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Social Security Means-Testing Looms: "It's Impossible Without A 50% Income Tax Hike"

Social Security Means-Testing Looms: "It's Impossible Without A 50% Income Tax Hike"

Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com,

The projected total US debt will be $30 trillion within 10 years, using the CBO’s own numbers. But the CBO also makes the rosy assumptions that there will be no recessions and that GDP will grow at a 4% nominal rate.

Now, that’s possible; I'm inclined to haircut it a bit.

Satellite Footage Shows North Korea Preparing Ballistic Missile Launch Ahead Of US Naval Drills

Satellite Footage Shows North Korea Preparing Ballistic Missile Launch Ahead Of US Naval Drills

Echoing a report from earlier this week, when on Wednesday the Seoul-based Asia Business Daily reported that North Korea is preparing to fire multiple short-range rockets around the opening of the Chinese Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress on Oct. 18 - arguably the year's most important geopolitical event - on Saturday the South Korean press claimed that "North Korea is believed to be preparing to launch a ballistic missile ahead of an upcoming joint naval drill by the US and South Korea", according to a government source.

Is Washington Trying To Starve 60,000 Syrians Washington Has Trapped In A Refugee Camp?

Is Washington Trying To Starve 60,000 Syrians Washington Has Trapped In A Refugee Camp?

Remarks by Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman

by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman)

On Thursday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said 92% of Syrian territory was freed from (US-supported) ISIS control.

In the past week alone, Russian airpower conducted 517 sorties, destroying over 1,260 facilities controlled by terrorists.

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