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2023-12-04 Economy
Who You Gonna Believe: Your Wallet or Your Lying Eyes?
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Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-04 01:13|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Snickers candy bar $3.49 at Circle K, smaller in weight and adjusted ingredient.

Face it, the LSD have succeeded, we now are only a few steps away from having Venezuela economy.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-12-04 06:04||   2023-12-04 06:04|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 Moore vs United States could skip the interim steps and unravel the whole damned thing.
Posted by Cesare 2023-12-04 07:53||   2023-12-04 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 "Inflation Is Your Fault" And Other Self-Loathing Liberal Lies
Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-04 07:58||   2023-12-04 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Cesare, that would be my opinion also.

Keeping an eye on that one for sure, but nothing we can do at this point but wait and see.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-12-04 09:41||   2023-12-04 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Ref #2: "At issue in Moore v. United States is the question of whether the federal government can tax certain types of “unrealized” gains, which are property like stocks or bonds that people own but from which they haven’t directly recouped the value, so they don’t have direct access to the money that the property is worth."

Link to HILL Article
Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-04 09:45||   2023-12-04 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Trump or Biden? Meh. Economic worries and political weariness in Atlanta's bellwether precinct give a taste of 2024
Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-04 10:02||   2023-12-04 10:02|| Front Page Top

#7 You can gaslight most of the nation during COVID, but you can’t gaslight all of us in the McDonalds drive through. My meal cost $10 bucks and the fries and drink are smaller. I am like the prole in 1984 that was ticked off that his pint of beer was now metric measured. They messed up when they jerked around our McNuggets.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-04 11:34||   2023-12-04 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Nothing is more fundamental to individual AMericans than our expectations of world-class food supply and quality. It is the most intimate connection we have with out sense of first-world living. It is a place where there are obvious tells of decline.

I find the shrink-flation and price increases in mainstream, trusted brands like Stouffer's and Pepperidge Farm's is bad enough, but what I find increasingly across the entire spectrum is quality deterioration. They not only cheat on packaging and per unit pricing, but they have reduced quality and taste. For example Pepperidge Farm's Pretzel Goldfish are now tasteless and virtually salt-free as they have adulterated the proportions. Stouffer's has ruined Creamed Chipped Beef, rendering it inedible, and the Spaghetti with Meat Sauce is essentially devoid of significant trace amounts of marinara. Produce is routinely too early or kept past peak freshness. Canned goods are frequently presented with mere months of shelf-life remaining. Baked goods can have less than a week remaining on the sell-by dates.

These are not the hallmarks of a prosperous, healthy national economy. This is the decay of fundamental American prosperity on display!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-12-04 12:34||   2023-12-04 12:34|| Front Page Top

#9 
An to think when the 1913 Federal Income Tax form was 4 pages, which is now 106, the count of both including instructions. It was created for the WWI debt.

It was ORIGINALLY sold on, only taxing the Rich, not taxing the typical wage/income earners and not lasting more than 7 years.

Somehow, Congress quickly forgot about the original promises.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-12-04 14:28||   2023-12-04 14:28|| Front Page Top

#10 "has ruined Creamed Chipped Beef"
[snark]
Do not mess with that man's $hit on a shingle.
(I'm being mean. Ate it more times than I care to admit.)
Posted by ed in texas 2023-12-04 17:06||   2023-12-04 17:06|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-12-04 19:14||   2023-12-04 19:14|| Front Page Top

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