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re: America is Balkanizing
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:25 pm to MoarKilometers
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:25 pm to MoarKilometers
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Your "that's my point" threw me off on it being tongue in cheek. And damn! 25k acres is a nice chunk. Good for y'all
I’m more than a little hung over so my delivery is a bit sluggish
Thanks. It’s mostly worthless land that only grows property tax bills. But it’s been in my wife’s family for over 100 years. And the idea of her and her Uber liberal sister having ones of the top voting blocks in Texas makes me lol hard.
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 2:37 pm
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Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:26 pm to Upperdecker
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We should go back to only land owners having votes
No. We need to raise the voting age to 25. Let people live a little before deciding on who to vote for and make people take some type of test to see if they can think logically or if they are easily influenced.
If so they don't get to vote.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:27 pm to Bronc
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There’s also nothing stopping land-owners from voting to enshrine policies that lock in their own gains and lock out others from entering the land owning class…
Yeah, but taxation without representation would just mean they carry all the tax burden.
It's pretty much guaranteeing government controlled everything. Because the tax burden would become so immense.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:27 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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People should have a government that reflects the population. One city owning the politics of an entire state is pathetic. Its time to redraw some political lines.
True but this can abused with mob rule bc many don’t care about the constitution and god given rights that can’t be infringed.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:27 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:This is not at all true of "most" renters.
Most of those people end up getting more back from gubment than they pay in.
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:31 pm to fightin tigers
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would just mean they carry all the tax burden.
Do income, sales, excise, duties, and entitlement taxes not exist in your mind?
Property taxes are not the only form of taxation, and plenty of people inherit land and wealth and have little productivity they can show that they have contributed.
This argument is crap and doesn’t hold up to the most basic scrutiny.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:32 pm to Bronc
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Do income, sales, excise, duties, and entitlement taxes not exist in your mind?
Not for those who don't vote.
Unless you are King George.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:32 pm to fightin tigers
quote:until they vote to change the tax law
Yeah, but taxation without representation would just mean they carry all the tax burden.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:33 pm to LSUAngelHere1
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True but this can abused with mob rule bc many don’t care about the constitution and god given rights that can’t be infringed.
Communities should have their own standards. Pitting large urban areas against vast agricultural areas leads to nothing but hatred and abuse..
A nation of 360 million can't be adequately governed by one government and two parties. Division of power seems to be favoring the feds, need more on a local level.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:34 pm to WestCoastAg
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until they vote to change the tax law
I'm just here seeing who wants to spit on the ideals America was formed on.
Got a few for sure.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:36 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Communities should have their own standards. Pitting large urban areas against vast agricultural areas leads to nothing but hatred and abuse..
A nation of 360 million can't be adequately governed by one government and two parties. Division of power seems to be favoring the feds, need more on a local level.
It has also led people to promote and accept unworkable solutions for lack of real alternative.
I'd absolutely support pro-family social policy like paid maternity leave if it was created by people like us for people like us on terms that made sense to our communities.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:38 pm to Pettifogger
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I'd absolutely support pro-family social policy like paid maternity leave if it was created by people like us for people like us on terms that made sense to our communities
Yep. I wouldn't care if a local community was damn near socialist, as long as that's what the overwhelming majority want, and it isn't forced on others and it was self sustaining.
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:41 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:What is the line for an "overwhelming majority"? 70%? 90%? 99%?
Yep. I wouldn't care if a local community was damn near socialist, as long as that's what the overwhelming majority want, and it isn't forced on others and it was self sustaining.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:43 pm to Geauxldilocks
It's always been this way, and its a good thing.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:43 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Note or not, you don't own your land or what's on it.
Correct. Try not paying your property taxes.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:46 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:you were just talking about limiting the voting power of cities who account for the majority of the populaiton in this country
I wouldn't care if a local community was damn near socialist, as long as that's what the overwhelming majority want, a
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:47 pm to WestCoastAg
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WestCoastAg
If you expect Roger to have a coherent philosophy, you are asking too much.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:52 pm to WestCoastAg
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limiting the voting power of cities who account for the majority of the populaiton in this country
during covid i daresay a majority of the population of cities supported rounding unvaccinated up and putting them in camps
sWhen it comes to voting, who should and shouldn't etc. a basic IQ test would do wonders.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:54 pm to WestCoastAg
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you were just talking about limiting the voting power of cities
That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.
quote:
and it isn't forced on others and it was self sustaining.
there's the important part for your illiterate arse.
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:55 pm to USMCguy121
quote:lol no
during covid i daresay a majority of the population of cities supported rounding unvaccinated up and putting them in camps
This is some delusionally partisan thinking.
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 2:56 pm
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