Article II Section 4 posted:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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By this term are included all officers of the United States who hold their appointments under the national government, whether their duties are executive or judicial, in the highest or the lowest departments; of the government, with the exception of officers of the army and navy.

Avalanche posted:

gently caress the VA and everyone that works there. All providers and staff are clearly at fault for not being able to hack it.

10:1 patient/nurse ratio? Nurses should be running half marathons daily in preparation.
Salaries often below the median for any given profession? gently caress you, you are on the govt. dole.
Outdated equipment? Well, if it worked in 1972 there's no reason why it shouldn't work now.

We don't need to increase the VA budget to hire more staff/modernize equipment to fix the "VA problem". What we should do is turn all VA hospital waiting rooms into a Korean War vet against Vietnam vet Thunderdome, and only let the most badass see a doc for treatment of service connected conditions.

Actually, lets just dump the entire VA altogether and build 2 more F35s.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/nominations-and-appointments

I see the names of 1,471 people that could use a good impeachment, what do you think?

e: My mistake, 240 have not been confirmed. Still, 1,231 impeachment proceedings is the only logical measure given this President's lawlessness.

Gyges posted:

I wonder if by impeachment proceeding 85, The Architect of the Capitol, even the guy who made the Obama-witchdoctor poster would think it a bit much.

Joementum posted:

Michele might even be able to persuade one of her colleagues to impeach the Architect of the Capitol, since that's who made Steve Stockman take down his "Obama Failometer" poster.

Shear Modulus posted:

e: Anecdote since this comes up in this thread recently: One of their recent editorial pieces (it was about the Scotland independence referendum) used the word "statist" unironically about economic policy. It made me wonder whether that newly created slur had been a top-down or bottom-up creation.

VideoTapir posted:

Has there ever been a right-wing ANYTHING that was not a top-down creation?

Gail Wynand posted:

So I was just listening to Mark Levin's show from yesterday and he talked at length about how Obama's worse abuse of power yet is set to happen at the end of the summer. He was very vague on what that would be though. Did I miss some Fox News rumor or is this just generic fearmongering?

Gail Wynand posted:

So I was just listening to Mark Levin's show from yesterday and he talked at length about how Obama's worst abuse of power yet is set to happen at the end of the summer. He was very vague on what that would be though. Did I miss some Fox News rumor or is this just generic fearmongering?

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The latter portion of the Treasury statement may refer to a practice known as earnings stripping, in which companies with legal addresses outside the U.S. load up their U.S. subsidiaries with debt and other deductions. Although they are still subject to U.S. income taxes on their domestic profits, the companies are able to push those profits outside the U.S.

A 2007 Treasury Department study found evidence that inverted companies engage in earnings stripping.

Stephen Shay, the former top international tax lawyer at Treasury, suggested two possibilities for addressing inversions, both of which he said could be accomplished by regulation.

One would characterize some debt of inverted companies as equity. That would prevent companies from engaging in earnings stripping because they wouldn’t be able to get the same deductions for interest expenses in the U.S.

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Hello? That sure sounds like rewriting tax law by executive fiat, which violates the Constitution's separation of powers. The rewrite is all the more legally suspicious since no one at Treasury or the Justice Department seems to have been aware of this power before Mr. Obama began denouncing the "unpatriotic tax loophole." From where does Mr. Lew derive this power to act like a one-man Ways and Means Committee?

SquadronROE posted:

Obama will give food to the hungry and clothe the needy.

Fried Chicken posted:

So we are almost out of money to fight wildfires

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/money-allocated-suppressing-fires-run-out


Cool, not like we are in the middle if a huge multistate drought or anything that would leave a lot if dry, flammable material around. Everything is awesome

Shifty Pony posted:

Remember how a ton of companies (particularly pharma) have been moving their corporate headquarters to the UK in name only in order to dodge a fuckton of US taxes through what is called an "inversion"?

It looks like the Treasury has figured out a way to kneecap them by preventing a common accounting trick that moves profits offshore by loading up the US division with a ton of debt for which the interest payments are deductible:


As you can imagine the usual suspects who benefit from such accounting trickery are really mad:


The best part of the proposed change in treatment is that companies which have already inverted are going to be royally hosed because their planned upon tax dodge is going to go poof.

Shifty Pony posted:

Remember how a ton of companies (particularly pharma) have been moving their corporate headquarters to the UK in name only in order to dodge a fuckton of US taxes through what is called an "inversion"?

It looks like the Treasury has figured out a way to kneecap them by preventing a common accounting trick that moves profits offshore by loading up the US division with a ton of debt for which the interest payments are deductible:


As you can imagine the usual suspects who benefit from such accounting trickery are really mad:


The best part of the proposed change in treatment is that companies which have already inverted are going to be royally hosed because their planned upon tax dodge is going to go poof.

Shifty Pony posted:

Remember how a ton of companies (particularly pharma) have been moving their corporate headquarters to the UK in name only in order to dodge a fuckton of US taxes through what is called an "inversion"?

It looks like the Treasury has figured out a way to kneecap them by preventing a common accounting trick that moves profits offshore by loading up the US division with a ton of debt for which the interest payments are deductible:


As you can imagine the usual suspects who benefit from such accounting trickery are really mad:


The best part of the proposed change in treatment is that companies which have already inverted are going to be royally hosed because their planned upon tax dodge is going to go poof.

Good Citizen posted:

This is really interesting. Just a few days ago I was talking with someone about how there was no chance inversions were going to see a meaningful change until the next large scandal forces Congress's hand.

I'd really like to see the specifics of treasury's proposed changes and an explanation of how they have the authority to make them.

Sephiroth_IRA posted:

Shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet. House the people, living in the streets.

edit: I like how when Walgreens backed down their stock price fell significantly because doing the right thing is bad for shareholders.

SedanChair posted:

SquadronROE posted:

Well, you see, Obama. And furthermore, Benghazi and remember the 17.

GROVER CURES HOUSE posted:

In a just world, these people would be decorating lampposts.

TheRamblingSoul posted:

Huh. Well, shucks, that's a shame.

Now let's buy another F-35! Why? We don't know!

TheRamblingSoul posted:

Huh. Well, shucks, that's a shame.

Now let's buy another F-35! Why? We don't know!

Shifty Pony posted:

Well that's the general non-financial-industry consensus yes. That makes for godawful optics for the GOP if they oppose the treasury moving on inversions. It is one thing to sit back and stymie any fixes to the tax code in committee but it is quite another to go out and advocate for what most people would see as the worst kind of BS corporate tax dodging.

Then again they are suing Obama over not implementing a law they hate fast enough so...

Badera posted:

Wrong again.

Dreylad posted:

Occupy Atlanta is still at it, protesting Fannie Mae's evictions of poor veterans.

SedanChair posted:

Who gave the top-down directive then

Gail Wynand posted:

So I was just listening to Mark Levin's show from yesterday and he talked at length about how Obama's worst abuse of power yet is set to happen at the end of the summer. He was very vague on what that would be though. Did I miss some Fox News rumor or is this just generic fearmongering?

Shifty Pony posted:

The disgusting thing is that these inversions are absolutely godawful for long-term shareholders. The instant the inversion occurs you owe capital gains on all the stock you had.

Badera posted:

It was my understanding that the whole thing was run/operated by the white upper class in the south following Reconstruction