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Johonny

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10. I agree

Reply to RAB910 (Original post)

Thu Nov 17, 2022, 05:14 PM

Nov 2022

They were swept into power by purple district turnout in the last mid-year running on this issue. They then have done nothing to address the issue. It is unpopular with purple district voters. Even doubling the cap would have been wise. Not addressing it at all was unwise.

Still, they will get another chance to make this a real issue come the GOP tax plan battle that is to come. The GOP plan to extend the Trump tax increase (it didn't cut these people's taxes at all) will be unpopular in purple districts. The senate would be unwise to not include a SALT cap repeal or increase to their counter proposal.

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I think the Democrats could have held the House if they had repealed the GOP Tax [View all] RAB910 Nov 2022 OP

NO. We could have held the house if more people voted. A 50% turnout of registered voters is JohnSJ Nov 2022 #1

Totally agree. That plus gerrymandering. Damn cheating GQP. Ninga Nov 2022 #2

You are right, gerrymandering definitely hurt, but we need to have far greater turnouts for all elections, or JohnSJ Nov 2022 #3

Delivering on a popular measure tends to drive more people you want to the polls RAB910 Nov 2022 #4

What popular message is that? The infrastructure bill, student loans, preserving a woman's right to JohnSJ Nov 2022 #5

People in places like NJ and NY are being double taxed thanks to the Republicans RAB910 Nov 2022 #6

The votes were not there, and if those in NY and NJ don't realize that, then they are very naive JohnSJ Nov 2022 #7

Double taxed? inthewind21 Nov 2022 #9

You $100 $7 of those dollars go to state and local taxes. The Republicans tax that $7 dollars you RAB910 Nov 2022 #12

So are sales taxes and gas taxes MichMan Nov 2022 #22

The difference is sales tax is post tax money RAB910 Nov 2022 #24

You never see income that is used to pay for property taxes ? MichMan Nov 2022 #25

Doubtful. Abortion was the issue and we lost Demsrule86 Nov 2022 #8

If we are going to pretend to be perfect and not look for things that could be done better RAB910 Nov 2022 #13

You are talking about a personal issue which was not among any of the reasons given for voting Demsrule86 Nov 2022 #17

Do you think it was even on the polls? RAB910 Nov 2022 #19

I agree Johonny Nov 2022 #10

It only affects a handful of states MichMan Nov 2022 #11

Lots of replies seem to be positioning this as either/or. We should do all of it, of course. Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #14

Was that effort Mad_Machine76 Nov 2022 #15

I am not sure why they didn't get a donr RAB910 Nov 2022 #16

We did extremely well this election iemanja Nov 2022 #18

I am not sure why you are arguing doing the RAB910 Nov 2022 #20

Do you remember that Republicans pitched their package as a tax cut? iemanja Nov 2022 #21

The standard deduction went way up at the same time. MichMan Nov 2022 #23

I think you might be right DFW Nov 2022 #26

Woulda, coulda, shoulda Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2022 #27