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How loving dumb would you have to be to sign on to the notion of doing away with the IRS? I'm thinking pretty much "medically diagnosable" dumb but I'm open to counterpoints.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:If you're stupid enough to live in Indiana you're stupid enough to vote for Cruz. Hey! I'll probably vote for... Bernie. 
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a nice reminder for everybody who's worried that if cruz gets the nomination, he'll have more than a snowball's chance of winning.
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Is there a good article explaining the nuances of Delegate selection, and how the delegates that are ostensibly pledged for Trump end up being Cruz supporters? I get that Cruz is somehow recruiting second ballot candidates, but how that process is games or manipulated is pretty opaque to me.
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Vox Nihili posted:How loving dumb would you have to be to sign on to the notion of doing away with the IRS? I'm thinking pretty much "medically diagnosable" dumb but I'm open to counterpoints. When your entire plan is to introduce a massive tax cut to the richest people and gently caress the poor in about 20 different ways.
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Vox Nihili posted:How loving dumb would you have to be to sign on to the notion of doing away with the IRS? I'm thinking pretty much "medically diagnosable" dumb but I'm open to counterpoints. Dumb enough to put your SSN on a post card, at least.
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Writing your SSN on a postcard is a really good idea. 
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https://twitter.com/dbernstein/status/720255177933135872
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Vox Nihili posted:How loving dumb would you have to be to sign on to the notion of doing away with the IRS? I'm thinking pretty much "medically diagnosable" dumb but I'm open to counterpoints. If you literally believe that the U.S. Government is the tool of the devil or some other bullshit.
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Up escalators, not stairs, surely.
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Of course! There won't be any IRS to audit you anyway!
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Tsundere for Trump 
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Like a dog!
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Daniel Bryan posted:When your entire plan is to introduce a massive tax cut to the richest people and gently caress the poor in about 20 different ways. That's just boilerplate GOP policy, though, "abolishing" the IRS is barely even related. What Cruz is selling is more akin to immediately shuttering the entire United States federal government.
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Jeez this is dumb. Right off the bat, I'm wondering how I calculate line 4? What qualifies as a deduction? I assume I'll need another worksheet (and therefore tax software) for that? And what if I have non-wage income - where do my social security and medicare taxes, and non-wage income, go? Does the IRS still exist for everyone who receives a 1099 or does work for themselves? The answer to these questions is, of course, that the form doesn't take any of those situations into account because nothing about Cruz's plan is designed to actually be implemented. It's empty political pandering.
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Dalaram posted:Is there a good article explaining the nuances of Delegate selection, and how the delegates that are ostensibly pledged for Trump end up being Cruz supporters? I get that Cruz is somehow recruiting second ballot candidates, but how that process is games or manipulated is pretty opaque to me. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/10/a_contested_republican_convention_explained.html
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squidgee posted:It's empty political pandering. Ya think?
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Travolata was great in Grease, thus defeating both the anti-musical crowd and the anti-Travolta crowd in one fell swoop. Also, Megyn Kelly and Trump are both working for the Hillary campaign to undermine the GOP from within. Bill O'Reilly too. And the entire GOP too.
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smg77 posted:http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/10/a_contested_republican_convention_explained.html Much appreciated!
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TRUMP! *blindly fills in circles on ballot from under the powertrain unit of a bulldozer*
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zoux posted:Ya think? It's just so blatant for a frontrunner. Usually this stuff is reserved for the <10% poll number loonies.
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Elephanthead posted:Trump does not have stairs? Stairs are for losers, winners ride escalators.
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Vox Nihili posted:That's just boilerplate GOP policy, though, "abolishing" the IRS is barely even related. What Cruz is selling is more akin to immediately shuttering the entire United States federal government. Well yeah but my point was that it's just a side effect of his flat tax plan that is automatically a regressive tax on the poor. But yeah someone whoever said this is just blatant pandering is right.
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squidgee posted:It's just so blatant for a frontrunner. Usually this stuff is reserved for the <10% poll number loonies. True. I was actually wondering if there's ever been a GE candidate that had a flat tax policy.
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This is stupid on so many levels. Before I even get to the content, why the hell is it such a low quality image? It's barely readable! Also this doesn't seem much like a flat tax with all these deductions and tax credits. Also also this seems fundamentally identical to the tax forms we have now, except with a single tax bracket and no explanations for anything. But I think the key thing is point 1: He doesn't expect any of his supporters to actually read it, so why would it matter?
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GlyphGryph posted:Also also this seems fundamentally identical to the tax forms we have now, except with a single tax bracket and no explanations for anything. That's the other awesome thing about this plan - that's basically just a form 1040 with all the instructions removed so it fits on a postcard.
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squidgee posted:It's just so blatant for a frontrunner. Usually this stuff is reserved for the <10% poll number loonies. Cruz is a <10% polls number loonie in spirit. Sad.
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I have a one line tax form proposal: "Put how much your income you think should be taxed here. Don't worry, we'll do the math later." Since that's functionally identical to what he's already proposed anyway.
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whatever happened to the sex scandal that was going to destroy cruz
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GlyphGryph posted:I have a one line tax form proposal: Ben Carson's tithe plan is real!
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GlyphGryph posted:This is stupid on so many levels. It's just one of those seems-like-common-sense things that the right is always peddling toward low info voters. A flat tax, charging everyone the same, seems like a fair, simple idea until you drill down and look at total income shares going to critical needs, loopholes and tax tricks that favor people who can pay a lot for good accountants, etc. It's like "run government like a business" and "government finance is identical to household finance" that trades on the incuriousness of the right's base.
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Negligent posted:whatever happened to the sex scandal that was going to destroy cruz Nothing. None of the women admitted to it and the video showing him leaving hotels with women not named Heidi has not been released.
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Negligent posted:whatever happened to the sex scandal that was going to destroy cruz The world's population couldn't stomach the thought of Ted Cruz having sex long enough for it to become a big deal.
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Negligent posted:whatever happened to the sex scandal that was going to destroy cruz Remember in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy where their ship had a cloaking device that made it so the ship was "somebody else's problem" and thus no one wanted to look at it? The idea of sex with Ted Cruz is having the same effect. He could be loving in the reflecting pool and the news would report on mysterious ghost splashes at the capitol.
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