It’s widely reported and documented - most of it by the FBI. Look, I get it we might disagree, but facts are facts.
My point is that you miss the entire point. Our lives should not resolve around who is in federal office. Period.
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You are stuck on stupid. Next question.
You are long on words and short on information references, here are mine:
It’s very simple, just show us yours… 
Roger that:
- Clinton Broke Federal Rules With Email Server, Audit Finds
- PolitiFact | When did Hillary Clinton wipe her email clean?
- https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/fisa-court-slams-fbi-conduct/index.html
- Office of the Pardon Attorney | Pardons Granted by President Joseph Biden (2021-2025)
you aren’t even making this hard. If you want to disagree fine. If you want to dig your idiot hole further, knock yourself out.
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Absolutely. However, any attempt to simplify the tax code is ALWAYS met with resistance. Something like a flat tax would save the taxpayer, the government, and private business a ton of money in compliance costs every year.
‘WE’ is America. There are countries who do a lot better at collecting taxes. New Zealand for example is reported to be fair and efficient. At least one country bills you in advance.
IRS knows your numbers enough to fill out your taxes pretty much for you.
If we eliminated many of the tax breaks IRS could operate lots more efficiently. The average citizen should not have to resort to preparers and hours of paperwork to file.
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That 77,284,118 votes which Trump won by means that 50.2% of the votes were NOT for him. He won by a small margin of votes against everyone else running. That is not a sweeping victory being suggested of popular votes. I certainly don’t feel that percentage dictates a ‘sweeping’ change. Your math may differ.
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That would be true if they have data integrity. It sounds like the IRS database allows duplicate SSNs. How convenient for corruption, illegals, etc. Of course, I can only take Elon’s word for this at the moment because we have corrupt judges/politicians/media doing everything possible to prevent the truth coming out.
I also typed all of this with a straight face.
Musk’s conflicts of interests as DOGE director:
again… NOW you’re worried?
go get your statement and wander away
You need to know a bit more about Elon Musk, if you did, I don’t think you would be so willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for anything.
People pick and choose who they trust and then vote accordingly…
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The “sweeping change” is because the country is going to go bankrupt due to fraud/waste/abuse.
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Use to be you had to have the popular vote for a “mandate”. Now its a landslide.
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A half century or more ago in school we had a module that I cannot now remember what it was called. However, to this day I can see and hear the teacher explaining the term glittering generalities. It has stayed with me, and I have routinely used it as part of my thought process. The basic premise, if you are unfamiliar with the term, is that the more glittering and more general the information you are being given the less likely the information has a solid base in reality. Needless to say my glittering generalities antennae are getting a serious work out these days. If I’m being told that Musk, or anyone else, has saved a billion dollars, I want to know when, where, how, (and why the savings will benefit us more than the expenditure), exactly how much has been saved and what they are going to do with the savings. Otherwise it’s just someone’s fuzzy math. And glittering generalities.
last reply. then moderator might lock the topic.
It’s not Musk, Trump, Biden, Barry or Hillary. When you worry about what is going on at the federal level for your personal situation…
HERE’S YOUR SIGN.
I refer you to Jeff Foxworthy. Seriously, if the federal government has gathered this much power over us, that’s the damn problem. No matter who is in office. you think it’s just Elon who will hack your records? Get Real. Rational.
The IRS sent two letters to my business claiming I owed them. I had all the records that said nope… no matter how much I explained, check images, the federal idiot well just, no. I wrote two checks… it wasn’t worth my time. 2 months later, I get a check in the mail indicating I over paid my taxes. FML.
Federal employees exceed 3 million… MILLION. If you think Elon Musk is a threat, you got dropped on your head as a baby.
Thus endeth the lesson. It’s not specific people, it’s the system.
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Is it too much to ask to work within the system . Leon finally said “Some of the things I say may be incorrect”, but that doesn’t stop him from going thru with what he is saying. And this boy has been wrong far more than he has been right. For example - Cybertruck windows are unbreakable. The Cybertruck will cost $39,000, Full self driving is just 6 months away. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Those are slightly different because a person had a CHOICE to buy one. But he sees, deems and cuts. And you can do NOTHING about it.
And he may be a smart guy (I question that…idiot savant comes closest to describing him) but he doesn’t know everything. His cuts to medical research will slow or stop existing research. Oh…and I don’t know about you but there was a lot I did not know when I was 19, and I don’t trust his little helpers.
Congress is supposed to make laws and control spending. What role has Congress played in the past three weeks?
I believe the point that the Trump administration is trying to make is that Congress should not be involved. Congress approves funding; however, I think they assert that it’s the the executive branch that is responsible for the spending. And part of that is ensuring that it is spent responsibly and in the interest of the American people.
If that is confirmed at the end of the blue state lawsuits (being shopped around to sympathetic judges), it will mean that the executive branch rightfully can determine when funds are spent and to whom. The democrats want the executive branch to be a pass-through without responsibility (it works better that way for waste/fraude/abuse because career bureaucrats don’t have to worry about being reelection).
Do the courts have the power to stop this for years until during the appeals process? Or the executive branch can operate until it’s decided? We shall see.
Our founding fathers that drafted the constitution that used to be sacred to so many on the right might disagree with Trump. That they stand idly by and watch this circumvention of the constitution only confirms my belief that there are only 14 words in the constitution that they care about. You probably know right where to find them
Since you brought up the Constitution…the powers of the Federal government were tightly defined in Article 1, Section 8:
- Taxation: The power to collect taxes, duties, and excises
- Commerce: The power to regulate commerce between states and with foreign nations
- Armed forces: The power to raise and maintain an army and navy
- War: The power to declare war
- Post offices: The power to establish post offices and post roads
- Intellectual property: The power to secure patents and copyrights
- Courts: The power to establish lower courts below the Supreme Court
- Additional powers The power to borrow money, The power to establish naturalization rules, The power to establish bankruptcy rules, The power to coin money, and the power to call forth a militia.
So its quite obvious that the Federal government has gone WAY beyond the scope of powers defined in the Constitution. I do not see the Department of Education, Department of Housing, Department of Energy, Universal Healthcare, USAID, or Social Security provided anywhere in this list.
As the Federal Government has become massively bloated, the amount of waste has grown exponentially. Why are people so afraid of cutting waste? I often find the people that pay nothing in taxes complain the most…
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