These are the types of guys Trump promises pardons to. Spoken like a man guilty as hell, and trying to deflect from his own crimes. Same old song and dance. Everyone's out to get me. America is doomed without me making it Trump Country. If he had his way he would change all history books in the future to make guys like the Proud Boys and J6 insurrectionists American heroes, and say he won the election, but it was stolen by the crooked government of the USA. Words of a sociopath.
An anti corporate anti monopoly republican @AroundTheWorld . This is what you bootlickers need to strive for
What platform are the Republicans even running on? Is it really just combatting "woke" culture? What exactly do they even have to offer?
Like Democrats, but slightly less so. Still big government. Still high taxes. Still lots of spending. More borrowing and less pandering to grievance merchants. That's why people should abandon both parties and support a party that actually wants meaningful changes.
Honest answer, I think the primary pledge is insularity. Seems like their strongest plank is tightening immigration, followed by a couple other insular ideas like being tough on crime and anti-wokemess. The thruline is that the pool of people who get to participate in the American Dream is shrunk as much as possible. 'Real' Americans wouldn't have to share full participation with refugees, immigrants, black people, gay people, poor people, or whatever.
I dint think Republicans are running on less spending. If anything there “proposals” Are going to cost much more Money
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-republican-case-against-biden-is-fizzling Repug's Bidenflation spin has been rebuked by the Bidenomics facts. For a while, Republicans had some pretty good ammo for attacking the Biden economy. But it’s melting like snowballs in South Florida. For the last two years, Republicans have been highlighting “Bidenflation,” the “inflation crisis” supposedly caused by the “Democrats’ big spending bills. Except inflation has been coming down rapidly and could be a nonissue by this time next year, when voters are deciding whether Biden deserves another four years. The annual inflation rate has dropped from a high of 9.1% last June, to just 3%. That’s barely above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. But most economists expect inflation to continue trending downward, which means the Fed is approaching mission accomplished. “The inflation shock is over,” Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Institute for Intl. Finance, wrote on Twitter on July 12. “The US inflation spike was transitory after all.”
They just want to see Americans suffer so they can blame Biden. Look at our Texas leaders. They could care less about raising our 15 year old minimum wage, yet spout out about rising prices. Everything they do is catered to help the businesses, but not the workers or consumers.
Long-awaited $18 billion property tax-cut deal heads to Gov. Greg Abbott A landmark $18 billion tax cut for property owners in the state is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk late Thursday, ending a monthslong stalemate among the state’s top Republicans with a deal that drew near-unanimous support from legislators. Both chambers adjourned sine die Thursday evening, ending the second special session Abbott had called this summer to hammer out an agreement on property tax relief. “We knew … the most contentious issue that we faced was how to return these dollars to the taxpayers,” House Speaker Dade Phelan told House members after they approved the bills Thursday evening. “Congratulations to you, but more importantly, congratulations to the taxpayers of Texas. They are the big winners.” During floor debate Thursday, Democrats attempted to insert benefits for renters, teacher pay raises and more money for public education into the tax-cuts package in a series of floor amendments but were unsuccessful. A cheer went up on the chamber floors upon the passage of the three bills that make up the package: Senate Bill 2, which details the proposed property tax cuts; Senate Bill 3, a franchise tax relief bill; and House Joint Resolution 2, a constitutional amendment required to authorize the tax cuts. “We now have a record-setting plan that will affect every family, every individual, every business, every operation in this state pretty much, for the next several decades,” said Houston Republican Sen. Paul Bettencourt, an architect of the package. “Every Texan deserves it because it’s their money.” The package puts $12.6 billion of the state’s historic budget surplus toward making cuts to school taxes for all property owners, dropping property taxes an average of more than 40% for some 5.7 million Texas homeowners, and offering brand-new tax savings for smaller businesses and other commercial and non-homesteaded properties. The voters would need to approve the package in November for the cuts to take effect this year. At a time when the state has some of the nation’s highest property taxes and lawmakers face massive political pressure to ease the financial suffering of their constituents, Abbott said he will sign the legislation — a cornerstone of his 2022 reelection campaign and that of most state lawmakers for several cycles now. “The Texas House and Senate fulfilled our promise with an agreement that delivers a comprehensive, long-lasting solution to increasingly burdensome property tax bills,” Abbott said in a statement after the bills passed. “I thank my partners in the Texas Legislature for coming together to honor the best interests of hardworking Texans who want to own their property—not rent it from the government.” The package’s marquee item is a $5.3 billion expansion of the state’s homestead exemption from $40,000 to $100,000. Bettencourt said the new exemption combined with the school tax cuts would save homesteaders — Texans who live in a residence they own — an average of $1,300 a year in property taxes. It also offers additional cuts for seniors and property owners with disabilities, averaging about $170 more per year, Bettencourt said. The most novel part of the plan, an idea introduced publicly for the first time on Monday, is a first-ever temporary 20% cap on appraisal increases for properties valued at $5 million or lower that aren’t considered homesteads. Those would include second homes, vacation properties, rental houses, or commercial retail or business properties. Leaders have referred to that part of the bill as a “circuit breaker” program, but it’s somewhat of a misnomer. Unlike programs in other parts of the country with the same name, the Texas proposal does not calculate property taxes based on a person’s income or ability to pay, nor does it specifically seek to benefit lower-income taxpayers. Rest: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/13/texas-legislature-property-tax-cuts/
That's great news for homeowners and businesses, but I was referring to worker pay, and people who can't even afford homes or health insurance, and questioning why Republicans haven't even raised minimum pay for 15 years, even though the cost of living is so much higher. Texas is among worst states in U.S. for workers The Lone Star State fared poorly in all three categories: wages, worker protections and organizing rights. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.da...in-us-for-workers-study-finds/?outputType=amp
LOL... and the courts should be going after these denialists and their frivolous lawsuits... especially like how alan dershowitz who you would have thought would have known better...
I’d say I can’t believe I once voted this way, but pretty sure the Bush family feels the same way at this point. This isn’t even a contest anymore.
