SoCal Deek

The hysteria is dying down (as it always does) and now the real work begins of crafting appropriate and thoughtful legislation in each State House. Time for our elected officials to get to work.

When I’m paying a higher percentage of my income than others are…I get to complain. Nobody wants to hear it, but I’m still going to complain. 😉 But…when people say I’m paying ‘only’ the highest rate there is….I’m going to complain, a lot!

Okay okay…I guess you can go to the Super Bowl party…if we ever get one.

You’re not a real Bills fan if you missed the Dan Darraugh years. (Kidding)

Very well said. That’s exactly how this country is supposed to work. People will move just like they do now. You’ve grown up with it. We all have. You just don’t pay any attention to it. Nevada, for example, had legalized gambling. Many states had a different drinking age…etc. And there are literally millions of people and companies relocating for tax purposes.

They’ve been trying to build a single bullet train line down the middle of California for over a decade. They’ve gotten nowhere and they’ve exhausted all the money. And that’s just a single rail line through rural farmland.

Hey! Back in the day we used to change our date of birth with a ballpoint pen so we could get in the bars…but that was a self taught skill. There wasn’t a class.

So if the site was down where did the 14,563 enlightening comments I posted go?

Youngster!

Invasion: an incursion of a large number of people into a place. Sounds absolutely correct….no? Or is another pronoun required?

Many really need a refresher class!

Billsy…..dogs and cats may have to start living together because we may have found something that we actually agree on! 👍

Sure it is. If you use that three times in a sentence today, it'll be yours. 😉

Well at least you're being honest with yourself and the others on this board. We can drop the independent arbiter of facts pretense.

I take the time to write out how this is all supposed to work, and within minutes, the Board blows up with the usual cast of characters screaming at each other. People need to take (or retake) a basic Government Class. It would cure most of this.

And here's where you have it all wrong. This is not about Republicans or Democrats.

I should also add that the Supreme Court isn’t called that because they’re a really, really, really good court. Their job is to take cases that require an interpretation of the Constitution. Everyone on here is somewhat correct….but the problem is not the Court! If you want to change the Constitution the Founding Fathers set up a process to do that, and that process has been used many times throughout our history. Once again, the problem is with the spineless, corrupted Legislative branch….on both sides of the aisle.

Andy, the Supreme Court is not there to make decisions based on what is popular with Americans. In fact, there job is the exact opposite. They're the branch that stands in the way of tyranny of the majority. It is the Legislative Branch that is rightfully concerned about the 'will of the people'....which is why they are called "representatives". And this is exactly the reason why the Founding Fathers set the system up the way they did. The problem is not the Court. The problem is that the Legislature has gotten so concerned with getting re-elected that they keep kicking the can over to the Judiciary to make the tough decisions. The current Court is trying to fix that. To use a biblical reference, this is like Pilate and Herrod not wanting the make a judgement on the fate of Jesus. Make sense?

Chi....the committee made a couple of major tactical mistakes in their credibility, so you shouldn't blame people for reacting the way they are. These were self inflicted wounds, or unforced errors as they say at Wimbledon. The first was putting Adam Schifty on the Committee. He has less than zero credibility with the American people. Would it have been that hard for Nancy to tell Adam that he had to sit out this year's witch-burning ? The second was to sensationalize the hearings by putting them on prime-time television. The broadcasts have failed miserably. All it's done is to cement people's opinion that this is a show-trial....because they themselves made it into a 'show'. If this was anything other than political theater, then just go about doing the people's business and get on with it. Make whatever recommendations you are going to make, and let the chips fall where they may. The American people have seen the "Trump is a Devil" musical more than once now, and it's gotten really old. (Just like the Jurassic movies, of which the latest one is a disaster, by the way.)

Delete...if you ever get into the 37% income tax bracket I'm guessing you won't call it "only" 37%....and if you already are feel free to send in more money. The rumor is that they'll gladly take it. The problem is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

So that Trump hating rant the other day was just a human thing? Come on Man!

You can continue to hide behind your unbiased veneer…but that act has been played to death. Next!

Honest question….are you sure he wasn’t planning on going John Hinkley? We already know he scoped out the parade route. Do we know he wasn’t also scoping out the motorcade?

All the same? You mean deplorable? Haven’t we been down that road? 😉

You are correct. It takes way way more of my tax dollars to do it your way.