"Apa benar jika nantinya bilah Presiden Indonesia Joko Widodo,tidak akan melantik Budi Gunawan terisu akan memperkarakan.?".Seandainya itu akan terjadi menujukan bahwa seorang panglingma tertinggi di Indonesia seperti dianggap tidak berharga lagi dimata para pendukung BG,artinya Presiden yang memiliki jabatan sebagai panglima tertinggi diantara lainnya bagaikan dianggap sebuah mainan, begitulah yang saya pahami jika hal itu nanatinya benar-benar akan terjadi berlaku pada Presiden. yang katanya ada ancaman dari pihak Budi Gunawan mengatakan jika gagal dilantik akan memperkarakan presiden Indonesia Joko Widodo.Inilah yang saya dengar dari selintingan dan isu, artinya saya belum mengetahui kebenaran sumber itu, namun demikian suara seperti itu hampir mengemah dimedia masa lokal Indonesia.Yang mana didalam tulisannya menyebutkan bahwa jika Jokowi tidak melantik Budi Gunawan mereka akan memeperkarakan.Inilah yang dmuat oleh media masa lokal Indonesia,sejauh ini saya belum memahami makna semua itu. namun demikian seandainya hal itu benar-benar bisa terjadi berarti ada kemungkinan mereka-mereka yang akan memeperkarakan Presiden seperti sedang terkena bius ambisi untuk meloloskan Budi Gunawan -terlepas semua itu disini saya hanya bisa mengatakan, seandainya Presiden Indonesia sebagai Panglima tertinggi saja sudah bisa diancam atau ditakuti-takuti bayangkan bagamana jika terjadi pada masyarakat biasa.?.Maaf saya mendengar semua itu cukup prihatin terhadap lintanga suara itu dan saya juga menyayangkan jika ada pribadi yang belum menjadi panglima tetapi sudah berani melawan panglima asli, bahkan tidak tanggung-tanggung yang dilawanya seorang prsiden atau sebagai Panglima tertinggi. Demikian Menurut Andri Luntungan saat dimintai tanggapannya mengenai tersebarnya isu bahwa BG. akan memeperkarakan Presiden jika dirinya tidak segera dilantik siang tadi pada Online. Andri juga menambahkan bahwa seharusnya persoalan masalah dilantaik atau tidak oleh presiden bukan masalah tetapi yang menjadi masalah adalah sekarang mengapa BG. beitu berkeras ingin menjadi Kapolri, dan jika menjadi Kapolri sebenarnya apakah bisa dibilang akan dapat mengubur persoalan yang lagi dihadapi.? mungkin jawabnya tidak. seandainya itu mengapa harus berkeras mau menduduki jabatan itu.? .Apa yang dikatakan Andri Luntungan itu Hampir mendekati kebenaran.
JAKARTA. Kepala Lembaga Pendidikan Polri Komisaris Jenderal Budi Gunawan akan memperkarakan Presiden Joko Widodo jika tidak melantiknya sebagai Kapolri.
Kuasa hukum Budi Gunawan, Razman Nasution, mengatakan Jokowi tidak lagi pada hak prerogatif untuk melantik atau tidak melantik karena sudah disetujui di rapat paripurna DPR RI.
''Persoalannya ini bukan pada usulan lagi tapi sudah pada sidang paripurna DPR. Bisa dikatakan tidak seratus persen prerogatif presiden. Presiden itu berhadapan dengan konstitusi dan institusi negara,'' kata Razman di KPK, Jakarta, Jumat (13/2).
Budi Gunawan sendiri, kata Razaman, jika memang salah siap menanggung resikonya. Untuk itu, lanjut Razman, Budi pun mengajukan gugatan prapreradilan penetapan Budi sebagai tersangka oleh KPK.
Menurut Razman, jika memang nantinya sidang praperadilan mengabulkan gugatan praperadilan Budi, Jokowi harus melantik Budi Gunawan sebagai Kapolri. Jika tidak dilantik, lanjut Razman, pihaknya akan menggugat Presiden Jokowi ke Pengadilan Tata Usaha Negara (TUN).
''Kita lihat, ada TUN,'' tegas Razman.
Sebelumnya, Budi Gunawan urung dilantik menjadi Kapolri lantaran menyandang status tersangka penerimaan hadiah atau gratifikasi oleh KPK. Tidak terima ditetapkan tersangka, Budi Gunawan mengajukan sidang praperadilan penetapannya sebagai tersangka ke Pengadilan Negeri Jakarta Selatan.
