Must not lol
Must not lol
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politics is a persuasion scam to influence aloof voters. making up/carefully wording headlines to shovel at ppl who then in turn think they got it all figured out is what its all about. the parties don't even care if what they say is true, they just know that trying to affect ppl's emotions is the easiest way to win votes. that's why they don't even try to get anything done, doesn't really matter much when it comes to who gets to be in power.
and from what ive seen the democrats have gone full persuasion smears in the last cpl years, at least from when ive been paying close attention. they are legit not even trying to do anything else. and because they are so virtuous and totally right in their minds (and the party of atheists) they think its ok if they cheat to win
Must be nice to see the world in such simple, black and white absolutes.
when you sober up, look for an actual third party analysis of the impact the social media program had beyond 'facebook ads'. specifically the twitter work, the fringe news site articles, and the comments section seeding.
i mean maybe its a 'smart person thing' where if you dont understand human psychology, all this looks totally ineffective to you, but if that were the case it seems pretty stupid for the russians to have vast resources invested in the troll farms that ran those programs, n'est pas?
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
The projection is on fleek tonight....
"Druff would suck his own dick if it were long enough"- Brandon "drexel" Gerson
"ann coulter literally has more common sense than pfa."-Sonatine
"Real grinders supports poker fraud"- Ray Davis
"DRILLED HER GOOD"- HONGKONGER
all the shit ur describing is actually what the DNC paid for all over the internet with their going thru the motions talentless correct the record troll farm. the entire basis of the current democrat party mirrors their leader Hillary's plan of accuse the other side of what ur doing to muddy the waters. if the American public knew how dirty they played the game, only someone who wants free $ would vote Democrat. and it was easy for actual talented passionate trolls like me to make their paid troll farm look like complete stooges in the comment sections since they didn't actually have any ideas. pretty sure they were even buying up Hillary shares on predictit as a means of influence
ok cool but what i said tho.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Looooool!!! You guys are still here arguing with these clowns?
Best thing I've done was stick them on ignore. It's painful even reading their drivel in your quotes. Stop the insanity!!!!
This is the type of thing I was talking about earlier.
Democrats like Mr. Wikler above are taking a fact (the elimination of the deduction of state and local taxes paid from your federal tax liability) and twisting it into an insidious plot to destroy public education.
First off, I want to say that I do NOT support the elimination of this deduction. I think that's an awful idea, for many reasons -- not the least of which being the concept of double taxation.
However, this is not a "war" on public education, and in fact the schools will still be collecting the same amount of tax money that they were before. This actually hurts the taxpaying individual, as he ends up with a higher tax bill.
I've heard the dumb argument as to how this can negatively affect the schools. It goes like this:
- School district runs out of money
- School district says, "Hey, let's propose a new tax in order to get more funding", and it gets put on the ballot
- Whereas before when people would vote YES on the new tax because they'd get part of it back via a federal deduction, now they will vote NO on the new tax because they don't get that anymore
- Ballot measure loses, whereas before it would have won
- Schools remain broke, kids have to sit on the floor because the schools can't afford desks anymore, students sit in 30 degree classrooms because schools can't pay the heating bill, and the textbooks are all from 1944 because the schools can't afford new ones. OMG OMG OMG OMG
But that's not reality.
The truth is that public schools have been playing fast and loose with tax increases for a long time, choosing to pass the burden onto taxpayers, rather than look at their own over-compartmentalized budgets full of waste.
If this tax change makes it a bit harder for schools to ramrod tax increases down the public's throat via "what about the children?" scare tactics, then that's the one good thing that came out of it.
Also, I'm not sure if anyone thinks, "Oh, I have a federal deduction for local taxes, so I'll vote yes" when deciding to vote to approve a tax increase. Typically people are either for it ("sure, it's for a good cause") or against it ("let the school district budget better instead of reaching into my wallet"), and I doubt this new tax plan will change people's voting habits much, regarding local taxes.
But let's even concede here that it will, as the left is claiming.
That still isn't defunding public schools. It would just be making it more difficult for them to grab ADDITIONAL funding beyond what they already have.
The tax break for private schools is a totally separate matter, and Mr. Wikler is misleadingly connecting the two.
I have mixed feelings about private school tax breaks, but that's another subject for another time.
Bottom line is that, while I agree that this change was stupid and needs to be reversed, it's not the attack on schools that the left wants you to believe it is.
This is a prime example of taking something actually bad (the removal of the state/local taxes paid deduction) and instead of reporting on it honestly, falsely claiming it's something much worse.
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