Daily Topics - Wednesday June 7th, 2017
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Coming up today on The Thom Hartmann Program - Your Home for the Resistance:
- Could Trump Tweets Lead to War in the Middle East
- Why is Trump Selling Off DC's AqueDuct? Is DC's Water About to be Privatized?
- Richard A. Clarke, Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes/Good Harbor Security Risk Management/served 3 consecutive U.S. Presidents as Special Assistant to the President-Global Affairs, Special Advisor to the President-Cyberspace & National Coordinator-Security & Counter-terrorism
- U.K. Elections Tomorrow: Corbyn & May in Virtual Tie - Victoria Jones, Talk Media News
- Karen Handel: 'I Do Not Support A Livable Wage' - Libertarian Charles Sauer, The Market Institute
...LIVE from Washington, DC starting at 12pm Eastern...
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From Cracking the Code:
"In Cracking the Code, Thom Hartmann, America’s most popular, informed, and articulate progressive talk show host and political analyst, tells us what makes humans vulnerable to unscrupulous propagandists and what we can do about it. It is essential reading for all Americans who are fed up with right-wing extremists manipulating our minds and politics to promote agendas contrary to our core values and interests."
From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
From Screwed:
"I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom’s great work, it helps show us the way forward."
Re your caller today (6/6) saying wages were 80% deductible, the following is from Chapter 5 of IRS pub 535....
Example.
You pay your employee $18,000 a year. However, after you withhold various taxes, your employee receives $14,500. You also pay an additional $1,500 in employment taxes. You should deduct the full $18,000 as wages. You can deduct the $1,500 you pay from your own funds as taxes.
The link to this page is
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch05.html#d0e3397