Democrats face growing storm over IRS
reporting provision
Posted By: NorthernDog, 10/17/2021 9:08:48 AM
Democrats are facing a firestorm of criticism over a proposal to increase the amount of bank account information reported to the IRS, posing a challenge as they craft their wide-ranging social spending bill. The proposal is a top priority of the Biden administration, which argues it will help the IRS go after wealthy tax cheats. But it has come under a barrage of attacks from banks and Republicans, who say it raises significant privacy concerns. Financial institutions have been mobilizing their customers to speak out against the proposal to lawmakers. Congressional Democrats are expected to make changes to the administration’s
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Haiti gang reportedly demands $17M to
release kidnapped American and Canadian missionaries 8 replies
release kidnapped American and Canadian missionaries 8 replies
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Desperate efforts continued on Tuesday to save a group of missionaries, most of them Americans, being held for ransom by a criminal gang in Haiti. FBI agents were working with local authorities in the tiny Caribbean nation to find the 16 U.S. nationals and one Canadian who were kidnapped on Saturday. Haiti's justice minister said the gang was asking for $1 million each — $17 million dollars in total — to release the missionaries, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The missionaries, from an Ohio-based Christian organization, were abducted just outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. CBS
There's a record 100 ships floating off
ports in Southern California despite Biden's
24/7 schedule 11 replies
ports in Southern California despite Biden's
24/7 schedule 11 replies
California ports have hit another record, despite Biden's plan to extends their working hours in order to ease the backlog. According to data from the Marine Exchange, there were a total of 157 ships recorded in and around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Monday, matching a record that was reached for the first time in September. The total number of ships at anchor and in holding areas, waiting to dock and unload at the ports, also hit a fresh record on Monday as 100 vessels floated off the shore. 97 of these ships are container ships
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Rachel Levine becomes first transgender
four-star officer, will lead U.S. Public
Health Service 51 replies
four-star officer, will lead U.S. Public
Health Service 51 replies
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Fauci: People Who Have Conspiracy Theories,
Deny Reality ‘Don’t Particularly Care
for Me’ 40 replies
Deny Reality ‘Don’t Particularly Care
for Me’ 40 replies
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Breaking: Colin Powell Has Died
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Colin Powell, 84, died from complications due to Covid-19, his family said Monday.
"General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page.
“He was fully vaccinated,” they added. “We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell was a distinguished and trailblazing professional soldier whose career took him from combat duty in Vietnam
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Democrats to scale back Treasury's IRS
bank reporting plan, raise threshold from
$600 to $10,000 32 replies
bank reporting plan, raise threshold from
$600 to $10,000 32 replies
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‘We Just Don’t Know’ How to Defend
Against Possible Chinese Hypersonic Missile:
US Ambassador 26 replies
Against Possible Chinese Hypersonic Missile:
US Ambassador 26 replies
A new investigative report by the Financial Times asserted that China launched a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, which circled the earth in a low orbit before cruising toward and narrowly missing a test target. The Chinese regime has officially denied the report’s findings, saying that the object in question was a spaceship.
U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said that Washington is concerned about China’s possible deployment of hypersonic weaponry, and said the United States hadn’t developed a means of countering it.
“Hypersonic technology is something that we have been concerned about, the potential military applications of it and we have held back from pursuing, we had held back from pursuing military applications for
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Dems are salivating over getting a peek at everyone's personal finances.