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POV: 87,000 IRS agents when you sell a couch using Venmo
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I’m not sure people understand how bad an invasion of privacy this is.
But it’s huge.
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Press is about to go from "John Bolton is a radical warmonger who never should be permitted near the Oval Office" to "This is a story of how a reasonable, respected expert was dismissed by a chaotic, megalomaniacal Administration, and whatever his critique is, we agree!"
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The legalese can be confusing so need to be clear about this:
When there were errors found among the absentee ballots, Democrats went out—in violation of the law—found Democrat voters, and told them they needed to vote again.
...and specifically didn’t do that for GOP voters.
BREAKING: Appellate Commonwealth Court of PA sides with
@GOP
/
@TeamTrump
, rejects deadline extension for absentee voters to provide missing proof of identification. The court has enforced statutory deadline and ordered those ballots be segregated and not counted.
#ballotcount
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The tragic loss of
@RepWalorski
is rendered even harder by the loss of her two staffers, including my friend
@EmmaThsn
, an enormously kind, hardworking, generous person.
She shared endlessly. She never sought glory, just to do good and help others. We will all miss you so much.
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Dems may have violated PA election code which states “no person in a pre-canvass meeting may disclose the results of any portion of any pre-canvass meeting prior to the close of polls” per lawsuit incl
@MikeKellyforPA
.
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@macrotargeting
You have literally lost every sound device you’ve ever owned, aside from your ears.
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Just got a heads up that Loudoun County Schools are punishing kids who don’t wear masks by putting them in the equivalent of a rubber room without access to instruction.
Teachers insisting kids wear masks regardless of the Governor’s order and saying wait until SCOTUS decision.
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I for one am relieved that SCOTUS didn’t rule that the OSHA vaccine mandate was a tax.
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My mom throwing an epic eyeroll on this guy's "this machine kills fascists" sticker.
http://t.co/bnepcCP9lr
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Nothing like 2 heavyweights doing What They Do Best! For the love off of the sport
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@jasonselvig
I don’t know what’s weirder — admitting you’re eating a tuna sandwich or admitting you’re the kind of coward who asks a man—notoriously known for being nice—for a picture, who kindly obliges, and then rips on him on twitter without bothering to engage with him thoughtfully.
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The Soviet Union was a prison run by mass-murdering terrorists. They developed buildings not to house the masses but to imprison them.
Same as with any Nazi sympathizer, anyone who espouses the idea that the Soviet system was humane should never be allowed to wield power.
For all the Soviet Union’s many faults, by traversing its vast architectural landscape, we can get a glimpse of what a built environment for the many, not the few, could look like.
@denisethotbrown
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NBC should be explaining how and why this kind of mistake shouldn't have happened in the first place. A fact checker should have viewed the mere 30 seconds of video that disproved the title's premise. Why wasn't there one?
CORRECTION: An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as "incredible" at a rally in Ohio. It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee. An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump's remark. Here is the full clip.
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What is the extra significance of Justice Thomas swearing in Justice Barret, beyond their amazing personal accomplishments?
If Roberts joins the minority in a case, as he has from time to time, Justice Thomas, as the senior associate Justice, will assign the majority opinion.
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A staffer just walked past me and muttered, “I hate this place."
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NEWS: The judge in the Hunter Biden case just threatened Hunter's lawyers with sanctions because someone on their team impersonated someone else to get an amicus brief taken down.
This update from
@MarshallCohen
in his
@CNN
story:
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“What is wrong with her? Who mutters to themselves through a State of the Union?" Conway said. "She looked like she was reading the Cheesecake Factory menu all night going through every single page."
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Somehow monitoring transactions $600 at a time doesn’t feel like getting the rich to pay their fair share.
That sounds like getting the local lawn care business to spend more time double-checking their books.
Call me crazy.
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If the leaker does not resign immediately and admit fault, this person is making it even more clear that they do not care about the institution or the rule of law, much less the lives of those with whom they work.
You wanted to be a hero. Go be a hero. Own it.
