Your Genius Congress

[JackLuis]

Genius Proposal Would Replace Hated IRS With Beloved Private Debt Collectors

In July, before rewarding themselves with more vacation days than you’ll get over the next decade, the United States Senate actually addressed a real issue facing the nation. The esteemed legislative body passed a transportation bill in hopes that a bridge won’t collapse on a bus full of orphans. But bridges cost money.

Now some might say a reasonable funding approach would be to increase the gas tax that has been holding steady at $0.18 per gallon since 1993. But those people aren’t Republicans.

Included among a smattering of the bill’s patchwork funding measures is a provision that would replace IRS agents with private debt collectors. Yes, we could increase the gas tax by a penny or two on people who use the roads we want to repair. But nah, let’s go ahead with the Mike Huckabee pre-ejaculate that precedes his dumb “Abolish the IRS” wet dream. Gross.

Private contractors, is there anything they can’t do? From wars to water (and more wars), three decades of privatization have generally shown that the only thing more inefficient than the federal government is the outsourcing of government functions. In fact, we’ve tried privatized tax collection before, including a smaller program from 2006-2009 that cost taxpayers millions of dollars:

Those fuck'en geniuses are at it again!

 

[Tigersman]

Congress should be abolished so we could save a minimum of $565,000,000 per year plus all the pork they throw around.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Congress should be abolished so we could save a minimum of $565,000,000 per year plus all the pork they throw around.

But...but...who would enact laws to protect women from having to make decisions about their own bodies?

 

[about_average]

Well, at least we'd get a reality TV series out of it.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Like, they're not going far enough!

 

[DooleyDarter]

*LOL* the fucking IRS has been holding my tax refund since Feb of this year due to identity theft that was cleared up in March. I think the Cosa Nostra would be better suited that the IRS.. Give me my fucking 6 thousand dollars!
Fuck the IRS they are certainly not needed.

 

[DooleyDarter]

But...but...who would enact laws to protect women from having to make decisions about their own bodies?

Maybe, just maybe women should be responsible for the cocks they let into their bodies ya think?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Genius Proposal Would Replace Hated IRS With Beloved Private Debt Collectors




Those fuck'en geniuses are at it again!

why should the obama kind care? after all, they don't work and therefore do not fear the IRS. all the obama kind (and including the obama) care about welfare and tax payer money.

maybe some day, obama will get a real job

 

[NeverEndingMe]

yeah, you are right. your kind is too fucking stupid to have money. you will blow it and be bankrupt in a year or two.

clearly you have a point, that your kind is mentally fucked and needs life long welfare

But...but...who would enact laws to protect women from having to make decisions about their own bodies?

 

[PoppingTom]

Maybe, just maybe women should be responsible for the cocks they let into their bodies ya think?

Yeah, off course women are responsible for being raped.

Asshole.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Yeah, off course women are responsible for being raped.

Asshole.

you are a socialist and therefore mentally defective

 

[JackLuis]

Congress moves to claim space resource rights for Americans despite an international treaty

The burning issue of the day?

Asteroid platinum and the briny water on Mars may soon be available for plunder, Republicans and Democrats have agreed, advancing a bill that would grant “space resource rights” and could challenge an international treaty on outer space.

The US Senate passed the Space Act of 2015 this week, sending its revisions of the bill back to the House for an expected approval, after which it would land on the president’s desk. The bill has a slew of provisions to encourage commercial companies that want to explore space and exploit its resources, granting “asteroid resource” and “space resource” rights to US citizens who managed to acquire the resource themselves.

The lawmakers defined “space resource” as “an abiotic resource in situ in outer space” that would include water and minerals but not life.

Space law is a new frontier for the lawmakers and lawyers planted on Earth, and although the commercial spaceflight sector has grown enormously in the past decade – including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic – the prospects of space mining have remained unclear.

Stake a claim on an asteroid and all the platinum is yours!

 

[JackLuis]

Congress Critters say the Damnest things.

Rep. Steve King smears Muslim colleague behind his back — and acts like nothing happened moments later

Rep. Steve King (R-Douchbag) tried to paint his two Muslim congressional colleagues as extremists — when they weren’t looking, Talking Points Memo reported.

“You won’t get Keith Ellison or Andre Carson in this Congress to renounce Sharia law,” King said during an interview regarding Donald Trump’s proposed blanket ban on immigration for Muslims. “Let alone somebody that’s just come out of the Middle East that is someone who has been steeped in Islam for a lifetime.”

According to TPM, Ellison was nearby at the conclusion of reporter Lauren Fox’s interview with King. The two reportedly shook hands, but it is unclear whether King informed the Minnesota Democrat about his accusation.

Ellison responded in a separate interview, calling it “an incredibly ignorant statement.”

 

[JackLuis]

House sets Friday vote for stop-gap spending bill to head off government shutdown

Well no hurry gents.

he House of Representatives will vote on Friday on stop-gap spending legislation to extend a deadline for action and avoid a government shutdown, a House leadership aide said.

U.S. lawmakers are negotiating a $1.15 trillion funding bill to pay for government operations through September, with the deadline for action Friday at midnight, when the existing spending authority expires.

But lawmakers have been unable to reach agreement on a number of policy “riders” some lawmakers would like to add to the bill. Earlier this week House Speaker Paul Ryan said they would likely need an extension of a “handful of days” to allow work on the spending bill to be completed.

 

[JackLuis]

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[phrodeau]

Republican congressional candidate John Howe displays his ignorance of basic science.

http://www.twincities.com/dakotacounty/ci_29416716/minnesota-candidates-planet-9-claim-is-wrong-umn

"We just found another planet," said Howe, one of six Republicans seeking their party's nomination for the south-suburban district. "It's going to take that planet 10,000 to 20,000 years to orbit the sun. We don't know the gravitational effect that's going to have on the Earth. The jury's still out."

But Howe's claim about the jury being out on the gravitational effect of "Planet Nine" is massively wrong, a University of Minnesota astrophysics professor said.

Terry Jones, a professor at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, said scientists do know the gravitational effect the hypothesized Planet Nine would have on Earth: "None."

(More precisely, Jones said, it's a number so small as to be effectively none, because "nothing's exactly zero.")

In fact, figuring out Planet Nine's gravitational impact isn't rocket science. The math is pretty straightforward: gravitational impact is determined by mass and distance, and both of those are roughly known for the hypothesized ninth planet.

 

[BotanyBoy]

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Meme of the day....thanks for the lulz.

 

[phrodeau]

Dumbasses resurface among the GOP.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...putee-duckworth-not-standing-up-for-vets.html

The National Republican Senatorial Committee deleted a tweet Tuesday in which it claimed Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., a double amputee, has a “sad record of not standing up for veterans.”

Duckworth, who is favorite to face incumbent GOP Sen. Mark Kirk in November, lost both her legs while serving in Iraq.

http://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/707300188575162368/photo/1

This is the same group that sent comic books to voter's homes containing obscene and inappropriate language in 2008, to discredit Al Franken.

http://www.twincities.com/2008/10/27/anti-franken-mailing-looks-funny-but-no-ones-laughing/