SnakeRiverLib

We could be seeing a tax bill signed before the end of the year.  Senate GOP coming together to actually get something done.  A bonus is the elimination of the Individual Mandate of the ACA.  I will be honest, and tell you that I don't like either of the bills.  When they use terms like "revenue neutral" or "middle class tax cuts", you know it really isn't reform, and it really isn't much of a cut.  But doing a comprehensive reform of tax law (as in starting over, and eliminating  the whole thing) cuts out a half a trillion dollar a year industry, and that won't happen.  Democrats biggest fear is that as emasculated as this "reform" or whatever it is is, will work, in spite of the GOP's best attempts to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Kate Steinle's killer was acquitted of murder, and even manslaughter.  But he was convicted of a weapon's charge.  Unbelievable.  Was it an accident?  Who cares?  He illegally possessed,...

Dear Conservative, Are you tired of the GOP letting you down?  Are you tired of the constant broken promises? I was you in 2014.  Or rather, 2015, when the GOP controlled Senate was unable to do all of the things that they said "if only we had the Senate" on.  Quoting Roberto Duran, I said "No mas". I voted for Trump, after dallying with Gary Johnson.  I have spent the last year defending the President on these pages, which you are no doubt aware.  He is not the autocrat, fill in the blank -ist, or -obic.  He is apolitical, but is running true to the conservative message.  What about Senator McConnell, the one who couldn't get his Senate to fulfill its promise?  Yes, we are getting good originalist judges.  But repealing Ocare?  What about real tax reform?  The Democrats we can excuse, but the GOP?  I don't think that they are serious about reform.  Yes, we can point at the Senate RINOs, but really it's McConnell...

Sort of a paraphrase of a Joe Walsh album (You bought it, you name it) I was at Sonic getting some food way too late tonight, and what did I hear on Sonic Radio while waiting for my order?  Kashmir by Led Zeppelin , what an awesome song, I stayed after my order, until the song was done.  Seemed odd that it was on the Sonic Playlist, don't you think?  Here is a much later, live version, with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbeilE0UrQ I really don't think Republicans want to be a majority.  I think they just want to go back to being the opposition party, where they all hung out after work and  went home and lied to their constituents.  They would spend their time f u ndraising against whatever the Democrats were doing. They may get their wish I have already written about Roy Moore in AL.  Won't write more until we  KNOW what happened. I think that the GOP has become the Whigs of the 1850s.  The Donald ...

I worry about the future of this nation, So many feel that the US is so oppressive,  why can't we be like everyone else?  After all, Syria signed on the Paris Accords for Climate Change, leaving the US as the only developed nation to not sign it.  Of course, what people point to when they talk about how even bad players like Assad have signed on, what does that make us?  Simple, considering that the Paris Treaty is an extortion of the US to the world, I would say pretty darn smart. Judge Moore, the candidate for US Senate in Alabama has had allegations tossed out that he had raped, or assaulted a minor many years ago.   The loudest voices seem to be Republicans calling for him to step down.  It probably doesn't even matter whether the allegations are true, it is probably the end of his political career, (and should be, if they are) and what was once a very positive chance to increase the GOP majority in the Senate is now looking more and more like ...

No doubt tomorrow we will be seeing all sorts of things regarding how much every one hates the president, and how the russians, and on and on. Truthfully, I don't know how much longer I can write this blog.  I love doing it, understand, but I feel that I have no impact, and even though I do the things that I think we should do.  Write and call congress, more and more people are just getting turned off by politics, right when we are at a very critical point. I won't go through all the names and accusations against the President.  I won't support him when he institutes a ban on this, or a ban on that.  But I would ask you to honestly answer this question. Where is the tyrant that I hear about on the news? He bans travel from countries that are either state sponsors of terror, or do not have an effective government capable of verifying the people coming here, because they are fallen states. He has laid the law down on DACA, which would have been found unconsti...

This is the only time that I will make an argument in support of revenue neutrality when it comes to how much we are slaves to the federal government. I am sick of the back and forth on what would be an extremely popular issue that all would agree needs to be done.  State and Local Tax exemptions, charitable contributions, mortgage deductions, tax credits, child tax credits, and on and on.  They could really have FIXED this, but they aren't THAT IS RIGHT!  THEY ARE ADDING TO THE TAX CODE.  ALL OF THE CRAP ABOUT REFORMING OR REPLACING THE CODE WAS EXACTLY THAT...CRAP That felt good. It is, after all, at least a $400 billion dollar industry, and that doesn't include the cost of the IRS.  That is a private sector number, so it is no wonder that they DON'T WANT TO FIX IT!   oops, sorry Start with what was brought in last year.  Take the returns, sort them, not based on Adjusted gross, but on actual.  Establish a baseline of percentages com...