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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-sent-a-garbled-tweet-on-the-stimulus-negotiations-and-it-didnt-go-well/
President Donald Trumps mental acuity was once again debated online after the leader of the free world sent a five-word tweet.
Payroll Tax Cut plus Dollars! Trump posted.
The tweet was apparently garbled enough that Twitter added a translate link, which displayed identical text when clicked.
The tweet was sent after White House chief of staff Mark Meadows failed to reach a deal with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the next round of stimulus funding.
Someone wondered if he is taking the cognitive test again. But does he get extra credit for getting the words in the right order?
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)rsdsharp
(9,202 posts)which is Trumps end goal.
Karadeniz
(22,573 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)SS is calculated on the average of the highest 35 years of SS wages. It there is a payroll tax cut it would not effect the SS Wage total for a given year and thus not effect the average of the highest 35 years.
rsdsharp
(9,202 posts)to pay SS and Medicare.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)mess with that but I could be wrong. Last time this was done I believe money was taken fr the general fund to make up the difference in lost revenue.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)So ultimately, there was no effect on the finances of SS and Medicare. It's unclear whether that would be the case this time, but regardless, it's a bad idea.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)But Gov. got in the habit of using it, then "replacing " it.
Normally the fund paid out by selling Treasury bonds.
Normally the bonds had value.
but with Mnuchin and trump emptying the Treasury with both hands, and burying us in generations of debt, I am very concerned about how current payments will be made, not to mention later ones.
Initech
(100,104 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)but.....he still hates brown people and libs and for a lot of them, that is enough
unblock
(52,328 posts)it clarifies that whatever money he's gotten or success he's gotten or power he's gotten has all been due to his whiteness and his maleness.
his supporters love that, because it eliminates the possibility that he got where he is based on merit, meaning their own whiteness and maleness must also have great value.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,021 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)More confused ramble mumbles from the deteriorating, delusional ultraprepidarian dotard.
He also is acting like a creepy guy in a van offering cookies and toys to kids passing by.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)Blink twice if you are danger Don.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)The correct answer was: Person Woman Man Camera TV
ProfessorGAC
(65,191 posts)Leave SocSec & Medicare alone, and stimulate the economy PINO ruined.
Very simple.
Even PINO could get this.
Well, probably not.