Lol is is always the farmers with this shit
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Why do you hate farmers, you must want people starve?
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I imagine my family has used this for farm equipment, but I doubt we have ever used it for land. Most farms im familiar with donât shuffle land around like this article described, unless it can somehow apply to land farmers rent? The only farms that might use this regularly would be massive ones, like Duda or Deseret, and they are basically land development businesses.
Donât most of the things have $5-10M exemptions which protect almost all family farms? So the whole argument is just a cover story for the commercial farms and land developers masquerading as farms trying to get out of taxes?
The provision in question has almost no applicability for farmers. Theyâre just throwing BUT THE FARMERS in there as a lazy PR move.
When Bush was trying to repeal the estate tax completely they literally couldnât find a single farm that was sold due to estate tax (and they really tried). Itâs all bullshit and theater.
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Whether he believes it or not itâs fucking stupid to say it out loud. Itâs even dumber to say it if he doesnât believe it. Heâs just setting himself up for the bullshit bad faith âbut you said you could work with Republicans, why are you failing??â arguments. Just come out and say Mitch is a fucking asshole and heâs hurting the American people, jesus.
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I donât actually know, I was just basing that opinion off how the article described how the provision was used and what I know of how farmers operate. The farmers I know arenât flipping fields in any meaningful way that would make sense under what that article is saying.
Youâre just figuring this out now? Saving âfamily farmsâ has always been a bullshit cover for giving corporate welfare to massive industrial agribusinesses.
The remaining independent farmers can go work retail with everyone else.
Not me. I knew this already. I grew up in small towns.
But every farmer you meet will claim they are worried about it.
Breyerâs going to cash out like a week after Dems lose the House and itâs going to be a good six years before they get another chance at seating another SCOTUS pick. Fâing McConnell has discovered the Konami cheat code for permanently controlling an entire branch of government.
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Of all the insane shit going on the fact that Breyer hasnât stepped down has to be top three. It is just plain insanity.
It is very hard to not start thinking in conspiracy theories.
Everyoneâs been posting that the Dems losing control of Congress in 2022 is the end of the world, so if Breyer retiring doesnât change the results of the mid-term elections, then in the long run, it doesnât matter if he retires now or two years from now.
Breyer declining to step down now is consistent with a belief that the courts are supposed to be non-partisan and apolitical. That belief may be wrong, however.
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This makes zero sense.
What makes zero sense? Breyerâs acting in line with the way he wants the world to be, rather than the way that we think it actually is. He also may be genuinely apolitical on some level and doesnât care about partisan politics. I wouldnât be shocked if he has never voted in an election while a judge because he thinks that would be inappropriate.
Thereâs nothing conspiratorial about it. DC is run by a bunch of old folks who think theyâre living in the good old days where the SCOTUS wasnât a cutthroat game of political football. No one wants to pressure their old friend into retirement.
Imagine watching the differences between the vacancies left by Scalia and Ginsburg and still thinking that SCOTUS isnât a game of political football.
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Which is why I donât buy the theory they think it is non political. These are not dumb people.