Draining the Swamp

[C-Mag]

Folks we are down one corrupt swamp creature since the arrest of Dr. Ahsha Nateef Tribble. Where will we ever find a replacement ?

FEMA official arrested for fraud over Hurricane Maria recovery effort in Puerto Rico-$1.8 B
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/10/fema-of ... -rico.html

Dr. Ahsha Nateef Tribble is a brief study of corruption in Washington DC. The amazing thing is we caught her relatively early. Here's some background on Dr. Tribble.

Deputy Regional Administrator at FEMA Region II
San Francisco Bay Area500+ connections

College education 1992-2012, culminating in Harvard University - Kennedy School of Government

NOAA
-Executive Officer
-Senior Policy Advisor for Weather and Climate
-Director, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Policy, National Security Staff at The White House
-Senior Director for Response, National Security Council
-Interim Deputy Homeland Security Advisor
-Senior Advisor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
-Deputy Regional Administrator. FEMA

Ahsha Tribble, end of the table on the left briefing POTUS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahsha-tribble-phd-773a6a5

[Ph64]

The Trouble with Tribble...

[C-Mag]

IG referred Comey and McCabe for prosecution...……………………… no word on if the DOJ will actually do their fucking job.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/20 ... ore-171163

[pineapplemike]

IG referred Comey and McCabe for prosecution...……………………… no word on if the DOJ will actually do their fucking job.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/20 ... ore-171163

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US closes case against ex-FBI boss McCabe with no charges
https://apnews.com/ec85aa4a4fdc5a36b7b85c7a34f1b8f9

Federal prosecutors have declined to charge former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, closing an investigation into whether he lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabe’s legal team said Friday.

The decision resolves a criminal investigation that spanned more than a year and began with a referral from the Justice Department’s inspector general, which said McCabe repeatedly lied about having authorized a subordinate to share information with a newspaper reporter for a 2016 article about an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

[C-Mag]

Tucker broke the story of pollster Frank Lutz living with self described buddy, GOP leader Kevin McCarthy.

Occams Razor is, they are gay lovers. But that aside. We have a Potomac payoff going to Luntz. McCarthy has been funneling money through various PACs to Luntz' shell companies. Nice little scam if you pull it off.

Luntz' "apartment" purchased in 2018, is four adjoining penthouse units in the Clara Barton building in Penn Quarter for a total of almost $4.3 million. Combined, the units totaled 6,960 square feet and had 12 bedrooms, 12 full bathrooms and 4 half-baths. Luntz recently rennovated the building, and it appears that GOP contributions paid for all of it, and McCarthy lived there as well.
https://unfoxnews.com/mccarthy-leadersh ... untz-firm/

Get rid of both these guys.

[The Conservative]

Tucker broke the story of pollster Frank Lutz living with self described buddy, GOP leader Kevin McCarthy.

Occams Razor is, they are gay lovers. But that aside. We have a Potomac payoff going to Luntz. McCarthy has been funneling money through various PACs to Luntz' shell companies. Nice little scam if you pull it off.

Luntz' "apartment" purchased in 2018, is four adjoining penthouse units in the Clara Barton building in Penn Quarter for a total of almost $4.3 million. Combined, the units totaled 6,960 square feet and had 12 bedrooms, 12 full bathrooms and 4 half-baths. Luntz recently rennovated the building, and it appears that GOP contributions paid for all of it, and McCarthy lived there as well.
https://unfoxnews.com/mccarthy-leadersh ... untz-firm/

Get rid of both these guys.

I'm not sure if you call yourself Republican in California that will be accepted anywhere else, except perhaps Mass, NY, and IL.

[C-Mag]

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

Billionaires are paying an average of 3% Tax.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the- ... income-tax

[TheOneX]

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

Billionaires are paying an average of 3% Tax.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the- ... income-tax

The biggest problem with Democrats is there is no subtlety to their opinions. They just see a problem that they have little understanding about, and go with the most obvious solution. In this case, there isn't enough money to fund their programs. So what do they say, "Let's tax raise taxes!" They never consider that possibly the best way to increase government income isn't to increase taxes, but to remove tax loopholes. They don't consider that maybe the best way to remove tax loopholes is to remove all income, property, and corporate taxes in favor of sales tax and tariffs. One argument against this is that it wouldn't be a progressive tax, which is absurd because not all items would need to be taxed at the same rate. You can tax necessities at a lower or even 0 rate, while taxing luxuries at a higher rate. You can tax vehicles based on horsepower, so your utilitarian car that gets you from point A to point B on 50 horsepower gets a low tax, while luxury cars with 250hp get taxed at a higher rate.

There is also the thing that we do not tax capital gains at the same rate as income, even though they are effectively the same thing. That would probably be the first place to look if you want to increase taxes on the rich.

[The Conservative]

Remove the income ceiling in Social Security and taxes can be taxed. You'll find a lot of things will take care of themselves.

[DBTrek]

The biggest problem with Democrats is there is no subtlety to their opinions. They just see a problem that they have little understanding about, and go with the most obvious solution. In this case, there isn't enough money to fund their programs. So what do they say, "Let's tax raise taxes!" They never consider that possibly the best way to increase government income isn't to increase taxes, but to remove tax loopholes. They don't consider that maybe the best way to remove tax loopholes is to remove all income, property, and corporate taxes in favor of sales tax and tariffs. One argument against this is that it wouldn't be a progressive tax, which is absurd because not all items would need to be taxed at the same rate. You can tax necessities at a lower or even 0 rate, while taxing luxuries at a higher rate. You can tax vehicles based on horsepower, so your utilitarian car that gets you from point A to point B on 50 horsepower gets a low tax, while luxury cars with 250hp get taxed at a higher rate.

There is also the thing that we do not tax capital gains at the same rate as income, even though they are effectively the same thing. That would probably be the first place to look if you want to increase taxes on the rich.

There's also this crazy idea of "stop spending money you don't have" or "cut spending that's producing nothing and repurpose it for your latest wants" .... but I guess they aren't teaching those schools of thought anymore.