Nina Totenberg reports from a source close to the Justices, a "he," (perhaps Justice Breyer?), that "the clerks are terrified that their whole professional lives could be blown up" by the leak investigation.
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Thankful that the Democrats have made it clear in their remarks. They will not hesitate to lob any grenade they can and politicize any moment.
Fair enough.
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Americans’ chances of audit more than doubles as Dems’ supercharged IRS targets lower & middle-income earners.
Nearly half of 1.2 million new audits will be on Americans making up to $75,000 a year.
313,000 of these hitting people making up to $25k.
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“Stop Being Poor” - Democrats’ 2022 campaign message on inflation
Michigan Democrat Sen. Debbie Stabenow brags that she passed "every single gas station" in her brand new electric vehicle, "and it didn't matter how high [gas] was."
The average cost of an electric vehicle is more than $56,000.
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This isn’t a GOP or Democrat thing. This is an American thing. You have rules. And winning no matter what law you break is a threat to our democracy.
Conservatives should be outraged. Moderates should be outraged. And yes, even progressives should be outraged.
This is awful.
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We shouldnt need an emergency to recognize the benefits of greater access to telemedicine for rural seniors and communities that need greater access to health care.
HHS extends the Covid-19 public health emergency ahead of Jan. 16 expiration, an unsurprising move that will keep in place telehealth flexibilities
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@CalebJHull
The Northern Rose window is a beautiful rendering of what Augustine would describe as how God’s grace in the Old Testament has been revealed in the New Testament: Mother Mary with child, surrounded by the kings and prophets of the Old Testament. (image: )
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I just heard the phrase "Nieman Marxist" and I'm sorry to all my friends who will have to hear me repeat it endlessly
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@guypbenson
boy if there was a time to hand-wring over the undermining of institutions, the normalization of death threats against judges and attacks on the courts sure seems like the opportunity.
Let’s check in!
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@EricCortellessa
@TIME
Unfortunately, to write this misleading story, you didn't reach out to any committees of jurisdiction -- who generated this analysis -- but did reach out to Biden Treasury officials. Now it is being cited by the White House.
I've reached out for corrections.
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this is such a lowkey flex about how much of a risktaker he is. I mean, wearing a white shirt in both of these situations is terrifying to me
Some things never change. Happy Valentine’s Day, sweetheart.
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Amazing.
In the last year,
@AOC
has tweeted NOTHING about inflation, even as working families have lost up to $6,000 a year to something caused by Democrats' spending.
But she has complained about an extra $8 a month for a blue checkmark.
Yo
@elonmusk
while I have your attention, why should people pay $8 just for their app to get bricked when they say something you don’t like?
This is what my app has looked like ever since my tweet upset you yesterday. What’s good? Doesn’t seem very free speechy to me 🤔
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President Biden said fighting inflation and lowering prices was its top priority.
They even issued releases about how they were expanding our oil supply.
It was all a lie.
BREAKING:
@Interior
confirms it will not move forward w/three planned oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico—injecting new uncertainty over the future of offshore leasing projects under the Biden administration.
New from me-->
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Washington is where everyone tells you they wake up SUPER EARLY, work out, get a cup of coffee, then read four different foreign language newspapers, and and then you see that this couldn’t possibly be true when local coffee shops don’t open til 7, because no one is awake.
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Dems' platform:
Don’t go outside
Don’t work
Don’t hire
Don’t go to church
Don’t stand up for your kids
Don’t speak your mind or disagree
Don’t grow your savings
Don’t own a gun
Don’t call police
Don’t produce oil (we’ll get it from Russia)
Don’t do anything. Just be dependent.
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We don’t agree on much but we do agree this took no brains at all.
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They said it wouldn’t raise taxes on the middle class. The Joint Committee on Taxation says it does.
They said it wouldn’t worsen inflation. Even their preferred forecaster believes it does.
They said it wouldn’t discourage work. UChicago analysis says it does.
