US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[marvlouslie]

Kiwifarms is a void that exists in the vaccum of space. We don't exist. But we also exist. A secret world no man or woman dare to utter it's name.

We're the Backrooms of Retards.

 

[Breadbassket]

ICE just did a massive illegal migrant bust on a construction site in Tallahassee, Florida:

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A photo from the raid:

 

[>IMPLYING]

I just learnt about property taxes.
No state is exempt from them, and if you own land or property you have to pay something like 2.5% annual tax on it (determined by market value) or else it gets foreclosed on by the government. It might be a pedantic interpretation and so the question itself might be dumb, but doesn't that mean no American actually owns their own land/property, since property tax acts essentially like "rent" to the government that you must pay?

 

[Problematic User Forever]

I just learnt about property taxes.
No state is exempt from them, and if you own land or property you have to pay something like 2.5% annual tax on it (determined by market value) or else it gets foreclosed on by the government. It might be a pedantic interpretation and so the question itself might be dumb, but doesn't that mean no American actually owns their own land/property, since property tax acts essentially like "rent" to the government that you must pay?

You think property tax is fucked up then you should try looking up eminent domain in the US and some cases of it.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

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Unfathomably based, reddit is having a melt
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LMAO these people dont even have a clue, J.K Rowling was the VERY FIRST Female author to become a billionaire
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Depending on how you measure it she was the first "self made" female billionaire EVER (Possibly Martha Stewart first in 99 but I dont count that, a business is the definition of not self made, you need a company FULL of talented people to get such a value and its only a value on paper, this chick SOLD A PRODUCT THAT GENERATED 7.7 BILLION)

Then guess what? She VOLUNTARILY LOST THE TITLE FROM DONATING SO MUCH MONEY
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So she is very likely the first self made female billionaire who then became the first person EVER as far as I know to stop being a Billionare WILLINGLY to donate money instead of buy politicians or hide it in offshore accounts.

By all accounts this absolute hero of a woman should be the QUEEN of modern leftist feminist movements, SHE CAME FROM NOTHING AND HAD HARRY POTTER REJECTED BY OVER A DOZEN PUBLISHERS but because she has 1 view they cant stand they want to burn her legacy to the ground, its so damn sad.

That's our girl.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

I just learnt about property taxes.
No state is exempt from them, and if you own land or property you have to pay something like 2.5% annual tax on it (determined by market value) or else it gets foreclosed on by the government. It might be a pedantic interpretation and so the question itself might be dumb, but doesn't that mean no American actually owns their own land/property, since property tax acts essentially like "rent" to the government that you must pay?

at a 1,000 foot level yes. But i don't think a private land-holder has ever really owned his land. He just has exclusive use of it. the state always has the final say. its been this way since the centralization of power that ended feudalism.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I just learnt about property taxes.
No state is exempt from them, and if you own land or property you have to pay something like 2.5% annual tax on it (determined by market value) or else it gets foreclosed on by the government. It might be a pedantic interpretation and so the question itself might be dumb, but doesn't that mean no American actually owns their own land/property, since property tax acts essentially like "rent" to the government that you must pay?

Property tax has been a thing for ages. Even before that, Eminent Domain let the government sieze your land if it really wanted to. You own the land, but you better pay Uncle Sam his due.

 

[Breadbassket]

Property taxes and eminent domain are as old as recorded human history. How either is handled by a government decides if people see it as a glorified organized crime syndicate or an entity making necessary actions to keep the country afloat.

 

[Jace on ice]

Property tax has been a thing for ages. Even before that, Eminent Domain let the government sieze your land if it really wanted to. You own the land, but you better pay Uncle Sam his due.

Also if the government ever offers you a lump sum for your property don't be a fucking idiot, take it ASAP because they won't ask a second time, they'll seize it and you'll be fucked because the fed has infinity lawyers.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I just learnt about property taxes.
No state is exempt from them, and if you own land or property you have to pay something like 2.5% annual tax on it (determined by market value) or else it gets foreclosed on by the government. It might be a pedantic interpretation and so the question itself might be dumb, but doesn't that mean no American actually owns their own land/property, since property tax acts essentially like "rent" to the government that you must pay?

