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Janz3n said:
congrats on renaming the gulf of mexico though. thats a win right?
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I'll believe it when the Mexicans start referring to it by any name other than the Gulf of Mexico.
 
AlmosN8kd said:
I'll believe it when the Mexicans start referring to it by any name other than the Gulf of Mexico.
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I believe the only people that will call it the gulf of america are republicans. lol.
 
Janz3n said:
I believe the only people that will call it the gulf of america are republicans. lol.
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I grew up on the Gulf of Mexico (lived along the coast and we'd always go fishing or what not in the Gulf); I'm having a hard time even thinking of it as another name. But, the same thing happened in the '90s with the Persian Gulf -> Arabian Gulf removing title/ownership from Iran to Saudi Arabia. I just don't know if the Gulf of America name (which, it doesn't say USA or Gulf of the United States (or some derivation of that); so, technically, America, as a continent, includes Mexico) will last beyond the next 4yrs.

Will that be the next big idiotic thing, to change the name of bodies of water with every new US Administration . . . ? Don't we already do enough to make folks around the world point and laugh?
 
FooBird said:
I found that article
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yeah I'm hardly in a position to talk at detail on their modeling or what may happen for 2026. That's what's always so lovely about articles, and knowing how they're biased in one direction or skewing things how they want them to be seen. It looks like this site also goes into depth on tax plans and implications. It appears that people note them as being more center-right leaning or libertarian?
https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/donald-trump-tax-plan-2024/
 
FooBird said:
I found that article. That’s a purely hypothetical study with some bad assumptions that allow them to come to that conclusion(e.g. reducing corporate taxes are equivalent to a tax cut on individual taxes on the wealthy (corporate and individual taxes are two separate tax systems).

They acknowledge that tariffs might effectively increase taxes. They’re baking that effect into the income tax paid. But if that goes into place, it wouldn’t increase income taxes, but increase prices and the associated sales taxes (county and state taxes).

The only thing we’re looking at right now is a lateral change for extending existing tax policy. Maybe an elimination of tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security disbursements, which would lower taxes on the bottom 50% the most.
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So if the 2017 tax rates expire then our taxes will go up? As I believe Trumps 2017 rates made our taxes go down compared to what was there before. So we basically need the rates to be extended so we can be status quo on our taxes.

I saw something where the income thresholds might change for 2025(go up slightly), which would help me and the wife as we are creeping into the next tax bracket on just a couple thousand in 2024. But I am dumb and thinking of gross income vs adjusted taxable income.....so all good, lol

Def gonna have to ask our accountant guy a bunch of questions in a month or so, lol.
 
I voted for him. Far superior to the alternative in my opinion. Let him play with names like the Left play with Genders. As a Chicagoan I’m more concerned with the migrant crisis.
 
stilletto said:
I voted for him. Far superior to the alternative in my opinion. Let him play with names like the Left play with Genders. As a Chicagoan I’m more concerned with the migrant crisis.
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I hope you're right. But I don't have much faith.
 
Janz3n said:
I hope you're right. But I don't have much faith.
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I don’t either. Standards are pretty low.
As far as Politics outside of my neighborhood I’d be interested to see a sit down between Trump and Poilievre.
 
stilletto said:
I don’t either. Standards are pretty low.
As far as Politics outside of my neighborhood I’d be interested to see a sit down between Trump and Poilievre.
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That will happen soon I'm sure. And Im curious as to how it will turn out as well.
 
Janz3n said:
Kind of neat. But what about more important stuff. Like lowering grocery prices like he said he would????
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He’s backpedaled or now says it’ll be very hard to reduce grocery prices. Fruits and vegetables alone are expected to rise due to tariffs being talked about for Feb 1st. A lot of produce comes from outside the US.


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Janz3n said:
@bootyluvr got his way.
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Why you be tagging me in this thread? lol

stilletto said:
I voted for him. Far superior to the alternative in my opinion. Let him play with names like the Left play with Genders. As a Chicagoan I’m more concerned with the migrant crisis.
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Wow... You are the minority here!
Now I think of you differently. Just wow. Mind blown.
 

Tennessee congressman seeks constitutional change to allow Trump a third term​


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$3.89 for eggs today. Not quite double the price but getting there.
 
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