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Topic: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes

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847badgerfan

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Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #41258 on: January 15, 2025, 12:13:48 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on January 15, 2025, 11:57:54 AM
If you wanted to save money, you’d be best off chucking a bunch of the south.

In the other hand, I’m told the folks set to run the federal government are both debt hawks and set to supercharge the economy, so we should see some progress in the next 2-4 years.
Florida, Georgia and Texas would be a pretty good economy.
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« Reply #41259 on: January 15, 2025, 12:18:04 PM »
could probably add South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska
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« Reply #41260 on: January 15, 2025, 12:19:35 PM »
pretty easy, one year advance notice........

any state that has a deficit receives no fed funding the following year
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« Reply #41261 on: January 15, 2025, 12:27:03 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on January 15, 2025, 10:16:34 AM
Texas and Florida should start paying off the debt
No sir. Not as long as they keep spending way more than they take in, because they have no intention of having a balanced budget whatsoever. 
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« Reply #41262 on: January 15, 2025, 02:52:41 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on January 15, 2025, 12:13:48 PM
Florida, Georgia and Texas would be a pretty good economy.
Much of would be the rest. 

And obviously splitting the country at all would be mostly stupid. 
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« Reply #41263 on: January 15, 2025, 02:53:33 PM »
Yep.
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« Reply #41264 on: January 15, 2025, 03:04:17 PM »
It's been tried once, didn't work out very well.
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« Reply #41265 on: January 15, 2025, 03:15:33 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on January 15, 2025, 02:52:41 PM
Much of would be the rest.

And obviously splitting the country at all would be mostly stupid.
We don't need to split the country.  What we need is for people to stop whipping other people up over every little thing and then retaliating in kind.  I'm talking legacy media, social media, movies, tv shows, all that.  

I've heard so much bad stuff about people from all over the country, but strangely when I go there I meet lots of great Americans who I share a lot in common with, and even the people who I disagree with or don't share a lot in common with I get along with fine.  

Conversely, the people who reside on the extreme side of either side (Left or Right) need to stop trying to shove their own political/ideological opinions down the throats of the other 95%.  
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« Reply #41266 on: January 15, 2025, 03:23:21 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on January 15, 2025, 02:52:41 PM
Much of would be the rest.

And obviously splitting the country at all would be mostly stupid.

Pfft. 

Show me a petition to kick out Mississippi and a 10-mile radius (just to be safe) around Auburn, and I'll sign it.  
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« Reply #41267 on: January 15, 2025, 03:25:24 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 14, 2025, 10:54:16 AM
I like a balanced budget.  But there is no such thing as a government "budget surplus."  That means they've stolen my money.  And I want it back.

There's no state income tax here, so if you're saying our property taxes are too high, I agree.  
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« Reply #41268 on: January 15, 2025, 03:39:36 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on January 15, 2025, 03:25:24 PM
There's no state income tax here, so if you're saying our property taxes are too high, I agree. 
But, for me anyways, none of my property tax goes to the state.  Most of it goes to the local school district, followed by the county, and then the city and all the special taxing districts.  
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« Reply #41269 on: January 15, 2025, 03:41:23 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on January 15, 2025, 03:25:24 PM
There's no state income tax here, so if you're saying our property taxes are too high, I agree. 

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« Reply #41270 on: January 15, 2025, 03:44:39 PM »
Also, states that receive more federal dollars than they pay obviously have an easier time balancing their budgets because non-residents are helping them pay their bills. :-)
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« Reply #41271 on: January 15, 2025, 03:45:28 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 15, 2025, 03:41:23 PM

Before my dad passed, he bought some vacant property.  About 32 acres of wooded land, mixed with swampy areas and completely undeveloped.  He paid about $200K for it.  He paid money down, and the monthly payments were under $1,000.  

Over the years, the county had slightly raised the valuation every year.  Sometimes as little as $10K, sometimes a little more.  From about 2020-2024 they had raised the value up to something like 1.2 million.  The yearly tax bill went from a few thousand, to over $16,000 per year, just in taxes on land that is completely undeveloped.  I protested on behalf of my mom, and I was able to get the valuation back down close to the original amount.  Now the taxes are about $4K per year.  Still too high, but much better.  I will protest again this year as well.  
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