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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: commonone   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Biden Economy, still strong
Date: 06/19/23 9:59 AM
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WiltonKnight: And NO income tax increases on "the rich"" ... oh, wait, one of the 401K'ers bragged about the 15% minimum tax rate - you know, the corporate tax rate that Liberals like for big rich corporations ....a 15% rate which is less than Warren Buffet's secretary would pay.

Continually repeating this doesn't sharpen the point.

Although you first brought this up as "no new taxes" and when proven wrong have shifted to no new taxes on "the rich".

Biden tried to raise taxes but was informed, as they sing in "Hamilton," "you don't have the votes" and moved on to other legislative victories. That's politics.

No president bats 100% but Biden has achieved more in two years than most presidents achieve in eight years. Yeah, he's a little clumsy and his stuttering makes him prone to verbal gaffes and makes his advisors overprotect. Actually, the guy's pretty quick on his feet when given the opportunity (as he demonstrated at the State of the Union address).

At least Biden's not advocating suspending the Constitution, appointing incompetent sycophants at the highest levels of government, wagging war with the FBI, DOJ, DoD, and our allies, kissing dictator ass, leading a coup to overthrow the government, found guilty of sexual abuse, under federal indictment and state indictment for 37 felonies, and facing at least one or two more indictments this summer.

So there's that.

If Biden was 60, 2024 would be a cake walk.
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