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Why wouldn’t it be immediately taxed? It’s income in the tax year you receive it.

5 tax brackets with no deductions, credits, adjustments … nothing (income levels and rates for examples sake only): $0-$25,000: 0% $25,001-$75,000: 18% $75,001-$200,000: 23% $200,001-$400,000: 27% $400,001-$1,000,000: 34% $1,000,001+: 40% No cap gains pref rate, no tax-advantaged accounts, no carry forward losses,etc and the same goes for corporate taxes.

Or we could just fight Stephen King on twitter. King may have said almost exactly what you said in some of his other books (I haven't read but a few of his works), but he has a protagonist ponder that thought in The Outsider.

It IS the time to ask why aren't bouncers armed? Bar patrons? Hell, arm the homeless when we strap wi-fi to their backs. These are all potential good guys with guns who've been overlooked until now. Actual thoughts and prayers to the trauma ward folks.

Dems simply need to get bills to the floor that Manchin and Sinema have to vote for and build a record of accomplishment to run on in '22 along with making the mid-terms a referendum on the GOP doubling down on insurrectionism and obstruction.

You're boring me now. I deal with clients who have a warped view of reality on a daily basis. There's only so much of that I need to experience in a day.

This is still the Biden thread, right? Since this has veered off on a Senate tangent, it's important to note that, unless the Dem party wants to go back to being a racist Dixiecrat party, many states are simply only winnable by the guys like the one you want to hardball into fucking himself out of a job. Politics is hard. I get that you don't have the ability to understand that. No need to keep reaffirming it. It's not Republican framing to acknowledge that, without the political means or will to take care of the working class, shelter in place and distancing orders affect the one-paycheck-from-homelessness cohort dramatically more than someone that can't see past his own privilege. You want those same people to take to the streets for you and "express their power," when most folks just want to get back to work, go to a game or a concert, etc. And again, you're advocating an inorganic call to arms. That shit just does not work.

'92, '96, '08, '12, '20. Since Clinton took the party centrist they're 5-3 in Presidential races. This is not the liberal country it was from '32 to '76. You needn't worry that we don't understand you. We get it. You live in a fantasyland where the smart political play coming out of a global pandemic is to re-gridlock the economy with strikes and protests that become riots.

Read the entire sentence in which I use that word. Recalibrate it for what those people see. Yes, usually. Did you fail every standardized test in which you have to consider other sentences or even paragraphs of the reading comprehension sections in order to determine the right answer? If so, then let me help you. Look in the paragraph following the one you quoted. Wait for what? I want to win an election, which usually means ignoring the things you say should be done. If you're asking do I support astroturfing a revolution, the answer is no.

Pointless, dog-chasing-tail, navel-gazing drivel. Par for the course from you. Do I? Is that what I said? I though you at least could understand basic context clues in the English language. You mean, after doing that, you've decided to stop for a bit. Anyway, I'm usually for political rallies which remain undeniably of that nature. Disruptive rallies, much less so. Your list in post 3614 above went far beyond "demonstrations and protests." If the more disruptive forms of demonstration happen organically, they happen. Sometimes they are necessary. But 2022 is, not as of yet, looking like that kind of moment. But if Dems fuck up '22, we might be, in short order, in need of channeling the spirit of 1789.

Correct, but the immunity of our pols needs to have reasonable limits. From LE on up, I think we've passed that threshold. The ballot box is the only place that ultimately matters. Agitation, protest and demonstration is one way to win there, but it's delusional to think it's the best way. More of the electorate wants normalcy than spectacle, and that is why many activists are their own worst enemy. Right now, post-1/6 the GOP is the party of disturbance. I think that event really helped turn swing-voter ire away from the Floyd protests last summer and towards the MTGs and Hawleys. Trump getting the train back in gear is a boon to Dems, and a good sign for the mid-terms. They've run against him well in the last two cycles ('18, '20), and if he's still the presumptive '24 nominee, Dems should fare well. The GOP is making a massive mistake in not making a concerted effort to to sideline Trump. It's best to never interrupt your opponent when he's making a mistake. Or we could, you know, be seen as breaking people's shit, and hope that will work out this time.

Democracy must win at the ballot box, because the tools available to enforce authoritarianism only improve day after day.

This shit just hammers home how empty the heads of extremist 2nd amendment folks are. If they really meant for our government to be scared of the governed they’d be in favor of nuking immunity as well as just about every anti-majoritarian aspect of our electoral system (EC, filibuster, partisan gerrymandering, the Dakotas). In reality they just want their toys. I don’t see how we avoid a dystopian future not-unlike Elysium where most of us live in squalor while the billionaire class escapes to paradise in orbit above us. We’ve probably reached the point that the weaponry needed for a real revolution is only available to would be non-benevolent plutocrats, and it’s only getting worse in that regard.

Did you read the Twitter thread a few posts above yours? The science is not out on there not being a required protocol for close contact to a Covid carrier if you’re vaccinated. He cost himself this win by not understanding his sports’ rules. I saw that Cantlay has not been vaccinated, and Scottie refused to say, which probably means he didn’t. According to PGA rules they now enter the testing protocol. They shook hands with JR after 18. I doubt that, if they had distanced from JR except that moment, they’ll be positive in testing this morning, but athletes remain clueless about evaluating risk reward beyond their sport.

It’s a statement that has failed to affect change. It didn’t spur discussion of its underlying ideas beyond the choir. The first step to progress is admitting failures.

I know what it means. Bad politics is tying the albatross of “you must educate” yourself around the neck of potentially popular ideas. The electorate is stupid, always has been, always will be. Recalibrate your marketing efforts to that fact.

I’ve stopped being amazed at their stupidity. How do they think this helps them, seeing as they never can prove voter fraud to begin with?

The best thing would be for this stupid slogan to simply be forgotten as another example of how shitty progressive activists usually are at politics.

I think he means the "conservative," afraid to be exposed as cult members posters on the board of that name, not the student paper, but your point does still remain.

Maybe some day. The prerequisite to effective persuasion is knowing your audience. I've read the room.

I'm pro-life, too. I just think the tack you're taking to support our shared belief is misguided. It's not particularly persuasive and quite obviously offensive. Also a bit tantrum-ish. But I'm entertained, so . . . proceed.

Anastasis channeling his inner Escriva/Laphroaig/LonghornLaw the last couple pages. Good stuff.

It's done wonders for my Crohn's. And I do love the bills I get for it. $1,500 per pen, which I take every 2 weeks. At least that's what my insurance says they're paying. I pay $5 per.

You’d think so, but if it lowered life expectancy we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Voter ID, no. Digital passport, maybe. Firearm ID and database along with criminal liability for the owner of a firearm who allows that gun to be used by another in the commission of a crime, yes.