Yeah, Goofy rewrote my sentence better. It was a “fuck you” at higher taxed states (ie: states that have better social welfare programs.) It was designed to create downward pressure on the high tax states, and force them to cut taxes and reduce programs or risk losing high income earners. LIke, that was an explicit goal that the republicans verbalized when they passed it. Meanwhile, philosophically, it is stupid that the federal government is taxing as “income” money that you are paying in taxes to the state.
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Also, this. getting rid of SALT was explicitly done to force states to cut social welfare programs.
To put a finer point on this. I would be absolutely fine with restoring the SALT deduction, and at the same time raising the marginal rates for higher income earners to make up for the restored SALT deduction. At least that would put people in blue states on an even playing field with people in red states.
Bernie out here dragging MFers
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1358204082427674625
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Hm let’s see Trump’s response to that last sentence, I’m sure it triggered him: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
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This is a thing that you made up to argue with, not a thing that I said or believe.
I could use this line every time I tried to get into a real discussion instead of posting drive-by bad jokes.
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I think y’all might be talking past each other. I believe Bobman is referring to studies that show that red states receive way more federal funding than they contribute. These metrics aren’t so much a measure of rich v poor, or how many people are on welfare, but simply which states are supporting the load for the federal government to function and which are free loaders. It’s more of a statement about the states as a whole than the individuals living in them and it’s a useful statistic to bring up since most of the states that have the biggest net gain are run by people that run on demonizing federal assistance/money in general. It’s the people running the red states who try to demonize blue states as being full of people sucking on the federal teat and being free loaders off the hard-working red-state real-Americans. This the statistic is useful to beat them over the head with.
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It’s where Chandler went to avoid breaking up with Janice.
Feel pretty good being in the top .5% of something
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Yemen was once home to a Jewish kingdom.
As a fan of the dessert, I think it’s disgraceful the way we abandoned the Yemon Kurds
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https://mobile.twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1358436626196742146
CH is mad, Hi Chris 
… I don’t blame ya, kid.
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1358437108621410306
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$960 per hour for an associate is absolutely insane.
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It‘s also the first word Ross‘s son said („He can‘t say Mama yet, but once he said Yemen“).
Bit being from Europe this probably only puts me in the top 2-3%.
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Theodore J. Boutros, Jr. $1525
Scott A. Edelman $1395
Nathaniel J. Bach $960
Marissa B. Moshell $740
Daniel Rubin $625
It’s like the more obnoxious and stupid your name is the more you get paid
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