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@always
I did not ask him how he planned to vote.
That said your supposition about Jews and Democrats is inaccurate. When we were growing up the Republican Party of the northeast was liberal, and may Jews voted for people such as Nelson Rockefeller, Kenneth Keating, John V. Lindsay. Lowell Weicker, etc.@AviK
Congress could pass a law that online forums were public forums, but it would lose a Constitutional challenge. Fairness Doctrine only applied to public airwaves and TV stations are licensed to operate at those frequencies for X years at a time.First Amendment rights cannot be applied to private business, unless they are acting in the government’s place. So if the Government rents space for a Post Office or Social Security office, the private landlord can’t ban Jews or Muslims from coming in the property, or distribution of literature on the sidewalk leading in, or other Free Speech protests
@AviK
The Picture ID should be currently valid.
In CT Drivers Licenses are issued every 6 years.
College or High School IDs are issued yearly
Most Employee IDs are updated every few years@Commonsaychel
My Litvak Zaidy used to ask: Tell me are you Jewish or Galitzianer?
My Oma would put him in his place, by calling Zaidy a ‘peasant from the east’This pecking order is such nonsense
@Reb Eliezer
The affidavit requires a lot of personal info that is verified with records in the Registrar’s office
Full Legal Name
Date and place of Birth
Address
Phone
Social Security Number.Remember CT is a small state. Our town has only about 26,000 registered voters and 7 polling places. With 3 checkers from each party on duty at all times, plus two moderators, two asst, Registrars of Voters, two ballot clerks and two clerks working the tabulating machine the chances are near 100% that at least one of the poll workers will know any voter who shows up.
I’ve worked the same polling location for 15 years, I probably know 60% of the voters who come in.
I won’t know new arrivals in town or the 18 year olds voting the first time, but chances are they will be known.
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Quick story….
My father always went to NYC by train on Tuesdays and then voted on his way home from the train station, back in 1974 (before we had an ID requirement and drivers licenses didn’t have pictures), I was a poll worker. At 7:45PM a man walked in gave his address as his own and then my father’s name. I yelled out Challenge and asked the Moderator to have the man arrested. The moderator said how do you know? I said, that is not my father, whose name and address were given to get a ballot.
Three minutes later my father walked in to vote. The policeman asked for his ID, then cuffed the first man and led him away.@always
I go to sleep between 11 and 12, I am up no later than 4 every day and have been most of my adult life. The early morning hours are quite productive time for me with few interruptions.
I spend at least three mornings a week on calls to China that last 2-3 hours. This involves a business venture separate from my law practice.
I always wear a watch, I’d feel naked without it, but don’t need it to know the time. My watches are all Swiss and will pass to my children or grandchildren at sometime in the future. My eldest grandson wears a watch that belonged to my maternal grandfather and is about 100 years old. The young man is named for his great-grandfather and it was appropriate for him to receive the watch when he was married.
As for Swiss Jews, the current youngsters might be selling Swiss watches, not wearing them, but I haven’t been in Switzerland in about 7 years, so I don’t really know.@RebEliezer
‘currently we vote through signature recognition’WHOA…hold your horses. Each state sets their own rules.
We do NOT use signature recognition in CT. Speaking as an asst. Registrar of Voters who works as a supervisor at the polls on Election Day: In CT voters are asked to present a picture ID, but not required, they can refuse and sign an affidavit that they are registered to vote and then vote. Their ballots are held separately and not put through the tabulating machine at the polling location. They are placed in a bag, which is sealed by the moderator and sent to Town Hall. The affidavit is verified and if acceptable the vote tabulated with absentee ballots.
The checkers at the poll look at the picture ID and the person presenting it and see if it looks like the same person. They do NOT look at signatures. The voter does not sign anything at the polls and the signature from the voter registration form is not available to be checked.
At this point we have many senior citizens voting who registered more than 60 years ago. Their signatures may be quite different from when the registered.