Somewhere, An Anarcho-Capitalist just got his wings.

 

[duckbutter&toejamsandwich]

a pussy hat protest that's performative vs shutting down iran during a drought and energy crisis

it's hard to rebel against a theocratic dictatorship but iranians are doing it.

it's really dumb of you to assume that protests mean the same thing in the US vs iran

Iran has mass protests every ten years or so. It changes nothing about their government. They allow them as a release valve and so they can round up and execute any college students who might later be able to cause actual trouble (leadership remembers how they came to power).

Any one remember the Green Movement uprisings during the Arab Spring, funded by the Obama admin? Mass protests all over the county, including Tehran. Nothing changed for Iran.

 

[Thomas Talus]

You own the land, but you better pay Uncle Sam his due.

Property tax is paid to your county/municipality, not to Uncle Sam.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Property tax is paid to your county/municipality, not to Uncle Sam.

Fair. It's still "the government" tho.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

ICE just did a massive illegal migrant bust on a construction site in Tallahassee, Florida:
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A photo from the raid:
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I'm just saying the forty-thousand immigrants they catch annually might make a difference if they're also publicly executed.

 

[bort420]

a pussy hat protest that's performative vs shutting down iran during a drought and energy crisis

it's hard to rebel against a theocratic dictatorship but iranians are doing it.

it's really dumb of you to assume that protests mean the same thing in the US vs iran

Awesome. Good for them. Why should we get involved in an internal matter? If they win they win. If they lose they lose.

 

[Schpoots]

It irritates me that all we do is deport the immigrants. How about punishing the countries they come from?

 

[JayseeDenton]

Olivia Julianna is now advising Democrats on how to win over young men.

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We're blessed with stupid enemies for sure. "ya'll ya'll"
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I've been sitting here trying to come up with an analogy or something to emphasize how unbelievably stupid this is... but words were failing me so i just made an image.

 

[Anachronistic2]

Property tax has been a thing for ages. Even before that, Eminent Domain let the government sieze your land if it really wanted to. You own the land, but you better pay Uncle Sam his due.

Unless you're Andrew Ryan.

 

[StudMccool]

I just learnt about property taxes.
No state is exempt from them, and if you own land or property you have to pay something like 2.5% annual tax on it (determined by market value) or else it gets foreclosed on by the government. It might be a pedantic interpretation and so the question itself might be dumb, but doesn't that mean no American actually owns their own land/property, since property tax acts essentially like "rent" to the government that you must pay?

Wait until you learn "National land taxes" were emergency powers the nation only used 5 times in its first 100 or so years
Same with Income Tax, notice that 1861 year again, funny thing was going on that year...

then in 1916 Congress passed this fucking gem

Never fails to make me sick to my stomach reading just how draconian the 16th is, its just... wow. we should be really embarrassed this is the "Law of the land" in the land of the brave home of the "free"(to be taxed)

Then you get to realize the term INCOME is never defined in the Internal Revenue Code, they just never got around to it, funny how that works


Alot of yapping to end on "Income derived from any source" wow uncle sam, very cool, so that means income tax can mean interest rent or sale of land? So what the hell is Land tax is the income from the land is ALSO taxed?

Its turtles all the way down.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

And picking a sassy fat bitch to deliver the message is just hilariously tonedeaf. You have plenty of hot blonde starlets and singers who are shitlibs. Get one of them in front of the camera. Have them dress up like a fifties housewife and feed into the fantasy of a union job and affordable houses. Don't have some landwhale winge about how you'll pay someone to talk to them about their feelings. Does no one there understand marketing, or does the spite run so deep that they'd rather choose political extinction?

Oh, she's more than a sassy fat bitch. According to Wikipedia:

She identifies as a "queer, plus-size, disabled Latina" and is a fourth-generation Texan of Mexican-American descent.

This is what I was talking about earlier regarding Tejanos turning into communist faggots. Who the fuck "identifies" as plus-size? You don't need to identify as fat. The hills have eyes. You are observed. Also, "Olivia Julianna" isn't even her full name. From Wikipedia:

For safety reasons, she publicly uses her first and middle names.

In other words: either she is completely astroturfed or her parents are fucking scumbags.