Away We Go

I had high hopes for a real eye-opener on taxing the rich, but it hinges in part on whether you think Bill Gates is even more knowledgeable on this topic than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

For practical reasons, Bill and Melinda Gates don't want lawmakers to get bogged down in arguments about the top marginal rate, which is currently 37 percent. "If you focus on that, you're missing the picture," Bill said in a recent interview with The Verge.

"In terms of revenue collection, you wouldn't want to just focus on the ordinary income rate, because people who are wealthy have a rounding error of ordinary income," he said. "They have income that just is the value of their stock, which if they don't sell it, it doesn't show up as income at all, or if it shows up, it shows over in the capital gains side. So the ability of hedge fund people, various people — they aren't paying that ordinary income rate."

Instead, he suggested, we should be more progressive with "the estate tax and the tax on capital, the way the FICA and Social Security taxes work. We can be more progressive without really threatening income generation." That idea might find favor with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has floated the idea of a wealth tax on households worth more than $50 million.

I still say, above a high threshold impose mark-to-market accounting to end the eternal deferral of unrealized capital gains taxes. But to avoid forced sales to pay the bill (and to create a buffer account against possible future losses) allow payment of the taxes over ten years.

Mark-to-market accounting is already part of the tax code (eg, futures and index options, not to mention the charitable deduction for appreciated assets with a long term gain.) This idea side-steps the Constitutional puzzle of Warren's wealth tax.

Comments

[Gentlejim]

Pin,
Good call. That was perfect for 0420.

[Pinandpuller]

Ben? Ben? BEN???

A man armed with a burly, menacing-looking white rat caused mayhem at a McDonald’s in Newark last week when he released the four-legged creature at the fine dining institution.

When the overweight rodent hit the tile floor, dozens of people frantically scattered as if the rat was out to steal their Big Macs.

No arrests have been made in the preposterous event, but a Newark police spokeswoman said the department is investigating.

https://www.nj.com/news/2019/02/watch-as-man-releases-giant-rat-inside-this-mcdonalds-in-nj.html

[jim nj]

I'm reading that some California city is going to pay $500.00 a month in basic income.

Sleazy bastards, how am I going to buy a pack of cigarettes, a six-pack of beer, a meal and my drug of choice with that?

I need more than that, where am I going to crash? And a woman. I deserve a woman.

I have a constitutional right to a woman. The Supreme Court ruled that I can marry anyone I want. What if I just want to diddle them?

No? I want a sheep for an emotional support animal. Never mind why.

[Pinandpuller]

Why dem dey call dem black panther
According to Will, black panther na big cat wey im melanin, (black pigment) dey pop. You fit see am as albino but di oda way round.

In other word, depends on di region e fit be jaguar wey black, or for like Africa, leopard wey black, black panther na like di general name.

Will camera also capture normal leopard wey get spot wey im suspect say na di black leopard papa.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-47233107

[jim nj]

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/the-week-in-pictures-green-new-deal-edition.php

[jim nj]

nytol

[hoyden]

Yah! jim nj. Just in time for my second cuppa. Steak, onions, mushrooms for breakfast.

Back shortly. Over on Amtrak plotting my next trip to Bellingham.

[James D.]

I totally believe Clarice’s version of how the Amazon thing went down in NY.

[hoyden]

James D. When the Amazon shoe fits climb into the pumpkin.

[Buckeye]

I totally believe Clarice’s version of how the Amazon thing went down in NY.

Sounds plausible to me also.

Especially the outcome of trying to get Trump to rescue Bezos:)

[James D.]

So can we start taxing university endowments at 95% and cutting off all federal funding already?

https://www.thecollegefix.com/ninety-year-old-cornell-alumnus-uses-word-negro-students-and-alumni-group-scandalized/

[Buckeye]

hoyden, forget Amtrak.

I really think that RV-6 needs a cross country adventure:)

[hoyden]

Oh, there are so many good ones this week...

[hoyden]

Buckeye, I'm with you in spirit, but when you absolutely, positively, gotta be there, Athena (my beloved RV6) isn't my first choice.

