This is a great example of Democrats blowing huge holes in the side of the Republican tent...leaving gaping openings for people like me to stroll on in. I probably will...but am I allowed in if I'm not going to vote for Trump? Do I need to just be quiet about that?
Ask them because that is what they are doing. I know you are a good little soldier goose stepping along with fuhrer Biden but try some independent thought for once. MM66 is spot on , they are going after people don't have the resources to fight them. That is already what they do, Intimidation.
Exactly and since it isnt a simple code people can make mistakes, accountants can make mistakes , it changes all the time and people just getting by running the rest of a business and then dealing with that. Just like I said on sales tax so spending a grand a yr to send the state sales tax that had been taking care of for yrs but they got some new system and I talked to several other that had problems. You can't just send it in anymore with papers so required to have a computer to do it and then when it doesnt work right you get stuck with penalties.
There is stuff I dont even think about attempting to deduct that could likely be but just not worth it. They will have such a mess on their hands if they push this.
You have already proven him guilty of everything possible so why would he bother ? Are you upset he is using his Constitutional right?
Who knows. I'm lowering my expectations for Nov. I mean the Repubs are so bad we are losing to a guy in oversized sweatshirts who had an allowance well into his 40s. I couldn't believe about this fetterman guy when i read about his background. What a joke. And he's supposed to appeal to the "working man." Absurd. And that doesn't even speak to the stroke.
I’m just quoting his own words about no one guilty would plead the fifth. But you’re a true believer no matter what he says or does. You’d make excuses ….
More of the same bullshit today from the great conman - - he's the target of an unfounded, politically motivated witch hunt. Accordingly, he had no choice but to plead the Fifth. Hilarious.
So are we upset when people go into politics to grift and live off the public teat? Or do we value someone who goes into public service and serves as a Mayor even when the salary is so low that they need to supplement it by other means? Some one has to be Mayor of Braddock, but I'm pretty sure that Fetterman didn't choose the applicable wage he wanted them to pay him.
Sorry to hear about your health conditions cosmic. stay strong. as for fetterman earning a few extra bucks as a lawyer he'd have to go to law school first. Kennedy at harvard is a public policy school. grad school. you get an ma, mpa, or mpp. it's not law. as for mayor if that's all it paid it probably wasn't intended as a full time gig. not unlike many state rep jobs. it's not intended to be your full time job. it's intended to be something you do "as a service" while working a regular job. he's a middle aged man getting an allowance from his parents. why on earth would any "working man" vote for him. men who are laying asphalt in the heat, roofing, working on a highway, doing actual work while he was at kennedy and then taking jobs that likely aren't even intended to be full time so he had his parents subsidize. it's a joke. does that sound like someone a working man would relate to? You think cray relates to him? Victormyboy? Hillzhoosier. Please. might as well run cato kaelin. is he still around?
Not a tax expert but if don't have to cash out and you take the annual required withdrawal it can keep taxes reasonable. Worry more about the parts of your old body that don't work anymore.
I realized the Kennedy school was for business, but thought I'd leave it in as sort of a subtle dig at lawyers...I think he got a loan from his folks of around $50,000 which was no doubt fodder in the 2018 ad war when he ran for Lt Governor. But I'm fairly certain that after winning the LT Governorship he'd be making enough $$ to be able to pay his folks back whatever amount they deemed he owed. Not really any different than kids whose parents pay for college, house etc... The problem for OZ is that this was all likely publicly litigated in 2018, which Oz might known if he hadn't been living in NJ and floating from among his 9 other mansions at the time...
There is absolutely no comparing Oz to Fetterman in terms of accomplishments. None. And Kennedy isn't business. It's public policy/administration. I have no idea why you think Fetterman could make money. There is no more worthless degree than a master's in public policy. i have one. trust me. and i never said oz could relate to the working man. but comparing oz to fetterman is a joke. oz was in the turkish army. graduated from harvard. played on the football team at harvard. got his medical degree from penn and an mba from wharton. he was the class president. became a professor in the medical school at columbia. performed a heart transplant on joe torre's bro. now oz is goofy as hell and no one i want in office but his accomplishments are infinitely better than fetterman who occupied goofy public service gigs while living off an allowance as a middle aged man. i trust a guy like that has little regard for those who do earn their own living and work their asses off. let me guess he'll be a progressive who likes to take earners' money and redistribute it to people who wear oversized sweatshirts and don't have to work their asses off to support a family. Shocker. He'll get along great with stay at home peteI realized the Kennedy school was for business, but thought I'd leave it in as sort of a subtle dig at lawyers...I think he got a loan from his folks of around $50,000 which was no doubt fodder in the 2018 ad war when he ran for Lt Governor. But I'm fairly certain that after winning the LT Governorship he'd be making enough $$ to be able to pay his folks back whatever amount they deemed he owed. Not really any different than kids whose parents pay for college, house etc... The problem for OZ is that this was all likely publicly litigated in 2018, which Oz might known if he hadn't been living in NJ and floating from among his 9 other mansions at the time...
