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    JamesLawhorneHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 3:03pm

    Donald Trump is against the TPP which will send our ability to trade as a sovereign entity to an international board that includes Russians as well as The Chinese. Disgusting.

    Hillary Clinton is obviously very much for this because she has already been paid to be for it. She is very unhealthy though, so hopefully she falls ill and dies before she can cause this nation any harm as its president.

    Your minimization of the issue by citing tiny examples that affect nobody is bullshit and you should ask yourself if compromising your integrity for a few clicks is worth it. Maybe you don’t care. Maybe it’s your job not to care. Maybe, just maybe, you are being paid by George Soros to spew Globalist lies to morons. I won’t weep for you or any of them when The Revolution actually takes hold. Bernie was a light in the darkness of the left. Now it’s wholesale warfare. Get ready.

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      Sparky PolastryJamesLawhorne
      7/13/16 3:09pm

      Your bunker called. You’ve missed curfew and need to report back immediately. Do it, now.

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      JamesLawhorneSparky Polastry
      7/13/16 3:10pm

      Your mom called. Me, last night. So I picked her up on my motorcycle and drove her back to my place where we had sex.

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    BobbySeriousHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 3:10pm

    So on one hand, we have the average Trump Taj union worker wage making a little over $12 an hour.

    On the other, is their boss who is worth $17,000,000,000.00.

    There’s your free market at work, minus labor power, period.

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      QuadPoleBobbySerious
      7/13/16 3:27pm

      It is more complicated than that. Atlantic City lost its gambling monopoly to Indian reservations and was in a slow decline unlike Las Vegas. The casinos did not adjust their strategy fast enough to matter. This is on top of a very bureaucratic and corrupt New Jersey government trying its best to milk the situation. The business mix is also very different than Las Vegas in that Vegas diversified its revenues away from gambling (~ 1/3 of total casino revenues) while Atlantic City still relied heavily on gambling as the core business.

      http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…

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      HighCharityQuadPole
      7/13/16 3:35pm

      The system is working as intended guys!

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 3:23pm

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      BlastProcessing╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      7/13/16 3:32pm

      LISA NEEDS BRACES.

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      thisisitwearerobots╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      7/13/16 3:34pm

      is there anyway i can become treasurer? i’m very good at “miscalculating” large sums of money.

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    David RochlinHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 3:14pm

    We have enjoyed seven years of President Obama, and he insists his economic policies are a great success. But, the destruction of buying power of worker’s wages to make America more competative was central to his plan.

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      whyorwhynotDavid Rochlin
      7/13/16 3:18pm

      And he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling Republicans

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      Kenhe LoginDavid Rochlin
      7/14/16 12:52am

      It looks like Clinton and Obama have done somewhat better in terms of job creation, which does help wages.

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    QuadPoleHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 3:19pm

    Not providing health care is penny wise, pound foolish. Many people stay at shitty jobs if the job provides for good health care. Health care costs are tax deductible in full for any business and is not subject to SSI, FICA, or other payroll taxes nor are health care costs used for workers comp insurance premium calculations.

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      Murry ChangQuadPole
      7/13/16 4:08pm

      It’s rare to find businesses that look at their employees as investments rather than disposable paper people.

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      OssmidQuadPole
      7/13/16 4:50pm

      I agree with what you wrote. However, using the state of MA as an example, there is no available HC plan next year that will NOT qualify as a “Cadillac plan.” Cadillac plans come with a clause in the ACA that states that all Cadillac plans will be subject to a 40% excise tax. Should businesses choose not to provide HC plans to FT employees, they will subject to a 2% payroll tax (markedly less than the excise tax).

      The 40% excise tax associated with Cadillac plans was originally penned to begin in 2016, this was changed to 2018, and then to 2020. See, the assumption is that “OH BIG BAD BUSINESSES WANT TO SCREW THEIR EMPLOYEES!” When in reality, the US Federal Government wants to screw employees. The entire thing is designed so that people seek out “Obamacare” plans that are NOT Cadillac plans (cheap), it fuels the need for a publicly owned government run HC system, AND benefits from the 2% payroll tax all companies have now been subject to because “THEY DON’T WANT TO PROVIDE US WITH HEALTHCARE!!”

      Here's the rub, "Obamacare" plans at the end of next year, due to overwhelming cost will ALSO qualify as Cadillac plans. So now, as the law is written, people who have them in 2020 will be subject individually to the 40% excise tax. The whole thing is unsustainable and was openly designed to tax businesses, create a USG run healthcare program, and tax fine poor people who STILL CANNOT AFFORD HEALTHCARE. It's a fucking sham, and the fact that anyone praises is it beyond the fucking pale!

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    Ed SpockHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 3:07pm

    These workers should stop bitching and count their blessings.

    Do they know how hard it is working at the REAL Taj Mahal?

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      Zsa Zsa GaborgEd Spock
      7/13/16 3:20pm

      It's not in Jersey, so at least they won't have to clean up as much vomit and broken glass.

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      added growth hormonesEd Spock
      7/13/16 3:36pm

      Workers at the real Taj Mahal are multigenerational artisans who specialize in very specific maintenance, i.e.: sculpting the inlaid tile.

      There is no snark in this comment. Just thought you might like to know.

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    ArkHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 4:45pm

    The white working class has dutifully voted for Republicans for decades as their debt soars, their bank accounts dwindle, and their quality of life erodes. I see no reason they should wake up this year.

    The working class will continue to get fucked so long as they keep voting guns, abortion, and anti-intellectualism instead of actual economic self-interest.

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      ThisNameIsUnavailableArk
      7/13/16 5:56pm

      Democrat in the Whitehouse for 16 years of the last 2 and a half decades.

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      The Chair Leg of TruthThisNameIsUnavailable
      7/13/16 6:55pm

      That’s great. When said Democrats tried to push agenda, they were met with Congressional Obstructionism. When, as a result the current President tried to work around that through lawful Executive Order, he was called a Dictator.

      You assholes need to decide what your story is. Either the Democrat president should have the rights and powers ascribed by his office or they should realistically work with him (Especially when the very things they obstruct are their views). I’m sick of your (Republicans in general) doublespeak “We’re so innocent” horseshit.

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    JohnSadamsHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 3:35pm

    It’s ironic, but not surprising that some of Trump’s biggest supporters will be the ones hurt the most by his Presidency.

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      TheRainInSpain'sTherapistJohnSadams
      7/13/16 3:47pm

      It’s never stopped them before.

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      GriveJohnSadams
      7/13/16 3:48pm

      Well, he’s running under the Republican banner... so that’s pretty much business as usual.

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    Murry ChangHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 4:06pm

    “New swing-state polls released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University show Trump leading Clinton in Florida and Pennsylvania”

    Isn’t Quinnipiac a very unreliable poll? Like, the least reliable of all the major polls?

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      RobinsonCanoeMurry Chang
      7/13/16 4:15pm

      No, Quinnipiac does quality polling. Don’t sweat individual polls though (until November): http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/…

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      ThisNameIsUnavailableMurry Chang
      7/13/16 5:49pm

      Kind of shows you how out of touch HamNo is.

      REAL workers are lining up behind Trump, regardless of what HamNo want’s to believe.

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    pre-emptive sighHamilton Nolan
    7/13/16 3:08pm

    Why don’t poor people just get money from their parents? Sad!

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