I am planning a breakfast run to Brainerd this morning. It's a bit frosty, -5F, and I have some snow to shovel to get her out.

[RattlerGator]

Good morning, friends. I'm back in Atlanta / Brookhaven still trying to help a friend with his California case. Hmmmm . . . I see I've missed an MM / OL dustup. I bet *that* was fun.

* * *

And TK, you never had any power.

Posted by: Jane | February 15, 2019 at 07:58 PM

I *love* feistiness in the morning, don't y'all ?!? I think I'll keep reading, but first . . .

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(Re the ruse of Mueller interviewing for an FBI job he likely could not have)

The white hat theory is that the FBI job story is part of the ruse and that he was there with Rosey and Trump discussing the pending special counsel investigation.

Posted by: Extraneus | February 15, 2019 at 07:43 PM

I'm wondering why my man Rocco is still so absolutely certain Mueller was interviewing to run the FBI? It just seems clearly illogical as all get out. It isn't the white hat theory so much as common sense, isn't it ???

[rse]

I believe it was stockton that was going to pay the GBI with IIRC some silicon valley billionaire footing the bill for the experiment.

[rse]

RG-I just waved in your direction when I saw your post.

I was at that costco by your location yesterday helping red pick out new eyeglasses.

[RattlerGator]

Good morning, rse. I so enjoyed our earlier breakfast.

[hoyden]

One more to entice you with jim nj's TWIP link.

THE WEEK IN PICTURES: GREEN NUDE EEL EDITION

It ought to be pretty obvious by now that AOC is to unintelligence what Ilhan Omar is to mendacity. And as for the Green Nude Eel, or Green New Deal, or whatever Nancy Pelosi calls it, I say Boo. Cows say, Mooo! (And hat tip to Sarah Hunt for the headline suggestion.)

[RattlerGator]

I do not understand why Manafort is in solitary confinement. Has his attorney filed any sort of protest? Is his life in danger so that he has to be kept by himself?

Seems to me this is excessive.

Posted by: MissMarple2 | February 15, 2019 at 07:59 PM

He's there, MM, because [1] they probably fear a Seth Rich event happening to him, and [2] he's supposedly lying to protect the big, bad Russian Oleg Deripaska who is probably the key to all of the *real* Russian collusion.

If Manafort has already flipped (and they are allowing the public show of inconsistent lying to help protect him), they need to keep him alive. At least until more money laundering cases, etc., are far enough along in the process for convictions to be likely.

That's my 4D chess opinion.

[Bela1]

Ah yes the Old Amtrak days...rather than trying to hop on the back of a train to get a thrill as a kid, I was now an adult traveling with husband & strangers to places I had not been to before ....It had to be one of my first trips from South Station so by the time we reached CT I was feeling bored but still anxious. I had also warned hub to just stick with a cold beer but no.. he didn’t listen. The rum & cokes soon warmed the cockles of this young heart. I glanced about the car seeing my fellow passengers reading, writing, or with headsets on, while my hubby started to snore ... then, suddenly, out of my throat came the spirit of Peggy Lee! As I started to sing a 3rd Sinatra tune I witnessed the magic spread from seat to seat, car to car. Many more voices started to chime in! Our Grand finale was NYNY. I can’t compare that experience to getting bus loads of people to squeal like pigs coming back from the Topsfield Fair but it sure made 4hrs on track a FUN ride.

[hrtshpdbox]

Section 1256 [the tax section dealing with future contracts] is premised on the doctrine of constructive receipt because the taxpayer who trades futures contracts receives profits as matter of right daily. Id. at 157, 1981 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 256. Under this doctrine, "[i]ncome although not actually reduced to a taxpayer's possession is constructively received by him in the taxable year during which it is ... made available so that he may draw upon it at any time...." Treas.Reg. § 1.451-2(a) (as amended in 1979).
. . .
Because of the unique accounting method governing futures contracts, the gains inherent in them are properly treated as constructively received.

I can't agree with the first paragraph, even if it's part and parcel of prevailing law. Although a futures account reflects balance daily on current value of open contracts, it doesn't afford a greater access to those funds than a margined security account does - both balances allow the investor to borrow down to their maintenance margin levels.

