sherpa

No Vernors consideration?

I'll be quite direct. What I am saying is you are a ***** idiot. I have many friends that extend from local volunteers to three stars that have been responsible for the Pacific Fleet that identify as Republicans. Your accusatory nonsense here does nothing more than identify you as a moron. A political fool who has no credibility to state that those people "hate the good old USA." You wouldn't last a second in any conversation with those people, and your claims are evidence of gross ignorance. A complete fool who has made accusatory claims about people on this site and ran and hid when challenged. I doubt there is anybody left who hasn't tired of your foolishness.

I know scores of people who identify with the Republican Party over the Democrats. Scores of them have served in not only the military, but in local public service. I don't know a single one who has any "hate for the good old USA." People post things that are not only completely ineffectual to the point they are trying to assert, but mark them as complete idiots. It is getting to be an undeniable waste of time.

Or maybe David, Harris is just an incredibly bad candidate, with incredible failed ideas.

I think they have a lot to fear. Personal taxes, a bit less. Corporate tax rates a lot. Corporations have fiduciary responsibilities. Capital finds its way to the most efficient markets. It has no national anthem love. Screw around with that and you'll find out.

Assessed value is an unrealized capital gain. Somebody is appraising the value, without a transaction, (thus the "unrealized" nomenclature), and taxing us based on that "unrealized" value. Capital gains are an appreciation of assets. It doesn't matter what the asset is. Thus, the unrealized appreciation of a property, allowing the local gov to charge more tax, is an unrealized capital gains tax.

Really? I "use" my property no more now than I did when I built this house, yet my tax has gone up 40% since then. Strictly based on assessed value, by some non voted on County puke. I don't derive any value on a yearly basis. Thus, it is an unrealized capital gains tax, which I pay yearly, based on somebody's estimation of what it is worth.

I am quite sure you don't realize how this system works. Repelling capital is an incredibly stupid strategy.

And if passed, soon to be 10,000 ex Americans. Should we simply find groups that consist of 10,000 or less people and write laws to punish them?

If this is your view, you have absolutely no idea, on a corporate or individual level.

The entire thing is preposterous. What they want to do is get into the pockets of the uber wealthy. It's how they buy votes. Still, a proposal that would cause an billion times more IRS oversight is not only idiotic, it's lunacy. Consumption tax. Been discussed. Got nowhere. Harris is to economic policy as a brick is to gravity.

No. That hasn't been suggested, and nobody would survive a minute proposing such lunacy. this entire thing is a non issue.

Not true. Money from a 401k is taxable at withdrawal, as regular income.

It would be shocking to the equities market for the month of December. Stupid ideas from stupid people result in economic catastrophes.

It is an insane idea. Yes. Property taxes are absolutely a tax on unrealized gains. Yes, real estate is absolutely taxed as a capital gain, but there are conditions within the tax law that exempt some gains in certain circumstances.

Honest question. Do you pay attention to any of this?

Not seen the point brought up here, but..... Inflated valuations will see inflated appraisals, which are what property taxes are based on. Those of us who did this the right way will pay, year after year, in increased property taxes. Simply an incredibly stupid idea.

I get sick of this voter eligibility nonsense. I served for five years as an election officer here, and the last two of those handled all the provisional ballots at our precinct. Bottom line, it is incredibly easy to verify status, and even if you don't, becasue you are either incredibly lazy, stupid or want to make a point, (and we had about three of these goofs every election), you can submit a provisional ballot to be reviewed. If you can't do the incredibly minimal stuff, maybe you don't deserve the right. It's not like the US is demanding military service or property ownership for the right.

It is impossible to have confidence in any reporting from there, but the preponderance of the evidence seems to be that Putin and his once feared military has had an extremely bad week. I am amazed how much the Russian citizenry can take before some significant unrest occurs. Perhaps they simply have given up caring about their own loss of life.

I have never known a Republican, or anyone for that matter that "wants to control women's bodies." That is a false claim made over and over, like the idiocy of "good people on both sides" nonsense.

It's not that cool. It's a lot of work. I started the vineyard in 2006. It turns out that our property is really good for petit verdot, which is a really full bodied Bordeaux. Something you should order with with a beef dinner. A major league red. Benefits from secondary malolactic fermentation, which smooths it out a bit. We have been very fortunate, but because of the small nature of my vineyard, (1000 vines), which produces about three tons per year, we are able to concentrate on quality, and that has worked out.

Ya. Visit Moscow. Absolutely horrible.

Not Cab Franc. Petit Verdot, and a bit of small brag, my 2017 grapes produced a wine that won a Silver Medal at the 2021 Virginia Governor's Cup competition. Not bad for an old fighter guy, but I pay attention to details.

As a guy who grows a French Bordeaux grape, I can as well. Her problem isn't that, it is that she is a goof with no resume that contains achievement, and really bad, and failed, economic ideas.

George Santos. Bob Menendez. SMART!