened on Thursday when two videos were released of a pro-Hamas protest leader suggesting Jews should be murdered. Shockingly, this is the same person Columbia University officials have been "negotiating" with over the last few days. Kymani James can be seen ranting about how "Zionists," which are Jews, do not deserve to live and should be exterminated like "nazis." A fair warning. This guy's words are extremely violent and disturbing.
Did y'all hear that boom in the distance this morning?
Schmaybe get a foul whiff of something burning in the air?
Perhaps saw a pale wisp of smoke on the horizon and wonder, "What now?"
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The big babies on Wall Street swooned. I wonder if Biden's gonna chew them out now, too.
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Here is Carlos, the Fox 7 photojournalist. Carlos was charged with criminal trespassing.
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its weapons if a two-state solution is implemented 30 replies
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Here’s a video clip of that moment, because the irony is just unreal:
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“I think the main goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stop …
New York appeals court overturns Harvey
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Weinstein’s sex crimes conviction and
orders a new trial 17 replies
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Omar said, “This is a man who is holding onto his speakership. He knows he might be on the chopping block, and it is not surprising that he would go out to Columbia University and stir up really more anger and hate and endanger the lives of young people who are at that encampment at Columbia University.”
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and berated while seeking shelter in NYU building 15 replies
and berated while seeking shelter in NYU building 15 replies
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The viral video, shared on X, shows NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy and his officers being chased and surrounded by protestors on Monday night while trying to get inside the NYU Catholic Center after arresting one of them.
“F–k you! F–k you, pigs,” the crowd could be heard shouting as they harassed the officers and demanded they release the woman in custody.