Hệ thống thuế khoá tại Mỹ
[QUOTE=Khách #2;245636][color=blue][B]Nhà tỷ phú Warren Buffett đă trả lời phỏng vấn trên kênh CNBC "Squawk Box" vào sáng Thứ Hai (8/5/2017), nói rằng ông sẽ phải trả 17% - khoảng 680.000 USD - ít hơn về thuế, nếu dự luật "huỷ bỏ và thay thế" (Obamacare) mà Hạ viện thông qua vào tuần trước được thực hiện dưới mọi h́nh thức hiện tại.
Ông ta cũng nói rằng "Nếu có một thông điệp rơ ràng xuất phát từ dự luật đó, nó sẽ là chúng ta sẽ cắt giảm đáng kể thuế lợi tức từ thu nhập của những người giàu có từ đầu tư."[/B][/color]
[color=red][B]Billionaire Investor Buffett Says ‘Guys Like Me’ Benefit Most From Trumpcare[/B][/color]
[url]http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/billionaire-investor-buffett-says-guys-me-benefit-most-trumpcare-n756436[/url]
[I]Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett characterized the GOP plan to replace former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act as "a huge tax cut for guys like me" at the company's annual meeting on Saturday.
Buffett elaborated in a CNBC "Squawk Box" interview Monday morning, saying he would pay 17 percent — about $680,000 — less in taxes if the "repeal and replace" bill that passed the House last week was implemented in its current form.
"If there's one clear-cut message that comes out of that bill it is we're going to cut the hell out of income taxes for the rich on investment income," he said.
[B]Windfall for Billionaires Like Buffett — and Trump[/B]
The GOP's American Health Care Act rolls back a number of taxes implemented by the Affordable Care Act, but the one most pertinent to Buffett — and other ultra-wealthy Americans — is the repeal of a 3.8 percent surtax on capital gains and other investment income for high-income taxpayers. The repeal of the surtax would be immediate, as opposed to being phased out in the coming years.
"That's the biggest windfall," said Steve Ellis, vice president at Taxpayers for Common Sense.
The Congressional Budget Office has not yet released a report on the budgetary impact of the version of the bill the House voted on last week, but its calculations back in March on the original bill found that rolling back the surtax alone would cost nearly $158 billion by giving that money back to primarily the wealthiest taxpayers.
"Warren Buffett's right. For somebody like him this would be a major tax cut," said Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. "If you just look at the tax provisions of the American Health Care Act, which repealed the tax increases in the Affordable Care Act, it dramatically is skewed towards the highest income households."
People who earn $4 million or more a year would get an average tax cut of $207,000. Those at the bottom would see their taxes actually tick up by $10.
Including the 3.8 percent surtax and other tax provisions — like a 0.9 percent increase in the Medicare tax on high earners — Gleckman said households in the top 2 percent of the income spectrum would reap a whopping 80 percent of the benefits of the tax cuts in the GOP's plan. The top 0.1 percent of taxpayers, those who earn roughly $4 million or more a year, would get an average tax cut of $207,000. Those in the bottom income quintile, meanwhile, would see their taxes actually tick up by $10.
[B]Why the Rich Will Get Richer[/B]
Lowering taxes on investment income benefits the richest taxpayers because most Americans earn their money via wages, not investments. To the extent that we do invest and live off the returns, those funds are mainly in tax-preferred vehicles like 401(k)s or IRAs.
"The wealthier you are, the more this impacts you, because the way your asset blend is, you generally have a greater percentage of your wealth coming from investments than wages," said David Herzig, a law professor at Valparaiso University.
Some experts suggested that House Republicans' decision to repeal the tax was driven more by tax ideology than healthcare policy.
"I think the claim on the other side was one that was always pretty critical of this tax," said Michael Knoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. "This 3.8 percent tax looks much more like an element of redistribution, and that, in the view of some, is not what these kinds of plans are meant to be."
