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"circle back' hasn't answered ONE hardball question .... Sanders and McEnany got nothing but hardball questions and answered everyone with intelligence and grace
Psaki is a HS girl in a woman's position... but what can you expect from dementia Joe. Nothing good.
Hilarious daily White House Briefing maybe could learn something? Maybe Not
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Yep President Biden and VP Harris kicking Ass getting American Back
‘Dangerously Misguided’: Biden’s $2.3T Infrastructure Plan Panned by Major Business Groups
Major business groups denounced President Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure package, specifically criticizing the plan’s proposed tax increase, but said they were committed to compromise.
Business groups took aim at Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, arguing that a corporate tax increase would stunt job growth rather than invigorate the economy. But, the groups expressed a commitment to compromise on infrastructure, which they said was important for the U.S. economy.
“To the extent that infrastructure investment, given its unique economic benefits and the need for a rapid recovery from COVID-19, is deficit-funded in the short term, Congress should set a course for steady, reliable funding for infrastructure over the long term,” Business Roundtable President and CEO Joshua Bolten said in a statement prior to Biden’s announcement Wednesday.
Business Roundtable members include a range of top U.S. executives, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and many others.
“Business Roundtable strongly opposes corporate tax increases as a pay-for for infrastructure investment. Policymakers should avoid creating new barriers to job creation and economic growth, particularly during the recovery,” Bolten continued.
Biden announced the massive plan at a Pennsylvania union training center alongside International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers leaders Wednesday evening. The White House said the plan will create millions of “good jobs” and rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.
Biden proposed to increase the U.S. corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent as a way of paying for the package. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which was passed by the Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by former President Donald Trump, cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent.
“We believe the proposal is dangerously misguided when it comes to how to pay for infrastructure,” Neil Bradley, the Chamber of Commerce executive vice president and chief policy officer, said in a statement. “Properly done, a major investment in infrastructure today is an investment in the future, and like a new home, should be paid for over time — say 30 years — by the users who benefit from the investment.”
The Chamber of Commerce assembled a coalition of more than 300 members in January to push for an infrastructure package. Infrastructure spending is among the fastest ways for the government to spur economic growth, former Chamber CEO Tom Donohue said.
“America’s small businesses are the third largest economy in the world, and they have been severely harmed by the pandemic and government shutdowns,” National Federation of Independent Business President and CEO Brad Close said in a statement.
“We recognize this is only ‘round one’ and will remain steadfast in opposing any tax hikes that could hurt the efforts of small businesses to keep their doors open and their employees on payroll,” Close continued.
Biden has reportedly considered phasing pass-through entity deductions out as another way of funding the package announced Wednesday, National Law Review reported. Many small businesses are taxed as pass-through entities, or individuals, but they are given a deduction that effectively reduces their tax rate from 37 percent, the highest bracket, to 29.6 percent, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Removing this deduction would raise taxes on at least 90 percent of small businesses across the country, according to the NFIB.
But, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen lauded Biden’s plan for revamping the “flawed corporate tax code that incentivizes off-shoring” in a statement Thursday.
“It ends the global race to the bottom for lower and lower tax rates, something that will stop corporations from shifting their profits into tax havens abroad,” Yellen said.
The plan is a “historic investment” in American jobs, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh added in a statement.
The Chamber of Commerce assembled a coalition of more than 300 members in January to push for an infrastructure package. Infrastructure spending is among the fastest ways for the government to spur economic growth, former Chamber CEO Tom Donohue said.
The e-tron, Audi’s first next-generation electric vehicle, already had success in Norway and a few other European markets, but it didn’t sell in significant volume in the US during its first full year of sales.
We expected that to change after the German automaker came up with a big update for the 2021 model year of the e-tron.
Audi increased the range of the e-tron by 18 miles to 222 miles on a single charge and slashed the price by as much as $9,000.
The Audi e-tron now starts at $65,900 before EV incentives in the US. After incentives, the price goes well below $60,000, making it very competitive with a lot of luxury SUVs.
Biden so loves our enemy China he is willing to use some of their Signature Programs! He wants the US to be like China!