You're really stretching here if the implication is somehow that Oz "relates" to blue collar people and Fetterman doesn't. Fetterman came from privilege, as his father built a successful insurance business. His parents were both Conservative republicans and he played college football for 4 yrs at Albright his fathers alma mater, prior to going to UCONN for his MBA.
While at UCONN a close friend's death caused him to re-evaluate his life and alter his plans to join the family business. He joined Big Brothers and Americorps and started teaching kids how to prepare for the GED. He was working as an insurance adjustor and decided to go to Kennedy for his MPP, and then seemed to throw himself into urban renewal after graduating. In 2004 he moved to Braddock a once booming steel town that had been declared a financially distressed municipality in 1988. He became the part time Mayor (paid $150/mo), but his actual job (also low paying) was as the director of the city's Youth Services program.
One of his achievements was to found a non-profit (Braddock Redux) whose goal was to but up and renovate/save properties and repurpose them for the town's use. One of his purchases was an old church which he purchased for $50,000 and after living in the basement for a while he turned it into the town's community center. He has many tattoos but the two that seem to stand out the most are the zipcode of Braddock on one arm and the listed dates of the 9 murders which occurred in the town over the 13 yr period he was Mayor on the other. That decline represented a major shift in the crime/murder rate, and he seems particularly proud of that accomplishment...
Mayor of Rust (Published 2011)
John Fetterman has turned the busted town of Braddock, Pa., into a national symbol of hope, hard work and authentic blue jeans. As an actual place to live, however, it’s a much harder sell.www.nytimes.com
The Lt Governor has to go thru a primary process to win the nomination in PA, and when he ran in 2018 he had the endorsement of Bernie, Ed Rendell and Bill Peduto who would all be described as pro-worker in the context of PA politics. He actually ran in the 2016 Senate primary and lost when his name recognition was non-existent and he had no funding. But two years laterhe ran away with the Lt Governor race,and this year he beat a guy I actually like (Connor Lamb) because he advocated workers issues like $15 min wage and medicare for all. He's more pro-Israel than I am, and there are other issues I might personally disagree on, but in retrospect he is the best choice over Lamb, despite his atrial fibrillation...
Oz's worker ethos on full display...At a grocery store in New Jersey, with a film crew... "shopping" for crudite?
There was no whataboutism in my post. Simply pointing out that the same people who contend that politicians are living off the public dole turn around and criticize a guy like Fetterman for doing the exact opposite.If he borrowed money from his folks as Mayor and his other duties, he could have easily worked at a different occupation and made a lot of money if that was his goal. it's like damned if you do and damned if you don't with the folks I was referencing, and in this case I don't think I intended that to mean you.
I can’t find anything interesting about any of those people. What is it you’re seeing?
She’s ate up with hate. You’re wasting your time.
It’s hard enough to find people willing to work 40 hrs a week these days.
Men, is there anything more appealing than a woman with confidence? She’s a keeper I tell ya!
He could have made money by going into partnership with his Dad. He has an MBA, prior to getting his MPP from Harvard...I mean didn't Trump start out by working in and then inheriting his father's business?
www.forbes.com
I think Joe B. and his son will be there before DT.
I think Michael Cohen nailed exactly why Trump took the 5th. And it's interesting to hear him point out the role the info he provided has played in this case going forward and what the 5th does and does not mean in a civil case. After all he is a lawyer, and Trump hired him for his legal expertise...
Cohen? Hahaha 😆. Has your Holy Spirit weighed in yet or is he too busy taking it from behind in his prison cell?
Yeah I don't see how they are gonna get much money out of a person who works at a company. Places are required to send W-2s. 1099s, etc to the IRS so if you don't report them they are gonna remind you. And the standard deduction is like $25,000 per couple so most people are not gonna go over that so they are gonna go after small businesses and people that are self employed.
And let's not forget that Donald Trump is not the only Trump to have taken the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times:
