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nacktmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02727041046766831012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710937624902391351.post-53500129625991200842015-12-18T00:08:00.006-05:002015-12-18T00:08:31.676-05:00Debunking the Wingnuts’ Obamacare Tax Meme Again<div class="featuredpost" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>An old Republican lie about Obamacare and taxes is making the rounds again, so as a public service, here is a handy antidote…</b></i></span></div>
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A popular Republican meme from last year is making its rounds of social
media again and I thought I would debunk it here, appealing to both
FactCheck and PolitiFact, to provide useful corrections in case you
should encounter it, either via relative or stranger. A useful graphic
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Here is the offending email, as mendacious a collection of lies as ever collected:<br />
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Here are the facts you will never see circulated by your Republican friends and family:<br />
<b>“Here is what DID NOT happen, quietly, on January 1, 2015”</b><br />
These taxes actually took effect on January 1, 2013 as part of the
American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which was passed to avoid the
“fiscal cliff” and it was quite public and far from “quietly”<br />
<b>“Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35%”</b><br />
This tax did actually come about as a result of the Affordable Care Act
but again, effective on January 1, 2013, and it effects only those
earning $200,000 or married couples earning $250,000.<br />
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<b>“Top income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%”</b><br />
These rates effect only those earning over $413,200 or married couples earning $464,850.<br />
<b>“Top income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%”</b><br />
Income and payroll taxes are different things, first of all, but for the
record, the combined rate went from 37.9% to 42.5%, NOT 52.2%, a number
you can only get close to by adding state taxes but state taxes are NOT
part of the Affordable Care Act.<br />
<b>“Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%”</b><br />
The highest capital gains tax went from 15 to 20% and the ACA’s 3.8%
Medicare tax for high-income earners makes it 23.8%, not 28%. You can
again add state and local capital gains taxes to bring it to 28.7% but
again, those are not federally imposed.<br />
<b>“Dividend tax went from 15% to 39.6%”</b><br />
The December 2012 tax deal made the top marginal tax rate 20% (it was
39.6% pre-Bush). Obamacare turned that 20% into 23.8%. Neither 15% nor
39.6% are accurate, but invented.<br />
<b>“Estate tax went from 0% to 55%”</b><br />
Estate tax was 0% for one year: 2010, and reimposed at 35% in 2011 and
2012 and raised to 40% on January 1, 2013 and it effects only the
richest Americans, the richest 0.1%. If you make less than $5.25 million
you don’t even have to file a form with the IRS.<br />
<b>“A 3.5% Real Estate transaction tax was added.”</b><br />
<a href="http://rirealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/NewsArticle.asp?newsID=1171">The National Association of Realtors</a> says this is FALSE, that “The new health care law will not create a new tax on all transfers of real estate.” <br />
FactCheck.org <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2010/04/a-38-percent-sales-tax-on-your-home/">goes into more detail</a>:<br />
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No, with very few exceptions. The first $250,000 in
profit from the sale of a personal residence won’t be taxed, or the
first $500,000 in the case of a married couple. The tax falls on
relatively few — those with high incomes from other sources…only those
with incomes of over $200,000 a year ($250,000 for married couples
filing jointly) will be subject to it. And even for those who have such
high incomes, the tax still won’t apply to the first $250,000 on profits
from the sale of a personal residence – or to the first $500,000 in the
case of a married couple selling their home.
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PolitiFact <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jul/25/chain-email/3-8-percent-tax-real-estate-transactions-health-ca/">has this to say</a>: <br />
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It says that a 3.8 percent tax applies to all real estate
transactions as a sales tax. That is not the case. The email seems
intended to scare people, particularly older Americans thinking of
downsizing. For that, we award this chain email a Pants on Fire!</blockquote>
<b>“These taxes were all passed solely with Democratic votes. “</b><br />
Ask yourself how this is possible, when the Democrats did not control
either the Senate or the House? In fact, the 2012 fiscal cliff deal was
passed with bipartisan support.<br />
<b>“Not a single Republican voted for these new taxes.”</b><br />
In fact, rather than fiction, in the Senate, the fiscal cliff measure passed <a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00251">89-8</a> with 40 Republicans voting for it and only 5 against it. In the House, it passed <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll659.xml">256-167</a> with 85 Republicans voting for it and 151 voting against it. <br />
<b>“These taxes were all passed in the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.”</b><br />
This is a flat out lie, of course, given the fiscal cliff deal had
nothing to do with Obamacare. The ACA added to three taxes but the bulk
of the increases resulted from the fiscal cliff deal. In the words of
PolitiFact, “Less than a third of the total percentage-point increases
cited by the email came from Obamacare.”<br />
The original image says it is important for everyone to “know this”
but what is important is for everybody to be informed, and the intent of
this email is clearly to misinform. <br />
Useful sources to cite when refuting these lies: <br />
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jan/05/chain-email/what-will-happen-taxes-january-2015-chain-email-wr/ <br />
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/04/a-38-percent-sales-tax-on-your-home/<br />
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jul/25/chain-email/3-8-percent-tax-real-estate-transactions-health-ca/<br />
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nacktmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02727041046766831012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710937624902391351.post-38132768281407151632015-12-18T00:08:00.005-05:002015-12-18T00:08:27.624-05:00Dear Muslim World: Let Me Apologize For Trump And The Republican Cabal<div style="text-align: center;">
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cannot express how ashamed I am that someone like Trump has
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The Republican pretender primary is the gift that keeps on giving
to Democrats. First, Dumbass Trump dominated the Republican field. Now, Cruz is leading the Republicans in Iowa.<br />
The latest <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/12/12/big-shakeup-iowa-poll-cruz-soars-lead/77199800/">Des Moines Register poll</a>
has Cruz setting records by gaining record 21 points and leading Trump 31%-21%. Carson is at 13%, followed by Rubio (10%) and
Jeb at 6%.<br />
The rise of Cruz is backed up by a Fox News poll
of Iowa that found Cruz edging Trump 28%-26% with Rubio third at 13%.
Carson was fourth at 10%, and Jeb was tied for fifth with
Paul at 5%.<br />
It is not a surprise that the same state Republicans who gave Rick
Santorum the win in 2012 would end their flirtation with Trump and come
back to Cruz. Cruz has been working hard on the ground lining
up the state’s evangelical voters. The same evangelical crowd that
flirted with Cain and Bachmann before settling on
Santorum in 2012 have danced with Carson and Trump before
maybe settling on Cruz in 2016.<br />
Cruz and Trump atop the Republican field is a dream come
true for Democrats. None of the top three candidates in Iowa can win a
general election matchup against Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. <br />
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According to<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/podesta-cruz-is-likely-gop-nominee-216713#ixzz3uDdkyzeW"> Politico</a>,
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta recently told donors that Cruz
is the likely Republican nominee, “Clinton campaign chairman John
Podesta handicapped the wingnut race for 90 Democratic donors assembled at a
private fundraising event in Berkeley, California, on Thursday night,
according to a Clinton backer who was in the room, telling the crowd
that he viewed Cruz as the likeliest nominee, followed by Trump, and
then Rubio.”<br />
The Republican field couldn’t be looking better for Democrats. In
many ways, the divisive and disliked Cruz would be easier for Democrats
to run against than Trump. Cruz has the government shutdown and
record as long as your arm of statements that could lose a general
election.<br />
The rise of Cruz is an early Xmas present for Democrats as
Republicans voters have embraced the spirit of giving by trying to gift
four more years in the White House to the Democratic nominee.
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It is popular for Republican “populists” (read: followers of the Trump
cult of personality) to deride the Republican establishment, though the
actual differences between them is only one of degrees of extremism.
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Sean Illing <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/10/30/the_gop_establishment_is_cooked_why_its_powerless_against_the_ultra_rights_onslaught/">explained</a> at <i>Salon </i>in
October that the Republican establishment is “cooked” and “powerless.”