Since it's an apt explanation of why securities accounts should not be treated as futures accounts, it's worth looking at WHY futures accounts are marked to market - I remember when they weren't. Back then, traders could use futures markets to ensure they paid little or no taxes on investment for a year by putting on a "tax straddle" sometime in mid-year and unwinding one side of it on the last trading day of the year and then, albeit with one day's of trading risk, close out the position on the first day of the year.

It worked like this. You're a metals trader and that's all you do - make short-term trades in gold and silver. But come August or September, you'll put on a huge straddle in some market you don't know a thing about, except that the market tends to take long, slow advances or declines in price. And you don't care which. So you buy 50 contracts of, say, next year's March soybean oil while selling 50 contracts of November soybean oil. The margin required to do such a trade is not large, as the position is effectively hedged by being both long and short. In the real non-Wall Street wise guy world, a trade like this is absolutely effective for farmers and processors to reduce risk in their business; for you, though, it's just a way to beat the tax man. So, on the last day of business for the year, you see that you're making $125k on your long May, and losing $138k on your November shorts - it's not even because the difference between delivery month prices will fluctuate due to various market positions. You buy in your Novembers and wipe out a good deal of your profit for the year, and on the first trading day in January you sell out the Mays. In this example the trader has lost roughly 13k, but he's happy to have his tax burdened reduced by much more than that; if the loss side was less than the gain side, it would have just been extra gravy.

So, the feds finally figured this out and made all futures positions marked-to-market. This is so, so, so much different than people holding long-term positions in stocks where they often don't intend to sell ever, leaving their dividend-paying stock to their spouse and/or kids. Trying to tax those gains (or allow deductions for those losses) year by year would be a nightmare, a disincentive to business in that a new and harsh tax system would need to be adhered to, and a general government asset grab (the kind conservatives particularly do not like).

[MissMarple2]

Good morning!

Hi RG! Glad to see you stopped by!

I slept in and then had to herd the dogs outside and make coffee.

I will go see what's happening now and grab links.

[Manuel Transmission]

Hoyden, Over on Amtrak plotting my next trip to Bellingham.

Doncha be doing that without squeezing a day side trip to the islands!

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/LarrySchweikart/status/1096756274094469120

For those who missed it yesterday, here is another thread explaining the sequential roll-out of the money from different sources.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/15/nadler-trump-saying-he-didnt-need-to-declare-emergency-a-body-blow-to-his-case/

[pagar]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-checking-trump-s-speech-declaring-national-emergency-border-wall-n972116?cid=eml_nbn_20190215&fbclid=IwAR29jmldGN8T-jxj2CRijqm1t8vT82ibPrAZ5YtwHw8OZrwpNQVJOIFWNWU

"TRUMP EFFECT
Fact-checking Trump's speech declaring a national emergency to pay for border wall"

IMO, NBC could not fact check any thing.

[Old Lurker]

Good morning, MM.

Shall we erase yesterday and resume our friendship?

[MissMarple2]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1096241221188620289.html

Discussion of wall construction, military and police deployment, new equipment (that I wasn't aware existed) etc.

This is written in a pro-Trump style, so don't read it if you are looking for something drier.

[MissMarple2]

Good morning, Old Lurker.

Yes, let bygones be bygones. After all, I want you to keep that bottle of Beefeaters for me on the Ledge! :-)

[MissMarple2]

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-authorities-president-trump-using-build-border-wall?platform=hootsuite

[Buckeye]

The Libtards will level a full frontal assault on Trump's national emergency declaration.

They will expose themselves for the unhinged lunatics they are.

Fully exploited, could lockup desired results for 2020, IF the Repukes aren't busy stabbing Trump in the back.

You can find me on The Ledge. I'll be the guy at the bar with the half empty bottle of Jameson.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/15/maxine-waters-calls-for-rallies-across-america-to-send-trump-a-message-no-fake-emergency/

Any rally called by Maxine Waters is somewhere I wouldn't go within 5 miles of.

