влада, вибори, народ
Понад половина українців, які вважають себе православними, належать до ПЦУ – опитування
За рік, від червня 2020 року, число прихильників ПЦУ серед опитаних зросло з 48% до 58%
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By Gromada | 07/06/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
На посаду директора «Мистецького арсеналу» оголосять повторний конкурс – пресслужба
Команда «Мистецького арсеналу» опублікувала відкрите звернення щодо проведення конкурсу з вимогою зробити голосування відкритим.
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By Gromada | 07/06/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Телеканал M1 вирізав із трансляції сцену камінгауту Melovin-а – співак
Радіо Свобода намагається отримати у телеканалу М1 коментар щодо цієї заяви співака
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By Gromada | 07/06/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Олег Сенцов написав лист заарештованому в Сімферополі фрілансеру Крим.Реалії Владиславу Єсипенку
Сенцов адресував заарештованому в Криму Єсипенку рядки про віру, боротьбу й надію
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By Gromada | 07/06/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Після обвалу невеликого елементу шляхопроводу в Києві обіцяють його масштабну реконструкцію
У повідомленнях не згадано, скільки часу може тривати така реконструкція і до яких обмежень на одній із головних магістралей Києва вона призведе
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By Gromada | 07/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Доба в зоні ООС: бойовики шість разів порушували режим тиші
Один український військовий загинув, ще один отримав поранення
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By Gromada | 07/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
СБУ повідомляє про блокування активів 174 компаній, які РНБО внесла до списку контрабандистів
У першому півріччі 2021 року співробітники СБУ вилучили предметів контрабанди і виявили порушень митних правил на 207,6 мільйона гривень
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By Gromada | 07/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Євро-2020: Шевченко прокоментував виступ збірної у матчі з Англією
Англія розгромила Україну в Римі з рахунком 4:0
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By Gromada | 07/04/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Українців попередили про «небезпечні метеорологічні явища»
Завтра у південних та центральних областях місцями значні дощі, град та шквали 15-20 м/с
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By Gromada | 07/04/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden Goes for Cherries Not Speeches on Campaign-style Michigan Trip
President Joe Biden focused on cherries Saturday during a trip to Michigan — and cherry pie and cherry ice cream — and voters who were mask-free as coronavirus restrictions have eased. It had all the hallmarks of a campaign stop that he couldn’t make last year.Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer greeted Biden when he arrived midday in Traverse City, which is hosting the National Cherry Festival, an event that attracted Presidents Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford in the past.They skipped the festival in favor of a cherry farm in nearby Antrim County, where Biden pitched his immigration plans while chatting with two couples from Guatemala who were picking fruit. He then greeted a long line of enthusiastic supporters stretched out behind a rope.President Joe Biden holds an ice cream cone as he visits Moomers Homemade Ice Cream in Traverse City, Mich., July 3, 2021.His trip was billed as part of a broader campaign by the administration to drum up public support for his bipartisan infrastructure package and other polices geared toward families and education. But the president was out for direct contact with voters and refrained from delivering remarks about his policy proposals.Whitmer told reporters she spoke to Biden about infrastructure, although not about any projects for Michigan specifically.”I’m the fix-the-damn-roads governor, so I talk infrastructure with everybody, including the president,” she said. In recent flooding, she said the state saw “under-invested infrastructure collide with climate change” and the freeways were under water.”So this is an important moment. And that’s why this infrastructure package is so important. That’s also why I got the president rocky road fudge from Mackinac Island for his trip here,” she said.Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow also said she spoke with the president about the infrastructure package as they toured the cherry farm, noting that her cellphone signal dropped to one bar and that the proposed broadband buildout was needed.Biden’s host at King Orchards, Juliette King McAvoy, introduced him to the two Guatemalan couples, who she said had been working on the farm for 35 years. He told them he was proposing a pathway to citizenship for farmworkers. Biden then picked a cherry out of one of their baskets and ate it. He later bought pies at the farm’s market, including three varieties of cherry.Before leaving Michigan, he stopped at Moomers Homemade Ice Cream in Traverse City, where he bought Cherries Moobilie cones for Stabenow and Gary Peters, Michigan’s other Democratic senator. But for himself it was vanilla with chocolate chips in a waffle cone.Told it was cherry country, Biden said, “Yeah, but I’m more of a chocolate chip guy.”Preparations take place for an Independence Day celebration on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, July 3, 2021.First lady Jill Biden also was on the road Saturday, traveling to Maine and New Hampshire, while Vice President Kamala Harris was visiting a union training center in Las Vegas.The president has said the key to getting his $973 billion deal passed in Congress involves taking the case straight to voters. While Republicans and Democrats might squabble in Washington, Biden’s theory is that lawmakers of both parties want to deliver for their constituents.White House officials negotiated a compromise with a bipartisan group of senators led by Republican Rob Portman of Ohio and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.The agreement, announced in June, features $109 billion on roads and highways, $15 billion on electric vehicle infrastructure and transit systems and $65 billion toward broadband, among other expenditures on airports, drinking water systems and resiliency efforts to tackle climate change.It would be funded by COVID-19 relief that was approved in 2020 but unspent, repurposed money for enhanced unemployment benefits and increased enforcement by the IRS on wealthier Americans who avoid taxes. The financing also depends on leasing 5G telecommunications spectrum, the strategic petroleum reserve and the potential economic growth produced by the investments.Biden intends to pass additional initiatives on education and families as well as tax increases on the wealthy and corporations through the budget reconciliation process. This would allow the passage of Biden’s priorities by a simple majority vote, avoiding the 60-vote hurdle in a Senate split evenly between Democrats and Republicans.
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By Polityk | 07/04/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Wealthy Americans Scramble as Biden Targets Protected Assets for Taxation
As U.S. President Joe Biden looks for revenue sources to fund his proposed social spending programs, America’s richest people are facing the possibility that popular methods of passing enormous wealth from generation to generation while avoiding taxes could be disappearing.The Biden administration has made no secret of its belief that capital gains — money earned from the sale of assets, like stocks, that have appreciated in value — don’t deserve to be taxed at a lower rate than earnings from labor as they are under current law.Capital gains are taxed at a maximum of 20%, compared with a maximum federal marginal tax rate of 37% for income acquired through labor.However, raising tax rates is a politically poisonous task in Washington.As an alternative, the administration is pushing an effort to make more capital gains subject to taxation in the first place, and it is tying that effort to the president’s American Families Plan, a legislative initiative that would fund child care, early childhood education, higher education, health care and more.’People want to get ahead of this’The outline of a plan to capture taxes on capital gains has come into sharper focus in recent weeks, and appears to go further than many observers realized at first.In March, the Treasury Department revealed a proposal to do away with a controversial treatment of inherited assets — called the “step-up in basis” — and paired it with proposed changes to the tax treatment of trusts, the estate planning vehicles that the wealthy would most likely turn to as an alternative.FILE – A Fidelity Investments office in Los Angeles, June 16, 2016. Wealthy individuals are checking in with financial advisers about suggested changes in tax treatment of capital gains and trusts.As a result, attorneys who help wealthy individuals with estate planning are being besieged by clients demanding to know what to expect in the future and how to minimize the impact of any pending changes.“It’s the busiest I’ve been in 25 years,” said Randall A. Denha, who runs a boutique estate planning firm in Michigan. “There are a lot of people asking questions, especially those that have a more substantial estate, because people want to get ahead of this.”’Basis’ explainedUnder current law, appreciated assets that are passed from generation to generation receive special treatment that eliminates what, in some cases, would otherwise be huge tax obligations for wealthy Americans.Purchased for $315 in 1980, a single share of Berkshire Hathaway, the giant holding company run by billionaire Warren Buffett, would have been worth nearly $420,000 when the markets closed on June 30 of this year. If the owner were to sell that stock today, he or she would have to pay capital gains tax on the difference between the current share price and the “basis” cost —the $315 that was paid for it in 1980.If that same owner were to die today and pass the share on to an heir, the gain would be effectively wiped away because of what is called a “step-up in basis.” Heirs inherit an asset at its