I registered 49 years ago and my signature is not even close to what is was when I was 18. The Town Clerk was not required to retain original registrations all these years. The last twenty years’ applications have been digitized in our town.Please avoid the word WE when you have no idea if what you post is universal,
Because when Benjamin Franklin published this adage, there was no electric or gaslights in homes and businesses.
People had to make the most of daylight hours to be productive and earn a living.
Go try farming in the dark….That’s why we have Daylight Savings Time…to increase farm production.
Candles were expensive, they gave limited light for work purposes.@AviK
The First Amendment applies to GOVERNMENT ACTION. It has nothing to do with big tech or other private concerns.
A private concern has the right to decide who it allows to post or not.
If the government ordered a private concern to allow an individual to post, that would be a great threat to DemocracyWay back when most TV and radio (in the USA) was broadcast over the ‘public airways’ and the FCC ordered equal time provisions for opposing viewpoints. That could NOT be extended to cable, satellite or internet platforms. It has since been dropped for broadcast networks, who claimed it was an unfair burden since most of the competition wasn’t subject to the same requirements
@always
Alarm clocks?????????????????/
Never saw one in Oma and Opa’s home, or my parents or my home.
If you have to be up at a certain time you are up.
Mrs. CTL was amazed early on in our marriage that I have an internal body clock and know the time close to the minute. Early this morning I got up to make a business call to China where it is 13 hours ahead. She asked me what time it was? I said should be hitting 3:00. She looked at a wall clock and said you’re wrong it’s only 2:59………I said better than it being 3:01.I understand that my grandchildren’s generation doesn’t wear watches or have alarm clocks, they are using their phones for those functions.
@Mesivta bachur
The late Yekke….is dead
No live Yekke worthy of the name is ever late.@Reb Eliezer
My wife and were married cover by my Opa’s and her father’s Taleisim. I never met her father, she was walked down the aisle by mother and step-father.
My parents were alive for our sons weddings and were also covered by my Opa’s Tallis. Our daughters did not follow this custom as they followed traditions of their new husbands (none of whom had Yekke forebears_.We were brought up with the attitude that if you are not 20 minutes early you are late. BUT you arrive exactly on time.
10am appointment, you are parked outside the place and at 9:58 you exit the car, adjust your clothing, make sure you have everything you need and walk to the door. You ring the bell (or of a business location you enter exactly at 10am…NOT 9:59, NOT 10:01, but 10:00am.This comes from my Yekke mother.
Just as Chicken soup is made with dill
Yiddish never spoken in the house…..it was used/learned for business, but as OMA called it a gutter language it remained outside.
BTW>>>>>before someone chimes in with what the Germans did to Jews who were so comfortable in Germany in the 1930s and 40s, our family left Germany for America in the 1860s. Our Litvish family were latecomers, arriving at Castle Garden (Battery Park) in 1872.@Always
Please don’t give up your day job, you’ll not make it in my profession
“>> Amendments 1-10 were added soon after adoption of the ConstitutionThere would not be enough states to sign constitution without bill of rights, so they should be considered part of the main body.”
WRONG!!!!!!
The Constitution went into effect on June 21, 1788 when New Hampshire became the 9th of the 13 States to ratify it (until then the US operated under the Articles of Confederation<wonder where the South took their name?>),
There were actually 12 original Amendments passed by the First Congress sent for ratification to the States. Only #s 3-12 were ratified as of December 15th, 1791 and became known as the Bill of Rights and numbered as Amendments 1-10.The Constitution was ratified by the States and took effect 3 years before the Bill of Rights. Your assertion is incorrect.
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” if you have a general statement that anything not in constitution is reserved to states and people, this is enough to protect personal liberties.”No such statement exists, The correct statement is that ‘all powers not assigned to the Federal Government is reserved to the States.’ This is where we get the concept of States Rights, Nothing is reserved to the people. The Preamble puts it bluntly: We the People in order to….” The people have ceded their power to a representative form of government and retain rights only through the ballot box that can elect representatives.
Over the years, the Federal Government has usurped powers by claiming things fall under their jurisdiction by using things such as the Interstate Commerce Clause, etc. The SCOTUS has been complicit in this power grab.
