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Sounds like Germans elected some copies of Democrats aka Nazis, apparently Nationalist Socialists known as AfD . . .

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I just can't believe that Merkel is still in office.

I'm selfishly kind of happy about that though. Let them keep up the status quo over there and allow the rest of the world to see how bad things get.

Sorry Germans.

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I just can't believe that Merkel is still in office.

I'm selfishly kind of happy about that though. Let them keep up the status quo over there and allow the rest of the world to see how bad things get.

Sorry Germans.

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You should feel sorrier for Americans.
Whatever disasters you imagine for Germany, America will get there first because of its policies toward the wealthy:

Insanely Concentrated Wealth Is Strangling Our Prosperity
http://angrybearblog.com/2017/09/insanely-concentrated-wealth-is-stran
gling-our-prosperity.html
American households’ total wealth is about $95 trillion. That’s more than three-quarters of a million dollars for every American household. But roughly 50% of households have zero or negative wealth. In 1976 the richest people had $35 million each (in 2014 dollars). In 2014 they had $420 million each.

The economy really is broken — but we know how to fix it.
Median household income is back to its 1999 level. Hooray?
www.vox.com/2017/9/19/16319416/broken-economy
People at the bottom of the income distribution are worse off than they were in 1999, and America’s poverty rate — always high by international standards — remains higher than it was in the past. This is not a situation that anyone should feel okay about. But it’s also a situation that can be redressed without reinventing the wheel or embracing the wilder strains of nationalism and neo-Marxism that are growing in popularity in the face of mainstream political complacency. What we need to do is tax the rich, spend the money on the poor, and prioritize fighting recessions as a core economic policy mission that’s more important than low inflation or high bank profits.

GOP leaders circulating plan that could end up as massive tax cut for the wealthy
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/24/gop-leaders-circulating
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White House officials and Republican leaders are preparing a set of broad income and corporate tax cuts while also looking for a way to keep their plan from being a massive windfall for the wealthiest Americans, two people familiar with the plan said.

Party leaders are quietly circulating proposals to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent and lower the top individual income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent, according to the people familiar with the plan.

White House advisers are divided over whether to cut the top individual tax rate, and Republican leaders, aware the plan could be construed as a huge giveaway to the wealthy, are trying to design features to the package that would ensure that the rich don't get too large a share of the plan's tax relief.

Top White House negotiators and key GOP leaders have agreed on those targets, but apparently President Trump has not. On Sunday, as he was about to board Air Force One in New Jersey, Trump told reporters he hoped to see the corporate tax rate lowered to 15 percent, a level that his own negotiators had privately dismissed weeks ago.

“We'll see what happens, but I hope it's going to be 15 percent,” he told reporters. “But it's going to be substantially lower so we bring jobs back to the country.”

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Obama got low income levels back down to 1999 levels....
Well, that was what he was elected for, what he promised to do, and what he worked feverishly to accomplish, when not playing golf. Good on you all who wanted that.
You won, America lost.

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I just can't believe that Merkel is still in office.

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We know. You predicted repeatedly she would be deposed. It's all in the predictions thread.

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We know. You predicted repeatedly she would be deposed. It's all in the predictions thread.

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Obama got low income levels back down to 1999 levels....
Well, that was what he was elected for, what he promised to do, and what he worked feverishly to accomplish, when not playing golf. Good on you all who wanted that.
You won, America lost.

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POSTSCRIPT: The Washington Post also reports that Congressional Republicans are “looking for a way to keep their tax plan from being a massive windfall for the wealthiest Americans.” Ha ha ha ha. Sure they are. DC journalists crack me up sometimes.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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