"The popularity of the FairTax suggests..."

...they're using cockamamie equations.

For example, if you buy an item for $100, and with sales tax it's $107...you've paid a 7% rate. With the FT, you'd pay $130...but the Fair Tax calls that 23%...because 30% didn't poll well. And they use 30/130 ($30 out of $130 total spent) to "calculate" 23%.

Did you get that? They use a different equation than the usual "sales tax" equation everyone knows.

And of course, that $130 doesn't include the local sales tax...and the new STATE sales tax to make up for the abolition of the federal template.

Do I hear $145?

"I seem to recall a lot of speculation over reporting that the broken glass was on the outside of the house."

And it turns out it was detritus from the backswing as the guy way trying to smash his way in. The glass equivalent of blood spatter.

Folks like you concluded Pelosi let him in. Vile.

"No evidence of breaking and entering."

Unless you've seen the video.

Are you going to pretend he was "knocking" with.a hammer? Or the off-camera hammer hit was a "love tap"?!?

Oh wait: you didn't watch the video, and won't, to keep your vile talking points. Got it.

I wasn't aware a fictional character [...] had weighed in.

So nothing to say about Musk's first tweets back?

"Can't bring Hustler into a first grade classroom."

Why are you always sexualizing children?!?

"This video shows just how bad of a job the media did over reporting on this."

Are you joking?

It shows how fast and far the conspiracy theorists you vote for will go.

Remind us of Elmo's contribution. His first tweet back, was it?

And didn't the guy on Fox say he'd seen no evidence of breaking and entering, just as Fox was showning clear evidence of breaking and entering?

"Great feeling until the mental psychosis becomes your new reality."

Smoking marijuana causes mental psychosis?!?

On what planet?

" It is easy to imagine the courts being willing to decide that financial responsibility is an intrinsic part of the right to bear arms."

And why not?

Compare it to the first amendment: speech has no inherent cost in and of itself. But people ARE responsible for their own egregious use of the right, like when someone yells "fire" for no reason, and the resulting panic causes injury or death.

"you can't really say the very wealthy are living off the backs of the poor"

Unless, of course, you analyze the actual equation.

There's an old SCOTUS case where a KS teacher retired to FL. The state of KS wanted to tax the pension payments, since they were based on KS income.

SCOTUS said no, that person is a resident of Florida and as such, has no liability to the state of KS.

KS took it well...and stopped giving tax breaks for money going into their own pension plan. Now it's taxed up front, going in. The subtraction from the taxable wages on the Federal return is added back in on the State return.

"They are still California residents, so are they still subject to California laws?"

Part of it depends on days in the state (183 wins), part of it depends on income from the state. For example, a Texas resident with profitable rental property in California would owe income tax to CA.

But your underlying concept is correct: A billionaire who made his money in CA, and moved all his holdings to TX, would owe no taxes to CA going forward.

"Zelenskyy has personally cost us with high inflation and massive crime increases for a little bit of land."

Well, that's all on Putin. If he hadn't invaded, you wouldn't have high inflation and massive crime increases at home in Russia.

As it is, the worst is yet to come, comrade: you and the others with blood on your hands will quickly fall into second-world status. Better stock up on vodka.

" the Repubs are the ones who have to amp it up."

Well at least they're being consistent. When Greene and Biggs got thrown off committees, it was because of the lies the Republicans told. When Swallwell and Schiff got thrown off...

...it was because of the lies Republicans told.

"What is the over/under for how many days/weeks this reinstatement lasts?"

Depends. How long will it take before he can claim he was the victim of something?

"She was guilty."

HRC was prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

"Newsflash: Opinions are not facts."

Sounds like Fox News' defense strategy when they get sued.

"I don't watch Tucker Carlson or cable news."

You're probably too busy reposting tweets from three-percenters.

"Who got all knotted up over cartoon M&M shoes?"

When you pretend it was the left, when we just all saw it was the Tucker Carrlsons of the world, that's GASLIGHTING.

Don't believe your eyes and ears, believe the lie I'm telling you instead.

"Something is wrong with left's intentions and women should be concerned."

Yeah!

The left might, you know...give women rights and all, like they did for gays!

Sinister, amirite?

"They were the test we had in the 70's and 80's."

They were the gold standard in the 50s and 60s as well.

"Now try and get that clown to tell you how many died of covid regardless of the fact that they got the vaccination."

Are you the guy who pretends there are only two divisions -- vaxxed and not -- and not six divisions?

This is very sad.

When I was a kid, Iowa was held up as a bastion of public education.

Iowa Tests, anyone? They were the gold standard.

"This is NOT parental choice."

100% true.

Let's be serious: "school choice" is about THE SCHOOL having a choice.

" Steele's work has been so thoroughly discredited"

Annnnnnnnd once again Bellringer gets caught making up schittt.

You'd think he'd never read The Rubio Report.

"Lefties actually found a way to be offended by cartoon M&M's"

Confession, or projection?

"We live in stupid times."

Especially if you think it was the lefties throwing a schiittfitt over "woke" candy.