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I’m batting big today.

First, I am confused about what President Trump said about what happens to those deductions after the end of this year.

But I am not alone! It was argued on at least two Sunday talk shows my very same confusion.

What I THOUGHT Trump said was that he would keep the deductions out of paychecks after year end. What Trump meant, at least as deduced via the arguments and debates, was that Trump would not required the missed deductions to be paid back.

Goodness. The concept of not having these deductions to be paid back, as I consider, should be obvious. Joe Blow from Receiving could not ever pay that money back. He’d be like every kinda dumb kid who got tuition advanced to them for a course in Advanced Macramé to spend the rest of their life under the chokehold of a loan paid to brilliant, sparkling professors of Macramé via the cheating colleges who told them life will be good with a career in macramé.

Frankly I’m still confused about all this but moving on.

You are right. The concept of payroll deductions does kinda prevent the average check recipient from realizing how much money goes into taxes. In fact, the way a computer computes payroll tax deducts is based on taking a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly gross pay, multiplying it by 52, 26 or 12. THEN an actual tax table is used to compute what that annual tax will be, and THEN dividing that calculation by 52, 26, or 12, as appropriate. That result is then deducted from the paycheck to arrive at a net pay.

The gubmint does not want people to have sit down every year, calculate their taxes due, then sit down and write a check. Payroll deductions make life a case of “net pay” and that is what matters after a while and the truth of what those monies are really for kinda gets pushed out of the head.

Anyway, didn’t mean to go on. Larry Kudlow, twice today, said that Trump was not intending on cutting out SS and FICA deducts, but to prevent it from having to be paid back.

The Sunday political talk shows 8/9/20

Below the FreeRepublic Sunday talk show thread link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3872750/posts

The major talking points of the day

President Trump’s stimulation proposal and how it’s bad or how it’s good.

Democrats think it’s all bad.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). Sec. of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. The U.S. Army Old Guard’s Caisson Platoon. Panel: Jason Chaffetz Former US House Representative, R-UT.; Marie Harf (Party on, Wayne!); Josh Holmes, former Chief of Staff for Sen Mitch McConnell.

Highlight of Fox News Sunday:

Pelosi says many American children are “food insecure”.

Link to Fox News Sunday Below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96EmRfyyx-s

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro; Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); Dr. Tom Inglesby, Director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Theodore Carrillo-Small, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada; Kristine McClary, a nurse in Auburn City Schools and a representative for the Alabama Association of School Nurses; Principal Jacqueline Dungey of New Paradigm Loving Elementary on Lynn Street in Detroit. Panel: Kasie Hunt, NBC Spews Capitol Hill correspondent; MSNBC lunatic anchor Joshua Johnson and Rich Lowry, former editor of Never-Trumper National Review, which REAL conservatives stopped reading, hence its demise.

Highlight of Meet the Press:

Dick Durbin tells how wonderful the Democrats were in negotiations although they never gave an inch.

Link to Meet the Press show below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlThFdSsKA8

FACE THE NATION (CBS): National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien; Mayor Quinton Lucas (D-Kansas City); Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; former Trump Admin. FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb.

Highlight of Face the Nation

Mayor Quinton Lucas presents as an intelligent and articulate politico, even though a Democrat.

Below the link to Face the Nation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWRQl7mtDHM

THIS WEEK (ABC): Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.); National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. Panel: Matthew Dowd, former Bush Campaign strategerist and Chief ABC Spews Never-Trumper; “The Forehead” Paul Begala, former Clinton adviser and chief democrat strategerist.; author and Blacktavist Christina Greer (“Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream”); former Huckabee spokesperson Alice Stewart.

Highlight of This Week with George Stephanopolous

Steponallofus didn’t do homework. Says Trump making unemployment money from feds to $300. Steponallofus needs to pay attention. It is FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS.

Link to This Week below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5cna5Vne7Y

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio).

Highlight of State of the Union

Host fights with Larry Kudlow

Link to State of the Union below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONIPChz1K3w

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.); Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield); Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).

Sunday Morning Futures:

Special guest tells us even more about Stefan Halper, the FBI and Gen. Flynn who they wanted to fire.

Link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTKh1W_x_V8