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    Do you support a state income tax?

    The rainy day fund is completely full at $28.5 billion. That's the current cap. Revenues that continue to pour into it spill into the General Fund...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Do you support a state income tax?

    Data centers and commercial customers in general do not pay a premium. They get a volume discount. Data centers do put upward pressure on prices....
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    USSC decisions

    I have never in my life complained about a district judge being able to pronounce a nationwide injunction, but conservative press now wants to...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Do you support a state income tax?

    I'm finding summary in the lawyerly press (here is one), but I haven't seen much talk in the mainstream press that explains in plain English. Here...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Do you support a state income tax?

    I'm fine without an income tax. Texas doesn't seem to have a problem raising adequate taxes; our problem is finding the will to spend money. What...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [Sociopath?] Kristy Noem Strutted & Preened while Kids Drowned in Texas

    I had already gotten the memo that FEMA was out of the business of helping people, so I was more surprised that they did anything at all than I...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Israel’s Rafah camp – ‘humanitarian city’ or crime against humanity?

    I think the effect of making people cynical is the same. We've also seen that with climate change claims that such-and-such will be underwater by...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Israel’s Rafah camp – ‘humanitarian city’ or crime against humanity?

    Terrible what's happening there. But the warning about famine makes me flinch a bit because they have been warning of famine for a long time, and...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    Really, the only difference is necessity and opportunity. If Trump was in Stalin's shoes in the 1930s, do you think his moral scruples would get...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    Taking revenge on your voters doesn't seem like a recipe for long term success. And we saw how Trump managed to make voters think a prosecution of...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    After the electoral smackdown they got for trying to do the right thing after Trump I, I seriously doubt any future Democrat will take that risk...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    While I think Trump probably is implicated in all this, I'm not very interested in going down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole about edited...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    1987: When the Guadalupe River turned deadly

    I think the reflex to blame DOGE and Trump is a bit misplaced. I don't blame the dumb ass national Republicans for this one. I blame the dumb ass...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 7, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    The state of the republican party

    DaDakota is one guy.
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 7, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [America First Party] President Musk

    We already have a third party. And a fourth, fifth, and sixth. Libertarians, Green, Constitution Party, Working Families Party, Socialists, and...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 7, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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