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Quote: petroglyph

I wonder why someone that wants to pay their tax bill wouldn't just convert the BC's to $$ first. If for instance the price of BC was crashing, someone could hurry and pay their taxes with them and leave the rest of the taxpayers holding the bag on a depreciating asset. Regardless it takes an employee taxpayer funded workhours, to exchange the BC's to dollars. More wasted bureaucratic dollars.

Ducey, Flake, and me don't see eye to eye on much.

Quote: beachbumbabs

Perhaps they think they'll get assets from people who wouldn't otherwise pay?

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President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years.

Quote: Bernie Sanders

The Trump budget introduced today is morally bankrupt and bad economic policy. During the campaign, Donald Trump promised that the wealthy would not get a tax break and that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would not be cut. But his budget does the exact opposite of what Trump pledged to the American people. Trump’s budget pays for his huge tax breaks for the rich and large corporations by slashing Medicaid by $1.3 trillion, cutting Medicare by $554 billion and slicing $10 billion from the Social Security Disability Insurance Program. This budget is nothing less than a major transfer of wealth from the middle class and working families to the top 1 percent and large corporations.

Meanwhile, at a time when the U.S. spends more on defense than the next 12 countries combined, the Trump budget calls for a massive increase in military spending paid for by cutting $57 billion in domestic spending from the bipartisan budget agreement that was signed into law just a few days ago.

This is a budget for the billionaire class, for Wall Street, for corporate CEOs, for defense contractors and for the wealthiest people in this country. It must be defeated.

Quote: Trump

“And if you don’t want it, that’s OK with me too.”

Quote: Trump

“If for any reason, they don’t want to support to it, hey, that’s going to be up to them,” “What was very important to me was the military, what was very important to me was the tax cuts, and what was very important to me was regulation.”

Quote: Dalex64

For those of you who are still having difficulty distinguishing climate and weather, here is a 25 year study showing accelerated sea level rising.