Let’s list and quantify the “loopholes” to be eliminated, okay? We need to have a good extended discussion of what those are. We might also want to discuss the new ones to be added, such as immediate expensing of the automation hardware which will be eliminating jobs going forward.

Populism at this moment strikes me as people electing the exact opposite of what they thought they wanted and what they were told they would be getting.

I agree ‘the devil is in the details’ regarding loopholes. Looking at how GE, year after year, is able to avoid paying virtually any federal corporate income tax might be a good place to start. Maybe we need a ‘alternative minimum tax’ for corporations just as we do for individuals.

I have the kind of religious fervor which does not oscillate from quoting “God is gonna get ya” verses out of the Old Testament on some days to making fun of the New Testament on other days. My religious fervor simply asks for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth on economic matters. It asks that we not be obligated to philosophical camps where people MUST spin from the far right or far left at every moment for the sake of political tribalism. The fact of the matter is that citizens as a whole are FAR better off with some mitigating reins (aka income taxes and regulation) on commerce than without them. This is the clear lesson of the last 200 years in this country and in all countries.

You could try flagging the worst of your own comments. They might ban your ID so you can get another one and start over. Just sayin’.

But, but,…..”I want you to ban this ID” is what you say.

TAI banned the ones it thought inappropriate for its site. I couldn’t and didn’t ban any. You can TRY with your own flagging, I tell you, and maybe they will accommodate your need for attention.

I know what you like referring to. It’s the prestigious degrees from supposed-to-be-respected institutions, I guess. But, you “inform” me in ways no one else could. Truly inimitable.

Too bad your comments do not appear in their Alumni Quarterlies.

Your complete Internet comment history would have reversed the outcome of the recent presidential election if it had been required reading for voters. Regrettably, only I and a few others receive the complete set of your political/religious analyses of matters in the public interest. You have no idea how persuasive you really are against everything you purport to represent. The style factors are truly stunning.

I was thinking of your graphic explanations and inclinations to write with off-the-wall hostility which must be hidden from your wife, kids, rabbi, co-workers, clients and alma-maters. They would have been so helpful for disclosing what political conservatism amounts to in reality..

You are living in the USA and the level of socialism practiced here isn’t “killing you”—-in fact, it makes your day-do-day life possible. As far as your expression of “beliefs” in real life and your aggression in the comment section, they are not the same. If they were, you would not have any relationships. You cannot and do not run around comparing real people you disagree with to those with hygiene problems on the subway. You do not blast scripture at your business colleagues. You do not insult your children’s real teachers You do not call anyone cockroaches to their faces and not experience violent repercussions. I know you by your words, dude. I wish everyone did.
We would have better politics with the nuts out front instead of living as closeted typists.

I don’t even talk about questioning anyone’s salvation HERE. In your circles, that’s the biggest of big deals, I guess, which explains why you (not I) bring it up. I question the replacement of honesty with perpetual antagonism, and how religion seems to have now caused a great number of folks to steadfastly pretend that the meaner they get, the more they are serving God. I think it’s the same dangerous baloney which puts the “radical” in “radical Islam”—–just different dogma.

I think that most of them who are not already wealthy and merely voting to further feather their own nests in that regard are civic and political fools, brainwashed, clueless and completely careless to what they are endorsing and enabling. America is not “made great” by the perpetual deception which is now the standard fare in Republicanism. When people vote to push wealth and power straight upward on every material issue WHILE claiming they are trying to return power to the people, they either have a knowledge problem or an integrity problem. With most evangelicals, I think it is a knowledge problem. Church, itself, should be helping folks avoid being either ignorant or duplicitous, but my observation of the last thirty year is that it does not—–maybe cannot because of its own business models.

Thank you. I deserve to be congratulated for making a serious effort to care about both the church and the country.

Calling attention to the reality that the American evangelical church is now following Donald J. Trump as its most prominent and definitive overall leader is my main message of concern for both the church and the country. Few on the inside seem to know by what they have been captured. From the outside, the situation is obvious and expressive of a dire condition.

As an aside, after hearing you point out on several occasions that JR and I “deserve each other”, I have concluded that we actually don’t. I blocked my own ability to see anything from two of his user names today, advised him of same and will be blocking any others he might create to reply to me in the future. He may continue debating me for your entertainment, but I won’t know or be participating.