TAXPAYER FLEECING

The following are some of the "provisions" in the 1+ trillion dollar omnibus bill. Though I am surprised that a law forbidding mean tweets was not included:
Expressly prohibits Border Patrol funding from being used to improve border security...
While allocating $410 million towards border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman
A "Ukrainian Independence Park" in Washington DC
$335 million to prepare for an influenza pandemic, including the use of surveillance tools.
$65 million to help 'Pacific salmon' populations (and those in charge of handling the money, we assume)
$3 million for 'bee-friendly highways' and another $5 million for the salmon
$575 million for "family planning" in areas where population growth "threatens biodiversity."
$65 million in two programs for Senator Leahy and a federal building named for Nancy Pelosi
$3.6 million for the "Michelle Obama Trail"
$477k for "antiracist" training, $3 million for a LGBTQ+ museum in NYC, $1.2 million in "services for DACA recipients"
$524.4 million for the NIH to fight "structural racism"
$7.5 million to better understand "domestic radicalization" and $1 million for gun violence research
Gender programs in Pakistan and $200 million for Gender Equity
A 15% increase in the vaccine injury fund
$11.33 billion for the FBI, $1.75 billion for the ATF and $2.63 billion for US attorneys (all significant increases over the previous year)
$70 million for minority business development, an increase of $15 million from Fy22

This list is courtesy of Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC)

YEP. what a travesty AND TRUMP PAID NO TAXES IN 2020 AND NEXT TO NOTHING FOR THE INFLATED
NUMBERS ON HIS RETURNS......sorry.both sides blow money like a drunken sailor.

I hope the principled Republicans prevent this Omni-crap from passing.

We need to ban earmarks again.

homeagain wrote: YEP. what a travesty AND TRUMP PAID NO TAXES IN 2020 AND NEXT TO NOTHING FOR THE INFLATED
NUMBERS ON HIS RETURNS......sorry.both sides blow money like a drunken sailor.

If you lost money last year, you still want to force people to pay taxes? That doesn't seem fair.
I have taken a massive hit last year thanks to Biden-inflation, you can bet I am going to claim those stock market losses.

But I do have to agree with your other statement. Since the pandemic, the US has created and spent 7 trillion dollars and now want to spend over a trillion more in this horrible bill.

Hopefully the new Republican majority in the House can slow this excessive spending.

FredHayek wrote: I hope the principled Republicans prevent this Omni-crap from passing.

We need to ban earmarks again.

Fred, you just described the opposite of moderate a Republican. All the moderates (AKA worthless Republicans) signed on to that dogshit 1.7 trillion that NOBODY read and never will read. Mitch McConnell is now in the lead for my most hated Senator. At least the Democrats know how to band together.

BTW, did happen to see the video of John Boner (forgot how to spell his name)… anyway, he cried like a little bitch when Pelosi had her portrait unveiled the other day. He’s the kind of low-t wimp we need to purge from government.

Fiscal conservative Republicans have said they will go after Republican Senators who vote for the Omni-crap CR. I don't know how.

I agree it will be difficult, 4 Republican senators, Shelby, Imhofe, Blunt and Portman voted for the bill and are retiring. They are bringing a total of about $1billion in earmarks to their respective states. Barrasso (WY) is listed as not voting. He was given the OK by McConnell to vote as such in that his vote wasn't needed and if he had voted for the bill, he would be the next Liz Cheney in WY. By this I mean he would have been primaried in 2024
Interestingly, both South Dakota Republicans voted yea, and North Dakota has Carmer (R) listed as not voting and Rounds voted yea. Perhaps McGovern's legacy does exist in the Dakotas.
Mitch got what he paid for in that Murkowski, Graham, Capito, Young and Romney were yea votes.
Both R senators from Arkansas, Cotton and Boozman voted yea. Doesn't help Cotton's aspirations to the Presidential nomination, if he still has them.

Time to flush all these Democrat helping moderates for good and start electing people with spines and principles.

Rick wrote: Time to flush all these Democrat helping moderates for good and start electing people with spines and principles.

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THAT is the most blatant and blind bit of wisdom......

www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/...ns-financial-losses/

. Financial experts are zeroing in on the 2020 tax year because it seems to offer clues as to why the former president handled the COVID-19 pandemic the way he did — it was hitting his personal finances hard. 

According to the newly released details, Donald Trump owed the IRS a wide range of taxes while he was in the White House. In 2017, he owed $750. In 2018, it was $999,466. In 2019, it was $133,445 and then plummeted down to zero dollars in 2020 because he lost nearly $4.8 million. It was a result of his fortune being tied primarily up in real estate, hotels, and other hospitality businesses hit hard by the lockdown.