market value at the time of inheritance. If an heir sold that share of Berkshire Hathaway immediately on receipt, the $420,000 would be the heir’s virtually tax-free.By eliminating the step-up in basis, hundreds of thousands of dollars suddenly become taxable where previously they were not.A rich person’s problemPractically speaking, the changes the Biden administration is considering would have no real effect on the overwhelming majority of Americans. The proposals being considered would exempt the first $1 million in gains from capital gains taxes, a far larger amount than the entire value of the average estate.FILE – For the very wealthy, one way of shielding assets from taxation is to place them in a trust, which is a legal entity that holds the assets without transferring ownership.For the very wealthy, one way of shielding assets from taxation is to place them in a trust, which is a legal entity that holds the assets on behalf of beneficiaries without transferring ownership. Some, known in the financial industry as “dynasty” trusts, can span generations, allowing enormous wealth to grow tax-free for decades.In a world in which the step-up in basis rules cease to exist, trusts would be the obvious solution for wealthy individuals looking to protect valuable assets from taxation — something the Biden administration has plainly anticipated.The reason, said Beth Shapiro Kaufman, a partner with the law firm Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, is simple: “The trust never dies.” And the Biden administration, she said, “doesn’t want trusts to be the loophole if they go forward” with changes to capital gains taxes.New treatment of trustsUnder current law, assets held in trust are not taxed as they appreciate, and even when the trustee decides to transfer ownership of some of the trust’s assets, such as stocks, to a beneficiary, no tax is paid on the gains until the beneficiary actually sells the asset.The Biden administration proposes treating that interim step — the transfer of ownership — as a “realization” event, requiring the beneficiary to treat the transaction as income subject to capital gains tax.Even more significant for the extremely wealthy is a requirement that all trust assets be taxed on their appreciation once every 90 years. It’s a way of getting around the fact that the trust never dies by effectively creating the equivalent of a “death” once in what amounts to a longer than average lifetime.Uncertain futureIf the administration is able to push these changes through, it will face some challenges implementing them, warned Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation in Washington.“There have to be adequate provisions for folks who don’t have the cash to pay taxes when there is a ‘realization event,’ ” he said. Additionally, there will inevitably be cases where heirs have no way of knowing the basis for an asset that they have inherited. “Is there going to be sufficient protection in the law for those folks who are in good faith in a situation where they don’t have that information?” he said.And further, he pointed out, what policymakers in Washington do during one administration can be undone in another, meaning there is no guarantee that changes in the tax treatment of inherited wealth will endure.“I think even advocates will want to make sure they get it right, because they are relying on it as a revenue source to fund permanent programs,” he said.
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By Polityk | 07/03/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Паперові квитки для проїзду остаточно вийдуть з обігу в Києві з 14 липня – КМДА
Кондуктори отримали пропозицію перейти на посади контролерів
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By Gromada | 07/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
«Вакцинуйте наш світ»: Акція на підтримку вакцинації від COVID-19 у Києві (фоторепортаж)
У такий спосіб активісти закликають деякі країни ЄС припинити дію патентів на всі вакцини і засоби проти COVID-19 на час пандемії
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By Gromada | 07/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
ДБР повідомило про підозру експовідовцям Міноборони та заводу «Кухня на Рибальському»
Суму завданих збитків у ДБР оцінюють у понад 475 мільйонів гривень
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By Gromada | 07/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Підготовка до нового опалювального сезону в Україні розпочалася – Шмигаль
Зазвичай опалювальний сезон в Україні стартує в середині жовтня
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By Gromada | 07/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Чорнобильській зоні затримали сталкерів з Німеччини та Польщі
Вирішується питання, щодо скорочення терміну перебування цим громадянам ЄС на території України
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By Gromada | 07/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
«Укрзалізниця» підготувала кілька локацій на вокзалі у Києві для перегляду матчу Україна – Англія 3 липня
Матч Україна – Англія відбудеться 3 липня на Олімпійському стадіоні в Римі
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By Gromada | 07/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Women Make Up 60% of White House Staff, Diversity Total at 44%
