The Purge

[Dude#1279435]

Hell we are paying that for 12 large eggs/

18 large in my area.

 

[highfigh]

None of this will help anyone if that department becomes history and they are hell bent on doing just that.

Ever heard of states handling their own system with Federally-mandated goals and programs? It's not as if education will end. If the states are held to specific standards AND they give enough of a crap to achieve them (Mississippi, are you listening?), what's the problem?

Check schools for reading and math proficiency now- I guarantee that you'll see many with single-digit performance. Since standards were relaxed, the high school I attended has sunk from about 90% to about 50% and it's still considered to be a very good school- it WAS in the top 5 in Wisconsin.

Look into the budget for that department but I would recommend using something other than the DOE site.

 

[highfigh]

The wealthy are cutting jobs no matter what. Why the enormous job hires over the last 4 years? Sure, Covid did a job but they hired.
Yes, the middle pays, wealthy get even more. Think about it, how did Elon make, what, $100 billion not long ago? He needs a tax cut? Really?
When business is good, middle class spends not because of tax cuts but because they have a job, companies hire or automate for more production.

If trickle down didn't work, why would it work now when we have so many more billionaires? Are they hiring? No they are cutting.
Billionaires don't care about eggs, nor do the multi millionaires. The rest below do.
Egg costs are caused because of that bird flu. Just heard government medical research is stopped. What?

Wealthy what, individuals? Cutting jobs? Not if they want something done for them.

Those "enormous job hires" were preceeded by people were told to stay at home, businesses and whole industries were shuttered and people received money on top of money to not work unless they were deemed 'essential'. Then, when they had stayed at home for awhile, they decided they didn't like their job, didn't like working, etc and the unemployment stats were made up. Not only that, companies that lost experienced employees hired bodies, not people who knew what the eff they're doing. If you want to give credit to Biden for that, I don't think you can be helped.

You only seem to be looking at manufacturing with your comments about hiring or automation for higher production- what about all of the service economy jobs? There are far more people working in service than manufacturing and it has been that way for a long time.

Go ahead- hate the rich and wealthy, then find a job at a company that was created by poor people. Yeah, the middle class spends when they have jobs, the rich and wealthy spend ALL OF THE TIME, whether the economy is good, bad or terrible.

Typical.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Egg prices have been high for a long time now.

It started to go up when that bird flu took a hold and decimated the chicken population. yes, price creeped up and cages were regulated.
Yes, there was inflation as well.
And now, gas prices are going up regardless of drill baby.
Prices have been going up from day 2.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Ever heard of states handling their own system with Federally-mandated goals and programs? It's not as if education will end. If the states are held to specific standards AND they give enough of a crap to achieve them (Mississippi, are you listening?), what's the problem?

Check schools for reading and math proficiency now- I guarantee that you'll see many with single-digit performance. Since standards were relaxed, the high school I attended has sunk from about 90% to about 50% and it's still considered to be a very good school- it WAS in the top 5 in Wisconsin.

Look into the budget for that department but I would recommend using something other than the DOE site.

Yep, rich states will still strive, others will not. It's about $$$$$. Will Mississippi tax itself to bankruptcy? And some others.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Wealthy what, individuals? Cutting jobs? Not if they want something done for them.

Those "enormous job hires" were preceeded by people were told to stay at home, businesses and whole industries were shuttered and people received money on top of money to not work unless they were deemed 'essential'. Then, when they had stayed at home for awhile, they decided they didn't like their job, didn't like working, etc and the unemployment stats were made up. Not only that, companies that lost experienced employees hired bodies, not people who knew what the eff they're doing. If you want to give credit to Biden for that, I don't think you can be helped.

You only seem to be looking at manufacturing with your comments about hiring or automation for higher production- what about all of the service economy jobs? There are far more people working in service than manufacturing and it has been that way for a long time.

Go ahead- hate the rich and wealthy, then find a job at a company that was created by poor people. Yeah, the middle class spends when they have jobs, the rich and wealthy spend ALL OF THE TIME, whether the economy is good, bad or terrible.

Typical.

No, I love them as they have the money to be taxed.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I am very lucky. When I’m not getting the 5doz box from Costco, I have friends that have chickens and sell the eggs for 3 bucks a dozen. Gonna get worse when they have to kill all the chickens for bird flu.

Friends will not have chickens to sell eggs no matter the price.

Research dollars are cut or way down, chickens will disappear. Maybe some Ostridge eggs?

 

[Mikado463]

18 large in my area.

5 bucks in my neck of the woods, our chickens are conservatives .......

 

[cpp]

5 bucks in my neck of the woods, are chickens are conservatives .......

I think chickens are opportunist. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

 

[Mikado463]

and while we're at it, 'a penny for your thoughts'............

What the end of the penny means for the economy, your piggy bank, and the way America prices items

President Trump and Elon Musk want the U.S. penny gone. There are currently 114 billion pennies in circulation, but the economy will be OK without the coin.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

It would be nice if he could reverse this nonsense.........

Boy Scouts of America officially changes its name to be gender inclusive

The uniforms aren't changing, but new patches are available to cover the organization's old name, which is sewn onto the shirts.

www.usatoday.com

 

[mtrycrafts]

And now it seems court orders have been disobeyed, and Vance and Trump states courts cannot regulate the executive branch.
Constitutional crisis? A judicial coup?

