2024 Presidential Race

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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
You mean the families that invited him?

Surely SOMEONE understands PR in one of those families and would be more than happy to have a "cousin" tag along. After all, they happily posed and had to know what was going on.

It's a no brainer to insert your photographer as family and avoid this crap. Simple PR. Make sure someone "not attached to your group" happens to be there with a camera.
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They didn't invite him. They granted permission. Two very different things

"The Hoover family granted permission to the Trump team to film and take photographs at the grave site;"

www.nytimes.com

Trump Videos at Arlington Stir More Fallout After Gravesite Visit

The family of a Green Beret buried there expressed concern about videos and photos taken by his grave. And a cemetery employee declined to press charges after an altercation with the Trump team, fearing retribution.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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OrangeTsar said:
I Know, Right?
This was so blatantly political that I’ll bet only 80 to 85% of soldiers will vote for Trump now after such unbelievable disrespect 🙄
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Likely, given that our soldiers have almost always voted heavily for the Republican candidate. Hell, even my Dad, who was career USAF and a staunch Truman/Kennedy Democrat, generally voted for the Republican in presidential elections

Edit: Most of those elections were during times of Democratic controlled Congress
 
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MurphyVol said:
The part everyone leaves out is the unrealized tax is on households over $100 million. It's going to be near impossible to have valuation tracked for privately held stocks, options, warrants , etc. The one that concerns me is the jump from 20 to 44% on long term capital gains. That's something that could actually be done with the stroke of a pen and could turn us back into a 1970s high tax/low investment era where people look for tax shelters.

Of course Trump's proposal to levy a 40% tariff on imports from China is a tax on every single American.

Both candidates are such morons
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Every tax we are paying today starts out as a segmentation tax. Then it creeps to the populous.

Even still, these top end tax payers are the ones who own businesses , sell products, and employee individuals. All will be negatively impacted.
 
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hog88 said:
Income and property should absolutely be shielded from taxes. Income taxes makes us all slaves and property taxes just make us all renters.
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Yeah, I have always thought the same when it comes to property tax. You never really own something if it can be taken from you for not paying a tax to retain possession of it. As you so correctly say; that makes the government the owner of ALL property in the USA and we are but serfs paying the landlord for the privilege of staying on that property for the next year.
 
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hog88 said:
I'm betting a lot of people said the same in 1909 about the income tax act.
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I'd love the hear the logistics of enforcement. If the value of my house goes down next year do I take a loss against the previous years gain? Am I capped at the $3000 carry forward or can I offset dollar for dollar? Does everyone get a new appraisal every year? Who pays for it?

What if I have a $100,000,000 gain in stocks and this triggers a $25 million in taxes but my income is only $100k per year. So do I sell my stocks to cover it...then that triggers capital gains when then become "realized" gains and would be exempt and fall under capital gains.

According to many economists, it's laughably unenforceable
 
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Septic said:
That's why I don't believe her unrealized capital gain taxes will be relegated to those with $100M in assests.

Stand up to this rubbish now, next time they might be coming after you and no one will be left to fight back.

F that. I'll never support any politician that wants to raise taxes, for any reason. Stop effing spending!
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I am on board with that.
 
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MurphyVol said:
I'd love the hear the logistics of enforcement. If the value of my house goes down next year do I take a loss against the previous years gain? Am I capped at the $3000 carry forward or can I offset dollar for dollar? Does everyone get a new appraisal every year? Who pays for it?

What if I have a $100,000,000 gain in stocks and this triggers a $25 million in taxes but my income is only $100k per year. So do I sell my stocks to cover it...then that triggers capital gains when then become "realized" gains and would be exempt and fall under capital gains.

According to many economists, it's laughably unenforceable
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Yes, you have to get an appraisal every year on every single asset that does not have a publicly available item. You buy 20 piecea of art. 20 different appraisals. Every year. You buy 200 cards. Appraisal. 200 of them. Every year. You invest in a 25 pieces of real estate. 25 appraisals every year. The most disputed sections of the IRC are valautions. Wait until this tax gets applied to everyone with a million dollar net worth......
 
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