Trump's Policies Part 5

[Bamabuzzard]

A little anecdote. Back in the early 80s I worked in downtown Birmingham and there was an awesome meat and potatoes type restaurant called John's (I believe that was the name). The place was packed every single day. They were so busy the lady sat at the cash register and didn't bother to ring up your ticket. She would just take your cash and make change. I always thought something fishy was going on.
A few years later the proprietor dies and they decide to sell the restaurant. When they were going through the due diligence with a prospective buyer they revealed to the buyer that cash sales were actually much higher. Dude reported them to the IRS and they ended up taking the restaurant for payment of back taxes. If the owner had not leaked scheme who knows if they would have ever been caught.

Yeah, these types of situations are very common for small businesses. The problem is that the IRS doesn't do enough audits of these types of businesses. They want to go after what they call "the big fish" to get more bang for their buck in audits. Which, I get that, but small businesses outnumber "large" businesses in this country, and they are some of the chief sinners of not paying taxes. It's almost like they feel that auditing a small business wastes their time and resources.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

The existing cadre of IRS examiners is currently overwhelmed but less so than they were 20 years ago. The mandatory 1099 rules and other technology has made it harder to cheat but make no mistake, there is plenty of cheating going on. Although there are ways to catch underreporting of income it is extremely difficult to prove absent some sort of electronic record. If you are just pocketing cash and not reporting it this is almost impossible to prove unless 1) you get greedy and exclude too much or 2) get ratted out by an insider.

A little anecdote. Back in the early 80s I worked in downtown Birmingham and there was an awesome meat and potatoes type restaurant called John's (I believe that was the name). The place was packed every single day. They were so busy the lady sat at the cash register and didn't bother to ring up your ticket. She would just take your cash and make change. I always thought something fishy was going on.
A few years later the proprietor dies and they decide to sell the restaurant. When they were going through the due diligence with a prospective buyer they revealed to the buyer that cash sales were actually much higher. Dude reported them to the IRS and they ended up taking the restaurant for payment of back taxes. If the owner had not leaked scheme who knows if they would have ever been caught.

I didn't know that was the eventual end of John's. It was an excellent seafood restaurant...

 

[2003TIDE]

More Authoritarian BS

'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court

The provision would bar courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless a bond has been paid.

www.newsweek.com

A provision "hidden" in the sweeping budget bill that passed the U.S. House on Thursday seeks to limit the ability of courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court—from enforcing their orders.

"No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued," the provision in the bill, which is more than 1,000 pages long, says.

Why It Matters

The provision would prohibit courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders—the main types of rulings that have been used to rein in President Donald Trump's administration—unless the plaintiffs have paid a bond, something that rarely happens when someone sues the government.

What To Know

If enacted, it would be a "stunning" restriction on the power of federal courts, Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, wrote in an article for Just Security.

"The Supreme Court has long recognized that the contempt power is integral to the authority of the federal courts," he wrote. "Without the ability to enforce judicial orders, they are rendered mere advisory opinions which parties are free to disregard."

Chemerinsky wrote that federal courts rarely require a bond to be posted by "those who are restraining unconstitutional federal, state, or local government actions" as those seeking such orders "do not have the resources to post a bond, and insisting on it would immunize unconstitutional government conduct from judicial review."

Representative Joe Neguse, a Colorado Democrat, said in an interview that the provision was added because the Trump administration is "losing in virtually every court in the land."

District Judge James E. Boasberg said he will initiate hearings and may refer the matter for prosecution if the administration does not act to remedy the violation. The administration has also removed immigrants against court orders in other cases.

The provision in the House bill "would make the court orders in these cases completely unenforceable," according to Chemerinsky. "Indeed, the bill is stunning in its scope. It would apply to all temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and even permanent injunctions ever issued."

What's Next

The House approved the bill in a 215-214 vote early Thursday. It now heads to the Senate, where it could face revisions before a final vote.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

More Authoritarian BS

'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court

The provision would bar courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless a bond has been paid.

www.newsweek.com

Since when has the judicial ever had the ability to enforce its orders? That's the part where I get lost.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Since when has the judicial ever had the ability to enforce its orders? That's the part where I get lost.

Seriously? For a long time, since 1789 and hasn't changed significantly since 1831. You are basically trolling at this point, knowing full well that Trump is only trying to stop the courts from reining in his illegal acts. This is the kind of thing that will make it easier for Trump to steal a third term.

