Mainecat

Great...a friggin shoot out.

What little girl?

hes doing fine himself.

WTF are you talking about? Are you boy wonder? Are you Zambonis manager? WTF man.

So your admitting they are violent imbeciles?

Out of context? I watched his entire spew the day he said it. He is an ignorant asshole...PERIOD

LMFAO Trump not corrupt?

Not many voters and those that supported him are kicking the parties ass because they dont support the existing party.

That will never ever happen. He needs to serve a term of mayor, state rep, or another political office and prove himself.

I am waiting to see who she chooses. Its a long time to November

Romney could have beat Obama is he was not such a pompous ass too. The Republicans need a candidate thats like 90% of America not 10%

Sold off? Its called concessions and politics. No one is surprised if you watched their first debate.

Sanders held out so he can get his agenda with Clinton. He is and was a independent. I still wont support her because she takes wall street and corporate American $$. If she chooses Warren all bets are off.

The Democrat party is unified as usual. The Repubs are totally fucked. Jesus look who their candidate is?

Xenophobia

Just read trump complaining Obama is deporting too many people. he really is a idiot. Is he faking dumbness like Bush? He is a classic egomaniac

Kids will just move up a floor when their parents croak.

Ya but......yeah but I would like to see how many had one eye and one leg?

Shall I post the 5 others from different media sources and states?

No Bush would

are you fuckin serious?

How about the other states Einstein? It does not work in MANY states. A total waste of tax payer money

No. I really dont care what they buy. If they want to spend it all on lobster thats fine with me.

well maybe I am a black woman

touché ......... Congresswoman Who Used To Receive Welfare Wants To Drug Test Rich People Who Get Tax Breaks by Bryce Covert Jun 16, 2016 12:00 pm Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) has had enough of the growing movement to drug test poor people who need government assistance. So on Tuesday, she’s introducing a bill that she says will make things fairer. Her “Top 1% Accountability Act” would require anyone claiming itemized tax deductions of over $150,000 in a given year to submit a clean drug test. If a filer doesn’t submit a clean test within three months of filing, he won’t be able to take advantage of tax deductions like the mortgage interest deduction or health insurance tax breaks. Instead he would have to make use of the standard deduction. Her office has calculated that the people impacted will be those who make at least $500,000 a year. “By drug testing those with itemized deductions over $150,000, this bill will level the playing field for drug testing people who are the recipients of social programs,” a memo on her bill notes. Moore has a personal stake in the fight. “I am a former welfare recipient,” she explained. “I’ve used food stamps, I’ve received Aid for Families with Dependent Children, Medicaid, Head Start for my kids, Title XX daycare [subsidies]. I’m truly grateful for the social safety net.” Ten states require applicants to their cash welfare programs to undergo a drug test. States are currently barred from implementing drug testing for the food stamps program, but Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has sued the federal government to allow him to do so and has gotten some Congressional Republican support. Moore has been frustrated to witness attempts to tie those who avail themselves of the safety net to drug use. “Republicans continue to criminalize poverty and to put forward the narrative, the false narrative in fact, that people who are poor and reliant upon the social safety net are drug users,” she said. Republicans continue to criminalize poverty In fact, evidence from test results among states that test welfare recipients indicates that they are no more likely to use drugs than the general population — in fact, they may be less likely. That didn’t stop House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) from using a drug rehab center as the backdrop while he unveiled his poverty plan last week. “I think this is what tipped me over the edge,” Moore said, “rolling out his poverty initiative in front of a drug treatment program to sort of drive that false narrative forward.” Moore also wants to use her bill to question why some recipients of government aid are treated differently than others. “On the one hand, poor people…are entitled to things like Medicaid and SNAP [food stamps],” she said. “People who take tax deductions and particularly those in the top 1 percent…are not entitled to anything.” But they still benefit from a large pot of government money. The government loses about $900 billion in revenue to tax expenditures every year, which mostly flow to the wealthy. When it comes to drug abuse, “There are no boundaries with regard to class or race,” she said. “If these poor people who are entitled to SNAP for survival are required to be drug tested, then certainly those people who claim $150,000 or more in tax deductions should be subjected to the same in order to receive this benefit from the government.” Moore also thinks that while there is no evidence that drug testing welfare recipients saves states any money, drug tests for wealthy taxpayers could be different. “We would save a lot of money on this,” she said. “When you add up all of the tax expenditures, all the money we give really wealthy people, it really rivals the amount we spend on Defense, Social Security, Medicare.” The mortgage interest deduction, which overwhelmingly benefits people making more than $100,000, alone cost $70 billion in 2013, or 0.4 percent of GDP. When you add up all the money we give really wealthy people, it really rivals the amount we spend on Defense, Social Security, Medicare. Her bill will also help illuminate this very fact: that so much is spent on tax expenditures, not just on direct aid programs like welfare and food stamps. “We think it’s important to engage in some transparency and accountability around tax deductions,” she said. Moore is not the only lawmaker in Congress who has raised questions about unequal treatment between the poor who make use of government programs and everyone else who needs them. In February, Rep. Rosa DeLauro asked why only recipients of food stamps were being considered for drug testing but not the farmers who also make use of programs run by the Agriculture Department. But Moore is very serious about pushing her bill forward. “I’m motivated,” she said. “I’m going to work on it very seriously. I’m going to try to get cosponsors.” She also wants to “engage the wealthy in this poverty debate,” she said. “I would love to see some hedge fund manager on Wall Street who might be sniffing a little cocaine here and there to stay awake realize that he can’t get his $150,000 worth of deductions unless he submits to a drug test.” http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/06/16/3788980/moore-drug-test-wealthy/