Gleckman said the progressive nature of the Affordable Care Act's tax provisions was deliberate, in order to fund provisions like the expansion of Medicaid and subsidies so lower-income Americans could afford to get health insurance.
"What President Obama did explicitly with the Affordable Care Act is he partially paid for the act subsidies by raising taxes on high income," he said.
The Urban Institute estimated that 19.2 million previously uninsured Americans got health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Rolling that back, on the other hand, would benefit a much smaller number of the richest people.
"You eliminate almost a 4 percent tax on not just capital gains, but all your investment income," Herzig said. "That's a huge savings for wealthy people."[/I][/QUOTE]
Theo Video sau thì đa số người nghèo ít đóng thuế. 0.1% người giầu nhất đóng thuế nhiều nhất.
Tuy vậy ông Buffett có lần phát biểu thư ký của ông ta đóng % thuế nhiều hơn ông ta. Ông này hình như có khuynh hướng thiên về chủ nghiã cộng sản cùng lý tưởng với TT Obama, muốn có chính phủ to, bao biện đủ thứ.
[video]https://www.prageru.com/courses/economics/americas-tax-system-fair[/video]
Trump đă t́m được cớ xa thải Comey
[B]Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey Over Email Investigation[/B]
[url]http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey-n757101[/url]
[I]President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, the same day the FBI confirmed that Comey had incorrectly testified to Congress about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
"You are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately," Trump told Comey in a personally signed letter obtained by NBC News.
"While I greatly appreciate your informing me, on three occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau," the president wrote.
Trump acted "on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement. It said a search for a new FBI director will begin "immediately."[/I]
Trump đă t́m được cớ sa thải Comey
[B]Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey Over Email Investigation[/B]
[url]http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey-n757101[/url]
[I]President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, the same day the FBI confirmed that Comey had incorrectly testified to Congress about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
"You are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately," Trump told Comey in a personally signed letter obtained by NBC News.
"While I greatly appreciate your informing me, on three occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau," the president wrote.
Trump acted "on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement. It said a search for a new FBI director will begin "immediately."[/I]
John McCain bảo rằng: Đừng nghe những ǵ Trump nói mà hăy nh́n kỹ những ǵ Trump làm
Nếu việc Trump sa thải Comey sẽ làm cuộc điều tra của FBI về sự liên hệ giữa White House và Nga chấm dứt th́ Trump đă lầm. Hôm qua McCain tweet rằng [B]"hành động của Trump chỉ xác nhận nhu cầu cần thiết để điều tra sự can thiệp của Nga vào cuộc bầu cử năm 2016"[/B]. Không phải chỉ riêng bên đảng Dân chủ, mà nhiều đảng viên đảng Cộng Ḥa tỏ ra vô cùng bất măn. Chắc chắn Thượng viện Mỹ sẽ phải xét lại luật cho phép tổng thống chỉ định và sa thải giám đốc FBI. Luật này được ban ra từ năm 1968 và Nixon đă là người đầu tiên áp dụng khi FBI điều tra về vụ Watergate. Hành động của Nixon đă khuyếch đại vấn đề nghe lén điện thoại bản doanh đảng Dân chủ trở nên nghiêm trọng hơn và kết quả đă dẫn đến việc từ chức của Nixon. Trump đang đi theo vết xe đổ của Nixon. Chuyện ǵ sẽ xảy ra, có lẽ mọi người đă có thể thấy được cái kết.
[B]McCain to allies: Watch what Trump does, not what he says[/B]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/30/politics/mccain-sotu-interview-trump-allies/[/url]
[I](CNN)Sen. John McCain has a message for US allies confused by the mixed messages and miscommunications coming from the White House on foreign policy: "Sometimes it's important to watch what the President does rather than what he says."[/I]
Dân Mỹ có số may mắn hơn dân V trong chữ S gấp 1000 lần .
Cũng may cho dân chúng Mỹ nếu thua keo này th́ cứ chờ 4 năm sau là bày keo khác chớ cở như dân Việt Nam trong chử S thua 1 keo thôi là hết cơ hội bày keo khác luôn .
