Kamala the Insufferable
Mrs. Word Salad continues to lie to the American people. Like, “make the wealthiest pay their fair share”, “we proposed sweeping immigration reform early on in the Biden-Harris Administration, but Republicans wouldn’t pass it,” and “Donald Trump and his Project 2025 want to cut Medicare and Social Security.”
Here’s the truth…
“Pay your fair share!!”
According to the Tax Foundation’s summary of Federal Income Tax Data, Tax Year 2021, all tax payers pay an average tax rate of 14.9%. The top 1% pay an average effective tax rate of 25.9%, the top 5% pay 23.3%, the top 10% pay 21.5%, the top 25% pay 18.4%, the top 50% pay 16.2%, and the bottom 50% pays an average effective tax rate of 3.3%.
Data from tax returns in 2021 show that top 1% of earners had a minimum adjusted growth income (AGI) of $682,000. The top 5% of earners showed a minimum AGI of $252,000. The top 10% of earners showed a minimum AGI of $169,000 – as a point of reference how to rank certain earning categories.
The top 1% of earners, in 2021, paid 45.8% of total federal income taxes paid. Taxpayers in the 5% to 1% range paid 19.9% of total federal income taxes paid. 10% to 5% paid 10.2% of federal income taxes paid, 25% to 10% paid 13.4% of total federal income taxes paid, 50% to 25% paid 8.4%, and the bottom 50% paid just 2.3% of total federal income taxes paid.
The Top 10% of earners in America pay 75% of all Federal income taxes, while the remaining earners contribute just 25%!! If you’re a Democrat reading this and you believe your political leaders when they lie about Federal Income Taxes paid and that the wealthiest Americans need to “pay their fair share”, DON’T!
“Republicans are to blame for the Biden-Harris Administration failing to pass sweeping immigration reform!!”
Since Biden’s inauguration, he signed 12 Executive Orders reversing Trump era immigration policies. On the heals of that stupidity, Biden introduced his US Citizenship Act of 2021. From whitehouse.gov, “The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 establishes a new system to responsibly manage and secure our border, keep our families and communities safe, and better manage migration across the Hemisphere.”
Some of the hightlights:
Create an earned roadmap to citizenship for undocumented individuals. The bill allows undocumented individuals to apply for temporary legal status, with the ability to apply for green cards after five years if they pass criminal and national security background checks and pay their taxes. Dreamers, TPS holders, and immigrant farmworkers who meet specific requirements are eligible for green cards immediately under the legislation. After three years, all green card holders who pass additional background checks and demonstrate knowledge of English and U.S. civics can apply to become citizens.
Keep families together. The bill reforms the family-based immigration system by clearing backlogs, recapturing unused visas, eliminating lengthy wait times, and increasing per-country visa caps. It also eliminates the so-called “3 and 10-year bars,” and other provisions that keep families apart. The bill further supports familes by more explicitly including permanent partnerships and eliminating discrimination facing LGBTQ+ families.
Grow our economy. This bill clears employment-based visa backlogs, recaptures unused visas, reduces lengthy wait times, and eliminates per-country visa caps. The bill makes it easier for graduates of U.S. universities with advanced STEM degrees to stay in the United States; improves access to green cards for workers in lower-wage sectors; and eliminates other unnecessary hurdles for employment-based green cards.
Protect workers from exploitation and improve the employment verification process. The bill requires that DHS and the Department of Labor establish a commission involving labor, employer, and civil rights organizations to make recommendations for improving the employment verification process.
Supplement existing border resources with technology and infrastructure. The legislation builds on record budget allocations for immigration enforcement by authorizing additional funding for the Secretary of DHS to develop and implement a plan to deploy technology to expedite screening and enhance the ability to identify narcotics and other contraband at every land, air, and sea port of entry. It authorizes the DHS Secretary to develop and implement a strategy to manage and secure the southern border between ports of entry that focuses on flexible solutions and technologies that expand the ability to detect illicit activity, evaluate the effectiveness of border security operations, and be easily relocated and broken out by Border Patrol Sector.
Start from the source. The bill codifies and funds the President’s $4 billion four-year inter-agency plan to address the underlying causes of migration in the region, including by increasing assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, conditioned on their ability to reduce the endemic corruption, violence, and poverty that causes people to flee their home countries.
Improve the immigration courts and protect vulnerable individuals. The bill expands family case management programs, reduces immigration court backlogs, expands training for immigration judges, and improves technology for immigration courts.
