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He is a narcissist. The only expectation for his behavior should ever be to serve his own interests. Viewed through that prism everything he does is expected and predictable. Not having to acknowledge defeat is more important than the United States laws, customs, and traditions to him and what is important to him is all that matters to him so I fully expect he will never acknowledge defeat and any transitionary items that are performed will be by people in his administration doing things without his awareness. That’s just the way it’s going to be.
Destroyed what little faith I had in the common goodness and decency of humanity at large.
I mean, that faith was misplaced, so destroying it is good.
He might have had an actual effect on NATO contributions. He b**** a lot and threaten to abandon our allies, and then their contribution went up some. That might have been a coincidence though, I wasn’t watching closely.
+1 on capping SALT
Still disagree on salt
It depresses me to learn just how many enablers trump has and to become fully aware how evil mitch McConnell and the entire republican party is. I cant twist this into a positive. None of them care about the good of the country. They only care about their own power and it is bizarre how they all fear trump and refuse to stand up to him because that might result in them losing their job.
I could point to the lincoln project as a positive, but I think most of those republicans don’t currently hold office so standing up to trump counts less.
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Oh I guess there were a few people who did stand up to trump and got fired as a result. I dont think they were “republicans” though. Dr Fauci isnt allowed to be fired, but he stands up to trump and learning who he even is is a positive.
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I think there were a fair number of lifelong government Republicans who stood up to Trump in small but significant ways. People like Comey, Mueller, and Rosenstein… or Jeff Flake and Mitt Romney.. and a whole lot of Trump appointees who selectively pushed back (like Kelly). On the whole I think DC did an okayish job of stopping Trump from his worst offenses. They never really punished him, but they also never let him do much.
It’s the voters that disgust me. The people of the USA just gave him 70 million votes. A few changed their minds (2 are here on this forum?) but the vast majority of R voters wanted him again. They are ready to go to excuse every crime, no matter how great; and believe every lie, no matter how blatant. In a sense, Congress is actually doing a good job of not giving a shit, given that their voters don’t either.
And to be clear-- it’s not just the Republicans that are ‘deplorable’. I’m sure a large % of Democrats are equally trash, it’s just that they don’t have a devil to sell their soul to right now.
On the whole this election (and last election) was basically normal, with Rs voting R and Ds voting D, almost as though nobody cares at all about goodness, decency, honesty, etc.
Trump and his buddy Rudy have revealed that NY has a LOT to apologize to the world for in creating those two monsters.
we recognize that they are monsters. WHY DOESN’T THE REST OF THE COUNTRY???
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yeah, most people are trash. i think most people are out for themselves and their own happiness, and fuck everyone else.
the dems are looking better these days, but i’m sure they have trash among them.
We would all disagree to if we were New Yorkers. As is we like it LOL!
I’m out in California in a very high COL area but we don’t make a ton of $$ so we got hit pretty hard with the change. I’m actually ok with what they did but it should have been phased in over 10 yrs or so in order for people to plan for it. Just asinine to implement it the way they did imo.
Wasn’t capping SALT billed as a tax on blue states primarily?
yes, it was a way to hurt blue states.
Let’s look at SALT using two examples, and for ease of illustration, let’s put them on opposite ends of the spectrum of state income taxes. Assume Citizens A&B both live in the same COL areas and have identical incomes. Remember, these two cases are taken on the extremes and chosen for illustrative purposes. Most states are somewhere in between but the principal remains.
Citizen A living in High Tax state, pays a very high State Income Tax rate and receives a lot of benefits from their state because of the high income taxes paid. Citizen A previously was able to deduct those high State Income Taxes, uncapped. Their Federal Income Taxes were reduced because of the State Income Taxes they paid.
Citizen B, living in Zero State Income Tax state, didn’t pay any State Income Taxes. If they wanted to receive the same benefits that Citizen A was receiving, they had to pay for them out of their own pocket. Citizen B was unable to deduct this cost in the Federal Income Taxes (it wasn’t a State Income Tax, it was just a personal expense). Even though they had identical incomes in the same COL area, Citizen B paid a higher Federal Income Tax than Citizen A.
The SALT cap merely brought these two cases closer together. It reduced the “High State Income Tax welfare” loophole in the Federal Income Tax code and made the Federal Income Tax code more fair for taxpayers across the country.
services such as what?
I think you can make a number of arguments for and against having the SALT cap using different scenarios to justify your position. It was good for Senate Republicans, bad for House Republicans, and Trump liked it because it hurt people in the states he lost in 2016. I think the GOP underestimated how much it would hurt House republicans (among other things). Actual justifications for eliminating it were never really made back in 2017.
top notch reason to repeal salt in order for Trump to get revenge on his enemies.
The classic example is expensive public schools. High income people buy houses in high tax suburbs. The high taxes fund public schools that are just as costly as private schools. But, the property taxes are FIT deductible, allowing these parents to pay for private-quality schooling with before tax dollars.
Subway, NYPD, NYFD, Central Park, Road, bridges, Medicaid, schools, etc, etc.