After 4 Years of Trump's Sharp Leadership Against China, Biden Takes America on a U-Turn to Copy Their Signature Program
When millions of Americans pulled the lever on former President Donald Trump on Nov. 3, 2020, many shared a well-founded concern that a deviation from his policies regarding China would empower the rising global superpower in its quest for dominance.
The Biden administration has done little to quell these fears.
While Secretary of State Antony Blinken has managed to muster up some firm rhetoric for China, including criticism of its human rights abuses in the Xinjiang province, this has only been met with a public tongue-lashing from Beijing’s diplomats.
It’s not controversial to imply that China is bent on global domination — the nation is quite open about it. And one of the clearest manners in which the Chinese Communist Party has laid out its plan to surpass the U.S. on the world stage is through its “Belt and Road Initiative.”
The BRI is an infrastructure plan which has, since its inception in 2013, invested trillions of dollars into projects in Asia, Africa and Europe in an effort to create the “new Silk Road” of global trade. China is also expanding its interests in a similar fashion in Latin America.
Over 100 countries have signed agreements with China to cooperate with some 2,600 BRI infrastructure projects to the tune of $3.7 trillion, according to Reuters. Many of these nations, however, are financially unstable, as an Op-Ed in The Washington Post noted in 2018.
In short, the BRI involves lending money to nations that can’t necessarily afford to pay the funds back.
This is the CCP we’re talking about, so you can certainly use your imagination as to what kind of power this thuggish regime gains for itself over the nations that have found themselves now heavily indebted to China.
While the Trump administration engaged in a trade war with China, the BRI was kicked into high gear and Beijing set about buying up ports with the hope of stationing its already massive navy in more international ports to gain influence.
Now, you’d think that whoever was in charge of the current biggest global superpower and the nation China openly aspires to surpass — the United States — would be seriously examining how to best curb an agenda for economic influence the likes of which has never before been seen in world history … right?
Trump was quite vocal about his intentions to hold China accountable for the trade practices that were giving the nation an unfair advantage over U.S. markets at the very least.
Yet in a stunning U-turn on our nation’s quest to protect its own interests and check China’s gangster diplomacy, President Joe Biden wants not to combat the BRI … but to emulate it.
Yes, seriously.
The president told reporters this week that, when speaking with the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he shared his vision for democratic nations to just go ahead and develop their own economic plan to compete with the BRI, Reuters reported.
“I suggested we should have, essentially, a similar initiative, pulling from the democratic states, helping those communities around the world that, in fact, need help,” Biden said.
So, he’s essentially planning on fighting communist globalism with neoliberal nation-building as China continues to ruthlessly and openly expand its tendrils around the globe, something which has contributed toward the realization of its naval ambitions to the point of providing it a foothold in our own backyard.
The scary thing is, it’s not even clear if American rival ventures to BRI projects could compete.
Reuters noted that while Washington has vocalized concerns and sought investments in the private sector to counter China’s, the U.S. “has yet to be able to convince countries that it can offer an alternative to the state-backed economic vision put forward by Beijing under BRI.”
Beijing is undeniably seeking to topple us on the world stage, something which Biden himself recently admitted in no unclear terms.
“They have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world. That’s not gonna happen on my watch,” the president said during his first solo news conference on Thursday.
Easy enough to say, yet the best his administration can come up with to address China’s goal is to attempt its own weak imitation of the infrastructure blueprint for global domination.
#JustSayNoToChinaJoe
Posting in the wrong thread again Phil you should know better
CCP Adviser Outlines Detailed Plan to Defeat US, Including Manipulating Elections
A leading Chinese professor—who is also an adviser to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—laid out a comprehensive plan for the communist regime to overtake the United States as the world’s superpower.
The professor’s multi-pronged strategy involves a range of malign actions to subvert the United States while strengthening the Chinese regime. They include interfering in U.S. elections, controlling the American market, cultivating global enemies to challenge the United States, stealing U.S. technology, expanding Chinese territory, and influencing international organizations.
