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Elizabeth Warren plans to unleash ‘excessive lobbying tax’ if she becomes president
CNBC ^ | October 2, 2019 | Brian Schwartz

Posted on 10/02/2019 10:53:42 AM PDT by C19fan

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday unveiled a plan that takes aim yet again at the multibillion-dollar lobbying industry. This time, she’s looking to hit them where it could hurt the most: their wallets.

Warren’s latest proposal is calling for an “excessive lobbying tax,” which would require lobbying shops to pay a tax if they spend over $500,000 per year on influence campaigns.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2020; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; massachusetts; potus; slingingbull; warren
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For a Harvard Law Professor Warren sure is ignorant of the US Constitution. This is a tax on one's constitutional right to petition Congress and engage in speech.
1 posted on 10/02/2019 10:53:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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And is her wealth tax proposal unconstitutional?

How many different ways can be found, to levy taxes on the American people?


2 posted on 10/02/2019 10:57:56 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

I love how libs start an article about one of their pets with a title. For us it’s just “Trump.’


3 posted on 10/02/2019 10:58:13 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: C19fan

Every time she opens her mouth with this crazy shiite, Hillary Clinton smiles.


4 posted on 10/02/2019 10:58:52 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: C19fan

It isn’t that she’s ignorant of it. It’s that she like all Democrats believes the constitution is irrelevant and that the only thing that matters is that there be no constraints on government. The only cure for her type of thought involves a rope and a lamppost. The distressing thing is all of the massholes that voted for her think the same way she does.


5 posted on 10/02/2019 10:59:17 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: C19fan

If anyone was serious about this issue, they would just pass a simple law:

And Elected Official or Candidate for Public Office that accepts anything of value from anyone that can Not legally cast a vote for them in a public Election, shall be Guilty of Bribery, punishable by 100% Civil Asset Forfeiture and a Mandatory 20 years in Federal Prison.


6 posted on 10/02/2019 11:01:22 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: C19fan

For a Harvard Law Professor Warren sure is ignorant of the US Constitution
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There’s a lot of that going around.


7 posted on 10/02/2019 11:03:11 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

Next a tax on the word “Pocahontas”.


8 posted on 10/02/2019 11:03:25 AM PDT by rockinqsranch ("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
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Can Fauxcohontos ruin the US quicker than Hugo in Venezuela?
9 posted on 10/02/2019 11:03:29 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever!)
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To: C19fan

This is why Wall St. does not want her getting the nomination. They’d accept a weakened, watered down Joe Biden over Warren, who stands poised with her scalpel, ready to gut ‘the rich’ via high taxation.


10 posted on 10/02/2019 11:03:47 AM PDT by lee martell
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No Worries.......unless she gets a voice transplant......


11 posted on 10/02/2019 11:06:44 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: from occupied ga

The Constitution is irrelevant after both parties abrogated it on Usurpation Day.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
He admitted as much on his own website by saying as a result of his foreign national father he was born a British subject.

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” - Ayn Rand


12 posted on 10/02/2019 11:17:25 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
And is her wealth tax proposal unconstitutional?

I do not understand why that is not a complete non-starter.

A little over 100 years ago, some people thought an Income Tax was a good idea. Well, they had to pass a full Constitutional Amendment to get it. And the wording of that Amendment does not have any loophole for "wealth". So if Warren wants a Wealth Tax, I think she needs a Constitutional Amendment.

But she acts like she'll just wave her magic wand and take what she wants.

13 posted on 10/02/2019 11:19:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Biden is out, Sanders is out. That only leave Lieawatha.
She is an unviable candidate. The communists are even in more trouble than they ever imagined. They’ll have no choice but to allow PIAPS to run....or convince “BIG MIKE” to do so.
Doesn’t matter, the communists are going down...and going down bigly.


14 posted on 10/02/2019 11:21:58 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Lobbyists will just establish dozens of shell corporations that will each spend $499,000.

This woman is such a rube.


15 posted on 10/02/2019 11:23:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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They’ll have no choice but to allow PIAPS to run.

They'll have an uprising amongst their young Socialist base if they do. Not gonna happen.


16 posted on 10/02/2019 11:24:55 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: C19fan

Hmm. Squaw on heap big warpath. Maybe Squaw soon meet personal Wounded Knee.


17 posted on 10/02/2019 11:25:27 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
What the country really needs is a Stolen Heritage tax on liars who lie about their ethnicity. Violators would get to choose between giving up everything they own or going to Leavenworth.

18 posted on 10/02/2019 11:27:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Notice how none of the democrats have any suggestions on how to fix the economy?

Trump took that issue off the table.


19 posted on 10/02/2019 11:50:47 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Here’s an idea. It should cost money to file a bill for consideration by the Congress.

We’d want to discourage vague laws...on the other hand, we want to discourage 2000+ page bills. So I’m not sure how to compute the rates just yet.

But you could look up who paid the fee (not just the sponsoring legislator) to get the bill introduced.


20 posted on 10/02/2019 11:52:32 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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