Posted on 04/16/2019 4:29:12 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
As always, the fake news media was lying to you. – Yesterday was tax day, and millions upon millions of Americans found out that, as is always the case when it comes to President Donald Trump and his policies, the fake news media has been lying to them for 15 solid months about the impacts the Trump tax cuts would have on their own income tax bills. The fake news media has spent every day since the bill was passed in December, 2017 telling the Big Lie, reciting its joint talking points with their Democrat Party masters, pretending that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was just a giveaway to millionaires and corporations.
But yesterday was the proof point, with pretty much every taxpayer outside of high state income tax states like New York and California getting a very significant cut. Even in those high-tax states, the great majority of citizens paid less tax than they would have under the Obama tax regime.
Still, leftist morons like failed actress Alyssa Milano were out on Twitter, posting mindless nonsense claiming things like “Already this April, we’ve learned that tax refunds are down this year by $6 BILLION”, proving only that they have no clue how the income tax system works. Yes, total tax “refunds” have been lower than under the previous high-tax regime, for two reasons: 1) the most obvious – total tax LIABILITIES are much, much lower under the new system (duh), and 2) the simplification of the system resulted in more accurate tax withholding tables, meaning wage-earners got more of their hard-earned money up-front, rather than overpaying and allowing the government to earn interest on their money until they filed their refund claim.
But we can’t expect abject nitwits like poor Alyssa to ever understand anything so complex. The doofus also tweeted that “According to a recent NBC/WSJ poll, only 17 percent of Americans think their taxes went down, and a majority don’t think they got any tax cut at all. And this isn’t partisan. Only 33 percent of Republicans think they got a tax cut.”
Well, yes, but what does that prove? It just proves the success of the Big Lie strategy by the media/Democrat axis of propaganda on this issue. Even on Fox News, you could find talking heads on a regular basis lying about these tax cuts. Just as in 2008, when Americans were brainwashed by the media to accept the notion that they were somehow obligated to vote for an African American man, as if doing that would somehow make up for slavery, this particular Big Lie strategy was a success, no doubt.
And let’s face it: many, many people – including pretty much all Democrats – are so dimwitted that they will continue to believe the Big Lie even though they paid far less taxes in 2018, simply because they got a lower refund. All that does is prove how successful the political left has been in dumbing down our schools.
The rest of us should just enjoy our extra money, and remember that those tax cuts were enacted without a single Democrat vote. NOT ONE.
Meanwhile, the Democrat front-runner wants all that money back, and more. Much, much more. – The Commie had a townhall on Fox News last night, and made it very clear he wants all of that tax money back, and a whole lot more.
Bernie Sanders – now the front-runner for the 2020 Democrat nomination according to the new Emerson Poll – told moderators Martha McCallum and Brett Baier about all his grand plans to rape the American taxpayer and spend all their money on “free” college, “free” healthcare and “free” everything else, promising well over $100 trillion in new government spending if he is elected to the presidency.
Hey, if you’re going to turn the Democrat Party into the Socialist Party, you might as well go all the way.
On the other hand, you do have to admire Sanders for having the guts to go on Fox News, where he knew he would be asked tough questions that would never be asked on CNN, MSNBC or any of the three major networks, and sticking to his guns. The old Bolshevik had a quick, if hilariously mindless and false, answer to everything, and never strayed from his commie roots, which is more than any of his challengers would be able to do in the face of such a grilling.
And hey, it’s refreshing to see at least one Democrat finally dropping the pretense that he or she is not a socialist, isn’t it? Sanders doesn’t really believe anything that Obama or Hillary Clinton didn’t believe – he’s just willing to come right out and say it.
His frankness has already influenced the other contenders to be more honest about their real bone-headed beliefs, and Sanders’ new-found status as front-runner in the race will only cause the others to move even further to the radical left.
