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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!

No. She's stupid.

Not only is such a suggestion idiotic, it is probably criminal. You go girl.

Regarding Harris, she is a San Francisco Democrat. One of the most beautiful areas on earth has been trashed becasue of policies in place by people of her ilk. Regarding being awarded "smart" by the simple fact that you are in Congress is invalid. Look up sinking Guam. Look up the Mars Rover finding the Apollo 11 flag. Consider anything Maxine Waters has said.

No, there is nothing to suggest in anything she does that points to smart. She can't speak. She got where she is based on pure genetics. She has done nothing to indicate intelligence as VP. She has proposed policies that not only make no sense, but are foolish. She has no foreign policy experience. Her Senate Record She's so smart that everything she has proposed in the past that has been viewed as poor policy is now changing. Now that's "smart."

Your premise is false, but no surprise there. I'm not giving the guy a pass for anything, but I don't get upset when someone says something stupid off the cuff. What I'm not going to do, specifically, is get worked up over him on the McCain thing. McCain was no hero, and while that's not a denigrating comment, getting shot down and serving as a POW does not make one a hero. There were almost 600 POE's that were held in North Vietnam. Most of them behaved admirably. Two that were extremely noteworthy are Jim Stockdale and Jerry Denton Truly, absolutely, undeniable heroes. McCain was an honorable POW. He signed things that he regretted, but no rational person familiar with that treatment faults that anymore. In fact, the Code of Conduct was adjusted after Vietnam to address that reality. The sudden elevation of him becasue of that was unwarranted. I was in the same community as he was, same base etc. When I was a first tour aviator in that community, our CO, XO and two department heads were there when he was there. One day his name came up during lunch, and I remember my CO saying that if McCain was in that room, he would be sitting alone. Anyway, another of your false premises, which your posts are rife with, is that I don't like smart people, That is absolutely false. What I don't like are presidents who do really stupid things regarding military use and funding. LBJ and his sidekick Robert McNamara were responsible for losing a war and getting hundreds of people killed. (sidebar, 'cause I know it will come up. Bush in the Afghan and Iraq things presided over absolutely brilliantly executed military operations until the theme became nation building.) Carter grossly underfunded the military and demanded full control over specific operations which failed miserable. Obama maintained the status quo and I don't think he did any real damage. The suggestion you made that Harris is "smart" is preposterous. On that subject, what is going on now in the military under Biden is long term significant damage. Different subject, but that is reality.

I'm not going to quote your posts, becasue that would take up way too much space. What I will say is that putting a memorial at the site of an A4 plane crash, the result of a SAM hit is useless. Want to honor the man? Give up these stupid economic proposals which are nothing more than wealth transfer, and really bad ideas. I don't think trump has a serious issue with the military, no matter how many times is is suggested. I know Carter did. I know Obama did, and I know Harris is grossly unaware of that issue, and bound to be really bad.

The US did not get us into a war in Afghanistan. Hiding and supporting terrorists responsible for 9-11 did. Maybe you're not familiar with how the intel industry works, but the president does not "provide" intel. The intel community does, and same data and interpretation was presented to both Congressional entities, no matter how much that is denied. They voted, and that is matter of public record. The opportunity to avoid these was presented by the US independently, over a lengthy time frame, and by the UN as a world view entity. Both were rejected. The suggestion that "Bush couldn't find Bin Laden" is ridiculous, and another indication of being unaware of who does what.