Jin Canrong, a professor and associate dean of the School of International Studies at Beijing’s Renmin University of China, explained the plan in a July 2016 speech on “Sino–U.S. Strategic Philosophy.” The speech, recently uncovered by The Epoch Times, was given over two full days at Southern Club Hotel Business Class in south China’s Guangzhou city.
“We want to be the world leader,” Jin said, explaining Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s desire for a “national rejuvenation” of the country.
Dubbed “teacher of the state” by Chinese netizens, Jin is a prominent scholar known for his fiery anti-U.S. rhetoric. He’s an adviser to several CCP organizations, including two powerful bodies, the Organization Department and the United Front Work Department, although it’s unclear how close he is to Xi.
Jin was also a visiting professor at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, in 2003 and 2007.
Weakening the United States
The strategy to topple the United States has two broad components: weakening America through both internal and foreign sources; and strengthening the Chinese regime’s economic, military, and diplomatic power.
Using a metaphor of a company to illustrate the U.S.–China dynamic, Jin likened the United States to a company president and China to a vice president who wants the top job.
“The United States is a middle-aged man who is good-looking, has strong capabilities, and support from most employees,” Jin said.
“[To replace it], we first need to create the conditions to make it easier for the United States to make mistakes. Second, we should make it as busy as possible [dealing with problems], to the extent that it will feel depressed and want to give up. Third, we should become intertwined with the United States, so that it can’t attack us.”
Jin said the CCP is thinking of many ways to weaken the United States, which he described as a “very difficult” task. The professor offered four practical tactics.
Manipulating Elections
Jin suggested that the CCP should interfere in U.S. elections to bring pro-Beijing candidates to power. He singled out races for seats in the House of Representatives as an easy target.
“The Chinese government wants to arrange Chinese investments in every single congressional district to control thousands of voters in each district,” Jin said.
He noted that with the U.S. population standing at about 312 million across 435 congressional districts at the time, there were roughly 750,000 residents living in each district.
“The voting rate in the United States is about 30 percent, which means around 200,000 residents in each congressional district vote for the representative in that district,” Jin said. “Normally, the difference of votes between two candidates is 10,000 or less. If China has thousands of votes on hand, China will be the boss of the candidates.”
Jin said China’s ambition is to control at least the House.
“The best scenario is China can buy the United States and change the U.S. House of Representatives into the second Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress,” he said, referring to the committee that oversees the CCP’s rubber-stamp legislature.
Controlling the US Market
Ramping up Chinese investments in the United States is another way to exert influence in the country’s political system, Jin said, noting that this tactic has the added benefit of enriching Chinese business people and the CCP.
“The investment opportunities in the United States are relatively good,” he said. “The U.S. market is open—more open than the Japanese and European ones.” He added that the market’s strengths include its size, transparency, and stability.
He said the Chinese regime wants Chinese business people to control the U.S. market and to develop their businesses in the country.
To reach this goal, the Chinese regime tried to negotiate with Washington for a U.S.–China Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The agreement was actively negotiated for the decade prior to 2017, but fell off the agenda during the Trump administration.
Some U.S. companies want to enter the Chinese market, while the U.S.–China Business Council has advocated for the signing of a BIT.
Fostering Enemies of the US
Jin said the CCP’s “strategic task” is to make sure the United States has no less than four enemies. That’s how many are needed to stretch U.S. resources while bogging the government down in domestic debates over which threat to prioritize, Jin said.
For instance, before World War II, the United States had two adversaries, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
“The Americans debated over and over about who is the real threat,” he said.
“If the United States has four enemies, it will totally lose its direction.”
Analyzing the situation as of 2016, Jin concluded that the United States only had three adversaries: “Terrorism is definitely an enemy of the United States. Russia looks like another one. … Definitely, the United States treats us [China] as a competitor. … It’s not enough.”
The professor said that in the past few years, the CCP had tried to cultivate Brazil into an adversary of the United States, but was unsuccessful because Brazil “didn’t want to be improved.”
And this is SnifferJoes buddies.... borderline TREASON on Joes part.
#SayNoToChinaJoe
Posting in the wrong thread again Phil
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