I can tell you from personal experience that the best time to discuss retirement with your employer is the day you are walking out the door for the last time. It's so satisfying. I still got my party and when the time comes, I'll still get my pension.
If your employer is going to end your employment, he almost certainly won't tell you about it until the last day. You already gave them their money's worth and you don't owe them anything.
Better yet, call them at 9am on the first day of your retirement to let them know you won't be in ever again.
This is just the kind of stuff madmen like to do to get their jollies. It's the grown-up version of playing with matches or dissecting the neighbor's kittens.
Or shooting elephants just to cut off their tails as trophies.
The Republicans have also said the middle class tax cuts will not expire even thought the scoring counts them as expiring.
Republicans can say what they want, but the law they passed has the middle class tax cuts expiring. I don't think anyone wants CBO to score a bill based on Republican promises.
The tax cuts for the rich and corporations do not expire.
The CBO scoring assumes we'll maintain the wonderful 1.6% growth we had with President Obama.
Even the rosiest "dynamic scoring" of the bill by the Treasury Department has the tax bill increasing growth by 0.03 to 0.09 points per year. That's the Trump Treasury Department. For the tax bill to pay for itself, it would require a 0.8 to 0.9% growth bump. To create your "surplus", it would require even a bigger bump in growth, year over year, for 10 years.
Here's a good rundown from the CRFB, which is the organization headed by one of Ronald Reagan's former economic adivsors:
the wonderful 1.6% growth we had with President Obama. Rescoring with the historical average (and what we've seen this year) of 3.5%,
First, the economic growth has not hit 3.5% this year. At best, we're seeing 3.2%, with 0.4% increase in personal income. The "1.6%" figure you quote is for 2016. Growth was 2.4% in 2014 and 2.6% in 2015.
Also, let me remind you that in Barack Obama's first 11 months in office, the stock market rose by 29%. In Donald Trump's first 11 months, the increase was 24%. And under Obama, that happened without a $1.7 trillion gift to the wealthiest Americans.
The thing costs millions per year to maintain and all Obama did with it was âoesorry we canâ(TM)t do thatâ to pretty much any petition.
Trump has spent almost $100 million in 11 months just to go golfing at his own golf courses. Don't pretend you care about what things cost when your party is passing a law that will add $1.7trillion to the debt.
Free markets are those where buyers and sellers are free to decide whether to buy or sell goods under the rules of the markets and whatever government regulations are applicable.
Under that definition, every market is a "free market".
Free markets are common throughout history, and evolve naturally in many situations.
I've lived in a place where a black market was the only way to get many goods. It's actually the opposite of a free market, because the consumers rarely have a choice.
If your definition of a free market is one that is free of government restrictions, then you should realize that black markets are the ones with the highest level of government restrictions. That's why the prices are usually so high.
Not saying this is good, but a majority of the voters is inflicting Republicans on themselves without good reason.
They are not a majority. Trump got millions of votes fewer than Clinton. Congressional House Republicans got 6 million fewer votes than Congressional Democrats. Republican senators got millions of fewer votes than Democratic senators.
In the United States we are not governed by the party that gets the most votes. In fact, we are governed entirely by the party that got fewer votes.
Don't turn on the light and sit down when you pee. You'll stay closer to your sleep state.
Pete's on to something here. Get a dim night-light, and definitely don't turn the bathroom light on when you get up to pee. The night light is so you don't pee three inches wide of the toilet. Also, darken your room as much as possible. Little things like the blinking lights on a cable modem or router can disrupt your sleep. I used to have one of those dark masks for sleeping, but then I just taped over the useless status lights on my router and now I don't need the mask.
Also, you can try not drinking anything for a couple of hours before bed so you won't have to get up to pee at all.
Seriously, folks. You have to cultivate good sleep, especially as you get older. It pays dividends.
Who believes anything a Trump appointee says? She was put in place by Tom Price, the disgraced Health and Human Services secretary who resigned when he was caught lying about using military jets as his private airline.
Here is a list of the 15 Trump appointees who had to leave in the first 11 months of his administration due to indictment or embarrassment.
Net neutrality rules increases government control of the internet.
No, they don't. There is nothing in net neutrality rules that would affect who or what can connect to the internet. Once again, I guess I have to post a simple, straightforward definition of net neutrality:
the other thing no one is asking is why wasnt this enacted by congress to begin with? rather than deal with the past 2 years, why didnt congress do its job before???
Because Republicans have controlled congress since 2010. They weren't about to do shit if it meant being seen cooperating with a black president.
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The jargon is strong with this one.