South-of-the-border-phobia was replaced by the debate process which has
now been replaced by Muslim immigration. <br />
And it is not like the establishment has many – if any – viable choices. Cruz, it has been <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/12/8/9866726/ted-cruz-electability">argued by Matthew Yglesias</a> at <i>Vox</i>,
is actually more extreme in his positions than Trump, and except for
billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer, the establishment <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-gop-establishment-hasnt-yet-mobilized-behind-rubio-n477971">isn’t hurrying to line up</a> behind former golden boy Rubio either.<br />
When Robert Costa and Tom Hamburger wrote at <i>The Washington Post</i> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-preparing-for-contested-convention/2015/12/10/d72574bc-9f73-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html">about a power brokers dinner</a>
on Monday, a firestorm erupted – yes, another one. The root cause,
which is really just a symptom, is that the dinner was hosted by
Priebus, and the topic was to no one’s surprise, Trump. Thus
revealing, says Costa, that the establishment is preparing for a
contested convention.<br />
This probably isn’t a surprise to anybody. Trump has already said
that if he is not treated with respect he will run as an Independent,
regardless of his loyalty pledge. In the words of The Young Turks, the
Republican establishment is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqp5AHFx5E4" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-204559];player=swf;width=640;height=385;">planning a “coup”</a> if the voters pick Trump.<br />
The Republican establishment, then, is facing a revolt of its base
and the only solution seems to be a top-down coup against the beast it
created.<br />
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As Costa then <a href="https://twitter.com/costareports/status/675320368505028608">tweeted</a>, this didn’t make Carson very happy:<br />
So Carson has just figured out that the Republican cabal is not about
“We the People.” Took him long enough. Welcome aboard, moron.<br />
If the idea of the establishment launching a coup against its own
base after riling up the base with visions of an anti-Obama coup is
deliciously rich stuff to Democrats, wingnut shrieking heads are outraged.
It is possible by the end of the Republican convention we’ll all be
wondering how the RNC managed to stab itself in the back and throw
itself off Trump Tower three times.<br />
Laura Ingraham joined the circus on the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/12/11/ingraham-derides-the-republican-national-commit/207446">December 11 edition</a> of Courtside Enertainment Group’s <i>The Laura Ingraham Show</i><br />
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See, all the brainiacs over at the RNC, all the brainiacs
like Priebus, Dog bless them but they’ve, they all thought they
were going to be so clever and tamping down a populist surge. They spent
so much time trying to figure out a strategy for, in my mind, stopping
the people from having much say over the process. They wanted a strategy
to limit debates. Oh, we can’t have all this infighting. Did you ever
come to think that maybe, maybe the establishment, as long as it doesn’t
listen to the people, is just itching for a fight from the people? Why
not actually work with the people? This is what I do not understand.
