And what about the so called rich? The top 20% of taxpayers paid 78% of federal income taxes in 2020, according to the Tax Policy Center, up from 68% in 2019. The top 1% of taxpayers paid 28% of taxes in 2020, up from 25% in 2019.
What sense does this make? “Imagine somebody who would have owed $1,500 in 2020 income tax until they got two stimulus payments — $1,200 in April and $600 in December,” he said. “That threw them into the category of non payers.
Drone strike appears to have killed an Afghan who worked for a US aid group. Not ISIS-X. According to an extensive NY Times investigation, Joe messed up big time. There may no have been an Issis-X terrorist, but a person who worked for a US aid group.
The U.S. government’s account of a drone strike launched against a suspected terrorist in Afghanistan toward the end of the military withdrawal from Kabul is being challenged by a report suggesting the victim was not a threat to the United States.
According to a New York Times report, the drone attack that American officials said killed an ISIS terrorist carrying a bomb in a car toward U.S. troops may have killed a man with no ties to ISIS and who was carrying water to family members.
Times reporting has identified the driver as Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group. The evidence suggests that his travels that day actually involved transporting colleagues to and from work. And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military may have seen was Mr. Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family. Not bombs like the administration claimed.
The U.S. previously admitted that there were three civilian casualties in the strike, but the Times report says the actual number is 10. Seven of those individuals were children, including young family members of Ahmadi who relatives say had run to the car to greet him when he got home moments before the strike.
Relatives and neighbors survey the damage to vehicles in the courtyard of the home of Mr. Ahmadi. Credit…Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 08: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on workers rights and labor unions in the East Room at the White House on September 08, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden spoke on the need to protect workers rights and the middle class. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Reprint. White House officials resist Biden’s push to purge Trump appointees. Many of these folks are former military personal. Spicer graduated from the US Navy War college. He also served 22 years in the Navy.
White House officials appointed by the 45th president are resisting Joe Biden’s push to force them out of office. Reports on Wednesday found the Biden administration told Trump appointees to either resign from military academy boards or face termination.
The move would reportedly affect up to 18 officials including Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought. Vought has already released a statement saying he’s serving a three-year term and Biden has no authority to remove him.
Conway also responded to reports saying she’s not resigning, but Biden should instead.
Meanwhile, Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated, “I will let others evaluate whether they think Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer and others were qualified, or not political, to serve on these boards, but the President’s qualification requirements are not your party registration, they are whether you’re qualified to serve and whether you’re aligned with the values of this administration.”
Critics added the dismissal of Trump officials from the military advisory boards is disappointing and against tradition.
Joe's responsible for what's wrong with this country. Giphy News.
So where’s the normalcy Joe promised us? Joe said he would bring us back better. He brought us back alright, but he left out the better. He was going to create millions of new jobs, get rid of COVID, end the war in Afghanistan with his 300,000 man army, and fix what he saw as a broken economy. So how did this work out?
Secretary of State Blinken is going along with his allies who say this. “Blinken at presser in Doha effectively denied reports that Taliban was blocking Americans from departing via charter flights out of Mazar-i-Sharif but that some folks in the group without valid travel documents meant Taliban had not permitted the planes to depart,” Hümeyra Pamuk, a Reuters reporter tweeted.
So Blinken hook line and sinker is buying the story from his new best friends the Taliban. What say you?
Joe Biden is the Democratic Party's version of The Emperor With No Clothes. Reddit
This is on you Joe. TRAPPED & TERRIFIED Pregnant US woman ‘kicked in stomach by Taliban’ & goes into hiding as ‘several hundred’ Americans stuck in Afghanistan. “She was kicked in the stomach, but she was kicked in the stomach well after – as she got through the first checkpoint for hours, waiting for those people at the south point to supposedly come and get her,” Issa said.
So Joe cut and ran. Forget the fact that he said that he would leave no one behind. SMH. Last time we saw Joe.
So the last plane took off. Who cares if hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afgans were left behind. Joe is probably going to go on TV and brag how he got out a day early US time. MSM and the progressives will call this betrayal a military success. Historians will call it a sad day in American Military History.
The Pentagon announced Monday that all U.S. troops have departed Afghanistan. The final C-17 carrying service members lifted off from the Kabul airport at 3:29 pm U.S. Eastern Time.
BREAKING: Last plane carrying American troops has departed Kabul; United States ends presence in Afghanistan after nearly 20 years: U.S. officials
McKenzie conceded that hundreds of Americans were left behind in the country.
“I believe our State Department is going to work very hard to allow any American citizens that are left — and we think the citizens that were not brought out number in the low — very low hundreds,” he said.
He called the evacuation mission the “largest non-combatant evacuation in the U.S. military’s history” and a “monumental accomplishment.”
Joe lies and what did you think would happen? What happened 8-26-2021 will go down as a day that Americans must never forget. Joe lied and our soldiers died. Is this the icing on the cake?
We’ve had one major screw up after another. The opening of our southern border. The loss of thousands of good paying jobs with the closing of the pipeline and banning of fracking and drilling. The out of control inflation. COVID mess, begging OPEC to produce more oil. And the deaths of our soldiers in Afghanistan.
What do all of these screw ups have in common? Biden saying the buck stops with me. But it’s Donald Trumps fault. SMH.
Former President Donald Trump with Justice Samuel Alito. Alito briefly blocked a lower court order forcing the Biden administration to reinstate Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, giving the Supreme Court a few days to consider the case. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Justice served. Back to Mexico with the undocumented. I saw an article that VOX was upset that the Supreme Court ruled that the undocumented had to wait in Mexico not here for their hearings.
Here’s what the left forgets. These folks are coming here for economic reasons. Taking jobs from Americans and legal immigrants. When they cross that border, they committed a crime. So what do they claim when caught? I seek asylum. Well go back home till your number is called.
The woman is angry in part because her family was assaulted two weeks ago when antifa threw firework explosives at a group of Christians having a worship event in Portland. Antifa then pepper sprayed them, including the children. https://t.co/67qgTGFv27
On 20 Aug., 2021, a black woman crashed a Portland press conference organized by several antifa-allied groups (e.g., Don’t Shoot Portland, Oregon Justice Resource Center, United Mutual Aid Network, etc.) ahead of a riot announced by antifa for 22 Aug., 2021.
The attack on Evangelical Christian worshippers on the Portland waterfront was ignored by the local press. Video recorded by “The Black Conservative Preacher.”
