China Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Biden Pledges to End $90 Billion Worth of Tax Breaks for Gas Companies During a Wednesday press conference to promote his “Build Back Better” agenda, President Biden pledged to end tax breaks for energy companies in the fossil-fuel business, raising $90 billion dollars in revenue for the federal government. The president justified the proposal as it would “make polluters pay to clean up the messes they’ve made,” seemingly nodding to oil spills, natural gas leaks, and other mishaps. “We’re not asking them to do anything that is unfair. We’re just not going to subsidize them anymore, they’re doing well thank you,” Biden said in reference to the oil conglomerates. Biden’s comments come as gas prices have surged across the nation, reaching their highest levels in years, amid inflationary pressures resulting from pandemic supply and demand squeezes. Click on the link for the full article 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 This seems very good. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 1 minute ago, TryTheBeal! said: This seems very good. Good. We've been letting businesses gobble each other up unabated for far too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Is there any truth the dysfunction rumors in Harris office? Not buying but wouldn't be suprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goskins10 Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 27 minutes ago, Renegade7 said: Is there any truth the dysfunction rumors in Harris office? Not buying but wouldn't be surprised. I have no additional information. However, it cannot be any worse than the dysfunction in the trump office so this is at the very least hypocritical as the right fell all over themselves to make excuses for him and now want to attack Harris I am sure there are some growing pains. And I am also sure she will get it together. There is also the still ignorant workplace environment where strong vocal women are often perceived as mean and ruthless where their male counterparts with the same approach are strong leaders. So for right now I am taking this all with a grain of salt. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbear Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 I wonder if this is a follow-on to the stories about how hard she was to work for in the Senate. I think the stories came out during the election right around the time she and Biden had their moment at the first debate. My memory on the timing could be off. I still wonder though if these rumors are recycling the old stories or if there is something new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goskins10 Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, gbear said: I wonder if this is a follow-on to the stories about how hard she was to work for in the Senate. I think the stories came out during the election right around the time she and Biden had their moment at the first debate. My memory on the timing could be off. I still wonder though if these rumors are recycling the old stories or if there is something new. I do not remember those about Harris. My memory was the hard to work for stories were about Amy Klobuchar. Not saying there was nothing about Harris but that was not my memory. I do know that these are not new stories. They are from her current staff as VP. It's hard to tell how accurate they are. But clearly there is something she has to at least clean up. The last thing you need as President is to field questions about your VPs staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbear Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 You're right, the stories I remembered were for Klobuchar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Only way Harris becomes President is if Biden dies. If Joe died before 24 elections; I think she would be primaried and not win the nomination. While having an edge as veep, In an open field in 24; she wouldn’t win the nomination. She was only picked because she was black. Joe couldn’t pick a non-black veep and expect to beat Trump. I am not impressed with her. She just seems to be there for show. Her campaign failed for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Politico: Opinion | The Democrats Need a Reality Check >>>They have a majority coalition. They control the White House. But the Democrats are trapped in delusions of rewriting the rules, while the GOP figures out ways to bend them. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way, with the Democrats relying on wishful thinking and vague threats to fulfill their biggest campaign promises. Didn’t Joe Biden win the Presidency with a 7 million vote popular majority? Didn’t Democrats win both houses of Congress? If there’s anything more unnerving and disheartening than the Republican Party’s shredding of core democratic and republican principles over the past several years, it’s how so many of the Democrats’ attempts to fight back are grounded in delusion or futility.<<< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoCalMike Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 (edited) On 7/9/2021 at 7:15 AM, TryTheBeal! said: This seems very good. I haven't read the details of the legislation, but in theory this is a great move. You can google a chart showing how many household brand names are actually a subsidiary of a giant multinational corporation, and you really owe yourself looking this up because I think we all know this was a reality to some extent, but the sheer volume of companies under the thumb of 1 big conglomerate is ridiculous. Edited July 12, 2021 by NoCalMike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Since @NoCalMike couldn’t provide examples of what he is talking about.... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 (edited) What's a COTY and hows they own Katy Perry, Beyonce, and the Playboy? 🤔 Edited July 12, 2021 by clietas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Beauty companies include fragrances and such. Coty was a huge company in the 70s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Dang they own Calvin Klein, David Beckhams, and James Bond taboot. Heck of a portfolio they got there at COTY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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goskins10 Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 Just one small part of the executive order Biden signed. It encourages the FTC to pass rules that promote peoples ability to fix their electronics instead of it being a monopoly for the company who released it. Look at Apple for one. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 On 6/24/2021 at 8:37 PM, Larry said: Makes sense, at least in some ways. Get them out of Afghanistan, at least. Taliban ask for list of girls above 15, widows under 45 to be married to their fighters: Reports 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 This is amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 President Biden Wants To Make It Easier For You To Get Your Broken Smartphone Fixed High tech has become ubiquitous in our lives. Everything from tractors to toasters to what we used to call telephones are now built with microchips. But when these devices and machines are broken, your choices to repair them are pretty limited. "Anything that has a chip in it, now, it's actually unusual, rare even that you could have somebody help you fix those products other than the manufacturer," says Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of The Repair Association, which wants to make it easier for iPhone owners, farmers and other consumers to get their products fixed. President Biden is on board. He issued an executive order earlier this month calling on the Federal Trade Commission to write regulations that would force manufacturers to change their policies and allow what consumer groups call the "right to repair." Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Joey B is on CNN now with Don Lemmon for a Town Hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 joe's been doing pretty good, but then he really nailed one turning one of his answer into a (reasonable) tangent that was a good imitation of a 'win one for the gipper' speech about saving democracy and how xi and putin are among so many betting autocracies will win out and we have to show them they're wrong, and he actually hit it out of the park and got some real cheering going he's done a lot of 'thoughtful, decent, responsive, and reasonable" during the whole thing in a way i think still appeals to a lot of moderate/conservative people who aren't vile/crazy even if strongly disagreeing with some of his major position statements....and with that same m.o. he's still holding the impatient side of the dems together, though always have to work for it, too, and course with a lot of help hang in there dems---like the princess said "you're our only hope" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 (edited) Joe's getting pounded on the fillibuster though. I think Joe is delusional. You will not get any republicans to go along with him. He will find out when the bipartisan infracture deal goes down in flames; when no gopers ultimately vote for it. The gOP wants him to fail and regain power in 22 and then have their master regain power in 24. Edited July 22, 2021 by Rdskns2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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