Warren Needs Tax Calculator for the Rest of Us

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Monday November 11, 2019 · 9:41 AM PST

2019/11/11 · 09:41

Elizabeth Warren has done a great service for billionaires. Now they can drop their accountants and go to her website to calculate their taxes.

How about the rest of us?

There’s no technical reason why, at tax time, we cannot:

log into our secure IRS account
see a tax form with all info IRS already has (e.g. W-2, 1099s)
with calculations already performed.
If necessary, we could enter changes, though
many of us could simply accept it and be done.

There is a political reason why this hasn’t happened: Intuit and others with tax prep software contribute generously to politicians. In other words, CORRUPTION.

Senator Warren, give us your plan for simplifying tax season (without paying anything) for those of us who use only the most common forms.

Our Billionaires Are F***ed Up

RonZ

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Friday November 08, 2019 · 8:20 AM PST

2019/11/08 · 08:20

Michael Bloomberg has gall.

He never has to worry whether his insurance covers a particular doctor or hospital. If he thinks there are better treatment options in another city or country, he can go there. Many large teaching hospitals have wings devoted to the superrich — they’re like luxury hotels with medical staff. He’ll never call for a nurse and wait an hour for his pain medication. Nor will he need to find family or friends who can skip work to take him to his appointments — he’ll just hire people. Bloomberg has a level of medical security most of us can’t imagine.

Yet now Bloomberg is going out of his way to make sure that the rest of us don’t even have access to a doctor. I'm sure it’s just a coincidence that under Elizabeth Warren’s health care proposal, he would pay billions more a year in taxes.

I'm now hoping that the Democratic primary comes down to Warren vs. Bloomberg. I'd love to see them alone on a debate stage — and watch her tear his greed to shreds.

He may claim to be concerned about Trump, but at the end of the day, he’s just another greedhead. Bloomberg, Steyer, and the other “liberal” billionaires are more concerned about their 10th home than about our health care.

After the first reports came out, I chipped in again to Senator Warren’s campaign. Michael Bloomberg is now exhibit #1 about financial inequality and the corruption of wealth.

Go get him, Elizabeth!

Warren Believes in Americans

RonZ

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Sunday November 03, 2019 · 3:34 AM PST

2019/11/03 · 03:34

There are people — candidates and pundits and billionaires — who say Medicare 4 All is impossible, that it will bankrupt us. That have a zillion reasons not to do it.

These people have no faith in Americans.

Canada covers everyone in their country for half our per capita cost. And they have better results: longer lifespans and lower infant mortality.

If Canadians could figure out how to set up this system, why can’t Americans? Of course we can.

Elizabeth Warren doesn’t have to explain why M4A can be done. Tom Steyers and Mike Bloomberg have to explain why they don’t believe Americans are as capable as Canadians. Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar need to explain why they doubt that our people can accomplish what the British, Germans, French, Israelis, Japanese and others have already done.

Our country has many problems. But throughout history, Americans have created a society that is often the envy of others around the world. Elizabeth Warren believes the American people are able to build a health care system that is the equal of any country in the world. She has faith in our can-do abilities.

Is Alabama Over Regulated?

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Saturday March 23, 2013 · 11:56 AM PDT

2013/03/23 · 11:56

A 10-year-old boy died yesterday at the newly-renovated Birmingham, AL airport when a flight information display fell on him.

Does anyone think the sign fell due to overzealous government regulators?

Or maybe overzealous capitalists trying to rake out the extra buck?

Howard Dean Was Right! Now Vote For Him!

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Tuesday November 07, 2006 · 4:09 AM PST

2006/11/07 · 04:09

Below are excerpts from a foreign policy speech Governor Dean gave February 17, 2003 at Drake University.

Ask yourself how much safer our world would be today if this nation had followed his advice.

Then go vote for the Democratic candidates who will start to nudge us back towards the right path.

I firmly believe that the President is focusing our diplomats, our military, our intelligence agencies, and even our people on the wrong war, at the wrong time, when our energy and our resources should be marshaled for the greatest threats we face. Yes, Saddam Hussein is evil. But Osama bin Laden is also evil, and he has attacked the United States, and he is preparing now to attack us again.
What happened to the war against al Qaeda?
Why has this Administration taken us so far off track?

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Dreams Became Dictates: Bush or Saddam?