It’s a bad bill
“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.” — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says President Biden’s Build Back Better plan “is a no.”
“I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there.”
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@CalebJHull
The 13th Century rose window was removed from this cathedral during World War II to prevent its destruction by the Nazis. A mass celebrating liberation in 1944 was interrupted by sniper fire.
Pray whatever happened here will not succeed in destroying what Hitler couldn’t.
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Dear drivers in the DC area:
Your lane is not your birthright. The space between you and the car in front of you is also not your birthright. When a person indicates to move over, that is not a call to defend your territory. It’s a chance to be nice and let someone in.
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Doctor: ok you need this prescription.
Me: ok!
Insurance: you need your doctor to tell us it’s medically necessary.
Me: why else would my doctor prescribe it?
Insurance:
Me: ?
Insurance:
Me: ??
Insurance: ever consider that *you* aren’t medically necessary captain smartypants?
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@susanferrechio
The Union Station Starbucks -- long a staple for weary travelers -- had to close earlier this month due to "concerning incidents" (crime).
Encampments of tents litter the nearby blocks, and customers of the remaining stores find themselves chased and hounded by unwell people.
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Another day, another moment in which the Biden Administration quietly admits that the Trump Admin’s approach wasn’t nearly as wrong as Democrats had claimed throughout the campaign.
"There is no federal solution, this gets solved at the state level."
-
@POTUS
on a call with U.S. governors this morning.
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I had a reporter—a really good one—ask me if I could refer any Real People that could speak to the harm this would cause them.
I reached out.
Actual quote: “you want me to say that I don’t want the IRS to have more power, or that I’m nervous about them investigating me?”
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~White House Ideas That Made It Somehow~
IRS surveillance of min. wage workers’ personal transactions.
Subsidize electric bikes.
$118k tax subsidies for rich.
Tax hikes on blue collar tobacco consumers.
Pay people to stay at home.
Criticize those worried re: Xmas shopping.
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Rep. Cummings was a decent man even in brief private moments. Rushing to meetings, a lot on his mind, he'd still say hello to staffers in elevators & hallways. He'd acknowledge ppl who were accustomed to being invisible. He was a warm man who made people feel like they mattered.
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I’m stunned.
@LCPSOfficial
just sent a note to all parents today chiding them for “inflammatory rhetoric.”
Why? One emotional parent had the nerve to say during a meeting that if the School Board couldn’t figure out reopening schools, they should resign and let others try.
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uh.
-He's accused of being a serial rapist based on scant evidence, vague memories
-Family receiving threats
-Ranking Member of Judiciary withheld the letter from the Majority and FBI investigators
-Yet still referred Ford to an atty
-Politics turned this process into a circus
7. Kavanaugh was sincerely angry. But he wasn't angry that he was caught lying. He was angry that people were attacking his moral system of aristocracy. It isn't just a white male thing. It's a super-rich powerful village thing. He was angry people were criticizing Versailles.
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The Doolittle Raid was insane.
US bombers took a one-way trip, with no air support, to bomb Japan (whose leadership claimed such a feat would be impossible), and crushed the perception of an untouchable imperial Japan, and landed in China thanks only to the luck of a tail wind.
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Since this seems like a fairly thorough encapsulation of what Democrats think Republicans believe about taxes, worth taking these arguments one by one...
Resistance to taxation is the rotten core of the modern Republican Party.
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Unfortunately, the Tax Policy Center already made clear that his tax plan does, in fact, raise taxes on those making less than $400,000.
Pres. Biden reiterates that he wants the plan to be paid for without raising taxes on Americans making less than $400,000: "I would not support anything that raised a penny in taxes for someone making under $400,000...working families have already paid enough."
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@KateSullivanDC
This is the Orwellian language they use to avoid scrutiny. This window includes 2010 when audits of the middle class were historically high. Why include it? Why is this necessary? Why not just say don’t go after this income level?
Because they want to audit those under $400k.
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People. Take notes on how Pence talks about Pro-Life issues. Wow.
