Let's ignore this specific tax plan for a minute. The headline and mantra of the article are common place regardless political party and/or leanings. In the UK, under labour, taxes went up and when people struggled to pay their bills because wages were stagnant, while taxes and inflation skyrocketed.  Gordon Brown (the then tax man) told the nation to put their bills on their credit cards.

We pretty much had this conversation, with different specifics, several times before. I'm gonna paraphrase RoyalCrown89;  "while I get what he's doing and agree to some degree, he should be a stoic figure and let others do the dirty work". That's not the person who was elected. People tried to change the way Jimmy Carter spoke because his accent was deemed by some as too "hillbilly" to be President.

The UK doesn't have free speech like the US does.    "Causing offense" is a crime in most of Europe. I don't get why the left would even be talking about this case, since they only support free speech they agree with.    You guys protest pro free speech rallies in the US.

Of course CNN is going to race-bait the issue, that's all they do.

I would say it's more common for women to say "I was gonna kill myself in front of him, but the gun accidentally went off until it emptied in his head, and I ended up having to reload 40+ times and it still kept accidentally going off into his body.  BUT, see this almost invisible scratch, that proves I tried to commit suicide." Women, now matter how feminist they are, they always aim for the pussy pass when it court. I haven't verified it, but from many accounts, Smugglypuff didn't go to court as a trans-male but as a girl for attacking that retired couple who were simply walking their dog. Karla Faye Tucker told the police she orgasmed every time she buried the pickax in her ex-boyfriends back.  When it came to actually execute her, she was just an innocent little girl who let things get out of hand.  of course, feminists and feminist groups came to try to help her no be executed, because somehow not executing women is "gender equality" in the feminist mindset.

@Mcjl: From what I understand a contract is a contract and X amount sets the terms of such contract.  I do know someone in the industry and when he went on his own. He HAD to pay out the remaining degrees of said contract. That is technically correct.. but there are major exceptions.  If it turns out the contract contains any stipulations that are not legal, then the entire contract is void.  For instance, there is a 24/7 streaming live webcam site similar to the "Big Brother" TV show.  The guys that live there are required to sign a contract that they will stay there for 6 months.  If they leave early, they have to pay $500.  If they don't leave on time, they are charged $50 per day.  However.. the contract is not legal even though it was drawn up by a lawyer.  Therefore it is unenforceable. Another example:  if someone signed a contract that stipulated they would sell someone their heart for $1 million.  That contract would also be void. In any contract involving porn, just try and enforce it.  A judge would throw it out of court.  That includes copyright issues.

Yesss

it's pathetic that feminists will get butthurt about man-spreading, which isn't a gendered thing if you look on line, but they don't cry about the abuse women in muslim countries face. Nor will feminists campaign to end the gender sentencing gap in the west. Linda "the Cockroach" Sarsour says that women should have FGM and any woman who disagrees with her should have their vagina taken away, is praised by feminists.

If my Congresswoman Shiela Jackson-Lee would stop all the race baiting bullshit, then she would be great. Many, many moons ago her office helped me out with a problem I was having.  I bought a car from GM and financed it through GMAC, with their insurance too.  My mom worked for GM as a car designer, then and at the time as a designer of "personal mobility items" so she she could stay in our hometown and only travel twice a year, not the countless times as a car designer.  So I got a huge discount. Anyway, I was in a wreck that wasn't my fault.  There was a wreck in the intersection that I stopped for, but got rear-ended and pushed into the wreck ahead.  Anyway, GMAC wanted me to keep paying my car payments, but didn't want to pay out on the wreck and medical bills until everything was sorted with the other insurance companies, and even then they wanted to wait until 6 months after that. I had bill collectors coming after me, including GMAC.  I took GMAC to court and won.  The judge ordered them to pay up and clear my credit report.  They did.  Then they snuck it back on.  We we went to buy our house in Houston, I found out.  I tried to get it removed, but the credit agencies wouldn't remove it, without GMAC OKing it.    They refused.  So I went to SJL's office and within an hour it was removed forever from my credit reports.

@Mcjl: So when it rains it pours.  Now senators are being accused of misconduct. .. doesn't anyone know by now they are fucking snakes ???? I'm telling everyone now , we need to get rid of these snakes and rid of them for real. I don't like spiders and snakes! https://youtu.be/4lYdD9DdLNY?t=181

@Mcjl: The severity of the crime as well.  A 12 yr old murdered his whole family and you think juvenile detention is appropriate? Just curious  . Mental hospital…  just like Mike Myers in "Halloween". In fact, I can't resist mentioning something.  The movie "Halloween" was a MASSIVE success.  It launched Jamie Lee Curtis' career.  (she is the daughter of Hollywood Royalty Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh).  As a direct result of the success of that movie, another movie was made to showcase Jamie Lee Curtis to cash in on the success of "Halloween".  In that movie the person cast as the psycho killer was replaced at the last moment by some real life lunatic that was an extra on the movie.    This guy was so nuts - in real life - that they would not let him NEAR the other cast members nor talk to them.  This lunatic lingered on for decades living off of money made from doing horror movie conventions, signing autographs, etc.  He was also a notorious drunk.  He was such an arrogant nuicance that he was banned from doing horror show conventions in 2010.  This resulted in that man getting quite desperate, and moved in with his aunt, and then to an apartment that rented for just $409 a month (furnished with shared internet).  This man is the man who ultimatedly committed a murder, which was blamed on the man he convinced to move into that apartment building.. who was convicted of the crime.  Meanwhile, the real psycho committed suicide a few months after the murder.  The jury in the fraudulent trial were never told about this man.  This is the man who also starred in a remake of the movie "Casablanca" and gave a poster to the man framed for the murder... and a photo shop of the man framed was made of the framed man standing in front of that poster before the framed man even moved into that apartment building.  The psycho man convinced the framed man to make a "pretend" horror movie in his apartment, filmed right in front of that Casablanca poster.  Only.. the framed man was drugged, and a real murder was committed. So, if not for the movie "Halloween", that framed man would not be in prison over 30 years after the movie "Halloween" came out. Creepy isn't it?

@Mcjl: Yessssssssssssss honey !!!!! Preach. Sometimes no words need to be changed to take things out of context…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKM2p8NLv1w

@raphjd: The problem with your point is that a lot of people become believers because they know the parole board loves that. If they (parole boards, clemency panels, etc) remove religion from the discussion, then I would tend to agree with you. ++++ Twitter is starting to issue account upgrades to 240 characters.   Of course they are starting with the people they like and working from there. Inmates are highly pressured to seek religion.  I don't agree with that approach.  Religion is a panacea for weak minded people. I've only encountered a LONG Twitter once.  That surprised me.. I don't see how or why they would increase the limit on some accounts without doing it to all accounts.  Twitter will probably keep Trump restricted to 140.

If they say so ??

This is a really fucked up case.  It also shows why, even in this day and age, we can't have the death penalty.    The police had their man and they weren't gonna stop focusing on him, no matter what. It's called "tunnel vision" and is extremely common in policing.

LOL…. so right.

My cousin's daughter is going to Evergreen next year.  I almost puked.

I did not know that.  Crazy.