They remind us of our bitter, vengeful divorced wives.

I believe it. Conservatives are shitty at marriage. Turns out "let's get married so we can boink" doesn't make a strong relationship.

You mean like your purely hedonistic marriage?

My marriage is pretty great. We're definitely gonna go the distance. But that's what you get choosing based on characteristics other than boinking.

You don't know anything about catholicism or the purpose of marriage.

I really couldn't care less about what a religion or a religious person thinks the purpose of marriage is, or if I'm following it.

Thanks for finally admitting your real opinions.

Nah, Hillary stood for everything that's wrong in Washington, and AOC has quite a lot of very polarizing views on the issues which are deserving of scrutiny.

But obsessing over an angry little activist girl who he himself considers just a pawn - that's really strange.

My opinions have been out in the open for longer than youve been posting here

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/474449-house-bill-to-temporarily-repeal-salt-deduction-cap-to-get-floor-vote

House Democrats are pushing a floor vote on a bill to repeal the Tax Cut and Jobs Act's SALT deduction cap of $10,000 and make it unlimited again.
rather than voting to repeal the entire tax cut, they're only focused on the one tax hike portion that affected wealthy new yorkers / californians.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/repealing-salt-cap-would-be-regressive-and-proposed-offset-would-use-up-needed
Based on the progressive CBPP's analysis, restoring the unlimited SALT deduction would give 96% of its benefits to the top 20% of tax filers, 56% to the top 1% of Americans alone, and essentially zero benefit to anyone in the three quintiles, the whole middle class and poor. Making this perhaps the single most regressive and elitist tax bill proposal to increase wealth disparity in recent memory. Whereas the actual Trump tax cuts were progressive and gave a disproportionate amount of benefit to the middle class and less than their proportional tax burden to the top 20% / 1%, this democratic bill would only benefit the rich and nobody else. But they did staple an inconsequential 37->39.6% top rate to it even though capital gains is what matters to these filers.

Of course the real story is that the SALT deductions were being used by California and New York to horde their taxpayer wealth into the state social services instead of sending it to the federal government. They could raise property taxes on millionaires, then let them deduct unlimited amounts from federal taxes, and the total tax burden stayed the same but a higher share went to their states. Which is precisely why the Republicans passed this SALT cap in the first place. So its actually doubly regressive, the Democrats want to keep rich states from having to give to poor states, while keeping rich people richer.

This post was edited by Goomshill on Dec 16 2019 01:10am