{"id":36188,"date":"2019-04-12T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36188"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:39:25","slug":"open-thread-4-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/open-thread-4-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/12\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another Busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I was pleasantly surprised when CCC delivered my fridge yesterday. I had been told it would be a 10 ft<sup>3<\/sup> unit.&nbsp; I had a 14 ft<sup>3<\/sup>.&nbsp; They delivered a 15.5 ft<sup>3<\/sup>.&nbsp; That;s big enough to store an extra <em>dawg<\/em>, maybe 2. It keeps my food quite cold.&nbsp; Furthermore, it&#8217;s brand new.&nbsp; I like it.&nbsp; TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:22 (average 6:48).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-12-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JXNHtg_UUo8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Assange Arrest Puts WikiLeaks Tie To Donald Trump Camp Back In Spotlight<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JXNHtg_UUo8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s hard to tell which leaks Putin&#8217;s Puppet likes best: Wikileaks or Russian Hooker leaks. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vrI7h8WDFf8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Jeffrey Toobin on proposed policy: This is grotesque<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vrI7h8WDFf8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As a resident of a sanctuary city, I would rather see refugees released here than Republican Sheeple. The latter are violent criminals and thugs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2019\/04\/12\/2020-candidate-warren-proposes-new-tax-on-corporate-profits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Herald<\/a>: <\/font>Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is proposing a new tax on corporate profits that\u2019s designed to prevent business giants from taking advantage of the existing tax code to effectively pay a zero rate.<\/p>\n<p>The 7% tax on corporate profits above $100 million is the latest in a series of ambitious policy proposals from the Massachusetts senator. It\u2019s in line with her broader push to rein in such industries as the financial sector and technology firms .  <\/p>\n<p>Her campaign estimates the proposal would hit roughly 1,200 firms. Those corporations would pay the tax on top of any liability under current tax rules, which, as Warren said in a Thursday blog post on her plan, is necessary because \u201cour corporate tax code is so littered with loopholes that simply raising the regular corporate tax rate alone is not enough.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Dubbing her pitch \u201cthe Real Corporate Profits Tax,\u201d Warren wrote: \u201cIt will make our biggest and most profitable corporations pay more and ensure that none of them can ever make billions and pay zero taxes again.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m 100% for it. When a giant corporation has received so many custom loopholes from Republicans that they pay no taxes, raising the rate does not help. A higher percentage of 0 is still 0.&nbsp; We need them to pay their fair share. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0412Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another Busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I was pleasantly surprised when CCC delivered my fridge yesterday. I had been told it would be a 10 ft3 unit.&nbsp; I had a 14 ft3.&nbsp; They delivered a 15.5 ft3.&nbsp; That;s big enough to store an extra dawg, maybe 2. It keeps my food quite cold.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/open-thread-4-12-2019\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}