The Donald, to lower everyone's standard of living ...
https://www.currentfederaltaxdevelopments.com/blog/2018/1/27/irs-to-recompute-2018-inflation-adjusted-numbers-due-to-tcja-requirement-to-use-chained-cpi-1

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act modified IRC §1(f)(3) to use the chained consumer price index (C-CPI-U) rather than the standard consumer price index (CPI-U) for most inflation adjustments for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017.

Wikipedia offers the following summary explanation of the “chained CPI”:

The United States Chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI-U), also known as chain-weighted CPI or chain-linked CPI is a time series measure of price levels of consumer goods and services created by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as an alternative Consumer Price Index. It is based on the idea that in an inflationary environment, consumers will choose less-expensive substitutes. This reduces the rate of cost of living increases through the reduction of the quality of consumed goods.

They are forcing you to buy made in China!
<ed>They know what inflation is headed to. Make Ford's time look like paradise.

Inflation is a very popular way to pay for the federal deficit and it has the side benefit of shifting wealth accumulation upwards.
What's not to like?

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Inflation is a very popular way to pay for the federal deficit and it has the side benefit of shifting wealth accumulation upwards.
What's not to like?

Noting at all. It also requires more that a two state mind to understand, so it is hidden from the fanbois.

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Inflation is a very popular way to pay for the federal deficit and it has the side benefit of shifting wealth accumulation upwards.
What's not to like?

Unfortunately for us. Both the Democratic Party and Republican Party have and probably always will, depend upon inflation to...

The Republican "Tax Reform" with it's built in deficit leaves that as the only way. They will get to own this one.
The subsequent gap between the 1% and the bottom 60% will eventually bring out the pitchforks.

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Believing that the Republican Leadership and Democrats Leadership are truly different regarding deficits. They are not.

Not true Democrats believe in taxes to pay for the cost of government. That is what the Republican oligarchs object to.

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Believing that the Republican Leadership and Democrats Leadership are truly different regarding deficits. They are not.

Not true Democrats believe in taxes to pay for the cost of government. That is what the Republican oligarchs object to.

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You should have heard the GOP howls when Gov. Brown put more $ in the rainy day fund. GOP's screamed gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme. Not a single fiscal conservative among them.

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

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Believing that the Republican Leadership and Democrats Leadership are truly different regarding deficits. They are not.

Not true Democrats believe in taxes to pay for the cost of government. That is what the Republican oligarchs object to.

U.S. Deficit by Year:

1960 $0 $2 (0.1%) Recession.
1961 $3 $3 0.6% JFK & Bay of Pigs.
1962 $7 $10 1.2% Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 $5 $7 0.7% U.S. aids Vietnam. JFK killed.
1964 $6 $6 0.9% LBJ War on Poverty.
1965 $1 $6 0.2% Medicare. Medicaid.
1966 $4 $3 0.4% Vietnam War
1967 $9 $6 1.0%
1968 $25 $21 2.6% Moon landing
1969 ($3) $6 (0.3%) Nixon took office.
1970 $3 $17 0.3% Recession
1971 $23 $27 1.9% Wage price controls.
1972 $23 $29 1.9% Stagflation
1973 $15 $31 1.8% End of gold standard.
1974 $6 $17 1.0% Budget process created
1975 $53 $58 0.4% First Ford budget.
1976 $74 $87 3.1% Stagflation
1977 $54 $78 3.9% Stagflation
1978 $59 $73 2.5% First Carter budget.
1979 $41 $55 1.5% Volcker raised rates to 20%.
1980 $74 $81 2.6% Recession. Iran oil embargo.
1981 $79 $90 2.4% Reagan tax cut.
1982 $128 $144 3.8% Reagan's 1st budget.
1983 $208 $235 5.6% Jobless rate 10.8%.
1984 $185 $195 4.5% Increased defense spending.
1985 $212 $256 4.8%
1986 $221 $297 4.8% Tax cut.
1987 $150 $225 3.1% Market crash
1988 $155 $252 2.9% Fed raised rates.
1989 $153 $255 2.7% S&L Crisis.
1990 $221 $376 3.7% Desert Storm.
1991 $269 $432 4.3% Recession.
1992 $290 $399 4.4%
1993 $255 $347 3.7% Clinton signed Balanced Budget Act.
1994 $203 $281 2.8% First Clinton budget.
1995 $164 $281 2.1%
1996 $107 $251 1.3% Welfare reform
1997 $22 $188 0.3%
1998 ($69) $113 (0.8%) LTCM crisis
1999 ($126) $130 (1.3%) Glass-Steagall repealed
2000 ($236) $18 (2.3%) Surplus.
2001 ($128) $133 (1.2%) 9/11 attacks. EGTRRA
2002 $158 $421 1.4% War on Terror.
2003 $378 $555 3.2% JGTRRA
2004 $413 $596 3.3%
2005 $318 $554 2.4% Katrina. Bankruptcy Act.
2006 $248 $574 1.8% Bernanke chairs Fed.
2007 $161 $501 1.1%
2008 $459 $1,017 3.1% Bank bailout. QE.
2009 $1,413 $1,632 9.8% Stimulus Act
2010 $1,294 $1,905 8.6% Obama tax cuts. ACA. Simpson-Bowles.
2011 $1,300 $1,229 8.3% Debt crisis.
2012 $1,087 $1,276 6.7% Fiscal cliff.
2013 $679 $672 4.1% Sequester. Government shutdown.
2014 $485 $1,086 2.8% Debt ceiling.
2015 $438 $327 2.4% Defense = $736.4 b.
2016 $585 $1,423 3.1% Defense = $767.3 b.
2017 $666 $672 3.4%

