I want my freaking refund. I filed on time. Trump had no problems even with a full shutdown.
WTF Joe ? Worthless POS ...
I know how you dislike facts...but maybe you got the wrong guy?
The guy who is going to share his taxes as soon as his audit is finished, and is now being indicted as a tax cheat:
President Trumpâs first budget blueprint calls for a $239 million cut to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) despite Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchinâs previous requests to hire more IRS staff and modernize its technology.
The Guy who has shared his tax returns, President Biden in his first budget is:
proposing to double the size of the IRS, by hiring nearly 87,000 new workers over the next decade, as part of a sweeping plan to chase down tax cheats. The hiring spree, part of a bid to increase IRS funding by $80 billion, would be phased in to give the department time to adjust, the Treasury Department said in a report Thursday.
WTF is right...but you got the wrong President.
Did you file electronically and direct deposit the check? I got my money in under two weeks.
âLetâs get this straight: How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries and everybody knew it,â Biden asked. âWhat would it be like if we engaged in activities that he engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country that is desperately trying to make sure it maintains its standing as a major world power.â
âGiving Putin a meeting is just the latest win that Joe Biden has handed Russia,â Republican National Committee communications director Danielle Alvarez said in a statement.
Alvarez was also critical of the Biden administrationâs decision last month to withhold sanctions against the company and the chief executive behind Russiaâs Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Critics of the pipeline, which would transport natural gas from Russia to Germany, view its imminent completion and operation as a major geopolitical coup for the Kremlin.
âBidenâs foreign policy failures have strengthened Russia at the expense of our country,â Alvarez said. âThe American people deserve a leader who prioritizes our interests and holds bad actors accountable.â
The RNC did not offer a similar critique of President Donald Trumpâs 2018 summit with Putin in Helsinki at which Trump famously refused to criticize Putin for what U.S. intelligence agencies had said was a concerted effort by Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Fuck nationalism. We are one species, on one planet. Either we acknowledge this and act like it, or we're doomed.
Well, I see little conflict between enlightened nationalism and shared global interests.
Is it nationalism that drives the US War on Terror, a rhetorical device used to dehumanize, demonize and kill? I do not believe so.
Were the Sept. 11th attacks in the 'national interest'? Or was it a good pretext to start slaughtering innocent civilians in several theatres because all Americans derive intrinsic joy from killing the innocent?
Is it really the 'national' interest of the USA to support Israeli nuclear weapons-backed ethnic-cleansing terrorism? Especially in light of the horrifically bad health outcomes of over half the American population? In the event of a regional nuclear war, Americans will die like folks in poor, developing countries.
Nationalism does not mean that ordinary dumb Americans have to do what anti-Semitic Americans want them to do. If Americans agree to sacrifice the lives of their fellow citizens so Israel can annex most of the West Bank, well, is that rational 'national interest' calculation or are powerful special interests appealing to the murderous, racist, uninformed, ignorant side of Americans?
Is it in the national interests of ALL Americans to give the Baltic states NATO membership? Why? So US weapon system manufacturers and the heavily subsidized US agricultural sector can increase exports? So NATO troops can strike up relations with local prostitutes?
Does the eastern part of the Ukraine really matter to Americans or are all Americans "speak white" racists? Was imposing billions of dollars of losses on Exxon Mobil in the national interest thanks to ineffective but self-loathing economic sanctions?
Is it in the national interest to re-ignite the Cold War with Russia? Or China for that matter?
Is it in the national interest to have 9% of the population not covered by health insurance? Explain the national health, economic and security benefits of that situation.
There is nothing wrong with "national interest". That already implies a collective interest above and beyond narrow, special interests. The Greens and Political Ecologists have a slogan â Think Globally, Act Locally â all of this works together.
Incidentally, Lazy8, you asked a while back for a reference, and then I lost sight of that thread. I guess my foreign policy politics is closest to those of the 'realists', i.e., the use of rational cost-benefit analysis in the realm of international relations and strategic studies.
A favourite read is Stephan M. Walt at Harvard who publishes often in Foreign Policy. My strategic studies prof at Universite Laval â Albert Legault â was also a realist, or if you prefer identified with the school of 'realism'.
Patriotism is an antiquated concept that needs to go. Seriously.
There is nothing wrong with "national interest". That already implies a collective interest above and beyond narrow, special interests. The Greens and Political Ecologists have a slogan — Think Globally, Act Locally — all of this works together.
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Incidentally, Lazy8, you asked a while back for a reference, and then I lost sight of that thread. I guess my foreign policy politics is closest to those of the 'realists', i.e., the use of rational cost-benefit analysis in the realm of international relations and strategic studies.
A favourite read is Stephan M. Walt at Harvard who publishes often in Foreign Policy. My strategic studies prof at Universite Laval — Albert Legault — was also a realist, or if you prefer identified with the school of 'realism'.
Well?