I can tell you from personal experience that the best time to discuss retirement with your employer is the day you are walking out the door for the last time. It's so satisfying. I still got my party and when the time comes, I'll still get my pension.
If your employer is going to end your employment, he almost certainly won't tell you about it until the last day. You already gave them their money's worth and you don't owe them anything.
Better yet, call them at 9am on the first day of your retirement to let them know you won't be in ever again.
Or shooting elephants just to cut off their tails as trophies.
Republicans can say what they want, but the law they passed has the middle class tax cuts expiring. I don't think anyone wants CBO to score a bill based on Republican promises.
The tax cuts for the rich and corporations do not expire.
"Current dollar GDP growth" is not the same as real GDP growth.
Look at your own citation. The table below paragraph eight. It shows real GDP growth as 3.3%.
And now it's regulated by Comcast.
Wait, I thought Oumuamua was that black lady Trump just fired. How did they name an interstellar object after her this quickly?
Even the rosiest "dynamic scoring" of the bill by the Treasury Department has the tax bill increasing growth by 0.03 to 0.09 points per year. That's the Trump Treasury Department. For the tax bill to pay for itself, it would require a 0.8 to 0.9% growth bump. To create your "surplus", it would require even a bigger bump in growth, year over year, for 10 years.
Here's a good rundown from the CRFB, which is the organization headed by one of Ronald Reagan's former economic adivsors:
http://www.crfb.org/papers/can...
First, the economic growth has not hit 3.5% this year. At best, we're seeing 3.2%, with 0.4% increase in personal income. The "1.6%" figure you quote is for 2016. Growth was 2.4% in 2014 and 2.6% in 2015.
Also, let me remind you that in Barack Obama's first 11 months in office, the stock market rose by 29%. In Donald Trump's first 11 months, the increase was 24%. And under Obama, that happened without a $1.7 trillion gift to the wealthiest Americans.
No. Fuck you. You don't get to care if you think those two things are in any way comparable.
Trump has spent almost $100 million in 11 months just to go golfing at his own golf courses. Don't pretend you care about what things cost when your party is passing a law that will add $1.7trillion to the debt.
Under that definition, every market is a "free market".
Name some, please.
That's really all this is about.
Donald Trump has to be the pettiest motherfucker on the planet.
You just hurt Fluffy's feelings. I hope you're happy now.
I'll bet you do.
Facebook's facial recognition is still not perfect. Every time I post a picture of my shih tzu's ass, it tags it as "Donald Trump".
If I forget to put my hearing aid in, I'll end up peeing in the bathtub.
I've lived in a place where a black market was the only way to get many goods. It's actually the opposite of a free market, because the consumers rarely have a choice.
If your definition of a free market is one that is free of government restrictions, then you should realize that black markets are the ones with the highest level of government restrictions. That's why the prices are usually so high.
They are not a majority. Trump got millions of votes fewer than Clinton. Congressional House Republicans got 6 million fewer votes than Congressional Democrats. Republican senators got millions of fewer votes than Democratic senators.
In the United States we are not governed by the party that gets the most votes. In fact, we are governed entirely by the party that got fewer votes.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
And the fact that he was banned from a shopping mall for macking on little girls. And his autograph on little girls' high school yearbook.
If you're in your thirties and signing a high school girl's yearbook, you better be her teacher and not some pervy lawyer who's into lollies.
Listen you whippersnapper. I may be old, but I've got sex hormones coming out my ass.
Wait, that didn't sound right...
Pete's on to something here. Get a dim night-light, and definitely don't turn the bathroom light on when you get up to pee. The night light is so you don't pee three inches wide of the toilet. Also, darken your room as much as possible. Little things like the blinking lights on a cable modem or router can disrupt your sleep. I used to have one of those dark masks for sleeping, but then I just taped over the useless status lights on my router and now I don't need the mask.
Also, you can try not drinking anything for a couple of hours before bed so you won't have to get up to pee at all.
Seriously, folks. You have to cultivate good sleep, especially as you get older. It pays dividends.
Show of hands, please:
Who believes anything a Trump appointee says? She was put in place by Tom Price, the disgraced Health and Human Services secretary who resigned when he was caught lying about using military jets as his private airline.
Here is a list of the 15 Trump appointees who had to leave in the first 11 months of his administration due to indictment or embarrassment.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
No, they don't. There is nothing in net neutrality rules that would affect who or what can connect to the internet. Once again, I guess I have to post a simple, straightforward definition of net neutrality:
https://www.eff.org/issues/net...
There is no such thing as a "free market". Free markets do not exist in nature. Markets are only created where there is sufficient government.
Because Republicans have controlled congress since 2010. They weren't about to do shit if it meant being seen cooperating with a black president.