Women make up 60% of the White House staff appointed by President Joe Biden, while people from racially or ethnically diverse communities account for 44%, the White House said Thursday as it released an annual personnel report to Congress. The White House said the report — which includes the names, titles and salaries of all political appointees — showed that the Biden administration was the most diverse in U.S. history, in line with the Democratic president’s commitment to build an administration that looks like America. The report also showed a pay gap between men and women of just under 1%, with the women earning $93,752 on average, while men earn $94,639. White House press secretary Jen Psaki and chief of staff Ron Klain are among the top earners, drawing a salary of $180,000 a year, as is Elizabeth Hone, a longtime Federal Communications Commission attorney hired as a special adviser on broadband, who gets $183,164 a year. The administration hired 1,500 presidential appointees across the federal government in the first 100 days in office, double the number hired by any prior administration in that time period. The Biden administration’s “roughly equal” pay for women and men stands in sharp contrast to the former Trump administration, which had a gender pay gap of 20%, and the Obama administration, which had a gender pay gap of 11% in its final year in office. The Pew Research Center reported in May that the overall pay gap for women and men in the United States was about 16%, which means it would take an average woman 42 extra days of work a year to earn what a man did. Women and people of color have slightly less representation in the 59 senior staff members at the White House, with women accounting for 56%, and people from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds accounting for 36%.
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By Polityk | 07/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Посольство США привітало мешканців відновленого українського Нью-Йорка
Верховна Рада ухвалила перейменувати селище Новгородське на Нью-Йорк. Таким чином, йому повернена первісна назва, яку це селище мало до 1951 року
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By Gromada | 07/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
ВР посилила відповідальність за домашнє і насильство за статевою ознакою
Закон набирає чинності наступного дня після офіційного опублікування
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
«Укрзалізниця» відновлює сполучення зі Словаччиною
Деталі в компанії пообіцяли надати пізніше
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У «Борисполі» повідомили про затримку 5 рейсів до Анталії
«Просимо пасажирів вказаних рейсів орієнтуватися на офіційну інформацію від представників авіакомпаній та відстежувати час вильоту на онлайн табло на сайті аеропорту», – заявили в аеропорту
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Pelosi Poised to Appoint Panel to Investigate Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
After months of disagreement, the U.S. House is set to vote on a select committee to investigate the events of Jan. 6, when supporters of former President Donald Trump rioted at the U.S. Capitol. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more.
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By Polityk | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
З 1 липня підвищаться пенсії у понад 5 млн людей – Мінсоцполітики
Також з 1 липня буде встановлене підвищення у розмірі 100 гривень до страхової пенсії, призначеної в 2019-2020 роках, яка з 2019 року не перераховувалася
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Сімферопольська «справа Хізб ут-Тахрір»: суд не дозволив Муедінову повністю дослідити матеріали справи
Муедінов зміг ознайомитися менше ніж із третиною відповідних матеріалів, повідомляє омбудсменка Людмила Денісова
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Dies at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, a forceful U.S. defense secretary who was the main architect of the Iraq war until President George W. Bush replaced him as the United States found itself bogged down after 3.5 years of fighting, has died at age 88, his family said in a statement on Wednesday.”It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather,” the statement said. “At 88, he was surrounded by family in his beloved Taos, New Mexico.”The statement did not say when Rumsfeld died.Rumsfeld, who ranks with Vietnam War-era defense secretary Robert McNamara as the most powerful men to hold the post, brought charisma and bombast to the Pentagon job, projecting the Bush administration’s muscular approach to world affairs.Then President George W. Bush makes a statement to reporters while Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld look on following a Cabinet meeting, March 20, 2003.With Rumsfeld in charge, U.S. forces swiftly toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but failed to maintain law and order in the aftermath, and Iraq descended into chaos with a bloody insurgency and violence between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. U.S. troops remained in Iraq until 