[Old Lurker]

MM, I keep a case of Beefeaters in my special stash since I know that sooner or later you are going to join us up here. You are a tough cookie so I expect you will be last into the lifeboat! We save a space for you anyway.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

RG!! :)

[Bela1]

Hoyden, those pics are great! Thx for sharing
GM Miss M
Hi there RG!
I’m still quite amused over what the Dems have exposed just this past week
Nancy needs to go - along with Cortez! And a few others. What’s so scary about them are the many followers who believe their every word as if it’s Gospel. It’s not!
Why doesn’t anyone ever call them on their nonsense?
IMHO the whole lot of those elected females in white who refused to publicly condemn infanticide are a national disgrace!!
We learned Lizzie the Fake lied & despite the actual proof we see no outrage at all. President Trump is the best! but what is up with the inept GOP? Open your damn mouths now & denounce this madness, you idiots! And hey, how about that anti Semite spouting her disgusting crap all over the place without being called on it or sanctioned or removed? How in hell did she or Cortez even warrant slots on important committees? This is so dangerous to our national security efforts!
I think the lot of these lawmakers should be tied up and with each taking turns read out loud their official oaths of Office repeatedly, for hours, or days, or even months until it sinks in & they do their jobs! if not, expel each or they get locked up for sedition! They should share cells in the general populace of any fed penitentiary with Hillary, Obama, McCabe, Peter Poophead, Comey, Clapper, etc. etc., as their primary bitches.

[RattlerGator]

Greetings to the rascally OL!

* * *

Re the Infantry being trained as a specialized force

I also like the comparison to submariners in the navy. They were treated well because of their more hazardous duty.

Posted by: jim nj | February 16, 2019 at 02:38 AM

Agreed.

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Trying to tax those gains (or allow deductions for those losses) year by year would be a nightmare, a disincentive to business in that a new and harsh tax system would need to be adhered to, and a general government asset grab (the kind conservatives particularly do not like).

Posted by: hrtshpdbox | February 16, 2019 at 07:58 AM

Hell of a discussion, hrtshpdbox. Thanks.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2019/02/15/jim-acosta-lectures-angel-mom-problem-trumps-demonizing-illegals?utm_source=su&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=su_sh

This has several videos.

[Extraneus]

Nice Amtrak story, Bela. :-)

[Old Lurker]

RG!

Thought you were afraid to show your argumentative Jeff Sessions luvin face here anymore.

OK. We really miss having you around. How's your health?

[MissMarple2]

Today it's cold, but sunny, as it was yesterday. (We didn't get that St. Louis snow, thank goodness.)

So, the mayor has 20 crews out doing cold-patch asphalt to potholes (or as the circles I grew up in, known as chuckholes).

This has been the worst year I can remember for these things. My son and I even know where some of the worst ones around here are, and he says things to me like "Don't forget about that big one over on 31 by the Kroger."

Even our poor little street, which doesn't get much traffic, requires weaving back and forth like a slalom skier to avoid them, and we probably won't get patches until late spring.

[Manuel Transmission]

OL, per your comments about Goldwater, we were living in AZ at the time and were totally perplexed that he didn’t win in a landslide. Who would vote for that lying scum LBJ?? Of course my mom was babysitting his grandkids, so there might have been a little bias.

In later years, I learned that one of my HS classmates earned the privilege of total access to Barry’s archives which were a gold mine (heh) of photos and film of AZ. He produced a series of documentaries from that material.

[MissMarple2]

Manuel Transmission,

My folks voted for LBJ because he was a democrat (they were old-school dems) and also, my dad had spent his boyhood in Texas.

The only person I KNEW that had voted for Goldwater was Dr. Zurfas, who had a house which sat downhill from the road and on which he had put a big sign on his roof which said "Inflation is evil." LOL!

I hadn't thought about that in years until you mentioned Goldwater this morning.

[hrtshpdbox]

Thanks, RG!

[GUS]

Pin, did the WHITE RAT have a MAGA HAT on??

Miss M, you are THEEEEE best. No doubt about it.
I love you.

[GUS]

Hey RG, good to see you. Keep that fine sense of humor friend.

