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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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you're telling me colonel hamburgers here isn't a badass?
Yeah, I’ll have the Tactical Triple Cheeseburger with Freedom Fries and a Constituitonalist Cola - and Tactical-Size that, will ya? Also, add an I Love America Fried Apple Pie, and a Second Amendment Shake in white chocolate (tastes more pure that way).
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1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:
Its diving bombing capabilities are maxed out.
Kamikaze, dude. Everything old is new again.
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11 minutes ago, Parliament said:
Did I read its payload capacity list like 2x that of previous variants. Boeing seems like they're so mad about their X32 losing to the X35 they're putting all kindsa effort into this thing. And one of those articles suggests the price they'll offer the Air Force is gonna be REAL attractive.
If we need bombers, Boeing has some currently-idle birds that it can make REALLY attractive on price....
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50 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:
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12 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
B_T still shitting on every candidate thread? Fuck he's annoying. Do we think he has the tenacity to do this for another 10 straight months?
Yes. It's Bernie, or death to the Republic. Those are your choices, you best get in line!
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Otto did not help matters.....
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Just now, retread said:
'It's not like we're not gassing the immigrant children in our prison camps' and 'Oh, he's just kidding about adding extra years to his presidency' don't seem like real healthy approaches to maintaining the republic.
They're not. Thus ledges and whisky and whatnot.
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Just now, South Austin said:
Yeah, I can’t compete with that.
Dude....nobody can.
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19 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
The one social good that property tax lends itself to is that it can encourage land to find the best utilization for it. If you own a vacant lot in the middle of town waiting for someone to offer you $2M for it, a 0% tax rate may lead to on-going costs at $0. But if there is a 3% tax rate, the owner is now paying for that lot to be under-utilized. It encourages (not requires) the owner to make a decision. In many cases, it best for society for that lot to be maximized.
As much as we all hate income tax, it is probably the best method to indicate how much that person can afford to pay. Personally I would accept an income tax but only on the condition that property taxes are legislatively eliminated.
Your first para makes a good point that I hadn't really thought about. There should be some disincentive to letting valuable land lie fallow and not contribute to the economy. Maybe you could have a property tax that applies ONLY if the property is not being used in a way that does not achieve at least 50% (or some other percentage) of its "highest and best use" valuation? Exempt ag exempt property and any property on which there is a homestead declaration, probably.
And bolded the last part for emphasis -- income tax should be a replacement of property tax, not an addition to it.
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2 minutes ago, GRHorn said:
How can you tell that it’s not true? He still has his usefulness.
And the folly on this is the "once his usefulness is gone" condition. That's like saying "once the law of gravity is repealed, we'll all float."
The GOP is the party of Trumpism. It is its only meaningful defining characteristic now. This is reality:
7 minutes ago, Skyline said:You will see post-Trump GOP candidates that will use him as the baseline for their agenda and policy goals. At least for a generation or so.
MAybe the GOP will be post-Trumpism in 25 years. Maybe not. But for the foreseeable future, you might as well be postulating about a world without gravity -- not gonna happen.
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5 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:
Perhaps your neighbors are some freaky BDSM exibitionist. You approach hell, you might be asked if you want to join, slave.
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1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:
Race: Not White
Slacks: gray.
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19 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:
One thing I do like about sales tax is the money collect from those who don't live or own property here.
Generally speaking, those folks get popped plenty on things outside the ordinary sales tax: airport tax, rental car tax, hotel tax. Visitor X pays a CRAPLOAD of taxes. That said, I'm not opposed to 1) a moderate sales tax, with 2) mechanism for significant deduction/credit for folks below a certain income level when it comes income tax time. But it all comes back to an income tax being the most efficient and fair method.
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6 minutes ago, DanRydell said:
I completely agree property taxes are inherently problematic because they’re taxing an unrealized asset. You’re house quadrupling in value doesn’t increase your income. But the solution is an income tax, not increasing sales taxes even more.
This.
Property taxes bad. Sales tax even worse. Income tax makes sense.
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9 minutes ago, bernorange said:
I take it you haven't really listened to Farage speak while he was an MEP. Do you know why he left UKIP?
Which numbers do you base this assertion upon?