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As for your remark about the First Amendment originally meaning Congress, this has been expanded to all levels of Government as all levels accept and operate with Federal funds comingled with state and local funds.
Here in CT, all houses of worship had to be chartered by the State until the late 1800s. Our family belonged to three shuls in New Haven (yes out of town it is common to belong to multiple shuls in town, especially business owners do this to this day) all of whom were chartered by the State of Connecticut.
Towns and villages got their names from the Congregational Church Parish (Puritans) whose pastor or Parish Council acted as local government and levied local taxes for the Constable, jail and school. This ended about 1840. The town I live in is made up of three of those Parishes and they are used as the names of the three main neighborhoods in town.My mother’s side was Yekke, my father’s Litvak.
Opa and Oma were quite unhappy that my mother married a peasant from the east (even though both my parents were third generation in America.
My Opa was one of three brothers, but all fathered only daughters. My mother’s sister did marry a Yekke. He had one son and that son’s three male children (now in their 30s follow the Yekke ways.Opa bought me a Talis for my Bar Mitzvah. I wore it when I went to his shul in NY, but not in my Zaidy’s shul in Brooklyn. Mt father has asked the Rav in our shul in New Haven and was told that I should war it when in shul with my Opa to honor his tradition.
the demise of the kehilla in Washington Heights has been a sharp blow to the Yekke Community. When I was a teen and twenty something their were loads of Yekkes in the Rockaways. My Opa and Oma had a summer place there, wintering in the city.
The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are two very different Documents written at different times by not necessarily the same people for different purposes.
The Declaration says, we have had enough of being governed by the King of England and we thirteen colonies declare our Independence for the following reasons. The stirring terms such as: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, …” are used to gather support for the action among the populace.
Having won the Revolutionary War, the former Colonies, now 13 States have to organize a system of Government for the new country: The Constitution is that system of Government.
The Preamble lays out why it is needed:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
It has no reason to talk of ideals such as ‘unalienable rights’ as we were no longer English colonies in revolt, we were now the People of The United States.
Like many new systems, it needed tweaking, thus the Bill of Rights..Amendments 1-10 were added soon after adoption of the Constitution and the establishment of our three branch government.One should NEVER attempt to combine the purpose of two radically different documents
Reb Eliezer
There is NO law that separates religion and state in the USA.
The First Amendment to the Constitution reads:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….”This means Congress may not pass a law establishing an official religion of the USA.. We have no ‘Church of the USA’ while there is a ‘Church of England’ and the English Monarch it titular head of the Church.
Government meetings, sessions of Congress are free to open with prayers. In 1962 The Supreme Court ruled that there could be no school prayer. The members of Congress are adults (although they may not act that way, while young schoolchildren are impressionable and subject to indoctrination, and peer and teacher pressure.The second clause says that Congress may not interfere with the practice of religion. This is what allows minorities such as Jews to observe and practice our religion in the USA.
Personally, I believe the second clause is far more important than the first. I could care less if there was an official Church of the USA id inhabitants could not be required to belong or adhere to the religion and no tax dollars spent on its buildings and operations….as long as Congress could not interfere with the practice of other religion.
The term Separation of Church and State is not in the Constitution, but was used by Thomas Jefferson to explain the operation of the two clauses of the First Amendment referring to religion.
@AviK
Reagan did not save the economy. His 1981 tax cuts were followed by 8 years of tax increases wiping out the cuts. He gave the breaks to the rich and harmed the middle class.I did not say he harmed the economy, I said his trickle down economics was the start of the destruction of the middle class. Please don’t put words in my mouth or shift the subject as if I had addressed what you shift to.
Reagan was a senile former Democrat, former Labor Union President, the first divorced person to be elected President…some Family Values platform and an actor, B grade at that.Rabbi………………….
There never was a President Regan
I detested him, but he deserves to have his name spelled correctly: REAGANHis trickle down voodoo economics was the start of the destruction of the American middle class.