More complicated.

Your list confirms my assertion.

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Lots of accusations that Trump is a racist. That he supported the KKK.............and this little gem surfaces last week.

Now we all know why Hussein Obama couldn't bring himself to say "Radical Islamic Terrorism"..........didn't see any photos of The Donald in a warm, smilin' handshake with the Grand Dragon.......

Photos and videos are such inconvenient little crumbs of truth........

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/25/photo-obama-louis-farrakhan/

,,,,,,,,,,,,when the term racist is bandied about.

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Now I know how low some will sink. The pic has been through photoshop at least 3 times. First there is a straight horizontal line about mid jacket level across the picture. Next there is a partially opaque white box across some of the faces. Third there is a watermark. Of course, why doesn't Senator Obama have a name tag and everyone else does? There is a strong odor about this.

["!"}.......["!"}.......wait for it........

@ Gary.........need to read the article, interviewed the photographer.........everything's a plot when talking about his holiness but truth when referring to Trump.

Gonna get a BIG surprise when Mueller gets done chewing on the fart burger and Congress releases 'the memo'.

Clay Feet are gonna be very apparent......... as is the duplicity in the DOJ and FBI leadership.

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

And it's not the 1st time that a certain person has posted FAKE NEWS PICTURES. ROFLMFAO!!!!!

Cheers.

Who gives a damn anyway. Group A, smile. Group B, smile. Group C, smile. Or are you so uninformed about these manufactured photo-ops?

And a poor alleged photographer needs cash, what a better way than sell smelly photos to the fake street media?!

Photo really stinks. If he was say shooting through glass and the stuff is a reflection, then the lettering in the watermark should be mirror, it isn't. Oh but maybe the whole photo was mirror, nope, the name tags read right not mirror! This one stinks like a gaseous emission from a Rump.

JE its like all your shouting about the tax reduction for business and how they are using this to increase wages.
Take a proper look at Walmart, less than 1 billion on wage increases for the workers. So far 4 billion on buying back stock so that shareholders and executives get bigger bonuses etc.

Ah.....there's the rest of the ["!"]s.............wind must have come up.

Don't really need photos of questionable interpretation.

So now it's not photoshopped it's"....questionable interpretation........". Pick a side of the room!

An admitted Anti-Semitic, Anti-White bigot in the Senate Conference room with a newly minted Senator.....yeah I'm sure that would have played well in the 'flyover' but very relevant middle America. Another example of REAL not IMAGINED deception by Obummer and the Congressional Black Caucus to keep their appointed(self or otherwise) messiah from going down in flames before the 2008 election even got started.

"the memo", I'm sure will be decried as an attempt to discredit and destroy the Dim credibility. It won't just be an attempt.

And the President keeps laughing at the ineffective sputtering attempts to derail his policies.

And the People keep getting wage increases, bonuses, more job opportunities and security.

And the puppets keep dancing to 'Trump the Fiddler's' tune.............dance little puppets, dance.

Remember Dims, your leaders have nothing to offer you but......
Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist!
The self immolation of deceitful criminal endeavors is a thing of beauty to watch..........hair on fire and burning to the ground.

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Photos and videos are such inconvenient little crumbs of truth........
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/25/photo-obama-louis-farrakhan/

The real question is why the Congressional Black Caucus would even invite, then smile with this evil, bigoted and hate filled person.

While attacking others for being evil. bigoted and hate filled.

Take what you will, from the horse's mouth....the interview I saw live last week.......as I said the reason for reluctance to call Radical Islamic Terrorists what they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNT8mX5ieiM
Those quick to label racist, in either direction, should be careful of what's in their closets.................

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Another One Down. So Many mO to gO.

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45 Lovin' 45ers, aka dA DEPLORABLEs are Squealin' Their Happiness, Knowin', FINALLY, LEFTY CRIMINALITY EXPOSURE is Happenin'.

Yep, 45 is DANGEROUS. So So So DANGEROUS. To dA LEFTY POLITICIANs and LEFT DEEP STATE Bureaucrats.

Man O Live. Been a LONG TIME Comin' and a LONG TIME Waitin' fO dA COMEUPANCE so DESERVED.

BOULDERs of TRUTH Yap

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

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