Tom Fout

Ending Premium Tax Credits is Adding More Blood onto the Hands of Our Government.

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
Bring Back (And Extend) Premium Tax Credits

Make sense of it for me?
ACA Insurance Premiums based on a percentage of Gross Pay
Student Loan IBR are based on Gross Pay
Both can reach near 10% of Gross Income
Tax avg. 15%+, 6.2% for SS and 1.45% for Medicare
Result: > 40% of salary to the Government.
Shouldn't payments be based on Net Pay?

You are clearly correct!

Hey! I know those cool people!
We met and marched to the stadium together. Good people, nice gift

I find this delightful.

YouTube video by JohnMellencampVEVO John Mellencamp - Our Country

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WATCH: Last night, Trump said his bill saved 2 BILLION family farms in Iowa from paying the estate tax. As @chrislhayes.bsky.social points out, the number is closer to 50 for the entire country.

YouTube video by John Mellencamp - Topic Justice And Independence '85

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June 14, 2025 Tonight I offer you Peter Ralston’s “Still There.”

June 14, 2025

#NOKINGS
Bothell WA

Thanks

@ecstravel.bsky.social

When will we see Monkey mail for tomorrow's match?

I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding.

That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.

SCOTUS is a lifetime appointment. Trump will be dead soon.
I don’t see even his appointees putting up with much more of this. Why would they willingly give up their power in the long term?

I'm so mad

I ordered a pizza with peppers on the left side.

I had to return it because the put the peppers on the right side!

Meet the new Director of Communications for the US Navy, Kristina Wong, who on Jan 6 sat and watched the violence at the Capitol North Doors. She thought it was funny: "a lil sporty". This woman now speaks for the US Navy. (h/t/ PIperK on Twitter who first flagged her new position.) 1/

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

One If By Land
Two It By Sea
But What if the Aholes are Running the Country?

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
I absolutely hate this song and refuse to post a link.

When will real Republicans wake up to the truth that Appeasement is not a good path to follow?

NC Supreme Court votes to throw out some, but not all, ballots contested in 2024 race for seat on court Republican Jefferson Griffin's challenges against several thousand voters will be allowed to go through -- an outcome that could help him secure a seat on the state's highest court. One GOP justice br...

“Griffin didn't challenge most overseas voters in NC. Instead, he limited his challenges to only four of NC's 100 counties. All four are Democratic-leaning counties with large universities.”

What’s stopping Riggs from challenging all the overseas votes from Republican-leaning counties?

YouTube video by Steve Miller Band - Topic Fly Like An Eagle

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YouTube video by Pink Floyd Pink Floyd – Time (Official Audio)

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YouTube video by Jim Croce - Topic Time in a Bottle

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YouTube video by AnotherProf 1971 HITS ARCHIVE: Chick-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It) - Daddy Dewdrop (mono 45)

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YouTube video by abmcw Reunion - Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)

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Shout it from the rooftops. This is not left vs right, this is a class struggle.

4 Teslas were set on fire in Berlin, Germany today. Police there suggest a “political motive cannot be ruled out” — I’m thinking 1939 hasn’t been forgotten.