[MissMarple2]

So you guys can keep up with the Chicago hoax:

CWBChicago
‏ @CWBChicago

BREAKING: Two brothers held in @JussieSmollett case are no longer considered suspects and they have been released without charges. 1/2

CWBChicago
‏ @CWBChicago
11h11 hours ago

Per CPD: "Due to new evidence as a result of today's interrogations, the individuals questioned by police in the Empire case have now been released...and detectives have additional investigative work to complete." 2/2

[pagar]

What a totally useless individual. Worth none of whatever he is paid.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2019/02/15/jim-acosta-lectures-angel-mom-problem-trumps-demonizing-illegals?utm_source=su&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=su_sh

"Acosta offered a typically attention-grabbing question, demanding of Trump: “What do you say to your critics who say that you are creating a national emergency? That you are concocting a national emergency in order to get your wall? Because you couldn’t get it through other means.” "
Because of the blockage of a totally useless political party who cares only for illegals, not legal American citizens.

[MissMarple2]

After declaring a national emergency, President @realDonaldTrump is briefed by U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, Commanding General Ltg. Todd T. Semonite on the status to date of the border wall - and all future construction, to begin along the southern border... pic.twitter.com/ukT6pQweAQ

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) February 16, 2019

Photo at link.

[henry]

“Additional investigative work” is Chicagoese for “find more people to get bribes from”

[Another Bob]

Jimnj et al. I’m no tax accountant nor lawyer, but with you on the taxation of an unrealized gain. Just doesn’t sound right.

On twitter, TM reminded me that one of the ways that unrealized wealth is used is using shares as collateral for loans. What would you all think about an excise tax on loan proceeds backed by pledged shares?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-declaration-of-national-emergency-was-unnecessarily-dramatic-victor-davis-hanson

What do you guys think?

[henry]

Why the desire for new taxes?

[GUS]

Henry, believe it or not, THE BOY turned 18 today!!

[henry]

Miss M, nitwits worried about style vs substance. Not even gonna read past the headline.

[GUS]

The CHICAGO PD is playing JUSSIE SMULLOTT like a FIDDLE.

BLACK GAY FULL COMMIE. The ALL GONE MACHINE is getting warmed up.

[henry]

GUS, happy birthday to the boy! Didn’t Alice Cooper have a song about that event?

[Extraneus]

Good question, henry. Has the problem been defined, or only the solutions?

[GUS]

Oh Yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSxuXsyanCI

[Another Bob]

Not exactly a “desire”, but if our host and AOC’s gubbmint seem intent on going after wealth and not just income, let’s at least kick around what’s more sensible?

[Narciso79]

Interesting detail:

https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/1096507435257348096

[Another Bob]

Ext, seems the problem is very well-defined to me - the AOC’s (and our host, it appears) want to confiscate some proportion of wealth via taxation.

[RattlerGator]

OL, when me and Jeff visit the Ledge there's gonna be hell to pay, bwah, HELL TO PAY !!!

Gus, same to you my man.

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I know I've missed quite a few discussions but it *is* the considered opinion here that our President is handling his business rather nicely . . . correct ???

[Captain Hate]

What do you guys think?

Do any of them believe in national sovereignty? It's amusing to hear a jizzmop like Messina lecture on separation of powers after the Bathhouse Rat ruled by executive orders.

The real story is what a seditious pile of shit the GOP is.

[Narciso79]

I compared it to the kobayashi Maru, the announcement was kind of uneventful, the press didnt realize they were hanging off the cliff.

[Old Lurker]

MM, the only thing I can think is that by declaring the emergency he takes a decisive action that will reassure the base. An "event" in other words. The alternative of just proceeding by moving appropriated money in the ordinary course of business will become background noise so he loses the sizzle.

I remain confused why he didn't veto and force an override (except for the chance that wouldn't occur fast enough to avoid a shutdown but that could have been helped by a one week CR "so we can read this thing...") My concern is that there will be 1,1067 places for litigation in those 1,107(?) pages of Dem Drafted Law, and as the case moves through the courts, the argument is going to be that a POTUS has EmO powers but only as limited by laws, and, your honor, just today the POTUS signed a new law which takes those powers away as to a wall because P.496, 603,797,1100..."