The latest Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows weekly employee earnings have grown $75 since tax reform passed, well short of the $4,000 to $9,000 annual increases projected by President Trump
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During the three months following passage of the tax bill, the average American saw a $6.21 increase in average weekly earnings. Assuming 12 weeks of work during the three months following passage of the corporate tax cuts, this equates to a $75 increase.
Assuming a full 52 weeks of work, the $6.21 increase in weekly earnings would result in a $323 annual increase, nowhere near the minimum $4,000 promised and $9,000 potential annual increases projected by President Trump and Speaker Ryan if significant cuts were made to corporate tax rates.
Unless something drastically changes, it seems that Americans are going to have to settle for much less than the $4,000 to $9,000 projected wage increases. An extra $322 a year isn’t going to do much to pay down the $1 trillion in additional debt they are projected to take on as a result of the tax cuts.
Yet, a key part of the argument for the recently passed corporate tax cuts and more than a trillion dollars in debt was the substantial wage hike promised by the president’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
From a document titled, “Corporate Tax Reform and Wages: Theory and Evidence,” on the White House’s website:
“Reducing the statutory federal corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent would, the analysis below suggests, increase average household income in the United States by, very conservatively, $4,000 annually.”
The document goes on to say:
“When we use the more optimistic estimates from the literature, wage boosts are over $9,000 for the average U.S. household.”
No less than Speaker Ryan’s website trumpeted the Council of Economic Advisers report claiming that on average, the proposed corporate tax cuts would result in at least a $4,000 annual increase in wages.
Now, some supporters of the tax bill may say this analysis is unfair because it is too early for the effects of the tax bill to show up in wages. By that logic, they also shouldn’t take credit for reported employment growth increases.
Still others may point to the $1,000 bonuses announced by some companies shortly after passage of the tax bill. First, that is significantly less than the promised $4,000 to $9,000. Second, these are not wage increases; these are one-time bonuses.
Will companies pay them again, and if so when? Third, the $1,000 represents a fraction of the estimated potential company tax savings.
Using 2016 net income, 2016 effective tax rates, the new 21-percent corporate tax rate and company bonuses, we estimated company bonuses as a percentage of a number of company’s potential tax savings. The results: In many cases, the bonuses represent a mere pittance of the possible tax savings.
Navient announced that it would be giving $1,000 bonuses to 98 percent of its 6,7000 employees, paying out nearly $7 million in bonuses. While that may seem generous, it pales in comparison to Navient’s potential tax savings.
Using Navient’s 2016 net income, its 2016 effective tax rate, estimated annual tax savings of nearly $200 million and its announced bonuses, we calculated that the announced bonuses represent less than 4 percent of Navient’s potential tax savings.
Turning to the airline industry, JetBlue’s employees might be feeling blue if they realized that their $1,000 bonuses are estimated to be less than 10 percent of JetBlue’s potential tax savings, while American Airlines’ bonuses are estimated to represent less than 15 percent of its estimated potential annual tax savings
Not to be outdone, Comcast’s bonuses represent less than 8 percent of its estimated potential annual tax savings, while Walmart appears downright generous, giving an estimated $0.16 of every dollar of its estimated potential annual tax savings to employees in the form of bonuses.
Source: Solutionomics
What happened to the minimum $4,000 promised? I guess like many promises by politicians, they were empty. Instead, they seem to have gone to share buybacks. For the period December 2017 through February 2018, share buybacks more than doubled to $200 million.
Is a $323 wage increase and a one-time bonus of $1,000 that represents a fraction of estimated potential company tax savings worth the more than $1 trillion in additional debt placed on Americans? Is this the best Congress could do? No.
Instead, Congress could have simply made each company’s tax cut contingent on each company increasing wages. The problem is that some companies receiving tax cuts didn’t raise wages.
If Congress had made each company’s tax cut contingent on each company’s wage increases, the American people would have gotten more bang for their tax cut bucks. Additionally, this would have created a real incentive for companies to raise wages: Increase wages, get a tax cut; don’t and you won’t.
If the justification for saddling the American people with at least $1 trillion in additional debt was greater wage growth, tax cuts should have been tied to each company’s wage growth; that’s just logical. That’s getting a better deal for the American people, and that’s getting a better return on investment.
Chris Macke is the founder of Solutionomics, a think tank focused on developing solutions for a more efficient, merit-based corporate tax code. He has advised the U.S. Federal Reserve by providing market updates and implications of monetary policy changes on asset valuations and market distortions, and he's a contributor to the Fed Beige Book. Find him on Twitter: @solutionomics.
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