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And the politburo thinks the answer is more spending and more taxes...it won’t be long until CA is nothing but millionaires and the people who serve them. The whole of people making $50k-$500k will leave. It’ll be feudal.

I’d say middle class in LA... like can own a home you aren’t ashamed of, Can save for retirement, aren’t reliant on credit card debt, can go out to dinner on occasion, own reliable cars, go on an annual vacation, have a little around for an emergency...family of 4....need a household income of ~$250k minimum

You don’t eat all of it- but yeah...I live in a nice home, but nothing extravagant. No view. No pool. $12k in property taxes, $50k in mortgage interest annually.

Remember that the most liberal State in the Country has high taxes, garbage schools, pathetic infrastructure and in some parts (SF) you are in poverty with a six figure income. If CA did not have the physical beauty, climate, and resources it has, nobody would live here.

It’s more of the mortgage interest deduction in CA for me. Property values are very high. I took a hit. I will take a bigger hit under Biden, but that’s first world problems. I was okay paying more personally with cuts for the general population.

It’s an interesting postulate to consider Lincoln not as the preserver of the Union and great emancipator, but rather as the man that put the federal government ahead of State government by force and began the concept which would ultimately enslave the working population with the yoke of 1/4-1/3 of their income being taken. There is no incorrect answer here, and it is questions like this that our high school and college students should have to think about and articulate a logical comprehension and resultant position. Instead they’d be met with a scream...

I have not seen those specific details described either. I have seen and know that the plan is to revert taxes back to prior higher levels on everyone, And disproportionately hammer people earning more than $400k. It’s a government redistribution mentality. always remember that federal income taxes are not part of the founding documents, but were initially a war levy put into place by Lincoln, repealed during reconstruction, then made permanent a little over 100 years ago.

Imagine Adams, Jefferson and Franklin Advocating for hiding and shutting down for fear of small pox virus.

The most interesting thing to me is that the attacks on Trump are almost exclusively on the man rather than on the policies he supports and executed. It’s the dumbing down and sound byte cycle. Easier to like or dislike a human than to study policy. So little on the Platinum plan, so little on mid_east peace, so little on bringing the troops home...economy now ignored due to Covid. the biggest black eye from public perception was the child separations at the border, which by the way, Trump pivoted on after he saw the impact, which is actually the act of a good leader. Create a policy with good intention, then if you see negative consequences, pivot. regarding Covid, it’s really unrealistic to expect the POTUS to contain a virus outbreak in a free society. Viruses do not understand executive orders nor do they recognize lines drawn on maps. It’s really quite ridiculous.

Hopefully Rizzo gets healthy and can be a great add for another school. Kid got bitten by the injury bug at the wrong time. He was a big deal on Hockey Canada’s radar before the injuries.

Only two people liked the Declaration of Independence. Not looking for likes, but if (and I believe this is true) we cannot reach common ground on the Declaration, then we have moved to an irreconcilable point, and an eerily similar document needs to be drafted in 2021...

Reading comprehension clearly not his strong suit

CA will never be “in play” but anecdotally I’m very interested in the final results. There is a lot of Pro Trump in SoCal.

FL, NC, PA, WI all in play and close

What is crazy is that for all intents and purposes the election will boil down to 4 or 5 States where the margin of victory will be within 1%...so divided...so evenly divided

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Having voted yesterday, I took a moment this morning to re-read something in totality that I hadn’t read in awhile. I was surprisingly moved to tears. The thought that the words and principles conveyed are to be canceled or somehow discounted based upon its unquestionably brilliant author’s significant imperfections, complexities, and self-described hypocrisy. Well, in this man’s opinion It might be the most perfect essay ever drafted...

I like these...

Yeah, McKenzie Miller was trying to stand up for her brother, which is understandable for a twin sister to do, but she isn’t doing anyone any favors with her comments.

My friend- it’s horrible. More pain, more suffering doesn’t make it better. I appreciate you thought I’m a better person in your eyes. I have no argument, just sorrow. Two families are devastated.

Throw the wrong girl into the mix and a bottle of vodka, the kid commits suicide...and the whole mob is responsible. These are children...perfect in their own imperfection. God Damn.

What a horrible time to grow up in. The retaliation is akin to bullying. What if MM killed himself? Then what? People feel good? Justifiable homocide? I get having to make the right decision for the program, and I by no means condone the behavior, but this is the mob.

I’ve been off for months- needed it. I had to come back due to the MM situation. None of us can know what is in his heart today. I am not an overtly religious man, but I recall scripture about he who has not sinned casting the first stone. I want everyone to remember that they were children. There is no excuse for his (mm) behavior. If in fact, he had no remorse, then he has some real issues to deal with. Vengeance does not equal justice though. I don’t want to live in a society with cruelty and racism, but I also don’t want to live in a society where children can not learn from their mistakes- as awful as they may be.

Buh bye... I’ll leave $20 on the counter Christ I’ll leave $200 for real just to never think about you again just give me an address

What’s that degee in from the special underwear school? How many years you been out? Higher ed? Btw...Carlson is much higher ranked thank BYU...as a. Executive,BYU doesn’t even make me look at resume...what’s your degree in, global studies? How about that masters? How about working for 20 years? get off the board. We hate you. Your parents hate you. Your girlfriend slept with half the guys in here...or at least would given the opportunity. when I get up in my home tomorrow, I honestly hope you realize how ignorant you are- note- not stupid.