@Always
The FIRST AMENDMENT ONLY applies to Government action. A private business can censor your words, or not let you participate.YWN Mods censor regularly.
Now we know why they are “self” funding
A Go Fund Me is NOT Self-Funding, it is schnoring!
Who is setting up the Kiddush…………….
Male members of the shul?
Female members of the shul?
Paid employees of the shul?
The caterer’s staff?It makes a difference.
My brothers and I worked in daddy’s stores during breaks
My Children and grandchildren worked in our offices during breaks.
All were paid for their labor and then had spending money………………@bk613
I was specifically not talking about bug cities and referenced crime in inner cities in my remarks.
My parents had the foresight to leave NYC in 1952. We still own a house in Brooklyn and use it very occasionally (I haven’t been there since January 2020, before the Pandemic). Owning it for taxes, insurance and maintenance, it has made sense to hold onto it and a number of our next two generations lived in it while continuing their education in NYC.
I have no interest in living in a large city, anywhere@lakwhut
Arabs are NOT the biggest threat to Jews chutz laaretz. I don’t live in EY. Since Mrs. CTL cannot fly for medical reasons, I haven’t been in our home there in more than 5 years.Not all Muslims are Arabs, Not all Arabs are Muslims. The words are not interchangeable and neither are the threats each group poses to Jews.
I feel far more comfortable with left wing POC in my area (including the large city we neighbor) than the Right wing Trump lovers with tatoos, American, Trump and Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. They express their Jew Hatred and Hitler love pretty openly while living in denial
@lakewhut
Your ignorance an political bias continues on and on. Get over it Trump LOST.
I live in small CT Town with a Democrat administration with legislative body and all elected board and commissions having Democrat majorities (having ousted the Republicans who messed everything up for 8 years). In a state run by a Democrat Governor and legislature and all our Congressmen and Senators are Democrat.
Jews are perfectly safe here (as safe as any other residents, and safer than people of color in our inner cities). Incidents of anti-semitic nature continue to fall year to year as tracked by ADL.
We understand living in harmony with our neighbors. We don’t flaunt zoning and building codes with illegal synagogue in houses, or dorms in schools where not permitted by code. We don’t try to take over the school boards where we don’t send our kids to cut budgets for public education so we lower our tax bills while the whole community suffers.
Bad behavior by frum Jews moving into not-first ring suburbs has brought about many anti-Jewish attacks…verbal and physical.
Properly planned revitalization of old decrepit industrial cities (which had a125 year history of Jewish life) such as Waterbury and Naugatuck have been welcome. Even the new educational campus in Durham, a farming community that never had Jews has not brought about attacks on Jews.@Health
with no indentations, you posted no paragraphs………………………………
They is a pronoun, it should refer to the previous plural proper noun, in this case Federal Government.
It could not mean criminals as they don’t prosecute.I am not a mind reader. If you intended fior someone besides the Federal Government to have been the prosecuting authority, you should have posted it
Keep telling lies
” now we have a Federal government that sides with criminals over e/o else.Look how they dealt with the Criminal named George Floyd.
They prosecuted the Cops.
They defunded the Cops.”The Federal Government did NOT prosecute and Police in the George Floyd murder, neither did the defund the police.
Floyd’s murderer was prosecuted by the state. The police are funded by the city with some state assistance.
STOP LYING….get it through your head, Trump is a LOSER. He couldn’t get reelected or take it in the courts.
@Always
Sorry,
you view it as shul giving an honor, assigning her to teach without asking.
A married professional with a J.D. and L.L.M sees it as they were trying to get something for nothing. They hired the husband at a salary for his services. They did not contract for her services.
These were not classes on Shabbos or Yuntif, or at night, but smack in the middle of the business day.
Before publishing and distributing the schedule, the shul should have asked her if she was willing and available to teach. For too long, shuls think the Rabbi’s wife is unpaid help, a bonus to his salary.@always
Why was it wrong for her to laugh? She was at home with her husband, read the bulletin and laughed in amusement.