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Saturday March 25, 2006 · 4:06 AM PST

2006/03/25 · 04:06

Saturday's WaPo excerpts a Pentagon report "detailing events in Iraq leading up to the coalition forces' 2003 invasion. The U.S. Joint Forces Command's report was based on captured Iraqi documents and interviews with Iraqi officials." How different was President Bush's decision-making from Saddam Hussein's?

For example:

On the Iraqi army's state of mind while facing invasion:
"Overtasked, poorly equipped, badly supplied, and undermanned, regular army troops had little optimism in facing the threat of combat with the coalition."

Contrast that with our own troops:

On the American army's state of mind while facing occupation:
"Overtasked, poorly armored, badly supplied, and undermanned, National Guard troops had little optimism in facing the threat of civil war with the insurgents."

Hmmm, not so different. How did Bush and Saddam arrive at the same place? Read More

Bush's Anvil: His Medicare Drug Plan

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Sunday November 13, 2005 · 4:17 AM PST

2005/11/13 · 04:17

Democratic strategist James Carville:

When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.

40 million Americans on Medicare are now being introduced to the joys of George Bush's prescription drug benefit. Those attempting to decipher the plan's complexity quickly realize that Bush did to Medicare the same thing he did to Iraq and Katrina.

No complex explanations of the screwup are necessary; Medicare Plan D speaks for itself.

Human interest visuals are waiting: senior citizens from every state, party, religion, ethnicity, whatever are waiting to curse the idiot behind the plan.

So why aren't Democrats running TV ads (to be picked up by the news) showing why our ideas are better than Republican corporatism?

How stupid is Bush's implementation? Let us count the ways: Read More

Cheney's Daughter Gets Crony Job at AOL

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Wednesday October 26, 2005 · 4:32 AM PDT

2005/10/26 · 04:32

Possible co-conspirator Dick Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney got a new job at AOL:

Time Warner's America Online has hired Mary Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, an AOL spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
Mary Cheney will work closely with Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of America Online and head of the unit whose function it is to increase AOL's Internet audience via Web-based programming and products, AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said.

Did she have the perfect resume? Relevant experience? Or is daughter Elizabeth's job at the State Department more cronyism than the Administration can handle at the moment?

Or does her new job involve government-regulated matters of telecommunications regulation and digital property rights? Read More

Nobel Peace Prize --> Bush Nemesis

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Friday October 07, 2005 · 3:39 AM PDT

2005/10/07 · 03:39

Mohamed ElBaradei on Iraqi nuclear weapons program in 2003:

First, we have inspected all of those buildings and facilities that were identified, through satellite imagery, as having been modified or constructed over the past four years. IAEA inspectors have been able to gain ready access and to clarify the nature of the activities currently being conducted in these facilities. No prohibited nuclear activities have been identified during these inspections.
<snip>
A fourth focal point has been the investigation of reports of Iraqi efforts to import uranium after 1991. The Iraqi authorities have denied any such attempts. The IAEA will continue to pursue this issue. At this stage, however, we do not have enough information, and we would appreciate receiving more.

RonZ

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Thursday September 29, 2005 · 2:51 AM PDT

2005/09/29 · 02:51

The hit TV series West Wing is now featuring Alan Alda as Senator Arnold Vinick, the GOP Presidential nominee described as "a social liberal and fiscal conservative with a maverick streak and a direct manner".

The new wannabe TV series Commander-In-Chief stars Donald Sutherland as House Speaker Nathan Templeton, an over-the-top hawk and creationist, who wants to elbow his way into the White House.

Their connection? Read More

Gay Obsession: Christian Fundamentalists & al Qaeda

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Tuesday September 27, 2005 · 4:26 AM PDT

2005/09/27 · 04:26

Link these two quotes with the source.

...the wrath of God, who battered New Orleans, city of homosexuals.

...Hurricane Katrina... a storm of biblical proportions, a demonstrable sign God targeted New Orleans because of its sinful ways, some believe.

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New Orleans Local Response = Irrelevant

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Monday September 12, 2005 · 5:30 AM PDT

2005/09/12 · 05:30

The actions of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin are irrelevant to anything but the "lessons learned" discussion.

No one will be living in or visiting New Orleans anytime soon; their response to the next catastrophic disasters will not endanger any of us for the foreseeable future.

Those of us living in hurricane- or earthquake-prone areas, and those of us living near prime terrorist targets, will not be calling on Mayor Nagin when the next crisis occurs. We will be calling on the feds, and only federal blunders are relevant to us.

Can we believe Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, et. al. if they instruct us to evacuate or take other preparations? Can we believe them if they say things are under control? That is the only relevant and immediate issue Americans face.

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