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| January 10th, 2021 at 5:42:07 AM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12547 | Lots of “libbies” also have been fleeing blue states and moving to GA. How’s that working out for you guys? “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| January 10th, 2021 at 6:18:14 AM permalink | |
| Tanko Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 1988 |
Nothing but ruin wherever they go. They will do a lot more damage than General Sherman ever did.  |
| January 10th, 2021 at 6:24:41 AM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Yeah, was going to point out too - all these people moving from blue states to red states are going to turn the red states more blue. CA has a large surplus of blue voters. TX was surprisingly close, in my opinion. I guess we will find out if they are fleeing high taxes after they flip those states blue - will they raise taxes then? "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| January 10th, 2021 at 6:31:54 AM permalink | |
| Altstates93 Member since: Jan 5, 2021 Threads: 0 Posts: 29 |
PR residents have 7-33% taken out of their paychecks already for PR taxes. They also have a much lower threshold than the U.S. for that top bracket, $61,500. In the U.S. you have to pass at least $163,301 to trigger the 32% bracket. In addition, a PR resident with income outside PR has a U.S. income tax responsibility. I assume many people in PR reason that as long as they pay U.S. taxes, they should have the representation in Congress that statehood confers. |
| January 10th, 2021 at 6:46:12 AM permalink | |
| Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 |
I believe it and wouldn't conclude it was all one side or the other under any set of circumstances. Same thing with the BLM rioting, looting and burning last year, it offers a convenient excuse for those inclined to do things of this nature to go ahead and do it. I also imagine some of the people who did the stuff last year were actually pro-Trump. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
| January 10th, 2021 at 6:48:26 AM permalink | |
| Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 |
It might be freedom, but does not change the fact that such a person is likely an idiot. Of course, most people in this country are idiots. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
| January 10th, 2021 at 6:53:12 AM permalink | |
| Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 |
Your theory seems to be that it could be looked at as sedition to make claims that you have been wronged by the Government, in certain contexts. The problem with that theory is that is the principle reason the First Amendment even exists to begin with. There are certainly things a POTUS should not say, but I don't think a POTUS has made any sort of agreement to be stripped of his First Amendment rights upon taking office. Another thing is that Trump isn't to blame. Trump is Trump. The people who voted for him in 2016 (largely white, male, Evangelical Christians from rural areas) are to blame. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
| January 10th, 2021 at 6:56:16 AM permalink | |
| Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 |
I hope Trump does start his own media platform. It's tough to find good comedy. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
| January 10th, 2021 at 7:05:09 AM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11813 |
Talk about a party full of losers Its amazing how republicans just totally give up on voters Take some lessons from Stacy Abrams instead of whining Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| January 10th, 2021 at 7:08:04 AM permalink | |
| Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 |
Retail Gas Prices for September 2000: $1.588 Retail Gas Prices September 2008: $3.756 Retail Gas Prices September 2016: $2.327 Retail Gas Prices September 2020: $2.274 https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg&f=m Gas prices were clearly substantially lower in the last few months of Obama's term than they were in the last few months of Bush's term. Of course, all of this ignores that the POTUS (absent some sort of major action) doesn't actually directly influence the gas prices THAT much. They obviously fell off a cliff towards the end of Bush's term due to the Great Recession...which also occurred after eight years of a Republican POTUS...which he also had very little to do with. I don't get why so many people believe the POTUS is the end all and be all of every economical occurrence in the world. Manchin has already said that he's not going to vote to expand the SCOTUS. Manchin is basically going to be the blue version of McCain in this Senate. The Liberals themselves are getting rid of free speech, at least effectively so, but not in the legal sense. It's not a Governmental thing. I don't think Manchin is likely to vote in favor of free tuition, though I imagine full or partial student loan forgiveness is a possibility. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |