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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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
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