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@ZekeJMiller
“They’re trying to make people believe that this is the same thing as codifying Roe v. Wade. And I want you to know, it's not. This is not the same. It expands abortion”
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Just to recap, this person allegedly: 1) Plagiarized in her novel; 2) Plagiarized in her confessional essay about plagiarizing her novel; and 3) Specifically plagiarized a guy who writes about plagiarism (the author of the website Plagiarism Today)
Just to recap, this person allegedly: 1) Plagiarized in her novel; 2) Plagiarized in her confessional essay about plagiarizing her novel; and 3) Specifically plagiarized a guy who writes about plagiarism (the author of the website Plagiarism Today)
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“Well the show is named for a hotel chain called White Lotus that caters to the rich, but it’s really about the problems the wealthy cause for themselves and others.”
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“Republicans are aiding and abetting tax evasion.”
IRS commissioner himself said the best way to improve enforcement is simplify the tax code. But now Dems seek new carveouts into it—tax shelters for rich colleges, subsidies for electric cars/bikes, SALT tax carveout for rich.
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@GlennKesslerWP
Another problem here: The IRS has a history of going after mom-and-pop shops accusing them of secretly being well-heeled. The IRS has even raided such businesses.
Why are you playing down IRS letters, too? It's not like a short note you can respond to with a "nah, we're ok!"
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Republican tax reform simplified the tax code by getting rid of loopholes. The result wasn’t just historic economic growth, but historic revenues, and the wealthy paying a larger share of taxes. (Because the GOP eliminated certain carveouts.)
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"Democrats want Americans to pay the full amount they owe in taxes. What doesn’t get enough attention is that many Republicans seem not to agree.”
Republicans believe you should pay your taxes. We also think the tax code should be simple—to make it easier for regular people.
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How quickly we’ve moved from “I won’t deficit spend” and "It costs nothing” to “we’ll get a score from CBO,” to “Ignore the score from CBO, whatever it is, whenever it comes out."
White House reportedly warns CBO likely won't rule spending bill paid for
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This is the part of election night where newscasters do this:
Anchor: “So, we are still waiting but I need to say things. So I am saying things. I have some reports that suggest outcomes going this way. I also have some reports going the other way. It comes down to turnout.”
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"Republicans sharply reduced federal income tax rates imposed on wealthy people and big companies…”
Number of corporations has declined for years bc fewer businesses file as such. Many small businesses file as individuals instead. Dems mistake those businesses as 'the rich.'
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"Republicans have hacked away at funding for the Internal Revenue Service over the past decade, enfeebling the agency.”
No mention of rampant abuse at IRS: targeting groups for political beliefs, the Lois Lerner scandal, political leak of tax info the IRS has still not resolved
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"IRS estimated ... Americans conceal from taxation >1/2 of income not subject to some form of third-party verification like a W-2…”
You know who makes this money? Blue-collar workers. Hair dressers, plumbers, contractors. These are the "tax cheats” Dems obsess over.
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Apparently parents do have recourse, which is by sending notes here:
@JPFreire
FYI
@JPFreire
:
@GovernorVA
providing email address for parents facing reprisals like this policy from LCSD.
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The NewYorkTimes, a for-profit corporation, opposes equal free speech for other for-profits (Koch), non-profits (NRA), & groups of private citizens. Despite a lower circulation than NRA has members, NYT believes it deserves more free speech.
NYT: Free speech for me-Not for thee.
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This is just giving voters a preview of Medicare for All.
This is a picture of voter suppression. Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long? This is the line in Suwannee Georgia today to vote.
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A family making over $800,000 can still qualify for up to $118,000 in Dems’ new tax scheme. So who’s aiding tax avoidance here?
But Dems’ goal here is restoring the special interest bonanza that happens at year end over tax extenders—so they can do favors using the tax code.
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A lot of folks replying that this can’t possibly be true—likely because it seems so unreasonable and ridiculous. Ok then:
Update — Local news report: “Woodgrove High School Principal William Shipp said any student who did not wear a mask would be taken out of class and put in the school’s auditorium for virtual learning.”
