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Replying to @georgepbush
Donald Trump didn’t change the Republican Party. He revealed it.
Well this was an unpopular opinion.
Replying to @NatashaBertrand @shaltsch
Not to defend Pete Hagseth but the shouting soldier seems more disrespectful to me.
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So you’d rather have impeached under a Democratic Senate. Seems not smart.
TOTAL VICTORY!
The referral of these baseless impeachment articles to the House Judiciary Committee marks total victory for Secretary Hegseth, the Department of War, and the American warfighter. From the beginning, this effort has been a political exercise devoid of merit, evidence, or seriousness. It collapses under the weight of Secretary Hegseth’s record of restoring the warrior ethos, delivering results, and putting the mission first. The American people see through it.
We will not indulge the political theater driven by a disgruntled soon-to-be former congressman and others who have chosen grandstanding over governing. We look forward to ending this sham impeachment in the committee room, where facts will continue to prevail and this distraction can be put to rest.
We will always stand tall and fight to defend the Republic!
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New England: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Mid Atlantic: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, DC
South: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee
Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
Texas: Texas
The West: New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii.
The Outliers: West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma.
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Here is my plan for a Medicare buy in. Please feel free to cirtique it.
Medicare buy-in program
All children will be enrolled in Medicare at birth. This will be paid for with a TBD % increase in medicare withholdings from all people and all employers. All people will be covered until age 26, unless they specifically opt out at age 18 and/or have a qualified private insurance plan. At the age of 26, all people may buy into Medicare. At age 65, for anyone not already enrolled in Medicare, normal Medicare will kick in. If you enroll in Medicare before age 65 you and your employer (if applicable) will pay out an enhanced premium to join Medicare. This will be paid for 50% by an employer payroll tax and 50% from a deduction from your paycheck. The earlier you enroll in Medicare, the cheaper this premium would be and the discount will continue as you age.
An employer is only required to cover its portion of the premium up to enrollment at age 50. If someone enrolls in Medicare after age 50, their employer would only have to pay what it would have paid if the employee had enrolled at age 50 and the employee will have to pay the additional balance from payroll deductions. If someone enrolled in Medicare before age 50, then the employer will have to pay its full share even when the employee exceeds age 50.
If someone has a qualified medical insurance policy outside of Medicare, either through private pay or from an employer, then the time enrolled in such a plan will count 75% towards the deduction of being enrolled in Medicare at an earlier age. All companies must pay for Medicare for all employees and may choose to offer a private insurance plan as an option to employees. All people will still pay the current medicare payroll contributions plus the additional amount for covering children and will be automatically enrolled in Medicare at age 65 if not already.
If someone is unemployed, but was previously enrolled in Medicare, this coverage will continue and the unemployed person will not owe anything extra to cover this time, but they must re-enroll in Medicare when they are employed again. If someone enrolls in Medicare when they are not employed, upon employment, they will be required to enroll in Medicare at the age rate they currently are PLUS a 10% extra premium (10% above what they would normally pay, not 10% more of total income.)
There will be a copay in place to try to curtail abuse of the system. This could be as low as 1% copay capped at $100/year up to 20% copay capped at $20,000 based on yearly income. Employees and/or employers may use gap coverage to cover this deductible and to provide ancillary services not covered by Medicare.
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Vance might resign because he feels that gives him the best chance to become president in 2 years, but Trump isn’t going to try to pressure him to. If he did resign,who would Congress possibly approve as his replacement that Trump would nominate? So there would be no Vice President and Hakeem Jeffries would be one heart beat or impeachment conviction from the presidency. Not going to happen.
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Donate to Ish. He was always super kind to me growing up through middle and high school when other people weren’t. He’s being targeted by right wing organizations for standing up for Palestine. gofundme.com/f/stand-with-is…
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