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

and while we're at it, 'a penny for your thoughts'............

What the end of the penny means for the economy, your piggy bank, and the way America prices items

President Trump and Elon Musk want the U.S. penny gone. There are currently 114 billion pennies in circulation, but the economy will be OK without the coin.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

It would be nice if he could reverse this nonsense.........

Boy Scouts of America officially changes its name to be gender inclusive

The uniforms aren't changing, but new patches are available to cover the organization's old name, which is sewn onto the shirts.

www.usatoday.com

Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[TankTop5]

Times of Israel is reporting 35,000 jobs have been lost in Jordan due to cuts to USAID

 

[mtrycrafts]

Times of Israel is reporting 35,000 jobs have been lost in Jordan due to cuts to USAID

That's just the first report of job losses. Much more is coming. Aren't we wonderful, great again?

 

[TankTop5]

That's just the first report of job losses. Much more is coming. Aren't we wonderful, great again?

Well we can’t continue spending 2 trillion more than we make. It’s going to be a little painful for awhile.

 

[Trell]

Well we can’t continue spending 2 trillion more than we make. It’s going to be a little painful for awhile.

You could start with not extending the Trump 2017 individual tax cuts that would cost $4.2 trillion over the decade 2026-2035. Perhaps even claw back the permanent corporate tax cuts.

Of course, it's not the wealthy that have to bear the pain but lower and middle incomes households.

>>>Key parts of the 2017 law expire at the end of 2025. Republican plans call for extending them, and some plans also call for adding large new tax cuts, including tax cuts aimed at corporations, wealthy shareholders, and large estates. Extending the expiring tax cuts would:

Do relatively little for households with low or middle incomes. Households with incomes in the top 1 percent (who make more than roughly $743,000 a year) would get tax cuts averaging $61,000 a year, compared to only about $400 for households with incomes in the bottom 60 percent (who make roughly $96,000 or less). Those tax cuts would come on top of the large tax benefits that wealthy people will receive from the 2017 law’s permanent corporate tax cuts, which are tilted even more heavily toward wealthy people than the expiring individual tax cuts.

Add trillions in debt, much of it to benefit the wealthy. Extending the expiring tax cuts would cost $4.2 trillion over the decade 2026-2035, and roughly half of the benefits would go to people making over roughly $320,000 (that is, people with incomes in the top 5 percent).<<<

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/2025-budget-stakes-high-income-tax-cuts-price-hiking-tariffs-would-harm

 

[Dude#1279435]

You could start with not extending the Trump 2017 individual tax cuts that would cost $4.2 trillion over the decade 2026-2035. Perhaps even claw back the permanent corporate tax cuts.

Of course, it's not the wealthy that have to bear the pain but lower and middle incomes households.

>>>Key parts of the 2017 law expire at the end of 2025. Republican plans call for extending them, and some plans also call for adding large new tax cuts, including tax cuts aimed at corporations, wealthy shareholders, and large estates. Extending the expiring tax cuts would:

Do relatively little for households with low or middle incomes. Households with incomes in the top 1 percent (who make more than roughly $743,000 a year) would get tax cuts averaging $61,000 a year, compared to only about $400 for households with incomes in the bottom 60 percent (who make roughly $96,000 or less). Those tax cuts would come on top of the large tax benefits that wealthy people will receive from the 2017 law’s permanent corporate tax cuts, which are tilted even more heavily toward wealthy people than the expiring individual tax cuts.

Add trillions in debt, much of it to benefit the wealthy. Extending the expiring tax cuts would cost $4.2 trillion over the decade 2026-2035, and roughly half of the benefits would go to people making over roughly $320,000 (that is, people with incomes in the top 5 percent).<<<

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/2025-budget-stakes-high-income-tax-cuts-price-hiking-tariffs-would-harm

I'd say the fair tax, but than life isn't necessarily fair in terms of working harder and talent. The middle class will get footed with the bill on certain things based on the wealthy drive manufacturing of goods, jobs etc. The debt is a meaningless number as long as others are buying are goods (or buying our debt depending upon how that works).

 

[Trell]

I'd say the fair tax, but than life isn't necessarily fair in terms of working harder and talent. The middle class will get footed with the bill on certain things based on the wealthy drive manufacturing of goods, jobs etc. The debt is a meaningless number as long as others are buying are goods (or buying our debt depending upon how that works).

I can't make heads or tails of your post. Are you for or against extending the 2017 tax cuts?

 

[TankTop5]

Raising taxes on corporations doesn’t increase tax revenue, it stifles growth. Study the Laffer Curve.at worst it shows there is a moderate increase in tax revenue with individuals increasing savings and wealth.

 

[highfigh]

and while we're at it, 'a penny for your thoughts'............

What the end of the penny means for the economy, your piggy bank, and the way America prices items

President Trump and Elon Musk want the U.S. penny gone. There are currently 114 billion pennies in circulation, but the economy will be OK without the coin.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

It means the US will stop paying 3,69 cents to mint one penny, not that they'll be removed from circulation and that cost comes after the change from solid Copper to Copper-plated Zinc.

Pennies were used because items were sold FOR ONE PENNY. What can be bought for one penny, now?