And signing it bothers some in the base so those worriers will, well, worry.

[Another Bob]

RG, cracks appear to be developing in the pro-Trump JOM wall.

There is a sense that Trump caved on the shutdown, and that this may be a symptom of a general weakening in his position. (That seems a fair paraphrase.)

[Narciso79]

Well because these people would screw up a one car parade, the possums are as useless as when Flynn wrote term limits 20 some years ago.

[sbwaters]

MM: What do you guys think?

That they should be embarrassed to claim the media will have a field day and then attend the party.

[Catsmeat]

Hi, RG! We've missed you!

[Old Lurker]

RG "considered opinion here that our President is handling his business rather nicely . . . correct ???"

Yes but for quibbling around the edges. (That is my role)

Especially since it becomes so obvious that he really is fighting all alone inside the Beltway and as far as I can see is about the only politician fighting for "Truth, Justice and the American Way".

[lurkersusie]

Why does a VICTIM need a defense attorney?

Rafer Weigel
@RaferWeigel
High-profile #Chicago defense attorney Michael Monico let it be known he was representing #JussieSmollett on @RoeConn
radio show today. Monico also represents #MichaelCohen. He's considered one of the best defense lawyers in the country.

[Narciso79]

Hey rg, how have you been?

I thought Cohens atty was the ex cop, my advice jessie find some non extradition country

[MissMarple2]

Old Lurker,

Those two threads posted by Narciso79 and myself seem to indicate that while there is a lot of smoke and noise about the emergency declaration, the other money from the DoD and other sources can be used and construction will continue.

Larry Schweikhart's source says that they cannot file a lawsuit until they actually use the EO money. I am not a lawyer so I am taking his word for it.

What I want to know is why the GOP isn't asking the democrats what possible excuse they have for blocking this. They should be put on the spot.

They know this is a national security issue, which is why they keep saying it's a made-up crisis. Crime statistics and welfare costs tell a different tale. I think they should be questioned repeatedly about this, because as I have said before, I am convinced the democrats are getting money to block Trump's actions, and it comes from the cartels and possibly Iran (LOTS of Middle Eastern people have been apprehended trying to sneak in).

[henry]

Lurkersusie, part of the problem is no one should trust law enforcement— they are on their own side, not the victim’s side. (This is a simple matter of legal responsibility, not a condemnation of law enforcement per se).

[Old Lurker]

MM "What I want to know is why the GOP isn't asking the democrats what possible excuse they have for blocking this."

Because they are a division of the enemy army.

[Narciso79]

I'm just kidding, like the procurators in the windy city are going to go after him for fraud.

[Old Lurker]

...and not just for the open borders stuff, but for their complicity in truly insane levels of unfunded federal spending.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/ignored-by-media-trump-is-using-obama-national-emergency-on-mexican-cartels-to-build-the-border-wall/

I do think this was one of my favorite things in his speech yesterday.

[Narciso79]

One could have done that, but this press corps doesn't understand irony or iron for that matter.

So McCabe should be prosecuted for perjury about his statement before the ig no, rhetorical

[Captain Hate]

and not just for the open borders stuff, but for their complicity in truly insane levels of unfunded federal spending.

Like how "budgetary genius" Ryan used the power of the purse to fund every damn bit of the Obama agenda? If that worthless blowhard, Huge Hewitt, ever wanted to have one iota of credibility in conservative circles, he'd replay daily his 2010 interview with Ryan where he relentlessly demanded major spending cuts, none of which happened.

[MissMarple2]

This is interesting:

https://cbs4indy.com/2019/02/15/breaking-the-code-for-pain-iu-researchers-develop-blood-test-that-can-track-patient-pain/

[Narciso79]

As I was pondering last night, the Ukrainians paid a lot of coin and they got bumpkins who did the lobbyists bribe I mean convince?

[Skoot]

So Cortez "The Job Killer" is getting pilloried by DiCommio and Fredo Cuomo and Trump's wall is a go. Good Times

[Captain Hate]

Does anyone doubt that CBS will edit the interview per McCabe's wishes?