Thus, no matter which one of these raging lunatics ends up with the Party’s nomination, American voters are finally, at long last going to be presented with a clear, stark choice between voting to continue have a free and open society, or follow Venezuela by taking our country down into the socialist abyss. That is where the Democrat Party has wanted to lead us since at least the Woodrow Wilson Administration more than a century ago – Sanders is just the first guy who’s been willing to openly and proudly admit it.
Dangerous times, these are.
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Bernie has a monstrous Achilles’ heel his temper. Talk to him about his money and his blood pressure goes up 20 points. The guy can’t take the pressure. What a Putz.
He got prickly instantaneously with Martha several times last night. Sadly his fans will only see it as him taking to the Fox blond bimbo.
Picture this Bernie against Putin. nff said
Not me. I actually made less but paid more. I have so many business expenses and charitable contributions I couldn’t write off.
Last year I paid $750 This year I got back $35.
We made a sizable donation last year to a local university and I was surprised that the only thing it did was put us at a higher chance for an audit. There was no tangible deduction value.
Bernie is so easily rattled. He can’t control himself. Push the right buttons and we carry him off the stage. Stay tuned you might see him have a stroke on stage. The guy claims to be from Vermont is really an upper East Side commie. Hey Bernie how much do you plan to donate for the rebuilding of Notre Dame cathedral now that you’re a 1%? Let me guess Bernie squat.
Same here. The reason the deductions were capped or eliminated was because the IRS needed more money to offset the corporate tax cut from 35% to 21%. So they took it from individuals.
“Almost all of you paid less taxes”
The amount of “extra” money I was allowed to keep from Ryan’s tax bill is nothing I’m excited about, keep your article friend, it does not apply to me.
If he’s in favor of higher taxes, he can pay what he thinks I owe out of his deep pockets.
Maybe he could sell one of his mansions to do it, not that my taxes are that high.
I think he’s doing a heck of a job and should be the dem nominee. ;^)
I hate the Left's use of the word "back".
Gun buy-back.
Wants that money back.
It was never theirs in the first place.
Not me. I actually made less but paid more. I have so many business expenses and charitable contributions I couldn’t write off.
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I do my family’s taxes using TurboTax software. I ran my 2018 “data” using TurboTax’s software for 2018 taxes and came up with the results I used to actually file with the IRS and my state (People’s Democratic Republic of Maryland).
I took the time to also run our 2018 “data” through my 2017 TurboTax software to see what we would have paid had the Trump tax law not passed. Had the Trump tax changes not been made, we would have paid more so OUR TAXES WERE REDUCED. That’s FACT and not conjecture. And it’s a FACT that our taxes went down even though our SALT deduction was “capped” under the new law.
A lot of folks have been confused by the media’s misinformation campaigns. I hope that you have not been confused by that campaign and I REALLY hope you’re not willfully contributing to their efforts.
Here’s another who paid more.
Not as bad as I forecast, but $900 more.
I made $9,000 less last year and paid a good bit more in taxes.
I am on commission only and my company does a W2. I use their company card for business expenses — gas, hotels, entertainment, etc. — which are deducted from my check each month. Paying my gas bill does not cover the cost to use my vehicle.
Since I am W2, I am no longer allowed to write off legitimate expenses my company doesn’t pay. I tithe to my church and make a few other donations. I cannot write that off either because it’s not more than the personal exemption. I lost mileage (30,000 - 40,000 per year), charitable contributions, mortgage interest deductions, and a few others.
I am also forced to pay taxes in a state where I don’t live because I am out of state from my parent company. That state required I use the federal return so I couldn’t claim the expenses there either.
I wish my company would 1099 us but they don’t want to do that. I believe they feel they can control us better the way they do it.
My company which makes millions made out great. I lose.
It was a very poorly thought out tax plan.
Fixed.
They could have cut government spending OR trusted supply side Reagonomics instead.
Fixed.
They could have cut government spending OR trusted supply side Reagonomics instead.
“It was a very poorly thought out tax plan.”
It worked out exactly as planned.
The upper-middle class pays for everyone else’s cut. At least a portion of it.
The rest is borrowed from China.
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