Support asylum seekers and other vulnerable populations. The bill eliminates the one-year deadline for filing asylum claims and provides funding to reduce asylum application backlogs.
If you’re a Democrat reading this, seems like reasonable immigration reform, right? From Politico in an article in March 2021, “Top House Democrats have promised to put key immigration bills on the floor this month — but President Joe Biden’s sweeping overhaul won’t be one of them.” “We need to engage in some consultation with key members and stakeholders, but I see no reason why we wouldn’t mark it up when we reconvene in April,” D-NY and Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler said in a statement to POLITICO. “I want to make sure the broader bill gets as much support as possible, and that we send it over as quickly as possible, and that we get this done,” said Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), who helped shape Biden’s proposal and has been actively lobbying her colleagues on the bill. “My fear, always, is that we will get morsels and, as a Congress, continue to kick the can down the road,” she said.
And that’s exactly what happened. Mumbling Nancy not only didn’t put Biden’s plan on the floor, she didn’t put any plan on the floor. AND, in Biden’s first two years of his Presidency, the Dems owned the White House, the Senate, and the House!! If there was a time to get immigration reform passed to the President’s desk for signature, the first two years was the time to get it done – but they didn’t! Republicans didn’t kill Biden’s “sweeping immigration reform”, Democrats did!
I can hear it now, wrong! Trump and the Republicans killed the RECENT border bill in May of this year, NOT the one Nancy Pelosi killed. Yeah sure, whatever. The May bill was once again killed by Democrats in the Senate. Likely because it was tied to Ukraine funding. However, the sticking point for Republicans, including Trump, the bill allowed the DHS Secretary discretion over issuing an emergency declaration to close the border if border crossings reach 4000/day over a seven day period. Over Biden’s term, illegal border crossings averaged 2 Million/year. By contrast under Trump, his border policies restricted illegal border crossings to average approximately 500,000/year. The compromise bill would allow Secretary Mayorkas discretion to allow 4000 / day or 1.4 Million per year.
Again, the vote on the compromise bill tied to Ukraine funding in May was voted down 43-50. Six Democrats voted against it. Democrats killed the bill NOT Donald Trump!
“Donald Trump and his Project 2025 want to cut Medicare and Social Security.”
Donald Trump has repeatedly said he would never cut Medicare and Social Security, but both need reforms to survive. And as for Project 2025, which Trump has also repeatedly denied knowing anything about it. From an article at the Washington Post, “The report contains some Medicare recommendations, mainly to promote Medicare Advantage plans, which are managed by insurance companies with federal funds. Just over half of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, compared to traditional Medicare, which is run by the government and favored by Democrats.
“Her comment about cutting Social Security and Medicare is pure misinformation,” said Matthew Tragesser, a Heritage spokesman. “The Mandate makes tweaks to Medicare, but it really can’t be called a cut. The Mandate also never calls to cut funding for Medicare. Mostly, it advocates to push Medicare Advantage, which is the private-sector piece of Medicare that we think works more efficiently.” Also, from Trump’s own campaign website, “Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.”
In 2005, George W. Bush tried to introduce legislation partially privatizing Social Security. Gross revenue from payroll taxes in 2005 was $658 Billion. For giggles, let’s assume GW passed privatized Social Security benefits and moved just the 2005 tax receipts (not the $2 Trillion in reserves) from investments in treasury bonds at 2% to an S&P Index Fund that mirrors the S&P 500. In 2005 the S&P 500 was priced around 1,800. Today the S&P closed at 5,792. Crude math, that’s a 318% gain – $658 Billion x 318% = $2 Trillion! Or, buy an index fund that mirrors the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In 2005, the DJIA closed the year at 10,546. Today the Dow closed at 42,512, a 403% gain – $658 Billion x 403% = $2.6 Trillion dollars. This also doesn’t take into account the rate of inflation over the past 19 years. If privatized, Social Security benefits to seniors would arguably be more effective than the system we have today, and the program’s base source of funding would be far more healthy. Reserves currently stand at $2.9 Trillion – move reserves away from treasuries at a paltry 2.9% annual gain to an index fund that averages at or above 10%. In 2023, the Federal Government collected approximately $1.2 Trillion in Social Security taxes, while having payment obligations of $1.5 Trillion. Not sustainable!
Vote Republican, you won’t regret it!