2011, long after he left his post.Rumsfeld played a leading role ahead of the war in making the case to the world for the March 2003 invasion. He warned of the dangers of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction but no such weapons were ever discovered.Only McNamara served as defense secretary for longer than Rumsfeld, who had two stints – from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, for whom he also served as White House chief of staff, and from 2001 to 2006 under Bush.Rumsfeld was known for imperious treatment of some military officers and members of Congress and infighting with other members of the Bush team, including Secretary of State Colin Powell. He also alienated U.S. allies in Europe.In 2004, Bush twice refused to accept Rumsfeld’s offer to resign after photos surfaced of U.S. personnel abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. The scandal triggered international condemnation of the United States.The United States faced global condemnation after the photos showed U.S. troops smiling, laughing and giving thumbs up as prisoners were forced into sexually abusive and humiliating positions including a naked human pyramid and simulated sex. One photo showed a prisoner forced to stand on a small box, his head covered in a black hood, with wires attached to his body.Rumsfeld personally authorized harsh interrogation techniques for detainees. The U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq and foreign terrorism suspects at a special prison set up under Rumsfeld at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, drew international condemnation, with human rights activists and others saying prisoners were tortured.He was a close ally of Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, who had worked for Rumsfeld during the 1970s Republican presidencies of Richard Nixon and Ford.Rumsfeld became a lightning rod for criticism and, with the Iraq war largely a stalemate and public support eroding, Bush replaced him in November 2006 over Cheney’s objections.Days after vowing Rumsfeld would remain for the rest of his term, Bush announced his departure a day after mid-term elections in which Democrats took control of Congress from Bush’s Republicans amid voter anger over the Iraq War.Robert Gates, a soft-spoken but demanding former CIA director, took over from Rumsfeld in December 2006 and made sweeping strategic and military leadership changes in Iraq.Many historians and military experts blamed Rumsfeld for decisions that led to difficulties in Iraq. For example, Rumsfeld insisted on a relatively small invasion force, rejecting the views of many generals. The force then was insufficient to stabilize Iraq when Saddam fell.Rumsfeld also was accused of being slow to recognize the emergence of the insurgency in 2003 and the threat it posed.The U.S. occupation leader under Rumsfeld, L. Paul Bremer, quickly made two fateful decisions. One dissolved the Iraqi military, putting thousands of armed men on the streets rather than harnessing Iraqi soldiers as a reconstruction force as originally planned.The second barred from Iraq’s government even junior members of the former ruling Baath Party, essentially emptying the various ministries of the people who made the government operate.Rumsfeld also oversaw the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Taliban leaders who had harbored the al Qaeda leaders responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. As he did in Iraq two years later, Rumsfeld sent a small force to Afghanistan, quickly chased the Taliban from power and then failed to establish law and order.U.S. forces during Rumsfeld’s tenure also were unable to track down Osama bin Laden. The al Qaeda chief slipped past a modest force of U.S. special operations troops and CIA officers along with allied Afghan fighters in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001. U.S. forces killed him in 2011.Critics argue that had Rumsfeld devoted more troops to the Afghan effort, bin Laden may have been taken. But as he wrote in “Rumsfeld’s Rules,” his compilation of truisms dating to the 1970s: “If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.”Another quote from “Rumsfeld’s Rules” was equally apt: “It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.”Rumsfeld was known for his rollicking news conferences in which he sparred with reporters and offered memorable quotes.Speaking in 2002 about whether Iraq would give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, he said: “Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”Rumsfeld later titled his memoir “Known and Unknown.””Stuff happens,” he told reporters in April 2003 amid rampant lawlessness in Baghdad after U.S. troops captured the Iraqi capital.During his time away from public service, Rumsfeld became wealthy as a successful businessman, serving as chief executive of two Fortune 500 companies. In 1988, he briefly ran for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination.Rumsfeld also served as a Navy pilot, U.S. NATO ambassador and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He and wife Joyce had three children.
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By Polityk | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
