Kamala Harris

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    Uh-huh. She would sing that whenever Obama visited.
     
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    Pretty much Kamala Harris has not been announcing what her platform will be, except where she copies something that the Trump/Vance team have said they would do once President Trump is back in office again.
    However, she has announced something today that is pretty scary !

    I am not a financial person, but here is how it was explained, and it is about the capital gains tax, and how you can owe even if you have not profited from the financial gain. If you own your own home, this is important…..

    Say you bought your home for $100,000 and because of rising home values, it is now worth $400,000. This is a capital gain of $300,000 , which you will now owe taxes on of 25%, according to the new program that the Harris/Walz team want to put into place.
    It does not matter that you are not selling your home, and have not realized any of those financial gains, everyone who owns a house, and the value of that house has just doubled, or gone up substantially, is going to owe the IRS a whole bunch of money, or they will have to sell their house (or have it repo’ed by the government) to pay for the tax on their home value.
    Maybe this is how she intends to find all of those houses she wants the “first family buyers” (illegals) to have ?
     
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    The Democrats have had this in mind for a while. Obama talked about it, but perhaps was afraid to enact it under his own name. He is much braver when he is in the shadows.
     
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    I can't recall if I already said this, but back in February Biden/Harris directed the IRS to implement a system to track tips so that they could be taxed. NOW she says "No tax on tips."
     
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    Damon is at it again so forgive the language but I haven’t found him to be off point yet.

    I had to post this video of the Women’s Caucus at the Convention singing the National Anthem.
    It’s one thing to hear our anthem sung so beautifully that it brings a tear or two to one’s eyes then there’s the other type of tears when you realize that some people do not give a dern-one about even trying to portray the anthem in a respectable manner and moreover, treat it like it is a joke.

    I have to admit that watching the ladies trying to manage the song is indeed funny but still, taking time to practice before hand might have added a little more dignity to the number.

     
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    I saw that. They treat it like a joke, the friggin' children.
     
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    Biden-Harris Jobs Report Revised DOWNWARD by 818,000 Jobs

    After some 'technical issues' delayed the release of revised jobs numbers from last year (April 2023 to March 2024), we now know just how bad the jobs market is (and how much the Biden-Harris administration was lying to us).

    Nearly a million jobs -- jobs the Biden-Harris administration bragged about repeatedly -- never existed.

    The revision to the total payrolls level of -0.5% is the largest since 2009. The numbers are routinely revised each month, but the BLS does a broader revision each year when it gets the results of the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.

    https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024...obs-report-revision-in-fifteen-years-n2399930
     
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    Democrat administrations routinely do that (falsely report rosy numbers) and then revise them downward to more accurate values later when nobody is looking at them. Biden has been particularly bad with this, but then the numbers ARE particularly bad so he has worse numbers to deal with. Republicans would probably do the same thing but the MSM won't let them get away with it. Also not published is the full-time jobs report and the number of jobs moved from Americans to "newcomers".
     
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    I often see the claim posted that Republicans do the same thing whenever Democrat dishonesty is pointed out. The Labor Dept keeps these records through the years and voters can look back and compare. It would be interesting to see how Trump’s job figures and revisions during his first term compared to Biden’s.

    Were more jobs created? Were there more or less revisions? Was there a pattern of dishonesty as there is in Biden’s? It’s also possible to compare inflation numbers and many other things if anyone wants to see if things were better under Trump.
     
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    Exactly! This is said to be the biggest revision downward in history. My question would be why are they doing this now and why all in one swoop? I listened to part of a speech given by Obama a number of years ago that sent chills though me. He stated that one of his goals was to so confuse the people that they would not know know who or what to trust. He said if he could accomplish that, he would be free to do whatever he wanted. Of course, this was a leaked speech from a meeting with donors, so I didn't post it as I don't know the level of trust to place in it, but it is similar to the speed he made to the Marin County meeting a number of years ago that was quickly covered up by the MSM, and, of course, there was Hillary's "Deplorables" and Obama's "guns and religion speech"

    https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2008/april/obama-they-cling-to-guns-or-religion.html
     
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    I have now found some answers to the jobs revision. I stand corrected as it is the second biggest revision downward, but the largest fraudulent revision, as the Labor Department knew they were publishing fake numbers to help the administration. The largest revision was in 2008 when the government couldn't keep track of job losses as the economy collapsed. They were behind, but not 6 months behind, and then it was reportedly just a lag in the actual number of lay offs. This time it was simply fake numbers since the Federal Reserve at the time published real numbers that were more accurate. This was supposedly done in March of this year to reflect the jobs in 2023.

    I couldn't figure out the reason why this was done, but now I have the answer. They are trying to pressure the Fed to cut interest rates ahead of the election to bump the stock market and push the can of economic collapse down the road a little further. In addition, they want to place the blame on the "old incompetent" currently in the White House and the one in charge when the fraud occurred. I thought for a while that perhaps it was a Biden loyalist in the Labor Department trying to sabotage Harris' campaign in revenge for the way Biden has been treated by the Democrats, but I now see that there is another more plausible reason for the new numbers. You must realize also that this has probably been happening in 2022 and 2021 as well, so the actual number of jobs created under Biden-Harris could be of by millions of jobs. When you add to that the jobs going to illegals and the full-time jobs converted to part-time jobs due in part to new government regulations put in place under Biden-Harris, things look pretty bleak indeed.
     
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    Just a thought of mine.
    The only reason Joe Biden hasn’t been brought up on the 25th amendment is the idea that Kamala would become the President.
    Now, if Kamala gets the nod, the only thing preventing her from being immediately impeached is the thought of Comrad Tim Walz from becoming the President.
     
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    Was listening to Gutfeld and from what I gathered, Kamala wants to tax “possible or unrealized gains”.

    My take on it was, as an example, that if someone owns a rental home but it is vacant for a period of time, the owner could still be taxed on what it would have brought in had it been occupied.

    I could be off base and the new and improved Kamala tax could be centered on larger businesses than the way I take it but I didn’t get much of an explanation of it when Gutfeld was highlighting it.
     
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    "Unrealized Gains" means that if your home increases in value or your investments increase in value, you pay tax on that increase. You are no longer on a Cash Basis for taxable income. Dunno where you come up with the money to pay the taxes, since you've not cashed out that asset. Perhaps you'll be forced to sell in order to pay the bill.

    On the flip side, Illegals are gonna be given $25,000 to buy a home.
     
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