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The last president simply allowed appointees to serve out their terms and declined to renew them. Yet he was still accused of “purging” political enemies.
President Biden is being way more aggressive. Yet, crickets.
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@GlennKesslerWP
Glenn, this is fundamentally incorrect. The annual appropriations covers retiring staff. How else do we pay them currently?
Also, have you looked into the idea that 50,000 people are retiring?
*50,000*? 10,000 people a year on average? Doesn't that seem high to you?
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@ZekeJMiller
They described it as writing Roe v. Wade into law, but it wasn’t. It went beyond that.
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"When the rich and powerful open loopholes in the tax code, Republicans reliably fight to keep the loopholes open.”
I’m confused here: Appelbaum attacks GOP for seeking lower rates, but then attacks special loopholes without mentioning the ones Democrats are currently seeking.
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So far:
CBO shows that Dems’ reconciliation bill adds billions to deficit.
CBO confirms Dems’ drug pricing scheme kills cures.
CBO corrects White House’s rosy estimates and shows spending $80B on IRS enforcement will only result in $127 billion revenue NOT $400 billion.
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Instructor: Welcome to your DC driving test. Question one. It’s raining.
Student: AHHHH AHHHH AHHHH OH MY GO—
Instructor: and?
Student: *motions swerving side to side, slowing down at random moments*
Instructor: just make sure you impatiently honk at anyone taking a left, k?
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“They valorize Americans who find ways to pay less, a normalization of antisocial behavior that may be even more damaging than the efforts at bureaucratic sabotage.”
President Biden has no issue normalizing this behavior:
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Don’t get distracted by the partisan barb.
Pelosi is explicitly saying here that she’ll reject anything that isn’t exactly what she’s asking for.
For that reason, she says, the press shouldn’t cover the Republican position, much less question her about her position, at all.
“I don’t know why you’re always an apologist - and many of your colleagues - an apologist for the Republican position,” Pelosi says to
@wolfblitzer
when pressed why not accept $1.8 trillion stimulus proposed by the WH. “I will not let the wrong be the enemy of the right.”
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Watching today’s student loan forgiveness debacle play out as Dems continue to think of tax dollars as their money.
FYI—Student debt cancelation isn’t paid for by the taxpayers, the federal government is the lender.
It’s costlier for the government to hold on to the debt.
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Lost amidst the reporting on the Biden Admin’s distribution of crack pipes is its move to restrict Alzheimer’s drugs for Medicare patients.
We should help people with addiction (esp after the pandemic).
We should also help people with Alzheimer’s.
Biden Admin officials may effectively prohibit treatment of more than 6 million families suffering from Alzheimer’s if they finalize new restrictions in Medicare.
In a letter, top House Republicans urge HHS Secretary Becerra to protect these families.
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In case you missed it, some professional news: I'm now Director of Communications at
@WaysandMeansGOP
.
It's a great honor to return to the Hill and work with
@RepKevinBrady
and his team.
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@CalebJHull
That window is now gone.
History is precious, but remember that it is the story of humanity and that our duty to history is not merely to preserve it, but to remember the lessons it teaches.
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In Biden’s plan "banks would be required to submit annual reports on accounts with total inflows and outflows exceeding $10,000, excluding paychecks and government benefits.”
This is a press release without policy. Local banks would have a hard time doing this. Simply not real.
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"The info would give the IRS a better chance to catch cheaters — & would provide a salutary reminder for people to pay what they owe.”
Of course giving IRS INNOCENT PPL's PERSONAL DATA makes their job easier. But why salutary reminder? Isn’t that just creepy?
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A white noise machine for falling asleep but it's the House Clerk calling the roll.
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No mention either of the Taxpayer First Act, a bipartisan bill championed by Republicans to get the IRS into better shape. It’s inconvenient for this narrative, but it’s nothing to sneeze at. (Well, you can sneeze at it, if you are so inclined.)
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