SALT
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 08:50 last edited by
Just to show you how old I am, I thought this was about the nuclear arms race. (If you have to look that up, you are too young)
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 11:03 last edited by
+1
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 11:25 last edited by
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 11:51 last edited by
"Trump takes SALT away so he can promise to give it back later and the cult I mean crowd goes wild."
Sorta like a anti-IRS.
Meet the Press (in the 1980s): "So the IRS is going to lower the rates, but also eliminate a lot of deductions. What's to keep the IRS from raising the rates again?"
George Will: "Absolutely nothing."
If I had to guess, it was not The GOP's or Trump's idea to limit the SALT deduction. Probably part of a compromise.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 14:48 last edited by
Trump campaign strategy: YOU get a car!!!! And YOU get a car!!!! And YOU get a car!!!! And YOU get a car!!!!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 15:44 last edited by xenon
It's so weird that this doesn't matter at all. No other politician but Trump can pull shit like this off... but it really doesn't make a diff.
This and him clearly being bought off on Tik Tok.... doesn't matter.
Politics has gone overtly into being about the "vibes".... I think it'll drive disengagement. I don't care much what happens in November this year.
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Trump campaign strategy: YOU get a car!!!! And YOU get a car!!!! And YOU get a car!!!! And YOU get a car!!!!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:02 last edited by
The ironic part is hyper-partisanship means President are mostly legislatively neutered. So all this is hot air anyways.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:04 last edited by
You can call a draw on all policy and still recognize a difference in stuff that is unequivocally under a president's control, such as appointments and messaging. In fact, if legislative policy is a draw, it makes it easier to come to a preference between the two candidates.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:13 last edited by
Very true.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:26 last edited by
Except the shitty parts of Trump policy (capitulation to Russia, tariffs) he can do on his own and the shitty parts of her policies (taxes, price controls) she can’t.
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You can call a draw on all policy and still recognize a difference in stuff that is unequivocally under a president's control, such as appointments and messaging. In fact, if legislative policy is a draw, it makes it easier to come to a preference between the two candidates.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:35 last edited by
You can call a draw on all policy and still recognize a difference in stuff that is unequivocally under a president's control, such as appointments ….
“Trump’s economics suck and all, but at least we’ll get RFK Jr setting health policy”.
For a person so adamant that people not put words in his mouth, you sure do play fast and loose with this sort of stuff. But sure, let the public decide a preference between Fauci and RFK Jr. I don't think that preference is nearly as obviously a litmus test for crazy vs smart as your twitter feed would indicate.