JoeWeber

What a very nice way of explaining what voting republican in state and local elections can do. Oh, wait, that doesn't result in any harm down stream at all. But.... we have tax cuts for bazillionairs, open carry, closed carry, and the soon to come forced carry, rule by a minority, a coming autocracy, etc., etc., etc.

Nope, if Trump wins we'll all be looking back at these as the good old days.

in 2017 the DZ was in the path of totality. Instead of selling camping sites or anything we shut down and just let cool people come on the property to enjoy. We flew a single formation load with two Caravans and our jumpers. I got to fly trail. Super amazing. The jumpers who couldn't be on the airplanes got to enjoy it without a million people around. They also had amazing experiences. One of the spectators who made the cut because she likes to come out and watch took an incredible pic that we have in the lobby. Big fun and long term memories.

Nothing noble about it. Just ass covering on the chance he gets caught.

Played properly the capital gains tax is less than zero. Simply pledge a billion of your stock gains as collateral for a $500 million business loan and party on. More neato is you get to write off all fees and interest on your return. Please tell us what tax horrors the "D's" are likely to visit on suburban house dads? Or is your fear the fear of uncertainty alone? That can be scary.

Some folks just need a whole lot more doors to find the car than others, I reckon.

The system offers the incumbent another shot at the office. The hope is that without reelection on offer after term two they can make hard and unpopular decisions that benefit the nation as a whole. Also, the chance of the party in power staying in power is great. That is vastly different from it being a competence problem.

He couldn't care less, I'm certain. It's not in the nihilist playbook.

Maybe what I dislike the most is how these nouveau princelings have the money, and the capacity for mischief to play kingmaker at home and develop their own foreign policies as is they were private governments. The impact of their wealth to affect domestic policy is manifest.

I'm the OP and I am neither jealous or bitching. Silly me but I think the worldwide historical data that shows somewhat higher tax rates on the morbidly rich won't cause them all to flee to low tax Yemen in response. Hundreds of millions is a crap load of money, plenty really. Billions to hundreds of billions of dollars is a ridiculous amount to let go without a morbidly rich tax.

Well you're the climate scientist here, what do you think caused the Santa Ana winds? Coca Cola?

Um, yes.

'Someone came up with this in the 70's - It's all your fault if you don't vote. Well, Joe. It's not. If NOBODY voted there would still be an electoral vote and if they didn't vote, congress would vote." Well, you might be new but I was there in the 70's and it's as true now as then. Bottom line is that you will also own the electoral vote and, if it ever happens, what congress gives us. But you just go on voting for the American Minority Party, local, state, and federal, for whatever set of reasons justifies your vote and then when the shit is really about to hit the fan hide behind the 'ol your vote don't matter trope.

You are absolutely the wrong guy to have that position. I don't that doubt your opinion is respected in your daily circles and can be persuasive. Not voting for either is a vote for Trump, don't kid yourself otherwise. If a few others don't vote owing to your opinions and Trump is elected you will own that. Given you are a smart man I am starting to wonder if that's what you really want.

At 600ppm CO2 do you think they will make the same observation? How about 800ppm?

They're not dumbasses, they're LiberContrarians.

As long as in the end you agree with me, I'm cool.

You are not where you are on your own steam alone. Thats cool. Everyone needs a little help to get there. Some folks don’t have a smart wife to lean on to make it. Some folks don’t want to spend 20 years in uniform or couldn’t get in to get the benefits you have. But they may also be as deserving as you. Take just one minute out of your day to think about them.

Tell me please you didn’t marry her on your way to the Army.

Lots of people retire at 50. Even people without wives still working.

Have you read a single history book? Oh, sorry, I forgot that for you it’s about now. Seriously man just take a look at today’s nations with the most wealth inequality and ask yourself if any of those are countries you would move to.

Fuck man, Hunter Biden, again? WTF is with you? Some clown who fiddle fucked around on a chump change tax bill vs. letting hundreds of billions in unrealized, but tradable assets that can be leveraged to get loans at discounted rates to buy anything on the planet and then deduct the interest go untaxed so you pay more taxes. And that’s an equivalency in your learned opinion? And then you toss in Nancy Pelosi as a dog whistle. You need to drop the kids off at daycare and get out in the world.

Just when I thought you couldn’t come up with a more mundane and ridiculous argument.

We're talking about the effects of unrestrained wealth accumulation assisted by a governing party that will use the wealth disproportionally directed into a certain small number of coffers, owned by reliable supporters, as a means of maintaining power and to launder a nations wealth into the leaders coffers. Here we are talking about the American Oligarchy. We are talking about Bezos, Musk, Dimon, Crow, Hankey, Lass, etc. etc and all of the many billionaire hedge fund owners like Fisher who now are saying Trump is probably not too bad or backing his bond for future favors or out of current obligation. We're talking about yachts that cost several 100's of millions of dollars and attendant support ships with helicopters and submarines that cost the same not a $25,000 sailboat that is also called a yacht. We're not talking silly parables. We're talking about not getting so close to having a system similar to Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE that there is no turning back. We're simply talking about adjustments to the ability to accumulate capital at obscenely high levels not about wanting a neighbors goat or to simply deprive them of it out of spite.

Who knows? But if it wasn’t what he was hoping for I think the off ramp would have been a fair bit north of that number. Frankly, until you can show even that level of profit from a business you started you ought not to be making judgments.