Should she have picked up the phone and given the shul president a piece of her mind for the nerve to publish this without asking her and getting permission? Do you know her schedule was in my open for class times?Laughter was appropriate
@UJM
She practices almost exclusively in Federal Courts. She bills $750 at the District Court (trial) level, $1,000 at the Court of Appeals and $1500 if she has to appeal to the Supreme Court (she prefers not to go to DC, but has appeared a few times over the years).
Her speciality is Federal Labor Law and discrimination in the workplace.@ujm
“Can someone not be a rebbetzin if her husband is a Rov?”ABSOLUTELY
20 years ago my nephew-in law took a shul pulpit in NJ. A few weeks after he started the shul bulletin came out and it listed a number of classes for ladies to be taught by my niece.
She took one look at the bulletin and broke out laughing.
My niece called the shul president and said: ‘you hired my husband to be Rav, you didn’t hire and aren’t paying me.’ The president replied that the former Rebbitzen always taught those classes, and for free. My niece said: ‘I’m an attorney, I have a practice and my time is billed at $400 per hour. If you would like to hire me send me a contract and a serious offer.’My nephew in-law notified the shul that he would perform the duties of his one year contract and was not interested in a renewal. He would prefer a congregation where everything was disclosed during negotiations and not after the contract was signed.
20 years later, he is still a shul Rav and she is still a practicing attorney, not a RebbetzinRefund? Unless it is because of a tax credit, why would you loan money interest free to the US Government.
This morning I finished the returns for personal and several family members. Having adjusted withholding and/or estimated payments during the year, 6 are sending payments to the government in amounts less than $100, the other is getting a refund, as a granddaughter had taxes withheld on Unemployment and the last Recovery bill made the first $10,000 (or so) tax free. She is getting back $700.I do not understand the attitude that a tax refund is forced savings, take x amount from your pay each check and bank it.
Participant
Your statement remains incorrectThe Census did not count tourists. It counted those residing (not visiting) the US on April 1, 2020.
We host some Chinese students. They are here for the school year on F1 visas. they are not tourists. They were counted. There presence was perfectly legal.Most people in the CR conveniently forget that the Census is not just for apportioning the members of the House of Representatives. It affects how much federal aid goes to states and municipalities. That’s why college students are counted at their school address. the municipality where the school is located is providing police, fire, ems and paved roads, etc.
Having helped train Census Field Workers an am very familiar with the directives on who is to be counted and where. Trump tried to change it and could not get away with it.
@Always
Trump NEVER issued a memorandum to count ONLY voters.
Children can’t vote and must be counted. Trump did not direct that children not be countedStop posting lies
@lakewhut
#1 I didn’t go out of my way, I was reading the CR for amusement while taking a coffee break
#2 I did not defend illegal….stop making false accusations. There is no defense of anyone in my comment, just an explanation of who must be counted.
#3 What do Taliban incarcerated in Gitmo have do do with this topic?
#4 What have people who have not been Mirandized have to do with this topic?#5 ALL people residing in America have to be counted in the Decennial Census. In this case they had to be residing here on April 1, 2020 even though the physical field count did not begin until July. The questions started: ‘were you living at this address on April 1, 2020
#6 I have posted repeatedly that I DON’T PRACTICE CRIMINAL LAW. I don’t defend anyone in criminal cases.
@participant
READ Made Aliyah’s post before commenting on my replyMA did NOT say that tourists should be counted, he made the comment that if all people should be counted then tourists should be able to vote. A totally non-connected comment to the discussion that the Constitution requires all people residing in the US be counted. The Constitution does not say count voters. We are mandated to count minors, who are not eligible to vote, adults who are not registered to vote and felons who may have lost their right to vote (in some states).
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution calls for counting the number of whole persons in each state, not citizens, not voters……………………..@madealiyah
Your ignorance is amazing.The Constitution requires counting all people in the USA every 10 years. It does not count voters. Those under 18 cannot vote, neither can those who are not registered. Women didn’t get the vote til 1920 but had been counted for over 100 years.
