OT: US is a Weird Place to Live

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Not exactly original, and the people who go around saying that they are goi ng to cut spending never actually cut total spending, though they are rathe r more reliable on cutting sending on those who need it most.

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The rich don't need tax cuts. They have lobbyists.

I think it's pretty funny to hear the lefties screech about the elimination of the deductions for state and local taxes. You don't hear them complaining about the doubling of the standard exemption, though.

Yeah, riiiigghtt.

Seat belts don't prevent all traffic deaths, so we should get rid of them!

Great examples of lefty logic.

If he hadn't done himself and was determined to defend that position until the last round who knows how long he could've held out. It's the kind of situation in Iraq and Afghanistan they'd call in an airstrike for.

Remember when two guys with assault rifles and body armor held their own against pretty much the entire LAPD for over an hour:

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going to cut spending never actually cut total spending, though they are rather more reliable on cutting sending on those who need it most.

Because they can not complain loudly enough...no political power those. Too busy being: sick, mentally ill, physically challenged, PTSD, hurricane victims, etc. You know, the downtrodden neighbours of ours for

whom we avert our eyes so we don't see them.

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The US is choosing to spend more - at the moment - than it is getting in in taxes.

There's a reason for this - which James Arthur chooses not to understand - and the deficit spending is being wound down as the world recovers from the Global Financial Crisis, which used to be called the sub-prime mortgage me ltdown, and blamed on the Republicans, who watched a house-price bubble blo w up in the US and did nothing to engineer a smooth deflation.

Why would they, since busts are great occasions for people with residual mo ney to buy up their less fortunate neighbours for ten cents on the dollar.

Since the Republicans weren't in charge at the start of the recovery phase, the vulture capitalists didn't do as well out of their bust as they'd have liked, and they've been bitching about it ever since.

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Krw is easily amused.

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The guy killed himself after the attack (as far as I have read on our news of the event - which was not from MSM). Clearly he had no need to fear retaliation anyway. Being shot at would not have hindered him. (There is no realistic chance that any concert goer could have actually hit him.)

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Grin, No this time cutting taxes is going to work. Everyone will put their extra money in job creating investments and the US will bloom like never before. :^) (I don't expect any cost cutting without some bipartisan approach. Shared blame.)

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Well it's not hard to understand. Most of the states with high taxes are the coastal liberal ones. They will be the losers.

I've only itemized my federal returns twice... the other times we didn't have enough deductions. (Mostly because housing is much cheaper in upstate NY when compared to other (more coastal) areas.)

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Not with a handgun, no. And I'm pretty sure sometimes people want to relax and have a good time and not carry a long rifle around with them every time they go out on the weekend, not even most Republicans.

That's exactly why I think it's so funny. They *chose* to have high state taxes (using the federal income tax as a shelter for 1/3 of it), then bitch and moan when they have to pay the whole freight. ...even though the standard deduction is doubled to cover it.

I've itemized my deductions every year for the past thirty-five, at least. I'm getting to the point where the difference is insignificant (moved to a lower tax state and paid-off mortgage).

What's certainly retarded regardless of politics is that this guy could lug suitcases and suitcases of weapons and ammo up to his room over the course of several days and nobody found that unusual or even seemed to notice. This is a _casino_ ffs! I thought they were supposed to have _good_ security!

Metal detectors? Random searches? Nobody noticed via camera or otherwise that people generally leave with the luggage they came with and don't bring in suitcase after suitcase of who knows what?

Asleep at the wheel...

When was the last time you, and your luggage, were searched when you checked into a hotel?

When was the last time you went through a metal detector when you checked into a hotel?

You always are.

With the distance involved and the small target, you'd need a sniper rifle and tripod, or a bazooka.

The hotels I generally stay at don't handle millions of dollars a day as a side business, either.

Irrelevant. What do you think would happen if hotel security opened every piece of luggage and searched every guest? What do you think would happen to their occupancy rate? Idiot.

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Individuals and businesses there can avail themselves of bankruptcy protect ion under federal law.

uptcy If you're talking about the territorial government then that's anothe r matter. It's another matter even for U.S. state, which can't declare bank ruptcy either AFAIK Generally individuals in U.S. territories have full individual protections guaranteed by the consti tution. Bankruptcy is exclusively a federal jurisdiction, states have no sa y in the matter. From what I've heard, bankruptcy law practitioners get sen t to jail the most frequently of all the practitioners.