They sit behind closed doors, at these fancy restaurants on Capitol
Hill, and then they leak the details to Bob Costa. Because they are
trying to scare off the candidates, trying to get people to drop out to
pave the way for Marco, or for Jeb’s people. <br />
[…]<br />
INGRAHAM: They don’t listen on trade, on immigration, and even on
this issue of limiting people coming into the country. They decide, OK
let’s just demonize Trump, let’s demonize Trump and then we’ll demonize
the whole populist movement, as a bunch of racists, xenophobics,
(inaudible), low information people. They’re all dumb, they’re all
stupid, and we’re going to figure it all out at the convention. And this
piece merely reconfirms what I’ve been thinking for a long time, that
the establishment refuses to listen to the people. </blockquote>
She’s far from alone, as Buchanan’s syndicated column Friday was titled “An Establishment Unhinged”
where he argues in defense of Trump (and here he is talking
about more than the Republican establishment) “that our political-media
establishment is dumb as a box of rocks and leading us down a path to
national suicide.”<br />
Buchanan writes,<br />
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Calling for a moratorium on Muslim immigration “until our
country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on,”
Donald Trump this week ignited a firestorm of historic proportions.<br />
As all the old hate words — xenophobe, racist, bigot — have lost
their electric charge from overuse, and Trump was being called a fascist
demagogue and compared to Hitler and Mussolini.<br />
The establishment seemed to have become unhinged.</blockquote>
So calling a xenophobe a <i>xenophobe</i>, and a racist a <i>racist </i>(he should know) and a bigot a <i>bigot</i>,
is hate speech, apparently, but calling Mexicans a bunch of rapists and
murderers, and Muslims a bunch of terrorists, is not hate speech. <br />
In fact, Buchanan goes where Trump went, ignoring all the evidence of
domestic terrorism (largely by white, at least nominally 'christian' men
with assault weapons), saying:<br />
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Muslims are clearly more susceptible to the siren call of
terrorism, and more likely to be radicalized on the Internet and in
mosques than are 'christians' at cult or Jews at synagogue.</blockquote>
This is not true. As I argued the other day, 'christians' are very susceptible to radicalization, and Fox News is
leading the charge, not that Buchanan hasn’t played his own part over
the years. After all, he was the racist’s candidate of choice for the
presidency back in the day.<br />
Yet though many more Americans have been killed by cult-goers than
by mosque-goers, he claims that this lie he just told “is why we monitor
mosques more closely than cathedrals.”<br />
Clearly, the establishment is not the people who are unhinged, or, in
speaking of the Republican establishment specifically, at least not as
unhinged as the Republican base, it’s demagogic leader, and cheering
section.<br />
If the plan all along was to utterly destroy itself, the Republican
establishment could not have done any better than it has, and without
any help from Democrats (such help seems completely superfluous at this
point). <br />
This is not to say we should let up (we shouldn’t) only that it is a
time-honored precept that one should not interrupt one’s enemy while he
is making a mistake. Or, as is the case here, publicly sodomizing
himself.
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On June 8, 2004, Captain Humayun S. M. Khan was serving a tour of duty in Iraq...
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It is not unusual for a politician, especially one running for a
national office, to study carefully highly successful political leaders’
campaign speeches and rhetoric. It should surprise no American that
Republican front-runner for the pretender nomination, Trump,
also carefully studied a highly-successful politician, except it was not
an American and not the kind of monster any decent American should
emulate. Trump is not remotely a decent American, and based on
his embrace of Adolf Hitler’s volume of speeches he made between 1918
and 1941, he intends on being an effective Nazi instead of a good
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It is not like it was a secret that Trump’s hateful speeches, and
more troubling, his policy proposals are very close to those instituted
in Nazi Germany; even some wingnuts have cited his “<i>fascism</i>.”
However, the idea that he has studied, at least since prior to 1990, a
book of speeches Hitler used in his rise to power should put an end to
complaints about comparing him to Hitler or Godwin’s law.<br />
The not surprising revelation is that prior to becoming a World
Wrestling Entertainment or reality show hack, Trump kept a volume
of Hitler’s speeches close at hand. Trump’s ex-wife Ivana <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-used-to-keep-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-according-to-his-ex-wife-a6765391.html">related</a> in a 1990 interview with <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce">Vanity Fair</a> that “<i>from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed</i>.” Trump confirmed that the former Mrs. Trump’s 1990 assertion is true.<br />
The Hitler volume, “<i>My New Order</i>” not only contains 23 years’ worth of Hitler’s speeches, “<i>it is profusely indexed and filled with details about the speeches’ impact on the media and the political establishment</i>.” According to a literary periodical, Kirkus Review, Trump’s collection of Hitler speeches <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adolf-hitler-2/my-new-order/">contains</a> “<i>actual
quotations from Hitler’s own utterances, including corresponding data
showing the effect on the world press. Section after section follows
pattern-background, speech, press</i>;” and Trump faithfully follows Hitler’s model.<br />
The way Trump rages like a madman, responds aggressively in public and argues closely follows Hitler’s instructions in “<i>My New Order</i>.”