After ratification, however, Congress vested the judiciary with contempt power via the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing the lower federal courts and empowering them “to punish by fine or imprisonment . . . all contempts of authority in any cause or hearing before the same.”

Keep turning those blind eyes while an authoritarian regime conquers this country.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Seriously? For a long time, since 1789 and hasn't changed significantly since 1831. You are basically trolling at this point, knowing full well that Trump is only trying to stop the courts from reining in his illegal acts. This is the kind of thing that will make it easier for Trump to steal a third term.

Stop inferring things that people never actually say; that's annoying. I asked a simple question because I've never seen SCOTUS attempt to do such a thing. Their ruling about college admissions are still being ignored to this day.

Keep turning those blind eyes while an authoritarian regime conquers this country.

This old canard again? Sheesh, you do realize that the fact that you didn't flee the country when Trump got elected kinda signals to us that you don't really believe this BS, right? Histrionics like this do nothing to advance a conversation. Then again, I'm done with this conversation anyway.

 

[mdb-tpet]

If we want the food companies to stop using additives, food dyes, etc., then the answer is to demand it and if they don't comply then we stop buying their product. It's really very simple. Companies will almost always do what their customers demand. If not, they'll go out of business. I know this sounds really simple but it works. The problem is, deep down, most of us don't really want healthy food. It is expensive (no preservatives mean more spoilage), people want their red M&Ms to be bright red and they want all the sodium added because it makes things tasted good.

When you're marketed engineered foods from cradle to grave, it's hard to resist at a population level these kinds of foods. And I've heard directly from food sellers that dyed food just sells better in many instances. It's only partially a personal choice, it's also inextricably linked to corporate profits and governmental regulations.

But again, as long as the PRIMARY purpose of corporations is to maximize profits and nothing else, they will sell sludge grown, pesticide filled foods to us if we buy them. And they will lie, cheat, distort science to pretend this food is healthy as long as the money keeps coming in. To ignore this is to pretend the tobacco industry and the like never existed.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

When you're marketed engineered foods from cradle to grave, it's hard to resist at a population level these kinds of foods.

Absolutely this. There's a reason I can't remember our phone number from when I was ten years old, but I can probably think of 20 commercial jingles from the exact same time period. Marketing understands human behavior far better than a regular MD does. Frustrated doctors all over this country are still struggling to understand why their patients don't listen to them when it comes to eating processed foods.

 

[75thru79]

There's a reason I can't remember our phone number from when I was ten years old

205-553-1171. Our family phone# from before I was born to when I was about 19. The phone# for Holt Lock and Dam was 205-553-1711. I can't count how many times we were awoken by a phone call in the middle of the night wanting someone to open the lock so their boat could get through.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

205-553-1171. Our family phone# from before I was born to when I was about 19. The phone# for Holt Lock and Dam was 205-553-1711. I can't count how many times we were awoken by a phone call in the middle of the night wanting someone to open the lock so their boat could get through.

1. That's impressive; I can remember the address, but definitely not the phone number.

2. I think I would have changed numbers after the first two times. That sounds positively rage-inducing.

 

[Huckleberry]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5314993-trump-autism-maha-commission-report/

Trump says autism ‘has to be artificially induced’

President Trump on Thursday said that autism must not occur naturally, citing figures inflating the spike in autism and suggesting the administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission could provide answers.

“When you hear 10,000, it was one in 10,000, and now it’s one in 31 for autism, I think that’s just a terrible thing. It has to be something on the outside, has to be artificially induced, has to be,” Trump said at a MAHA Commission event. “And we will not allow our public health system to be captured by the very industries it’s supposed to oversee. So we’re demanding the answers, the public is demanding the answers and that’s why we’re here.”



Sigh. Science is a foreign language to this administration.

 

[Crimson1967]

Penny production ending soon: How it'll impact you

There may soon be no more shiny new pennies entering circulation. Here’s how it’ll impact you.

thehill.com

The Treasury Department will stop producing the penny once the current supply of the blanks used to make them has been exhausted.

This will force businesses to round up or down prices in cash transactions. Purchases made with a check or credit/debit card would remain the same. Not sure if a store would be required to accept pennies if a customer wanted to use them.

