That Impeachment Thing....

Just out of curiosity, do you mean Nausi or did something go down that I wasn't aware of?

How can you be pro immigration if you believe a higher populations results in less efficient public spending and a lower quality of life?

What the ***. At least Leftists in England pretend or believe that QoL gets better when you take in Third World migrants en masse.

You can be pro immigration and acknowledge there are issues with the increasing population. Also, immigration doesn't mean the population increases dramatically, it depends on other things like birth rates.

Don't you value your quality of life more than the warm fuzzy feeling that you get by being pro immigration?

Yes as per the law, a contractor is required to provide literally everything that their employees need to do the job adequately and while following OSHA/Other regulatory. But they do not. They only provide bare minimums and if you pull out a law book on them, you’ll immediately or very quickly be laid off. So then you might decide to take them to court? They’ll dance around you with delays and extensions indefinitely while you eat up court costs and what’s more? You’ll be labeled as a troublemaker by the neighboring contractors and promptly black-balled. You see Seaval, your family may very well have a business but it’s painfully obvious that it’s not construction.

So let’s list the expenses that are absolutely necessary that the contractors will not provide that we were able to simply write off until recently.

FR Rated Long Sleeve shirts, expensive stuff. We buy a new set each season because they wear down. Old sets are donated. Can’t do that anymore.

FR Rated Pants, expensive stuff. We buy a new set each season because they wear down. Old sets are donated. Can’t do that anymore.

Welding Gloves, Specifically MIG Gloves. Not as expensive as FR but not exactly cheap. Every contractor provides gloves but very few of them provide welding gloves. And I’m a welder so “bring your own gloves”. We can’t claim that either.

Knee pads. These are actually not required by OSHA to be provided so guess I either have to just eat that or let my knees get *** up right?

Respirators because Silica and Hexavalent Chrome are a thing but the only respirators the contractors usually provide are cheap little dust masks that don’t actually provide any protection. I’m working at the the PA Cracker Plant for Bechtel, the largest contractor in the world and they have no respiratory protection for P-91 or Stainless pipe welding. Damn... you business owners sure are a piece of work huh.

My vehicle is mandatory for transportation to and from work. And the locations vary drastically so a cute little “10 minute commute” does not exist for us. The law requires that a company vehicle be provided in these situations and a handsome tax break is offered in compensation but they really only give that to the Superintendents and General Foreman. Do you know what a Foreman is? Probably too clandestine for you I imagine. It’s what you would refer to as a Manager.

SO! Mileage, and vehicular expenses can now only be claimed by a registered business. I’m a subcontractor so that doesn’t apply to me huh... damn.. Engine repair sure is expensive..

Now let’s get into travel expenses. Companies *sometimes* offer a PerDiem but it’s usually under par of the state-regulated PerDiem rates unless they are hurting for workers BAD, and only then will they hike it up a bit.

So there’s lodging, tolls, Vehicular problems again but even more so because you are now driving several hundred miles in one shot... Yeah your car loves that.

I’m sure even you can see where I’m going with this; we have to come out of pocket A LOT and are offered nothing in compensation when any business can claim almost anything under the sun. It’s ridiculous.

Oh and no, I’ve been through three CPAs, I do not play around with my money. And yes, ask around, go spark up a conversation with a Pipefitter or Boilermaker or Electrician and ask them about working on a Sunday (Double Time virtually everywhere) they’ll immediately complain about their taxes being jumped to nearly 50% for that check. Or would you prefer to see my paystub?

But go ahead, keep making a fool of yourself. Stupid ***.

How can you be pro immigration if you believe a higher populations results in less efficient public spending and a lower quality of life?

What the ***. At least Leftists in England pretend or believe that QoL gets better when you take in Third World migrants en masse.

In all the arguing back and forth over impeachment and Trump in general there is a rigidity to the response of the Republican supporters of the POTUS.

I saw it last week when Jim Jordan stood up and said "You don't like us, you don't like "Fly Over Country", you don't like our values, you have never accepted the Electoral College and the election of Donald Trump.'

The other night LSU quarterback Joe Burrow won the Heisman Trophy, a well deserved honor, but he chose to point out the number of hungry people in his community of Ohio, people left behind who are hurting, people lined up at the soup kitchen. People who have seen jobs and hope disappear, seen the quality of their lives and their life span drop.

It is in every sense tragic. The influx of an opioid crisis only adds to the immensity of the situation. But what people fail to see is who profits from this new economic norm...when Starbucks, Apple and Amazon pay zero taxes under the Trump Tax Cuts.

Where is the promised infrastructure? A health care plan? The job training? The conversion to renewable sources of energy? The return of the very industries that the tax breaks were supposed to lure back?

People quickly forget that the Harley plant and others that Trump "”saved" have closed down and their labor outsourced.

The wealthy continue to gain wealth, it's the new Gilded Age. Ohioans are left with an economy that has bypassed them and cling to G-d, patriotism and a dislike of socialism because that is what is fed to them by the likes Jim Jordan and Donald Trump. It is important to try and understand the phenomena that is spreading in America...homelessness, addiction, early death and the despair of poverty.

The people in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania live this and thus enough voted for Donald Trump to get him elected. They have been conned, just like all the people in the New York business world were conned. If Democrats and Republicans moving forward, want to win the White House they have to avoid avoiding this reality. We need to change the focus of this society from the "I got mine" mentality to the utilitarian ideal of doing the most good for the most people.

None of which you listed has anything to do with Trump, it just sounds like you work for a shitty company.

Your name calling is another plus to convince people to your cause.

Last page I complained about Trump repealing the 1040E. Seavel then proceeded to say that my complaints were *** so I then proceeded to rip his *** about it. All caught up now?

Denmark, Finland and Norway have high tax rates and I'm pretty sure they have better QoL than Americans.

These both can not be true....

You do realize that 300 million people versus the population of those countries....may have something to do with it.

Actually they can be.

You really do not understand how trades work.

You do realize that 300 million people versus the population of those countries....may have something to do with it.

*Cough*

Union

*Cough*

Contractor

*Cough*

Then his claim about suffering under "business expenses" even though the standard deduction doubled. He would have to be the highest paid yet poorly worked repair man in the USA to get anywhere close to that deduction, or he was using it to cheat on taxes. Seeing how badly his story smells I bet on the later. Numbers don't lie and we can smell *** miles away.

Just a few more hours until Trump gets officially impeached!

Just a few more hours until Trump gets officially impeached!