Oregon Counties Vote to Secede

[Sledog]

Fuck off Fern!

We also spin plastic.
When it's windy I switch to my Vibram Ridge rubber for putting. Nobody embraces rubber like Ern. This mf takes most of my approaches from 200 in.

You throw 'em I'll shoot 'em!

 

[Goduckies]

It takes a special kind of moron to want to have a border shift and go from 0% state income tax to whatever your CA rate would be.

Ern is moving to the Washington Coast next month. 0% state income tax is in the blood.

Good tax policy would be a three legged stool of income tax, property tax and sales tax. Along with a mandated balanced budget.
The Throbber would also consider exempting from property tax those over 72 years of age.
But that's about as far from the State of Washington as one can get.

Good tax policy heavily taxes the rich and corporations while lowering taxes for the working and middle classes.
March 14 gonna be fun.

Why tax corporations more? They just pass it on to their customers and it hurts their competitiveness

 

[EverettChris]

Why tax corporations more? They just pass it on to their customers and it hurts their competitiveness
It also suppresses wages and limits head count and expansion.
Government employees like Ern have no understanding of how many small corporations exist, and how many of us run a strict budget and forecast our year based on line items and projected profit.
Also, tax more for what, exactly? More condoms and pamphlets for the Big Dawg Fan in Mozambique who is whining that his 10-year vacation is ending? If those things actually happened, which is doubtful. Likely just straight laundering.

 

[HHusky]

The waste and fraud incentivize even more waste and fraud to fix the initial waste. Example is we gave Fauci billions and he used that money to create trillions of more costs and he ended up getting a raise on his billions. We didn’t get to $36 trillion by accident.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primarily-responsible-for-the-increasing-debt-ratio/

Taken together, the Bush tax cuts, their bipartisan extensions, and the Trump tax cuts, have cost $10 trillion since their creation and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since then. They are responsible for more than 90 percent of the increase in the debt ratio if you exclude the one-time costs for responding to COVID-19 and the Great Recession. While these one-time costs increased the level of debt, they did nothing to affect the trajectory of the debt ratio. With or without them, the United States would currently have stable debt, albeit potentially at a higher level, despite rising spending.28 In other words, these legislative changes—the Bush and Trump tax cuts—are responsible for more than 90 percent of the change in the trajectory of the debt ratio to date (see Figure 3) and will grow to be responsible for more than 100 percent of the debt ratio increase in the future. They are thus entirely responsible for the fiscal gap—the magnitude of the reduction in the primary deficit needed to stabilize the debt ratio over the long run.

 

[CallMeBigErn]

Rep. Cliff Bentz fields questions at emotional Union County town hall
“If you just came to yell, I can leave.” Bentz told the audience.
He pointed out that many of his colleagues are not even holding town halls.
“I’m here to try and speak with you,” he said. “You should be here to speak with me.”
Those in attendance who wanted to officially address Bentz were given a ticket when entering the theater. Tickets were drawn at random.
Over the course of the afternoon audience members kept coming back to two key issues — “Power of the Purse” and the downsizing of the federal government.
Congress is invested with the “power of the purse” meaning that it has the ability to tax and spend public money for the national government. Many members of the audience expressed their concern that Trump usurped this power from Congress.
Bentz responded that Trump is making sure government agencies are “doing what they are meant to be doing” and working to reduce spending. He added the president is trying to make sure the nation doesn’t “go broke.”
“I’m perfectly happy with our president doing his best to exercise his legal power,” Bentz said.
https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/1iubon1/seven_hours_later_i_arrive_at_my_congressmans/

 

[EverettChris]

Democrats go to town hall to yell at their GOP representative.
Huge story, Ern. And, it’s posted on Reddit, so it must be completely objective and nonpartisan.

 

[CallMeBigErn]

Democrats go to town hall to yell at their GOP representative.
Huge story, Ern. And, it’s posted on Reddit, so it must be completely objective and nonpartisan.

Brother there was about seven heated town halls in GOP districts over the last day or two. It's all out there.

