Ray From Cleveland
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So whats more anti-American? We have discovered that a combination of Tylenol and Aspirin is just as effective for treating pain as opoids.
Pharma companies have made billions of dollars marketing a drug they knew was highly addictive. 50K Americans a year are now dying a hear due to the crisis. Meanwhile we discover that Pharma companies are stashing their money overseas to avoid paying US taxes leaving the US public to pay to try and stop the crisis. Of course some of these costs find their way into public healthcare. Pharma also lobbies money to keep pot illegal, though it is a much safer alternative than opioids.
7 Police officers have been killed this year fighting resurgent heroin dealers who have seen their power grow due to the opioid crisis.
So whats more anti-American? Developing a drug you made billions off, putting money overseas to avoid pay taxes on said profits, forcing the US taxpayer to pay to try and resolve crisisi you created, leading to 7 police officer deaths due to rise in Heroin you created, taking no blame for it OR kneeling for an Anthem?
Why is kneeling disrespectful.
It's what Catholics do in church.
Yes, that is what Catholics do in church, but not to disrespect anything.
The protesters are kneeling because they beleive it will help in their cause for social justice.
Big pharma is lying and killing tens of thousands of Americans, mostly soldiers, to make billions of dollars and then stash the money overseas.
Their is no parallel. If you care about soldiers and the police you should be a billion times more pissed at big pharma then football players.
You are manipulated to focus on kneeleing cause it distracts you from a tax plan about to raise tazes on the middle class to give more wealth to the rich.
Its that simple. Non violent kneelers verse companies killing soldiers. Its not even close.
I'm not distracted at all. I joined the millions of others who don't turn on the NFL any longer.
Every soldier and veteran that took opioid products knew of the addiction possibilities. It's the same with non-military civilians. The drug companies simply produce the drug. Every single doctor that prescribed the drug knew of the addiction risks as well. Nothing was hidden here. If you really want to do something for our solders, support the border wall where many of these drugs enter from.
As far as taxes go, what you see today is nothing like the final product. These bills are debated, changed, and changed again before anything is written in stone. Raise tax on the middle-class? Depends on what one considers the middle-class. It's a subjective term. The people that came up with that nonsense consider people making a good six figure salary the middle-class. According to FactCheck.org:
Connelly told us that not going up to the 90th percentile “can exclude a lot of middle class families, especially when recognizing the burdens of child care costs or high cost areas.”
We’ll leave that for readers to judge.
According to the TPC, the 90th percentile is about $217,000 in “expanded cash income” or about $158,000 in adjusted gross income in 2018. Expanded cash income is pretax income that also includes employee and employer contributions to health insurance and tax-preferred retirement accounts, retirement account income, non-taxable Social Security or pension income, employer share of payroll taxes, and food stamps. Expanded cash income would be similar to the total compensation reports that some employers send annually to employees, showing not just wages but benefits paid on their behalf.
We were able to duplicate Pelosi’s math for the year 2027, showing a tax increase of nearly $73 billion that year on taxpayers at the 90th percentile and below. But that same arithmetic shows a tax cut of even more — $102 billion — on the same group of taxpayers. Most taxpayers at the 90th percentile and below — about 65 percent of them — would get a tax cut in 2027, based on our calculations of TPC data.
In other words, while some in what Pelosi considers the “middle class” would see a tax increase, according to the TPC analysis of the GOP framework, more in that same group would see a tax cut.
A Tax Hike or Benefit for the 'Middle Class'? - FactCheck.org
So what this means is that middle-class (for their calculations) are everybody that's not in poverty or the top 10% of taxpayers in the country. As the article points out, more than half (the lower half) of that group will see a tax decrease--not an increase. In other words, more Democrat lying going on here.