Here's one I grabbed:
And another for the year of the referendum:
We see two things pretty clearly -- it has been back and forth, with "remain" ahead the majority of the time. AND, we see that once confronted with REALITY, we finally see a REAL gap -- and it's in favor of remaining.
That's the way human reasoning works. "I'm pissed, and I want to move out!" Sounds great. Then you crunch the numbers, and realize that your solo income will allow you to live in a mobile home on unincorporated property in Methlahoma. Confronted with reality, "remain" looks MUCH more attractive than the hypothetical "move out!" ever did.
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1 minute ago, Bobby_Batronic said:
Only used when low on chemtrail fluid or the chemtrail dispenser is inoperative.
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1 minute ago, seven said:
I would agree to meet him just to have a chance to look him directly in the eye and tell him he's an embarrassment to the country and he should resign. I know that would have zero affect on him, but it needs to be said by every single citizen possible.
This.
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I love how "you're a fucking dickhead. I don't want to deal with fucking dickheads, and the folks who I market my platform to don't want to deal with dickheads" is "HELP, I'M AN OPPRESSED PERSON!"
No. You're not. You're just a fucking dickhead, finally having to deal with the results of your dickheadedness. Fuck off.
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On 5/5/2019 at 8:35 AM, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Let's set aside her politics entirely. Let's imagine that she was this way about, say, wearing cotton clothing instead of wool, or something innocuous.
Can you imagine spending more than 3 minutes in her company in a social context? Even worse, imagine someone sets you up on a blind date with that. Holy shit. I might actually go full cartoon....
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9 minutes ago, bernorange said:
I don't know what % of Labor or Conservative party voters favor remain vs. leave, but there are two parties where the issue is paramount. Brexit is running ~30% for leaving, Change UK is ~10% for remain. It would appear on the surface that this is an indication of passion being on the side of leaving. I guess we'll know better on May 23rd how that translates to popularity.
And you are probably right -- I suspect that on the "passion-meter," those who want to leave REALLY FUCKING WANT TO LEAVE. But you are also right as to the ultimate question -- popularity. A less-than-enthusiastic "Remain" vote perfectly cancels out a hyper-enthusiastic "LEAVE!" vote. And vice-versa. One side of the conversation surely elicits more passion, which DOES translate to some extent to turnout, but ultimately, it's a numbers game. And the numbers appear to reflect that "leave" had majority support for literally a few days/weeks....which happened to coincide with the date of the referendum.
I personally think it's quite foolish to make such a huge, future-determining decision when the people are that closely split on anything, but UK gonna do what it's gonna do.
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5 minutes ago, bernorange said:
That describes UKIP, but not Farage's Brexit party. If you get the time, watch a bit of the video I just posted of Farage's speech. Try to square it with your recent comments.
Put lipstick on a pig....it's still a pig. Come on, man. What's the motivation behind the support for Brexit? It hasn't changed. And Farage sure as shit hasn't changed. He may be better at using more diplomatic language, but no matter how much lipstick you slather on it, we all know what's underneath. Oink.
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1 minute ago, retread said:
^ I think that's where Russia/China are as well. They won't have to fire a shot to beat us. Just wait.
"Never interfere with your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake."It's good advice. I suspect that Russia and China are aware of it. I doubt that DOTARD is.
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Just now, Biff Tannen said:
What is the rationale for the Brexiteers? Is it similar to the trumpkins?
It's not DISsimilar. Rising tide of nationalism, lashing out at everything and everyone, healthy element of xenophobia/blame "the other" for all of our ills, that sort of thing. It's a global temper tantrum. Not that folks have no reason to be upset, but raging screaming fits and breaking shit doesn't tend to solve much of anything, and when it's all done, what you've got to show for it is a bunch of broken stuff and shitstained pants.
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Donald Trump 2019
in Cloak Room
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This. The rule of law and the orderly transition of power is only as robust as the willingness of people in power to respect them.
The dirty secret is that every country - including ours - is at the mercy of history’s whims. All it takes is the decision of the right people to throw it all away, and...it’s all thrown away.
The GOP and its Trumpists supporters are waging war against the republic, and they’ll win. They are in the driver’s seat and they’re never giving it up (go ahead and read the summary on the voter suppression discussion).