Trump successfully learned about targeting the audience’s lowest
common denominator, how scare-propaganda works, and how to structure an
emotional speech for effect and to incite rage. Trump has succeeded up
to now in emulating his apparent Nazi hero because a recent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/politics/95000-words-many-of-them-ominous-from-donald-trumps-tongue.html">analysis</a>
in the New York Times concludes that Trump is as proficient at hateful
demagoguery as any 20th Century monster; they stopped short of naming
Hitler…Godwin and all.<br />
According to a recent <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01561257">profile</a>
of Hitler in the scholarly journal, Psychiatric Quarterly, all of
Trump’s tactics are modeled in Hitler speech book the Dumbass kept close
by his bed.<br />
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“<i>The elements of a delusional system are all there. This is not
simply to say that the man is mad and so has plunged the world into
chaos; but it is to say that there is overwhelming evidence in 19 years
of his speeches that he firmly believes many of his most absurd
declarations, including some which are contradictory</i>.”<br />
Note that Trump uses his audience’s racial animus and rage to attack
Hispanics, African Americans and Middle Eastern Americans, and “mocks
women and disabled people” with impunity. He also threatens to
obliterate whatever enemies “he names or decides are enemies without
regard for facts or inconsistency in his statements because he plays to
his supporters’ fears and prejudices.<br />
The reason Trump is leading Republicans is due to the hate, lack of
intelligence and sheer terror of any and everything among his followers.
According to a <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/09/who_are_trumps_supporters.html">profile</a> of Trump supporters, “<i>One
half of his voters have a high school education or less which is why
Trump appeals to that special breed of southern Republican; with a
particularly special appeal to Texans</i>.”<br />
Apparently Trump “<i>took the highest proportion of Texas support from Cruz</i>”
which speaks volumes because the Cuban-Canadian immigrant himself is a
very special breed of southern evangelical fascist. It is noteworthy,
too, that although it is a mystery if Cruz officially embraces Adolf
Hitler’s Nazism, he does in fact utilize the same tools as Trump; just
not as effectively.<br />
As the New York Times reported, Trump’s words are carefully crafted
to appeal to angry, frightened, and ignorant racists. The Times analyzed
“the content and style of all of Trump’s speeches between July and
November, and although they were too terrified of Godwin’s law to
mention Trump’s embrace of Adolf Hitler’s style of speech, they did note
several Americans he emulates.<br />
The Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/politics/95000-words-many-of-them-ominous-from-donald-trumps-tongue.html">wrote</a>;<br />
“<i>Trump’s pattern of elevating emotional appeals over rational
ones is a rhetorical style that historians, psychologists and political
scientists placed in the tradition of Goldwater, George Wallace, Joseph
McCarthy, Huey Long and Pat Buchanan</i>.” The men were all notorious
American hate-mongers like Adolf Hitler who used vile language,
propaganda, and fear to win favor with scared Americans.<br />
In fact, in responding to a request from the Times, “<i>Several
historians watched Trump’s speeches last week and observed familiar
techniques, like vilifying groups of people and stoking the insecurities
of his audiences, that they associate with racist George Wallace and
fascist Joseph McCarthy;</i>” two of America’s worst, most notorious, and extremely dangerous demagogues.<br />
What continues to be curious and monumental omission from any media
reporting is that Trump would be finished already if not for his
terrified, old, white and hateful base of support; a base who will
remain fully intact when the Hitler acolyte is gone. And, they will be
extraordinarily angry because the man that best represents their “ugly
American” ideal will no longer represent their deep-seated hatred of
everything. He also will not be the führer they want as president and
America will not be the Aryan Utopia that Trump and his Republican base
lusts after. Although that is a good thing, no Führer and no Aryan
nation, a very significant number of Americans would disagree and it is
why Dumbass Trump is parroting Adolf Hitler to raging success.</div>
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