Kansas Crimson

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 3:23 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 3:08 pm I am mostly going to sit quiet and wait for all the benefits that Trump claims I am going to experience.

if only. more likely you will give us more halfcocked daily rants filled with your profanity and filthy mouth.

BiggDick wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:29 am so was the state of NY waiting on the Supreme Court? The convictions came in May, yet the scotus ruling came in July. and, sure, a stacked scotus doesn't wanna touch their guy, but I guess I don't understand why a state would wait around in anticipation of that.

yea, McConnell's a fucking snake. My dad always rants about how RBG screwed up the court by refusing to retire, but I think the much more egregious matter is McConnell pouncing on RBG's death as an opportunity to make a complete about-face on the whole "let the American voters decide who confirms a justice in an election year" bullshit.

re: take heart to "stomped," yea, there is the whole thing about how so many swing states were still decided by like 2% or less, I think.

re: "voting on issues and not on people," like 10 states had voter questions on abortion, and 7 of them passed. Even otherwise-red states like Missouri and Alaska passed paid sick leave and raises to minimum wage. Maybe that could have been an opportunity for Kamala, but I'm afraid she gave little more to it than hollow lip service, and voters saw through it.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:59 am Where are you getting "trickle-down economic messaging" from?

BiggDick wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:46 pm

When Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to a locally owned brewery in New Hampshire to talk about helping small businesses — a major plank of her economic platform — she made sure that one group of Americans felt included: millionaires who wanted to keep more of their profits from selling stocks and real estate.

“If you earn a million dollars a year or more, the tax rate on your long-term capital gains will be 28 percent under my plan,” Ms. Harris said in that campaign speech this fall. “Because we know when the government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth.”

The moment stuck out. In remarks that her campaign had pitched as a major address to the middle class, Ms. Harris offered a striking concession on tax rates for the wealthy — an olive branch that she used to present herself as more business friendly than President Biden, who had sought a higher rate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/us/p ... onomy.html

BiggDick wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:01 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:59 am Where are you getting "trickle-down economic messaging" from?

BiggDick wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:46 pm

When Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to a locally owned brewery in New Hampshire to talk about helping small businesses — a major plank of her economic platform — she made sure that one group of Americans felt included: millionaires who wanted to keep more of their profits from selling stocks and real estate.

“If you earn a million dollars a year or more, the tax rate on your long-term capital gains will be 28 percent under my plan,” Ms. Harris said in that campaign speech this fall. “Because we know when the government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth.”

The moment stuck out. In remarks that her campaign had pitched as a major address to the middle class, Ms. Harris offered a striking concession on tax rates for the wealthy — an olive branch that she used to present herself as more business friendly than President Biden, who had sought a higher rate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/us/p ... onomy.html

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:04 am

BiggDick wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:01 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:59 am Where are you getting "trickle-down economic messaging" from?

BiggDick wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:46 pm


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/us/p ... onomy.html

Ok, now do the entire rest of her economic message.

She lost for many reasons. I do not think that Reaganonmics was one of them.

pdub wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:09 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:04 am

BiggDick wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:01 am

Ok, now do the entire rest of her economic message.

She lost for many reasons. I do not think that Reaganonmics was one of them.

This is where I remind you, as a web developer, it is very important where you place your text - it should be very mindful and planned. On her website, on the issues page where I have sent you before, her first topic is building an opportunity economy where she specifically talks about tax cuts for the middle class and increased taxes for the wealthy.

"Unlike Donald Trump, Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are committed to ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in taxes. They believe that we need to chart a New Way Forward by both making our tax system fairer and prioritizing investment and innovation. They will ensure the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations pay their fair share, so we can take action to build up the middle class while reducing the deficit. This includes rolling back Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, enacting a billionaire minimum tax, quadrupling the tax on stock buybacks, and other reforms to ensure the very wealthy are playing by the same rules as the middle class. Under her plan, the tax rate on long-term capital gains for those earning a million dollars a year or more will be 28 percent, because when the government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth and creates jobs, which makes our economy stronger."

https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 11:19 am (FYI, all, it's been a week since Russia actively and directly interfered with an American election for President, and no one appears to care.)

DeletedUser wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 11:33 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 11:19 am (FYI, all, it's been a week since Russia actively and directly interfered with an American election for President, and no one appears to care.)

I care.

But I wonder what exactly we can/should do about it?

BiggDick wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 12:04 pm Re: make Trump the incumbent who suffers, I think this slowly increasing inequality and concentration of wealth and degradation of the basic material conditions of average folks is less unique less to any one administration, and more to the system itself.

BiggDick wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 1:07 pm Oh totally.

Both major party candidates effectively serve the system far more than the average folks.

I suppose the difference to distinguish is, apparently Trump won the messaging game. The average folks wanna hear from someone who (at least) says they’re taking on the establishment, rather than one who comparatively says the establishment is doing fine