The reason for this is the cost of making them is more than one cent and it is losing money. This will cause an increase in demand for the nickel, which is even less cost efficient than the penny.

I’m a pretty traditional guy and hate to see it go but its time has passed. It is useless by itself as you can’t use them in vending machines and standing behind someone digging through a change purse looking for a penny is just a pain.
Changing the reverse from the Lincoln Memorial to that dumb looking shield was stupid.

The nickel is pretty useless as well for that matter. I don’t know if it would work but maybe start making them out of the penny material.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

President Trump on Thursday said that autism must not occur naturally, citing figures inflating the spike in autism and suggesting the administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission could provide answers.

“When you hear 10,000, it was one in 10,000, and now it’s one in 31 for autism, I think that’s just a terrible thing.

Remember when this same residue told us all just five years ago how it was GOOD that the number of confirmed Covid positives had gone up "because it means we're testing more people"?

It has to be something on the outside, has to be artificially induced, has to be,” Trump said at a MAHA Commission event. “And we will not allow our public health system to be captured by the very industries it’s supposed to oversee. So we’re demanding the answers, the public is demanding the answers and that’s why we’re here.”

Jeezus.....

Sigh. Science is a foreign language to this administration.

ENGLISH is a foreign language to this administration.
Words beyond 2 syllables - except the overused "beautiful" and "terrible" are foreign to the Clown Posse.

Remember Commandant Lassard in the "Police Academy" movies? The guy who used "very, very" in almost every sentence and was absolutely clueless? Take Lassard, Wile E. Coyote, and Stifler from the "American Pie" movies and add equal parts Leona Helmsley, Ric Flair, and John Wayne Gacy, and you'd have the formula for this guy.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

1. That's impressive; I can remember the address, but definitely not the phone number.

2. I think I would have changed numbers after the first two times. That sounds positively rage-inducing.

I never knew the phone number in Columbus, MS when I left at age five.
We did not have a phone number in England, we used that big red box that Redbox stole the idea for their DVD rentals.

217-893-1467 (1978-79)
601-434-8055 (1979-82)
06302-2863 (1982-84 Germany)
601-356-6723 (1984-98)

Now we're getting close enough for you to steal my identity so........

 

[Crimson1967]

Remember when this same residue told us all just five years ago how it was GOOD that the number of confirmed Covid positives had gone up "because it means we're testing more people"?



Jeezus.....



ENGLISH is a foreign language to this administration.
Words beyond 2 syllables - except the overused "beautiful" and "terrible" are foreign to the Clown Posse.

Remember Commandant Lassard in the "Police Academy" movies? The guy who used "very, very" in almost every sentence and was absolutely clueless? Take Lassard, Wile E. Coyote, and Stifler from the "American Pie" movies and add equal parts Leona Helmsley, Ric Flair, and John Wayne Gacy, and you'd have the formula for this guy.

He lost me when he said “groceries” is an archaic word nobody uses these days.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Was this the same speech where he said, "conspiracy theories are just spoiler warnings."

"Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Trump policy: to make the USA his 7th bankruptcy.

And sure enough, his voters will tell me "it's Clinton/Obama/Biden's fault for messing it up before he got here!" Or "he's trying to fix stuff and Congress won't let him!" Or "the courts won't let him!"

Why do I suspect the only reason he hired Elon Musk was so when it blows up he can say, "Well, it's Elon Musk's fault, I never wanted him to do X, which is why I fired him"?

 

[Bamaro]

Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.

"These are all white farmers that are being buried," said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by the picture during a contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

n fact, the video published by Reuters on February 3 and subsequently verified by the new agency's fact check team, showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot following deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

He's a pathological liar.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

He lost me when he said “groceries” is an archaic word nobody uses these days.

I wish the word "foodstuffs" would make a comeback. I just like saying it.......foodstuffs.

 

[Its On A Slab]

I never knew the phone number in Columbus, MS when I left at age five.
We did not have a phone number in England, we used that big red box that Redbox stole the idea for their DVD rentals.

217-893-1467 (1978-79)
601-434-8055 (1979-82)
06302-2863 (1982-84 Germany)
601-356-6723 (1984-98)

Now we're getting close enough for you to steal my identity so........

I can't remember names two minutes after someone introduces themeselves.

But I can remember my grandma and grandpa's phone number from the 1960s. Same for my parents' from the 1960s until my Dad passed away in 2018.