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I live in FL so I don't know everything Cuomo does, but after researching this, Cuomo might deserve some of the blame too. This doesn't excuse Trump for all his missteps. However, allowing COVID patients into nursing homes sounds pretty foolish to me.

Those have definitely played a part. That's not regressive taxation. However, that's obviously inflated the equities market where many billionaires derive their wealth.

Regressive taxation is part of the reason why income inequality is so high. That and the lack of appreciation for work. Too many employers just see employees as replaceable rather than as part of the team. Wages have not kept up with productivity in the past 50 years.

What policies did Cuomo enforce that were so awful? The federal government was unprepared for the virus and of course it hit our city that's the most international and most reliant on public transportation the hardest first.

Unlike Trump, Romney is actually somewhat of a traditional conservative.

My guess is that the corporate tax rates would have a bigger impact. It's pretty insane that virtually every billionaire is paying less than a 25% federal tax rate when most upper middle class people are paying in the 30's.

Democrats ended the filibuster for other judges. It's been tit for tat for a while. Right now there would be few appointees in divided government for any positions with the partisan climate we are in.

I don't think the majority of millionaires are in the stock market, because of lower tax rates. They have to put their money somewhere. If they put it in a savings account they still have to pay tax on the interest.

We don't compare favorably to Europe or Canada per capita either. It's not just underreporting by third world countries. The scientists are saying we are doing terribly, because we aren't social distancing and many people aren't wearing masks (yes I trust Fauci over Trump). On top of this, as...

You realize that when power shifts they will reverse everything? They could have ended the filibuster for everything themselves when they had complete power, but didn't. Cooler heads need to make concrete rules about how to proceed with future SCOTUS vacancies and there should be a...

I kind of hope they ease off the tax increases. The ordinary income rates are high enough. We don't need a payroll tax on income over $400k. What they need to do is tax capital gains at the same rates above $400k. It's the 8/9/10/11 figure per year guys who are paying the low rates, not the high...

I doubt Democrats do much of anything. Bringing more judges on, because you don't like the court's makeup is terrible precedent. There should be a constitutional amendment setting the maximum number. Otherwise you could have a party stack it with 20 partisan judges if they wanted to do so.

So we are 20% of the deaths with 4% of the population...

200k people have died, what a fucking success story.

I have no problem with Romney taking his stand to be honest. Him going along with it makes it a done deal. Lindsey Graham is a lying piece of shit though.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/politics/scotus-nomination-congress-latest-mitt-romney/index.html Lindsey Graham is trying to give Trump some stiff competition for the "Lie of the Year" title with probably the most brazen flip flop in modern political history.

We could always cut military spending in half and still spend $100BB more than anybody else per year.

Apparently he wants to tax income above $400k at a 39.6% income tax. The current rate is 37%. There's also a 2.35% Medicare tax at this income so the real marginal top tax rate is 39.35%. He also wants to bring back the SS payroll tax on income over $400k. That's 6.2%. Therefore on every dollar...

His use of the word “animal” is an attempt to get Democrats to defend them like he successfully did when he called MS13 animals. He only calls criminals animals when they are against his agenda. A typical right-wing mass shooter is just a “disturbed individual”. His strategy is clearly to...

What kind of camps? Like the Japanese internment camps or more like Auschwitz?