Subj : Re: Promises and Word Sal
To   : Mike Powell
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Sun Sep 29 2024 15:37:30

I accidentally saved my message too quickly... there's more to this conversation:

 MP> I am on the fence about taxing OT.  I think that should depend on how
 MP> much money you make overall.  I have worked places where people are not
 MP> making much and are working their tails off.  I have also worked places
 MP> where people are making plenty but are intentionally pissing about
 MP> during their alloted 40 hours so they winding up earning OT (and causing
 MP> others who don't want it to get some, too).  They should be taxed as
 MP> they are now.

It's kind of a gimmick, but not necessarily a bad one. And definitely not a gimmick that causes division.

 MP> I suspect that all of these things he is suggesting regarding "no tax on"
 MP> will not really pan out the way people think, though.  The President
 MP> won't have any control over what states do, and I am sure most of them
 MP> will continue taxing whatever they are taxing now.

He's got to be talking just about Federal income tax. That will be a bigger amount than the state tax anyway (in most states at least.) So having that extra income not subject to Federal income tax sounds like something we could all probably live with.

 MP> > When Trump improperly referenced West Virginia (when he meant to say
 MP> > Virginia)
 MP> > that was an opportunity for Harris to correct him and look smart, but sh
 MP> > too dumb to even do that.
 MP> 
 MP> She probably knew what he was saying, regardless of which state, has been
 MP> debunked and that only die-hard never-gonna-vote-Harris people would

Right - she probably knew that he was referring to Virginia, but I think she would have looked (kinda) smart if she corrected him on that. Then she could have went on to correct him for inaccurately describing the abortion law itself, but she failed. She doesn't actually know that facts any better than Trump does.

Stuff like that is why I don't get what anyone means when they say "Kamala did good."

 MP> Most of it.  She wasn't word-salading for the most part.  Now, she
 MP> completely ignored some questions for sure, but she was coherent.

That's more like it. She evaded questions. ("Is the USA better now than it was 4 years ago?") But how can you call that "coherent?" Because she evaded the questions in a coherent way?

 MP> > It's just that the things she talks about, that I heard, are extremely
 MP> > unimportant because I'm fixated on the border issue. Maybe that's how th
 MP> > leftists felt in 2020; they were fixated on covid-19, and it looked to t
 MP> > like Trump did it and he was refusing to fix it. Unless Trump would say 
 MP> > fixed covid," the leftists didn't want to hear what he had to say.
 MP> 
 MP> Back when the Republicans chose to vote against giving the President the
 MP> power to close the border, weren't you one of the ones that said the
 MP> border "wasn't important"?

I might have said "closing the border is less important than deporting the 20 million+ illegal immigrants."

Plus, that legislation didn't give the power to the president to close the border; it gave him/her the power to close it ONLY IF: The # of crossings reaches X (a number in the thousands.)

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