 

[EverettChris]

Brother there was about seven heated town halls in GOP districts over the last day or two. It's all out there.
OK. So what? There are too many federal government workers and they’re upset. Democrats disrupting GOP town halls isn’t a new thing, rookie.

 

[CallMeBigErn]

Brother there was about seven heated town halls in GOP districts over the last day or two. It's all out there.
OK. So what? There are too many federal government workers and they’re upset. Democrats disrupting GOP town halls isn’t a new thing, rookie.

Sure, sure. Nothing to see here.

 

[EverettChris]

Sure, sure. Nothing to see here.
I won’t be surprised when one of you Dem cultists goes all James Hodgkinson again at one of these. Could be you, even.
Your media and political leaders are practically begging for a guy like you to do it.
Are you game?

 

[UW_Doog_Bot]

The fallacy is that we already do have a tax structure that is very progressive and taxes the "rich". The top 1% pay about 25% of federal income taxes collected. The top 50% pay almost a 100% of the federal income taxes collected. The bottom 50% pay almost none. If you have a $5 million dollar home you pay a lot more property tax than someone living in a $250,000 condo. Same with sales taxes.
The same economic morons that are claiming that tariffs will impact the cost of living for consumers (true) but then think that corporations don't try to passthrough corporate income taxes to the consumer. We don't have a tax problem. We have a spending problem and yet Tug leftards are going insane over Trump and Doge rooting out fraud and waste. You think we are getting any ROI on education "investment"? The Department of Wasteful Energy? The CDC? Geezus.

We have a massive budget deficit because nothing is being properly analyzed. Just increasing taxes to fill that gap isn’t going to negate the inefficiency of government spending. There’s more than a solid argument that many areas of government bring down the ROI on other areas of government that maybe do have a good/OK return just by existing. Like the military spending time on DEI.

Interesting you should mention the military expenditures. Daddy's team is shifting the money, not returning it to the Treasury. There's no spending decrease.

8% cuts. Derp.

 

[graveyardDEADdawg]

Frisbee golf, that’s sound like a great sport if you’re a fag.

 

[EverettChris]

Brother there was about seven heated town halls in GOP districts over the last day or two. It's all out there.
OK. So what? There are too many federal government workers and they’re upset. Democrats disrupting GOP town halls isn’t a new thing, rookie.

Sure, sure. Nothing to see here.

I had you pegged as being mid-20s. Missed by over a decade? Time to grow up and act your age, Ern.

 

[HHusky]

The fallacy is that we already do have a tax structure that is very progressive and taxes the "rich". The top 1% pay about 25% of federal income taxes collected. The top 50% pay almost a 100% of the federal income taxes collected. The bottom 50% pay almost none. If you have a $5 million dollar home you pay a lot more property tax than someone living in a $250,000 condo. Same with sales taxes.
The same economic morons that are claiming that tariffs will impact the cost of living for consumers (true) but then think that corporations don't try to passthrough corporate income taxes to the consumer. We don't have a tax problem. We have a spending problem and yet Tug leftards are going insane over Trump and Doge rooting out fraud and waste. You think we are getting any ROI on education "investment"? The Department of Wasteful Energy? The CDC? Geezus.

We have a massive budget deficit because nothing is being properly analyzed. Just increasing taxes to fill that gap isn’t going to negate the inefficiency of government spending. There’s more than a solid argument that many areas of government bring down the ROI on other areas of government that maybe do have a good/OK return just by existing. Like the military spending time on DEI.

Interesting you should mention the military expenditures. Daddy's team is shifting the money, not returning it to the Treasury. There's no spending decrease.

8% cuts. Derp.

Redirecting isn't cutting, Gladys.

Hegseth orders $50 billion of defense budget redirected from Biden to Trump priorities

 

[EverettChris]

Readout of Hegseth press availability in Stuttgart for those interested in first-hand information, and not a Yahoo! Article with 147 hyperlinks that “informs” the retarded among us.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Media Availability in Stuttgart, Germany