[Narciso79]

Very likely, New York is looking at efny as a how to manual.

[pagar]

What a sad day for America.

"Because her racism was so apparent the liberal voters of Minnesota decided to send her to Congress."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/inside_the_mind_of_ilhan_omar.html

[MissMarple2]

https://spectator.us/deep-blob/

Roger Kimball reminds readers what the entire scandal is really about.

[MissMarple2]

From Nick Sandmann's libel attorney:

Lin Wood
‏ @LLinWood
2m2 minutes ago

Nick Sandmann is 16 years old & has 2 1/2+ years to identify accusers & sue them. No member of mainstream & social media mob who attacked him should take comfort from not being sued in initial round of lawsuits which will commence next week. Time is Nick’s friend, not his enemy.

[Captain Hate]

Again, I'd caution Roger Kimball that in stating that Rosenstein offered to wear a wire several times, he's accepting the accusations of a proven liar as fact.

[D]

RG and Bela1:
Good to see you both!
Bela1:
We traveled by Amtrak from Cleveland to Albany to go skiing at Bromley Vermont.
Rent a car in Albany and you are on the slopes in an hour and a half.Downside, train left Cleveland at 2 on the morning.
RG:
I also agree with Rocco wrt Rosenstein.
We will see how this all plays out. CBS will cut out part of interview where McCabe admits to the soft coup.
It is the real information that could bury Mueller and destroy his investigation.

[MissMarple2]

http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/15/7-big-takeaways-andrew-mccabes-planned-coup/#.XGgfu6pCoLE.twitter

Captain Hate, in this article the author says McCabe might be telling the truth about Rosenstein.

I wonder if there is stuff we don't know about which makes people think it might be true. I have no idea. My general impression of Rosenstein is that of a guy who sucks up to whoever is in charge. That may be unfair, but that's how I feel.

[D]

CH:
Wearing the wire?
A pretty elaborate lie.
Let us see if it holds up.
McCabe is in real trouble anyway you slice it.
He seems determined to paint his part in the coup as one of a concerned citizen.
Don’t make me laugh.
He was mad as hell that Hillary lost and saw his whole spy plan going up in smoke.
I am willing to bet he instigated the insurance plan.
How dare he try to undo a legitimate election?
Drunk with absolute power , he needs to have the book thrown at him.
He wants to soften up a jury with this self righteous tour.

[Narciso79]

Again were going by the ig statement which he partially refuted, but there would be communications with other parties to verify.

[Bela1]

Hi Pagar,
>In a 2012 tweet she wrote, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel."<
Yet no one calls this anti-Semite on it? I’d like to sit that dumb ass down and make her watch a copy of a PP that PM Sharon brought President Bush and ask her about all of those children, all of those innocent people just going about their business that we’re bombed on buses, in discos, in streets, synagogues, retaurants etc for the sake of Allah! What a disgusting ignorant tool!

[D]

Rosenstein is not a person to be trusted.

[Buckeye]

Somebody needs to make book on whether AOC or Omar is first to have an "accident" with an exercise machine.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

One of the reasons we don't tax unrealized gains is because they aren't static...and because they aren't and may never be realized.
How would the system work if one has to pay $1 million in taxes on unrealized gains on say your Sears stock. Thirty years later does the government owe you a check for $1miillion because your unrealized gain is now a realized and irretrievable loss?

And I'm not too clear on when this tax is triggered...or how often it's triggered. People's fortunes wax and wain, are they taxed one year but not the next? Is the tax a once in a lifetime event? It might function as an estate tax but don't we kind of already do that?

How bout instead we spend this energy forcing the Feds to live within their constitutional mandate which will result in a vast decrease in the need for taxes.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

It seems unlikely to me that the president would not know definitively whether his deputy AG was involved in a coup attempt.
If that is true, and it is very difficult for me to imagine a situation in which it is not, it is also inconceivable to me that the deputy AG would still work for the guy he plotted to overthrow.

[GUS]

Amazon told the BARTENDER to fuck herself.

She claims some sort of COMMUNIST VICTORY.