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We'll see what happens after Congress comes back from their long break. They're probably getting an ear full from their constituents.

Yeah I'm glad they brought that deduction back, just wish it was higher than $300/$150. Same with the $300 educator expense adjustment. Most teachers pay significantly more than that to outfit their classrooms. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers.

Smaller charities may be helped by the reinstatement of the $300/$150 top line charitable deduction. Not sure how much since--as I understand it--most people actually file simple nowadays. I give a recurring monthly donation to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. I don't claim any of it. Many of us give because of the cause without seeking a tax benefit. Hopefully, this will continue.

No one is crying, I just wanted to provide context that most people probably didn't know about. As you laid out, my organization should be fine. Our investment income is how we subsidized almost $20 million in direct charitable expenditures last year. We need that safety net, with minimal revenue sources outside of investments. I'm more concerned with the smaller nonprofits could feel a tighter squeeze if this bill is passed.

Let me see if I can answer without falling out of my chair laughing at the awesome liberal education you received as a teasipper. 🤣 The U.S. imports 60% of it's fruit and 40% of it's vegetables. The major importer is Mexico. The U.S. issues roughly 500,000 H2A Visas (temporary farm worker visas) each year. There is no maximum allowable, and the number is set based on requests from the U.S. agricultural businesses themselves, so it fluctuates. There are approximately 2.4 million farmworkers employed each year in the U.S. Thirty percent are U.S. citizens, the aforementioned 500,000+ are here legally, which leaves about 1 million--give or take--illegal migrants. It would take an awful lot of crop harvesting to make up for a negative cost of $65,000 per illegal immigrant to even come close to breaking even on outlays. I think the cost of your fruits and vegetables would be more impacted by a 10% tariff than any loss of harvesting due to lack of illegal labor. Still, that's a heckuva lot of guacamole.

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Blatant lies, but hey, you leftys gobble this stuff up and really don’t care that it’s false.

You sure? Come harvest time, prices will rise with either labor cost increase or crops sitting in the field because the cheap labor source has been cut off. Does your research include soft costs, or you just looking at federal outlays?

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Hunter pitches another gem 8Ks Altuve 2 dingers went 4-4. drubbing Athletics 11-1

Astros smoke the lowly A’s 11-1. Altuve with a 4 hit night with 2 HRS and 3 runs scored and 3 RBIs. Peña still on fire.

BALLGAME, good guys WIN 2-0!!!

WooHoo, the catcher just threw one in the crapper. Langford scores from 3rd. 2-0 good guys going to the 9th.

Holy crap, Josh Jung got a hit with runners on. Good guys lead 1-0 in the bottom of 8.

Not sure, I started watching in the 5th.

Read on X it was arm fatigue. Only threw 39 pitches.

I just got home in the 7th. What’s the word on Eovaldi? Why did he leave after the 2nd?

I'll leave that to a Mustang fan.

Correct. That’s why the approximately 12 Million that crossed the southern border recently are a net negative per capita on the U.S. economy. I’ve already posted the numbers and data on this provided to Congress in another thread. 😬😉 Again, I suggest waiting to see what actually winds up in the Bill. I think it’s going to have a tough time in its present form. This might wind up like Texas SB25 (MAHA Bill) after HEB lobbied against it so hard because they don’t want you to know what’s in the food you’re buying from them. It’s watered down so much now, it’s practically useless.

We're wasting another good pitching outing. No offense. Good grief.

Bats come alive. 9-1 Astros over the A’s in the 4th. Altuve with 2 Hrs. (So far)

Would like to hear from the HF folks. HF seems to have lost the most starters to graduation of all the teams in the district.

Well, Roe vs. Wade had been turned over to the states. Texas judge questioned the safety of the abortion drug and the injunction was brought on by a lawsuit. One would think that any woman considering killing their baby should think safety first. It was ed by the SC. Has any drug that has been approved by the FDA ever turned out to be unsafe? These rogue judges of yours have no lawsuits pending. They just stroke a pen to block Trump. Keep digging that hole. You would rather see an ms-13 gang member, wife beating, illegal alien get due process than Americans who were involved in Jan. 6th. They were wrongfully thrown in solitary confinement without due process. You even support hamas which means you support the enemy. What kind of an American does that? Since you felt it necessary to point out the three branches with checks and balances, how can Trump be called a dictator? Ain’t it funny? Lmao

Oh, you mean like that one in Texas that made the abortion pill I junction nationwide. And you call me a hypocrite. I’m telling you, man, weak arguing skills.

I give a box of rocks more credit than you. You are going to try and convince me that a federal judge can file an injunction that covers the entire country? That is for the Supreme Court. A single judge’s mandate is more powerful than the president? Talk about dictatorial. You are truly ate up with it. I do like your new moniker for Trump….Weasel….he is cunning and much smarter than you give him credit. Your hatred show in your every post. You trip over it.