I swear, Republicans can be some of the biggest crybabies I know.
Allow me to vent for a bit, because I need to get this off my chest.
My wife is mostly apolitical, but her entire family--both on her father and mother's side--are rabidly, rabidly Republican.
Yesterday I hear my mother-in-law ranting (which frequently happens) because my wife's uncle (her brother-in-law) was talking about closing his Florida based business if Andrew Gillum is elected governor. Just as a background, the uncle is from New York, runs a business here in Florida, and my father-in-law, who is a semi-retired former police officer with a pension, does work for him.
Basically, the uncle is threatening to close the Florida business and move it back to New York because of Gillum's proposal of a 40% increase on the corporate tax rate. Also my mother-in-law claims that Gillum's also going to levy an additional tax on pensions which she says will hurt my father-in-law.
Now, a couple of things here:
1. I have no clue what my mother-in-law is talking about with the pensions. There has been nothing, and I mean nothing, about Gillum levying a new tax on pensions. I chalk this one up to yet another example of my mother-in-law talking completely out of her ass, like the time she said the ACA would force everyone would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars if they sold their house. That's total Fox News induced watching bullshit.
2. About Gillium's 40% corporate tax increase proposal. Personally, I like it because corporations get away with absolute murder here in Florida. And with the money going to increasing teacher salaries and with my wife being a teacher, I would like that and in a normal thinking world, my mother-in-law would as well. The problem though in the end is as aspirational as it is, it's probably a bit of windmill tilting on Gillum's behalf. If he's elected, he will still almost certainly have a Republican legislature to deal with and whether they allow even a fraction of that increase to get passed is extremely unlikely.
3. About the uncle wanting to take his ball home to New York, I'm sure even if Gillum did get his 40% increase passed, it would likely still be less paying here in Florida than in New York. Decades of overly friendly corporate policies in Florida have created so many loopholes to be exploited here.
4. A few things about the uncle. He's rather wealthy and has been wealthy for a while. When President Obama was elected, I heard him freak out, joking he'd be better off living on the moon than being exposed to President Obama's policies. When Obama's term began, he owned a large house in an upscale Westchester County community and a vacation house on Cape Cod. When President Obama's term ended eight years later, he still owned his large Westchester house, had bought a much larger vacation house on Cape Cod, bought an oceanside condo in Florida, and had expanded his operations to Florida where he would fly to at will like it was nothing. So clearly he "suffered" tremendously under President Obama. And I'm sure he'll "suffer" just as much under Andrew Gillum.
These people are just so incredibly clueless, so incredibly greedy, and come off like whiny crybabies over nothing. I don't get it. I really, don't get this mindset other than it being the result of years of brainwashing.
Sorry, my blood is just boiling and I couldn't say anything for obvious reasons at the time, so you guys are my outlet.
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they wanted to raise State income tax by 1 cents per dollar.
1/2 cent would go to Transportation projects and 1/2 cent to Education. The entire State freaked out and swept in Republican leaders* everywhere, dragging our State economy into the dumpster. All over 1 f'ing penny.
* Pukes like George Allen and Jim Gilmore. 