Your assertion about tourist is laughable, just like your comments
@alway
Trump’s directive to only count citizens was ruled unconstitutional by the Federal Courts, repeatedly. The Census Bureau did not sabotage anything. Trump was trying to sabotage the count of all persons in the US as required by the Constitution. It doesn’t say citizens in the Constitution.@lakewhut
Wrong again, what a surprise.
Yes I have studied the aftermath of the French Revolution. Not all was a disaster.
Not fond of public beheadings or the reign and wars of Napoleon.
I did like the emptying of the Bastile.Revolution is a change that can return to the beginning. The French started and ended with a King named Louis.
@lakewhut
This mob? which mob? the Trumpsters who invaded the Capitol and belong in prison for life?
As for your comment of disposing of Jews after using them, it doesn’t matter if liberal, conservative; once they are no longer of use, Goyim get rid of Jews@lakewhut
Learn history before slinging mudMany Democrats are well educated and studied the French Revolution.
There is nothing similar about the current civil unrest in the USA and the French Revolution.#1 No one is trying to overthrow a monarch who rules by divine right
#2 We have no official Estates or classes in the USA
#3 All adult citizens are free to vote, although Republicans nationwide are trying to make it harder to do so
#4 We have no official state religion to threaten the mob with hell or purgatory for not obeying the Divine Right monarch.
#5 The Press and social media is not subject to the monarch’s censorship and coverage is LIVE, not delayed and available to the few who were literate (as in France of the 1780S).You need to get a life and stop wasting time with conspiracy theories
Law enforcement officer is a terrible term to use when referring to police.
In the USA it includes:
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) special agents
Bureau of Diplomatic Security special agents
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and United States Border Patrol agents
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agents
Federal air marshals
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents
Federal Flight Deck Officers
Dept of Treasury Federal Reserve Police officers
U.S. Dept of Treasury Secret Service special agents and uniformed officers
Dept. of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Rangers
Dept. of Interior Bureau of Land Management Law Enforcement officers
Dept. of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents
DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officers
Dept. of Interior National Park Service (park rangers and forest rangers)
Dept. of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons corrections officers
Dept. of Homeland Service Transportation Security Administration US Marshals and Deputy Marshals
U.S. Coast Guard officers, warrant officers, and petty officers
United States Postal Service postal inspectors
Federal Bureau of Prisons officers
United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police
United States military police, including the Military Police Corps, Air Force Security Forces, Navy master-at-arms, Marine Corps Police, provost marshal officers, and United States Department of Defense policeTraditionally, police were known as PEACE OFFICERS, charged with upholding, preserving the PEACE.
Among the government positions I have held in my adult life is JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. I don’t deal with criminal matters in this role, but in earlier times petty crimes were adjudicated by JPs.
So, LEO is a MODERN term for peace officers, Liberals are not changing the definition when they want police referred to as Peace Officers. Police are charged with maintaining the peace. That cannot be said of a ‘meter maid’ who is a sworn Law Enforcement Officer, charged with enforcing local statutes regarding parking.
The OP is worked up about nothing
I know this is semantics, but people don’t believe in their religions, they practice their religions’ precepts, customs, dogma, etc, that revolve around a belief in a deity. That deity may be mono or polytheistic or tripartate.
I am on a local commission made up of adherents of various faiths. Every time a ‘religious leader’ attempts to start the meeting with a ‘universal’ prayer and a statement that their is only one ‘god’ I challenge it and say there is no universal prayer and while each of the 3 major religions stemming from Avraham may be ascribed by you to have the same ‘god’ there are members of this commission who are Buddhist, Hindi, Sikh and Native American who worship multiple gods. Lets leave all religion out of the government commission.
@Always
eliminating how many children you can deduct is useless to senior citizens with grown children
Raising the standard deduction helped lower middle class, more than upper middle class. It didn’t do me much good.What has happened is that many of us have formed or are forming LLCs to own each piece of property to get around the tax changes. But we could not do this retroactively. The tax change affected tax years already underway.
