On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 2:28:54 AM UTC-5, Bret Cahill wrote:
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https://www.yahoo.com/gma/emails-released-wikileaks-appear-show-dnc-trying-aid-002308788--abc-news-topstories.html
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> > > > > > > > > The convention must distance itself from this Wassergate scandal at the DNC
> > > > > > > > > by nominating a clean ticket, like Sanders-Warren.
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> > > > > > > > Oh yeah? Show us the votes to prove it.
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> > > > > > > Princeton Elections shows that tRUMP is 2000 times more likely to win in 2016 than Mittens in 2012, which was a "horse race" according to your beloved legacy media.
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> > > > > > > Like the other Republicans HMC (Hillary Milhous Clinton) cannot beat tRUMP.
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> > > > > > > The only way for Democrats to win top and down ballot is to nominate the Bern.
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> > > > > > trump is doing exactly as i said he should: Speaking at a factory in Pennsylvania in June, he decried politicians and financiers who had betrayed Americans by taking away from the people their means of making a living and supporting their families.
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> > > > > > reich himself does not get it, this paragraph says it all,
> > > > > > The problem isn’t trade itself. It’s a political-economic system that won’t cushion working people against trade’s downsides or share trade’s upsides. In other words, a system that’s rigged.
> > > > > > the average brexit voter said they got sick of sitting at home getting 79 pounds a week, in their prime, with no work at all, no way to make a living, no way to build wealth, no future.
> > > > > > so how are you going to cushion the effects of free trading with billions of workers who cannot buy what they make, let alone what we make robert?
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> > > > > Hike taxes on the 1% and raise the EIC a few thousand.
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> > > > free trade allows them to move profits onto other over seas divisions, so we cannot touch them.
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> > > We cannot hike the 1040 tax rate to 90%?
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> > you can hike it. good luck trying to pin it down.
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> > > What page is that on in these free trade agreements?
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> > i do not know.
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> IOW you can hike 1040 taxes w/ trade agreements.
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you can, but they can be challenged, and they will be challenged. its all there bret, the loss of sovereignty. why do you think the train wreck is so eager to get another one through.
> > but i have posted empirical evidence showing it.
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> Cite the empirical evidence in court when the Socialist Party hikes 1040 taxes.
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its called the investor dispute part of the free trade agreements. anything sovereign can be challenged that gets in the way of profits.
it is impossible to free trade and have a civil society. bill clinton knew this well, its why he knew free trade would deal a death blow to article one, section eight of the u.s. constitution. income taxes are being challenged under free trade
http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/taxes-on-trial-how-trade-deals-threaten-tax-justice-global-justice-now.pdf
How ISDS threatens tax justice
Under the current system, states can and have
been sued for changing tax laws, revoking tax
breaks, and increasing corporate, income and
other taxes
A tax ‘carve-out’ written into a trade or
investment treaty doesn’t necessarily prevent
taxes being challenged – it can just give the
lawyers and arbitrators working on these cases
more to argue about
We believe that states must have the ability
to reconsider and change previously set and
unfair tax ‘incentives’ granted to corporations,
and to be flexible in choosing which industries
to subsidise with tax breaks
The threat of an expensive ISDS case can
be as powerful as actually filing one – an
unknown number of disputes are resolved
before a case is ever formally filed. With states
unclear about what might trigger successful
claims, the safest course of action is to never
threaten a multinational corporation’s profits –
a dangerous prospect for tax justice and
public interest laws
There is no comparable mechanism for
states to hold foreign investors to account
for their actions. ISDS is a one-way system,
where states are always on the defence.
If a multinational behaves badly, a state
cannot launch an ISDS claim…
please read more, if you value your democracy, sovereignty, and civil society, you will do everything in your power to end free trade, and to out those who have sold us out.
> > its why corporations are sitting on such huge cash hordes over seas. a big portion of the cash was made here in the u.s.a., but because of free trade, it can be moved onto the books of offshore divisions, out of reach of uncle sam. its what the huge fight us about, profit reparations.
> > they will bring the money back in, if we let them bring it back in tax free.
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> > > This isn't just another end. It's the _means_ to tariffs.
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> > > Pop 'em hard enough on the fanny with tax hikes and they'll start looking at tariffs.
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> > > Your problem is you don't know how to pop fanny. That's why you never get results.
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> > but people like me have been pushing for tariffs for years.
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> If it's more than 2 years -- the time interval between Art. I elections -- you don't know how to pop fanny.
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> If the legacy media are not vilifying _you_ you ain't doing jack.
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i have been at it for decades. i am being ignored, just as baker and millions of others are being ignored.
> > we even attack the legacy media with tariffs built this nation, we are just ignored.
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> Of course. That's because you aren't popping legacy media fanny.
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we are. even baker is getting sick of it.
> > > > its perfectly legal under our free trade agreements.
> > > > to try to do anything else except get rid of free trade, is like you said, whacking a mole.
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> > > Do free trade agreement prevent us from hiking the millage on land?
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> > the investor thing does. if a foreign corporation, even if its a u.s.a owned one, can and has said that a tax, law or regulation, interferes with our ability to make profits, so they can and have been struck down.
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> So how have eight Pennsylvania localities increased the millage on land since 2000?
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it is impossible to free trade and have a civil society. bill clinton knew this well, its why he knew free trade would deal a death blow to article one, section eight of the u.s. constitution. income taxes are being challenged under free trade
http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/taxes-on-trial-how-trade-deals-threaten-tax-justice-global-justice-now.pdf
How ISDS threatens tax justice
Under the current system, states can and have
been sued for changing tax laws, revoking tax
breaks, and increasing corporate, income and
other taxes
A tax ‘carve-out’ written into a trade or
investment treaty doesn’t necessarily prevent
taxes being challenged – it can just give the
lawyers and arbitrators working on these cases
more to argue about
We believe that states must have the ability
to reconsider and change previously set and
unfair tax ‘incentives’ granted to corporations,
and to be flexible in choosing which industries
to subsidise with tax breaks
The threat of an expensive ISDS case can
be as powerful as actually filing one – an
unknown number of disputes are resolved
before a case is ever formally filed. With states
unclear about what might trigger successful
claims, the safest course of action is to never
threaten a multinational corporation’s profits –
a dangerous prospect for tax justice and
public interest laws
There is no comparable mechanism for
states to hold foreign investors to account
for their actions. ISDS is a one-way system,
where states are always on the defence.
If a multinational behaves badly, a state
cannot launch an ISDS claim…
please read more, if you value your democracy, sovereignty, and civil society, you will do everything in your power to end free trade, and to out those who have sold us out.
good chance trump will win. most goobers know putin is a winner.
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> Bret Cahill