@KellyJay saidYou don't need to listen to sonhouse because many Republicans, most recently Lindsey Graham, have said publicly that we would have a much stronger border except that Trump told them not to vote for more funding.
Nothing is wrong with my brain, I've been telling you that your hate towards Trump overrides everything, it is to the point I don't listen to you on policy issues if they are related to Trump, because no matter what he said or did you are never going to judge the policy on its own merits only on how it is connected to Trump nothing more is important.
Trump wanted a porous border because it is his #1 campaign issue.
@KellyJay
You missed the part where I said I REALLY hate his policies not his person.
YOU are the one with the problem, giving Trump a bye on every one of his policies.
No matter how cruel or stupid, you approve of ALL of them, if not tell me which of his policies do you approve of and don't approve of.
@KellyJay saidLMAO! Your sudden devotion to the law would be more admirable if you haven't voiced contrary feelings about it when it came to the law being applied in a certain felony trial in New York State.
Is it immoral to enforce the law, immoral to take people out of the country that didn't enter it legally? Totalitarianism is to be selective on when and against whom laws are enforced, which should always be played out on a level playing field. Economic suicide, how many tens of thousands have died due to drugs, then there are the people with many being kids are thrown into sex trafficking, are you willing to accept, for financial security?
And anyway, there is no law requiring deportation of any and every undocumented alien. It would be unprecedented as even Trump admits. And would be stupid economically and immoral as it would require the US building a system of concentration camps larger than the Soviet Union ever did and perhaps on the scale of Nazi Germany. That's not company our nation should be keeping.
The vast majority of these people are living peacefully, working and raising their families and otherwise contributing to the well-being of society. We should be looking for ways to legalize their presence and eventually make them citizens rather than caving in to the hate and fear that Trump and his white nationalist allies are spewing.
I just read this and slapped myself in the head for not thinking about it myself:
"My mutual funds and exchange-traded funds charge me a fee based on the total value of my investment. They don’t just bill me for the funds I’ve sold. I pay a percentage of the total value, including all the unrealized gains.
If you have a financial adviser or portfolio manager, they will do the same thing.
They will not charge you a fee based on realized gains. They will charge you a fee based on total assets.
Amazing, really, given that such a calculation is allegedly totally impossible.
I have never heard anyone arguing this is unfair or a wrong way to do business."
"My favorite part of all this is the complaining from those in the hedge-fund and private-equity rackets whose business would be most affected.
These are people who make their gazillions by charging their clients hefty fees … on their total assets under management.
No, not just the realized gains, but also all the unrealized gains.
The typical manager charges clients about 2% a year on the value of their investment, just for breathing, plus 20% of the profits (if any).
Neither of these ludicrous fees is levied only on realized assets. Hand $1 million to a hedge fund or private-equity fund and they start charging 2%, or $20,000, a year from day one — often before they even get around to investing the money.
And if your portfolio somehow goes up, say, by 50%, they’ll skim another 20% of that — $100,000 — in extra fees. No, they won’t wait till any of those gains are realized, or “crystallized,” or whatever term they use. You’ll be paying those fees quarterly, if not monthly, when the supposed performance occurs.
If the investments then tank, even before you’ve realized a nickel of personal gains, do you think they’ll give that money back? How much of a sucker are you?
And these are the same people pretending to be shocked — shocked! — by the very idea of levying a charge based on asset value or unrealized gains: “What kind of Soviet tyranny is this?”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/kamala-harris-s-critics-are-totally-wrong-about-taxing-unrealized-gains/ar-AA1pgn7R?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9d75344b815043e59a9faed6d48e9a46&ei=41
I mean, CASE CLOSED.
@AverageJoe1 will apply to those with over $100 million in investments. People with this level of wealth frequently pay zero income tax or close to it. It is an attempt to get them to pay something in taxes. I doubt you are in that class of wealth.
@no1marauder
Doesn't property tax work on total wealth, the value of the property and a certain percentage sucked off that to the government no matter what the property market goes, if it drops 20% do property owners do they get to reduce their tax by 20%?