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Thursday, April 20, 2017

TAX TIME

1. Liberals want a progressive tax to protect the poor and conservatives want a flat tax to promote tickle down economics and to create a "simpler" tax system
2. if there are less tax brackets, there are larger amounts of money someone can have and still pay the same taxes as someone with significantly less money
3. 7
4. Reagan made only 2 tax brackets
5. Bush had 3 Clinton had 5
6. 34
7. 2
8. near the end of Eisenhower's presidency, it was 91% with over 2 million minimum
9. Carter Presidency had the lowest, fam, with 0.5 percent and 5,000 dollars max
10. Wilson m where it jumped from 26 brackets to 55

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Struggles in Government

1.Trump has made made many promises to repeal Obamacare during his campaign which hurried the schedule up quite a bit
2. they blame the democrats for not supporting the bill at all in the voting process
3. he says that Obamacare will eventually explode and when it does, the democrats will come crawling back asking for a deal
4. because early on there were many problems with the website and with states passing laws and reforms to limit the effectiveness of Obamacare
5. Obamacare still did relatively well, but not at the beginning.
6. he is keeping in touch with the people through twitter and giving out info about important happenings in the world of politics
7. he doesn't want the blame put on him
8. since trump himself is not making a good image for himself, he needs as little criticisms directed toward himself as possible
9. well, the republican allies will have to try and work harder to avoid future problems and that means more support toward trump
10. Bannon doesn't really like Paul Ryan but Trump and Ryan have to grudgingly work together in order to pass legislation.

Trump and Civil Rights Protections

1. Jeff Sessions
2. they want to promote more officer moral and safety, most likely to prevent further controversies, they'll have less federal control over the police
3.they will prioritize "keeping communities safe"
4. the attorney general will review all department activities now and overview persecutions and investigations if need be
5. they say they want to lawyers to have more time to review the agreement considering the Sessions memo
6. if they do not abide, their funding might be cut