The Spencer Hamilton Blog

Tax Reform Bill may have to be rewritten So, we remember when the tax scam was passed hastily? It’s infamous for the handwritten changes they made hours before it was to be passed, and it got rid of the State and Local Taxes Deduction—SALT—which disproportionately hurt higher tax/blue states. It also got rid of the deduction for teachers and supplies. It also has something about S corporations that allow a rich person to save more money, something called a pass through. So after the Kochs invested in Paul Ryan to the tune of a half million dollars (make note: Most of it was to a PAC for Republicans), we are seeing headlines that the bill may need to be rewritten. The fiscal times reports on two specific areas that will have to be fixed in the legislation The ‘Grain Glitch’: The legislation allows farmers to deduct 20 percent of their total sales to  cooperatives . “This allows farmers to deeply reduce their tax bills, but it has caused an uproar among independent...

Hey Blogosphere, it’s Spencer Hamilton Being the astute political observer I am I try to keep abreast of a lot of developments like when TX LA and MS denied same sex couples benefits they deserved according to the Windsor ruling. All these states had to give out those benefits no matter if they were state or federal facilities. How they got around it was simply: Use federal workers at state facilities. Now, a lot of people don’t even like the fact that they even HAVE to give federal benefits in the state that says “no gay marriages” in our state. Remember after the ruling how everyone said: You’ll be forcing everyone to say it’s okay? Remember all the doom and gloom about…everything? Gun Control, Immigration, Minimum Wage, Jobs, passing LGBT nondiscrimination laws and saying that religious liberty would be at stake if we passed them laws? Now of course there are people like Right Wing Watch that has been cataloguing a lot of these people like Pat Robertson, Pete Labarbera, Bryan Fi...

http://occupydemocrats.com/houston-police-officer-shot-and-killed-with-assault-rifle-by-gun-dealing-child-molester/ God, Gays and Guns, that’s the conservative slogan that I as a liberal often use to describe the 3 talking points of Teaturds who feel that everything from health policy to the justice system should be dictacted to the Bible. But when we talk about the trifecta, we have uncovered a lot that is off kilter, which is a respectful way of saying “they’re nuts” Remember after the Newtown shooting how many gun groups came on TV telling us of responsible gun owners and how we shouldn’t penalize them because criminals will get a hold of guns no matter what? That they opposed background checks on any gun owner for that very reason. Well, I return to TX once again after doing a video about Wendy Davis to talk about why we need background checks—which aren’t recorded by the way. We need background checks for according to NC, food stamps, childcare work, employment, so why...

Hello All  That troll of a Senator (R-NY 62) fills me with nothing but disdain, contempt, revulsion, abhorrence, loathing nausea, and every time I see him I just picture that troll like thing in Lord of The Rings saying: “Precious, My Precious” it is not only the fact that he voted to protect bullies by voting against the Dignity for All Students Act that prohibited bullying based on EVERY CONCEIVABLE category imaginable, but because he cited that it didn’t cover cyber bullying and he made no such attempt to introduce such an amendment he just wanted to vote against it out of animus of the LGBT community. Also, he has interfered in local politics and it is said that nothing happens in his district that he doesn’t know about in the GOP. He wants to control EVERYTHING and it is that control that will backfire. I believe people are tired of him and they have had enough. I have looked at him and heard many stories of him and I have to say that he is a terrible human be...

Hello All, I have seen a lot of injustice, but I have to say that this latest story out of FL really makes my blood boil. James Byrd of MS, along with a gay black man also out of MS hit and dragged behind a truck years later, all because of their race. Now innocent blood cries out for justice, that or Trayvon Martin, a young man who went to the store for some Iced Tea and Skittles, harassed by a man with the last name Zimmerman who looks to be Hispanic, but is described as white. That very fact makes racism an ugly reality all around this nation. I have to say that even if this were a black man who killed a white man, even then I would still decry the killing, however it is of no doubt that his killer would’ve been brought to justice. Let’s face it, as a black man I look at white gay men and think to myself: What the fuck do they know about prejudice? The only thing they know about discrimination is being gay, not black. I have seen people react to me in ways I didn’t un...