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The state of the democratic party

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Feb 27, 2021.

  1. CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul

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    Once again, only astro123 aka Baghdad Bob can understand what his daddy Joe Biden said. Lol
     
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    Democrats who still think they are fighting the battles of the 60's when they are in fact closer to the southern Christians.

     
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    Who gives a damn? Are people in Seattle going to now stop drinking coffee? Billionaires have been trying to avoid taxes since billionaires or millionaires for that matter, have existed. If you’d rather live in hot muggy swamp land than the puget sound in one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world to save some money to buy shares in Trump social than more power to you.
     
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    1) Most wealthy people domicile on paper in tax friendly jurisdictions because why the hell wouldn't you? WA's new tax wouldn't go into effect until 2029 and Schultz is not actively working anymore so hard to draw a straight line between the two.

    2) Five seconds of googling would have told you Starbucks corporate hq is not relocating.
     
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    This may come as a shocker to you, but wealthy people do not spend 24/7 in their residence.

    Another shocker - EVERYONE avoids taxes. Even the lunatic left who wants to rob anyone who does better than them has zero interest in paying taxes. Its always the people who can not manage wealth and resources who are busying putting their hands in other peoples pocket telling them how they should spend money.
     
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    You are making my point for me. He was posting some doom post regarding the CEO moving to Florida from Seattle. And I said so what... he's avoiding paying taxes. Washington state will be just fine. People will still drink coffee.

    Also Washington state is mostly facing budget shortfalls because of easing real estate taxes, and are looking at instituting a millionaires tax to make up that deficit. So the states is looking to try and help out regular people and have rich people pay a little more in taxes to help. That's bound to be pretty popular unless you are a cheerleader for the rich and powerful.

    Living in Seattle proper is very expensive, but you can still live in the suburbs in a nice home at similar costs to living here in Texas. My sister in law moved from a nice 4 bedroom 3 bath out in the suburbs of Seattle in a home that cost them around 500K, and moved to Huntsville, AL last year and practically the same house cost them 550K.

    The state keeping real estate taxes affordable seems reasonable to me, and if CEO's want to move to Florida to shelter their taxes more power to them. They'll still be doing plenty of business in the North West because despite the narratives you hear from po dunk red America, the Pacific Northwest is still pretty freaking nice to live in... even though it is a struggle mentally to get through the rainy seasons... but as I've told my sister in law when she'd whine about it that all of this "greenery, trees, waterfalls, etc." doesn't just happen without a boatload of rain.
     
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    These people are in the GARM saying Tillman is poor when they are too broke for hot dog night at Toyota center
     
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    KNOWLEDGE!!!
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    Please tell me the following:

    1) How easy has it historically been to cross there prior to the origination of that video in 2023?

    2) What exactly has Trump done to make this particular location more secure?

    3) How does this directly benefit me?

    Thanks in advance.
     
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    I was in RGV a bunch at the very end of Trump's first term. There were a whole bunch of stretches of that wall they made and showed to all the TV stations and websites, but most of them were made-for-tv in length - 100 or 200 isolated feet long and you could just walk around it, if you just exit stage left.

    It was kabuki theater at least in Brownsville/McAllen.

    Remember all the videos of people showing the ways to walk right through Trump's wall, too? So I guess they didn' really NEED to walk around it.
     
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