Now I won’t bear legal expense to form LLCs, just filing fees, but it can be costly for others.
I would much prefer a flat tax. Everyone pays a set percentage of income, no deductions. I also would like inheritance tax thresholds lowered, too much is exempt since the Reagan years.
@catchyourself
Sorry,
residents of your state can’t pay higher Federal Taxes than residents of my state. The Federal tax rates are uniform across the country. Whether an individual avails themselves of Federal deductions has nothing to do with it. Loads of residents of my state don’t itemize or aren’t affected by the 10K cap on state tax deductions.
We pay state income tax (there is no local tax), property tax on both real estate and automobiles and sales tax (which like motor vehicle fees may be deductible after a certain amount). I also pay fire district taxes, Water Pollution Control Authority Taxes (so we don’t send wastewater untreated down stream to red or blue states or the ocean).and I gladly pay these taxes to be able to live here….. Like Trump, I could have changed my official residence to Florida (I’ve owned a home there longer than him) to avoid state income taxes. But, I don’t also have to avoid state prosecution as he might
@Catchyourself
You are not subsidizing me.
I live in a state that sends more dollars to Washington in taxes than it receives back.
I paid full boat for my childrens’ educations and the same is said for my grandchildren (paid by my children).
I also pay far more than tuition to keep institutions such as the one who employs you alive.
I don’t complain about paying taxes. I pointed out the first year the Trump limitation on state tax deductions came into effect that it reduced $25,000 a year in disposable money that I gave to Tzedaka. It’s not about my lifestyle. My home is paid for, it has been greatly expanded over the decades with most labor done by myself and family, yes I can build, paint, plumb, do electrical. We grow food in the compound and chose to add houses to keep the family near.
I am self employed all my life, so no pension, just Social Security paying back what I paid in and continue to pay in as I work past retirement age.
I drive a 2004 Luxury car I bought new then and will probably drive it 20 years and pass it down to a grandchild. Remembering, Billig iz Tyrere…..I buy the best I can and it lasts.
We don’t buy prepared food or eat in restaurants with any frequency.
We haven’t taken a vacation in more than 10 years, the entire clan moves in with us for the summer using our facilities, no multi-thousand dollar camp fees.
After 5 generations in America we do have some accumulated wealth. We don’t make landlords rich, but instead bought homes at young ages and have added property to our portfolio. That said we charge fair rents and don’t increase every year. I’d rather have a good tenant stay decades and make a small amount, than change tenants every couple of years and make a lot of money.That said, no one is subsidizing my lifestyle. I take my own garbage to the curb and pay for pickup, I shovel my own snow and cut my own lawn. I don’t object to my tax dollars supporting public schools, libraries, hospitals, police, fire, transportation whether I use them or not.
I do object to the Trump tax breaks for billionaires and corporations who pay no US Tax.
I object to Trump paying $750 in US income tax in 2017 and Paying $15,000 in income tax to Panama the same year….that’s not a blue state versus red state issue@CoffeeAddict
Sorry, None of the items I mentioned can be corrected by a pen. UNLESS
it is the PG and terrible judges signing resignation letters and Biden signing a new comprehensive tax package passed by the Congress.Executive Action can’t rectify these situations
@Coffeeaddict
It is not yet 90 days since Trump is out of office, hardly a long timeLots to blame him for that Biden cannot change quickly, or at all
Start with the inept Postmaster General and bad mail system. Biden can’t fire the PG
Terrible (IMHO) appointees to the Federal Bench who serve for long period of time, and I am not talking about the Supreme Court
A local piece of garbage Trump appointed Judge, Kari Dooley, just gave the Bridgeport Police Chief only a year and a day in Club Fed and the Personnel Director who rigged the test so he could get the job only 4 months. Republicans Tough on Law and Order/ Not for white privileged political hacks.The list goes on, especially as I am about to file taxes and am limited to a $10,000 deduction for state and local taxes, a direct Republican/Trump attack on all of us who live in blue states