It sounds like a lot but it takes maybe 20 minutes to put into a free online tax preparer program. Interest for example gets it own page but it only has 2 numbers on it and child tax credit is a half page of mostly yes/no. Its broken up to be easy and straight forward and each page makes it very clear about what goes were, so most of a tax filing is IRS instructions.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...estion-n627446
That's a quarter of Republicans agreeing that Obama was born in the US. Poll from this August.
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Partisans in being partisan about partisan opponent shocker.
Had the shoe been on the other foot and Obama's nationality had never been questioned and Ted Cruz had become the nominee for the Republicans then there'd probably be a very high proportion of Democrats saying Cruz is ineligible to be President due to where he was born.
File under who gives a flying fuck?
The two are not even rempotely comparable. The former is an actual conspiracy theory whereas the latter is something that reasonable people may disagree about.
It's bizarre to see Trump now claiming that he wasn't a Birther or that he at least stopped being a Birther five years ago... and that Clinton was the one who started the Birther movement.
Even more bizarre to see his supporters crowing about this and extolling his awesomeness when a large portion of them actually are Birthers. Bizarre and also scary.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
I love how quickly you move the goalposts, Rand.
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The goalposts was your claim that two thirds of conservatives believe Obama is a Kenyan born Muslim, or that two thirds of conservatives believe all Muslim immigration should be stopped.
I hate to break this to you but 41% of republicans disagreeing with the statement that Obama was born in the USA is not the same as 67% say he is a Kenyan born Muslim.
So who is moving the goalposts now?
Right. And I neither agree nor disagree you're a human being. Clearly not offensive.
Hope is the denial of reality
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
If you'd claimed that two thirds don't deny that he is a Kenyan born Muslim you might be right, but whichever way you slice it 41% of partisan opponents denying he was born in the USA is not two thirds of conservatives saying he is a Kenyan born Muslim.
I'd suggest we keep the goalposts where you put them and you either demonstrate your claim or retract it.
Not really sure who you believe is winning here. Most recent polls and surveys find that anything from around 40% to 70% of Republican voters (sometimes including Republican-leaning voters) don't believe that Obama is an American citizen from birth or was born in the US. The lower bound for those who believe he's secretly a Muslim is similar. Whether you believe it's 40% or 70% the number is still too high and indicates that something is wrong with a large portion of the American electorate. The one mitigating factor is that around 20% of all voters regularly say they don't know.
Republican politicians who explicitly or implicitly endorse these beliefs are rewarded by voters while those who oppose them are punished.
It's a common and occasionally justifiable strategy to lump people who explicitly hold and actively express dumb-as-shit beliefs together with people who equate those beliefs with the truth or express ambivalence/doubt. We do this often for example when trying to decide how backwards and evil various populations of Muslims are.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Not only were they not the first ones, for the past eight years or so they have also not been the most important propagators of that idea. It can't be denied that this has become an almost uniquely Republican thing and has been so for a fairly long time. Are you saying the Republicans were brainwashed or mind-controlled by Clinton-supporters with super-powers?
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
RNC starts threatening former candidates to get them to support Trump.
This would be the best election ever if somebody wasn't going to be president at the end of it.
The fact that they aren't honoring the pledge is pretty shady. If you weren't prepared to honor it than you shouldn't of signed it. Rand Paul is the person they should be emulating.
"“I took a pledge when I ran for president to not run as an independent candidate and to support the Republican nominee,” Paul said. “I stand by that pledge, and I think that anybody who signs their word to a document ought to take it seriously before they sign a document. So I don’t think there’s any question that those who signed the document ought to say, ‘you know what? I honor the pledge.’”"
Priebus is a jackass.
As for the pledge, they're honoring the most important part of it by not running as independents. So in 4-8 years' time, if they want to run again, they should get a stern admonishment or possibly a shiny medal each.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
How many times did Trump threaten to renege on that threat?
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http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpo...-trump-to-sign
Endorsement and agreement not to run. Two parts - you can argue about what the 'key' part was but the simple fact is if you aren't prepared to follow through on your word you don't sign it.