Chính tụi 5-SVPK nó biết cái yếu điễm này nó bày keo "2020" cho VN thành 1 thị xă của tụi 5-SVPK .. nếu tụi 5-SVPK thắng th́ dân VN hỏng c̣n có cơ hội nào bày keo khác đuợc nữa.
Đó là chổ khác biệt giữa dân Mỹ với dân Việt trong chữ S là cứ 4 năm trôi qua là dân chúng Mỹ có cơ hội bày keo khác để gở bài cào. ..
White House thú thật việc đốn Comey là để chấm dứt cuộc điều tra của FBI về mối liên hệ với Nga của Trump.
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[B]White House: Removing Comey will help bring Russia investigation to end[/B]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/comey-fbi-investigation-russia-sarah-huckabee-sanders/index.html[/url]
[I](CNN)The White House said Thursday that removing FBI Director James Comey from his post may hasten the agency's investigation into Russian meddling.
"We want this to come to its conclusion, we want it to come to its conclusion with integrity," said deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders, referring to the FBI's probe into Moscow's interference in last year's election. "And we think that we've actually, by removing Director Comey, taken steps to make that happen."[/I]
Trump bắt Comey phải hứa trung thành
Qua những ǵ xảy ra mấy hôm vừa qua, ta thấy Comey là một người chính trực và liêm khiết, một tấm gương sáng ngời cho một người nắm quyền cao trong lănh vực hành pháp ở Mỹ, không hề khuất phục trước một người đă từng bị cho là kẻ lừa đảo trong vụ Trump University nhưng nay lại trở thành người lănh đạo của ḿnh.
Sau lễ nhầm chức, Trump đă mời Comey đến dự một buổi ăn tối và trong bữa ăn này Trump đă ba lần gạn để Comey cam kết rằng sẽ trung thành với Trump. Cả ba lần Comey đều tránh né và chỉ đáp rằng sẽ "thành thật" với Trump.
Theo The Times th́ Comey rất ái ngại, không muốn dự buổi ăn tối đó v́ không muốn tỏ ra thân thiện với Trump trong lúc FBI đang trong giai đoạn điều tra về sự liên hệ giữa Nga và Trump trong vụ tranh cử vửa qua.
Có thể rằng sau bữa ăn đó Comey đă đoán trước được tương lại sự nghiệp của ḿnh, nhưng vốn là người khí khái, coi trọng luật pháp quốc gia hơn những cái lợi cho cá nhân ḿnh, Comey đă vẫn phải làm những điều cần làm, theo đúng với lương tâm và bất chấp hậu quả sẽ như thế nào.
Quân pháp bất vị thân là thế đó!
[B]Trump asked James Comey to pledge his loyalty to him[/B]
[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-asked-james-comey-to-pledge-his-loyalty-to-him/[/url]
[I]Soon after he was inaugurated, President Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to pledge his loyalty to him, a request that Comey turned down, CBS News' Pat Milton confirmed Thursday, citing a law enforcement source who was told the story by Comey.
Comey felt that conversation, which occurred in January, shortly after Mr. Trump was inaugurated, was the beginning of his downfall, according to the New York Times, which first reported the story.
In January, Mr. Trump invited Comey to have dinner with him at the White House, and in the course of their conversation, the president asked Comey if he would pledge his loyalty to him. The FBI director declined, but he replied to the president that he would always be honest.
Again during their dinner, Mr. Trump told Comey he needed his loyalty. And again, Comey responded that he would be honest, according to the source. Mr. Trump pressed Comey on whether it would be "honest loyalty." Comey said that he responded, "Yes, you will have that." He meant, said the source, that he would always be honest with the president.
The Times reported that Comey was wary of accepting Mr. Trump's dinner invitation because he wished to avoid seeming too "chummy" with him, especially because of the ongoing Russia probe. He decided to go because he didn't think he could turn down the new president.[/I]